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You both are wrong, Jean-Luc's reasons are clear as water and Hugh owes Picard far more than his sanity and life, I know that he will literally would let himself be assimilated a thousand times more if JLP would ask for it.
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Feb 27, 2020 21:00
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The line read on "Locutus...?" was a hilarious choice by that background actor.
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Feb 27, 2020 21:29
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Locutus? Locutus Ryerson?
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Feb 27, 2020 21:50
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Locutus? Locutus! It’s me! Remember me? Eighth of Fifteen! I was your assigned buddy on assimilation orientation day!
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I'll double-check when I get home but IIRC it's doubly weird because that was a Romulan, not an xB who called him that
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Snow Cone Capone posted:I'll double-check when I get home but IIRC it's doubly weird because that was a Romulan, not an xB who called him that It's not
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Feb 27, 2020 22:11
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My mistake! Dunno why I thought that.
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Feb 27, 2020 22:14
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Snow Cone Capone posted:Also if I had a instant handheld scanner that could tell me the age of things, I would probably scan myself at some point? Oh my god I didn't even think of that 
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Snow Cone Capone posted:My mistake! Dunno why I thought that. I wasn't sure either, which is why I checked. It's a split second anyway, I just assumed that it was a Borg because they made a point of mentioning that the Borg won't forget who he is. Unrelated: Bringing back Hugh/Del Arco was a master stroke. The way he lights up and immediately hugs Picard and agrees to help him with whatever is so wholesome. Check out his twitter, he's so happy at the positive reaction to the episode. Also I assumed the reclamation project was reclaiming Borg tech, but they're reclaiming Borg drones  Stewart did a great job both expressing his trauma and how seeing others being healed helped him contextualize his own trauma.
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Yeah every scene with Hugh and Picard together was extremely
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Feb 27, 2020 22:31
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thrawn527 posted:I kept waiting for her to do exactly that. Like, that was gonna be the reveal. It can be handwaved by her being obviously too scared to do it.
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Feb 27, 2020 22:38
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So wasn't red radioactive gas what did for Cap'n Pike
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Feb 27, 2020 23:00
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I hope Hugh survives. It'd be a huge dick move to kill him off. Dude is so wholesome and friendly and helpful. Of course, this is DARK TREK, so that'll happen.
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Feb 27, 2020 23:26
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Noise Complaint posted:The line read on "Locutus...?" was a hilarious choice by that background actor. I half expected Hugh to turn around and growl "Not the right time!" I really liked this one. I'm hoping that Picard pulls a Mandalorian in that there's been episodes focusing on one guest star or so like Hugh and Seven, who then go away but then they all come back and help out Picard for the finale.
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SPOILER FROM THE PREVIEW: OUCH. That's gonna kill a few dinosaurs.
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ashpanash posted:SPOILER FROM THE PREVIEW: Got some serious Rogue One vibes from that shot. Love it.
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No sir, I don't like that one bit.
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Just finishing up my watch and so far there's only one thing I wanna say I love that ex-Borg dude that was like "Locutus?" when he saw Picard running down the corridor, like he ran into a highschool buddy at the grocery store Noise Complaint posted:The line read on "Locutus...?" was a hilarious choice by that background actor. lol yeah this Brawnfire fucked around with this message at 00:10 on Feb 28, 2020 |
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Brawnfire posted:Just finishing up my watch and so far there's only one thing I wanna say I kinda read it more like the guy was perplexedly star struck. Like if you’re milling about at your job and then your boss goes running by with Brad Pitt in tow randomly. Because Locutus is like a Borg celebrity.
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After the mirror arc in DIS Season 1 I was thinking "So the Mirror Universe stuff is over, right? That's the last we've seen of the Ash Tyler storyline, right?" The moment where a few people sit with him in the lunch room was its high point, but it wasn't worth the rest of the screentime. Then they just keep on doing it for two episodes. At least the show and Michael Burnham finally state outright in the season finale that she was wrong in the first episode. The whole point of the series seems to be asking "is the Federation going to lose its way" as a source of tension like the tension of someone almost dying in an action scene, and even when it answers "no, never", it's not enthralling because they've been doing that for far too long. The tension also feels like it's a plain endorsement and bad writing. That feeling of Old Star Trek at the end doesn't make up for "what is this poo poo?" leading up to it.
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zoux posted:Locutus? Locutus Ryerson? BING! Watch out for that first teleportation, it's a doozy.
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nine-gear crow posted:I kinda read it more like the guy was perplexedly star struck. Like if you’re milling about at your job and then your boss goes running by with Brad Pitt in tow randomly. Because Locutus is like a Borg celebrity. Man I don't think we can really relate at all to whatever that guy was feeling. Locutus was like... His mouth, or part of his brain, or like a memory of a dream Seeing him over there could be a very disquieting out of body experience
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Maybe they go into it in more detail in Voyager, but I always thought Locutus (and also the queen, actually) were weird concepts, since they're deliberate and specific specialized, unique aspects instead of the faceless designations most Borg end up as. So you're right, it's entirely possible that the dude got the scare of his post-Borg life, seeing one of 2 Borg important enough to have individual designations within the Collective just kind of stroll by him on a supposedly cut-off Cube.
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We know there was more than one physical instantiation of the queen, but probably only ever one "locutus"
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I like how starfleet's archival photo of Locutus is literally just a screencap from the TNG episode, with the viewscreen's LCARS in plain sight. Like the Picard production staff didn't even bother cropping it to hide it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0wV30UJdh8&t=264s
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The Bloop posted:We know there was more than one physical instantiation of the queen, but probably only ever one "locutus" God, that’s a really interesting point. What if there are/were in fact more Locutuses besides Picard and that Locutus is a designated role when the Borg need a non-Queen interface. Like Seven of Nine was basically introduced as being a Locutus in all but name, a drone specifically granted a measure of individuality and identity for the purpose of interacting with the Voyager crew. But yeah the Beta Quadrant Borg would definitely recognize Picard as THE Locutus.
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piratepilates posted:I like how starfleet's archival photo of Locutus is literally just a screencap from the TNG episode, with the viewscreen's LCARS in plain sight. They’re carrying on a long and storied tradition of archival media in the Star Trek universe consisting of literal footage of the TV shows/movies and already existing promotional photos 
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Also nice little name-drop on the spatial trajector tech coming from the assimilated Sikarians, rip those guys
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Lizard Combatant posted:Yeah say what you like about Rogue One but it has the best directed space battle action of any of the films. They've continued the ww2 air and sea style of Star Wars that eschews strict realism (fighters handling like they're in an atmosphere, etc...) but has a consistent internal logic. There's a great sense of geography in that scene and the characters feel present in the moment. When the corvette rams the destroyer and you see it from the view on the bridge I don't even understand how battle damage works in Star Trek and I've been watching it nonstop almost for 20 years. As far as I can tell, when phasers and photons hit the shields, the shock and impact is absorbed, but not fully (antimatter detonation and all) so it does minor damage. I base this off any unshielded ship getting instapopped. But then again, the Klingons shot god in the face and it was like, an m-80 sized explosion. The Trio was standing in front of it and weren't instantly vaporized.
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Snow Cone Capone posted:Shields absorb incoming energy at the hull and transfer that energy directly to the bridge consoles. .....where they heat up the rocks and slag.
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:I don't even understand how battle damage works in Star Trek and I've been watching it nonstop almost for 20 years. Battle damage is when everyone decides to sway a bit and Worf talks about what the percentage of shield it is.
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Gonz posted:.....where they heat up the rocks and slag. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxy20bgot0Q
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Panzeh posted:Battle damage is when everyone decides to sway a bit and Worf talks about what the percentage of shield it is. They way I've come to rationalise it is that impacts on shields cause bits of a ship's energy grid to burn out as it surges to stop weapons fire getting through. So shield integrity dropping is really the underlying machinery burning out through stress (which is why it doesn't just immediately recharge to full). A big enough hit causes fuses to blow all over the ship, which is why your bridge console explodes. Hull armour isn't a thing, but if the plot doesn't require you to explode then in Star Trek a forcefield that keeps air in is apparently trivial enough to do that you don't actually need much of a hull to do it (see that early Discovery episode where Burnham's room gets blown up). Obviously it's all just make believe, but I think it's actually pretty consistent that a direct hit to engines means suddenly exploding, whereas anything else is either superficial or disabling. That seems to be the writer's code.
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Alchenar posted:forcefield that keeps air in is apparently trivial enough to do that you don't actually need much of a hull to do it (see that early Discovery episode where Burnham's room gets blown up). also 
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Brawnfire posted:Just finishing up my watch and so far there's only one thing I wanna say I can already tell my equally Trek-nerd coworker and I are gonna hit each other with that when we pass in the hall.
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Feb 28, 2020 03:21
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RLM put out another Picard episode. It looks like they've run out of takes stolen from around the internet and their predictions are just trash now.
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Feb 28, 2020 03:24
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Wild speculation: the Romulans didn't invent the Borg, they are descended from Synths.
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