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bull3964
Nov 18, 2000

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


I almost went to a TMP showing today, but I realized I have a better sound system and protector at home so I'm not sure what I would be getting out of the experience.

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That DICK!
Sep 28, 2010

i also almost went to a tmp showing today. what's going on

Marshal Radisic
Oct 9, 2012


zoux posted:

Saw the episode with Tuvok and Harry fighting over a hologram gf that gains sentience and attacks the ship. They remark that this happened before on the Enterprise-D and I'll remark that if that happened to a real quasi-military organization they'd yank every loving holoprojector out of every starfleet ship 30 seconds after they got the report that Sherlock Holmes' archnemesis almost destroyed the flagship of the fleet.

Holodecks cause so many loving problems, I know they're an easy story engine when you're trying to write 26 scripts a year, but holodeck accidents have to be in like the top 10 of starfleet casualty incidents.

Correction: she wasn't a hologram. She was an alien femcel physicist/hacker who got too deep into online RPing as a distraction from her crippling loneliness.

That episode comes off much differently after 20+ years worth of experience with the internet.

CPColin
Sep 9, 2003

Big ol' smile.

bull3964 posted:

I almost went to a TMP showing today, but I realized I have a better sound system and protector at home so I'm not sure what I would be getting out of the experience.

Monkeypox?

A.o.D.
Jan 15, 2006
The motion picture definitely believed in the philosophy of show the money. The movie lovingly spent as much time as possible on the Enterprise v g e r and shatner's hair piece as possible.

A.o.D. fucked around with this message at 23:40 on May 22, 2022

Shrimp or Shrimps
Feb 14, 2012


I saw this today and it stole my breath away.


E: Spoilered for potential NSFW

davidspackage
May 16, 2007

Nap Ghost

Shrimp or Shrimps posted:

I saw this today and it stole my breath away.


E: Spoilered for potential NSFW

*NSFBW

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Shrimp or Shrimps posted:

I saw this today and it stole my breath away.


E: Spoilered for potential NSFW

Gul Dukat naked is a lot smoother than I imagined him being.

CLAM DOWN
Feb 13, 2007




there's absolutely no way that's what a cardassian looks like naked

Angry Salami
Jul 27, 2013

Don't trust the skull.

Poke Chop posted:

'I was pulled out of normal space time by an alien intelligence and had an experience that has changed me forever'
-something that Picard could never understand or empathize with


Fake edit: looked it up, emissary is after inner light (and BoBW, natch) but before tapestry and generations. Just how many subjective lifetimes has Picard gone through? Lets add in the serek mind meld and his confederate alt-history.. no wonder he repressed his childhood, there's no room left in his dummy robot head.

My theory is still that 'irumodic syndrome' is just medical jargon for 'no poo poo your brain doesn't work properly, there's like five people's worth of memories in here'.

The_Doctor
Mar 29, 2007

"The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

CLAM DOWN posted:

there's absolutely no way that's what a cardassian looks like naked

Let’s ask Julian

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

🎧Listen to Cylindricule!🎵
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There's way more spoons on the real thing

Sternum spoon, pubic spoon, perineal spoon, kneespoons and toespoons

Kazy
Oct 23, 2006

0x38: FLOPPY_INTERNAL_ERROR

I've never actually seen the episode but isn't that The Rock's body from when he was on Voyager?

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



That was my thought, yes

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

"Unity" is the first A-grade Voyager episode I've seen so far. Borg still scary, even when they're trying to be nice.

"Blood Fever" is a weird one, but gotta give Tom Paris the Consent King crown of the 24th century. Also shows that only medicinal holodeck sex is permissible in the future.

"The Darkling" aka Evil Doctor is a very bad episode on paper but it's elevated to watchable by Picardo's Mr Hyde. Some subtle make-up cues help, but he utterly disappears in the role and really makes you feel like he's a different person than the Doc.

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

Kazy posted:

I've never actually seen the episode but isn't that The Rock's body from when he was on Voyager?

Think it is but at first I thought it was Van-sama.

Admiralty Flag
Jun 7, 2007

to ride eternal, shiny and chrome

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2022

Kazy posted:

I've never actually seen the episode but isn't that The Rock's body from when he was on Voyager?

I never actually saw that Voyager ep so I thought it was the harness from the TOS ep Gamesters of Triskelion shopped onto some beefcake's body with Dukat's head on top, which in retrospect is a hilariously bad interpretation

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Also lol at having Neelix and Kes break up offscreen. I thought I skipped an episode.

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



zoux posted:

Also lol at having Neelix and Kes break up offscreen. I thought I skipped an episode.
Apparently it was actually filmed but they had to cut it for time from an episode

Why they couldn’t have found a way to work it into another episode, I don’t know

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

FlamingLiberal posted:

Apparently it was actually filmed but they had to cut it for time from an episode

Why they couldn’t have found a way to work it into another episode, I don’t know

Yeah you can actually go read the script, apparently Ethan Phillips discussed it with Robert McNeil and Garret Wang on their Voyager podcast. Phillips also said that he felt they were never quite sure what to do with that relationship given the age-gap and the optics of it. I'm trying to think of good romantic cast relationships from Trek and I got Riker/Troi (though I'm not sure they were officially together during the series' run), Worf and Jadzia and Kirk and Spock. I personally never gave a poo poo, I'm here for crystalline entities and nebular anomalies not boring wallpaper romance! Hit the road Vash!

Admiralty Flag
Jun 7, 2007

to ride eternal, shiny and chrome

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2022

zoux posted:

I'm trying to think of good romantic cast relationships from Trek and I got Riker/Troi (though I'm not sure they were officially together during the series' run), Worf and Jadzia and Kirk and Spock. I personally never gave a poo poo, I'm here for crystalline entities and nebular anomalies not boring wallpaper romance! Hit the road Vash!

You left out the true love triangle from Trek: Scotty, booze, and the warp engines!

CLAM DOWN
Feb 13, 2007




do you think a cardassian's dick is a spoon

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

CLAM DOWN posted:

there's absolutely no way that's what a cardassian looks like naked

I think this is explicitly the reason you basically never see an alien with their shirt off; way too much hassle for makeup

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



Don’t forget Kirk x The Enterprise

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

FlamingLiberal posted:

Don’t forget Kirk x The Enterprise

Yeah but, same.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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

StashAugustine posted:

I think this is explicitly the reason you basically never see an alien with their shirt off; way too much hassle for makeup

the makeup artist sighs and mixes up spirit glue for fourteen furry Neelix nipples

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

This is the closest I can recall

The Chairman
Jun 30, 2003

But you forget, mon ami, that there is evil everywhere under the sun

zoux posted:

This is the closest I can recall



Tunicate
May 15, 2012

StashAugustine posted:

I think this is explicitly the reason you basically never see an alien with their shirt off; way too much hassle for makeup

also the full-body makeup on farscape nearly killed an actress

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

zoux posted:

Yeah you can actually go read the script, apparently Ethan Phillips discussed it with Robert McNeil and Garret Wang on their Voyager podcast. Phillips also said that he felt they were never quite sure what to do with that relationship given the age-gap and the optics of it. I'm trying to think of good romantic cast relationships from Trek and I got Riker/Troi (though I'm not sure they were officially together during the series' run), Worf and Jadzia and Kirk and Spock. I personally never gave a poo poo, I'm here for crystalline entities and nebular anomalies not boring wallpaper romance! Hit the road Vash!

Troi/Riker/Worf was a love triangle for nearly half of TNG but they were never allowed to actually develop or commit to any aspect of the relationship because TNG was an episodic syndicated status quo change-agnostic show. It looked like Worf was ultimately going to be the one they went with for Deanna at the end of TNG, but then Worf went to Deep Space Nine and TNG movie writers went "gently caress it, just have Riker and Troi get back together."

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

nine-gear crow posted:

Troi/Riker/Worf was a love triangle for nearly half of TNG but they were never allowed to actually develop or commit to any aspect of the relationship because TNG was an episodic syndicated status quo change-agnostic show. It looked like Worf was ultimately going to be the one they went with for Deanna at the end of TNG, but then Worf went to Deep Space Nine and TNG movie writers went "gently caress it, just have Riker and Troi get back together."

I know in Parallels the universe he ends up spending most of the time in he's married to her but where else did that come up?

skasion
Feb 13, 2012

Why don't you perform zazen, facing a wall?

zoux posted:

I know in Parallels the universe he ends up spending most of the time in he's married to her but where else did that come up?

There’s a couple of other Worf/Troi moments in season 7. I definitely wouldn’t call it a love triangle.

The Chairman
Jun 30, 2003

But you forget, mon ami, that there is evil everywhere under the sun
The first bit of it is in "Ethics" when she's helping him come to terms with his broken back and the possibility the corrective surgery might fail, but it doesn't reoccur until "Parallels" in the middle of season 7 and then for a few more episodes after that

F_Shit_Fitzgerald
Feb 2, 2017



zoux posted:

I'm trying to think of good romantic cast relationships from Trek and I got Riker/Troi (though I'm not sure they were officially together during the series' run), Worf and Jadzia and Kirk and Spock. I personally never gave a poo poo, I'm here for crystalline entities and nebular anomalies not boring wallpaper romance! Hit the road Vash!

In all seriousness, I think The Sisko and Kasidy Yates was pretty well handled, even if making a Black man become an absentee father was a(n unintentional) yikes.

Charity Porno
Aug 2, 2021

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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:

In all seriousness, I think The Sisko and Kasidy Yates was pretty well handled, even if making a Black man become an absentee father was a(n unintentional) yikes.

They only wrote the bit where Sisko visits her in the vision because Avery Brooks insisted he wouldn't portray a black father leaving his child without the promise of his eventual return

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

Charity Porno posted:

They only wrote the bit where Sisko visits her in the vision because Avery Brooks insisted he wouldn't portray a black father leaving his child without the promise of his eventual return

This is why I don't mind that they haven't moved past DS9 because my headcanon is just that Sisko popped back into reality six months later and he and Kasidy have been extremely retired on Bajor ever since

Strom Cuzewon
Jul 1, 2010

Best relationship is Leeta & Bashir. Followed by Leeta & Rom and Garak & Bashir. https://youtu.be/G0569T0Av98

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

skasion posted:

There’s a couple of other Worf/Troi moments in season 7. I definitely wouldn’t call it a love triangle.

The whole rift between Future Riker and Future Worf, the whole reason why Worf left the Federation and went back to the Klingon Empire in All Good Things is because they couldn't square the fact that they both loved Deanna and she died in the AGT future. So when Picard tells them of what happens in the future he say, Riker and Worf mutually resolve to never let that actually happen.

But you're right, it never really crosses into being a proper love triangle, at least in the traditional conflict-driven sense. It was a very grown up, emotionally mature situation of "Troi has the hots for both Riker and Worf, really can't decide between them or if she even wants to be in a relationship with either of them, and Riker and Worf are just cool with it it." It's a very "everyone gets along space future" type of thing.

Poke Chop
Apr 27, 2008

skasion posted:

There’s a couple of other Worf/Troi moments in season 7. I definitely wouldn’t call it a love triangle.

Im pretty sure that every instance of worf and troi is a psychic fantasy (eye of the beholder) alt universe (parallells) or alt future (all good things). The closest they ever came to flirting in normal spacetime was when she was possessed by a ghost and threw him across ten forward.

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ruddiger
Jun 3, 2004

Strom Cuzewon posted:

Best relationship is Leeta & Bashir. Followed by Leeta & Rom and Garak & Bashir. https://youtu.be/G0569T0Av98

How you gonna leave out my man Jake getting with the other Dabo girl.

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