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Arglebargle III posted:GCU Grey Area victims' support group. Oh, you mean ol' Meatfucker?
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We prefer not to use that name here.
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You're not counting entirely identical doppelgangers? It's basically the same thing, giving actors room to specifically act as something other than their usual character.
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Sir Lemming posted:I think DS9 (aka The Least Popular One) came closest to confronting this -- even though it's also the one with the stuff about war and religion that could definitely be seen as right-wing on the surface. The prophetic breaks myths of origin, and that is not right wing at all. Just mostly forgotten in current culture. Edit lol thought that was in US pol Bar Ran Dun fucked around with this message at 06:45 on Jan 19, 2020 |
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Mooseontheloose posted:One of the most revered Captains in history destroys 40 ships and they are like uh....well...we get it? 
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Sisko asks the Prophets to destroy 1500 ships later on and they're like "yeah I guess we can do something"
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Star Trek Online at least had a followup on that where years later the Dominion fleet finally arrives thinking they're still in the middle of the war.
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Jan 19, 2020 16:48
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Dunno if anyone posted this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWtVREAq5o0&t=669s Stewart being interviewed and a clip of Picard I haven't seen before. Ten-Forward!
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Anyone know what country that's restricted to? I need to know what button to press. edit: France works
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My wife couldn't keep it together during the episode where Sisko is stuck in a weird temporal state and Jake becomes a sad old man. I have no idea how she's going to react to the finale.
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Dune movie comes out this year. I figure some of you nerds might be interested in talking about it. Thread here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3911600
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That's a drat good OP, man
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1701-D sighting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTYcNVgzrCo
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I'm staring Enterprise, finally and does every character stay this insufferable, or do a couple of them get better? I think the only person I don't feel neutral to negative on is the translator girl, and that's just because I like linguistics.
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T’Pol gets better for sure. Archer becomes less of a hostile rear end and more of a bumbling idiot. Trip stays about the same. Phlox doesn’t change much. All of the other characters were basically afterthoughts to the writers, so there’s little to no change for any of them.
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Just reached The Neutral Zone in my rewatch. The stand off with Romulan Marc Alaimo was decent enough but I thought they were scrambling for a good reason to bring the Romulans back, eventually settling on 'had some poo poo to deal with, it's all good now'. The frozen people part was handled quite well when it came to the woman struggling to come to terms with being out of time and it provided Troi with some good material. The country singer was just kind of there for comic effect seemingly and while the businessman was a good subject to show how different the 24th century is, it was laid on real thick with him comparing the Enterprise to the QE2 and asking for a 'telephone call' so the crew could all go 'tel-e-phone????' was particularly eye-rolling. It was kind of OK but could have been a lot better.
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Gonz posted:1701-D sighting. I like those transporter arches.
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Senor Tron posted:I like those transporter arches. Makes a lot of sense too. Normally you need a transport operator, but if you can set a series of arches as ingress, maybe with a couple of choices of preset egress points, and have a separate set of egress portals, then you could facilitate fast travel pretty well.
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Gonz posted:1701-D sighting. Hell yeah, the Vasquez Rocks! Now that's the sort of classic Trek callback I can get behind!
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Senor Tron posted:I like those transporter arches. They're basically farcaster portals from Dan Simmons' Hyperion saga.
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Or the Iconian arches. I guess the Federation developed them from another Iconian ruin since Romulus blew up. 
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I’m not surprised but still amused that 70% of the cast of Picard are being overshadowed or flat out ignored in favor of Stewart, Spiner, and Ryan. Seeing the recent promo posters, I had a “oh poo poo I forgot there are other characters on this show” moment. Which is a shame, because I really like Alison Pill.
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Reminder BBC America starts its DS9 marathon today.
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HD DAD posted:I’m not surprised but still amused that 70% of the cast of Picard are being overshadowed or flat out ignored in favor of Stewart, Spiner, and Ryan. The show is literally called Picard, they're marketing it on TNG-era nostalgia. Season 2 promotion will likely focus more on the new faces since we'll know them.
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I mean season 1 might too, we may have already seen most of the scenes with Picard in them. The advertising does not necessarily match the show
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Jan 20, 2020 15:45
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Love seeing more Earth/planetside infrastructure
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Senor Tron posted:I like those transporter arches. Yeah, it's always cool to see magic future tech worked into how-it-might-work-in-day-to-day-life.
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Wouldn’t people be constantly crashing into each other? Imagine a busy doorway that people go both in and out of, but neither of them can see the other person until the last second.
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Don't walk into the out arch then.
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Jan 20, 2020 16:39
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The Fuzzy Hulk posted:Wouldn’t people be constantly crashing into each other? Presumably that's why there's six or so of them - a computer system coordinates which arch to bring incoming people through based on who's approaching which arch on the destination side. It must already have a sophisticated system to figure out where to send you anyway. Maybe it even tells you which one to walk toward. "Transport me to London, Soho junction Gamma Four." "Confirmed. Transit via Arch Three." *whoosh*. Conceptually elegant, especially if there's a reason site-to-site transport is fractionally riskier than using a pad or an arch. We've seen it happen but Starfleet doesn't seem to like doing them. I figure it increases the chance of a horrifying accident - minuscule on a personal level but when you're doing zillions a day you do want to minimize the number of actual problems, so arches. And visually it's neat, which is important to Federation designers.
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I'm really just pleased TNG didn't get binned with the new continuity. Even if this turns out to suck a little bit, it's way better than entire segments of my beloved setting being tossed without a thought. Now, if they'd only stop treating DS9 like it was an accident.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Conceptually elegant, especially if there's a reason site-to-site transport is fractionally riskier than using a pad or an arch. We've seen it happen but Starfleet doesn't seem to like doing them. I figure it increases the chance of a horrifying accident - minuscule on a personal level but when you're doing zillions a day you do want to minimize the number of actual problems, so arches. Probably more that it's more efficient and doesn't need an array of orbital beamamajiggers that can target anywhere on the planet for every single transport it does, which matters a lot when you're serving the needs of a couple billion people.
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The Bloop posted:I mean season 1 might too, we may have already seen most of the scenes with Picard in them. You'd think by now people would know not to trust advertising, since it tends to actively misrepresent the tone as much as possible in favour of whatever the idiots at marketing think will get attention. Most good movies and TV shows have garbage trailers, often deceptive, spoilery or somehow both.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:You'd think by now people would know not to trust advertising, since it tends to actively misrepresent the tone as much as possible in favour of whatever the idiots at marketing think will get attention. Most good movies and TV shows have garbage trailers, often deceptive, spoilery or somehow both. I work in marketing and it really is just Professional Lying.
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I just saw 1917 and the marketing for that movie is some of the most annoyingly spoilery poo poo I've seen in a while. Yeah put the sole survivor running alone from the end of the movie in the loving trailer you marketing dicks.
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marktheando posted:I just saw 1917 and the marketing for that movie is some of the most annoyingly spoilery poo poo I've seen in a while. Yeah put the sole survivor running alone from the end of the movie in the loving trailer you marketing dicks. I hate having a good memory for stuff like this as I'm always watching a new film while thinking "well we haven't seen that bit where he's shooting at something off screen so... oh wait, that's the guy we saw fall off a cliff in the trailer so he's probably going to... yep... there he goes. Guess he's going to find that car soon" I've never saw Forrest Gump when it came out. I didn't feel the need to as the trailer was basically the movie in 2 minutes. EDIT - I'm obviously not talking about the same film here, unless there's a seriously different director's cut of Forrest gump
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Still trailers used to be even more spoilery. Worst offender is the original 1967 trailer for The Graduate. It’s the whole movie! https://youtu.be/6KnSucVko1s
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A discussion about spoiler-y trailers in the Trek thread would be remiss without THE FINAL VOYAGE OF THE STARSHIP ENTERPRISE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wzG1u4zStM&t=42s
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Cross-Section posted:A discussion about spoiler-y trailers in the Trek thread would be remiss without THE FINAL VOYAGE OF THE STARSHIP ENTERPRISE As I recall, Harve Bennett signed off on that trailer blowing the surprise because Roddenberry had already leaked it to the fanzines, who reacted so vehemently that even some news stations picked it up. So Bennett was like, well, the toothpaste is already out of the tube, might as well pimp our big effects shot.
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Timby posted:As I recall, Harve Bennett signed off on that trailer blowing the surprise because Roddenberry had already leaked it to the fanzines, who reacted so vehemently that even some news stations picked it up. So Bennett was like, well, the toothpaste is already out of the tube, might as well pimp our big effects shot. And what an effect shot!   In unrelated news, I think I was onboard with this until I got to the nacelles: https://twitter.com/spaceshipsporn/status/1219342024589107203 It's a pretty fly ship, otherwise.
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