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Picard "If you come across crew members who have already been assimilated, do not hesitate to shoot them. Believe me, you'll be doing them a favour." That's rich coming from a man who was assimilated and lived to be dessimilated! Deanna taking a shot has me cracking up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXVUIR4v_gE&t=66s
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Arglebargle III posted:Move Along Home isn't even the third worst DS9 season 1 episode. It is in fact the third best DS9 season 1 episode. THIRD SHAP
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Jan 26, 2020 19:24
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It did a good job characterizing the personalities of some of the main characters, and was a good intro to "this wormhole has opened and all these weird-rear end aliens are coming through and we need to be nice to them" without resorting to "the weird-rear end aliens are SUPER EVIL" just yet.
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pyrotek posted:Assuming you haven't already used your free week trial, if you subscribe now with the code JANUARY (good through tomorrow), you'll get the free trial week and then a free month, and the rest of the series will be done in the next month, so you could watch the whole series as it airs and be able to participate in the discussions as they happen for $6 or $10 depending on whether or not you can stand commercials. Eh, still fair - ten bucks for the season and a chance to check out the new Twilight Zone. Thanks for the tip.
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Jan 26, 2020 19:28
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I think my favourite visual in all of Trek is the Lighting Circle thing above Borg nap cubbies. I really hope they keep that in Picard. I can't think of any other media to have invoked that same thing, it's instantly recognizable as Trek.
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Jan 26, 2020 19:35
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Khanstant posted:I think my favourite visual in all of Trek is the Lighting Circle thing above Borg nap cubbies. I really hope they keep that in Picard. I can't think of any other media to have invoked that same thing, it's instantly recognizable as Trek. you too can be the proud owner of a borg lightning circle thing https://www.amazon.ca/Iuhan-Lightin...80064025&sr=8-1
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Khanstant posted:I think my favourite visual in all of Trek is the Lighting Circle thing above Borg nap cubbies. I really hope they keep that in Picard. I can't think of any other media to have invoked that same thing, it's instantly recognizable as Trek. Khanstant posted:I think my favourite visual in all of Trek is the Lighting Circle thing above Borg nap cubbies. I really hope they keep that in Picard. I can't think of any other media to have invoked that same thing, it's instantly recognizable as Trek. Unlike this thing that shows up all over the place    https://youtu.be/BmJRqZEG4rs
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Jan 26, 2020 19:43
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The Bloop posted:Unlike this thing that shows up all over the place and re-used in a number of other cheap sci-fi productions of the time, including in the excellent low budget movie Trancers here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB6VdGNsJtw&t=797s that grating on the walls also looks like the exact same one used in TNG/DS9
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Jan 26, 2020 19:47
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Hahaha, I want to know who made that. Device to hold two fluorescent lights, very science, very fiction. I love it, like a wilhelm screen but for goofy props. Cheyenne Jackson looks so much like JJ Kirk in this movie.
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The Bloop posted:Unlike this thing that shows up all over the place I think I saw those things in the old Buck Rogers TV show. I remember thinking that the first time they showed up on TNG.
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Jan 26, 2020 19:48
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God the baseball card episode is so good. I was lollin the whole time. I think my favorite bit this time was cocksure Jake leaned up against a wall telling Kai Winn "We need to talk"
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Jan 26, 2020 19:50
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Is it wrong that I'm hoping Data and the Borg Bae bang it out? An adorable little baby data-borg is born and there could be a whole series about trying to raise that little rascal to be a good kid.
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Khanstant posted:Hahaha, I want to know who made that. Device to hold two fluorescent lights, very science, very fiction. I love it, like a wilhelm screen but for goofy props. John Zabrucky. For decades he was the king of rental sci-fi props, but he's retiring this year. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2020-01-03/modern-props-closes-its-doors
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Khanstant posted:Is it wrong that I'm hoping Data and the Borg Bae bang it out? An adorable little baby data-borg is born and there could be a whole series about trying to raise that little rascal to be a good kid.
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Powered Descent posted:John Zabrucky. For decades he was the king of rental sci-fi props, but he's retiring this year. drat, that's pretty rad. Gotta respect when someone knows to move on after decades of kicking rear end.
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piratepilates posted:and re-used in a number of other cheap sci-fi productions of the time, including in the excellent low budget movie Trancers here: I saw Trancers in a theater recently and I haven’t hated a movie that much in a long time. Tom Paris’s dad does show up briefly though.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I saw Trancers in a theater recently and I haven’t hated a movie that much in a long time. Tom Paris’s dad does show up briefly though. hey if Trancers 1 didn't do it for you, why not try Trancers 2? how about Trancers 3, starring Garak, who is using trancing (or w/e) to create secret super soldiers? still not convinced? why not Trancers 4 and 5, which shifts the series to a fantasy setting? there's also Trancers 6, which I haven't seen. I think I saw up to 4, and then couldn't find 5.
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This belongs on the Star Trek Out of Context Twitter
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Shocked that Pete Buttegieg was in a star trek movie.
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"Assimilate this." Worf says to a Direct TV dish floating into space.
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Jan 26, 2020 20:58
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Khanstant posted:"Assimilate this." Worf says to a Direct TV dish floating into space. I remember watching First Contact in theaters and this got a huge laugh.
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Jan 26, 2020 20:59
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The best part of the TNG movies were the beginnings of each when they had to cook up some reason why Worf was back from DS9.
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Lily owns, she made Picard fail his speech checks until he broke his funko pop cabinet.
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PostNouveau posted:The best part of the TNG movies were the beginnings of each when they had to cook up some reason why Worf was back from DS9. By Nemesis they just stopped trying and he was just there
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Ok so wait, wouldn't the First Contact have happened simply because the Ent-E was there? Obvi they tryna blow it up, but wouldn't the presence itself make the Vulcs be like "wots that?"
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Khanstant posted:Ok so wait, wouldn't the First Contact have happened simply because the Ent-E was there? Obvi they tryna blow it up, but wouldn't the presence itself make the Vulcs be like "wots that?" They have a throwaway line about being sufficiently advanced to be able to easily hide from the vulcans of that era iirc
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I'll buy that. Hard to villainize the Borg in this. They're just looking for love! : o (
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Khanstant posted:Ok so wait, wouldn't the First Contact have happened simply because the Ent-E was there? Obvi they tryna blow it up, but wouldn't the presence itself make the Vulcs be like "wots that?" Seems like all the drama about getting the launch off at the right time could have been avoided if the Enterprise just did a warp itself with that dude's busted prototype in tow and left.
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marktheando posted:That's the one, the Borg Queen (There aren't any other movies with the Borg) The Motion Picture 
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Okay, that was pretty good. Just like a long episode with more action than usual and a few slightly over the top Picard action moments. But they were fun and cool so who cares. Come to think of it, this is kind of the DS9 episode where Sisko becomes Bell. I do love that "First Contact" consists of them getting a drink at the bar with just the locals. I did crack up when the Vulcan was like *throws off hood, reveals ears* "These primitives think our spaceship is impressive, but wait until they check out these ears"
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Beachcomber posted:Yes I fully understand that. All I'm saying is that Vulcan could have exploded for unrelated reasons in the 20 years since Romulus exploded, and we don't know for absolute certain it's still there until it appears on screen or someone mentions it. Schrodinger's Vulcan
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Grand Fromage posted:Yeah, DS9's first season has some turds but is TNG is really the god mode of lovely first seasons. It's incredible the show survived that. Second season DS9 is fairly good overall. Yeah but in the late 80s it was amazingly better than other scifi tv.
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Grand Fromage posted:Yeah, DS9's first season has some turds but is TNG is really the god mode of lovely first seasons. It's incredible the show survived that. Second season DS9 is fairly good overall. I am also rewatching through and just hit season three, man is it so good. In retrospect I am impressed with how fully formed and well performed Quark, Garak, and Odo were right from the start.
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Re watching the series I thought season one was no where near as bad as if been led to believe. I think it's biggest issues was it was front loaded with some of the shittiest episodes, and the show gets slightly incrementally better and by around the end of the second season / start of the third it's fantastic. :Edit: this is TNG I mean. Not DS9. I think DS9s biggest problem is the first season is kind of boring, but important to the world building that ends up being amazing.
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Bilirubin posted:I am also rewatching through and just hit season three, man is it so good. Less so about the other two, but Garak being fully formed is entirely down to Andrew Robinson. He was intended to be a one off played very differently.
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Isometric Bacon posted:Re watching the series I thought season one was no where near as bad as if been led to believe. TNG had some TOS scripts they used early on, which are probably all the garbage ones. I know the racist Space Africa one was a TOS script at least.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Shocked that Pete Buttegieg was in a star trek movie. Neal McDonough doesn't deserve this from you
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PostNouveau posted:TNG had some TOS scripts they used early on, which are probably all the garbage ones. I know the racist Space Africa one was a TOS script at least. Phase II scripts. Phase II was a proposed Star Trek series in the late '70s. The episode that was written as the pilot, "In Thy Image", about a giant, destructive spaceship that comes to Earth to find its creator, was turned into The Motion Picture, and "The Child", and "Devil's Due" were Phase II scripts that were turned into TNG episodes. Code of Honor, though, which was the Space Africa one, wasn't. That was based on an original script by Kathryn Powers. In the original script, the aliens were these lizard people called the "Tellisians", who were ruled by a warrior caste like the Japanese samurai. In the original script, the crew is on shore leave on this planet where ritual fighting occurs, and, after Tasha defeats a Tellisian in hand to hand combat, his father, this pilot named Lutan, kidnaps her. To get her back, the crew goes to the Tellisian homeworld. When they get there, they meet the king, who's then poisoned by Lutan, who wants to be the new king, and are thrown in prison for the king's murder. With the help of Lutan's nephew, they escape, and prove their innocence and Lutan's guilt. Over the course of rewrites, they turned it into what it was, and then the director, Russ Mayberry, cast it entirely with African-American actors. He was fired about halfway through the episode of the filming, but by that point... Kathryn Powers would then go on to write a strangely similar episode for Stargate: SG1, called Emancipation, where Major Carter (who's female), is kidnapped, this time by a tribe based on the Mongols, where women don't have rights and are the property of men, and ends up having to fight a chieftain to the death.
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