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MikeJF posted:Or if you're playing Star Trek Online, Mirror Leeta, Admiral and commander of the Terran Empire Fleet. WHY NOT. i'm 5 years clean. you can't tempt me.
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Brute Squad posted:i'm 5 years clean. you can't tempt me. Five years ago was just after the Romulus stuff came out, right? That was the peak of the game anyway. (such as it were).
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 10:18 |
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According to Garret wang on the voyager podcast he does with paris he got datas old boots but they were so busted and worn out that the studio had some custom cobbler come try to fix them like 3 times before he just went to a nordstrom rack or something and bought new ones. I guess they had a label I. Them saying b. Spiner. The voyaher podcast (delta flyers on spotify) is full of some pretty fun behind the scenes stuff, like how Garret almost killed harrison ford, but it can be kinda frustrating because I think they lock like 80% of the podcast behind a paywall. Fun to go over all of the voyager episodes and see which they liked or didn't.
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 11:35 |
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MikeJF posted:Or if you're playing Star Trek Online, Mirror Leeta, Admiral and commander of the Terran Empire Fleet. WHY NOT. I assume this is a different Mirror Universe than the DS9 one where she shows up on the station working with the Terran Resistance that ended up making the Commonwealth since the Empire fell. Eighties ZomCom fucked around with this message at 12:47 on Sep 15, 2020 |
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In the STO setting, after the fall of the Alliance, the rebellion established a new Terran Empire. Given how utterly cynical DS9's take on the mirror universe was, it seems fitting that things just come full circle.
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Yeah they just kinda handwaved things to be the fun TOS-style mirror universe so they could have us fight the ISS Enterprise.
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Angry Salami posted:In the STO setting, after the fall of the Alliance, the rebellion established a new Terran Empire. Given how utterly cynical DS9's take on the mirror universe was, it seems fitting that things just come full circle.
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 14:54 |
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Ramadu posted:According to Garret wang on the voyager podcast he does with paris he got datas old boots but they were so busted and worn out that the studio had some custom cobbler come try to fix them like 3 times before he just went to a nordstrom rack or something and bought new ones. I guess they had a label I. Them saying b. Spiner. The voyaher podcast (delta flyers on spotify) is full of some pretty fun behind the scenes stuff, like how Garret almost killed harrison ford, but it can be kinda frustrating because I think they lock like 80% of the podcast behind a paywall. Fun to go over all of the voyager episodes and see which they liked or didn't. They do some fun interviews behind the paywall but most of the normal episodes are an hour long already so I think it's fine.
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FlamingLiberal posted:That’s really loving stupid Sadly half of STO is. God it was beautiful back in ~2012
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AntherUslessPoster posted:Sadly half of STO is. God it was beautiful back in ~2012 outside of, frankly, cyberbullying different nerds with goons under the guise of laughs for all, the funniest and most fun time i had in that game was messing around in some stupid borg area that was also a PVP zone. me and a buddy rolled romulans and basically allowed many federation captains to roleplay dying to warbirds decloaking both in front and behind them i have to assume at least some of them appreciated the heck out of that gank E: also basically getting to live out star trek stories in a (well enough) made way to feel immersive. its easy to dismiss the game, or any game i guess, as being poorly made or bad in the context of video games in general. but there are only so many ways you can try to experience stuff like that and STO is certainly no worse than a plastic phaser and cardboard navigation terminal Worf fucked around with this message at 15:26 on Sep 15, 2020 |
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FlamingLiberal posted:That’s really loving stupid Why wouldn't the Terrans rebuild the Empire? They lost control because of weak liberals like Spock, clearly the only options are to either keep the boot on the alien's neck or suffer underneath it. Now you might say, that's completely contradictory to the rest of Star Trek, but that's DS9's fault, not the game.
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 16:03 |
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MikeJF posted:Five years ago was just after the Romulus stuff came out, right? That was the peak of the game anyway. (such as it were). Peak was the dyson sphere arc. Because you got to call orbital strikes down on laser-toting t-rexes. I got out right after the delta quadrant stuff dropped.
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It occurred to me that this thread would love these.grassy gnoll posted:Take your standard Tollhouse cookie. While it's still warm, drape it over something hemispherical, so it's got a big central bump. A 1 tbsp measure is perfect. CainFortea posted:We are the cookie collective. It's a good subforum.
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 19:17 |
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I got a good laugh out of this https://twitter.com/newsovietposter/status/1305937287402975232?s=21
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I hate trekkies.
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 19:47 |
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FlamingLiberal posted:I got a good laugh out of this A couple dozen is the same as a million, right? That's how math works.
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 21:26 |
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Can't tell if that's a brain-damaged human or a particularly clever bot.
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 21:58 |
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Lemniscate Blue posted:And Spiner was a bit too small to fit in O'Brien's, if I recall production stories correctly. Stewart and Spiner had DS9-style uniforms tailored for them. Frakes was wearing stuff from Brooks' wardrobe, while LeVar Burton was stuffed into Colm Meaney's.
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 22:12 |
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Millions and millions of dollars being spent, but god forbid they shell out a couple of hundred for a costume that fits the actor. The uniform swap coming partway through the film was a moment even when I saw it the first time. Some of the crew, but only some of them, randomly decide to change outfits in the middle of a tense situation. Why not do it at the start? Why do it at all? Moichendising! Where the real money is!
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I'm still waiting for one candidate or the other to take a principled stand, and say to the American people that the location of Starbase 1 given in that Discovery episode makes no sense at all!
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Payndz posted:Millions and millions of dollars being spent, but god forbid they shell out a couple of hundred for a costume that fits the actor. They spent a buttload of money on updated uniforms but tossed it at the last second. That's why it was a mix of old and hand me downs.
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 22:35 |
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Evek posted:They spent a buttload of money on updated uniforms but tossed it at the last second. That's why it was a mix of old and hand me downs. Yeah, they blew their costume budget on new uniforms that Robert Blackman designed. They actually did a day or two of shooting with the new uniforms before realizing they looked terrible on-screen.
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 22:40 |
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Does any of that footage exist or is it gone? I would be interested to see it.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Does any of that footage exist or is it gone? I would be interested to see it. There's some incredibly fuzzy footage of Geordi on the Klingon ship wearing the new uniform. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEaR1rkhy00
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Should've sprung for jumpsuits with integrated boots and pants.
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Should have just filmed them in whatever clothes they were wearing when they arrived on set, like they did for Chekov and Bones in The Voyage Home.
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Ramadu posted:According to Garret wang on the voyager podcast he does with paris he got datas old boots but they were so busted and worn out that the studio had some custom cobbler come try to fix them like 3 times before he just went to a nordstrom rack or something and bought new ones. I guess they had a label I. Them saying b. Spiner. The voyaher podcast (delta flyers on spotify) is full of some pretty fun behind the scenes stuff, like how Garret almost killed harrison ford, but it can be kinda frustrating because I think they lock like 80% of the podcast behind a paywall. Fun to go over all of the voyager episodes and see which they liked or didn't. I'm passing through the season one episodes where they're going "oh god this was so racist" and it's really interesting how they're not sugar coating any of their commentary.
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Timby posted:There's some incredibly fuzzy footage of Geordi on the Klingon ship wearing the new uniform. No one can definitively say that is or is not a Roswell Gray laying on the table with quality like this
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Brute Squad posted:
"Well bless your heart" - a traditional Cardassian greeting
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Admiralty Flag posted:Yeah, I thought this for a long time then I saw it again recently. I kinda forgot how early the mystery is ruined and how especially creepy the Traveler is in the episode. Still good but better in the mind's eye. I re-watched this last night and thought it was a great episode for a few reasons outside the concept: 1) It makes abundantly clear how much everyone trusts Beverley when she comes to them with claims that in ordinary circumstances would be patently insane to them 2) It makes it clear how competent everyone is and creates an atmosphere of everyone being excellent at their jobs (except perhaps Wesley, who stands out as being more cut out for work as an extradimensional psychic). There's a lot of world-building when they describe all the failsafes that exist in Star Trek to find people. It makes clear that they're suited for life on the Enterprise, where weird poo poo happens all the time and they have to consider things like interdimensional warp phenomena loving up reality. 3) It makes clear how smart and competent Beverley is when she can reason out the problem completely on her own and not have a psychotic break I thought it was a good companion episode to the one I watched next, in which Data is summoned by his creator, systematically locks everyone else out of control of the ship to go see him (endangering lives in the process), and then at the end they don't even consider disciplining him because everyone "gets" Data and understands the situation.
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Timby posted:Stewart and Spiner had DS9-style uniforms tailored for them. Frakes was wearing stuff from Brooks' wardrobe, while LeVar Burton was stuffed into Colm Meaney's. I misremembered, thank you. That makes sense, considering Data's prominent role in the film. Three out of the four films, really. Sodomy Hussein posted:I re-watched this last night and thought it was a great episode for a few reasons outside the concept: Compare your #1 here to her treatment by the crew in "Suspicions", where everyone tells her she's crazy and wrong for thinking the Ferengi scientist was murdered, to the point where she is specifically ordered to forget about her, uh, suspicions. Lemniscate Blue fucked around with this message at 03:40 on Sep 16, 2020 |
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Compare your #1 here to her treatment by the crew in "Suspicions", where everyone tells her she's crazy and wrong for thinking the Ferengi scientist was murdered, to the point where she is specifically ordered to forget about her, uh, suspicions. Technically 'Remember Me' was taking place in a universe created by her own thoughts. Maybe that's why the crew was so patient. Ya know, if I ignored the 'bad writing' angle.
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Sodomy Hussein posted:... Something I like about that episode is how TOS had at least two episodes where someone takes over the ship from engineering so presumably Starfleet changed everything so it is now very difficult to remove control from the bridge or force entry into it.
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Nessus posted:I figured it was like how in the old south they'd keep calling you Colonel or Captain or the like if you got to that rank and were now retired, something which we mostly now know from Col. Sanders. lol, for some if it definitely, yeah. But I remember a scene or two where Dukat's bitching about becoming a Legate again, but I don't remember anyone ever referring to him as "Legate Dukat". It's just one of those things you notice on a umpteenth watch through. Like how all the aliens are horny for O'Brien.
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# ? Sep 16, 2020 06:49 |
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I always thought it was an allusion to Gaddafi, like how Gaddafi would constantly go on about how his official rank and title in Libya was just "colonel" because he wanted to keep himself humble. And also he was loving crazy, just like Dukat.
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nine-gear crow posted:I always thought it was an allusion to Gaddafi, like how Gaddafi would constantly go on about how his official rank and title in Libya was just "colonel" because he wanted to keep himself humble. And also he was loving crazy, just like Dukat. That's very similar to an exchange from Ties Of Blood And Water. Sisko: Still calling yourself Gul? I'm surprised you haven't promoted yourself back to Legate by now. Dukat: I prefer the title 'Gul' - So much more hands-on than 'Legate', hm? And less pretentious than the other alternatives - President, Emperor, First Minister - Emissary. Sisko: How about 'Dominion Puppet'?
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Lemniscate Blue posted:I misremembered, thank you. That makes sense, considering Data's prominent role in the film. Three out of the four films, really. I dunno it seems everyone was on board with her in Suspicions until she did that autopsy against the families wishes which Picard got pissed about which is in character for him.
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Cat Hatter posted:That's very similar to an exchange from Ties Of Blood And Water. Yeah, that was the exact exchange I was thinking of. Because that Gaddafi quote, or anecdotes about it at the very least had been around for decades prior that episode of DS9, if I recall. I'd actually heard the Dukat like first but it always stuck with me, and when I heard the Gaddafi quote on like CNN or wherever during the Libyan Revolution in 2011 I was like "Oh poo poo, he's Gul Dukat! "
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ATTENTION BAJORAN WORKERS "idk guys, i think we should listen to him? he seems humble and grounded!"
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Statutory Ape posted:ATTENTION BAJORAN WORKERS But enough about Trump supporters
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