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wesleywillis posted:If people don't enlist in starfleet how the gently caress do they join? Press gangs.
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Delsaber posted:Press gangs. "Congratulations! You just took the king's shilling! Welcome to Starfleet!" "That doesn't make any sense! We don't use money, and we don't have kings!"
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May 7, 2023 05:20
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Snorb posted:"we don't have kings!"
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May 7, 2023 06:43
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Buncha guys wake up from a drunken stupor on a space barge: "What happened last night?" Instructor: "You all signed up for Star Fleet Academy! Get ready for five years of flying space fighters, sculpture class and long philosophical discussions!" "Noooo!!"
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May 7, 2023 06:54
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whenever you use the replicator, there's a small % chance you'll get forcibly enlisted into starfleet.
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May 7, 2023 07:40
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the transporter is much more convenient - if it makes a clone, the clone joins starfleet and you can freely go about the rest of your day
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May 7, 2023 07:41
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DS9 seemed to suggest that if you had any inclination for engineering you'd get enlisted into Star Fleet.
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May 7, 2023 10:34
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Eighties ZomCom posted:DS9 seemed to suggest that if you had any inclination for engineering you'd get enlisted into Star Fleet. You mean "signed on as an enlisted man," or "got 'enlisted,' possibly at phaser-point?"
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May 7, 2023 14:45
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May 7, 2023 15:28
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COME ON YOU MAGGOTS, YOU WANT TO LIVE TO A RIPE OLD AGE IN COMFORT WHILE DOING YOUR HOBBY FULL-TIME SUCH AS ARCHEOLOGY OR ASTROPHYSICS edit: LET ME SEE YOUR SCIENCE FACE nerd: arrrgh
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May 7, 2023 15:38
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You ever just sit back and think about how silly the end of Star Trek VI from anything besides a “wow sweet space battle!” perspective? The leaders of like two of the three super powers of this region of the Galaxy are meeting for a possible peace deal after being in a cold war for like a century and there isn’t a single other ship in orbit around Khitomer? Then the rogue ship that had assassinated the previous chancellor of one of the two powers involved in this peace talk just like a few weeks ago shows up and the speeches continue without anyone being like “uh maybe we should get the VIPs to a safe room?” And then elderly Scotty somehow kicks down a door and no heatitation mercs a Klingon.
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May 7, 2023 18:18
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jeeves posted:You ever just sit back and think about how silly the end of Star Trek VI from anything besides a “wow sweet space battle!” perspective? Wasn't the peace summit supposed to be a secret, which is why the Enterprise literally has to ask where it's being held?
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May 7, 2023 18:19
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Technowolf posted:Wasn't the peace summit supposed to be a secret, which is why the Enterprise literally has to ask where it's being held? Yeah but even with it being a secret it’s like, why wasn’t anyone else there to defend it and also why does Sulu know? It’s a real squint your brain ending that is really funny when you think about how little the Starfleet seemed to care for Red Foreman/Clarence’s safety as President of the Federation. Edit - I guess like two evil admirals were in a plot to kill him there so maybe the lack of ships on Federation side could be hand waved away, but wouldn’t one think that as soon as the now-rogue Enterprise shows up it would at least raise a few alarms with the Klingons?
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May 7, 2023 18:22
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I thought General Chang's co-conspirators were talking care of that. The conspiracy had taken over the military duties of the conference on both sides.
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May 7, 2023 18:29
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MikeJF posted:I thought General Chang's co-conspirators were talking care of that. The conspiracy had taken over the military duties of the conference on both sides. And they got the Romulans involved through Ambassador Nanclus! It's a shame nobody mentions in-universe the irony of (elements of) the Federation, the Klingon Empire, and the Romulan Empire working together to prove the Federation and the Klingon Empire cannot work together.
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May 7, 2023 19:16
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jeeves posted:Yeah but even with it being a secret it’s like, why wasn’t anyone else there to defend it and also why does Sulu know? The script doesn't make a lick of sense once you think about it for more than two seconds.
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May 7, 2023 19:19
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I finished Picard S3. The plot was weird but forgivable. I honestly rolled my eyes when they brought Borg back again because they just had them in S1 and can't seem to resist but I guess they kind of excused it. While it was a little contrived, having Geordi restoring the E-D in his garage was awesome. Even Raffi grew on me, when I thought she was just an annoying weirdo in S1 (didn't watch S2). In short, the nostalgia trip of seeing that crew on that bridge was just like how seeing Maverick getting in an enemy F-14 and flying it around. And I thought that having that in Top Gun 36 years later was a blast. Also, did Spiner have a stroke or something? In the "All Good Things" camera elevation poker shot he doesn't his arm or the right side of his body for the duration of that long shot. edit: I do agree with everyone that the designation E-G feels pretty unearned, especially with them in the earlier episodes saying "this isn't the Enterprise, this ship [Titan] is overmatched"
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May 7, 2023 19:58
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The Borg are also in Season 2, because a big part of the story is that they steal a Borg Queen from the altered bad timeline to go back into the past, and then she manages to almost assimilate a few people and tries to contact the Borg in the past so that they can assimilate Earth way before the Federation ever existed. So yes, I was not really thrilled when the big plot they were teasing all season just turned out to be 'The Borg are back'
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May 7, 2023 20:31
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FlamingLiberal posted:The Borg are also in Season 2, because a big part of the story is that they steal a Borg Queen from the altered bad timeline to go back into the past, and then she manages to almost assimilate a few people and tries to contact the Borg in the past so that they can assimilate Earth way before the Federation ever existed. And she eats car batteries.
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May 7, 2023 20:52
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davidspackage posted:COME ON YOU MAGGOTS, YOU WANT TO LIVE TO A RIPE OLD AGE IN COMFORT WHILE DOING YOUR HOBBY FULL-TIME SUCH AS ARCHEOLOGY OR ASTROPHYSICS SHOW ME YOUR SCIENCE FACE! Nerrrrrrrr (pushes glasses up nose)
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May 7, 2023 20:56
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Bullshit! I bet you could reroute auxiliary power through some kind of spatula!
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May 7, 2023 22:00
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Only if it's a copper-ytterbium composite
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FlamingLiberal posted:Borg in the past so that they can assimilate Earth way before the Federation ever existed. Seems like I've heard of this before.
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May 7, 2023 22:51
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Watched 'A Night In Sickbay' for first time, I think that might be one of my favorite Enterprise episodes. I sped through it watching via "Best Episodes" lists but that was probably a mistake. The sexual tension between T'Pol/Archer actually being referenced was funny. It felt like there was always this T'Pol/Archer/Tucker 3-way tension going on without it being spoken about.
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May 7, 2023 23:17
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knox posted:Watched 'A Night In Sickbay' for first time, I think that might be one of my favorite Enterprise episodes. I sped through it watching via "Best Episodes" lists but that was probably a mistake. The sexual tension between T'Pol/Archer actually being referenced was funny. It felt like there was always this T'Pol/Archer/Tucker 3-way tension going on without it being spoken about. It's been a while but isn't this typically remembered as one of the crappiest episodes of the series?
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Tighclops posted:It's been a while but isn't this typically remembered as one of the crappiest episodes of the series? I don't think it's too bad, after having rewatched it like a month ago, but it's not a good episode. Part of the problem is that Archer is probably the shittiest he ever gets towards T'Pol in this episode. Like there's no excuse whatsoever for his behavior. Then the Doctor essentially asks him 'Captain, is this because you haven't been able to get your rocks off'.
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Tighclops posted:It's been a while but isn't this typically remembered as one of the crappiest episodes of the series? Yes. A Night In Sickbay was basically the episode that killed Enterprise as a show. As in it broke the back of the viewership ratings and the people who were still sticking around watching the timeslot after Voyager ended basically all tapped out after it and just never came back. Chuck Sonnenberg of SF Debris has done a couple of "scoreless" episode reviews for stuff like Family and 11:59 just because they were functionally impossible to review as Star Trek episodes, but I think A Night In Sickbay is the only episode out of everything he's reviewed across all of Star Trek that earned a straight 0/10.
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Railing Kill posted:SHOW ME YOUR SCIENCE FACE! All I can think of is this https://youtu.be/4PDz3LzFcSo?t=38
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FlamingLiberal posted:Yes it's a weird one Archer was frequently an Ugly American, but A Night in Sickbay is like the nadir of his Ugly Americanness (and that's counting the whole of season 3!). Phlox's idiocy can at least be handwaved a little because he comes from a more sexually liberal culture, but it really doesn't excuse the fact that the whole thing feels that Berman and Braga saying "Who wouldn't want to tap that, amiright fellas?" Basically what I'm saying is justice for Jolene Blalock.
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Fighting Trousers posted:Basically what I'm saying is justice for Jolene Blalock. She could show up in SNW.
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MikeJF posted:She could show up in SNW. That would actually be pretty dope, especially since Spock's brother was hinted at being an ongoing thing, she could easily have something to do with that.
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nine-gear crow posted:Yes. A Night In Sickbay was basically the episode that killed Enterprise as a show. As in it broke the back of the viewership ratings and the people who were still sticking around watching the timeslot after Voyager ended basically all tapped out after it and just never came back. That sounds about right, I can recall Berman or one of the writers giving an interview about it where they were all proud of themselves for doing " Three's Company in space" and being baffled that they thought that was something anybody wanted to see at the time
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swickles posted:That would actually be pretty dope, especially since Spock's brother was hinted at being an ongoing thing, she could easily have something to do with that. T'Pring going "this is out of my control now, I have to bring in someone better suited to tracking down Sybok" and it turning out to be T'Pol would be fantastic, yes.
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May 8, 2023 02:26
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Enterprise really suffers from Archer having to be the main character all the time, so even when other characters got the chance to have their own stories, it still often had to be done in terms of how that affects Archer.
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May 8, 2023 02:28
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nine-gear crow posted:Yes. A Night In Sickbay was basically the episode that killed Enterprise as a show. As in it broke the back of the viewership ratings and the people who were still sticking around watching the timeslot after Voyager ended basically all tapped out after it and just never came back. Might be a coin flip on most damaging episode of the show between it and S4's Daedalus
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May 8, 2023 02:34
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Tighclops posted:It's been a while but isn't this typically remembered as one of the crappiest episodes of the series? Fondly remembering the TrekBBS days when it was “lovingly” referred to by its acronym - ANIS
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May 8, 2023 03:32
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T'Pol should've been the one to adopt Michael in Disco.
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She should show up in SNW and reminisce about the many decades of friendship she enjoyed with Trip.
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Technowolf posted:T'Pol should've been the one to adopt Michael in Disco. That would have been so much better, yes. MikeJF posted:She should show up in SNW and reminisce about the many decades of "friends with benefits" she enjoyed with Trip. Also yes.
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"You know, Spock, I once had a half-human-half-vulcan daughter too! Funny story, let me tell you about it..."
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