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Well my last post looks like it came a bit early. Having a captain be basically manipulating the whole crew into adopting his universe’s moral standard over time and erode them to suit his purposes was pretty good. I do think this season would have been good as a standalone season in an anthology approach. Doug Jones is really really great as Saru though Also this season was made after someone locked themselves in a room to do mushrooms, while reading the DSM and listening to the main theme on repeat. Peacoffee fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Mar 30, 2019 |
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Mar 30, 2019 23:08
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by the end of DS9 I started wondering "why is there only one frequently visited parallel universe in this fictional multiverse, aside from the TNG one with all the Enterprise copies"
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Mar 30, 2019 23:16
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This document is without honor! Would you like to use a template ptagh!?
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Mar 30, 2019 23:19
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galenanorth posted:by the end of DS9 I started wondering "why is there only one frequently visited parallel universe in this fictional multiverse, aside from the TNG one with all the Enterprise copies" i HAVE A THEORY that the mirror universe is somehow "close" to the prime trek universe but viewed along all four dimensions hence everything being so similar yet different at different times. obviously, after the initial hole was punched between them by
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Mar 30, 2019 23:22
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I’m pretty sure I read several authors use something similar to that as an excuse. In the Shatner-verse books the event that split the regular and mirror universe was a coin flip.
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Mar 30, 2019 23:25
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Kibayasu posted:In the Shatner-verse books the event that split the regular and mirror universe was a coin flip. That sounds about right for the Reeves-Stevenses.
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Mar 30, 2019 23:41
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Timby posted:That sounds about right for the Reeves-Stevenses. There was another book where the entire galaxy and particularly mankind are a science experiment by the Preservers, and the Mirror Universe is the control group - what happens to the galaxy when the Preservers aren't interfering with everything.
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Mar 31, 2019 00:09
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Kibayasu posted:I’m pretty sure I read several authors use something similar to that as an excuse. In the Shatner-verse books the event that split the regular and mirror universe was a coin flip. Was the coin flip "heads I'm good, tails I'm eeeeeevil"
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Mar 31, 2019 00:24
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galenanorth posted:by the end of DS9 I started wondering "why is there only one frequently visited parallel universe in this fictional multiverse, aside from the TNG one with all the Enterprise copies" I still wanted an ep where they go to a mirror universe that seems by all accounts way better. Everyone is friends. Weyoun is known as the best hugger in the quadrant. Keiko and Miles have never known pain. Sisko plays baseball with his BFF, Dukat. Quark and Kira have 8 beautiful children.
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Mar 31, 2019 00:31
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Pick posted:I still wanted an ep where they go to a mirror universe that seems by all accounts way better. Everyone is friends. Weyoun is known as the best hugger in the quadrant. Keiko and Miles have never known pain. Sisko plays baseball with his BFF, Dukat. Quark and Kira have 8 beautiful children. But the universe has a dark secret, a horrible shame that no one must speak of that has paid for their eternal paradise. Are you ready to uncover this disturbing truth? ALLAMARAINE! THIRD SHAP
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Mar 31, 2019 00:39
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Pick posted:I still wanted an ep where they go to a mirror universe that seems by all accounts way better. Everyone is friends. If the Orville gets a third season they need to do this. I wanna see a universe where the Krill are famous for their generosity and kindness.
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Mar 31, 2019 01:21
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S06E06 ("Riddles") is a fantastic Tuvok episode. I liked the moral about learning to accept Tuvok as the person he'd become instead of the person he was before the accident, how he drew a wavelength diagram in the icing on the cake, and "same actor plays a highly different character" episodes are always fascinating to watch
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Mar 31, 2019 01:40
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Today is a good day to upgrade to Microsoft Office 365
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Mar 31, 2019 02:11
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Tighclops posted:Note: real mounties are all but useless Reminder: they had to change Fraser's uniform after the first season because the RCMP didn't want people to think the honourable, friendly, law-abiding, kind, intelligent, and dutiful character was actually a Mountie.
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Mar 31, 2019 02:14
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Drink-Mix Man posted:Today is a good day to upgrade to Microsoft Office 365 The Battle of Wolf 365
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Mar 31, 2019 02:55
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I was gonna go back and edit that typo but I'm so glad I didn't
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Mar 31, 2019 05:04
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Watching TNG episode First Contact. I've always loved this episode. The framing, music, and editing of Picard and Troi meeting the scientist for the first time was perfect.
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Mar 31, 2019 05:26
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Reminder: they had to change Fraser's uniform after the first season because the RCMP didn't want people to think the honourable, friendly, law-abiding, kind, intelligent, and dutiful character was actually a Mountie. I’m learning so much about that show with the wolf and the Mountie and the detective I barely watched but have so many (false) memories of.
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Mar 31, 2019 05:31
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Reminder: they had to change Fraser's uniform after the first season because the RCMP didn't want people to think the honourable, friendly, law-abiding, kind, intelligent, and dutiful character was actually a Mountie. . Goddamn Control infecting my phone
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Mar 31, 2019 06:13
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Alan_Shore posted:Also the uniform was tied wrong for the first few episodes until Leslie Nielsen came on as a guest star. His dad had been a Mountie and Nielsen was like good God what are you doing?
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Mar 31, 2019 06:14
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You know, there's no chance they're gonna do this any time soon, but watching DS9, there's a lot of potential in writing the Gamma quadrant post-Dominion. You see so many of them only a few times, but it'd be cool to see the Argrathi, the Keremma, etc. rise to power now that they no longer have to tip toe around or acquiesce to the Founders and Jem'Hadar.
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Mar 31, 2019 08:39
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I said come in! posted:Watching TNG episode First Contact. I've always loved this episode. The framing, music, and editing of Picard and Troi meeting the scientist for the first time was perfect. Also it's lucky that Riker is such a horn dog that he doesn't seem bothered at being blackmailed into sex.
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Mar 31, 2019 08:46
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like, imagine that Hanok took all his lessons from Quark and they spread like wildfire through their culture, and suddenly the Ferengi have to deal with people who can wheel and deal as well as they can but are better at being altruistic.
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Mar 31, 2019 08:51
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Nodosaur posted:You know, there's no chance they're gonna do this any time soon, but watching DS9, there's a lot of potential in writing the Gamma quadrant post-Dominion. You see so many of them only a few times, but it'd be cool to see the Argrathi, the Keremma, etc. rise to power now that they no longer have to tip toe around or acquiesce to the Founders and Jem'Hadar. I'd like to think that race of Strong Bads went on a tear. Cordially invited the whole Gamma Quadrant to try to handle their style. This is something you can totally attempt in the big New Horizons mod for Stellaris. It would be a tough road, but since the mod starts you in the early 2150s, a minor Gamma player might actually have a shot at preventing the Dominion from rolling over everyone in the region by the 24th century.
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Mar 31, 2019 09:23
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Kibayasu posted:I’m learning so much about that show with the wolf and the Mountie and the detective I barely watched but have so many (false) memories of. I was sure for years that the theme tune was a Deacon Blue song.
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Mar 31, 2019 09:57
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Delsaber posted:I'd like to think that race of Strong Bads went on a tear. Cordially invited the whole Gamma Quadrant to try to handle their style. Remind me which one those are?
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Mar 31, 2019 10:01
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Nodosaur posted:Remind me which one those are? These fine lads. 
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I always thought of them as the Dot Matrix aliens, since their face paint things looked like the tear-off edges of printer paper. 
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Powered Descent posted:I always thought of them as the Dot Matrix aliens, since their face paint things looked like the tear-off edges of printer paper. Greetings, fellow youth
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Mar 31, 2019 14:13
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Having basically just rewatched Valiant in a spree of season 6 DS9 episodes, someone should have trolled the reboot writers' room at some point when they decided to have Enterprise commanded by a crew whose oldest officer is a 25 yo fratboy and just played the entire episode. Also it makes me feel like Ira Behr really despised the whole starfleet brat poo poo for Wesley
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Mar 31, 2019 15:40
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Agnosticnixie posted:Having basically just rewatched Valiant in a spree of season 6 DS9 episodes, someone should have trolled the reboot writers' room at some point when they decided to have Enterprise commanded by a crew whose oldest officer is a 25 yo fratboy and just played the entire episode. Remember Red Squad's earlier appearance as being eager to commit treason when ordered to as part of a military coup? I suppose that highlights why Starfleet is nervous enough about the Defiant to not openly call it a warship; it's made all too clear how military culture quickly leads down the same old bad paths.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Remember Red Squad's earlier appearance as being eager to commit treason when ordered to as part of a military coup? I wasn't 100% sure the cadet played by the same actor was literally supposed to be the same guy (if he is, I figure this also means they did get some mild punishment if he's still a midship at this point while Nog is actually a real officer) And yeah, I mean even in Homefront Sisko starts making pained frowns the minute Nog starts fanboying about the EliTe cAdEt sQuad
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I said come in! posted:Watching TNG episode First Contact. I've always loved this episode. The framing, music, and editing of Picard and Troi meeting the scientist for the first time was perfect. That actress played a couple of different Romulan warbird commanders and the Mass Effect ship's doctor.
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Mar 31, 2019 16:32
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Agnosticnixie posted:I wasn't 100% sure the cadet played by the same actor was literally supposed to be the same guy (if he is, I figure this also means they did get some mild punishment if he's still a midship at this point while Nog is actually a real officer) I know I mentioned this before either earlier in the thread or a previous one, but yes. Riley Shepard and others were part of Leyton's coup and yet still remained in Starfleet (and Red Squad didn't get disbanded). Consider instead that Nicholas Locrano was expelled from the Academy for trying to cover up the circumstances of a fellow cadet's accidental death, and when the producers and writers of Voyager considered bringing him back in the role that would eventually be Tom Paris, they decided to just make a completely new character with the same actor because "Locrano's crime is irredeemable and the viewers wouldn't buy the idea of him having any sort of redemption". Lying about an accidental death in a training exercise is apparently worse than actual loving treason according to Berman, Braga, Moore, et. al. Angry_Ed fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Mar 31, 2019 |
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Mar 31, 2019 16:45
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Red Squad, I guess, has the extenuating circumstance that they were being ordered to commit treason by an admiral. Not sure if the Federation's big on "I was just following orders" though.
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Mar 31, 2019 16:55
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Fornax Disaster posted:That actress played a couple of different Romulan warbird commanders and the Mass Effect ship's doctor. She's a good actress, and I really liked her character in that episode. One of the examples of how the Federation welcomes everyone that wishes to be part of it, as individuals, like Nog or Worf, even if their species isn't, and a good tempering for some of the other too-cruel episodes, in that they aren't going to tell her to gently caress off when she requests asylum/to leave with them rather than being stuck on her dumb planet/probably being distrusted by her people in the future for being so willing to cooperate with aliens.
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Mar 31, 2019 16:56
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Paramount would have had to pay royalties to the episode writer to reuse the Locarno character. Building Paris from scratch was much cheaper, apparently.
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Mar 31, 2019 17:00
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Automatic Slim posted:Paramount would have had to pay royalties to the episode writer to reuse the Locarno character. Building Paris from scratch was much cheaper, apparently. Did B&B hate Moore that much at that point or something?
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