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CLAM DOWN posted:I haven't watched Lower Decks but I just found out there's a ship in it called the USS Vancouver which absolutely rules, as I'm a very loud Vancouverite: The Vancouver was Titmouse Animation's little self cameo in Lower Decks, as they're based out of Vancouver. I love the fact that the Vancouver is just a better Cerritos. It's a really god mid-tier Post-TNG/First Contact era general purpose ship design.
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Also, should I watch Lower Decks? Worth it? I was so burned on Discovery and Picard that I'm hesitant on nutrek stuff, but SNW has been incredible.
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Jun 6, 2022 23:23
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CLAM DOWN posted:Also, should I watch Lower Decks? Worth it? I was so burned on Discovery and Picard that I'm hesitant on nutrek stuff, but SNW has been incredible. Yeah people didn't like the first three for some reason but I thibk its all great
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If you're worried about it being too jokey, I absolutely can't stand Orville and I freakin' love Lower Decks. I guess the first 2-3 episodes of LD leaned into that "Cartoon for Adults!" vibe a bit more, but it's really relaxed on it. And the comedy they've had has been funny anyway, like Spock Amuck! On that note, I just picked up Orville and I want to like it, I do, but I'm just so, so done with Seth Macfarlane humor. Like, I was burned out on that fifteen years ago. There's bright spots, but the dark spots are absolutely dire. I've only tried early episodes, is there a point I should skip to where it's not so, like... cheap and lazy? Maybe back when Discovery and Picard were the only other source for new Trek it would have seemed okay, but putting SNW up against "computer, replicate a WEED EDIBLE LOL" just makes me feel like I'm dying inside.
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CLAM DOWN posted:Also, should I watch Lower Decks? Worth it? I was so burned on Discovery and Picard that I'm hesitant on nutrek stuff, but SNW has been incredible. Yes. Lower Decks, Prodigy and Strange New Worlds are all fantastic. They beclown Discovery and Picard by merely existing. LDS' first three episodes are a rough sit, but it finds it footing very quickly after that.
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Lower Decks is the best new Trek, SNW is still on probation.
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  Spock Amok effects shot in huge mode. Open in new tab for even bigger. You can get a lot of scale info here -- the shuttle bay and cargo bay are a LOT bigger than on the TOS model. The lack of lights for suggests that the whole aft ventral quadrant of the secondary hull is cargo bay. Also worth thinking about is where the Connie keeps the deuterium slush. It doesn't have a big hump like the Galaxy to keep it in, so it's got to be taking up a big volume in the secondary hull. Arglebargle III fucked around with this message at 23:46 on Jun 6, 2022 |
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Jun 6, 2022 23:43
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Sir, we found Ensign Morgan blacked out down in the East Hastings, again
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XboxPants posted:On that note, I just picked up Orville and I want to like it, I do, but I'm just so, so done with Seth Macfarlane humor. Like, I was burned out on that fifteen years ago. There's bright spots, but the dark spots are absolutely dire. I've only tried early episodes, is there a point I should skip to where it's not so, like... cheap and lazy? Maybe back when Discovery and Picard were the only other source for new Trek it would have seemed okay, but putting SNW up against "computer, replicate a WEED EDIBLE LOL" just makes me feel like I'm dying inside. The first few episodes of The Orville are not great - to begin with MacFarlane had to lower the standards as the Fox executives were expecting Family Guy level humour. Once you hit episode 4 or 5 he’s able to make the show he wanted to and it’s much better, with the exception of episode 9 or 10, which is borderline homophobic.
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Grand Fromage posted:There'd still need to be some energy input or eventually the atmosphere would just freeze. Accretion disk wouldn't work since that's transitory. I wonder if you could have a planet geothermally active enough with a sick-rear end atmosphere to maintain an Earthlike surface without a star. The episode starts with the Enterprise delivering an air filtration system so that the atmosphere can remain breathable. The planet's air is not naturally hospitable. So maybe there's some hosed up stuff going on that allows the planet to be otherwise hospitable?
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CLAM DOWN posted:Also, should I watch Lower Decks? Worth it? I was so burned on Discovery and Picard that I'm hesitant on nutrek stuff, but SNW has been incredible. Lower Decks is better than most animated shows and most star trek shows.
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Lower Decks starts slightly manic but settles down after a couple episodes and basically turns into Futurama. I think it's still the best of the modern shows, though SNW is already nipping at its heels. Prodigy is also surprisingly solid but I'm like 20-30 years outside its age range so I tend to think of it differently.
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A.o.D. posted:The episode starts with the Enterprise delivering an air filtration system so that the atmosphere can remain breathable. The planet's air is not naturally hospitable. So maybe there's some hosed up stuff going on that allows the planet to be otherwise hospitable? Lack of heat input is the fundamental problem. It doesn't matter what the atmospheric gas mix is if it's all frozen to the surface.
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Powered Descent posted:According to original canon, in only two years or so, Chapel will have a fiancee, Roger Korby, who will go missing during an expedition to Exo III and not be heard from for five years. I wonder if they'll do something with that or just happily leave it in the dustbin. That's the great thing about these dinky 10 episode seasons. How long has gone by in the first 5 episodes? A month, maybe? They can have another 6 seasons before she even meets Roger and still fit the timeline.
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Grand Fromage posted:Lack of heat input is the fundamental problem. It doesn't matter what the atmospheric gas mix is if it's all frozen to the surface. Accretion disks can last for a long time.
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If I were looking to join a colony, it would not be one with a black hole in the system. Plenty of Class M planets in the galaxy.
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xerxus posted:If I were looking to join a colony, it would not be one with a black hole in the system. What if this is the one that has the best Final Fantasy X cosplay tho? Or some valuable minerals to mine, miners getting personally rich is still possible in this time. The eggheads should be able to calculate if the planet is currently safe, so if the planet is perfectly safe for at least the next 1,500 years there's no reason not to colonize now and kick the can of impending apocalypse down the road to your descendants. As one does.
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It's probably a good place to study a black hole from Then again, so's a warp-capable starship
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Facebook Aunt posted:What if this is the one that has the best Final Fantasy X cosplay tho? Or some valuable minerals to mine, miners getting personally rich is still possible in this time. The eggheads should be able to calculate if the planet is currently safe, so if the planet is perfectly safe for at least the next 1,500 years there's no reason not to colonize now and kick the can of impending apocalypse down the road to your descendants. As one does. Yo sign me up for blitzball planet right fuckin now
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I'd rather have Triple Triad planet, but that may as well be fizzbin
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XboxPants posted:On that note, I just picked up Orville and I want to like it, I do, but I'm just so, so done with Seth Macfarlane humor. Like, I was burned out on that fifteen years ago. There's bright spots, but the dark spots are absolutely dire. I've only tried early episodes, is there a point I should skip to where it's not so, like... cheap and lazy? The change in tone from silly jokes to actual drama with some humor is a little over halfway through episode six. Watch the whole episode and see if your knowledge of North American car rental companies will let you spot the joke they told by omission!
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MichaelFlatley posted:I also don’t like Greatest Disco for those same reasons.. try All Access Star Trek from a couple people who run trekmovie.com This is waay more up my alley, seems like it could be what I'm looking for. I'll give it a few episodes, thanks!
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nine-gear crow posted:The Vancouver was Titmouse Animation's little self cameo in Lower Decks, as they're based out of Vancouver. I love the fact that the Vancouver is just a better Cerritos. It's a really god mid-tier Post-TNG/First Contact era general purpose ship design. And the shuttles aboard are named after Vancouver suburbs. Once the Eaglemoss model is out I'm buying the Gre'thor outta it Lower Decks I would say is the best NuTrek because it took a completely unorthodox approach to Trek and yet made itself a vastly superior show to both of the live-action "serious" Treks running contemporary to it. Beyond that, it brought back the feel of 90's Trek which was arguably lost even back with Nemesis. Strange New Worlds is doing fantastic catch-up for bringing that same feeling back to live-action, polishing TOS and updating the format all at the same time. And being visually stunning without overcrowding. But yeah, I can't blame people for holding it on probation, what with 6 seasons of really rough live-action Trek before now.
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I told DALL E mini to make Muppet Star Trek Wrath of Khan and this came out    I spared you the horrifying human-muppet hybrids it makes when it gets confused. That's more of a Motion Picture thing anyway. oops wrong thread
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Arglebargle III posted:oops wrong thread No, no, please continue
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XboxPants posted:Yo sign me up for blitzball planet right fuckin now Star Wars has a Blitzball planet now apparently.
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nine-gear crow posted:Star Wars has a Blitzball planet now apparently. sorry what Arglebargle III posted:I told DALL E mini to make Muppet Star Trek Wrath of Khan and this came out Next time: Pike finds the muppet planet, where a Federation starship crashed a thousand years ago after being hit with a tachyon particle wave. Kermit the Frog guest stars.
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Pyroi posted:sorry what Anson Mount as the unwitting love rival for Miss Piggy's affections 
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CLAM DOWN posted:Also, should I watch Lower Decks? Worth it? I was so burned on Discovery and Picard that I'm hesitant on nutrek stuff, but SNW has been incredible. Until Strange New Worlds came out, Lower Decks was the best nutrek had to offer. It's a little too manic jokey and rough starting but settles in nicely. There's Prodigy too. It's really made for kids but if you can get past that it's good for what it is. Seems like it's going to have some story about what happened with Janeway and Chakotay after Voyager in it.
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You're all thinking too small. They need to Legends of Tomrrow this poo poo. A Muppet Virus breaks out on the Enterprise and M'Benga and Chapel have to race to discover a cure before the entire crew is turned into puppets.
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nine-gear crow posted:M'Benga and Chapel have to race to discover a cure before the entire crew is turned into puppets. ...why? 
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Jerusalem posted:...why? Spock: Captain, I have an intense dislike of puppetry. Pike: Well, you're gonna need to get over it Spock because MY HEAD IS THE SIZE OF A SOCCER BALL AND MADE OF FABRIC NOW!
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I wish Strange New Worlds got a 20 episode season and one of the other shows got a 0 episode season.
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Spacebump posted:I wish Strange New Worlds got a 20 episode season and one of the other shows got a 0 episode season. SNW deserves 20 episodes. Discovery deserves 0. Picard deserves a better writers room that knows how to actually follow through on ideas properly. Lower Decks and Prodigy deserve loving Peabody Awards.
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Lower Decks at least got nominated for a Hugo If they wanna revive Short Treks specifically for little SNW interludes between seasons that would be cool
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