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Brawnfire posted:I agree Elnor was charming and welcome as a personality. I'd drop the whole sword elf angle and just make him a young Romulan coming to grips with what being Romulan means after everything that's happened to Romulus. Having him join the Federation was somewhat intriguing and I'd have liked to see more of one of the first Romulans in Starfleet after centuries of mistrust and tensions reaching an inflection point like that. Yeah, the basic reboot of him we got in ep1 of s2 was exactly what I wanted. He's an earnest eager Starfleet cadet. This lasted roughly an episode, until he was back to beheading people again. 
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Raffi breaking down from her vulnerabilities the first time actually hit. The second time it was a bit disingenuous. It hasn't worked since.
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I like how the service record that Raffi's handler shows her mentions all of her drug addiction problems and discharge and whatever, but then mentions that those incidents were later erased from her service record. Y'know, the same service record that still mentions them.
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Maybe they're teasing some kind of scary overlord rogue intelligence agency, something no Trek show has ever covered before!
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DOOMocrat posted:Maybe they're teasing some kind of scary overlord rogue intelligence agency, something no Trek show has ever covered before! Section 31-A
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Der Kyhe posted:You didn't find the Space Legolas, aimed to cater to the "I studied the blade"-crowd, annoying or just blatant attempt to make Trek have Jedi knight equivalent? That was to me by far the most stupid thing that has no excuse stemming from either prior series writing (Picard is incurably ill) or COVID-19 messing with the production (last episode fleet scenes and tentacle monsters). I'll be honest with you, as someone who's into both the whole "noble knight" trope AND hot guys with long hair, I did not mind one bit. I was however, really annoyed by the vaping. Talk about something that instantly dated your show
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There's only one Space Legolas and his name is Andros power ranger
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I thought the elf guy was stupid and giving every alien culture their own secret society of space knights is lame
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Tighclops posted:I thought the elf guy was stupid and giving every alien culture their own secret society of space knights is lame The perfect av post combo
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This might be a long shot, but does anyone know if there's anywhere you could buy an office chair shaped like a captain's chair of any series? Not a model, not a gaming chair, but like a copy of a prop used in the show. I figured there would be some Star Trek merchandise but maybe there's no demand for this or they don't allow replicas to be commercially made because I can't really find anywhere that has it.
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zoux posted:Who are the secret human space knighst Terra Templar
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I didn't think the first episode of Picard was that bad. Like it wasn't amazing, but it was still pretty good.
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zoux posted:Who are the secret human space knighst Section 31
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Hollismason posted:I didn't think the first episode of Picard was that bad. Like it wasn't amazing, but it was still pretty good. Someone else in the other thread referred to it as "aggressively fine" and I agree with that judgement. Then again, the premieres of both Season 1 and Season 2 were also that type of "there's nothing immediately wrong with things here" type of schmuck bait too. Let's see how everyone's feeling come mid-March.
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zoux posted:Who are the secret human space knighst End of Picard has a mysterious huge lantern jawed man asking him if he wants to join the Astartes initiative
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Meatgrinder posted:This might be a long shot, but does anyone know if there's anywhere you could buy an office chair shaped like a captain's chair of any series? Not a model, not a gaming chair, but like a copy of a prop used in the show. I figured there would be some Star Trek merchandise but maybe there's no demand for this or they don't allow replicas to be commercially made because I can't really find anywhere that has it. A lot of chairs used on Star Trek, including a few Captain's chairs, are ordinary commercially-available chairs, sometimes modified a little but often just used as-is. I get the impression that they tended to be on the expensive side, though, and they'd probably be even more so now. But hey, they're the exact chairs that were used in the show. https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/database/chairs-trek.htm NOTE: this site may still be blocking SA as a referrer, so if you get an error, just copy-paste the url into a new tab instead.
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I don't know who made this, it was reposted on a discord, but it's great.quote:I spent entirely too much time making this. I had ChatGPT generate a scene for Star Trek: TNG with the prompt: Write a screenplay for an episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" about Data trying to make people fall for the "pull my finger" gag.
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Powered Descent posted:A lot of chairs used on Star Trek, including a few Captain's chairs, are ordinary commercially-available chairs, sometimes modified a little but often just used as-is. I get the impression that they tended to be on the expensive side, though, and they'd probably be even more so now. But hey, they're the exact chairs that were used in the show. Yeah, EAS blocks linking from SA due to some long-standing beef that I can never remember. But just that it's a thing that happened is funny as hell.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Yeah, EAS blocks linking from SA due to some long-standing beef that I can never remember. But just that it's a thing that happened is funny as hell. Probably some Aatrek related bullshit, in which case I'm with Bernd, gently caress us.
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Powered Descent posted:A lot of chairs used on Star Trek, including a few Captain's chairs, are ordinary commercially-available chairs, sometimes modified a little but often just used as-is. I get the impression that they tended to be on the expensive side, though, and they'd probably be even more so now. But hey, they're the exact chairs that were used in the show. Yes, I've seen this but they have little to offer by way of captain's chair. I initially started looking for the Enterprise D's chair since it looks reasonably easy to produce but no luck, and nothing for Kirk's chairs either.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIczjVQckEE This popped up in my recommendations on Youtube, and I'm sharing it because a) it's pretty cool; I've never seen much behind the scenes stuff for TWoK, and b) Ricardo Montalban seemed like a really genuinely good dude. It's one of those situations where you're glad he made a name for himself as Khan but you're sorry that he's defined by a single villainous role he played later in his career.
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He had a pretty healthy career outside of Star Trek (like he was starring in Fantasy Island at the time as well)
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Feldegast42 posted:He had a pretty healthy career outside of Star Trek (like he was starring in Fantasy Island at the time as well) He was the villain in Naked Gun!
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And he introduced the world to the Chrysler Cordoba's fine Corinthian leather seats. e: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVELhUyLZGk
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Yeah, EAS blocks linking from SA due to some long-standing beef that I can never remember. But just that it's a thing that happened is funny as hell. I don't think it was anything SA-specific, he's just paranoid about people stealing his bandwidth so there's a very tiny whitelist of acceptable referrers
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I don't think he regretted it, but he may have inadvertently been typecast by it. Though it did give us Vincent Ludwig in The Naked Gun, so it all worked out.
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You can't build an Arcology here! You will regret this!
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Meatgrinder posted:Yes, I've seen this but they have little to offer by way of captain's chair. I initially started looking for the Enterprise D's chair since it looks reasonably easy to produce but no luck, and nothing for Kirk's chairs either. Huh? Kirk’s TOS chair is on there, so is the -E’s, and the Defiant’s. I don’t see the -D’s, though.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/Seamus_Malek/status/1626258093016330241 Someone needs to tell them to finish one of their dozen unfinished stupidprojects before announcing a new one.
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their idea to destroy the ocean to doodle some tacky island hotel suburb already start sinking into the ocean and they mostly gave up on many of them and their coast is now just littered with failed piles of destroyed ocean dredge
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Tom Guycot posted:Someone needs to tell them to finish one of their dozen unfinished stupidprojects before announcing a new one.
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Khanstant posted:their idea to destroy the ocean to doodle some tacky island hotel suburb already start sinking into the ocean and they mostly gave up on many of them and their coast is now just littered with failed piles of destroyed ocean dredge There's an adage I've heard repeated a few times now among Arabian and Emirati millennials: my great grandfathers rode camels, my father drove a Mercedes, I drive a Maserati, my great grandsons will ride camels. I've never forgotten it. Because even they know their heyday has an expiry date, and when it all comes crashing down, it's going to crash hard.
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Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV approves of that construction project.
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