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zoux posted:Also this is the first time we've ever seen a black hole in a Star Trek series, which is a bit like making 1000 episodes of a dinosaur show without ever mentioning a T-rex. All of this to say this is the most "actually in space" Star Trek series after just four episodes and I absolutely love it. We saw the quantum singularity in a romulan engine before.
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Wheeee posted:fuckin goons never heard of moisturizer and spf We're all programmed to see people in their 30s like people in their 30s were in 1980. Just look at the cast of cheers! I get told ALL THE TIME people think I'm in my 20s because people in their 30s are meant to look old. It's not just goons!
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Wheeee posted:have pike do the fortnite dance after blowing up the enemy ship so i can relate more to the show Chekov: Ahhh yes, Fortnite. Very popular 21st Century game. Invented by Russian. Spock, Kirk and McCoy: 
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I was wondering why there were 3 new pages since I last read this thread and none of it was hating on the latest episode of a Star Trek show. We've really come a long way. Y'know, something that occurred to me as I was watching this episode but forgot to mention in previous posts: This felt like a season finale. Did anyone else notice that or was it just me? Not that it really wrapped anything up but just... the absolute beating the ship took and the level of drama and action... it all felt very finale-ish to me. It makes me wonder what the actual season finale's gonna be like.
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https://twitter.com/TrekCore/status/1530330502577721346?t=UyQ2wk9m471Jk8d5JnfKyw&s=19 The Disco badge is a nice touch. Also i thought the "USS" abbreviation was about as well-explained as Stardates but apparently they did eventually settle on United Space Ship, and just SS is Survey Ship
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May 28, 2022 11:13
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DaveKap posted:I was wondering why there were 3 new pages since I last read this thread and none of it was hating on the latest episode of a Star Trek show. We've really come a long way. I wonder if the ship is still gonna be hosed up or still being repaired next episode. Either way I feel much more optimistic about this series, but I remember how Voyager largely discarded that idea of the ship getting continuously worn down very quickly, while Enterprise tried to make it a thing but it never really felt like they were pulling it off. Gotta admit, the last three episodes of SNW have been so good after I was let down by the first episode, and this latest episode SO good that I'm kinda jonesing for more Star Trek and thinking about tracking down and catching up on Discovery after all. I forgot how Trek used to be so effective at getting its hooks into me, it's been so long since I saw a genuinely quality Trek series (DS9).
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May 28, 2022 11:31
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Jerusalem posted:I wonder if the ship is still gonna be hosed up or still being repaired next episode. “Captain’s Log, Stardate 3294.6 After 2 weeks spent undergoing repairs at Starbase 47, the Enterprise is finally back out there.”
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May 28, 2022 12:25
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Did I miss something, or has SNW's Kirk just vanished since his outing in ep 2? Still recovering?
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darkgray posted:Did I miss something, or has SNW's Kirk just vanished since his outing in ep 2? Still recovering? Based on that mustache, he's refusing to come out of his quarters until they install carpet on the bridge like he was promised: shag carpet.
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May 28, 2022 12:43
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Jerusalem posted:Based on that mustache, he's refusing to come out of his quarters until they install carpet on the bridge like he was promised: shag carpet. Based on his mustache, the prime universe is too bright for his evil eyes
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Snow Cone Capone posted:https://twitter.com/TrekCore/status/1530330502577721346?t=UyQ2wk9m471Jk8d5JnfKyw&s=19 awww they're being sold on fansets which already confirmed they will not ship to australia rip why does star trek keep doing this to me e: oh poo poo they just started shipping here again this week well, rip my pay cheque then Mx. fucked around with this message at 13:54 on May 28, 2022 |
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Charity Porno posted:I can't place it quite yet but something about the way Anson Mount carries himself is very 60s but from a 2022 standpoint. Like he's missing the casual misogyny and the toxic masculinity, but he still exudes that core "traditional values" type stuff from TOS. It's an interesting choice and I wonder how much is direction and how much is just a decision he made He has confidence and screen presence, which is rare these days. Hell, even rarer, not many actors are able to exude their presence even when they are offscreen
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I don't know if it's been mentioned so far, but the music during the gorn fight scenes, especially the initial "evasive action" part, was tense but stayed in the background. Like they copied the TOS music style and it sounds very very considerate and tense when it needs to be, but it is definitely not typical for action scenes in tv or movies these days. I thought it was a nice throwback, and also just a nice touch on the whole.
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some kinda jackal posted:I’m so incredibly tired of “prestige” drama TV. Just let me have this fun sci-fi romp. Make it exciting. Make it stupid. Make it campy. The four most important parts of a sci fi show are camp, ham, cheese, and corn. It has to be just a touch corny, camp, and cheesy, and you absolutely need just a smidgen of ham acting now and then. Otherwise it's not science fiction
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The episode had some nice (coincidental?) U.S. Memorial Day/Starfleet Remembrance Day timing
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alexandriao posted:The four most important parts of a sci fi show are camp, ham, cheese, and corn. I love dutch oven campfire recipes!
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I hope USS Cuyahoga was destroyed when it randomly caught fire one day. alexandriao posted:I thought it was a nice throwback, and also just a nice touch on the whole. And we all need a nice touch on the whole from time to time.
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What's dumber than the morse code thing? Ten pages of an argument about it that didn't progress beyond: - They flash lights to their ships - Oh, but the morse code to english alphabet is the problem - No but you see the lights flashing in the flashback zoux posted:Remember when they discovered that transporters can reverse the aging process and then never mentioned that to anyone ever again Literally this. Spock's Brain is canon, everyone. Who the gently caress cares about something that appears for like 5 minutes in a 45 minute episode lol Orthanc6 posted:Issue there is that requires writers who can maintain a serialized story arc across multiple seasons, which some argue BSG didn't even do well (what was the Cylons' Plan again?) and NuTrek has shown they are very not good at doing even 1 serialized season. JMS writing Trek would blow my mind into smithereens Craptacular! posted:so you have the orchestra that won't shut up. TNG becomes itself when people realized that a television can be silent for a moment without people rapidly changing the channel. Imagine not liking Ron Jones' work 
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Eimi posted:Imagine thinking that the Borg would be anywhere near as memorable without this score The kicker is the guy who scored that was actually fired by Rick Berman after season 3 because, and I quote: Craptacular! posted:the orchestra won't shut up (Rick Berman is on record saying almost exactly the same iirc)
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This episode had some pretty rough edges, much like episode 1. But they seem to know how to handle character development and story structure, so they're light years beyond disco and Picard. A lot of the new trek baggage like tragic backstories for everyone and huge spiky black ships are annoying and I hope they will drop them. But the show has a lot of positive qualities!
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Khanstant posted:i bet the borg cube model was fun to build, i wonder if they just bought a hundred random tank and plan modeling sets and just started gluing them in a cube shape, keeping the molding sprue frame intact in many cases IIRC that is exactly what they did.
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Aces High posted:when they were preparing to do the "Pike Manoeuvre" my mind immediately started playing the Lower Decks theme. It's actually kind of cool to now have two (good, I should specify) Trek shows in different eras. In SNW we have them figuring out risky things the first time, then in LDS they do similar things as part of their daily routine on a utility ship I immediately thought of the Lower Decks episode where the crew was being evaluated. One of the situations Cpt. Freeman put the Cerritos into was nearly identical to what happened in Memento Mori, except in the former case it only carried the illusion of danger.
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HD DAD posted:IIRC that is exactly what they did. wiki had some cool pics 
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Snow Cone Capone posted:https://twitter.com/TrekCore/status/1530330502577721346?t=UyQ2wk9m471Jk8d5JnfKyw&s=19 I assume Pike was wearing the Disco pin but I kinda wonder who was wearing the Shenzou one.
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Polaron posted:I assume Pike was wearing the Disco pin but I kinda wonder who was wearing the Shenzou one. Kyle I think: 
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Jerusalem posted:this latest episode SO good that I'm kinda jonesing for more Star Trek and thinking about tracking down and catching up on Discovery after all.
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zoux posted:Do you guys think they're gonna show the Gorn this season, or is that reveal later down the line? I think they should continue to build them up as this invisible, implacable menace and when we finally get our first glimpse of them in like season 4 they are straight up dudes in rubber suits. Just obvious costumes like in Arena. We as the audience might get to see the Gorn but I doubt the crew will, as Spock had no idea what they looked like until the Gorn Captain showed up on the viewscreen during Arena*. We did see one in Enterprise though. Edit: *IIRC GATOS Y VATOS fucked around with this message at 21:10 on May 28, 2022 |
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Ya I’m not a Star Trek lore master but idk, I feel like there has to be some swerve with the Gorn. I feel like normally when shows go out of their way to not show you something it’s setting up for something. Did the Gorn click at each other in Arena or on TLD (is TLD worth watching? All the trailers made it look like poo poo from my rear end)?
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Arglebargle III posted:
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fadam posted:Ya I’m not a Star Trek lore master but idk, I feel like there has to be some swerve with the Gorn. I feel like normally when shows go out of their way to not show you something it’s setting up for something. Did the Gorn click at each other in Arena or on TLD (is TLD worth watching? All the trailers made it look like poo poo from my rear end)? Lower Decks is good. The first episode and a half are pretty bad and I think were made to convince the suits that they were making a lovely Family Guy knockoff before transitioning into making what they actually wanted to make; a classic Star Trek show with the episodes condensed into 30 minutes, a few more jokes, and an effectively infinite effects budget due to the animated format. Show is good.
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FishFood posted:Lower Decks is good. The first episode and a half are pretty bad and I think were made to convince the suits that they were making a lovely Family Guy knockoff before transitioning into making what they actually wanted to make; a classic Star Trek show with the episodes condensed into 30 minutes, a few more jokes, and an effectively infinite effects budget due to the animated format. Show is good. My personal metric for when Lower Decks gets legitimately good is the moment when Ransom loses his shirt in episode 3.
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Jerusalem posted:I wonder if the ship is still gonna be hosed up or still being repaired next episode. Either way I feel much more optimistic about this series, but I remember how Voyager largely discarded that idea of the ship getting continuously worn down very quickly, while Enterprise tried to make it a thing but it never really felt like they were pulling it off. I figured the Enterprise being in drydock would be the excuse for next episode being apparently focused on Spock and his fiancee. They've got some time off to deal with personal junk.
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