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nine-gear crow posted:Hit a little too close to home, did I? I have never heard of any of those people, and dislike all three of the new Star Trek shows with opinions formed by watching the shows that have nothing to do with any women, minorities, or sexual identities of the characters. It's just weird you're attributing disliking the shows to these people that nobody has heard of.
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nine-gear crow posted:Hit a little too close to home, did I? 
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The Bloop posted:Also lol that some random group on twitter or reddit or something that I've never heard of has some influence on my opinions on New Trek Who knew that thinking Disco's writers are bad at their jobs meant I'm secretly a member of some Nazi cabal.  Season three is still okay but every episode just makes me wish Lower Decks was back already.
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SO IMPORTANT that the Empire now employs more women and 🙌 BIPOC 🙌 to prosecute its genocidal wars of expansion.
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Arglebargle III posted:SO IMPORTANT that the Empire now employs more women and 🙌 BIPOC 🙌 to prosecute its genocidal wars of expansion. HIRE👏MORE👏BIPOC👏GENOCIDERS
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Grand Fromage posted:Season three is still okay but every episode just makes me wish Lower Decks was back already. Fully agree. I've been saying all along that Discovery is good enough As in good enough that I'm going to keep watching it without paying for it But I really don't think they should be happy with that On the other hand, I greatly look forward to Lower Decks, Expanse, and Orville starting up again
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I think the first half of S1 and second half of S2 were genuinely bad overall (I liked the MU and pre-Control eps), 3 is better but still not good. Cannot fuckin wait for Expanse day, it'll give me a reason to take a break from the 140 hours of Cyberpunk I just played.
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Super Deuce posted:I have never heard of any of those people, and dislike all three of the new Star Trek shows with opinions formed by watching the shows that have nothing to do with any women, minorities, or sexual identities of the characters. they arent though. like we just had this convo half a page back
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Verviticus posted:they arent though. like we just had this convo half a page back And the person I quoted doubled down on their bogus claim of everyone who doesn't like these shows is somehow a youtube Nazi.
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Nov 23, 2020 22:51
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I like A LOT the diversity on DISCO Doesn't make the writing good, either the dialog or the overall plot
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I think the writing is quite fine, this season especially. It only goes off the rails when Michael is on screen - even more so now she feels like a character from an entirely different show that somehow found themselves on Star Trek.
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"It's only bad when the main character is there" lol But pretty much everything so far has been Almost Cool Why didn't they go back to the desk guy? Why did they jump straight to Trill? Why is Empress Hitler anywhere at all other than meta stuff about contracts and misapplied Rule of Cool She almost seems like a bad copy of Melinda May from agents of shield
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The Bloop posted:"It's only bad when the main character is there" lol can't wait for space hitler's flashbacks to be from the job in space bahrain
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Nov 23, 2020 23:22
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I don't care that it's ridiculous and invoke Clarke's law that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Love that someone thought it up and then they made it happen on-screen. Does Book's ship have a name and classification? 
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Nov 24, 2020 00:16
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The Millennium Fuckin Dumb
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Binary Logic posted:I don't care that it's ridiculous and invoke Clarke's law that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Why though What did it accomplish It feels like Michael Bay complexity for the sake of it
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Nov 24, 2020 00:30
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It would have been just as cool if it stopped on a dime and flipped over
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pile of brown posted:It would have been just as cool if it stopped on a dime and flipped over Cooler even. It would have been cool as hell if it had been continually shooting while doing a flip over the target. Much better than stop firing, have the ship fall apart, and then come back together facing the other way.
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Nothing there was beyond previous trek tech Show me a smooth undifferentiated mass that manifests beam phaser fire anywhere on its surface and reshapes fluidly to fit through there
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It already started rotating before it broke up... it probably took the same amount of time to break up and reform that it would have taken to finish the turn.
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If the ship is going to come apart, at least have the pieces flying around and shooting phasers at everything.
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Or like it reveals some weird energy sphere that blasts a pulse weapon before it reassembles
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Binary Logic posted:I don't care that it's ridiculous and invoke Clarke's law that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. drat. That looks really dumb.
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Nov 24, 2020 01:16
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Actually if you look close that rear boxy section does just do a complete curve, all the other parts basically just splay out and then reattach. That front bit does a complete 360 too.
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Nov 24, 2020 01:21
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piratepilates posted:drat. It reminds me of beyond skyline
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When you people kept saying programmable matter in here, I pictured something like the size of lego blocks flying around in a swarm and rearranging to be something completely different. His ship just kinda, splits in to drumsticks and wings and then back again. Just turning around would be faster lmao.
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Nov 24, 2020 01:24
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A borg ship wouldn't have had to do any of that nonsense.
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Book's ship is a K'Nex class.
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piratepilates posted:When you people kept saying programmable matter in here, I pictured something like the size of lego blocks flying around in a swarm and rearranging to be something completely different. That ship isn't the programmable matter, that's like a nanobot swarm. Ships are just entirely held together by structural integrity fields now I guess so the pieces aren't connected. Hope the power doesn't go out.
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Here's the real question; Why can it split? "Because it's cool" isn't enough for good ship design, you've gotta at least attempt a handwave of some kind of practicality in-universe. Do the individual bits do anything? Can the ship change its configuration at all, or have new modules integrated? Because all we've seen is the special effects equivalent of jingling keys at infants. If you're gonna make your hero ship come apart like that, lean into it. Have all the bits go off on their own shooting at individual targets in a multi-vector assault mode. Or just reform the ship on the fly to dash through tight spaces. All they've functionally done is rip off Han Solo and the Millennium Falcon.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Here's the real question; Why can it split? "Because it's cool" isn't enough for good ship design, you've gotta at least attempt a handwave of some kind of practicality in-universe. Do the individual bits do anything? Can the ship change its configuration at all, or have new modules integrated? Because all we've seen is the special effects equivalent of jingling keys at infants. Ramadu posted:lol source your quotes
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It's to gently caress over everyone in the Jeffries Tubes clearly. If Dilithium and power are at a premium modern poo poo should be spartan as gently caress but we didn't think the plot device through at all.
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"The nacelles are detached now." "And the warp core?" "Next to the nursery, medbay, and torpedo storage, as always."
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Nov 24, 2020 02:23
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If your modular ship gets blown up does it make bowling pin sounds
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Nov 24, 2020 02:25
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phased programmable bio-neural holomatter self-sealing quantum stem bolts
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I'll give you a hundred thousand quatloos for your entire inventory!
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It's a ship with a cockpit on the side, a long flat body, and has a lone mercenary captain with a secret heart of gold and a gigantic furry companion with a temper.
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Minion of Freya posted:I'll give you a hundred thousand quatloos for your entire inventory! we only accept LatCoin
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Neddy Seagoon posted:It's a ship with a cockpit on the side, a long flat body, and has a lone mercenary captain with a secret heart of gold and a gigantic furry companion with a temper. I was more laughing at your "They can't just make a ship because they think it looks cool  " comment, but I will also chuckle at your poor star wars comparison.
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No, it's a good comparison. That thing is the falcon Maybe a Dash of the Outrider
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