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Vulcan is not a moon. If you WERE from a moon, you'd know how DEEPLY insulting that is.
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Aug 10, 2022 18:21
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Tunicate posted:Vulcan has no moon. Vulcan needs no moon.
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Aug 10, 2022 18:29
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davidspackage posted:Kira's uniform (and hair) got better after they got rid of the integrated shoulder pads. This is the worst opinion ever. I'm mouthbarfing over here.
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Aug 10, 2022 18:36
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IShallRiseAgain posted:Honestly, Earth Final Conflict might have been decent if the lead didn't quit after the first season. EFC was one of those weird shows where it basically had like NO consistent main cast across its somehow 5 season run aside from the villains. And even then, Season 5 was like some weird completely different show because the main narrative ended on a satisfying conclusion in Season 4 and then it just... kept going for some reason.
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Aug 10, 2022 19:02
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That show had five seasons? Jesus. 110 episodes!? e: lol quote:The show had an unusually high turnover rate among the regular cast, partially due to contractual disagreements between the cast and the producers.Almost all of the show's major characters were killed or otherwise removed within a season or two of being introduced. In fact, the only character to appear as a regular during all five seasons was FBI Agent Ronald Sandoval (Von Flores), one of the show's antagonists. zoux fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Aug 10, 2022 |
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Aug 10, 2022 19:05
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Tighclops posted:This is the worst opinion ever. I'm mouthbarfing over here. That barf in your mouth is Odo, trying to stop you from disagreeing with me
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Aug 10, 2022 19:17
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davidspackage posted:That barf in your mouth is Odo, trying to stop you from disagreeing with me https://i.imgur.com/Wc4seVg.mp4
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Aug 10, 2022 19:33
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zoux posted:That show had five seasons? Jesus. It was "other scifi from that dude who created Star Trek" and ran most of it's run against Voyager on not CBS/Paramount. Like Andromeda, it was basically a license to make and market sort-of bootleg Star Trek, tagging along to franchise inertia with the Roddenberry name. EDIT: I remember it being at times not completely awful, but the tendency of the local TV channels here to show episodes in randomish order, and the revolving door of main cast made it very confusing series to follow.
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Aug 10, 2022 19:47
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davidspackage posted:That barf in your mouth is Odo, trying to stop you from disagreeing with me He would too that fuckin' cop
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Aug 10, 2022 19:53
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Der Kyhe posted:It was "other scifi from that dude who created Star Trek" and ran most of it's run against Voyager on not CBS/Paramount. I remember seeing random episodes late at night when I was in high school and later when I was home visiting from college, and every time it was completely baffling and like a totally different show. One thing I will give them credit for is calling their online merch store that they advertised in every episode “the sto’or” which follows the convention they had established for their alien characters having names of two repeated vowel sounds separated by an apostrophe, although a lot of people probably wondered what the hell it was. And I don’t know who would have ever wanted an Earth: Final Conflict logo jacket.
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Aug 10, 2022 20:14
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Is there any real benefit of getting Trek DVDs/blurays? Like can't miss special features or commentary? Should I just get Paramount+ for $10?
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Aug 10, 2022 20:19
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NikkolasKing posted:Is there any real benefit of getting Trek DVDs/blurays? Like can't miss special features or commentary? That and at least a minuscule future-proofing guarantee that you'll still have the ability to watch them through physical media in the event that Paramount+ goes kaput or Star Trek's streaming rights get scattered to the internet winds again.
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Aug 10, 2022 20:26
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nine-gear crow posted:That and at least a minuscule future-proofing guarantee that you'll still have the ability to watch them through physical media in the event that Paramount+ goes kaput or Star Trek's streaming rights get scattered to the internet winds again. Or CBS/Paramount/Viacom has another elderly person moment and they decide to shitcan the Paramount+ service, and for their strategic reasons, not make their shows or movies available anywhere. For example of their excellent business senses, you still cannot legally watch DISCO S4, Short Treks, Prodigy, SNW or the TOS movies from anything if you are inside EU. In some places Netflix still has the older series, and for example Amazon carries Picard and Lower Decks in the Nordics. ...And that "cannot watch new shows or old movies" includes the countries where Paramount+ is otherwise available. Great job, Paramount!
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Aug 10, 2022 20:35
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NikkolasKing posted:Should I just get Paramount+ for $10? The ad-supported version (which is still $5/month) has ad breaks at normal broadcast frequency. However, the volume is cranked up three times as loud as the show you're watching, and occasionally the app will freak out and restart an ad break from the beginning in a neverending loop. If you exit out of the show while this is happening, it will often lose track of your progress and try to restart the episode from the beginning -- and it will, of course, queue up a bunch of commercials each time you skip past a block of show. This is all on the Android/GoogleTV app, so maybe other flavors of it are better?
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Aug 10, 2022 21:00
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WhiteHowler posted:This is all on the Android/GoogleTV app, so maybe other flavors of it are better? It's borderline-unusable on PS4 and my AppleTV, so, definitely not. Edit: Their server backend infrastructure is still so broken that a two-hour movie will have its playback stop probably five times and you'll need to exit and resume.
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Aug 10, 2022 21:14
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Yeah Paramount+ is laughably broken streaming
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Aug 10, 2022 21:15
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Der Kyhe posted:It was "other scifi from that dude who created Star Trek" and ran most of it's run against Voyager on not CBS/Paramount. Hilariously it turned from a "V" knockoff to become a Buffy knockoff.
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Aug 10, 2022 21:17
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NikkolasKing posted:Is there any real benefit of getting Trek DVDs/blurays? Like can't miss special features or commentary? I would watch Star Trek on a CRT if I could. One of my most vivid ST memories is when one week our washing machine broke so my mom had to drag us all up to a laundromat, and they had a lovely 13 in TV showing a fuzzy over-the-air episode of TNG that I hadn't seen, Frame of Mind. Laundromats in the 90's are already fairly limnal spaces, and combined with the weirdness of the episode and the TV, it just left an indelible impression in my mind. It's probably the episode I most remember watching. zoux fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Aug 10, 2022 |
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Aug 10, 2022 21:19
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As soon as CBS announced their own streaming service, I knew that that the writing was on the wall for Star Trek being on Netflix. I was half right, as they eventually did leave Netflix, but CBS+ or whatever they called it had died and turned into Paramount Plus by then. I was planning on buying up all the seasons of TNG slowly over time on a digital service. Couldn’t decide between Vudu or iTunes. Fortunately, TNG had left Netflix right when there was a big Star Trek sale on iTunes so I managed to get TOS, TNG, and DS9 for a fraction of the price of buying TNG alone. I hope the sale happens regularly so I can scoop up Enterprise, Voyager, and Lower Decks.
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Aug 10, 2022 21:20
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Surprisingly Paramount+ has worked fine for me in the UK. Only annoying thing was that they decided to stagger the release of SNW, only launching with episodes 1-3 and adding one a week when the US was up to episode 8 by then. Also a UK account is locked to the UK, so no VPNing to another region, which even Disney+ doesn't block. Also no Picard or Lower Decks, still on Amazon over here. No Short Treks at all, seemingly.
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Aug 10, 2022 21:22
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Brawnfire posted:Yeah Paramount+ is laughably broken streaming They just recently started adding the ‘skip intro’ button to the older Trek series.
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Aug 10, 2022 21:25
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Brawnfire posted:Yeah Paramount+ is laughably broken streaming With HBO Max doing its best Hindenberg impression with its original content, this would be a great time for a competing service to step in and capture market share. But it's just so painful to actually watch anything on Paramount+.
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Aug 10, 2022 21:55
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Parmount+ is a terrible app with a lot of problems, but I generally haven't had any issue with it once I've gotten to the content and started streaming (assuming I'm not trying to rewind to rewatch something again, the scrub is terrible.) I've watched quite a few movies all the way through without issue end to end.
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Aug 10, 2022 21:59
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meanwhile peacock refuses to let you use a HDMI monitor if you stream on your computer
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Aug 10, 2022 22:11
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Tunicate posted:meanwhile peacock refuses to let you use a HDMI monitor if you stream on your computer What's the point of that?
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Aug 10, 2022 22:13
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I'm going to guess in the case the webapp can't verify if the downstream display is HDCP compliant.
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same reason they didn't launch with a roku app, the people in charge are wildly incompetent
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Aug 10, 2022 22:27
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Crave in Canada limits your PC to 720p, but supports 4k if I use my Chromecast/Google TV thing. It's stupid.
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Aug 10, 2022 22:36
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I loved how in Generations uh Data accessed the Klingons' core frequency so he could um initiate an ionic pulse. That really spoke to me as a resolution to the conflict of er the Klingons finding out the shield modulation and adjusting their torpedo uh frequencies to um match. Man Generations is the Voyager movie isn't it?
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Arglebargle III posted:I loved how in Generations uh Data accessed the Klingons' core frequency so he could um initiate an ionic pulse. That really spoke to me as a resolution to the conflict of er the Klingons finding out the shield modulation and adjusting their torpedo uh frequencies to um match. I've mentioned this before, but they didn't have the money for the battle they envisioned, at all. John Knoll from ILM took a look at the script, and he told the team, "Look, on your budget, you can either have a really kick-rear end battle, or you can have the saucer crash. You can't afford both unless you find another $6 million." The saucer crash had been in Moore and Braga's mind since the end of season 6 (hence the episode title Descent), and so they elected for that. This is why there are only like four external shots of the ships during the battle. There's a kernel of a good movie in Generations, but it suffered from Paramount not having faith in the TNG cast's ability to carry a movie, hence why they wanted it in theaters six months after TNG ended.
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Aug 10, 2022 23:41
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Lmao, Worf telling Kor that there totally was a ledge under him.
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Mister Kingdom posted:What's the point of that? Feels like some kind of asinine anti-piracy measure.
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Aug 10, 2022 23:59
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CPColin posted:Jake being unable to explain it satisfactorily to Nog is the best explanation we ever got. "We do not discuss it with outsiders!"
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Aug 11, 2022 01:26
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Tom Paris creates a classic arcade holoprogram, complete with skeeball and a children's pizza party (if desired). Harry gets frustrated because he doesn't understand "50 cent play." Tuvok arrests Neelix for making counterfeit prize tickets.
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So is Picard just being a dick to Riker when they first meet and he's like " Do a manual saucer reattachement" because it comes off as a dick move I have begun to rewatch Star Trek
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Hollismason posted:So is Picard just being a dick to Riker when they first meet and he's like " Do a manual saucer reattachement" because it comes off as a dick move Farpoint Picard is like a straight up escaped serial killer. He's creepy as poo poo 
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Hollismason posted:So is Picard just being a dick to Riker when they first meet and he's like " Do a manual saucer reattachement" because it comes off as a dick move Management big dogging the new hire, typical
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Also it seems like manual attachement is probably incredibly dangerous so like Picard is also putting the ship at risk. Its just a weird part of the episode that this full time is dedicated to the saucer reattachment. Also Lol that they never ever really detached the saucer in the show that often. I actually can't remember a episode where they were like "Yeah lets detach the saucer"
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Hollismason posted:Also it seems like manual attachement is probably incredibly dangerous so like Picard is also putting the ship at risk. Its just a weird part of the episode that this full time is dedicated to the saucer reattachment. Also Lol that they never ever really detached the saucer in the show that often. I actually can't remember a episode where they were like "Yeah lets detach the saucer" It only happened 4 times to the -D. Farpoint, Arsenal of Freedom, BoBW part II, and Generations.
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