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HD DAD posted:Like I get 80s TV budget restraints and stuff, but it’s funny how tiny the D engine room set looks nowadays. It's thematically great, because TNG is all about how space travel is so comfortable that ships are basically now just lounges and everyone works in their pyjamas, and engineering is the one room where they still tried to make it as comfortable a possible and there's a begrudging concession to the fact that this is a working environment so you do actually need access to the engine.
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Nodosaur posted:"Veritas" may be the best episode of the series yet. It’s an Indian name.
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Sep 25, 2020 22:28
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The_Doctor posted:It’s an Indian name. I'm just making sure I heard it right
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Sep 25, 2020 22:32
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Nodosaur posted:I'm just making sure I heard it right that's what wikipedia's got it down as.
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Sep 25, 2020 22:33
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Grand Fromage posted:Every time I see a warp core I think about how nobody ever remarks on the sheer insanity of having a matter-antimatter reaction happening right next to people working. There isn't even a wall. this makes that giant seal for the core that geordi would dive under very funny in retrospect (yeah i get the intent was probably to prevent coolant from getting all over the ship but drat are you confident in your safety systems to not have that down all the time)
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Crusader posted:this makes that giant seal for the core that geordi would dive under very funny in retrospect (yeah i get the intent was probably to prevent coolant from getting all over the ship but drat are you confident in your safety systems to not have that down all the time) That door is a last resort. Their first resort is probably a force field since they can generate those anywhere they want in the ship with basically zero notice. Hell, their force field technology is so good it's one of the main ways they hold the ship together when it's under stress.
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Sep 25, 2020 22:47
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A.o.D. posted:That door is a last resort. Their first resort is probably a force field since they can generate those anywhere they want in the ship with basically zero notice. Hell, their force field technology is so good it's one of the main ways they hold the ship together when it's under stress. you are correct; lines about structural integrity fields are meant to convey that and i forgot 😊
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Sep 25, 2020 22:50
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Grand Fromage posted:Every time I see a warp core I think about how nobody ever remarks on the sheer insanity of having a matter-antimatter reaction happening right next to people working. There isn't even a wall. Trek (and sci-fi in general) really underestimates just how powerful a matter/antimatter explosion would be. A single photon torpedo (1.5kg of antimatter) should be well in excess of the 50 Mt Tsar Bomba. And a starship carries thousands of tons of the stuff.
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Sep 25, 2020 23:37
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Payndz posted:It's antimatter, so really you could be operating it from Ten-Forward with exactly the same degree of risk. "Just spitballing, does the matter/antimatter reaction have to be on the ship?" "Ye- well, y- well what do you mean?" "Can we like, put it outside the ship, and just send all the energy at the ship in like a focused beam?" "Like a phaser? Seems like a risky idea..." "What if it was in subspace, or a pocket universe, and we just phased the energy it produces over to the ship?" "Did you replicate yourself an edible for breakfast?" "Or just keep the A/M reaction suspended in a transporter beam, collect the energy it produces in our capacitors, and shut down the transporter if anything goes wrong." "I want so badly to tell you why any of this poo poo wouldn't quite work but I don't... know why."
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Senor Tron posted:There was apparently a couple of mentions of how they'd like to do a Strange New Worlds crossover. Doubt it will happen, but if it did would love it if they had the SNW crew animated in Lower Decks, and then had a brief shot of them live action in the "Previously, on SNW..." intro to the next SNW episode. Any crossovers with 23rd century characters should be drawn and animated in the old TAS style. Even if it's just those characters and the Cerritos crew are unchanged.
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Sep 26, 2020 00:56
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Payndz posted:It's antimatter, so really you could be operating it from Ten-Forward with exactly the same degree of risk. And now you've reminded me of that Disco scene where Pike survives a torpedo explosion like three meters away from him because he closed the door.
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Brawnfire posted:"Just spitballing, does the matter/antimatter reaction have to be on the ship?" Careful, the last time somebody tried that, they accidentally almost destroyed the entire planet they were sending the test ship to.
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Martytoof posted:Just rewatched it — did anyone mention how the tablet of honor or whatever that everything was supposed to be inscribed on looks like it’s written in cuneiform? Best part of that.. said it at 22 minutes into the episode. Anyways, this is a fun show and thats all it needs to be.
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Sep 26, 2020 01:20
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“You only paid for twenty two minutes”
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Grand Fromage posted:And now you've reminded me of that Disco scene where Pike survives a torpedo explosion like three meters away from him because he closed the door. The thing with Section 31 not following the rules is that they sometimes have defective photon torpedoes. It failed to explode on impact, and the yield was really pathetic.
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Sep 26, 2020 02:15
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Payndz posted:It's antimatter, so really you could be operating it from Ten-Forward with exactly the same degree of risk. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. As far back as TOS it gets stated that a single starship is powerful enough to sterilize an entire planet by itself. This gets restated various times across the other series.
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Sep 26, 2020 02:27
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piratepilates posted:I think the Q gag was over the top, but I did really like the concept behind it of "an incomprehensible melange of every game at once". Um, it was just calvinball?
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Sep 26, 2020 06:08
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socialsecurity posted:Oh my god who gives a gently caress about references. When the walls fell
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A.o.D. posted:Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. As far back as TOS it gets stated that a single starship is powerful enough to sterilize an entire planet by itself. This gets restated various times across the other series.
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Bilirubin posted:Um, it was just calvinball? I prefer to think that without Picard, Sisko, and Janeway to bother regularly anymore, Q has just gone straight up bonkers.
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Payndz posted:One of the James Blish TOS adaptations (I think 'Operation: Annihilate!') - which were often based on earlier script drafts than were filmed - has the Enterprise letting rip with a "planet-wrecker", which does exactly what it says on the tin. Just what an exploration vessel should be carrying! In Obsession Kirk took a fairly small cannister of the Enterprise's antimatter down to Tycho 4 with him and the explosion blew the atmosphere off the planet and cratered it.  
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Sep 26, 2020 08:42
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MikeJF posted:In Obsession Kirk took a fairly small cannister of the Enterprise's antimatter down to Tycho 4 with him and the explosion blew the atmosphere off the planet and cratered it. "What does this button do?" - James T. Kirk
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esperterra posted:Yes but I queued you anyway since you're the only person who I think has asked about it since the Sunday cutoff! Thank you. My fault for not keeping up with the forums lately.
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Payndz posted:One of the James Blish TOS adaptations (I think 'Operation: Annihilate!') - which were often based on earlier script drafts than were filmed - has the Enterprise letting rip with a "planet-wrecker", which does exactly what it says on the tin. Just what an exploration vessel should be carrying! It turns out that the energy necessary to bend spacetime makes mundane tasks like planetwrecking seem trivial in comparison. AntherUslessPoster posted:The only thing I'm not comfortable with is the part where rutherford goes unconscious everytime implants restart or anything. This is bad design irl but also an easy plot device. C'mon he can be fun! The writers have already established in previous episodes that his vulcan implant doesn't interface with a human brain very well, so it's not like the joke is unearned. A.o.D. fucked around with this message at 12:32 on Sep 26, 2020 |
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The only thing I'm not comfortable with is the part where rutherford goes unconscious everytime implants restart or anything. This is bad design irl but also an easy plot device. C'mon he can be fun!apatheticman posted:Best part of that.. said it at 22 minutes into the episode. In tyool 2020 this is the subtle meta joke.
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I liked the Firefly gag at least, because it was a quick reference-and-youre-done instead of shouting a big long list of 'em.
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A "crazy Ivan" is a naval reference (it is a maneuvering tactic used by Russian submarine commanders) and did not originate with Firefly.
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Sep 26, 2020 12:42
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Huh. I've learnt something today. Not bad for a saturday.
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ashpanash posted:A "crazy Ivan" is a naval reference (it is a maneuvering tactic used by Russian submarine commanders) and did not originate with Firefly. I feel it was deliberately more invoking Firefly though.
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I got Hunt for Red October.
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The_Doctor posted:I feel it was deliberately more invoking Firefly though. I think that's reaching a ton. Crazy Ivan dates back to several decades ago in the Cold War and it wasn't just Clancy who used it in fiction; basically every naval / submarine fiction writer of the era used the maneuver at some point. Occam's Razor, people. What's more likely? A reference to an infamously risky technique used by Soviet commanders for decades, or a callback to an incredibly unpopular episode of a niche show forgotten by most?
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Not ever having watched Firefly all the way though I will say — don’t underestimate how influential it was to its superfans. I can 100% believe that a space show written by nerds would probably contain a reference to another space show. But ultimately unless you guys ask the writers, it’s not something we’ll ever know so... we ALL get to be right, as far as we know. And if it resonated with you then they did their job well enough 
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Martytoof posted:I got Hunt for Red October. Same.
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Martytoof posted:I got Hunt for Red October.
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Perhaps, it was a Good Joke that works on two different kind of nerds? Nah.
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Payndz posted:Shame here. We shail into hishtory! Now they shall tremble again, at the sound of our silence. The order is, engage the Spore Drive!
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CommanderApaul posted:Now they shall tremble again, at the shound of our shilence. The order ish, engage the Shpore Drive! Fixshed
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Sep 26, 2020 18:02
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Mishes Burnam, one hail only
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It'sh like a game of tri-dimenshional chesh againsht our oldest advershary.... the Federasshun Navy.
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we oshmoshe our mosht brackish gratitude.
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