Star Trek: *hits blunt* The higher, the fewerrrrrr

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Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Winifred Madgers posted:

The sound effects in at least Star Trek, if not generally across the industry, seem to have gotten a lot wimpier over the years. The phasers in Wrath of Khan sound really vicious, but Trek '09 sounds like they're in a paintball match.

I miss the TNG-era fizzy-sounding beams over the pew-pew bolts

Anyone who's played Freespace 2 knows how much more punchy beams can feel!

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Detective No. 27: Jun 7, 2006

Disney basically stopped calling the guy who made all the sound effects for Star Wars. Just cause they're cheap.

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Plotac 75: Aug 8, 2007; Mysteries of the ancient lizardman sealed by ancient, mysterious lizard magicks lost in the mysterious realm of ancient lizardmen from ages far, far ago.

I want my space lasers to look and sound like they scream horrifying death at whatever is on the other end.

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V-Men: Aug 15, 2001; Don't it make your dick bust concrete to be in the same room with two noble, selfless public servants.

Barry Foster posted:

I miss the TNG-era fizzy-sounding beams over the pew-pew bolts

Anyone who's played Freespace 2 knows how much more punchy beams can feel!

I kind of want to see Wolf 359 using Freespace 2's beam cannon sounds now.

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F_Shit_Fitzgerald: Feb 2, 2017

Hollismason posted:

Pulaski is better than Crusher who is completely loving boring as a character.

There's nothing wrong with Crusher, though; it has to be the universe.

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Big Mean Jerk: Jan 27, 2009; Well, of course I know him.
He's me.

Detective No. 27 posted:

Disney basically stopped calling the guy who made all the sound effects for Star Wars. Just cause they're cheap.

Ben Burtt is 73 and hasn�t done anything since 2015 other than appear in a documentary and do some work for a Star Wars web series. He essentially retired after working on The Force Awakens.

He also worked on ST09 and Into Darkness, so :shrug:

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Detective No. 27: Jun 7, 2006

Maybe his retirement is a new development, but it doesn't sound like it was by choice.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/12/ben-burtt-star-wars-sound

quote:

He’s also “looking for feature-film work, but nothing’s come my way.”

I don’t know if there’s bad blood,” he answered. “Nobody . . . I was just never consulted or hired to do any of them. No one’s ever told me why. No, I was told—on the new regime, I was just told, ‘Just stay in your room and make sounds and just send stuff to us. We’ll decide what to do.’”

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Khanstant: Apr 5, 2007

Disney might have to pay him fair wages whereas they can sucker some star-wars-poisoned kid out there to do it next to free.

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Powered Descent: Jul 13, 2008; We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

Speaking of Star Wars sound effects, I once ran across an anecdote (and I hope it's true) from the set of ep. 1. It seems George Lucas had to tell Liam Neeson and Ewan McGregor that they don't have to make the lightsaber noises themselves with their mouths, there was a whole department that would do that. They were out there going "voomp, voomp, ksssssh" like eight-year-olds swinging a toy around. :3:

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CPColin: Sep 9, 2003; Big ol' smile.

You can see Laura Dern going "pew pew" when she fires her blaster in The Last Jedi, too

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Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

Powered Descent posted:

Speaking of Star Wars sound effects, I once ran across an anecdote (and I hope it's true) from the set of ep. 1. It seems George Lucas had to tell Liam Neeson and Ewan McGregor that they don't have to make the lightsaber noises themselves with their mouths, there was a whole department that would do that. They were out there going "voomp, voomp, ksssssh" like eight-year-olds swinging a toy around.

This is apparently a thing with a lot of actors in Star Wars projects. Allegedly Laura Dern had to be told to quit making "pew pew" noises when Holdo fired a blaster in TLJ.

E:F,B

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The_Other: Dec 28, 2012; Welcome Back, Galaxy Geek.

Powered Descent posted:

Speaking of Star Wars sound effects, I once ran across an anecdote (and I hope it's true) from the set of ep. 1. It seems George Lucas had to tell Liam Neeson and Ewan McGregor that they don't have to make the lightsaber noises themselves with their mouths, there was a whole department that would do that. They were out there going "voomp, voomp, ksssssh" like eight-year-olds swinging a toy around.

I think Mandy Patinkin did the same thing with the sword fights in The Princess Bride.

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Der Kyhe: Jun 25, 2008

Hollismason posted:

Pulaski is better than Crusher who is completely loving boring as a character.

McFadden was originally cast as a ship's school principal, that's why she was brought in with a kid. Originally the episodes focusing on her were intended to be more relaxed and her character the comic relief of main characters, something akin to Neelix.

Her role was revised to become the doctor when they decided to axe the school storylines, and were still without anyone booked or auditioned for the doctor's role.

Then the sexual harassment and firing happened, Muldaur decided that she doesn't like sci-fi and left, and Gates was brought back because other actors demanded it. According to that 50 year mission book she was called the moment Diana Muldaur left office after leaving her notice.

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Sir Lemming: Jan 27, 2009; It's a piece of JUNK!

I was going through some old Google Photos trying to free up space and I found this pair of images that I took in 2011, at some sort of discount store in Ohio. They tell a story:

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Detective No. 27: Jun 7, 2006

The story is incomplete. Did you collect all four?

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davidspackage: May 16, 2007; Nap Ghost

The_Other posted:

I think Mandy Patinkin did the same thing with the sword fights in The Princess Bride.

I would love to see a movie where the actors just stone-facedly go SHINGGGG when they draw their sword

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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."

Sir Lemming posted:

I was going through some old Google Photos trying to free up space and I found this pair of images that I took in 2011, at some sort of discount store in Ohio. They tell a story:

You can pick them up at any antique mall across the country.

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Grand Fromage: Jan 30, 2006; L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?

Anybody got that list of Vulcan names from TOS that included like Spunk and Spork?

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Timby: Dec 23, 2006; Your mother!

Grand Fromage posted:

Anybody got that list of Vulcan names from TOS that included like Spunk and Spork?

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dr_rat: Jun 4, 2001

I can't believe Nu-trek just keeps ignoring Justmens vision!!!

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BonHair: Apr 28, 2007

Mr Spank would be to obvious for a Star Trek porn parody

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Grand Fromage: Jan 30, 2006; L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?

Timby posted:

Thank you for your service.

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Khanstant: Apr 5, 2007

your humble and obedient servant

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Timby: Dec 23, 2006; Your mother!

Grand Fromage posted:

Thank you for your service.

I'm basically the thread's unofficial historian. Happy to help.

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CLAM DOWN: Feb 13, 2007

Timby posted:

tag yourself i'm Sponk

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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."

Thank you for coming, Mr Spork.

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Der Kyhe: Jun 25, 2008

Timby posted:

I think there are rules about calling someone Mr. Sperk

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FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Someone Spank my Spork

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CPColin: Sep 9, 2003; Big ol' smile.

Don't Spank my Spork or I'll Splek your Spunk

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Banana Canada: Sep 2, 2003; I'd tax all foreigners living abroad.

Since Muldaur never got main cast billing I'm guessing the plan was always to get McFadden back?

I also just found out that McFadden's TNG hiatus was when she did The Hunt for Red October.

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No Dignity: Oct 15, 2007

Timby posted:

Ferengi-rear end set of names

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Winifred Madgers: Feb 12, 2002

Plotac 75 posted:

I want my space lasers to look and sound like they scream horrifying death at whatever is on the other end.

I hope you have watched Babylon 5.

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Powered Descent: Jul 13, 2008; We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

No Dignity posted:

Ferengi-rear end set of names

They're trying to sell NFTs of all these procedurally-generated names. (Hew-mons will buy anything. Tell them that only 2% of the names have an X in them and they'll think that makes those more valuable.)

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CPColin: Sep 9, 2003; Big ol' smile.

Banana Canada posted:

Since Muldaur never got main cast billing I'm guessing the plan was always to get McFadden back?

Allegedly that was at her own request, so maybe it was always her plan, at least.

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Veotax: May 16, 2006

Not sure what I was expecting, but it wasn't this

I tried Mr Spork Star Trek too, but I just got pictures of sporks, shockingly

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Der Kyhe: Jun 25, 2008

Banana Canada posted:

Since Muldaur never got main cast billing I'm guessing the plan was always to get McFadden back?

I also just found out that McFadden's TNG hiatus was when she did The Hunt for Red October.

That 50YM-book doesn't mention that it was her intention to come back after being away, only that because the asshat who decided to throw her out was gone and Muldaur left this option opened up.

So Stewart et al. basically dictated that she will be given the option to come back or else.

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