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piratepilates posted:Mariner realized that maybe you shouldn't cast the Orion person as a stereotype, but Tendi realizes that yeah actually stereotypes are sometimes true? Tendi should have just accepted the apology and forgave. I'm not sure what they were going for by having her meet her in the middle. It’s Star Trek. Every non-human race is a walking stereotype centred around one defining characteristic.
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Grand Fromage posted:It's cool, I was being kind of a dick about it in retrospect, sorry. I get what you meant by it, so it's fine. It was a bit irrational, I probably shouldn't have posted while I was still in "WTF?!?" mode, like after some thought obviously a joke like that wouldn't fly in the show as we've seen it.
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I've only seen the first JJ Trek but when they got to the bridge and there were all those lens flares I had a good, hearty laugh over that. That and the TWoK fly around the ship was 
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Aces High posted:I've only seen the first JJ Trek but when they got to the bridge and there were all those lens flares I had a good, hearty laugh over that. That and the TWoK fly around the ship was To add some context to that joke that gets made about how you can do anything with transporters in movies, in the second Abrams movie a character uses a personal transporter to beam directly from Earth to the Klingon homeworld
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Oct 2, 2020 04:42
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I was so unprepared for that episode. What a goddamn delight. My wife was confused by the extended approach sequence to the Cerritos so afterwards I showed her the inspiration from The Motion Picture and she nearly died laughing. What's the best site for enumerating all the Easter Eggs in Lower Decks episodes? Because that episode had a LOT MikeJF posted:Also, just from the next week preview: These are from that TNG episode where Data figured out they were sentient, right?
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Oct 2, 2020 05:08
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I'm a week behind but the trial episode for Episode 8 was very funny. It was nice to see both John DeLancie and also Kurtwood Smith back again. the Roga Danar joke was such a random deep cut at the beginning, but apparently the show writers frequently talk about that character in the writer's room for some reason
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Oct 2, 2020 05:19
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Tbf I also thought it was the British meat product... Like I knew it wasnt the intent just really unfortunate that it could be interpreted that way. Anyway that episode was fun. I laughed when he got takcled and someone screamed something in the background. Give nerds more low stakes shows please.
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mr. unhsib posted:
some guy on reddit does a canon references thread each week
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MikeJF posted:How did they make the music sound so much like the original without actually being it? James Horner made a career out of plagiarizing Prokofiev and Shostakovich almost note-for-note (and then later plagiarizing himself), so the Lower Decks composer just swapping a note here and there is just keeping with tradition.
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FlamingLiberal posted:I'm a week behind but the trial episode for Episode 8 was very funny. It was nice to see both John DeLancie and also Kurtwood Smith back again. Roga finally getting the love he deserves. 
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Oct 2, 2020 05:32
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Roga Danar was a loving bad-rear end, more people should watch The Hunted. The Enterprise approach from The Motion Picture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xox2IVxvIJw God, it's even more ponderous than I remembered. Awesome!
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Oct 2, 2020 05:44
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Brawnfire posted:In the context of the two of them talking about running away together, it almost seemed like a homophobic slur starting with "F". In all honesty, the only thing I heard for the bleep was "Godspeed, ya crazy fucks," which I think fits perfectly with T'Ana's character so far. The other possibility didn't even occur to me, and I genuinely don't know if that marks me as not-prejudiced, or just... well, privileged. Still, the fact that the other F-word is even a possibility here is definitely an oversight by the writers. Somebody should have called that out before the final cut.
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mr. unhsib posted:Roga Danar was a loving bad-rear end, more people should watch The Hunted. Jesus christ it's six minutes long.
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mr. unhsib posted:These are from that TNG episode where Data figured out they were sentient, right? It might also be a reference to the Star Trek Online MMORPG where the Exocomps have joined the Federation and are serving as crew on some starships. 
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mr. unhsib posted:Roga Danar was a loving bad-rear end, more people should watch The Hunted. I keep forgetting is it even longer in the Director's Cut and they cut it down for the Theatrical Cut, or did the DC pare it back because it went on too drat long?
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Oct 2, 2020 06:06
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nine-gear crow posted:I keep forgetting is it even longer in the Director's Cut and they cut it down for the Theatrical Cut, or did the DC pare it back because it went on too drat long? No changes to the flyby.
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Oct 2, 2020 06:14
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MikeJF posted:No changes to the flyby. Really? Because I strongly recall there being a version that only has like the important beauty shots of the ship and then is straight to business after like 2 minutes, 3 tops. Maybe it was someone's YouTube edit or a TV cut. Huh...
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MikeJF posted:Also, I'm unsure whether Rutherford has a hero-worship man-crush, or an actual crush expressed through the medium of engineering nerdery. I kinda hope the latter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queerbaiting
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It just struck me: it's not an uncommon trope in SF and fantasy for a hero to have to face a personification of their dark side who points out all their worst flaws, and becomes a stronger person as a result of gaining self-knowledge. In this case, Mariner is her own dark side, and gains self-knowledge by having her reflection remind her of all her good aspects. I like it.
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Oct 2, 2020 08:58
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The Exocomp’s name is Peanut Hamper. I love this show.
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So it turns out Ensign Fletcher, the fuckup from episode 6, wasn't a sudden addition from the episode. You can see him in the background of some of the earlier episodes, like Temporal Edict.
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Oct 2, 2020 11:26
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Billups just bawling in the shuttlecraft during the flyby seriously had me in tears on the rewatch 
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Oct 2, 2020 12:36
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It's really nice to see so many people genuinely enjoying a Star Trek again. My kid gets up Thursday mornings to watch Lower Decks before school now. It's great. I really don't care for Discovery or Picard. Even if they were "good" it's not what I want from a Star Trek TV show anyway. It's nice to have a show that feels like it's for me.
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TomR posted:It's really nice to see so many people genuinely enjoying a Star Trek again. My kid gets up Thursday mornings to watch Lower Decks before school now. It's great. Disco is ok but Picard I have soured on more and more as time goes by
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Oct 2, 2020 13:33
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Man, that lens flare porn! I loved it. I also dug the signatures thing at the very end. I forget which movie that was from, but I distinctly remember seeing that in the theater and thinking, "Well, it wasn't as good as Kahn, but it wasn't a horrible note for the movie franchise to go out on." I liked a lot of the jokes and all that, but the whole therapy aspect of it (other than Food Pun Bird) really felt a little too on-the-nose for me. I feel like the writers are still narrowing down what they want the show to be: reference humor, workplace sitcom (set in an established universe), or generic cartoon with morality plays. Whatever it was, it mostly worked for me.
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Oct 2, 2020 13:38
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With my luck LDS only runs for two seasons and gets the axe in favour of another prestige project: Beverly MD
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tarlibone posted:I also dug the signatures thing at the very end. I forget which movie that was from, but I distinctly remember seeing that in the theater and thinking, "Well, it wasn't as good as Kahn, but it wasn't a horrible note for the movie franchise to go out on." Undiscovered Country
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lmao i didn’t catch rutherford dropping weed references during his technobabble the first time around
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"using too many food metaphors" is such a minor but effectively infuriating character trait for a therapist
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Phylodox posted:Undiscovered Country Thank you! God, that was killing me. Man... talk about how forgettable a movie can be where a fan of the franchise went to a theater and saw the movie on the big screen, and the two things he remembers are 1) this is the movie that they say wraps up the franchise; and 2) oh neat, the actors signed the film in the end credits! It's a shame, too. Now that I think about it, that movie wasn't horrible. I especially like the one part where they're quoting Shakespeare, and the Klingon says something (I think about breathing room), and Kirk cites the quote, "Earth; Hitler; 1938."
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Crusader posted:lmao i didn’t catch rutherford dropping weed references during his technobabble the first time around same and it made me laugh when I caught it e: and I just noticed Gary Cole in the credits so now I have to watch it again to see where he shows up! Snow Cone Capone fucked around with this message at 14:25 on Oct 2, 2020 |
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tarlibone posted:Man... talk about how forgettable a movie can be where a fan of the franchise went to a theater and saw the movie on the big screen, and the two things he remembers are 1) this is the movie that they say wraps up the franchise; and 2) oh neat, the actors signed the film in the end credits! I mean...it’s largely considered to be one of the best, if not the best, Star Trek films. Taste is subjective, though, of course.
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Anyone got an image of that Klingon ktinga/bird of prey hybrid or whatever Specific movie parodies that I noticed, besides what's been mentioned: Random swearing Brutal death scenes for crew members Destroying the ship Bad guy in a cloaked Klingon ship Incongruous on-location action setpiece to open it up Highly militarized assault phaser rifles What else? zoux fucked around with this message at 15:04 on Oct 2, 2020 |
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Phylodox posted:I mean...it’s largely considered to be one of the best, if not the best, Star Trek films. Taste is subjective, though, of course. They are very different movies so it’s hard to compare
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FlamingLiberal posted:I go back and forth between WoK and TUC for my favorite This is why I just don't believe in favourite movies, anymore. I have dozens of favourite movies.
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Oct 2, 2020 15:31
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TUC is definitely the TOS movie I remember most fondly. I suspect I’d probably pick it as my “favourite” TOS movie in a head to head re-watch marathon.
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Martytoof posted:Billups just bawling in the shuttlecraft during the flyby seriously had me in tears on the rewatch All of them in the shuttle looking like they were on the edge of cumming was hilarious.
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Mariner quoting Shakespeare is a nod to ST6 as well, except she quotes The Tempest (I'm trusting the XO here) instead of whatever Chang quotes (Macbeth?).
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Humerus posted:Mariner quoting Shakespeare is a nod to ST6 as well, except she quotes The Tempest (I'm trusting the XO here) instead of whatever Chang quotes (Macbeth?). Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1. (And a bunch of others). It was a super good touch.
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