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CainFortea posted:Like, okay this is a nitpick that deserves to be in one of the books but it leapt out at me as a way to highlight this thing. Everything in the first season of that show felt ultra slapped together and cheap, at least the clips I've seen make the most recent one look like it's had a little effort put into how things look, even if that look is just STO on low graphics settings
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Tighclops posted:Everything in the first season of that show felt ultra slapped together and cheap, at least the clips I've seen make the most recent one look like it's had a little effort put into how things look, even if that look is just STO on low graphics settings Sure, but that's just a money thing. Which apparently they spent a lot more on this last season. The one in s3 is well made. But my point is that it's a well made not very good copy.
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CainFortea posted:Like, okay this is a nitpick that deserves to be in one of the books but it leapt out at me as a way to highlight this thing. It's fine.
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A.o.D. posted:It's fine. You're ok with the events that are unfolding currently.
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Tighclops posted:You're ok with the events that are unfolding currently. That's okay. This show is going to be okay.
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So, I think I figured out the ending to Picard Season 3... So the big dangerous thing they wanted to steal was Picard's body. The only special thing I can think about his body was that he was assimilated and was the only named borg (in the collective) that had a specific purpose to assimilate the federation. Well, the changelings also want Jack as well and in this episode we learned that Jack's brain is similar to Picard due to him having the same disease (he mentioned it was "overclocked"). We also had Geordie mention about how all the ships talked to each other constantly and whatever thing is going down is on the big celebration day where they are gathering all the ships together. So, it's pretty clear at this point that the changelings are hoping to harvest nanoprobes from Picard's body. Then, they are are planning on making Locutus II using Jack and the link between starships to assimilate and control the whole fleet at once to destroy the federation. Then, final scene Kirk's eyes open up as Project Phoenix is completed!!! Ok, maybe not that last part.
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Does this make Vadic's boss the Illusive Man?
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Vadic’s boss is Future Guy.
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Devil hands, brain things, they’re rippin futurama now
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Everyone wants Picard's body but he's so much more than just a pair of old saggy balls
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A.o.D. posted:It's fine. nah
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Khanstant posted:Everyone wants Picard's body but he's so much more than just a pair of old saggy balls There are four balls
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The nitpickers guide was good natured but that's easy to do when the show is good and the people in charge of it show the slightest bit of competency.
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Timby posted:Matalas was born in New Jersey in 1975. I guess he wasn't content with M'Talas Prime as a self-insert... Did people whine this much about the USS Bozeman back in the day? M'talas Prime is hugely eyerolly but the New Jersey is just sorta whatever.
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The entire gag of the california class comes from the fact that half the time background ships get named for small towns or states that the writers are born in.
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MikeJF posted:The entire gag of the california class comes from the fact that half the time background ships get named for small towns or states that the writers are born in. Yeah I was a bit lost by USS Cerritos the first time I heard it and then Boimler or whomever identified it as a California-class like a second later and I was like OH I GET THE JOKE NOW.
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Lower Decks really hits you over the head with it in the season 3 finale, but every California class ship is named after a city in California.
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And every Texas class ship is named after a city in Texas. Parliaments are probably named after Canadian cities, although that seems a little limited for the word Parliament, over a hundred countries have a parliament. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 13:25 on Mar 25, 2023 |
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If they really thought about it, there are a ton of good names for the Parliament class of star ships: USS Funkadelic USS George (Atomic Dog) Clinton USS P Funk USS Dr. Funkenstein. USS Bop Gun USS Rump Of Steel Skin They're all going to make that mothership connection and all the crew members need to be wearing their sunglasses. wesleywillis fucked around with this message at 15:36 on Mar 25, 2023 |
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FISHMANPET posted:Lower Decks really hits you over the head with it in the season 3 finale, but every California class ship is named after a city in California. I'm 90% sure the series is going to end with a flash forward to Captain Boimler taking command of the brand new USS Modesto. (He's from Modesto and we haven't seen a ship named after it show up yet)
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It's a little weird to give *yourself* two major references in the same season. IIRC Matalas even already had a Constitution-class starship (the Raritan). He just can't stop making it about him, which seems to jive with his twitter.
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Arivia posted:Yeah I was a bit lost by USS Cerritos the first time I heard it and then Boimler or whomever identified it as a California-class like a second later and I was like OH I GET THE JOKE NOW. There’s also a big used car dealership there, which is part of the joke. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a3N1HxafsD8
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"I cannot defeat this man, only kill him" is a really good piece of dialog.  
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Fornax Disaster posted:There’s also a big used car dealership there, which is part of the joke. I think he said in an interview something like he's never actually been to Cerritos, but he picked it because the name sounds like the place that you'll always just drive past on the highway and never go to.
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zoux posted:"I cannot defeat this man, only kill him" is a really good piece of dialog. Now I'm imagining Klingons debarking through the torpedo tube.
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Brawnfire posted:Now I'm imagining Klingons debarking through the torpedo tube. Now I'm imagining Klingons just being shot out of the torpedo tube, flying through the big gear airlock doors, and landing outside the door to Quark's.
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zoux posted:Matalas is starting to lose it... On the bright side, his batshit rant here introduced me to this actually pretty-sick starship fanon account https://twitter.com/EoMProject/status/1639377097394200576?s=20 https://twitter.com/EoMProject/status/1639638211549884419?s=20
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FISHMANPET posted:Now I'm imagining Klingons just being shot out of the torpedo tube, flying through the big gear airlock doors, and landing outside the door to Quark's. What, you think I imagined them casually strolling? They're Klingons! Of course they get shot directly into the bar!
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I recognize the Larson class, it comes from the old FASA role-playing game from the 1980s. 
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Powered Descent posted:I recognize the Larson class, it comes from the old FASA role-playing game from the 1980s. Side views: Pretty sick, kinda Romulan but-- Front, top views: Oh what the f
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disaster pastor posted:Imagine naming a starship after Malcolm Reed, lol. Should've been named the USS Jondar!
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Cross-Section posted:On the bright side, his batshit rant here introduced me to this actually pretty-sick starship fanon account Really trying to understand how private engineering firms would still exist at this point, doing contract work for Starfleet. I understand how they could be subsumed as a division of Starfleet engineering with a certain degree of autonomy, but as a private enterprise I don't get it. Then again someone must be making private vehicles and ships for people, even if there's no money changing hands...
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FISHMANPET posted:Now I'm imagining Klingons just being shot out of the torpedo tube, flying through the big gear airlock doors, and landing outside the door to Quark's. "Captain we are cleared for shore leave" "Exxxxcellent! Load recreants into torpedo tubes and target that beach! Perhaps today is a good day to lie.....in the sun"
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disaster pastor posted:Imagine naming a starship after Malcolm Reed, lol. When faced with any sort of obstacle, all systems shut down and the auto-destruct turns on.
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FISHMANPET posted:Really trying to understand how private engineering firms would still exist at this point, doing contract work for Starfleet. I understand how they could be subsumed as a division of Starfleet engineering with a certain degree of autonomy, but as a private enterprise I don't get it. Then again someone must be making private vehicles and ships for people, even if there's no money changing hands... Keep in mind that this is TOS-era when capitalism still semi-existed. There's a lot of private firms in TOS fanon; not really so much in TNG.
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I just watched Where No Man Has Gone Before. The third episode of TOS. I thought it was really good. It's an enormous improvement over Charlie X. Similar in some ways but far more interesting. I also like that Spock's immediate solition to the problem was to tool up with the biggest gun he could find.
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Prurient Squid posted:I just watched Where No Man Has Gone Before. The third episode of TOS.
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