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I'm still not really sure what Tendi's personality is at this point, but I've settled into all the other characters. She just needs to get an A-story.
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feedmyleg posted:I'm still not really sure what Tendi's personality is at this point, but I've settled into all the other characters. She just needs to get an A-story. She's super excited about everything, I guess?
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Sep 4, 2020 17:50
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The Ascension episode helped flesh out her personality pretty well, I thought. I've definitely met a few people like her IRL - the whole "I'm obsessed with figuring out why this 1 person out of 1000 doesn't like me" thing. e: VVVVVVV 
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Sep 4, 2020 18:15
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I think all the exposition will come in time. How many characters were fully fleshed out by episode 5 of TNG or DS9 or most cartoons you’ve watched. They’ll have hits and misses but I think they’re trending upward.
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Sep 4, 2020 18:39
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Zutaten posted:Why is she always doing engineering things? Is she on her free time and just hanging out with Rutherford at work and just sort of idly helping out? Like, you're annoying your friend at their retail job and you just start stocking shelves? They are playing pretty fast and loose with everything butttttttttttttt if Tendi is the science cadet maybe she does the software fixes while Rutherford does the hardware? And then does a double dib in medical when needed (which Rutherford turns out to be also great at if he had any bedside manner). Bring on the freaky medical stuff already!
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Sep 4, 2020 19:11
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Yeah she is in the science division which is a pretty broad classification I guess? Maybe she is just getting different assignments as needed to help her find a more permanent placement
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Sep 4, 2020 19:23
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It seems like her main assignment is medical, but starfleet people are meant to be cross-discipline talented and maybe when they don't have a lot of medical stuff to do stuff to they're expected to help out elsewhere? Especially since the ship's main role is ops/engineering support.
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Sep 4, 2020 19:42
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Snow Cone Capone posted:The Ascension episode helped flesh out her personality pretty well, I thought. I've definitely met a few people like her IRL - the whole "I'm obsessed with figuring out why this 1 person out of 1000 doesn't like me" thing.
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Sep 4, 2020 20:28
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I just want to know how old Mariner is.
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Sep 4, 2020 21:20
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It’d be funny if they made that a running gag like Kenneth from 30 Rock
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Sep 4, 2020 21:27
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Payndz posted:Can't remember if it was in this or the other Trek thread, but the ascension episode made me think of Tendi as a space version of Phoebe from Friends. She seems nice and friendly, a bit ditzy, has her own unique perspective on everything... but if you piss her off in some way she will gradually make your life into a living hell - without even necessarily realising she's doing anything wrong until the train has flown off the tracks, in flames, into a canyon. That's actually not a bad comparison tbh. It's less that she'll run the train off the rails if you piss her off, and more she'll derail the whole thing by sheer force of "I CAN FIX THIS" Martytoof posted:It’d be funny if they made that a running gag like Kenneth from 30 Rock lol 
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Sep 4, 2020 21:33
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Nullsmack posted:I just want to know how old Mariner is. The flashback to DS9 could have been as long ago as 2370, or ten years before LDS. It might have been later, but she was talking about Descent like it was recent gossip.
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Sep 4, 2020 21:41
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Enterprise gossip never gets old. Mariner's still talking about the weirdo flower fetishists in rompers.
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Sep 4, 2020 21:47
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Just binged all the episodes of Lower Decks and it is actually good. Did not expect that.  Needs more cat doc, though.
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Sep 4, 2020 22:21
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Yeah I was kinda down on it after the first ep but my wife enjoyed it, so we kept watching and now I'm hooked.
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Sep 5, 2020 03:29
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Martytoof posted:It’d be funny if they made that a running gag like Kenneth from 30 Rock I'm very on board with this. Show her randomly in a TNG season one uniform for another flashback. Hell, she was having a dream about Wrath of Khan, maybe put her on the Reliant or Enterprise.
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Sep 5, 2020 03:56
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MichiganCubbie posted:I'm very on board with this. Show her randomly in a TNG season one uniform for another flashback. Hell, she was having a dream about Wrath of Khan, maybe put her on the Reliant or Enterprise. That doesn’t need to be an age thing, it could just as likely be a time travel thing. They’ve mentioned time travel, what, twice already? I think basically everyone in Starfleet is just time travelling non-stop.
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Sep 5, 2020 04:32
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I figure that Mariner is in her 30's, based off the references so far. The other crew members seem to be in their 20's. Descent took place only 11 years before this episode took place. It seems like they were hearing about it around a year or two after it happened, since everyone was in First Contact uniforms. Unless Mariner was on a ship that was top of the line and was one of the first to try out the new uniforms.
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Sep 5, 2020 05:52
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Mariner said she was on Quitos when she made first contact with the Galardonians in the pilot 'one year ago'. And that she has served on five different ships. Unless she was transferred back to the Quitos (very possible), it was her immediately preceding posting.
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Sep 5, 2020 06:25
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Tendi and Rutherford are really growing on me, still not sold on Boimler and Mariner Their shared enthusiasm for random technical tidbits brings me much joy. Mariner: Uh guys, it's basically like the same ship as the Cerritos. Tendi: Bwa ha ha ha Rutherford: Yeah right! Let's go look at that thermal mesh. Tendi: I bet it's a double lattice. Rutherford: Double Lattice!
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Sep 5, 2020 09:36
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https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Beckett_Mariner Mariner has been on enterprise-d as a cadet in 48035.3 that is equal to ~2371 so she is at least 27
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Sep 5, 2020 09:44
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The only thing I don't understand about Tendi is that she's in medical but constantly doing engineer stuff.
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Sep 5, 2020 10:12
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Martytoof posted:I think all the exposition will come in time. How many characters were fully fleshed out by episode 5 of TNG or DS9 or most cartoons you’ve watched. If they had a character-focused episode which centred on one particular aspect of their personality then yeah, they probably would have fleshed that out and chucked in some exposition. So far there's been several LDS episodes centred around Mariner's disrespect for authority and Boimler's slavish devotion to authority and we got bupkis
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Sep 5, 2020 13:21
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Okay first 5 episodes of DS9 (and to counter the 'they're full length' objection, lets just look at the A-plot): "Emissary" - It's a pretty deep dive into Sisko, his trama, guilt and PTSD, and by the end has established why this character took a job in the rear end-end of nowhere and why they have a renewed sense of purpose. "Past Prologue" - Kira episode. Emissary introduced her, now we get an episode delving into the contradictions between her past as a terrorist and her present/future as a member of the Bajoran government. Kira is established as the character who's personal struggle is a metaphor for the greater political liberation struggle and transformation that Bajor is going through. "A Man Alone" - Odo was the grumpy policeman, now he's a social outcast and victim of racial prejudice (and we learn that he might have been 'fair' during the occupation but that meant enforcing Cardassian occupation law, which means his actions make him very unpopular today) "Babel" - Okay as I recall this one doesn't really focus on one character, it's an ensemble teamwork story. "Captive Pursuit" - O'brien is willing to break the rules to follow his conscience, and Sisko is willing to look the other way if he feels like it (ie. this isn't Picard). Yeah it's a much bigger cast so there's more to play with, but they absolutely do not waste time retreading old ground in order to develop their characters. Alchenar fucked around with this message at 14:28 on Sep 5, 2020 |
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Sep 5, 2020 14:25
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How many episodes in Lower Decks S1 ?
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Sep 5, 2020 14:29
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Mokotow posted:How many episodes in Lower Decks S1 ? 10, iirc.
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Sep 5, 2020 14:43
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All I want is more scenes of people having to specify the temperature of things to the replicator, even things that shouldnt need it.
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Sep 5, 2020 15:17
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Mokinokaro posted:10, iirc. That sucks.
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Sep 5, 2020 15:20
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Prestige TV was one of the worst things to ever happen to genre TV, bring back 22 episode seasons!
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Mokinokaro posted:10, iirc. Ah, so when they said "Two seasons confirmed" what they really meant was "Two half seasons confirmed"
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Sep 5, 2020 16:59
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I think a 22 episode animated season would probably have to be done in Asia in a glorified sweatshop. It's very Star Trek to put out 10 episodes produced in Toronto and insist that that's enough for everyone.
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Sep 5, 2020 17:07
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Arglebargle III posted:I think a 22 episode animated season would probably have to be done in Asia in a glorified sweatshop. It's very Star Trek to put out 10 episodes produced in Toronto and insist that that's enough for everyone. I mean The Simpsons and Futurama used to produce long seasons without resorting to Malaysian sweatshop animation, pretty sure the Family Guy shows still do?
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multijoe posted:I mean The Simpsons and Futurama used to produce long seasons without resorting to Malaysian sweatshop animation, pretty sure the Family Guy shows still do? They outsource to Korea, not Malaysia, and all 3 of those shows do/did it
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Rewatching and it’s so good. Requesting emergency transport to platform.. Authorization uhh.. Mariner 8?
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Sep 5, 2020 17:48
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That's a very deep cut if the failed code Mariner 8 refers to the failed Mars mission that ended up in the Atlantic.
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Martytoof posted:Rewatching and it’s so good. This should have had the ship computer respond, I miss hearing that voice.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:All I want is more scenes of people having to specify the temperature of things to the replicator, even things that shouldnt need it. Computer, colorful sand! Room temperature!
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Sep 5, 2020 23:11
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In re-watching TNG as I watch Lower Decks, I get to catch some sorta-deep cuts I would have otherwise missed. For example, the opener for the show where they get flung into a black hole then escape? It's how Season 3 of TNG opens.
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Sep 5, 2020 23:20
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Treknology nerds Trekyards scored an interview with LDS showrunner Mike McMahan, asking a bunch of questions about the Cerritos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_EOXmo5m3E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRm5uTzYIrc I am duly impressed by and respect the guy's commitment to making LDS work within the context of Star Trek.
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CBS really hosed up by letting someone who cares about Star Trek near a Trek show.
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