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I love how in TOS, after the first accidental trip back in time they then just decide "yeah we're going to travel through time for historical research, no big deal"
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Also, did I misunderstand something or did TOS establish the process as being rather easy? Like just slingshot around a sun? Hell, in Naked Time, they went back a few days with some matter-anti-matter implosion and they said "oh we'll have to remember that for the future." I know time cops pop up a few times, and the Federation has a Temporal Prime Directive or whatever, but I'm kind of surprised the federations' enemies didn't somehow find out about these time travel techniques and just abuse them like crazy.
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Oxyclean posted:I just saw Tomorrow is Yesterday: How many times have they time traveled, and more specifically, to earth's past? Let's see... off the top of my head, there was the origin of life on Earth, Mark Twain, Roswell, Captain Christopher, Gary Seven, saving the whales, that 1990s Voyager episode, the Bell riots, and Zefram Cochrane. Probably some others.
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Powered Descent posted:Let's see... off the top of my head, there was the origin of life on Earth, Mark Twain, Roswell, Captain Christopher, Gary Seven, saving the whales, that 1990s Voyager episode, the Bell riots, and Zefram Cochrane. Probably some others. Xindi in Detroit Captain Archer: The First Avenger
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Oxyclean posted:Also, did I misunderstand something or did TOS establish the process as being rather easy? Like just slingshot around a sun? Hell, in Naked Time, they went back a few days with some matter-anti-matter implosion and they said "oh we'll have to remember that for the future." Apparently the Starfleet engineering manual doesn't have a subsection under "warp core cold restart" that says "WARNING: May cause you to travel back in time" EDIT: also despite Spock saying they can use it to travel back to any point in time they want, they literally never use it again. It's always slingshotting around stars or chronitons or following another ship through the time vortex or whatever. Angry_Ed fucked around with this message at 17:54 on May 3, 2019 |
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May 3, 2019 17:50
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Writer 1: "Ha ha! Take this!" Writer 2: "No."
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Naked Time’s ending was originally supposed to feed directly into Tomorrow is Yesterday instead of just being a semi-reset button.
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Pick posted:Did you ever watch Ghost Writer? Like that. haha Ghost Writer, nice
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May 3, 2019 19:10
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...wait, if DS9's security office can contain Odo via forcefields, why didn't they apply that same technology to their "oh no changeling infiltration!!" drills?
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They said Odo's office was specially designed so the forcefields went through the walls and decks and made a complete box. I don't think retrofitting the entire Federation that way is practical.
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May 3, 2019 19:16
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Watching the baseball episode of DS9. Can't believe nobody mentioned it in Avery overacting.
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use the forcefield traps to force the changelings into funny, undignified shapes
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Bedshaped posted:Watching the baseball episode of DS9. Can't believe nobody mentioned it in Avery overacting. That’s because he’s just acting like a regular baseball coach.
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Bedshaped posted:Watching the baseball episode of DS9. Can't believe nobody mentioned it in Avery overacting. Probably because Dorn and Aubernjois are also overacting.
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Cythereal posted:Probably because Dorn and Aubernjois are also overacting. Regular player and umpire.
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Conflict is how you make baseball interesting.
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 Man, I guess if someone hands Tim Russ a telescope and he points it up at the sky, he's become an 'astronomer'
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excuse me but I think someone who went to space every week for their job for 7 years knows a thing or two about space thank you very much
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It doesn't say professional astronomer.
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Animal-Mother posted:It doesn't say professional astronomer. it also doesn't say "star looker" ok
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His Wiki page says literally nothing about astronomy at all. But it does have this picture: 
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Brawnfire posted:His Wiki page says literally nothing about astronomy at all. 
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Tighclops posted:excuse me but I think someone who went to space every week for their job for 7 years knows a thing or two about space thank you very much It's possible, however, that all this science he doesn't understand; it's just his job five days a week.
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Orv posted:Conflict is how you make baseball interesting.  This dude is out for interference isn't he?
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From the video of it I found nobody got clapped for anything, I just love the various reactions in that gif.
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PostNouveau posted:
I thought it might be from a movie. Also no, the batter’s box is for the batter. As long as the batter is just standing in it and not actively trying to block the play then it’s up to the catcher to avoid them.
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The Mission Log Podcast has been on hiatus for a long time and it's for the best.
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All your incessant talk of DS9 has made want to start rewatching it tonight. But after the TNG remaster and ESPECIALLY after seeing the beautiful HD restoration in the documentary (looks even better than TNG, that lighting!) I'm sad it's gonna look like poo poo
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnUszxx2pYc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ-ECl5HC78 Holy poo poo, they actually went and made it. Transparent aluminium. It's fantastic when science fantasy becomes science reality. breadshaped fucked around with this message at 11:57 on May 4, 2019 |
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Zesty posted:The Mission Log Podcast has been on hiatus for a long time and it's for the best. Yeah we talk about how Greatest Gen doesn't "get" DS9, and they often don't, but mission log doesn't get it so hardcore the have basically given up
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Mission Log was so into Gene's vision that it's no surprise they bounced off of DS9. Greatest Gen mostly feels like they kinda expected DS9 to be modern dark and serialized rather than... you know 90s that.
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Welp, I'm starting Enterprise for the first time after neglecting it all these years and it's... not really terrible? It's been more enjoyable than Voyager so far, but maybe that's just because it's new to me. I kind of like what they were trying to do with Starfleet being new and certain technology that TNG takes for granted like transporters and the UT being new and a janky. The show has had it's share of cringy moments already but I actually kind of want to keep watching.
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Enterprise is a hell of a lot more enjoyable than Voyager, especially after the first two seasons. It may not always stick the landing, but it at least tries to be different more and more as the series goes on.
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Kibbles n Shits posted:Welp, I'm starting Enterprise for the first time after neglecting it all these years and it's... not really terrible? It's been more enjoyable than Voyager so far, but maybe that's just because it's new to me. I kind of like what they were trying to do with Starfleet being new and certain technology that TNG takes for granted like transporters and the UT being new and a janky. The show has had it's share of cringy moments already but I actually kind of want to keep watching. It’s definitely a lot better than Voyager. It has its fair share of problems but if you made it through Voyager then Enterprise will be a breeze.
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Enterprise squanders its goodwill fast. By the time they’ve gotten over the “whoa, new technology” aspect of it, you’re most of the way through the first season and there’s been maybe one and a half good episodes along the way. It does get better later, kind of, but it’s still a bad and boring show right to the end despite its best efforts to do anything interesting. I’d probably rather watch a random episode of Voyager than one of Enterprise.
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I will give the Borg episode credit for being a lot better than I expected even if it relied on the borg never saying the word borg.
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Also was the doctor from Enterprise meant to be some sort of hybrid between Neelix and the EMH? Decently entertaining character but only by virtue of trying to be Robert Picardo.
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skasion posted:Enterprise squanders its goodwill fast. By the time they’ve gotten over the “whoa, new technology” aspect of it, you’re most of the way through the first season and there’s been maybe one and a half good episodes along the way. It does get better later, kind of, but it’s still a bad and boring show right to the end despite its best efforts to do anything interesting. I’d probably rather watch a random episode of Voyager than one of Enterprise. The last random Voyager episode I watched was the Irish Village one. The one before was the one with the flashback to Janeway's boring ancestor. I've watched all of Entrprise and there is nothing even approaching how bad and boring those episodes are.
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Kibbles n Shits posted:Also was the doctor from Enterprise meant to be some sort of hybrid between Neelix and the EMH? Decently entertaining character but only by virtue of trying to be Robert Picardo. Aw, that's not nice to say about John Billingsley
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