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roomtone posted:The lighting in the top image is austere and a bit unsettling. The bottom one is unimaginative because everything is blue nowadays, but that doesn't automatically make the top one good for what the bridge of the Enterprise should look like. The top one would be good lighting of either a corporate monolith or some creepy science ship. The lighting at the top looks like a loving supermarket lol
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So do you think the Lower Decks white piping is just white material? I think it's a reflector material, like high vis fabric but maybe future-y.
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MikeJF posted:Tiny image, but I gotta say, the initial previs that they used to set up the lighting on the Enterprise bridge for Disco looks way nicer than what they ended up going with NES Bridge would have been infinitely better.
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T'Ana has a tail!Cross-Section posted:Though some of those shots of the Engineering section kinda threw me for a loop since they made it look like it’s not even attached to the ship lol This shot makes me wonder if Cerritos can just pop off the nacelles and engineering and leave the pylons with the saucer and have a tiny super-fast warp ship.  WHEEEE The_Doctor posted:Rutherford’s plot was my favourite. The Black Mountain. The subtitles keep going for a bit after it gets too muffled to hear, apparently the surviving father makes you eat your own heart Big Mean Jerk posted:Well, that was a pretty solid episode. Was that reaction with Boimler in the red bandanna a ref to the Kazon being unfortunately described as 'bloods and crips' behind the scenes MikeJF fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Aug 27, 2021 |
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Aug 27, 2021 00:49
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Aces High posted:so Shax's deal is just Bajoran stuff, right? i dunno, that's where my mind went but feels like it was kept deliberately ambiguous also
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Aces High posted:so Shax's deal is just Bajoran stuff, right? No mention of pah, prophets, etc but... maybe I agree it was deliberately ambiguous but I'm sure memory gamma is filling up with explanations
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Aug 27, 2021 01:01
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Timby posted:John Noble has been cast as the villain in Prodigy. He should really be in all sci-fi franchises
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Nichael posted:He should really be in all sci-fi franchises He really should.
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Holy poo poo that was a top 3 LDS episode. I was actually in tears.
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Man I keep forgetting to come in here and gush about the show. LDS is still kicking it. That was such a great episode. I hope this show gets its seven year Star Trek run and then some if they can keep churning this out. I am all about the Klingon Acid Punk.
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I have heard Mike McMahan was included in the five year Kurtzman deal so I'd say chances are good we're getting seven seasons. Maybe LDS will break the mold and get eight. 
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I am really enjoying this season. I really want to know how getting fired works, since it’s come up at least twice. Do you get flat out kicked out of Starfleet, or are you sent off to Starbase 80, or something else?
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MikeJF posted:I wonder if Will Boimler assigned the Boimler user profile to himself in the Starfleet system and left our guy without any profile. Either that or he doesn't match the biometrics on file. But it seems unlikely he wouldn't have had a thorough medical after that incident.
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William Boimler somehow ends up in the same Cardassian prison as Tom Riker and for whatever reason Brad Boimler ends up rescuing them both. Anyway, another great episode, glad we finally got the Mariner/Tendi pairing and more bits of Orion background on the side. It was neat seeing odd locations I'd totally forgotten about turn up again. One of them even redid an old TNG matte painting in the new art style I think. Plus more DS9 content than I expected: another Quark's franchise on Qualor II, Vic Fontaine is also playing there, Mariner was even stationed on DS9 at the same time as Worf. That does again make me wonder a couple things about Mariner. Is she lying about her age, or was she a really young field commission/academy fast-track graduate, or maybe a wartime promotion like Nog?
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Delsaber posted:... , or maybe a wartime promotion like Nog? I'd bet on this one if they ever have to establish it at all. There was a bit in DS9 where they someone mentioned that a lot of cadets got seriously fast tracked during the war.
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The thing is Mariner is super-competent - she's one of those "Starfleet engineers that can turn rocks into replicators." But she hates - completely hates - authority and any of the auspices that go with it. Boimler, on the other hand, loves rank and authority and that dimension of Starfleet. What makes them friends is that they are both huge, and I mean, absolutely huge, Star Trek nerds. Like participants in the thread huge. No matter how different they are, or how different they express that nerddom, it's also what bonds them. I think it's weird that they needed to have separate stories for me to get that.
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ashpanash posted:The thing is Mariner is super-competent - she's one of those "Starfleet engineers that can turn rocks into replicators." But she hates - completely hates - authority and any of the auspices that go with it. I kinda just realized that Mariner pretty easily could've ended up with the Maquis if they hadn't got smoked by the Dominion. She's a bit of a Torres type, just with less of a temper and more of a trickster streak. Plus going Maquis definitely would've pissed off her mom.
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Delsaber posted:That does again make me wonder a couple things about Mariner. Is she lying about her age, or was she a really young field commission/academy fast-track graduate, or maybe a wartime promotion like Nog? Are they the same age, though? One of her academy classmates has reached captaincy.
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I assume 20 is basically the same as 50 in the Federation
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I mean, Paul Rudd has that technology today.
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I punched "Beckett Mariner" into Google so I could get at the Memory Alpha page and was mildly blindsided by the autocomplete. (i tried this again in a private browser on a different computer and it came up the same thing i'm not into cartoons i swear)
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I figure she's 30 or so. It's 2381, she's been on the Cerritos for two years, since 2379, then the Quito before that, DS9 before that while Worf was there (so sometime during 2372-2375), three other ships. I figure she's probably a few years younger than Wesley, was a teenager on the D while Freeman served under Riker. So say she was born in 2350, was 14 when she went with her mother to live on the D when it launched in 2364, went to the academy in 2368 or so, (season 5 of TNG), graduated 2372, bounced around, plenty of time to serve on all those ships and have all these vast experiences and do those few black ops missions.
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If human life spans have popped up to the 125-130 range 30 might as well be the new 20 anyway
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They almost never get specific about people's ages in Star Trek, right? The only character I even remember who had their age stated was Julian in DS9 when he was anxious about turning 30. That itself feels like a 90's thing because people don't care as much about that anymore, I think - but generally I think they leave it vague on purpose so you can suggest that these people are all much older than you think they are without having to say 'picard's 60 in season 1' or be tied to it. It's clear humans live a bit longer than they do now, I at least remember McCoy in the pilot of TNG being about 120 or something, but do they ever say that people age more slowly or is it just that you get 20 more years of being old now?
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found a bigger shot of NES bridge  Still prefer the concept version. That said, even without changing the general scheme, actual set would be vastly improved with some matte spray, it gives me a headache just looking at the picture. Stylistic opinions aside, I'm kinda surprised they blew up the size quite that much after all the issues the scale of the Discovery bridge has given them in framing shots. I guess they figure with the helm right there close up and Spock and Uhura close behind the captain it won't matter. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 12:22 on Aug 27, 2021 |
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^I like white one way better.ashpanash posted:What makes them friends is that they are both huge, and I mean, absolutely huge, Star Trek nerds. Ahem, History and Celebrity Gossip nerds.
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MikeJF posted:I figure she's 30 or so. It's 2381, she's been on the Cerritos for two years, since 2379, then the Quito before that, DS9 before that while Worf was there (so sometime during 2372-2375), three other ships. I figure she's probably a few years younger than Wesley, was a teenager on the D while Freeman served under Riker. So say she was born in 2350, was 14 when she went with her mother to live on the D when it launched in 2364, went to the academy in 2368 or so, (season 5 of TNG), graduated 2372, bounced around, plenty of time to serve on all those ships and have all these vast experiences and do those few black ops missions. So DS9>Quito>4 other ships>Quito>Cerritos. And then I get sad because we can't have an episode where Nog shows up and they get into misadventures. Maybe we could have some flashbacks with some of the DS9 cast down the road, at least.
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Maybe when she says she's served on five ships one of them was Defiant at DS9.
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roomtone posted:They almost never get specific about people's ages in Star Trek, right? The only character I even remember who had their age stated was Julian in DS9 when he was anxious about turning 30. That itself feels like a 90's thing because people don't care as much about that anymore, I think - but generally I think they leave it vague on purpose so you can suggest that these people are all much older than you think they are without having to say 'picard's 60 in season 1' or be tied to it. Scotty is said to be 147 in Relics, I think.
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Delsaber posted:William Boimler somehow ends up in the same Cardassian prison as Tom Riker and for whatever reason Brad Boimler ends up rescuing them both. How can she be lying about her age if she's never said her age? Unless you mean lie by omission when she didn't correct Boimler when he said "You're the same age as me".
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Timby posted:Scotty is said to be 147 in Relics, I think. That's pretty good then because he looks half that. edit: actually wait, wasn't he in stasis for half that
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Actually, going on a bit about the bridge lighting, I looked up some more and saw photos of filming, and photo  screenshot  Are they bluifying the whole thing in post for some reason? God, yeah, this is them shooting the one I posted above:  Why? Good grief it looks so much better pre-processed. 
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