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Drink-Mix Man posted:It sure is Only $4,628.95
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https://twitter.com/StarTrek/status/1198300308230701056
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Nov 23, 2019 22:41
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Hey, at least I think Trek has never done an elven swordsman before.
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Nov 23, 2019 22:57
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Why am I supposed to care about samurai Romulan enough to put him on a promo.
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Nov 23, 2019 22:58
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I like that they're at least implying multiple characters will be developed unlike Discovery, but yeah. Nobody gives a poo poo about anyone but Picard and Seven for the promo materials since we have no connection to the elves or whatever.
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Nov 23, 2019 23:06
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zero hype over here
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Nov 23, 2019 23:14
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If long-haired dorks with ninjaswords don't scream Star Trek, I don't know what does.
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Nov 23, 2019 23:58
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Always nice to see the dead assassin guy from Lexx getting work.
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Nov 24, 2019 00:23
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HorseLord posted:The american disability subcultures are extremely strange, the people in them seem proud that they've been ghettoized, to the point that cures for deafness, prevention of being born with birth defects etc are considered "genocidal". A lot of the medical technology in Star Trek would have major implications, some of which have been barely explored. Gender conformation surgery appears to be incredibly simple for them, for instance. This would be an unalloyed, unqualified boon for millions of people - but it also has impact on dramatic narrative, which is a factor for storytelling reasons, and you could say that it erases things by solving them.
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Nov 24, 2019 00:29
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Delsaber posted:Always nice to see the dead assassin guy from Lexx getting work. The dead do not work.
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Nov 24, 2019 01:07
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Even the Vulcans have signature melee weapons, as well as the Klingons, and even humans, why not the Romulans?
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Nov 24, 2019 03:21
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Even the Vulcans have signature melee weapons, as well as the Klingons, and even humans, why not the Romulans?
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Nov 24, 2019 03:40
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I want to see Romulans because I think that they're a Trek race with a lot of unexplored potential in canon for interesting storytelling, but I also don't want to see Romulans because I'm pretty sure CBS is gonna gently caress it up.
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Nov 24, 2019 03:45
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Uncle Lloyd posted:I want to see Romulans because I think that they're a Trek race with a lot of unexplored potential in canon for interesting storytelling, but I also don't want to see Romulans because I'm pretty sure CBS is gonna gently caress it up.
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Nov 24, 2019 03:49
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Nessus posted:Humans don't have a signature melee weapon, we have the axehandle punch, the unstoppable combat maneuver hard won through five thousand years of conflict. This got me to wondering. Has a phaser set to stun ever accidentally killed anyone? Like how tasers do sometimes in real life?
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Nov 24, 2019 03:56
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ruddiger posted:This got me to wondering. Has a phaser set to stun ever accidentally killed anyone? Like how tasers do sometimes in real life? Burke and Samno were killed by a phaser set to stun at close range.
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Nov 24, 2019 03:58
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ruddiger posted:This got me to wondering. Has a phaser set to stun ever accidentally killed anyone? Like how tasers do sometimes in real life? Stun can kill at close range. It happens in Undiscovered Country. That was on purpose though
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Nov 24, 2019 04:02
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Delsaber posted:Always nice to see the dead assassin guy from Lexx getting work. lol, if it really is the same guy then my interest has tripled note that this is still not saying much
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Nov 24, 2019 04:11
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ruddiger posted:This got me to wondering. Has a phaser set to stun ever accidentally killed anyone? Like how tasers do sometimes in real life? Level IV autopsy scan indicates cause of death as "excited delirium".
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Nov 24, 2019 04:17
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ruddiger posted:This got me to wondering. Has a phaser set to stun ever accidentally killed anyone? Like how tasers do sometimes in real life?
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Nov 24, 2019 04:20
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Even the Vulcans have signature melee weapons, as well as the Klingons, and even humans, why not the Romulans? Their signature melee weapons are cunning and treachery. 
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Nov 24, 2019 04:24
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Honestly, the Romulans can't be any more ruined than they have been in all the horrible Romulan media. And yet dispute all that I still find the concept of Romulans really interesting. So bring on the Romulan Samurai. At least it's novel. A stoic traditionalist warrior from a doomed culture looking to make a future for his people? I've seen worse plot hooks for supporting characters. Honestly that doesn't even seem like the questionable kind of premise you can grimdark up and make gross. It's all right there, with a nice positive conclusion set up (Picard, being a good guy, helps the Romulan, a former adversary who might have different values). It's not deep, but it seems like it could be fun and good. I'm not above enjoying the cliche elven swordsman aesthetic just because we're in 'serious' Star Trek. Hinging on the actor/direction of course. The biggest danger is honestly this character just being boring. But I'm not going to assume that ahead of time.
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Nov 24, 2019 04:53
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It's fine, but it's also a very LOTR movie elf-y look for a Star Trek character and funny. It'll all depend on how it's actually executed.
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Nov 24, 2019 05:05
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Grand Fromage posted:It's fine, but it's also a very LOTR movie elf-y look for a Star Trek character and funny. It'll all depend on how it's actually executed. The Romulans are literally just space Dark Elves so Also y'know, Klingons are a thing
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Nov 24, 2019 05:12
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V'teri, what do your Romulan eyes see?
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Nov 24, 2019 05:13
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If they wanted a Romulan sword guy they should've given him a space gladius. Maybe a spatha.
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Nov 24, 2019 05:21
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:V'teri, what do your Romulan eyes see? V'teri: That is one of the warbirds, if my eyes do not deceive me. Picard: D'deridex is the lord of all warbirds, and has been my friend through many dangers.
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Nov 24, 2019 05:23
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Grand Fromage posted:If they wanted a Romulan sword guy they should've given him a space gladius. Maybe a spatha. This would have been great
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Nov 24, 2019 06:29
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I always did sorta like how incredibly good Star Fleet was at close combat, even the Klingons couldn't go hand to hand with them.
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Nov 24, 2019 06:37
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Obviously the Romulan melee weapon should be one of those sleeve attack dogs.ruddiger posted:This got me to wondering. Has a phaser set to stun ever accidentally killed anyone? Like how tasers do sometimes in real life? Does the phaser "know" what charge is more effective against what species, making it more potentially deadly towards weird, unkown races, or is it just the same thing for every species that coincidentally just usually works? And who the hell sets their
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Nov 24, 2019 06:38
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The real settings are "kill" and "Really kill, where medical science only had a 50% chance at reviving them"
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Nov 24, 2019 07:54
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Jimbone Tallshanks posted:The real settings are "kill" and "Really kill, where medical science only had a 50% chance at reviving them" Worf, Worf or Chakotay: "Ensign Gashus was... was vaporized." Crusher, Bashir or EMH: "Did you recover the vapor?" Riker, Dax or Torres: "Right here!" *carries in large container, sets it on bio-bed* Crusher, Bashir or EMH: "Prepare a hyronalin series and engage the transporter buffer." Ogawa, unnamed extra or Kes: "It's not working!" Crusher, Bashir or EMH: "We're losing him or her! Cortical encabulators to maximum!" Ogawa, unnamed extra or Kes: "Doctor?" Crusher, Bashir or EMH: "Do it!" Vapor container: *twitches* Crusher, Bashir or EMH: "Again!" Vapor container: *twitches, but less than before* Crusher, Bashir or EMH: "Again!" Vapor container: *nothing* Crusher, Bashir or EMH: "He or she is gone."
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Nov 24, 2019 08:12
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Even the Vulcans have signature melee weapons, as well as the Klingons, and even humans, why not the Romulans? the writers were mining beta-canon for poo poo they could use, so maybe they stole the idea from STO lol https://sto.gamepedia.com/Sword_of_the_Raptor_Star
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Nov 24, 2019 10:13
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Looking for Par'Mach in All The Wrong Places is so close to being an amazing episode. I didn't like the romantic longing looks between Miles and Kira at the end - up until that point it all worked as just Miles and Keiko both getting weird and obsessed with looking after Kira, and Kira needing to get the gently caress away before it crossed some boundaries. And Grillka owns, and genuinely has a really fun flirty relationship with Quark in her first appearance, sucks that she barely got to do anything this episode. Dax is always treat, and I'll never get tired of this starfleet nerd secretly being a better Klingon than half the actual Klingons.
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Eiba posted:horrible Romulan media. THE HORRIBLE ROMULAN MEDIA! EMOTIONAL!
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Nov 24, 2019 17:53
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Dukat ordering his second in command to help fix his relationship with his daughter is peak Dukat. E: How big is the Dominion? They just lost like 2000 ships in the wormhole (goddamn Sisko, dude didn’t even flinch when he saw the entire fleet disintegrate at his say so), but the war still rages on like nothing happened? How big is starfleet too? They were taking losses like crazy during the last few episodes. ruddiger fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Nov 24, 2019 |
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Nov 24, 2019 21:27
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The Dominion seems to be HUGE and just pumps out ships and more importantly cloned crews Star Fleet is as big as it needs to be for the plot, usually unbelievably tiny for the volume of space it'd need to cover. DS9 certainly improves this somewhat
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Nov 24, 2019 22:52
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Rondmoore said his head canon for Starfleet was about 30,000 ships. The only on-screen reference is when Discovery says Starfleet has about 7,000. The Dominion's numbers are unspecified and vast. The Dominion also does not give a poo poo about casualties.
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Nov 24, 2019 22:58
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Grand Fromage posted:Rondmoore said his head canon for Starfleet when writing was about 30,000 ships. The only on-screen reference is when Discovery says Starfleet has about 7,000. The Dominion's numbers are unspecified and vast. But in TNG losing like 40 ships was a huge blow to the federation. Obviously they would care about the loss of life, but they implied the fleet's overall effectiveness was heavily impacted
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ruddiger posted:Dukat ordering his second in command to help fix his relationship with his daughter is peak Dukat. There has been some good fans statistics work on this of course. At the rate it seems to take to manufacture starships, and the service lives that seem common in the series, and the cited number of around 150 member homeworlds, some fans worked out the Starfleet should have around 1500 to 2000 Starships. This would make Fleet losses like a hundred ships in some DS9 episodes plausible without ending the war on the spot. The way this can be reconciled with only ship in the sector plots is that space and the Federation are really big. It would take a long time to mass and reorganize the fleet for Combined action. Thus it is plausible that the Federation lost multiple 100 ship combined fleets in the Dominion war and kept fighting oh, but the loss of 40 ships at Wolf 359 left nothing between the Borg and Earth. Arglebargle III fucked around with this message at 23:03 on Nov 24, 2019 |
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