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Zurui posted:They have robots to service the bouys. Obviously. Going back a couple of pages but this is obviously O'Brien's next posting, a three year mission for which he'll be issued a compact runabout to carry his whole family. Also, the runabout computer's entertainment modules will suffer an irreparable total cascading failure just far enough out of port where it's impossible to get back to have them fixed without screwing up the whole maintenance schedule. Fixing the modules is a five minute job if you have a polyionic fermostat, which unfortunately has to be made of saronidic beryllium and thus can't be replicated. O'Brien had misplaced his and was going to get a new one right before he left dock, but just as he was heading to Requisition, Keiko commed him and told him he had to pick up the a suitcase she left in their old quarters. When he gets back to Requisition, he finds out that it closed early -- 10 minutes ago -- thanks to a Bajoran religious festival. And the docking bay had to be cleared immediately to make way for another craft coming in so no waiting around, Because the runabout was a prototype of a new production line, there is basically no soundproofing to speak of, so everything someone says or every little girl's high-pitched squeal carries through the whole runabout. As does the just-below-conscious-perception grating humming of the warp drives. (The background noise we hear on the shows is the filtered version; the real sound is much like shifting gears without using a clutch.) e: oh gently caress the worst snype ever
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Tonights episode of TNG, Picard gives the best intentional self own in history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-J9dpG6-Pc
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The Chad Jihad posted:Worf once described prune juice as "A warriors drink" has anyone ever done an analysis on what this implies about Klingon cuisine I just did a reread of Fifty Year Mission and your comment brought this to mind from Ronald D. Moore: Ronald D. Moore posted:There was a Star Trek novel written by John M. Ford in the early to mid 80s called The Final Reflection. It was a unique Star Trek book at the time, and probably still is, because it was written from a Klingon point of view. It was just a really interesting book I was fascinated with, and I read it a few times. I remember one thing in particular, where he said Klingons liked pastries and sweet juices. I loved the idea. I think as a kid, or a young man, just the notion that these big burly, crazy warriors had a sweet tooth, and that was just part of their culture, was great. I always remembered that. Worf’s love of prune juice was a direct callback to that.
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What We Left Behind, the DS9 Documentary will be screening nationwide on May 13th as a Fathom event. Tickets already on sale via Fandango. http://trekcore.com/blog/2019/04/star-trek-ds9-documentary-hits-theaters-on-may-13/ CaveGrinch fucked around with this message at 03:28 on Apr 8, 2019 |
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I always assumed prunes were sour or something, c which would make your face prune
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:I always assumed prunes were sour or something, c which would make your face prune Prunes are dried figs, so they look like giant raisins. Sour things make your face look like a prune.
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:Prunes are dried figs, so they look like giant raisins. Sour things make your face look like a prune. Dried plums. And they're pretty sweet.
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CaveGrinch posted:What We Left Behind, the DS9 Documentary will be screening nationwide on May 13th as a Fathom event. Tickets already on sale via Fandango. Hell yea there's a screening near me. This coincides almost perfectly with my yearly DS9 rewatch.
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The Void (VOY S07E15) is the best episode of Season 7. It re-uses the plot of a TAS episode, wherein Kirk works with a Klingon captain to pool their ships' resources to escape from a void, but with a longer run-time length, more species, and a bigger budget. Starting a new Federation from nothing in a state of anarchy in one episode makes me glad that Janeway gets promoted after the series ends, as opposed to all the TOS/TNG/DS9 admirals who are repeatedly brought in to introduce the conflict of a superior with dubious moral values
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You can't improve on TAS, it's impossible.
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galenanorth posted:The Void (VOY S07E15) is the best episode of Season 7. It re-uses the plot of a TAS episode, wherein Kirk works with a Klingon captain to pool their ships' resources to escape from a void, but with a longer run-time length, more species, and a bigger budget. Starting a new Federation from nothing in a state of anarchy in one episode makes me glad that Janeway gets promoted after the series ends, as opposed to all the TOS/TNG/DS9 admirals who are repeatedly brought in to introduce the conflict of a superior with dubious moral values
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Is prune juice just plum juice then How can you have juice specifically of the dried version of a fruit
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cheetah7071 posted:Is prune juice just plum juice then Thank you, that's bothering me too!
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cheetah7071 posted:Is prune juice just plum juice then
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Delsaber posted:Torme also created Sliders, right? I wonder if some version of The Royale happened there and I never noticed. The closest episode I've seen so far is where they get trapped inside a computerized version of the hotel they usually stay at, and the manager is controlling everything and deletes one of them (but they're able to undelete her because he never empties his trash bin).
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galenanorth posted:The Void (VOY S07E15) is the best episode of Season 7. It re-uses the plot of a TAS episode, wherein Kirk works with a Klingon captain to pool their ships' resources to escape from a void, but with a longer run-time length, more species, and a bigger budget. Starting a new Federation from nothing in a state of anarchy in one episode makes me glad that Janeway gets promoted after the series ends, as opposed to all the TOS/TNG/DS9 admirals who are repeatedly brought in to introduce the conflict of a superior with dubious moral values There's maybe one good VOY episode per season (and I only watched Voyager on the original airings) and the Void actually sticks with me as one I really enjoyed full stop. Another example of "the whole show should be like this"
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I just posted a new CYOA (choose your own adventure) thread in The Game Room that might interest my fellow Trekspergs: Original character, do not steal: SomethingAwful Joins Starfleet. Alternate title: let's write a fanfic. Head on over if you want to participate in making
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Was just reading this oral history of webcomics and I had to share:quote:In San Diego, me and the Dumbrella guys would always go to this very fancy Art Deco hotel with a little piano bar. We made friends with this tiny bartender named Alfred. He taught us everything he knew about scotch. It became legendary.
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This is not accurate, his arm isn’t messed up
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Admiralty Flag posted:e: oh gently caress the worst snype ever People can hold a thought while changing pages in threads.
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Zesty posted:People can hold a thought while changing pages in threads. What's this about?
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CaveGrinch posted:What We Left Behind, the DS9 Documentary will be screening nationwide on May 13th as a Fathom event. Tickets already on sale via Fandango. Purchased! Thank you I want to support this sort of thing but it only took me one moment of imagining seeing the DS9 opening credits on the big screen again for me to click that link (the local nerd club commandeered a movie theater at the university for first-run DS9 & VOY watches when they were fresh and new and it was  )
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CaveGrinch posted:What We Left Behind, the DS9 Documentary will be screening nationwide on May 13th as a Fathom event. Tickets already on sale via Fandango. I threw a little cash at this during the kickstarter, enough for a poster. I'm definitely buying tickets to see DS9 on the big screen.
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I want to see DS9 on the big screen but not really the documentary and sure as hell not with other Star Trek lovers
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Pick posted:I want to see DS9 on the big screen but not really the documentary and sure as hell not with other Star Trek lovers Pick sitting alone in her theater of solitude wearing a bajoran earring and crying into a box of popcorn when Bareil dies
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Want this on a shirt now.
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Pick posted:I want to see DS9 on the big screen but not really the documentary and sure as hell not with other Star Trek lovers Yeah, I have a feeling that the documentary is going to be a lot of self-congratulatory bullshit.
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Timby posted:Yeah, I have a feeling that the documentary is going to be a lot of self-congratulatory bullshit. I put extra money into it to support it, and to generally send a message that DS9 is relevant (let me have this), but I don't actually have any interest in seeing it beyond the high-res clips. I love the show but this type of thing often ends up really, yeah... wanky.
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given how the rest of the franchise went afterward if I had been involved with the creation and production of deep space nine I'd probably be all up my own rear end about it too
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Pick posted:I put extra money into it to support it, and to generally send a message that DS9 is relevant (let me have this), but I don't actually have any interest in seeing it beyond the high-res clips. I love the show but this type of thing often ends up really, yeah... wanky. Well, the thing that really rubs me the wrong way is that Adam Nimoy--who is no great shakes, mind you, I didn't like For the Love of Spock at all--stepped down out of the blue and Ira Steven Behr took over as the director, and Behr is the type to get high on his own farts.
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Don't care how wanky 85% of it is, I'm going to get to see several glorious minutes in big-screen HD in a comfy recliner
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Nimoy had to step down because he became obsessed with Jadzia Dax and knew he must drop everything to pursue a relationship with her
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Timby posted:Well, the thing that really rubs me the wrong way is that Adam Nimoy--who is no great shakes, mind you, I didn't like For the Love of Spock at all--stepped down out of the blue and Ira Steven Behr took over as the director, and Behr is the type to get high on his own farts. The guy with the purple facial hair? no way.
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I love DS9 but it's a super uneven show with a really goddamn rough last season that routinely threw new characterizations for its core cast against the wall in a valiant effort to see if they could make something stick, instead of just committing, and who regularly forgot stuff they'd written earlier, not in a "this was ill-advised so we'll ignore past mistakes" kind of way but a "we don't have a full grip on the thing we're writing" way. the biggest stalwarts for character coherency seem to be the freaking actors who were playing them, whose emotional investment is precious and commendable but shouldn't have to be their job. I pretty much guarantee it'll be everyone just talking about how the biggest tragedy is that they didn't get to make more of it, despite the fact that they were already late-seasoning themselves into miles o brien going undercover to get a cat Pick fucked around with this message at 19:11 on Apr 8, 2019 |
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Pick posted:I pretty much guarantee it'll be everyone just talking about how the biggest tragedy is that they didn't get to make more of it, despite the fact that they were already late-seasoning themselves into miles o brien going undercover to get a cat Nah, it's going to be 90 minutes of "We were the red-headed stepchild / Berman hated us / Paramount were dicks / We were the first serialized show / We broke so much new ground on television / Nevertheless she persisted."
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I'm actually just mad that we only saw Chester twice and garak never ate a tribble
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Ira Behr comes off like a weeaboo fanfic writer who actually got the chance to run their own show and relished every minute of it. It’s both very endearing but also a bit self-indulgent.
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Oh no I hope the retrospective documentary about DS9 isn't too positive about its successes! I'll feel awkward watching it otherwise! Haha nah I'll watch it alone at home. I'm always alone. I'd never go out and sit next to others who enjoy the same thing, I'm better than them you see. Also I post on this forum 20 times a day
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