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Could have been worse. Could have been black licorice, salty, Dutch.
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Phylodox posted:Could have been worse. Could have been black licorice, salty, Dutch. It tastes like poison" That line had my non Trekkie friend on the floor with laughter
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Sep 23, 2021 19:50
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Really happy to see Boimler being competent and showing some character progression.
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Phylodox posted:Could have been worse. Could have been black licorice, salty, Dutch. Hey if salmiakki is a war crime, then they really do not like the fermented fish stuff either. ...So Nordic people are the Maquis then?
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Sep 23, 2021 20:17
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I thought for a horrifying second that there was fermented fish licorice
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Brawnfire posted:I thought for a horrifying second that there was fermented fish licorice Hey, don't give Tal Shiar any ideas. "We give you unlimited salted black licorice and play heavy metal BUAHHAHAHAHAA" That is the relaxation room for most of the Finns and Norwegians, maybe some Swedes and Germanese also. Der Kyhe fucked around with this message at 20:38 on Sep 23, 2021 |
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Sep 23, 2021 20:35
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A planet with actual dragons colonized by Renn Faire geeks, I love this show.
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Sep 23, 2021 20:56
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Really happy to see Boimler being competent and showing some character progression. that was pretty cool, he's learning and more competent but still himself.
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Sep 23, 2021 21:02
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MillennialVulcan posted:A planet with actual dragons colonized by Renn Faire geeks, I love this show. The Okudagram showing the layout of Billups' mom's ship had a room with a little dragon in it, too!
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Sep 23, 2021 22:01
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That was really fun! Hearing Jeffrey Combs again was a real delight.  I couldn’t help but notice the long look down Rutherford did when confronted with naked Billups. 
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Sep 23, 2021 22:47
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MillennialVulcan posted:A planet with actual dragons colonized by Renn Faire geeks, I love this show. If they dialed the extent of the Renfaire and the transparency of the evil AI down by by about 30% and 50% respectively, no one would have batted an eye at this as a live action Trek episode.
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Sep 23, 2021 23:08
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Sep 24, 2021 00:10
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That was so good, and the B plot with Billups had this incredibly Futurama vibe to it, I loved this episode all around 
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Sep 24, 2021 00:33
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I like that they're doing the Trek Thing of giving each character a bit of a flesh-out episode, like this feels like a LaForge episode. Or a Barclay episode, but Billup's too well-adjusted for that.
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Sep 24, 2021 00:44
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Lower Decks is just so good. I knew who voiced the computer the second I heard it.
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Sep 24, 2021 00:54
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Well that was a fun episode.
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Sep 24, 2021 01:43
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Episode was actually kinda relatively light on jokes. It was just a very enjoyable 22 minutes of Star Trek.
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Sep 24, 2021 02:06
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"You been Boim'ed."
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Sep 24, 2021 02:20
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Ooooh another bit of growth shown in this episode, Dr. T'Ana never would have given a drat about what Tendy was doing through in season 1, but now she not only knows Tendy, she knows well enough that Tendy would want to know if Rutherford were hurt. I like this crew.
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Sep 24, 2021 05:29
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I do think it's true that a good show writes for what it thinks it is in season one, and writes for what it found out it can do, and sometimes even more importantly what its cast can do and what they are good at, in season two.
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I agree. This show has really found itself and is putting out really true Star Trek stories. Evil AI jail is such a hilarious concept.
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Sep 24, 2021 09:41
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Humans: Samanthan, Bradward, Andarithio. Kzinti: Taylor. Andorian: Jennifer.
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Sep 24, 2021 09:59
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MillennialVulcan posted:A planet with actual dragons colonized by Renn Faire geeks, I love this show. I really liked that, it reminded me of the Culture. Weird little subcultures going off on their own to try and build their own societies feels like something that would happen fairly regularly in a post-scarcity society.
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Sep 24, 2021 12:16
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"Looks like the uh.. Elf Matrix.." "Don't do that"
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Barry Foster posted:I really liked that, it reminded me of the Culture. Weird little subcultures going off on their own to try and build their own societies feels like something that would happen fairly regularly in a post-scarcity society. It's true, yeah. It was a bit over the top exaggerated for humor but the idea of an intentional ren faire world is one of the better explorations of what post scarcity really means Next week: Furry Planet
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Sep 24, 2021 12:58
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Was the Medieval planet a TAS thing or did they make that up for this show?
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Sep 24, 2021 13:31
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I don't think "Ren Faire planet" is really much of a stretch considering stuff like "Ye Olde Scottish Village planet" and the like. I do appreciate that they use modern technology, they just call it goofy Ren Faire-type stuff I agree with HD Dad - they scaled back the jokes and references in this one and let the writing breathe a little more and it's one of the best episodes yet. Kind of reminds me of The Orville in that way, though I think S1 of LDS beats out S1 of Orville taken as a whole. I also really like that they took a well-used archetype (mostly Lwaxana TNG episodes but I think there's a few more 'parent of bridge crew' episodes?) and did a fun and pretty original take on it.
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I mentioned a while ago that the LD people said on Twitter that the first MSD of the ship was a temp and they were having Michael Okuda do up a bunch of proper schematics and diagrams and stats and things that they might eventually release well they confirmed on Twitter that the new detailed MSD in this episode is from his work ZOOM IN YOU FUCKERS LET ME SEEEEEE
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Sep 24, 2021 13:57
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I can't even imagine the level of proofreading and doublechecking you'd have to do before releasing a detailed schematic to internet trekkies
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Sep 24, 2021 14:00
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The difference between Ren Faire planet and Gangster Planet or Irish Planet or Cowboy planet is that it was explicitly intentional. Find a world with dragons -> there are enough people who want to go live D&D
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Sep 24, 2021 14:09
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I like to imagine the dragons are sentient and started the whole renfaire thing themselves to boost their tourism economy
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Sep 24, 2021 14:25
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MikeJF posted:Humans: Samanthan, Bradward, Andarithio. I know a girl named Qelsey, yes it is still pronounced like Kelsey. Why their parents chose a q, I don't know.
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Snow Cone Capone posted:I also really like that they took a well-used archetype (mostly Lwaxana TNG episodes but I think there's a few more 'parent of bridge crew' episodes?) and did a fun and pretty original take on it. yeah, it was like 80% a Lwaxana episode, 20% that DS9 episode where Bashir's parents show up and ruin everything
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Aces High posted:I know a girl named Qelsey, yes it is still pronounced like Kelsey. Why their parents chose a q, I don't know. 
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Brawnfire posted:I can't even imagine the level of proofreading and doublechecking you'd have to do before releasing a detailed schematic to internet trekkies Just rope
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I laughed out loud at the “what’s the difference between a phaser rifle and a regular phaser” line, because I swear to god that was an actual discussion in one of these threads a while back.
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I particularly like the one at far left: (Also, any of these would make pretty a bitchin' case for a gaming rig.)
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Animated shows have to be heightened otherwise they come out as very boring. If you look at the original TAS it's just kind of stale and lifeless. Granted it was super low budget, but for the most part the episodes could have been TOS episodes if they were filmed live. Lower Decks is just Star Trek perfectly adapted to an animated comedy. Everything has to be heightened to give the animation the liveliness it needs to feel right. If you were to adapt it back into a normal live action show then all of the exaggerated stuff would also be left behind. It's perfect and I love it.
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Powered Descent posted:I particularly like the one at far left: hahaha, good catch
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Episode was a banger, such a delight to hear Jeffrey Combs' voice on Star Trek again. I really loved the stuff with the renfaire ship too, it really had the feel of a Lwuxana episode/silly early 90s tie-in novel about a planet with dragons that just feels like Star Trek to me as much as Klingons and Picard speeches and double-fisted punches do.
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