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punishedkissinger posted:then what is the pattern buffer? The pattern buffer is a fusion reactor. The charged particles are stored in it, but not digitally. They squirt the pattern in there with some fuel and the fusion process keeps the pattern energy levels high. Gutcruncher posted:When Picard turned into a space cloud they used the captain’s saved pattern from his last transport to make a new captain. Look I'm just reading from the technical manual, which is more than I can say for some of the writers. mudskipp posted:I was gonna say "would you guys want to be transported?" Hell yea i'd be transported. It works great the vast majority of the time. And no, I still wouldn't eat replicated human tissue. Prions are still a thing.
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if they could re-age picard with the transporter they could remove the prions from transporter clone meat.
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Sep 28, 2021 16:21
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I would eat myself if I were cellular peptide cake with mint frosting
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Sep 28, 2021 16:25
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:if they could re-age picard with the transporter they could remove the prions from transporter clone meat. Yep, these TNG days Kuru is the name of a Klingon merchant
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GolfHole posted:MILES "REAL PLAYER" OBRIEN Goerdie “QuickTime” LaForge mudskipp posted:I was gonna say "would you guys want to be transported?" They can store the data of the pattern. Dr. Pulaski got one of those rapid again diseases and they compared her dna from her hair follicles and cured the old away. Which begs the question, why do Starfleet officers gain weight when you can just compare the pattern and uh, “redistribute” the excess to the mass replicator cache.
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Automatic Slim posted:Which begs the question, why do Starfleet officers gain weight when you can just compare the pattern and uh, “redistribute” the excess to the mass replicator cache. please do not shame worf's dad
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Automatic Slim posted:Goerdie “QuickTime” LaForge With how advanced Starfleets science is there should be like dozens of ways to get people to a healthy weight trivially. So I guess if someone in starfleet is carrying a few extra ponds it's because they want to? Should be plenty of ways to counter any negative healthy related issues, so at that point it's pretty much an aesthetic choice. dr_rat fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Sep 28, 2021 |
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Sep 28, 2021 17:25
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you can change replicator food to have any nutritional value you want. calorie counting always works if a person follows it well enough, and on starships the computer will do it for you without requiring any effort or lifestyle changes.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:you can change replicator food to have any nutritional value you want. calorie counting always works if a person follows it well enough, and on starships the computer will do it for you without requiring any effort or lifestyle changes. Chief O'Brien, we are going to need you to adjust these drat Cardassian replicators again. Jake has gotten extremely fat over the summer.
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I appreciate that Orville doesn't have a transporter and uses shuttlecraft instead.
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dr_rat posted:With how advanced Starfleets science is there should be like dozens of ways to get people to a healthy weight trivially. So I guess if someone in starfleet is carrying a few extra ponds it's because they want to? Yes, yes, every one has a healthy body image in the 24th century. Society is accepting but technology and science will allow more ways to circumvent the issue before people have to start pretending to be smugly non-judgemental. I would gladly spend my transporter rations to get rid of a tenacious 10lbs. and redistribute it for any part of society in need, in the name of Space Socialism. Automatic Slim fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Sep 28, 2021 |
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Sep 28, 2021 20:47
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That must be why TNG made all the female actors stuff their bras. In the shiny space communist future a flawless boob job is a 10 minute outpatient procedure so there is no excuse for everyone to not be rocking huge knockers. Bald men? Oh, sure, we could cure that but everyone has moved past such petty concerns.
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Sep 28, 2021 21:20
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uh i believe augments are illegal in the federation
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Sep 28, 2021 21:26
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Mulaney Power Move posted:uh i believe augments are illegal in the federation It falls within the same legal area as picards robot heart. Fixing a defect.
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Speaking of which, I've noticed between Lower Decks' Rutherford and Discovery's who-sa-ma-what and what's-er-face-there that there seems to suddenly be a LOT of cybernetically altered humanoids in Starfleet, which... wasn't really a thing in Starfleet before, in my mind? There's seemingly suddenly cyborgs aplenty!
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Gutcruncher posted:It falls within the same legal area as picards robot heart. Fixing a defect. Variable length/girth dongs are not augments, they are a pillar of the federation's appeal to new species.
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Collateral posted:Variable length/girth dongs are not augments, they are a pillar of the federation's appeal to new species. Dong, initiate fuckpattern Riker Theta
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Brawnfire posted:Speaking of which, I've noticed between Lower Decks' Rutherford and Discovery's who-sa-ma-what and what's-er-face-there that there seems to suddenly be a LOT of cybernetically altered humanoids in Starfleet, which... wasn't really a thing in Starfleet before, in my mind? There's seemingly suddenly cyborgs aplenty! Geordie was a cyborg. Also there was that guy in starfleet command when the whale probe showed up. I want to say there's some other examples that haven't been mentioned but I can't think of any off the top of my head.
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Brawnfire posted:Speaking of which, I've noticed between Lower Decks' Rutherford and Discovery's who-sa-ma-what and what's-er-face-there that there seems to suddenly be a LOT of cybernetically altered humanoids in Starfleet, which... wasn't really a thing in Starfleet before, in my mind? There's seemingly suddenly cyborgs aplenty! I mean going by the broadest definition, Picard was a cyborg with his heart. Geordi too. I’m assuming tech integration with the human body got a lot more subtle by the time of TNG, making Disco’s mech people look barbaric in comparison.
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dr_rat posted:Lot of words just to say leprechaun magic This is why someone has to be standing in the transporter room pressing the buttons on the console themselves rather than just having the computer do it. They cloak it in a lot of techno mumbo jumbo, but really the officer's duty is to trade one day of their life to the leprechaun hidden in the console in exchange for the magic.
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CainFortea posted:Geordie was a cyborg. Also there was that guy in starfleet command when the whale probe showed up. I want to say there's some other examples that haven't been mentioned but I can't think of any off the top of my head. I guess I think of Geordi's thing as more of like, smart glasses with a brain connection but you're right, the little blinky temple bits are clearly cybernetic wotsits. And I guess there was a whole-rear end Cybernetics lab on the D, that can't have been solely to study aliens.
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O'Brien's "transporter smirk" on TNG was the best. You knew he was always loving around with the senior crew during beamings. -random person gets a few mg of Riker's poo poo (straight from his intestines) on their tongue during re-materialization. -Resetting Picard's camel toe (why he is always tugging on his uniform) -Wesley's vocal cords are reverted back to an earlier state so he keeps getting awkward voice cracking. -Cranks the matter gain from min to max and back again several times whenever Barclay's being transported so it feels like he's being stretched and turned inside out. Or triggering his fight or flight reflex by messing with his brain. -Resetting Troi's eyebrows to "random". -Replacing Data's components with cheap knockoff parts.
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I’m gonna run your pattern through this sweet delay pedal *TMP transporter accident screams*
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Heroes and Demons was a pretty fun episode. At the end when Janeway is reassuring the doctor that this was a real exchange between two different cultures it just "happened in an unpredictable way" did make me laugh since there's at least two other trek episodes with nearly this exact premise.
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For the life of me I cannot fathom how anybody involved in the production today this show thought, hey, yeah, Naked Now went really well. Ok next let’s do code of honor
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Bismack Billabongo posted:For the life of me I cannot fathom how anybody involved in the production today this show thought, hey, yeah, Naked Now went really well. Ok next let’s do code of honor I’m pretty sure everyone involved with production at the time was only thinking “AHHHHHHH  ”
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punishedkissinger posted:Heroes and Demons was a pretty fun episode. At the end when Janeway is reassuring the doctor that this was a real exchange between two different cultures it just "happened in an unpredictable way" did make me laugh since there's at least two other trek episodes with nearly this exact premise. Wait til you get to the Voyager episodes that rip off earlier Voyager episodes.
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Weren’t there two separate episodes about someone having implanted flashbacks to an alien Holocaust?
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Bismack Billabongo posted:For the life of me I cannot fathom how anybody involved in the production today this show thought, hey, yeah, Naked Now went really well. Ok next let’s do code of honor I'm sure they didn't, but there was some coked up producer on set screaming at everyone about how they had perfectly good scripts from 10 years ago and gently caress no they're not sending them back for re-writes just say the loving lines
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The naked now is credited to a pseudonym because they hosed the story so hard in rewrites (gene demands more sex!) DC Fontana demanded her name be taken off it. And they literally fired the director of Code of Honor halfway filming through after they went "oh poo poo he cast all of the aliens as African oh poo poo" but back in the 80s 'it's going to be incredibly racist' wasn't enough to get the studio to let you scrap and restart filming I mean think of the money!
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MikeJF posted:The naked now is credited to a pseudonym because they hosed the story so hard in rewrites (gene demands more sex!) DC Fontana demanded her name be taken off it. And they literally fired the director of Code of Honor halfway filming through after they went "oh poo poo he cast all of the aliens as African oh poo poo" but back in the 80s 'it's going to be incredibly racist' wasn't enough to get the studio to let you scrap and restart filming I mean think of the money! Code of Honor being made in the 1980s is somewhat expected. The SG-1 retread of the same god drat script but with Asians instead of Africans is  .
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mycomancy posted:Code of Honor being made in the 1980s is somewhat expected. Same writer, wasn't it?
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Same writer, wasn't it? Yep. loving blows my mind they got away with that in 1997.
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mycomancy posted:Yep. loving blows my mind they got away with that in 1997. I'm guessing they tried to redo it because the TNG version hosed it over so bad. Then they got hosed again.
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A paternalistic society with matrilineal inheritance. There's a nugget of an interesting cultural anthropology thing there. They just aren't able to tell a story with that quirk without showing their whole rear end.
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Maybe, just maybe, if you're going to try and tell that story, you shouldn't cast a homogenous group of racial minorities as your antagonists. Both TNG and SG-1 did this, and it boggles the mind.
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IIRC the Ligonians were supposed to be lizard people
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Boimler trying to 100% speedrun the Borg encounter was good poo poo
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Minutes away from voyager and enterprise going off netflix and the last enterprise episode I'm going to watch the the ferengi one.
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drilldo squirt posted:Minutes away from voyager and enterprise going off netflix and the last enterprise episode I'm going to watch the the ferengi one. I started The Devil in the Dark twenty minutes before midnight and it’s still going. Basically I’m illegally watching a Horta melt some fuckers.
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