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bull3964
Nov 18, 2000

DO YOU HEAR THAT? THAT'S THE SOUND OF ME PATTING MYSELF ON THE BACK.


I never got a response back way back then when I asked about it.

It's only the 5.1 mix that's busted right? It's ok if you go with the original mix?

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CPColin
Sep 9, 2003

Big ol' smile.
I couldn't find a way to switch it on my PS3, but I was already getting pretty annoyed, so I was probably looking in the wrong place.

Lowen SoDium
Jun 5, 2003

Highen Fiber
Clapping Larry
Anyone else remember when TNG was on Amazon Prime and Encounter at Farpoint was missing all of the sound effects?

It was incredible how weird the show felt with no engine noise on the ship.

Penitent
Jul 8, 2005

The Lemonade Man Can
Am I a crazy person or was the new Motion Picture release on Apple+ for a hot minute?

bull3964
Nov 18, 2000

DO YOU HEAR THAT? THAT'S THE SOUND OF ME PATTING MYSELF ON THE BACK.


Crazy person, it's Paramount+ exclusive for now.

Maybe you were subbed to Paramount+ through channels?

Hollismason
Jun 30, 2007
An alright dude.
Strange New Worlds is cool and good. Great to see episodic Star Trek back.

McSpanky
Jan 16, 2005






Hollismason posted:

Strange New Worlds is cool and good. Great to see episodic Star Trek back.

Nothing truly fundamentally wrong with nutrek has been fixed except the addiction to serialization. It's all smoke and mirrors.

Charity Porno
Aug 2, 2021

by Hand Knit

McSpanky posted:

Nothing truly fundamentally wrong with nutrek has been fixed except the addiction to serialization. It's all smoke and mirrors.

Counterpoint: farrrrrrrrrrt

Big Mean Jerk
Jan 27, 2009

Well, of course I know him.
He's me.

McSpanky posted:

Nothing truly fundamentally wrong with nutrek has been fixed except the addiction to serialization. It's all smoke and mirrors.

Have you actually watched the episode?

HD DAD
Jan 13, 2010

Generic white guy.

Toilet Rascal
Episode felt like a mashup of Caretaker and Time and Again. But in like, a good way.

Also I really appreciated La’an’s tricorder on the planet being basically the 60s prop with zero updates. It even had the spinny spiral gizmo lol.

AndyElusive
Jan 7, 2007

That Picard finale actually really annoyed me.

That galactic event was stopped by a fleet of ships projecting a tiny shield?

A galactic event.

Super Deuce
May 25, 2006
TOILETS
Oh, I like the smell of my own dumps.

AndyElusive posted:

That Picard finale actually really annoyed me.

That galactic event was stopped by a fleet of ships projecting a tiny shield?

A galactic event.

Moments after Q saying not everything has to be a galactic event.

Angry Salami
Jul 27, 2013

Don't trust the skull.
All they said was that it would affect most of the sector - I assume they meant 'galactic event' in the same way that, I don't know, Fukishima was a 'major world event' - it's a big deal that would have implications worldwide, not that it would directly affect the entire world.

Khanstant
Apr 5, 2007

AndyElusive posted:

That Picard finale actually really annoyed me.

That galactic event was stopped by a fleet of ships projecting a tiny shield?

A galactic event.

they thought it was going to be a bigger deal than it was, it was new and scary! turns out it's just a cosmic burp and if you bounce it back you get a transwarp conduit.

Thom12255
Feb 23, 2013
WHERE THE FUCK IS MY MONEY
The worst thing about nuTrek is the warping and how ships never use impulse drives anymore. Everything just sits at a dead stop.

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



Khanstant posted:

they thought it was going to be a bigger deal than it was, it was new and scary! turns out it's just a cosmic burp and if you bounce it back you get a transwarp conduit.
It appears to be mainly a setup for Season 3, I would imagine.

McSpanky
Jan 16, 2005






Big Mean Jerk posted:

Have you actually watched the episode?

Yes, unimpressed. I don't give points for being somewhat better than the absolute gutter trash that preceded it, it's still an Akiva Goldsman joint at heart.

McSpanky fucked around with this message at 15:17 on May 6, 2022

Penitent
Jul 8, 2005

The Lemonade Man Can

Thom12255 posted:

The worst thing about nuTrek is the warping and how ships never use impulse drives anymore. Everything just sits at a dead stop.

My take is that it's because the craftsmanship in the visual medium of Star Trek has deteriorated. It's how we ended up with Picard Season 1 ending with a bunch of rough CGI copy and paste ships.

Look up how they filmed all of the gorgeous fly bys of the Enterprise D for TNG. They set up a complicated motion control rig and did pass after pass of filming to composite the shots we saw in the show.

Because those shots were expensive and high quality, they were used again and again, even in Star Trek: Generations. They also happened to make great scene transitions and gave the viewer the impression that the ship was cruising, either at impulse speeds or at warp.

Big Mean Jerk
Jan 27, 2009

Well, of course I know him.
He's me.
I mean, Picard season one also had its post production truncated and hosed with because of Covid.

The talent is absolutely still there in the industry, but it’s always going to be at the mercy of time and budget.

That DICK!
Sep 28, 2010

the season started airing in jan 2020 and ended in March, I can't imagine Covid played too much of a role

bull3964
Nov 18, 2000

DO YOU HEAR THAT? THAT'S THE SOUND OF ME PATTING MYSELF ON THE BACK.


Ok, when Tuvok started spinning in the chair, I died.

https://youtu.be/jL2EoPJ0whw

Penitent
Jul 8, 2005

The Lemonade Man Can

bull3964 posted:

Ok, when Tuvok started spinning in the chair, I died.

https://youtu.be/jL2EoPJ0whw

Set phasers to a prolonged experience with with minor ball play and a happy ending.

davidspackage
May 16, 2007

Nap Ghost

bull3964 posted:

Ok, when Tuvok started spinning in the chair, I died.

https://youtu.be/jL2EoPJ0whw

I would really love to see Tim Russ in a sci fi comedy role (again).

Actual Satan
Mar 14, 2017

Keep on partying!

You'll NEVER regret it!

Trust ME!


I like "Computer, Arch" better than "Computer, end program"

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

🎧Listen to Cylindricule!🎵
https://linktr.ee/Cylindricule

Arch just shows you the door though, the program keeps running if you don't end it!

Are you the one who keeps leaving that one program running? You know the one.

Actual Satan
Mar 14, 2017

Keep on partying!

You'll NEVER regret it!

Trust ME!


Brawnfire posted:

Arch just shows you the door though, the program keeps running if you don't end it!

Are you the one who keeps leaving that one program running? You know the one.

I also don't put my dirty dishes back in the replicator

Lester Shy
May 1, 2002

Goodness no, now that wouldn't do at all!
I've noticed in Voyager they rarely (never?) show the arch or the hallway leading out of the holodeck. Most holodeck scenes end with the characters just walking out of frame. Probably saved a lot of money that way.

Lemniscate Blue
Apr 21, 2006

Here we go again.

Brawnfire posted:

Arch just shows you the door though, the program keeps running if you don't end it!

Are you the one who keeps leaving that one program running? You know the one.

It's opening Task Manager vs just clicking the X.

MikeJF
Dec 20, 2003




That DICK! posted:

the season started airing in jan 2020 and ended in March, I can't imagine Covid played too much of a role

They were working on the shots up until very shortly before air, I believe, it was time crunched and then Covid absolutely destroyed their ability to crunch.

T.C.
Feb 10, 2004

Believe.
I was just watching Relics, and the fact that like 60% of the fleets that we see later on seem to be Excelsiors makes the scene where Geordi tries really hard to show that things haven't fundamentally changed kind of funny. Like, he's patronizingly stretching a bit, but could have just said "oh yeah, all our ships are still the same'.

Also, as a guy who's now been an engineer for a long time, I can tell you that a dude popping up from the 1950s that clearly understands the fundamental process design and implementation of the stuff he works with would make a pretty penny explaining old infrastructure that people don't understand.

Small Strange Bird
Sep 22, 2006

Merci, chaton!

T.C. posted:

Also, as a guy who's now been an engineer for a long time, I can tell you that a dude popping up from the 1950s that clearly understands the fundamental process design and implementation of the stuff he works with would make a pretty penny explaining old infrastructure that people don't understand.
"Laddie, this LCARS system ye have... would it be underpinned by COBOL by any chance?" :haw:

jeeves
May 27, 2001

Deranged Psychopathic
Butler Extraordinaire
Geordi is a grade A+ dick for no good reason in that episode.

HD DAD
Jan 13, 2010

Generic white guy.

Toilet Rascal
Geordi is just a 24th century neckbeard in general.

Charity Porno
Aug 2, 2021

by Hand Knit

jeeves posted:

Geordi is a grade A+ dick for no good reason in that episode.

He gets that way any time he feels like he's being outshone. He does it to the Vulcan ensign in Lower Decks too

DaveWoo
Aug 14, 2004

Fun Shoe

HD DAD posted:

Geordi is just a 24th century neckbeard in general.

If Geordi's a neckbeard, what does that make Barclay

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
Geordi might have been a dick, but you'd be pissed too if some geezer came into your shop and started messing with poo poo because it was different from it was in the old days. I would say he'd probably do well at some sort of living museum with some old ships, but they probably get a poo poo ton of people frozen in time going to work there every week. They are probably always coming across derelict colony ships with people from various eras of space travel.

CPColin
Sep 9, 2003

Big ol' smile.
Geordi should have delegated all his duties that day to subordinates so he could hang out with Scotty the whole time. His failure to do so is a failure of management, on multiple levels.

Tiberius Christ
Mar 4, 2009

I just assumedGeordi didn't want play babysitter for old boomer that literally opened the warp core and stuck his face in it

Small Strange Bird
Sep 22, 2006

Merci, chaton!

Tiberius Christ posted:

I just assumedGeordi didn't want play babysitter for old boomer that literally opened the warp core and stuck his face in it
"Radiation, ye say? Back in ma day we used tae take twenty rads frae just ridin' in the tarbolaft!"

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nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

DaveWoo posted:

If Geordi's a neckbeard, what does that make Barclay

Some simpering Twitter reply guy.

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