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I didn't think the crystalline being was that interesting tbh, but not the worst ep definitly
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Silicon Avatar's a drat classic, it's one of my favorite episodes!
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Mar 19, 2021 03:26
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The Crystalline Entity definitely gets bonus points for being really alien, and sympathy points for being unceremoniously murdered just as your imagination is taking hold of the possibilities of communicating with it. It's that potential and ineffability on both counts that really captures people I think.
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Mar 19, 2021 03:49
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Gotta hand it to the Crystalline Entity for going to the greatest lengths possible to cockblock William Riker.
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Mar 19, 2021 03:56
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Timby posted:Just his complete commitment to continuing to hand-code every page on EAS, because he originally built the thing on goddamn Frontpage and now uses Notepad++ and Excel and drat it that's the way he likes it so gently caress you he's not ever going to use a CMS ... well, it makes my brain bleed, especially because a lot of his code is horrifically bloated, and I'm pretty sure my phone starts howling and shrieking on certain pages on his site, but good on him. You do you, Bernd, and keep shining on, you crazy diamond. There are so few sites like this anymore, I hope it never ends.
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Mar 19, 2021 03:58
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One day he will pass it on and that person will make in square space in 5 minutes. Thus endings the 90s uber nerd website.
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Mar 19, 2021 04:54
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Goblin Craft posted:The Crystalline Entity definitely gets bonus points for being really alien, and sympathy points for being unceremoniously murdered just as your imagination is taking hold of the possibilities of communicating with it. It's that potential and ineffability on both counts that really captures people I think.
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Mar 19, 2021 04:54
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Holosuite Battle of Britain is definitely a first person flight sim but perhaps Holosuite Alamo is more like a third person Total War sim?
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Mar 19, 2021 05:05
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let's not get into what the holosuite Alaimo involves
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Mar 19, 2021 05:10
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Maybe the soldiers at the Alamo pop like balloons and confetti comes out when you bayonet them
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Mar 19, 2021 05:13
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It's just totally accurate battle simulator
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Mar 19, 2021 05:25
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Sim City 2000 except it’s in a holosuite and O’Brien is stomping all over the tiny city while wearing nothing but a diaper. Keiko walks in. “It’s not what it looks like.”
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Mar 19, 2021 05:28
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"It's not a toy, it's a model."
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Mar 19, 2021 05:41
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Welp, it's the end of an era, I suppose: the Trek novelverse is being rebooted. There's a final trilogy of books scheduled for the fall that are going to go all Crisis-on-Infinite-Earths on the setting, after which things will be reworked to be in accordance with modern televised Trek and the little canon the novels started assembling in 2000 with their post-series "relaunches" of TNG, DS9, and VOY will be concluded. Dunno what to think about this, really. I mostly stopped reading Trek sometime around 2004, and I never liked the idea behind the Destiny books, feeling like it was just turning Trek into Marvel Comics. Still, while it will never be mourned the way the Star Wars Expanded Universe has, it's sad to see this iteration of Trek go all the same.
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Mar 19, 2021 06:10
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FlamingLiberal posted:This is the first time I've heard that people really don't like Silicon Avatar Same with Ethics.
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Marshal Radisic posted:Welp, it's the end of an era, I suppose: the Trek novelverse is being rebooted. There's a final trilogy of books scheduled for the fall that are going to go all Crisis-on-Infinite-Earths on the setting, after which things will be reworked to be in accordance with modern televised Trek and the little canon the novels started assembling in 2000 with their post-series "relaunches" of TNG, DS9, and VOY will be concluded.
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Mar 19, 2021 13:00
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I wasn't a fan of the Trek novelverse, but it's nice it's getting a final send-off, rather than just being abruptly canceled like the Star Wars EU was.
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Mar 19, 2021 13:32
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CPColin posted:Maybe the soldiers at the Alamo pop like balloons and confetti comes out when you bayonet them And we're back to Germany
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Mar 19, 2021 14:35
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CPColin posted:Maybe the soldiers at the Alamo pop like balloons and confetti comes out when you bayonet them This is Quark’s, Grunt Birthday Party costs extra
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Mar 19, 2021 14:57
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Goblin Craft posted:The Crystalline Entity definitely gets bonus points for being really alien, and sympathy points for being unceremoniously murdered just as your imagination is taking hold of the possibilities of communicating with it. Try not to think about how in "Datalore" they just opened a channel and talked to it.
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Goblin Craft posted:let's not get into what the holosuite Alaimo involves This one is easy. It's an interactive holonovel that involves an unwitting double agent who is tasked with infiltrating a planetary resistance group. Dukat, true to character, likes to play as a character on the side of the despotic planetary government. The Doctor has also played this holonovel but he enjoys observing the story as an NPC cab driver.
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Mar 19, 2021 16:31
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Powered Descent posted:Try not to think about how in "Datalore" they just opened a channel and talked to it. I thought that was just Lore that did that. Wasn't it also implied he brought the Crystal to the colony in the first place?
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:I thought that was just Lore that did that. Wasn't it also implied he brought the Crystal to the colony in the first place? Wasn't just implied, explicitly stated. quote:And let us toast also the great Crystal Entity with whom I learned to communicate. Before Doctor Soong disassembled me, I earned its gratitude by revealing the way to the colonists. Can you image its gratitude when I give it the life on this vessel? The thing I've always been unclear of is....what does Lore get out of the deal other than mass murder?
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What more do you need?
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Mar 19, 2021 18:02
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Lore was pretty vindictive toward Soong and the other colonists, but I'm not sure of his motive for continuing with the entity. My thought is that, while it was a genuine threat and he did intend to feed the life forms on the Enterprise to it, the entity's gratitude is pretty low on Lore's priority list, and he was saying that more to drive the point home to Data. It's personal for him.
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Mar 19, 2021 18:09
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Data is Mega Man and Lore is (Ruby Spears) Proto Man. Which makes B4 X I guess
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Mar 19, 2021 18:12
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Now that I think about it, it's been a while but I also kind of remember he was either slightly in awe of it, or at least in some kind of solidarity with it as opposed to the more usual biological forms of life, which dovetails later on with his cavorting with the Borg.
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Angry Salami posted:I wasn't a fan of the Trek novelverse, but it's nice it's getting a final send-off, rather than just being abruptly canceled like the Star Wars EU was. The Star Wars EU also got a final send-off novel, it wasn’t cancelled abruptly.
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Timby posted:Just his complete commitment to continuing to hand-code every page on EAS, because he originally built the thing on goddamn Frontpage and now uses Notepad++ and Excel and drat it that's the way he likes it so gently caress you he's not ever going to use a CMS ... well, it makes my brain bleed, especially because a lot of his code is horrifically bloated, and I'm pretty sure my phone starts howling and shrieking on certain pages on his site, but good on him. You do you, Bernd, and keep shining on, you crazy diamond. To be fair, Microsoft Frontpage was the last time web design made any goddamn sense. Now you need to learn three languages, gently caress with a bunch of who knows what, and actually making the webpage work means updating a whole bunch of poo poo thats not visible in knock-off frontpage programs because everything is supposed to be in it's own file you summon with the dark arts of css and some snake or gems, blegh, how did making websites get harder over time?
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Mar 19, 2021 21:08
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Just watched The Inner Light, what an absolute life changing event that must be for Picard. Is it ever discussed or referred to again later? That has to have a huge mental impact on a person. A fantastic episode.
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Mar 19, 2021 22:31
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ahhh about that, I don't think even Picard remembers it. Best of Both Worlds had way more emotional staying power.
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Mar 19, 2021 22:33
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John F Bennett posted:Just watched The Inner Light, what an absolute life changing event that must be for Picard. Is it ever discussed or referred to again later? That has to have a huge mental impact on a person. He can be seen practicing that flute instrument in other episodes.
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Axe-man posted:ahhh about that, I don't think even Picard remembers it. Best of Both Worlds had way more emotional staying power. the flute, he remembers it, but the same way he remembered the enterprise when he was in the simulation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4y_oWBiwAo&t=46s wisconsingreg fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Mar 19, 2021 |
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John F Bennett posted:Just watched The Inner Light, what an absolute life changing event that must be for Picard. Is it ever discussed or referred to again later? That has to have a huge mental impact on a person. V-Men posted:He can be seen practicing that flute instrument in other episodes. Also the main theme to Star Trek: Picard is the flute melody that Picard's "son" from the simulation (played by Patrick Stewart's real life son Daniel) is heard composing over the course of the episode.
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Mar 19, 2021 22:55
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Seriously why was he allowed to go back to just being a normal captain after a lifetime changing experience like that. I mean, at least take some loving PTO to remember your command codes and poo poo.
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Mar 19, 2021 22:59
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i would assume the way the memories and experience is coded into the brain would have been considered by the people that made it to integrate in such a way that it doesn't just permanently overwrite your memories from one minute/60 years ago. he was probably back to normal in an hour it wouldnt be very effective as a mechanism for making sure their legacy and lives are remembered if it mentally and emotionally crippled the person who was targeted by it
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jeeves posted:Seriously why was he allowed to go back to just being a normal captain after a lifetime changing experience like that. Picard got exactly two vacation days in his career, Captain's Holiday and Family, and look how those turned out.
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Mar 19, 2021 23:09
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V-Men posted:He can be seen practicing that flute instrument in other episodes. sadly his talent seems to have faded over time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTBUgTby93Y
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It's kind of a catch 22; if you do episodic television you have more freedom to do a one-off where there are potentially life-altering implications like that, but if you're expected to follow up on it later on, you probably won't be allowed to do it.
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Hubbardologist posted:sadly his talent seems to have faded over time My favourite part of that video is the scream he added in as Geordi blows up on the monitor.
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