HorseLord posted:

I know it must have been a budget thing but they're clearly just cheap office chairs with no attempt to hide the wheels. Utterly shameful.

Angry_Ed posted:

Also Troi getting drunk is funny but yeah she needed more to do. Troi always needed more to do that didn't involve her being psychically assaulted

McNally posted:

I think everybody here is missing the important part: This is a Voyager screencap.

McNally posted:

I think everybody here is missing the important part: This is a Voyager screencap.

In Star Trek VI they at least hid the castors with a large disc.

Sodomy Hussein posted:

This made me look up the Memory Alpha article on Excelsior. It's apparently canon that this ship spent at least five years in space dock doing nothing.

Hipster_Doofus posted:

You just reminded me that the other day it occurred to me, while it's nowhere near o'brien levels, there is something of a recurring "Troi must suffer" theme.

- becomes a "receptacle" for psychic toxins
- "oh god the music make it stop"
- freaking out in the mirror after being possessed by xenophobic alien
- possessed by convict from psychic penal colony
- "one moon circles"
- and of course telepathically raped how many times?


I'm positive that's not all of them because I don't have that kind of recall. (But I know a lot of you do.)

Sodomy Hussein posted:

This made me look up the Memory Alpha article on Excelsior. It's apparently canon that this ship spent at least five years in space dock doing nothing.

Ben Nerevarine posted:

Jadzia's got joie de vivre for days, she's game for anything.

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

Excelsior was supposed to use "transwarp drive". But my recollection is the next time we hear about transwarp (sometime late TNG, I think? was the Borg space tunnel in Descent a transwarp dealie?) it's still treated as being beyond Federation technology.

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It's easy to imagine that Starfleet tows Excelsior back in, undoes Scotty's handiwork, sends it out again... and it still fails to make transwarp work. So they spend however long trying to make it work, and after some point they just give up and rip out whatever makes it "transwarp", and maybe there's additional time needed to design and install a standard warp drive in the Excelsior spaceframe.

I said come in! posted:

Voyager episode idea: entire crew turns into Harry Kims and Janeway has to spend the whole episode shooting down their misplaced optimism.

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The highly anticipated Star Trek: Picard show is on every Trekkie’s lips. Not only will we see the return of Sir Patrick Stewart as the titular Picard, but several franchise actors will be reprising their roles, some to a lesser extent than others. One of those actors is Jonathan Frakes, who will appear on the show as William T. Riker, Picard’s former Number One. At the recently concluded Fan Expo Canada, Frakes told a packed room of fans about returning to the iconic role and starring opposite Sir Patrick.

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I hadn’t acted in a long, long, long time, I hadn’t played Riker in 18 years. I’ve been very fortunate to be busy directing. I acted briefly in a movie in Winnipeg about 10 years ago. And I had a major anxiety attack.

He also spoke about returning to be a director and what it was like working alongside Patrick Stewart.

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I had just directed two episodes of Picard with Sir Patrick; his acting muscle was well-toned. And Marina (Sirtis) had just closed having starred in a play in the West End in London. So, I knew she was going to be in good form. So, I was a nervous wreck. It ended up going very well. But don’t let anybody tell you it’s like getting back on a bike.

Without a doubt, Frakes loves his job as a director. Only recently, he posted from the set of Star Trek: Discovery season three, declaring how much he loved the ‘gig’. This passion can be seen on-screen in his emotionally-charged, yet vibrantly directed episodes. However, he did mention that being back as an actor came with a few perks – being pampered and waited on is something he could get used to

Frakes was a consummate entertainer during his solo panel; he had the crowd in splits with hilarious anecdotes (some fact, others fiction), and received the loudest cheers when he applied his signature ‘Riker taking a seat’ move. Trekkies, you know which one we’re referring to. This was not an easy feat, either, considering the Fan Expo Canada chairs looked to be quite high-backed, but Frakes didn’t seem to mind at all.

It was clear from Frakes’ answers that the Star Trek family remains tightly knit. He jokingly referred to Sir Patrick as ‘old baldy’ throughout his panel and was effusive about his friendship with Marina Sirtis (Deanna Troi) and Michael Dorn (Worf).

Though Frakes had been barred from revealing any secrets from the Star Trek show, he reiterated that the next season of Discovery embraces a much more traditional and optimistic outlook. He also stated that, despite newer Star Trek shows veering away from Gene Roddenberry’s obvious optimism, as seen in the original series, Frakes doesn’t believe any of the shows (or even JJ Abrams’ reboot) deviated too far from Roddenberry’s initial vision.

It’s almost hard to believe it’s been nearly two decades since the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation has been on screen. If anything, the hype around Picard is evidence of how far the show has come since its inception. Frakes shared the feeling of skepticism he got from Star Trek fans at his very first convention experience, and how rewarding it was for him to see a completely full room in 2019.

Star Trek: Picard has definitely piqued our curiosity; what will re-visiting these characters mean for fans and the cast alike? Frakes, who had only just finished filming alongside Sir Patrick, mentioned that Stewart was ‘better than ever; he is on fire’. He’s excited for fans to see the show, and Trekkies reciprocate that feeling.

Star Trek: Picard is set to air in early 2020 on CBS All Access.

Sash! posted:

As much as I like the idea and concept of Sisko yelling BLOW UP THE drat SHIP at Picard and reworking a lot of that stuff to be both Picard working through his Ahab complex and Sisko coming to forgive Picard (which I'm pretty sure he never actually does in his story through DS9), I can't even figure out what you'd do with most of the DS9 crew. I suppose you could have truncated it down to Sisko, Worf, Bashir, O'Brien, and Dax. That's basically all you "need" for running the Defiant. Finding stuff for people to do was hard enough with the main characters you did have (Troi!).

Snow Cone Capone posted:

Wait, really?

Missing DW-Link posted:

Missing DW-Link posted:

So uh... wow? My GIRLFRIEND is the lead trainer at a boutique gym and a massive trek fan like myself. A couple of months ago she called me from work to tell me that Michael Dorn was at her gym. She was freaking out about it and I honestly thought she was pulling my leg. Since then she’s got to know the guy and was able to set up a workout with him, her and myself this week.

So, yeah, I did a workout with Worf. He’s a super cool dude, very down to Earth, and is legit into Trek. The three of us ended up sitting around talking about DS9 for a while after our workout, which was honestly surreal as hell. Sounds like he’s down to be my workout buddy again next week, so I guess this is my life now.

Background blurred to obscure the gym.

Son of Sam-I-Am posted:

at this point the movie is 6 hours long

The Bloop posted:

loving rad, man. I'm very jealous

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

Sure, why not?

Excelsior was supposed to use "transwarp drive". But my recollection is the next time we hear about transwarp (sometime late TNG, I think? was the Borg space tunnel in Descent a transwarp dealie?) it's still treated as being beyond Federation technology.

It's easy to imagine that Starfleet tows Excelsior back in, undoes Scotty's handiwork, sends it out again... and it still fails to make transwarp work. So they spend however long trying to make it work, and after some point they just give up and rip out whatever makes it "transwarp", and maybe there's additional time needed to design and install a standard warp drive in the Excelsior spaceframe.

HorseLord posted:

I'd love to have seen what "transwarp not working" means in a situation where scotty hasn't pulled out half of the engine computer. I mean, regular warp already distorts space and time, transwarp is doing something else too, you'd think a failure would cause like that movie event horizon or something.

Incidentally people might not like the 5th movie but you have to admire all the places "Good morning, captain" shows up in that one. Someone chose that particular ship to become the A for a reason

Gonz posted:

Gonz posted:

This is the perfect opportunity for you to bring prune juice as a post workout beverage, Missing DW-Link.

It is a warrior’s drink, afterall.

Michael Dorn doing a Southern accent posted:

Boy, is there something wrong with you?

After The War posted:

Michael Dorn tells a great story about his mother finding all the prune juice fans had given him in his fridge:

davidspackage posted:

I think if I met Dorn, I'd only be able to tell it was him from his voice.

Thom12255 posted:

Is Dorn still wealthy or did the jets doom him?