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Movie Picard is the same Picard as the series. The difference is that in First Contact, Picard is still dealing with his PTSD from his Borg experiences.
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Jan 7, 2020 01:12
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Picard in Nemesis, however, is him unfortunately succumbing to his space dementia, convincing himself he’s an expert dune buggy driver.
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The Bloop posted:Jean-Luuke Zurui posted:So in Timothy Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy (the original licensed sequels to Star Wars) they indicate a clone by doubling up a vowel, so like Clone-Luke is Luuke or Clone Jorus is Joruus. I always wondered if it incremented by clone, like is the third clone of Han Haaaan? The Bloop posted:Duncan Idaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaho Brawnfire posted:Weyyyyyyyyoun Powered Descent posted:Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa[645,000 characters removed]aaaaaaaaaaaaango Fett Pick posted:Jaango Fett. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFuu6m_6Fsw
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bull3964 posted:However, if you don't own Star Trek by now and you are in this thread, what the gently caress are you doing? The series box sets regularly go on sale for $30-$60 a pop. What? I don't even have a way to watch DVDs or physical media anymore, I know a lot of peers who are similarly no longer equipped for old media. This is grandpa advice.
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Zurui posted:So in Timothy Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy (the original licensed sequels to Star Wars) they indicate a clone by doubling up a vowel, so like Clone-Luke is Luuke or Clone Jorus is Joruus. I always wondered if it incremented by clone, like is the third clone of Han Haaaan?
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So what clone number was KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!!!!!! Don't have a script of TWOK to count vowels
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Khanstant posted:What? I don't even have a way to watch DVDs or physical media anymore, I know a lot of peers who are similarly no longer equipped for old media. This is grandpa advice. And you are why we don't have DS9 in HD and never will.
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Jan 7, 2020 02:59
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Good, HD is excessive visual smut for spoiled deviant eyes. It's like people who need diamond USB plugs to hear their og vorbises records at highest quality. For the rest of us, the sped up, squashed down in the corner YouTube rips are just fine.
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I very much enjoy my artesenal Tape artifacts. The lower resolution really makes the image warmer and fuller than modern digital aspect ratios.
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Khanstant posted:Good, HD is excessive visual smut for spoiled deviant eyes. It's like people who need diamond USB plugs to hear their og vorbises records at highest quality. For the rest of us, the sped up, squashed down in the corner YouTube rips are just fine. interlaced video w/ VHS tracking artifacts, mono audio coming out of a tiny speaker stretched out to fill a 16:9 screen
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Jan 7, 2020 03:16
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Recorded from the original TV broadcast, with commercials included. Unless your rewatch includes ad spots from local car dealerships circa 1994 you just aren't getting the authentic TNG experience.
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1994? Them’s rookie numbers. I only watch a first broadcast taping of Code of Honor intermixed with Reagan era news blurbs.
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Delsaber posted:Recorded from the original TV broadcast, with commercials included. One thing I can't abide with watching on Hulu or TV now, is when they don't put the commercials at the built in commercial times.
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Jan 7, 2020 03:25
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Delsaber posted:Recorded from the original TV broadcast, with commercials included. And the teaser at the end for next week's exciting episode of STARRRRRRR TREK thenextgeneration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ52ebFqzdI
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Khanstant posted:What? I don't even have a way to watch DVDs or physical media anymore, I know a lot of peers who are similarly no longer equipped for old media. This is grandpa advice. USB DVD drives are like $25, this is not a huge hurdle to clear. What with old shows going every which way on streaming services I think DVDs are more valuable than ever, actually. Once you have the disc you have it forever.
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Son of Sam-I-Am posted:interlaced video w/ VHS tracking artifacts, mono audio coming out of a tiny speaker Imo there will never be as satisfying a way to watch Star Trek than on Justin.tv, in that days secret Star Trek stream you could only find by belonging to the right covert Facebook groups. Star Trek is just better with a chat, or at least, the specific type of weirdoes who bothered in that instance. As for physical, it does have benefits but this is the longest I've ever lived at the same place in adulthood, and I still just like to keep my physical possessions to a minimum. Moving sucks the more crap you have, keeping my totally objects owned into the size of the small uhaul is just logistically best for me. DVD collection seems more realistic if you've got a permanent long term dwelling.
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I think a great end to Voyager would have been the crew getting home to the Alpha Quadrant in season 4, immediately getting drafted into the Dominion war, and being one of the no name ships getting one-shotted in one of DS9's big battle scenes.
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Bucswabe posted:I think a great end to Voyager would have been the crew getting home to the Alpha Quadrant in season 4, immediately getting drafted into the Dominion war, and being one of the no name ships getting one-shotted in one of DS9's big battle scenes. Without Voyager, the Dominion war would never have been allowed. Be thankful and experience bij.
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THANK you, I was looking for this weeks ago and it's not as easy to search for as you would think.
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HD DAD posted:1994? Them’s rookie numbers. I only watch a first broadcast taping of Code of Honor intermixed with Reagan era news blurbs.
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Drink-Mix Man posted:THANK you, I was looking for this weeks ago and it's not as easy to search for as you would think. I made that using Pick’s wonderful artwork and I’m very happy to see it bring joy :3
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Khanstant posted:Imo there will never be as satisfying a way to watch Star Trek than on Justin.tv, in that days secret Star Trek stream you could only find by belonging to the right covert Facebook groups. Star Trek is just better with a chat, or at least, the specific type of weirdoes who bothered in that instance. I get that what you have works for you, but it's not like having DVDs or BDs is only feasible for the house-privileged who can accommodate bookcases and shelves full of big clunky cases and boxes. They make these arcane artifacts that are essentially a three ring binder you can pack hundreds of discs into. And if you're willing to say "gently caress the police" you could rip discs onto a hard drive and then toss the discs; you can pack a metric shitload of media onto a 4TB external hard drive that is entirely USB powered and takes up roughly the same volume as a pack of smokes.
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lol if you dont store all your media on little multicoloured slabs of backlit translucent acrylic like what are you even doing
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Tighclops posted:lol if you dont store all your media on little multicoloured slabs of backlit translucent acrylic I've never been able to find a good isolinear chip USB drive and it annoys me.
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Tighclops posted:lol if you dont store all your media on little multicoloured slabs of backlit translucent acrylic I'm still on primary-color painted wooden blocks 
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Star Trek was pretty ahead of its time with ideas about computing, even if they were deliberately vague about it; mostly that storage mediums are basically arbitrary containers and wireless networking becomes the norm. Of course, the latter might not be the hardest thing to extrapolate, given radio had been around for like half a century already.
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Son of Sam-I-Am posted:interlaced video w/ VHS tracking artifacts, mono audio coming out of a tiny speaker Picard, his face wide
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Star Trek was pretty ahead of its time with ideas about computing, even if they were deliberately vague about it; mostly that storage mediums are basically arbitrary containers and wireless networking becomes the norm. Of course, the latter might not be the hardest thing to extrapolate, given radio had been around for like half a century already. It's true, even if they called them tapes at first, it was pretty forward-thinking. Using "gigaquads" instead of any recognizable unit for memory in TNG was brilliant because otherwise they almost certainly would have chosen a laughably small amount that would have aged terribly.
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They did give a hard figure for Data’s storage capacity, which worked out to like 100 petabytes. Which isn’t terribly small.
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quote:The two young scientists played together as well as they worked; unfortunately, what they liked to play was computer games. Del had tried to get her to play once; she was not merely uninterested, she was totally disinterested. From the novelization of TWOK. They were playing a game in the Genesis computer because it was the only one large enough to hold it. Later, that's what they leave for Khan to find.
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The Bloop posted:It's true, even if they called them tapes at first, it was pretty forward-thinking. Hey, for all we know they'll invent future storage mediums that are super-advanced tapes. But yeah, having full on  is actually a really good idea for sci-fi it turns out because distancing yourself from known modern terms makes people suspend their disbelief easier and can age better as everything cutting-edge inevitably becomes obsolete.
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You're a quad.Ghost Leviathan posted:Star Trek was pretty ahead of its time with ideas about computing, even if they were deliberately vague about it; mostly that storage mediums are basically arbitrary containers and wireless networking becomes the norm. Of course, the latter might not be the hardest thing to extrapolate, given radio had been around for like half a century already. I'm pretty sure that the implication of their storage mediums was that somehow data was physically inscribed analog on transparent crystals, rather than there being circuitry inside the crystals with like a rewritable USB drive. Isolinear chips could maybe be analogous to SD cards (the actual current modern storage medium), but I think the idea there was that they were actually microprocessors rather than storage mediums. Why you would want those to be easily removable is anyone's guess. I don't know if they actually meaningfully depict wireless networking much as opposed to just not depicting wired connections. That's probably more of thing where it's cheaper and easier to not include wires as props. I think the original series did depict floppy disks like a year or two before they were invented.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I'm pretty sure that the implication of their storage mediums was that somehow data was physically inscribed analog on transparent crystals, rather than there being circuitry inside the crystals with like a rewritable USB drive. Well, to get insufferably technical, all data is "physically inscribed" using some method or other, whether that's with holes in punch cards, magnetic states on a tape or disk, an optical reflection pattern on a CD, or the electrical state of MOSFETs in an SSD. Does it really matter on a fundamental level whether the electronics for low-level reading and writing of the actual data stay with the medium itself (as with a USB drive) or stay on the computer (as with a CD)? Besides, isolinear stuff was definitely rewritable, or it wouldn't have been such a big deal to get the optolythic data rod that could be written once and then never altered. 
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HD DAD posted:They did give a hard figure for Data’s storage capacity, which worked out to like 100 petabytes. Which isn’t terribly small. That's still pretty dang impressive considering he's (probably) packing all of that (and the thinky bits too) in his head.
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The Bloop posted:It's true, even if they called them tapes at first, it was pretty forward-thinking. Of course Voyager fucks that up by being totally inconsistent and using values of quad that are literally millions of times or so what the computer of the Enterprise-D had in total, they'd be like 'we've gathered twenty million teraquads of data on the gizmomajig!'
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MikeJF posted:Of course Voyager fucks that up by being totally inconsistent and using values of quad that are literally millions of times or so what the computer of the Enterprise-D had in total, they'd be like 'we've gathered twenty million teraquads of data on the gizmomajig!'
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Also they couldn't possibly have predicted it, but quantum computing would basically be tailor-made for intricate math problems like "calculate how to fold space properly," and the processing power of those would be orders of magnitude higher than any current computers we have. Honestly, I like the fact that The Orville calls it Quantum Drive instead of Warp, and IIRC at one point one of the engineers flat-out states that they're using quantum computers to perform unimaginable numbers of calculations for the Quantum Drive to operate safely. Star Wars also kind of addresses the complexity of interstellar travel - in a lot of the books the answer to "why does it take so long to go to hyperdrive" is basically "because the computer has to figure out a course that avoids the billions of other stars/objects between Here and There and that takes some time" (which was another eye-roll in Rise of Skywalker when a gigantic rag-tag fleet does a series of instant, blind jumps with pinpoint accuracy) e: also they have gravity-well generator ships that will literally yank a ship out of hyperdrive which I always thought was kind of a neat concept Snow Cone Capone fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Jan 7, 2020 |
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Snow Cone Capone posted:Also they couldn't possibly have predicted it, but quantum computing would basically be tailor-made for intricate math problems like "calculate how to fold space properly," and the processing power of those would be orders of magnitude higher than any current computers we have. Well, power when processing work that can be expressed as a certain specific class of mathematical problems that quantum computers are meant to solve for. For equations outside that class, quantum computing ability provides no benefit.
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