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Nullsmack posted:Pissed off Riker is pretty good, he tells Captain Picard to shut his trap too. I preferred this take: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K1RiiNTWuo
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Love that take but can't imagine why they didn't run the clip for another five seconds to leave the SHUT UP part in. Seriously the best.
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Apr 16, 2022 02:19
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Falathrim posted:I preferred this take: The Naked Phaser: From the Files of Starfleet
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Apr 16, 2022 11:30
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https://twitter.com/SpinaSanctuary/status/1513933733035880449Angry_Ed posted:Playing the Song of Time on the flute from The Inner Light. https://twitter.com/SpinaSanctuary/status/1514612507561713675
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I need that tng Zelda game.
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Just skimming the episode list, it sure seems that they’re mining the “lovely things happen to Troi” angle throughout the series. She and O’Brien should be sharing drinks over their perpetual woes.
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I could see Obrien being forcibly impregnated by an alien presence, prob a typical weekday for the guy
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Falathrim posted:I preferred this take: I have always loved that Riker's way of testing his suspicion that he's in a simulation is just to be a gigantic rear end to everyone until the simulation breaks.
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I've finally done a full watch of TNG season 1 on Netflix and god bless them for running the uncensored version of Conspiracy. I do not know what they were thinking when they made that episode but the ending is one of the funniest things they've ever done
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Apr 18, 2022 21:36
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No Dignity posted:Conspiracy. Are there any good behind-the-scenes stories about that? I'm sure I've heard one or two before but I don't remember anything.
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Apr 18, 2022 21:58
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I read somewhere that those stupid worms were supposed to be the TNG Big Bad, so we almost lived in a universe where we're all in another thread complaining about a geriatric Picard using the Slurm Queen's powers to travel back to the year 2024.
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Apr 18, 2022 22:06
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Frakes ate a grub
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Brawnfire posted:Frakes ate a grub Frakes also willingly got dipped in the Metamucil ink pit in Skin of Evil. He’s just down for whatever.
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HD DAD posted:He’s just down for whatever. 
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Apr 18, 2022 22:21
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Hipster_Doofus posted:Are there any good behind-the-scenes stories about that? I'm sure I've heard one or two before but I don't remember anything. I think it was in significant part done because one of the producer's kids thought it was cool? Like even accepting the general premise of the episode, the 'lets all be gross and eat bugs scene' and WE SEEK PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE scenes are such nonsequiters I'm amazed they got past first draft
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Apr 18, 2022 22:23
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You can only do an episode like that if the rest of your show is not a John Carpenter movie and by God did the stars ever align
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No Dignity posted:I think it was in significant part done because one of the producer's kids thought it was cool? Like even accepting the general premise of the episode, the 'lets all be gross and eat bugs scene' and WE SEEK PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE scenes are such nonsequiters I'm amazed they got past first draft I still wonder if Picard and Riker got in any trouble with the first contact committee for vaporizing an unarmed alien immediately after it said "we seek peaceful coexistence" just because it said it all creepy. (Okay, okay, and a few other reasons too.)
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i saw conspiracy when it first aired, and I distinctly remember to this day the feeling of having my jaw on the floor while the broadcast rolled on into some game show
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Conspiracy is a great episode. There are none others like it in TNG (or really in any of the other Star Trek shows, at least through DS9).
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Apr 19, 2022 00:31
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Yeah its not bad, Riker has an incredible fight with an elderly man were he does a jumping high kick to the guys face
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I always figured they mean "we seek peaceful coexistence" in the sense that the Dominion seeks peaceful coexistence (and you had that same 'Starfleet is compromised' plotline in the Dominion War).
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I've said it before, but the gaping chest cavity shot is even more shocking than the head explosion to me. That's genuine nightmare fuel, I actually felt kind of sick watching it.
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Tiberius Christ posted:Yeah its not bad, Riker has an incredible fight with an elderly man were he does a jumping high kick to the guys face On one hand, the old guy casually kicking Riker into the ground is awesome. On the other, the old guys gets shot to death in the hallway outside the Napoleon Room at the Grand Rapids Hyatt.
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Crusader posted:i saw conspiracy when it first aired, and I distinctly remember to this day the feeling of having my jaw on the floor while the broadcast rolled on into some game show Sir Lemming posted:I've said it before, but the gaping chest cavity shot is even more shocking than the head explosion to me. That's genuine nightmare fuel, I actually felt kind of sick watching it. The Conspiracy bugs crawled so Hannibal could run.
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I guess I'm starting my TNG rewatch as soon as I catch up on Discovery.
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Speaking of TNG, fun fact I only recently learned: Wyatt's father in "Haven" is the same actor who was the Federation president in Star Trek IV. I almost didn't recognize him because he looks different without a beard and mustache.
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I probably posted it before, but the only other real nightmare fuel I experienced with TNG was watching the episode where Riker gets absconded for medical experimentation on the reg. It was a super weird freak stormy night when it aired, and as I was watching and the tension is building, they all start to recall the clicking room and I’m like “oh poo poo” and suddenly lightning strikes like two blocks away with this tremendous CLAP and the power goes out and I’m pretty sure I screamed out loud. I describe is poorly but I guess you had to be there, and also be a big wimpy 14 year old. I’m not sure when I watched that episode next. Don’t remember if they re-aired new episodes immediately after or if I had to wait to watch it in syndication.
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some kinda jackal posted:I probably posted it before, but the only other real nightmare fuel I experienced with TNG was watching the episode where Riker gets absconded for medical experimentation on the reg. It was a super weird freak stormy night when it aired, and as I was watching and the tension is building, they all start to recall the clicking room and I’m like “oh poo poo” and suddenly lightning strikes like two blocks away with this tremendous CLAP and the power goes out and I’m pretty sure I screamed out loud. Schisms. Its to this day one of the scariest TNG episodes ever. Like, if you grew up watching TNG on TV then you also were probably around during the Alien Abduction phase of Unsolved Mysteries and that poo poo fed directly into that.
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Berman era TNG mostly has this really relaxed mood so it’s all the scarier when it does something off kilter. Schisms is really freaky, Frame of Mind is another one, Identity Crisis has that one scene in the holodeck. I know some people don’t like Night Terrors but it scared me as a kid. Can’t forget Where Silence Has Lease either.
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swickles posted:Schisms. Its to this day one of the scariest TNG episodes ever. Like, if you grew up watching TNG on TV then you also were probably around during the Alien Abduction phase of Unsolved Mysteries and that poo poo fed directly into that. That poo poo got me so worked up that seeing the cover of Communion at Walden Books gave me nightmares. If you're too young to know what that is, look it up because it is loving hilarious looking 35 years later.
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Marsupial Ape posted:I guess I'm starting my TNG rewatch as soon as I catch up on Discovery. Good plan. Wash that taste out of your mouth. Discovery is worse than empty calories. It's gross empty calories. The first season or two of TNG isn't especially nutritious, but it's not revolting and some of it actually tastes pretty good.
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Hipster_Doofus posted:Good plan. Wash that taste out of your mouth. Discovery is worse than empty calories. It's gross empty calories. The first season or two of TNG isn't especially nutritious, but it's not revolting and some of it actually tastes pretty good. Or at least it's the kind of revolting that Data would ask for a second glass of
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Sash! posted:That poo poo got me so worked up that seeing the cover of Communion at Walden Books gave me nightmares. I swear every single library I visited as a child had a copy of Communion on prominent display at just the right spot to catch me off guard turning a corner or something It would be a great halloween costume, even if the number of people who'd get the reference naturally shrinks a little every year
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swickles posted:Schisms. Its to this day one of the scariest TNG episodes ever. Like, if you grew up watching TNG on TV then you also were probably around during the Alien Abduction phase of Unsolved Mysteries and that poo poo fed directly into that. Oh yeah I never really put two and two together but this definitely was like prime ALIENS AMONG US time. Immediately predated X-Files I think, which makes sense. Just re-watched it and it’s still one of my favourite episodes and still puts me on edge. Like when they find that crew dude dying because his blood has been turned into a liquid polymer, even now I’m like “ah poo poo that’s gotta be a bad way to go”, even for a redshirt.
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The scene in Schisms where they're in the holodeck trying to recreate the alien room is legitimately one of the more chilling moments of TNG. Whoever set up that theme did a great job with the atmospherics: the clicking, the nightmarish claw-thing on the table. Schisms aliens are one of the most otherworldly and frightening in all of Star Trek, I think.
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Delsaber posted:I swear every single library I visited as a child had a copy of Communion on prominent display at just the right spot to catch me off guard turning a corner or something The Walden in my mall had a little bestseller display angled so that you didn't even have to look in to see them. For what seemed like years, turn the corner at Cinnabon and bam there's the ur-Grey staring right into your seven year old eyes.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:The scene in Schisms where they're in the holodeck trying to recreate the alien room is legitimately one of the more chilling moments of TNG. Yeah same. That was where my power went out thanks to lightning to boot, as the clicking started. I’m pretty sure it would have had the same effect even without the real life theatrics  I do always get a laugh out of the fact that the computer basically has two incline tables in its database: “weird wooden thing no one would ever construct”, and “intricate torture platform”. Nothing else there.
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some kinda jackal posted:I do always get a laugh out of the fact that the computer basically has two incline tables in its database: “weird wooden thing no one would ever construct”, and “intricate torture platform”. Nothing else there. Riker must have git merged his holodeck database with the Enterprise-D's master branch.
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“Uhh this, uh.. this must be Lt. Barclay’s handiwork”
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The holodeck scene in Identity Crisis is SO GODDAMNED GOOD at building dread. The rest of the episode is rather meh, but holy crap that one scene is a masterclass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaUuE582vq8
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