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HD DAD posted:“Going to warp” would be a great euphemism for furiously masturbating 
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It’s important to maintain eye contact throughout. (The user name was inspired by Riker being involved something called The Fornax Disaster in Future Imperfect, and Fornax being a porno magazine found in Mass Effect).
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Sep 20, 2020 05:51
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I have deliberately forgone buying any tiny starships because one day I'm just going to buy a 3D printer when they become so easy that even an idiot like me can use one and then I'm going to extrude everything for a total of 50 bucks in plastic spools
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Sep 20, 2020 07:09
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Eh, I picked up the little Eaglemoss Enterpise-D because it was suprisingly cheap and honestly just super good quality and detail for the small size, in a way that 3D printing probably won't for quite a long time.
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Sep 20, 2020 07:19
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Tighclops posted:I have deliberately forgone buying any tiny starships because one day I'm just going to buy a 3D printer when they become so easy that even an idiot like me can use one and then I'm going to extrude everything for a total of 50 bucks in plastic spools I am an idiot and the Ender 3 Pro has been great. Although I still prefer the Eaglemoss type stuff for models because even at 0.12 layer heights the quality still isn’t quite enough for me. Plus you still have to paint the drat thing and deal with cleaning up any supports or gluing separate prints together. Although, I do plan on eventually printing the Galaxy Quest ship just because there’s no other alternative out there.
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Sep 20, 2020 08:01
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nine-gear crow posted:I love how Troi gets blamed for crashing the Enterprise when the exact sequence of events in Generations is literally "Deanna! Take the helm!" followed IMMEDIATELY by "Helm control is offline!" The gently caress was she supposed to do? Get out and push? Rather than the saucer landing flat and skimming across the surface, I wanted to see it tilt over, roll for several thousand feet and end up spinning to a stop like a coin.
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Sep 20, 2020 11:20
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Hey, the JJPrise nearly tilted over when it crashed. (And then of course later in the movie it did do a flip)
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Sep 20, 2020 11:24
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Ok, that one made me laugh.
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Sep 20, 2020 12:53
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The JJ Prise is so weirdly balanced and heavy the moment it loses power it instantly starts dropping towards the nearest large body, even if it’s not in orbit or anything.
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Sep 20, 2020 12:54
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Orbital mechanics was never Star Trek's strong suit.
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Sep 20, 2020 14:10
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Epinephrine posted:Orbital mechanics was never Star Trek's strong suit. thats not tru, you can tell Empok Nor is scary and evil bc of its attitude
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Sep 20, 2020 14:39
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The_Doctor posted:Ok, that one made me laugh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPHkeQ58_pQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8Z3O9zHzkc These are two of the best ones, for incredibly obvious reasons.
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Sep 20, 2020 21:00
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On a long drive I started the Prime Directive audiobook and goddamn is it entertaining. Was surprised I’ve already made it through about two thirds of it. It’s read by James Doohan and his Kirk is perfect. There aren’t a ton of Trek audiobooks on Overdrive, and most of the ones on there don’t have great reviews, so I imagine I’ll blast through the ones I want to listen to pretty quickly.
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Sep 20, 2020 23:16
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Unmature posted:On a long drive I started the Prime Directive audiobook and goddamn is it entertaining. Was surprised I’ve already made it through about two thirds of it. If I remember correctly he also read kobayashi Maru and it was pretty good too.
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Sep 20, 2020 23:25
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Unmature posted:Followup question: Is there a better place to ask for people’s favorite Trek comics and books? If not then, pretend I just asked that. I love talking about the trek comics, but usually this thread moves too fast to catch up after a few weeks  I thought a lot of the Trek comics were of very high writing and art quality. Some of my favorites are from the DC volume 2 of TOS, which was mostly written by Peter David, known for his Marvel 80s/90s work on Incredible Hulk and 2000s work on X-Factor. It's good stuff and I think I started to review the first couple of issues in this thread if you namesearch. I fell off the wagon, but maybe I'll start it up again and index the lot.
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Sep 20, 2020 23:46
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Pacra posted:I love talking about the trek comics, but usually this thread moves too fast to catch up after a few weeks The dark horse omnibuses are out of print but some can be found cheap. I’ll probably order the ones that aren’t super pricey soon or just go digital. I’m a big Peter David fan.
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I never read the comics but I liked his novels.
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Sep 21, 2020 00:29
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8one6 posted:If I remember correctly he also read kobayashi Maru and it was pretty good too. Yep, I found the audiobook tape of it at a library book sale and his voicework was excellent. It's also where you get the story of Scotty purposely glitching out the Kobayashi Maru test so he can get transferred out of the command track.
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Sep 21, 2020 00:36
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Everyone should read/listen to Prime Directive. It’s one of the more consistent stories I’ve seen about the concept of the PD and has a very harrowing Enterprise action sequence. The whole thing of Kirk being so publicly disgraced that he fucks off from Starfleet and within four months is just loading boxes onto cargo ships and talking about how humiliating it is to have to pay for food and transit and Spock working at a desk felt pretty raw and real. Reminded me of City On the Edge of Forever but worse because they weren’t just waiting to time travel, their lives and careers were just over.
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Sep 21, 2020 01:17
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Angry_Ed posted:Yep, I found the audiobook tape of it at a library book sale and his voicework was excellent. It's also where you get the story of Scotty purposely glitching out the Kobayashi Maru test so he can get transferred out of the command track. The way Kirk reprograms the simulator is far cooler in the book too.
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Sep 21, 2020 02:56
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Astroman posted:The way Kirk reprograms the simulator is far cooler in the book too. I wish 09 had shown Kirk reprogramming the test first, because the actual KM scene in the movie is funny as hell. But it would have made Kirk's flippant arrogance feel a tiny bit more earned for that scene.
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Sep 21, 2020 03:21
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Unmature posted:The dark horse omnibuses are out of print but some can be found cheap. I’ll probably order the ones that aren’t super pricey soon or just go digital. I’m a big Peter David fan. Here's the link to my original trek comics rundown - I don't think I mentioned the dark horse ones and I'm sure i missed a ton more of other trek stuff, this was cobbled from my own experience with the licensed ones I was able to grab or remember from the 90s.
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Sep 21, 2020 03:41
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Pacra posted:Here's the link to my original trek comics rundown - I don't think I mentioned the dark horse ones and I'm sure i missed a ton more of other trek stuff, this was cobbled from my own experience with the licensed ones I was able to grab or remember from the 90s. This rules thank you!
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Sep 21, 2020 03:58
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Epinephrine posted:Orbital mechanics was never Star Trek's strong suit. TOS's Galileo Seven is a good episode but it seems kind of lovely that a 23rd century Federation shuttle that's out of fuel apparently can't survive a sub-orbital re-entry without burning up.
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Sep 21, 2020 05:07
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Number_6 posted:TOS's Galileo Seven is a good episode but it seems kind of lovely that a 23rd century Federation shuttle that's out of fuel apparently can't survive a sub-orbital re-entry without burning up. That few episodes in back in '67 they were probably still operating on known 60s space science and not magic shields and "duranium".
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[Deep Space 9, 2375, Vic’s Lounge] Bashir: You know what we need to do to solve this problem O’Brien: heist? heist- Command Staff: [chanting] heist, Heist Rest of the Cast: [pounding the table] Heist, HEIST, HEIST! Sisko: [throwing open the doors] HEIIIIIISSSST!
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nine-gear crow posted:I wish 09 had shown Kirk reprogramming the test first, because the actual KM scene in the movie is funny as hell. But it would have made Kirk's flippant arrogance feel a tiny bit more earned for that scene. I think that would have required a heist sequence to be worth it, which would have taken up too much of the film with something that's really only there as a WoK callback. I think there was a deleted scene where it's revealed that Kirk gets access through the Orion girl he's with in Uhura's quarters and I think that was rightly cut because it makes Kirk a really lovely person. e: also 09 changes Kirk's character and the meaning of the test. In WoK the implication is that Kirk cheats because he wants to demonstrate he'll go a step further than anyone else to solve an unsolvable problem - that's why he gets the commendation. In 09 there's a little bit of a hint that that would be the outcome if the academic hearing wasn't suspended by the events of the film, but the implication of what we are shown is that Kirk cheats because he likes breaking rules. Alchenar fucked around with this message at 09:16 on Sep 21, 2020 |
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Alchenar posted:I think that would have required a heist sequence to be worth it, which would have taken up too much of the film with something that's really only there as a WoK callback. I think there was a deleted scene where it's revealed that Kirk gets access through the Orion girl he's with in Uhura's quarters and I think that was rightly cut because it makes Kirk a really lovely person. The deleted scenes also show the same Orion girl getting sent to one of the ships that gets immediately hosed up over Vulcan, so it was doubly lovely in how it treated her until cooler heads pared it back.
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nine-gear crow posted:The deleted scenes also show the same Orion girl getting sent to one of the ships that gets immediately hosed up over Vulcan, so it was doubly lovely in how it treated her until cooler heads pared it back. No I think that's in the film. She's next to Uhura when the assignments are going out and gets something that's not the Enterprise. What was cut was a scene on the Enterprise where Kirk apologises to an Orion girl and it turns out she's not the one he manipulated, so he would have been incredibly poo poo, sexist, and implicitly racist.
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Alchenar posted:e: also 09 changes Kirk's character and the meaning of the test. In WoK the implication is that Kirk cheats because he wants to demonstrate he'll go a step further than anyone else to solve an unsolvable problem - that's why he gets the commendation. In 09 there's a little bit of a hint that that would be the outcome if the academic hearing wasn't suspended by the events of the film, but the implication of what we are shown is that Kirk cheats because he likes breaking rules. It's helped a little by the fact that it says it's his third time doing the test, despite repeating it being unnecessary. It makes it seem that he's personally pissed off by the premise of the test.
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Sep 21, 2020 10:51
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MikeJF posted:It's helped a little by the fact that it says it's his third time doing the test, despite repeating it being unnecessary. It makes it seem that he's personally pissed off by the premise of the test. Not really. Shatner Kirk cheats because he wants to win. Pine Kirk cheats because gently caress Authority. (I mean, Shatner's Kirk rejects the premise of the test because he doesn't believe in a no-win scenario. Pine's Kirk rejects the test because he's offended by the idea that the Academy sets a test that's not winnable. It's subtly different). This is just the well trodden ground on how JJ only saw movie Kirk, and didn't appreciate that original movie Kirk is a guy at the end of his career who's earned the right to decide to say 'gently caress the rules', rather than a guy at the start of his career who would just be kicked out.
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I like the novel version of shatner kirk's cheat, where all he does is give himself a big reputation in the simulation, and force the klingons to back down on the strength of it. And then when called on it, says that when he gets out of the academy he will earn that reputation.
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Tunicate posted:I like the novel version of shatner kirk's cheat, where all he does is give himself a big reputation in the simulation, and force the klingons to back down on the strength of it. They also use that in the PC version of the Starfleet Academy game that Interplay put out back in like 1997.
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Haha, that’s great and now my new favorite explanation. I don’t know if i can watch the JJ trek movies again to be honest, i liked them well enough when they were released but it feels like Kirk succumed to Kirk Drift almost
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HOLY gently caress posted:I don’t know if i can watch the JJ trek movies again to be honest, i liked them well enough when they were released but it feels like Kirk succumed to Kirk Drift almost Same boat. I liked the JJTrek movies well enough when I saw them in the theater (well, Into Darkness kind of sucked) but I've found I have no particular desire to revisit them.
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09 remains a great action film. I'm down a bit on JJ's version of Kirk, but just because he's a different character to original Kirk doesn't mean the film is bad.
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I can't remember any of the action from that movie except for that one dude falling off the drill and I think there was a part with a monster? JJ's trek movies are bad even at the things people say they're good at
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ST09 is even more of a typical action blockbuster than First Contact and parts of it haven't aged well at all, but I maintain that it's still very watchable and fun. Just sit back and let Giacchino's score do its thing, but don't go in expecting any subtlety.
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Astroman posted:The way Kirk reprograms the simulator is far cooler in the book too. Klingons: "This is THE James T Kirk?"
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Big Mean Jerk posted:ST09 is even more of a typical action blockbuster than First Contact and parts of it haven't aged well at all, but I maintain that it's still very watchable and fun. Just sit back and let Giacchino's score do its thing, but don't go in expecting any subtlety. I really like it as a sort of Star Trek-themed special effects reel, that's about it
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