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The Fool posted:I mean, how many of those people would have been fine with it if it was a “king”
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Fart Sandwiches posted:it lets you go warp 10 or higher or some poo poo and one time Janeway did it and turned into a lizard and had lizard babies with... chakotay? gently caress I don't remember some star trek knower help me out they already went to like warp 14 in the original series and none of them turned into lizards. janeway was just incompetent
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maybe your right, my first reflex whenever nerds get mad is to think sexism or racism but, call him the “prime” or “alpha” or something and I can guarantee that there is a subset of objectors that would have stayed silent
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Sagebrush posted:they already went to like warp 14 in the original series and none of them turned into lizards. janeway was just incompetent and they still could've used it to get back to earth; they just needed to say "hey we're back and we're going to turn into lizards but apparently that's easily curable." Action Jacktion fucked around with this message at 21:04 on Sep 3, 2021 |
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Sep 3, 2021 20:55
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Sagebrush posted:they already went to like warp 14 in the original series and none of them turned into lizards. janeway was just incompetent turning into lizards is actually very hard
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Action Jacktion posted:and they still could've used to to get back the earth; they just needed to say "hey we're back and we're going to turn into lizards but apparently that's easily curable." that's a damned good point
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mystes posted:I could see Picard having been written by a team comprising AnimeIsTrash, a 12 year old who has never seen any Star Trek, and a dog. The 12 year old is there to keep me in check by calling me a loser.
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infernal machines posted:cool, cool, they're doubling down on objectively the worst thing they did with the borg. naturally. i mean picard kinda did already so it's not like it was gonna be good
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indigi posted:why was it the worst thing? I only know the börger from that one movie and the lady one was super honey for Data. I forget why they couldn’t they assimilate him because the borg as presented originally were actually alien. i don't mean rubber hoses and cheap prosthetics, i mean they worked differently from the other antagonists on the show and it made for a much more interesting sci-fi concept. then they made a really dumb action movie and dumb action movie picard couldn't just punch an implacable expansionist force into submission so now there's a queen and the borg are the same as every other star trek villain but with more tubes The Fool posted:I mean, how many of those people would have been fine with it if it was a “king” the gender of the singular personification of a galaxy spanning collective consciousness was not the issue e: although had it been a king it would have made them wanting to gently caress data and/or picard a little more interesting at least infernal machines fucked around with this message at 22:02 on Sep 3, 2021 |
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mystes posted:A lot of people don't like the borg queen because the existence of a "queen" is not really consistent with the way the borg were presented in TNG (a collective hive mind). However, star trek has always been pretty bad about consistency anyway. it's not so much consistency as they just ruined one of the better sci-fi concepts because the writers of first contact were lazy
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infernal machines posted:it's not so much consistency as they just ruined one of the better sci-fi concepts because the writers of first contact were lazy I hope whoever first made the borg got paid, because they literally beat that horse to death by the end of voyager.
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Improbable Lobster posted:i mean picard kinda did already so it's not like it was gonna be good no, it definitely wasn't
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xpostfeedmyleg posted:Scenes from a cyberpunk nightmare: loving hell i would read all these cheap paperbacks
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oh also i finished this, its super goodCarthag Tuek posted:started reading Notes From the Burning Age by Claire North last night nature descriptions + musings on right/wrong/true/false + a politics/spy plot, its got it all im buzzed and not good at talking about books but i really really recommend it
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rotor posted:i read some of those wheel of time books and found them immensely tedious it’s been 20 years since i read them but isn’t it around book 4 where they destroy i-cant-believe-it’s-not-sauron and then in book five it turns out it was a fake i-cant-believe-it’s-not-sauron
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quark is clearly seen opening and closing his bar. what's the schedule? is it 12 hours of every 24 earth hours? what's that like for alien species? what if they're from a planet with a 271 hour day? hell yeah quarks is open for the first of ten times today lets go drink
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i'm going to assume that federation has roughly eight hour shifts or so. so what happens when picard's not on the bridge? i know there have been just a couple scenes/references to 'the overnight bridge crew'. what happens if they encounter some poo poo? it's the equivalent of 3am for jean-luc and he's passed on strumbazian apple wine, you see some fucken borg cubes. "ugh we gotta page out for this" "i'm not doing it. i did it last time. he's gonna be so loving cranky" "dude you're the one on call now." "let's just wait a bit and see if they go away" "haha gently caress yeah. they didnt see us. god i DID not want to wake him up"
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all humanoid species in the galaxy are descendants of an ur-species and have roughly the same day-night schedule and Starfleet officers only drink synthhol which doesn’t get you drunk
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Jonny 290 posted:i'm going to assume that federation has roughly eight hour shifts or so. so what happens when picard's not on the bridge? i know there have been just a couple scenes/references to 'the overnight bridge crew'. what happens if they encounter some poo poo? it's the equivalent of 3am for jean-luc and he's passed on strumbazian apple wine, you see some fucken borg cubes. waking up the old man for anything is scary as gently caress. I had the same thought about Adama in Battlestar. who wants to bring that guy bad news?
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just make the computer do it
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Jonny 290 posted:quark is clearly seen opening and closing his bar. what's the schedule? is it 12 hours of every 24 earth hours? what's that like for alien species? what if they're from a planet with a 271 hour day? hell yeah quarks is open for the first of ten times today lets go drink wasn't it a 26 hour day on ds9 anyway? it's mentioned a couple times but it never really plays a part in anything
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"hey troi, why does the computer have the exact same voice as your sexpot mom?"
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infernal machines posted:wasn't it a 26 hour day on ds9 anyway? it's mentioned a couple times but it never really plays a part in anything oh good call yeah. thats pretty reasonable
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infernal machines posted:wasn't it a 26 hour day on ds9 anyway? it's mentioned a couple times but it never really plays a part in anything when cisco is gravely injured Kira mentions switching to a 4 shift schedule over the existing 3 and there’s a few “we’re working on it 26 hours a day” comments but it’s not an important plot point
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Jonny 290 posted:"hey troi, why does the computer have the exact same voice as your sexpot mom?" that has to be weird for her, you'd think
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its not actually her moms voice, she just uses her empath powers to make everyone think it is
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Jonny 290 posted:i'm going to assume that federation has roughly eight hour shifts or so. so what happens when picard's not on the bridge? i know there have been just a couple scenes/references to 'the overnight bridge crew'. what happens if they encounter some poo poo? it's the equivalent of 3am for jean-luc and he's passed on strumbazian apple wine, you see some fucken borg cubes. i mean, i'd assume this is a problem in the regular earthbound navy already. likely has been for centuries
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man blazing saddles still rules
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Chris Knight posted:man blazing saddles still rules High Anxiety is also very good imo
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wtf how did i miss high anxiety?
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captain. this is the computer. there’s some weird stuff happening and your crew are silly and bad at handling things.
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captain, i have analyzed the data, and you keep this angry klingon security chief on the bridge but ignore his advice ninety nine point four three seven two percent of the time. Requesting more information as to why we keep him on payroll beep boop
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approximately a third of all tng situations wouldn't have happened if they had just let worf have a photon torpedo button
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Jonny 290 posted:captain, i have analyzed the data, and you keep this angry klingon security chief on the bridge but ignore his advice ninety nine point four three seven two percent of the time. Requesting more information as to why we keep him on payroll beep boop like many diversity initiatives, the lily white executive suite don't actually care to take his input
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worf’s job is to propose those ideas so they can be trivially rejected before someone who has to be taken seriously and argued down does
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Carthag Tuek posted:wtf its good, op https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uPdZTiGoGc
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remember the episode where the crystalline entity returns? it's rampaging through space, annihilating all life on entire planets, murdering millions of federation citizens? there's a scientist that wants to kill it, but picard wants to find a nonviolent solution, and eventually the scientist gets fed up and just takes an opportunity to kill it before picard can let it get away? she is the hero of that episode
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https://twitter.com/rilaws/status/1433833415317413891 https://twitter.com/davidehrlich/status/1433833667282022402 welp https://twitter.com/realHenryB/status/1433793922178891777 infernal machines fucked around with this message at 00:11 on Sep 4, 2021 |
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Truman Peyote posted:remember the episode where the crystalline entity returns? it's rampaging through space, annihilating all life on entire planets, murdering millions of federation citizens? there's a scientist that wants to kill it, but picard wants to find a nonviolent solution, and eventually the scientist gets fed up and just takes an opportunity to kill it before picard can let it get away? she is the hero of that episode That scientists name? Kathryn Janeway
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