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Hispanic! At The Disco posted:Ep 5 is gonna have this ship: Big Mean Jerk posted:Kinda looks like Riker’s Titan if it had been designed during TNG season 5. I was gonna say that it looked like the Shenzou with a Galaxy-era aesthetic to me. You can see it a bit better with STO's Georgiou-class, which is just the Shenzou with an Excelsior-era aesthetic, and is something of a midpoint between the two designs. 
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Vageuly reminded of the Saber Class in overall layout, too.
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Hispanic! At The Disco posted:Ep 5 is gonna have this ship:
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ashpanash posted:Interesting. It didn't strike me as the same joke at all. To me, the Rick and Morty joke was 'Oh no, the whole thing was real after all, AND there was plenty of obvious evidence that it was.' The context of both jokes are 'there's a character that is nominally trying to ascend and our protagonist interrupts'. In R&M the setup is that Morty tries to do the right thing by asking a reasonable question and the punchline is that this directly results in a horrific unrelated consequence. In Lower Decks, the setup is... (spoilers I guess for those who haven't watched) the guy was faking all along? He's ready, causing him to ascend, but actually isn't ready? Why is the Panda smiling? It's just a random mess of stuff thrown at the screen in the hopes that some of it gets a chuckle, but there's no build up to any of it. This also isn't the first time Lower Decks has tried to finish jokes with a shotgun approach to punchlines and it's a mark of the lazy low quality writing that everyone's complaining about. In episodes 1-3 I didn't mind that the show wasn't as clever as it could be because at least there were clearly structured stories about characters, this was just a mess of stuff. e: the moral of this episode is "don't worry too much what other people think of you" except when you look at what happens that's not the message it sends.
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Payndz posted:From that angle, it's a less gawky, TNG-movie-era version of the Cerritos itself. I do hope we see some TNG ships tooling around. A Nebula or Galaxy. Or hell, it'd be nice to see a New Orleans or Cheyenne or one of those for some real nerd credit, it'd be cool to get one into the show properly. Or they could come across a Freedom Class, a ship even the Cerritos looks down on.
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ashpanash posted:
Analyze it to the point of making it not fun anymore? If anything, LDS has some amazing music, they seem to hit the music perfectly.
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Aug 28, 2020 12:47
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Mooseontheloose posted:Analyze it to the point of making it not fun anymore? The little TNG-style leitmotifs as the episodes start are perfect.
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Hispanic! At The Disco posted:Ep 5 is gonna have this ship: Hah, I notice that's the Vancouver, and Freeman mentioned that she and the tellarite served on the Illinois years ago. So it's a running gag that all the background ships in Trek are just uncreatively named after cities, not just the California-class?
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I mean I'm glad they've at least extended beyond California-themed cities. I figured their entire gimmick there is that the entertainment world revolves around California. Still waiting on LDS to give us a non-North American one though. (I say this as someone with an STO ship named after my home city  )
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Drone posted:Still waiting on LDS to give us a non-North American one though. I mean, I think that's part of the gag - background ships are always named after generic american cities in Trek.
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MikeJF posted:I mean, I think that's part of the gag - background ships are always named after generic american cities in Trek. Off the top of my head I can think of Melbourne, Berlin, Budapest, Tripoli, Cairo, Havana. But yeah, all of those cities probably also have towns in the US named after them too, so I guess the argument still holds 
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MikeJF posted:Hah, I notice that's the Vancouver, and Freeman mentioned that she and the tellarite served on the Illinois years ago. So it's a running gag that all the background ships in Trek are just uncreatively named after cities, not just the California-class? I've been to the city of Illinois. It was okay.
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The_Doctor posted:People did when that padd showed up in the trailer. Turns out that was basically the entire joke. People make poops in the holodeck. In my head they're bleeping out the word "cum" not "poo poo". Because that is what everyone is really using the holodeck for. MikeJF posted:Ascension gave me vibes of Bill Cipher. Cipher's scene in Grunkle Stan's head too.
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CommanderApaul posted:In my head they're bleeping out the word "cum" not "poo poo". Because that is what everyone is really using the holodeck for. When I made this point to my wife, she countered with “Well, have you ever seen a toilet in Star Trek?”
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Phylodox posted:When I made this point to my wife, she countered with “Well, have you ever seen a toilet in Star Trek?” If I go into a functioning Holodeck, I'm only going to create a toilet if that's what I happen to want to ejaculate into that day.
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The artwork they use for the ships is interesting. In a still it looks a lot like vector clip art made out of a bunch of gradients with textures applied, but in motion they are pretty clearly 3D models. I'd be interested to know more about how they are animating and rendering them.
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Riker goes to the holodeck to beat off, and loads a program that’s just two other Riker’s also beating off. They all look and wink at each other.
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Phylodox posted:When I made this point to my wife, she countered with “Well, have you ever seen a toilet in Star Trek?” Well, I have seen a shower. It's all pipes.
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HD DAD posted:Riker goes to the holodeck to beat off, and loads a program that’s just two other Riker’s also beating off. They all look and wink at each other. Only two?
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HD DAD posted:Riker goes to the holodeck to beat off, and loads a program that’s just two other Riker’s also beating off. They all look and wink at each other. They're on chairs - you know how they got there.
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TomR posted:The artwork they use for the ships is interesting. In a still it looks a lot like vector clip art made out of a bunch of gradients with textures applied, but in motion they are pretty clearly 3D models. I'd be interested to know more about how they are animating and rendering them. I think it's actually a combo. There are a lot of clips - most, actually - where it's moving across the screen without changing and just pan/zooming the images and it seems to be 2D art, but you don't really notice because the show has enough 3D model shots that it doesn't occur to you how many are 2D ones. And the 2D ones can be touched-up renders or 2D art traced over a reference render of their 3D model for better artistic look than a plain render would give, and the 3D cell-shaded ones pan around fast enough you don't notice they're a little different and less stylised. Like in these shots,   All of the elements are moving/zooming independently of each other but they're all actually totally 2D if you watch. It's all done very deftly and looks great, though. While this  Is a 3D model shot, and you can see it looks slightly less 'drawn' and more rendered than the above ones. I don't think they even had a 3D model of the generation ship this episode, actually. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Aug 28, 2020 |
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I'd still like to see a "serious" animated Trek someday.
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Nullsmack posted:I'd still like to see a "serious" animated Trek someday. (This is where I post the ‘Kirk is a Jerk’ image)
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CommanderApaul posted:In my head they're bleeping out the word "cum" not "poo poo". Because that is what everyone is really using the holodeck for. That's what I assumed was being bleeped. I did like how all the stuff the Senior Staff does for fun is considering extra boring and annoying.
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twistedmentat posted:That's what I assumed was being bleeped. You mean the joke of mocking everything we've seen other crews for recreation? How funny!!
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Super Deuce posted:You mean the joke of mocking everything we've seen other crews for recreation? How funny!! It’s hilarious because what the TNG bridge crew do for fun is incredibly stuffy and dull.
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The_Doctor posted:It’s hilarious because what the TNG bridge crew do for fun is incredibly stuffy and dull. Sure, I guess... if you need to be bombarded with stimuli constantly.
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Super Deuce posted:Sure, I guess... if you need to be bombarded with stimuli constantly. this kind of thinly-veiled "if you think this is funny you are not as smart as I am" commentary sucks rear end, man. You could very easily have responded to this without the accusatory tone. There's been plenty of people discussing their negative opinions of the show ITT without the pointless hostility.
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To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Lower Decks. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head.
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Dr. Fishopolis posted:To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Lower Decks. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. Bazinga!!
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Snow Cone Capone posted:this kind of thinly-veiled "if you think this is funny you are not as smart as I am" commentary sucks rear end, man. You could very easily have responded to this without the accusatory tone. There's been plenty of people discussing their negative opinions of the show ITT without the pointless hostility. Saying people playing poker and appreciating concerts is stuffy and boring sucks rear end, too.
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Nullsmack posted:I'd still like to see a "serious" animated Trek someday. The anime adaptation is going to be wild.
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turns out when you make a rick and morty star trek show you attract the most horrible grognard fans imaginable. who could have guessed!!!?
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to be fair, you need to have a really high iq to appreciate that the crew of the enterprise spends its recreation time on violin recitals and euchre nights
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You're lying to yourself if you think Picard didn't use the holodeck to gently caress. Have y'all forgotten about Ruby?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lobo3c0NFg
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Reginald Barcley always fucks in the holodeck. It doesn't matter if he's doing something else, he will find time to gently caress.
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Mariner would be a lot easier to accept if some one just admitted they only keep her around cause she is good in a pinch but annoying / insubordinate every time else that the just put up with. That is why Ransom was such a good foil for Mariner in the last episode: able to handle the issue and then actually punished Mariner for ignoring a direct order while admitting why he let her come along on the away team in the first place. Otherwise I have no idea why Star Fleet hasn't drummed her rear end out already unless her parents just can't bring themselves to do it.
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And, I mean...Geordi.
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