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Phy posted:Was the Sydney boombox punk also the I Hate You bus punk? His face looked kind of the same, not just because of the boombox. AFAIK they were the punks that the Terminator first ran into when he got time-teleported to Los Angeles.
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hiddenriverninja posted:This episode has a fun easter egg for fans of a different sci-fi franchise: The crew has to head to Tatasciore IX, "a favorite of shady weapons dealers." Fred Tatasciore (Shaxx) also plays Xur, a shady arms dealer that sells exotic gear and is a representative of a faction called The Nine from Destiny. They also went to Shatanar Whatever. Great little easter eggs.
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Powered Descent posted:
The writers' room for this show has got to be composed of the funniest, biggest Trek nerds ever. They perfectly nail the absurdity of half a century of sci-fi canon across multiple series and movies while keeping true to the utopian ideals and sentiment it was all built upon.
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MadJackal posted:The writers' room for this show has got to be composed of the funniest, biggest Trek nerds ever. It sounds immensely trite, but Lower Decks is the exact kind of Star Trek show I would want to try and make if I'd ever been lucky enough to be given the keys to such a vehicle.
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Phy posted:Was the Sydney boombox punk also the I Hate You bus punk? His face looked kind of the same, not just because of the boombox. That was my read on it. The only thing missing was the middle finger.
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Oct 14, 2022 08:00
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Horsey's going to bite you now got a huge laugh out of me. It's the kind of thing I'd probably repeat constantly with friends in real life if I had any who actually watched this show.
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Oct 14, 2022 08:10
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What I think was a very hard-to-notice-gag: If you look carefully, it's not just a Defiant class, but an eviller, pointier Defiant class. If they are going into dunking on Section 31 I wonder if that'll tie into Rutherford's implant conspiracy. (Also, I hope it results in a Bashir cameo.) They put the city of Sydney on the wrong side (it's on the same side of the harbour as the Opera House) but at this point I have no idea if that's a mistake or a deliberate 'movies make this kind of mistake' anachronism gag, every single movie fucks up the geography of sydney hard. Looking at you, Pacific Rim. (E: actually, if you stood there today you'd probably see some high-rises there thanks to north sydney, but that definitely didn't exist in 82) Powered Descent posted:There was lots of STII stuff in there too, right down to the curiously fake-looking detailing on either side of the viewscreen during the explanation video (which has always kind of stuck out to me in WoK, and now you'll never unsee it either): Per twitter it's literally an actual shot from TWOK for that detailing and apparently 'we'd like to use half of a single frame of art from TWOK' lead to very interesting conversations with legal. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 09:08 on Oct 14, 2022 |
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Oct 14, 2022 08:38
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My guess would be that transporter-Boimler is doing a Bashir to get on the inside of S31 and when this is revealed someone will say that he's doing a Bashir
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Okay, very funny Utopia Planetia. We're all impressed, now fess up; Few pages back but it's actually a modernised version of a Discovery penis ship.  Given what we know about the general maturity of the writers room on Discovery (akiva goldsman dancing around singing 'Klingons have two dicks, Klingons have two dicks!' and just being delighted by the idea and joking about it over and over) it may have been intentional.
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MadJackal posted:The writers' room for this show has got to be composed of the funniest, biggest Trek nerds ever. This is a great way to describe the joy that is Lower Decks.
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Oct 14, 2022 09:07
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The effects on the origamic time portals had to have been a Dune '84 tribute. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z9cISvNVYM&t=60s
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Isn't it "origasmic"? Or was that just my old man ears.
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That was the chronogasmic matrix. Speaking of that scene, I loved the holo-love-interest having a bit of an existential crisis when Boimler went off-script and didn't play out her plotline. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 12:53 on Oct 14, 2022 |
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MikeJF posted:That was the chronogasmic matrix. Meanwhile, Knick Knack went from goofy alien background extra to devoted follower/major supporting character status.... and the new love interest!
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MikeJF posted:That was the chronogasmic matrix. Do you want more accidentally sapient holodeck characters, Bradward? Because that's how you get more accidentally sapient holodeck characters!
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TV IV › Modern Star Trek Megathread: The Horsey's Going to Bite You Now
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Spanish Matlock posted:Except prodigy has already proven that death is no barrier to cameos Yeah but if they’re still alive they can write new lines rather than stitch together out of context voice clips.
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Snow Cone Capone posted:TV IV › Modern Star Trek Megathread: The Horsey's Going to Bite You Now https://i.imgur.com/p8G2xGk.mp4 right click -> unmute
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Gelf posted:This ^ Except for making every show use the old rear end TOS font for "Star Trek" in their name, even if it doesn't fit the font for the rest of it. ugh, if they keep making this show it kills my hope that they'd give another 10 episodes to SNW when it's gone. Why do I feel like Vipers launch from this thing?
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I don't get how people can expect a Section 31/Evil Computer team up. The idea of organization that paranoid and meticulous being taken over by an evil AI is just silly.
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J33uk posted:I don't get how people can expect a Section 31/Evil Computer team up. The idea of organization that paranoid and meticulous being taken over by an evil AI is just silly. You gotta send Boimler to the future-future so they can dunk on disco. It's the only way
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Nullsmack posted:
Wierdly, they actually kinda do: it launches Valkyrie fighters:  Which are ripoff vipers from another Star Trek game, Star Trek: Invasion, which was blatantly a BSG ripoff where you fought in ripoff Vipers launched from a ripoff Battlestar and I can only assume they lost the licence to a BSG game partway through development or something. 
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MikeJF posted:Wierdly, they actually kinda do: it launches Valkyrie fighters: This game was waaaay before the BSG reboot and I have a hard time believing anyone would license the original BSG for a Playstation game
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Wasn't Homeworld a BSG game until they failed to get the licence?
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J33uk posted:I don't get how people can expect a Section 31/Evil Computer team up. The idea of organization that paranoid and meticulous being taken over by an evil AI is just silly. yeah idk if Lower Decks would be allowed to dunk on Discovery that hard lol
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:yeah idk if Lower Decks would be allowed to dunk on Discovery that hard lol They've dunked on everything else (with love) so I don't see why not. I mean "Why not?" seems to be the show's creed and I love it for that.
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MikeJF posted:Wasn't Homeworld a BSG game until they failed to get the licence? I've read that it was pitched as one but they couldn't get the rights so developed it as original IP. Of course, the parallels are fairly obvious and it won't surprise anyone to learn that there were BSG total conversions for both the original games and the remaster.
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Homeworld is better than Battlestar Galactica. This is a weird hill to die on but I'm gonna roll with it
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Jerusalem posted:Meanwhile, Knick Knack went from goofy alien background extra to devoted follower/major supporting character status.... and the new love interest! There’s a 2 frame shot, and I only know because that’s when Plex decided to buffer, but Knickknack had cake too.  Also is this the first time LD has dunked on NuTrek? (The S31 badges)
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Charity Porno posted:This game was waaaay before the BSG reboot and I have a hard time believing anyone would license the original BSG for a Playstation game Invasion was released first and then the BSG game. They're both from the same developer (Warthog). They're both pretty much inspired by Colony Wars
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:AFAIK they were the punks that the Terminator first ran into when he got time-teleported to Los Angeles. Of the Terminator punks, only Bill Paxton had the classic spiky dyed hair. (Fun fact, another one of those guys was Brian Thompson, who would go on to play an implacable, murderous, square-jawed Arnie clone as the Alien Bounty Hunter on X-Files) But I just realized, since this was all on the holodeck and not actual time travel: if Boombox Punk was Bus Punk, that means the Cerritos computer knows about Bus Punk. Which I hope means that Starfleet just kinda keeps running into him every time someone goes to the 80s. Delsaber posted:Homeworld is better than Battlestar Galactica. This is a weird hill to die on but I'm gonna roll with it Not a weird hill in the slightest.
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Phy posted:Of the Terminator punks, only Bill Paxton had the classic spiky dyed hair. (Fun fact, another one of those guys was Brian Thompson, who would go on to play an implacable, murderous, square-jawed Arnie clone as the Alien Bounty Hunter on X-Files) He was also on TNG, DS9 and ENT in various roles Also he was Shao Kahn in the original mortal kombat movie lol
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Nullsmack posted:ugh, if they keep making this show it kills my hope that they'd give another 10 episodes to SNW when it's gone. Don't want more Picard Do want more Frakes It's a toughie
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The_Doctor posted:Also is this the first time LD has dunked on NuTrek? (The S31 badges) Nah they've mocked Discovery a couple times before.
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I did not notice this originally, but the Wayfarer’s registry was NCC-80085
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Spanish Matlock posted:Except prodigy has already proven that death is no barrier to cameos I dunno, while it was cool, I don't think the execution was great. It had a real 'janky skyrim mod' vibe to me. But I certainly appreciate that they tried.
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Nullsmack posted:ugh, if they keep making this show it kills my hope that they'd give another 10 episodes to SNW when it's gone. Riker & Troy USS Titan show, or limited series, doesn't sound too bad of an idea and already sort-of exists with LDS. If we need more ideas for replacement shows lets do more of that.
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Grand Fromage posted:Nah they've mocked Discovery a couple times before. Did they ever wear DISCO shirts on Discovery? Or is that just a direct joke with the RITOS shirts.
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Wee Bairns posted:New episode talk, holy poo poo, that assinate Kennedy/time travel joke is a deeeeeep cut into rl Trek lore. Like, Spock helmet deep. Fun fact, Red Dwarf actually did do a time travelling Kennedy assassination plotline. Future Kennedy from the bad timeline assassinated himself to fix time. Spanish Matlock posted:From now on my only response when people ask me about Discovery and Picard will be "It's garbage, but it's starfleet garbage." That about sums up why I watch both of those. Tough competition between that and the horsey quote for a new thread title. Gonz posted:The Great Value/Bargain Bin V'ger spouting self-help quotes and then being revealed as the Wright Flyer from Kitty Hawk, NC was perfectly absurd, and if Mike McMahan is indeed a goon, then I hope he understand how fuckin' wonderful all the references are on this show. I'm also counting that as their first Orville reference.
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OGS-Remix posted:Did they ever wear DISCO shirts on Discovery? Or is that just a direct joke with the RITOS shirts. Yep.
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