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Snorb posted:I do love the Odyssey uniform; too bad we had to get through the Sierra-1 (the *original* STO uniform, visible on the game box) first. Ours did it so many times Congress had to pass a law to stop them wanting a new (fully copyrighted and trademarked) camo pattern every two years - and we don't even have replicators 
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blastron posted:The armada scene at the end of Picard would have been completely fine had it not been a hundred Inquiry-class copy/pastes, but from what I heard the ‘rona hosed the production special and they didn’t have the time to make screen-ready models for other classes of ship. Maybe if we ever get a physical release they’ll go back and fix up old scenes but I’m not holding my breath. I just mentally replace that scene with this version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED-YjeKywZc
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Has there ever been a Star Trek episode/novel where a crew goes back in time and everyone else they meet in the past is also a Starfleet crew who are trying to keep the timeline straight? false edit: if not, copyright 2021 do not steal
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Jul 8, 2021 08:23
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Senor Tron posted:I just mentally replace that scene with this version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED-YjeKywZc  that "some guy on their laptop" can create VFX that are every bit as good as the professionally-produced stuff in the actual show.
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Senor Tron posted:I just mentally replace that scene with this version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED-YjeKywZc I still maintain it's a failure if they do anything but 'warbird fires' 'starfleet ship drops out of warp and swoops in to catch it on their shield'
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Jul 8, 2021 08:36
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mllaneza posted:It becomes deeply meta when you realize that the third major car rental company is called Enterprise. gently caress me sideways on a double-decker bus. I never knew there was such a rental company
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mllaneza posted:Orville's crossover from dumbed down for Fox to good SF is in episode 6. It's got some dumb humor in it, but also some moments of deep pathos. There's even a setup for some events in season 2. And there's possibly the most elaborate joke on any of McFarlane's shows. Holy poo poo! 
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GoutPatrol posted:Has there ever been a Star Trek episode/novel where a crew goes back in time and everyone else they meet in the past is also a Starfleet crew who are trying to keep the timeline straight? Not Trek, but Let's Go To Golgotha.
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Jul 8, 2021 09:55
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Holy poo poo! Corrected the emphasis wrt theme of the post
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Jul 8, 2021 10:19
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Senor Tron posted:Not Trek, but Let's Go To Golgotha. Hmm, good recommendation. Thanks!
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Jul 8, 2021 12:00
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The Romulan fleet was also ridiculous with it's size and sameness. Not that non Federation ships get that much attention. Also they were commanded by an idiot. They're just trying to blow up a house. Just shoot a loving photon torpedo at it, you don't need to sterilize the whole planet.
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Jul 8, 2021 14:36
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In the future, everyone will have the same genitals.
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Eimi posted:The Romulan fleet was also ridiculous with it's size and sameness. Not that non Federation ships get that much attention. Also they were commanded by an idiot. They're just trying to blow up a house. Just shoot a loving photon torpedo at it, you don't need to sterilize the whole planet. It would've been more interesting if they'd had like just _A_ Warbird, salvaged or saved from who-knows-where. Probably relatively outdated, but still a threat to anything that isn't a modern Starfleet ship.
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Jul 8, 2021 15:41
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MikeJF posted:I still maintain it's a failure if they do anything but 'warbird fires' 'starfleet ship drops out of warp and swoops in to catch it on their shield' Oh well.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:It would've been more interesting if they'd had like just _A_ Warbird, salvaged or saved from who-knows-where. Probably relatively outdated, but still a threat to anything that isn't a modern Starfleet ship. Hell they could've made good on a D'deridex vs Galaxy class battle. That'd be fanservice I'd actually want to see.
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A good starfleet uniform will show me the cock and balls.
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Actual Satan posted:A good starfleet uniform will show me the cock and balls. actually the TMP uniforms were terrible
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Oh my god I accidentally sent u a subspace message of my Cock and Balls...please disregard!! Unless...
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Neddy Seagoon posted:It would've been more interesting if they'd had like just _A_ Warbird, salvaged or saved from who-knows-where. Probably relatively outdated, but still a threat to anything that isn't a modern Starfleet ship. 5 minutes of that was enough for Picard.
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Snow Cone Capone posted:absolutely not come on man, that metal armour collar will help you keep your head upright in the chair during those long nights of command
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This wouldn't save the whole 
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MikeJF posted:It makes no sense to me from the other direction, actually. They already demonstrated they were willing to sacrifice the salvation of the entire Romulan civilisation and population when they arranged for the destruction of Mars and the refugee fleet. Why would they stop at Riker's fleet showing up? He couldn't have saved the colony if they all fired at it. Yeah this exactly. They were such fanatics they effectively genocided their homeworld, its so super duper serious half of them shoot themselves in the head and they risk war by operating soldiers on Earth, but as soon as their ultimate target is in sight, about to fulfill this terrible prophecy they shrug and go "eh" because some ships show up they would need to fight. They had dozens of ships, at least one could have gotten through. Like even if you accept that the rest of the romulan ships weren't willing to risk themselves for the zhad vash tal shiar stuff, they should have at LEAST showed the romulan spy commodore breaking off when the rest leave, trying to make a mad dash to fire everything at this one little settlement before getting blown up by riker. Then you could maybe show their fanaticism where she's willing to suicide run for this super secret sacred ancient goal. Instead it just feels so incredibly lazy and weird ending to the zhad vash plot.
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Powered Descent posted:This wouldn't save the whole Again, I'm slightly more forgiving of that scene now after learning that they only had time to make one hero-quality starship model and one minor variant before the COVID panic set in and everything started shutting down so they just ran with what was usable at the time.
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nine-gear crow posted:Again, I'm slightly more forgiving of that scene now after learning that they only had time to make one hero-quality starship model and one minor variant before the COVID panic set in and everything started shutting down so they just ran with what was usable at the time. I'm sure they could've scrounged up some existing assets for pre-established Starfleet ships from somewhere, though, they wouldn't have had to make designs like the Sovereign from scratch. But it's like they had a mandate not to show old designs except for in flashback.
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GoutPatrol posted:Has there ever been a Star Trek episode/novel where a crew goes back in time and everyone else they meet in the past is also a Starfleet crew who are trying to keep the timeline straight? this could be great. what if the other crew had a totally different timeline they were trying to preserve which directly opposed 'our' crews' objective. or if the only difference between the two was that our entire crew was dead. basically anything that confronts temporal privilege.
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MikeJF posted:I'm sure they could've scrounged up some existing assets for pre-established Starfleet ships from somewhere, though, they wouldn't have had to make designs like the Sovereign from scratch. But it's like they had a mandate not to show old designs except for in flashback.
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MikeJF posted:I'm sure they could've scrounged up some existing assets for pre-established Starfleet ships from somewhere, though, they wouldn't have had to make designs like the Sovereign from scratch. But it's like they had a mandate not to show old designs except for in flashback. The thing that was obviously cut was where the baddie was all like 'let's fight' and then she was suddenly like 'actually no we surrender' in like 2 straight shots with no cause or explanation for her change in tone. There was obviously supposed to be a big space battle there. Or at least I assume there was? Picard is so all over the place in tone and story that it might just be bad writing. Benefit of the doubt and all that. But yeah, that shot someone threw together on their laptop was doable even with Covid if they wanted to go down that line. Maybe they didn't get time to design/render multiple new ships, but not using TNG-era trek designers was a (perfectly valid!) creative choice.
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I can imagine there being a specific mandate not to use the Galaxy-class outside of specific references to the Enterprise. Yes, in-universe, there’s a lot of Galaxy-class ships, but to most of the viewers, the Galaxy is the Enterprise. Having a few of them show up would just be confusing to some people.
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blastron posted:I can imagine there being a specific mandate not to use the Galaxy-class outside of specific references to the Enterprise. Yes, in-universe, there’s a lot of Galaxy-class ships, but to most of the viewers, the Galaxy is the Enterprise. Having a few of them show up would just be confusing to some people. This was the same mandate that Deep Space Nine and Voyager were under in regards to the Sovereign-class. They could have any starship they wanted show up on screen EXCEPT the Sovereign, because the Sovereign was the Enterprise and they didn't want viewers thinking the Enterprise was involved in VOY/DS9 poo poo because it was exclusively a movie-only property now. It was just as dumb back then, but I get it. nine-gear crow fucked around with this message at 22:45 on Jul 8, 2021 |
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I remember reading that they got all sorts of panicked idiots writing them when they destroyed a clearly not the Enterprise if you were even sightly paying attention Galaxy class on DS9
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Der Kyhe posted:So where the f**k did Starfleet poo poo out a combat fleet to put First contact and most of the Dominion war into shame? To a region that was remote enough that no-one cared enough to go check out for new live-signs? And large enough to make Romulan special forces completely outgunned? Obviously the federation has been pumping out dedicated combat ships nonstop ever since the Dominion war. The borg taking down most of their fleet followed by a shooting war with the dominion was their 9/11. Every sector gets a fleet of dedicated war ships now, just in case. In the grimdark Picard future there is only war.
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nine-gear crow posted:This was the same mandate that Deep Space Nine and Voyager were under in regards to the Sovereign-class. They could have any starship they wanted show up on screen EXCEPT the Sovereign, because the Sovereign was the Enterprise and they didn't want viewers thinking the Enterprise was involved in VOY/DS9 poo poo because it was exclusively a movie-only property now. It was just as dumb back then, but I get it. As I recall they originally wanted the Stargazer to be a Constitution Refit but ran into the same basic objection.
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The Bloop posted:I remember reading that they got all sorts of panicked idiots writing them when they destroyed a clearly not the Enterprise if you were even sightly paying attention Galaxy class on DS9 Yep. They were flooded with hate mail for weeks following the airing of The Jem'Hadar. People were convinced they had just casually blown up the Enterprise.
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Facebook Aunt posted:Obviously the federation has been pumping out dedicated combat ships nonstop ever since the Dominion war. The borg taking down most of their fleet followed by a shooting war with the dominion was their 9/11. Every sector gets a fleet of dedicated war ships now, just in case. It's The Culture solution. Yeah you never see us flying any warships anywhere but the moment it looks like there might be a conflict we send a signal to one of the hollowed out asteroids floating in deep space and warm up a few thousand we keep in storage just in case.
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Timby posted:Yep. They were flooded with hate mail for weeks following the airing of The Jem'Hadar. People were convinced they had just casually blown up the Enterprise. Yeah, but nowadays those idiots would just whine online and get shut the gently caress down by the mass of fans who actually pay attention, so the problem would solve itself. Worrying about those reactions in an era of heavily serialized, timeshifted viewing, prestige tv is archaic anyway.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/GeekAuthority/status/1413169100885348354 Welp, close the thread folks, Star Trek has been officially cancelled forever. We had a great run.
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nine-gear crow posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/GeekAuthority/status/1413169100885348354 "thanks doomcock"
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I love how there's a subset of Trekkies who do nothing but prophesize the imminent and deserved doom of the franchise.
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Nichael posted:I love how there's a subset of Trekkies who do nothing but prophesize the imminent and deserved doom of the franchise. I have plenty of issues with Kurtzman's vision of Trek and the current crop of shows, but these dorks make me hope DISCO runs 12 seasons.
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