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The black commbadges are mindbogglingly stupid, but they also led to a fantastic gag in Lower Decks, so who's to say if they're good or bad  e: transporting bullet snype 
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Transporting tech is the wildest "if you gave this to a writer to solve a problem, you'd end up having to write out why they can't use it ever again" issue ever. That episode left that door too open.
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3 posted:The black commbadges are mindbogglingly stupid, but they also led to a fantastic gag in Lower Decks, so who's to say if they're good or bad The black commbadges were a cool visual idea, but a really stupid story idea.
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The transporting bullet was really hilarious, because it's way too complicated. So you've got this gun, and you put a little transporter attachment on the end of it. Ok, but why? Why not just transport someone's heart into space? Why not just transport a poison pellet into their stomach? Or an air bubble into their heart?
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second-hill shooter trickshots from outside the perimeter of a transport inhibitor i guess? you might say it's an edgy case
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I figure it's for situations where you can't transport anything to or from the target's body but you can transport something a short distance away from the target. Kind of like you couldn't teleport bombs onto a planet but you can teleport missiles a short enough distance away they can't be intercepted.
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Mar 6, 2023 05:04
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Disable an enemy ship's shields then lock on to its entire crew and beam them all into space.
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nine-gear crow posted:Disable an enemy ship's shields then lock on to its entire crew and beam them all into space. I see someone else has played FTL.
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I like how gross the changling goo looked.
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Brawnfire posted:I figure it's for situations where you can't transport anything to or from the target's body but you can transport something a short distance away from the target. Kind of like you couldn't teleport bombs onto a planet but you can teleport missiles a short enough distance away they can't be intercepted. sooooooo how the wormhole operates in Stargate then?
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Is it just me or does jack crusher have the most punchable face?
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bltzn posted:Is it just me or does jack crusher have the most punchable face? I gotta go with the changeling on the ship whose face goes all squishy when you punch them.
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mllaneza posted:I gotta go with the changeling on the ship whose face goes all squishy when you punch them. That guy is so well cast. He loving LOOKS like he's made of silly putty in real life too.
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bltzn posted:Is it just me or does jack crusher have the most punchable face? He reminds me a lot of Burn Gorman, who also has a highly punchable face.
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Mar 6, 2023 08:17
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My news feed this morning gave me a chuckle... 
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Wee Bairns posted:My news feed this morning gave me a chuckle... Joke answer is Fox News
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bltzn posted:Is it just me or does jack crusher have the most punchable face? it is just you.
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Mar 6, 2023 12:20
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He's got perfectly reasonable leading man face. Man also has also written scripts and has quite a decent amount of work under his belt. Seems quite talented.
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Mar 6, 2023 12:28
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Wee Bairns posted:My news feed this morning gave me a chuckle... Quit watching in season 3 cos it was a pile of poo poo, but did they ever end up giving any of the bridge crew a personality? Also, Saru isn't in that picture, they didn't kill off the best character did they?
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Alan_Shore posted:Quit watching in season 3 cos it was a pile of poo poo, but did they ever end up giving any of the bridge crew a personality? 3 and 4 give Detmer and Owosekun a little bit more to do but they still feel like featured extras most of the time
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They send off a few of those bridge crew people in Season 4 and the main cast have to pretend they’re important
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https://twitter.com/MariaSmal_/status/1632184408177524737
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Get a grip, lady!
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nine-gear crow posted:... rear end in a top hat Riker slowly starts to emerge from the shadows. And we've NEVER seen Riker be that kind of a prick to anyone, let alone one of his best friends, regardless of the situation at any point in Star Trek, and I doubt Matalas and the writers could cock Riker up that badly that Frakes wouldn't have pushed back on it unless there was a good reason for it. So he's got to be a changeling. Well it's not entirely out of character.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcme3dPXARc
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Zapp Brannigan posted:Well it's not entirely out of character.... that was specifically because he knew that wasn't picard, though
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The Chairman posted:3 and 4 give Detmer and Owosekun a little bit more to do but they still feel like featured extras most of the time The east asian guy who is on the bridge all the time did a big thing on twitter about how he was really sad to see the show ending And I just think "It's been poo poo to you, I don't even know your characters name, why are you saying this"
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Bayham Badger posted:it is just you. Ok well the facial expressions he keeps making are dumb and annoying, guess that's just acting
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Mar 6, 2023 17:42
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Taear posted:The east asian guy who is on the bridge all the time did a big thing on twitter about how he was really sad to see the show ending A paying gig is a paying gig.
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There's lots of interesting stories and classic Trek action happening in the actors' heads while they stand around in the background for shoots. Obviously we don't get to see it, but for them they are imagining some of the best trek
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The bald Vulcan lady apparently came up with the idea that she was a quarter Deltan or something and ran it by Terry Matalas and he was apparently like "yeah sure cool, person who will have three lines all season"
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The Chairman posted:3 and 4 give Detmer and Owosekun a little bit more to do but they still feel like featured extras most of the time I liked that they had a consistent bridge crew. It seems more believable than your bridge being rotating cast of nameless extras every week. The problem is that the show expected us to care about them like they were the main cast (or are they considered main cast?) and not just extras. It isn't like any of them were ever really developed. Well, I guess Owosekun was from a luddite family or something, which I only remember because it was from a S2 episode I actually liked. And Detmer was apparently a macho fighter jockey for like an episode, before that was forgotten about. And the robot lady they had forgotten to develop until the episode she was spaced.
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this is epic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmyqkLygUSU
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Well I guess it’s good we’re not getting a musical episode
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"epic"
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Luv 2 be talked down to by the show that I watch Also the one guy is the RENT guy on Broadway so he is nailing it honestly Disco really does have the sin of having an amazing cast of talent and doing Jack poo poo with it, even has some of the more interesting writing concepts that they never develop or half rear end of the modern trek shows. It's a horrible waste
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Tbf wasting talented actors or good premises is the flaw of every bad trek show Mmm except enterprise, Jolene Blalock was great but the rest of the cast was so meh
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Alchenar posted:A paying gig is a paying gig. What's a role like that pay? It's basically a full time job even if you only average two lines per season, right?
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Tiberius Christ posted:Tbf wasting talented actors or good premises is the flaw of every bad trek show Trip and Phlox were cool, also Jeffrey Combs made Andorians badass. Malcolm Reed I forget exists besides when he's edgy, Mayweather is like "Harry Kim levels of "who?" And Scott Bakula is...eh fine I like Hoshi's actress but holy poo poo she's written more insane than Keiko O'Brien. Good guest stars though. Enterprise for its flaws did different things, sometimes well: at the time I hated it but on rewatch the Xindi arc and the Delphic Expanse are pretty great, the Xindi are a unique enemy, and it has a pretty excellent last season besides the bad TNG episode cop out. That show was actually starting to find it's footing, and the origin of the Federation as the Smug rear end in a top hat Vulcans vs the Murder rear end in a top hat Andorians was fun. Andorians give Klingons a run for their money in aggression, they really need more show representation. TulliusCicero fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Mar 6, 2023 |
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Typical Pubbie posted:What's a role like that pay? It's basically a full time job even if you only average two lines per season, right? looking at SAG-AFTRA's pay tables, standard wages for a series regular on an hour-long TV show are about $4,200 a week during filming
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