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Powered Descent
Jul 13, 2008

We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

Drink-Mix Man posted:

Has there legit ever been a good Star Trek murder mystery episode?

Journey to Babel is good, but the murder mystery is more incidental and not really the focus of the whole show.

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Kibayasu
Mar 28, 2010

The_Doctor posted:

The trouble with a murder mystery is you’d have to have a mostly unknown dramatis personae because obviously the murderer isn’t going to be Riker or Dax or Saru.

It's only really half a murder mystery but the episode where Odo and friends get to relive Odo's past (but not really) to reveal a DRAMATIC SECRET does end up with Odo being the murderer

Astroman
Apr 8, 2001


Payndz posted:

I love that the guest villains in Columbo are A: generally famous in their own right (Leonard Nimoy was another Trek-themed killer), and B: often come back as different characters so Columbo can catch them again. Patrick McGoohan played four different bad guys!

Peter Falk was such an underrated Number Two.

McSpanky
Jan 16, 2005






Pick posted:

trek is a gentle lover

Trek is a little tweeting bird, chirping in a meadow. Trek is a wreath of pretty flowers that smell bad. Are you sure your app is registering correctly? Your posts are green!

Drone
Aug 22, 2003

Incredible machine
:smug:


Giving The Delta Flyers podcast a shot now. Anyone getting the Patreon supporter version? Curious to hear just how cut-back the free version is compared to the paid one.

Drink-Mix Man
Mar 4, 2003

You are an odd fellow, but I must say... you throw a swell shindig.

Garrett Wang certainly seems to have a memory like a duranium trap. I identify with McNeill who is like "Yeah... I barely remember anything from 20 years ago."

Admiralty Flag
Jun 7, 2007

to ride eternal, shiny and chrome

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2022

McSpanky posted:

Trek is a little tweeting bird, chirping in a meadow. Trek is a wreath of pretty flowers that smell bad. Are you sure your app is registering correctly? Your posts are green!

I just wanted to say that this reference is appreciated, and so are you

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

Drink-Mix Man
Mar 4, 2003

You are an odd fellow, but I must say... you throw a swell shindig.


Dr. McCoy on the other hand...

Zurui
Apr 20, 2005
Even now...




This is a loving lie

PerniciousKnid
Sep 13, 2006
Throw that fascist imposter in the brig.

galagazombie
Oct 31, 2011

A silly little mouse!
I liked the Crusher murder mystery though...
It's not great but it's a nice one-off. Plus Crusher totally blows a hole in a guy with a phaser and that's awesome.

8one6
May 20, 2012

When in doubt, err on the side of Awesome!

Drone posted:

Giving The Delta Flyers podcast a shot now. Anyone getting the Patreon supporter version? Curious to hear just how cut-back the free version is compared to the paid one.

I'm listening to the patreon version of ep1 now, and the first thing I notice is five minutes in they're talking about the first actress who played Janeway for two days. It's interesting and I don't remember that part from listening to it on spotify, so there's definitely some interesting extras.

Edit: The second and third podcast episode both had about 20 extra minutes. Parallax has a brief bit with Robert Picardo.

8one6 fucked around with this message at 11:20 on May 11, 2020

MrData
Jun 28, 2008
Watching Enterprise all the way through in a futile attempt to wash away the nuTrek stink and saw One Night In Sickbay (S2) for the first time.

Why does this thing exists??

Archer lets the aliens wait and get even more annoyed, when they have valuable parts to give away, is an rear end to everyone, and apparently him an T'Pol are into eachother now. That came out of absolutely nowhere. Up until now the episodes were mostly watchable and nothing too offensive but this just left me with a big old WTF at the end.

Eighties ZomCom
Sep 10, 2008




That's the one where his dog gets sick after pissing up against a sacred tree of some aliens they already met before and know that they're extremely touchy after they inadvertently offended them by showing off their mess hall right?

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



A Night in Sickbay is one of the worst episodes of the series

F_Shit_Fitzgerald
Feb 2, 2017



Is that the one where Archer's dog pisses on a tree and gets sick? I remember reading either a Television Without Pity or Agony Booth recap, and I think it was both a dumb episode and an example of Archer acting unprofessional.

Humerus
Jul 7, 2009

Rule of acquisition #111:
Treat people in your debt like family...exploit them.


Doug Drexler posted this, captioned "The funniest letter we received about DS9"



I demand alien sex!

Edit to fix: the imgur mobile app sucks and isn't good

Humerus fucked around with this message at 18:52 on May 11, 2020

The_Doctor
Mar 29, 2007

"The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."
You can’t link to the page from imgur, you need the actual image address.

Edit: you fixed it! Good job!

Big Mean Jerk
Jan 27, 2009

Well, of course I know him.
He's me.

Humerus posted:

Doug Drexler posted this, captioned "The funniest letter we received about DS9"



I demand alien sex!

Edit to fix: the imgur mobile app sucks and isn't good

That guy must loving love Discovery

LifeGetsWorser
Oct 23, 2010

Me "IRL" :smug:
Fun Shoe

Big Mean Jerk posted:

That guy must loving love Discovery

I dunno, he even said Klingon boobs get old fast.

Virgil Vox
Dec 8, 2009

Star Trek: I demand alien sex!

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

Virgil Vox posted:

Star Trek: I demand alien sex!

cool it riker

Drink-Mix Man
Mar 4, 2003

You are an odd fellow, but I must say... you throw a swell shindig.

Virgil Vox posted:

Star Trek: I demand alien sex!

But enough about Roddenberry's manifesto

Kibayasu
Mar 28, 2010

Humerus posted:

Doug Drexler posted this, captioned "The funniest letter we received about DS9"



I demand alien sex!

Edit to fix: the imgur mobile app sucks and isn't good

He was right about Avery Brooks though.

Mister Kingdom
Dec 14, 2005

And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

Humerus posted:

Doug Drexler posted this, captioned "The funniest letter we received about DS9"



I demand alien sex!

One or both?

Big Mean Jerk
Jan 27, 2009

Well, of course I know him.
He's me.
Technically DS9 had all those things in spades, he just wasn’t patient enough to find out. He probably just gave up after season 1 and went on to adore Voyager.

John Wick of Dogs
Mar 4, 2017

A real hellraiser


Humerus posted:

Doug Drexler posted this, captioned "The funniest letter we received about DS9"



I demand alien sex!

Edit to fix: the imgur mobile app sucks and isn't good

The funniest thing about this letter is that they indeed went on to give him exactly what he wanted

HD DAD
Jan 13, 2010

Generic white guy.

Toilet Rascal
Hot take: Enterprise is a flawed masterpiece and like, the third best Trek show.

Timby
Dec 23, 2006

Your mother!

HD DAD posted:

Hot take: Enterprise is a flawed masterpiece and like, the third best Trek show.

DS9
TOS
TNG
ENT

...

VOY






...


Disco

...




Picard

Timby
Dec 23, 2006

Your mother!

Just FYI, The Magnificent Ferengi is tonight's DS9 episode on H&I.

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



HD DAD posted:

Hot take: Enterprise is a flawed masterpiece and like, the third best Trek show.
So which one of TNG/DS9/TOS are you putting after ENT in this terrible scenario

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
wheres TAS

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
TOS films
TOS
TAS
DS9

TNG



VOY
TNG Films








{fire caves}
ENT

curiousTerminal
Sep 2, 2011

what a humorous anecdote.
Still watching ENT on and off and I am actually fairly certain that literally anyone on this starship would be a better captain that Archer.

Hell, Harry Kim would be a better captain than Archer.

HD DAD
Jan 13, 2010

Generic white guy.

Toilet Rascal

FlamingLiberal posted:

So which one of TNG/DS9/TOS are you putting after ENT in this terrible scenario

DS9 - Great
TNG - Great
ENT - Very Good
DIS - Pretty Good
TOS - Good, but not my cup of tea
VOY - Meh
.
.
.
PIC - Aggressively Bad


curiousTerminal posted:

Still watching ENT on and off and I am actually fairly certain that literally anyone on this starship would be a better captain that Archer.

Hell, Harry Kim would be a better captain than Archer.

Archer is a bad captain. He’s naive at best, and spiteful and aggressive at worst. T’Pol treating him like a slow child is one of the things I like about the show.

HD DAD fucked around with this message at 03:22 on May 12, 2020

Drink-Mix Man
Mar 4, 2003

You are an odd fellow, but I must say... you throw a swell shindig.

What the gently caress how can anyone think Picard is worse than Discovery

Timby
Dec 23, 2006

Your mother!

Drink-Mix Man posted:

What the gently caress how can anyone think Picard is worse than Discovery

It bad.

Winifred Madgers
Feb 12, 2002

Kibayasu posted:

He was right about Avery Brooks though.

Halfway through the letter I was convinced the signature at the end was going to be Avery's.

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Sir Lemming
Jan 27, 2009

It's a piece of JUNK!

HD DAD posted:

Hot take: Enterprise is a flawed masterpiece and like, the third best Trek show.

I'm one of the biggest Enterprise defenders around, but I still can't imagine ranking DS9, TNG, or TOS below it. Maybe it can squeeze past TOS on math alone if you coldly tally the # of good episodes... but still...

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