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Family is one of the best Star Trek episodes.
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At least the Borg going to sleep & self-destructing was, in spirit, a very Trek way to resolve the conflict. As opposed to them finding a magic weapon or something. A hard sell as a resolution to the best cliffhanger of all time, though.
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I always thought the Picard recovery operation was cool
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zoux posted:I always thought the Picard recovery operation was cool Miles O'Brien there to pull the three of them out of that shuttle mid-explosion. Without which, the Cube doesn't get stopped later on (with him assisting in that, too), and the Federation probably gets wiped out over the course of a few years. Just one more reason of many that he qualified for Most Important Person in Starfleet.
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No Dignity posted:He made the only good season of Enterprise, and for that he'll have my eternal respect. What a lovely way to go though I don't think he had much say in that final episode though?
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This morning I watched Trials and Tribble-ations and Far Beyond the Stars. Trials is a super-fun episode. I love all the attention to detail they put into duplicating the aesthetics of TOS, like the door and tricorder sounds, the corridors, the lighting, even the choice of lens and film stock. And to me, the insertion of the DS9 cast into the Trouble With Tribbles shots looks great. Far Beyond the Stars is another of my favorite Trek episodes of all, and IMO it’s Avery Brooks’ finest performance ever. What a powerful episode.
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Aoi posted:Without which, the Cube doesn't get stopped later on (with him assisting in that, too), and the Federation probably gets wiped out over the course of a few years. THE BORG IS EVERYWHERE 
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MrMojok posted:This morning I watched Trials and Tribble-ations and Far Beyond the Stars. i think "trials" would be a good candidate for a trial balloon remaster. obviously, a lot of the shots (but not all, they did rebuild some sets too) of the DS9 crew were composited into footage from TOS, which we already know looks great in HD, and you can tell; it's kind of obvious if you know what to look for. but there's been a lot of advancements in compositing and color-correction techniques since the mid '90s, it could look better. it's a delightful episode that builds on a mostly beloved one, so it'd probably even sell pretty well. make it happen paramount
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FuturePastNow posted:THE BORG IS EVERYWHERE You have to get down on your knees to use those control panels.
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FuturePastNow posted:THE BORG IS EVERYWHERE I don’t want to live in a timeline where the bolian barber didn’t make it
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I hope I’m not getting too annoying with my constant blathering about what episode I just watched. But in further blathering, and my quest to watch some of the greatest Trek episodes, as well as my newfound appreciation for the Ferengi, I just watched… The Magnificent Ferengi. And this one was LOL-funny all the way through. Early on is the scene where Quark and Rom are crawling through the access shafts, and mistakenly emerge in Sisko’s private quarters. Their two gigantic-eared heads popping out of the hatch together and spotting Sisko, who gives them a withering look and says “May I help you, gentlemen?” was  There are so many fantastic moments in this one, but another favorite of mine was: Brunt: A child… a moron… a failure… and a psychopath. Quite a little team you've put together! Quark: What do you want, Brunt? Brunt: I'm here to sign up! I now find myself firmly in the Ferengi Are Awesome camp, and I need to find a list of best Ferengi-centric episodes and work my way through it.
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MrMojok posted:I hope I’m not getting too annoying with my constant blathering about what episode I just watched. Please, continue with the updates. Also, the only way you're going to see all the ferengi content? A complete watch through
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The Ferengi's tendency to cry out with a high pitched whine when injured or upset initially annoyed me until I realised that it makes perfect sense given their people have insanely acute hearing - in an emergency the most direct way to get the information out is to utilise the most powerful sense, in their case their sense of sound. It's just how Gayla alerts the others to the fact that he's hosed up so that they can fix it.
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Screaming is hardly unique to Ferengi.
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thotsky posted:Screaming is hardly unique to Ferengi. Yeah, but it's how they use it. It feels more deliberate in how it's applied, like a siren more than just a human's much less consistent methods of screaming, because it's a long modulated wail that not only comes when injured but when major setbacks happen too.
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Wailing.
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BioEnchanted posted:Yeah, but it's how they use it. It feels more deliberate in how it's applied, like a siren more than just a human's much less consistent methods of screaming, because it's a long modulated wail that not only comes when injured but when major setbacks happen too. For real, in this episode one of them started screaming offscreen (because he fell asleep and let their prisoner escape) and at first I thought it was either some kind of bizarre alarm klaxon, or perhaps a shrieking bird.
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No Dignity posted:Please, continue with the updates. This is the correct answer. There's so much excellent ferengi content sprinkled throughout DS9. Just watching the Ferengi specific episodes will have you missing the root beer speech, or Quark teaching a Vulcan about logic. Or there's "Treachery, Faith, and the Great River" which finally demonstrates how Ferengi culture can function as a cooperative society. A.o.D. fucked around with this message at 01:13 on Jul 12, 2023 |
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Awe that really sucks. I was happy when he seemed to turn ENT around, though of course he didn't get very long with it.
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FuturePastNow posted:THE BORG IS EVERYWHERE This is probably the most hosed up scene in TNG history, I can remember watching this episode when it was current and there's so much story in just that 20 second scene, it's so evocative. And really what it is is that we know Will Riker and we know what it would have to be like for him to try and kill fellow starfleet officers to avoid doing the right thing. It's something that's always stuck with me.
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I've always wondered what would have happened if they beamed those guys over.
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zoux posted:This is probably the most hosed up scene in TNG history, I can remember watching this episode when it was current and there's so much story in just that 20 second scene, it's so evocative. And really what it is is that we know Will Riker and we know what it would have to be like for him to try and kill fellow starfleet officers to avoid doing the right thing. It's something that's always stuck with me. Hell, even for Wesley. Riker tells him to fire one torpedo to disable them, only that Enterprise is so badly damaged that the single torpedo destroys it instead, so Wes just accidentally killed who knows how many otherwise innocent people. That's gonna be a mortifying thought too.
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Sash! posted:I've always wondered what would have happened if they beamed those guys over. Well time turned back at the end of the episode so 
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nine-gear crow posted:Hell, even for Wesley. Riker tells him to fire one torpedo to disable them, only that Enterprise is so badly damaged that the single torpedo destroys it instead, so Wes just accidentally killed who knows how many otherwise innocent people. That's gonna be a mortifying thought too. Oh that reminds me of another TNG moment that hosed me up, it's Riker ordering Wesley to kamikaze strike the Borg cube at high warp and he's half way through "engage" when Data is like "stand by". I imagine that kept Wes up at night.
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zoux posted:I imagine that kept Wes up through all of space and time. 
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Mods, I’d like to report a dangerous amount of empathy for Wesley Crusher in this thread.
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Decompress Wesley's quarters. No reason.
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Tea, Wesley, Decompressed
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https://twitter.com/NoContextTrek/status/1679272596271923201?s=20 Oh Harry.
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Janeway just going "Biiiiiiitch, please" with her body language 
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holefoods posted:I don’t want to live in a timeline where the bolian barber didn’t make it I was always disappointed that they showed that Bolian women had hair. Why? Before, the idea that Mott was a good barber was funny. He was obsessed with hair when he came from a world where it didn't exist. Something so funny about that. Now we know that he just learned to cut hair because it was a good way to meet women.
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Lowen SoDium posted:I was always disappointed that they showed that Bolian women had hair. Ok, then let's make it funnier. They were probably wigs, because the entire culture is now desperately obsessed with hairstyling after joining the galactic stage and seeing all of the cool hairdos.
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Janeway going absolutely apeshit on Harry after he contracts the sparkly space clap is a top ten Voyager moment
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I always found this kind of funny because what difference would it have made had he been promoted, other than a boost to his self-esteem? They're stuck in the Delta Quadrant so it's not like they have regular crew rotations. What extra authority or responsibilities would he have gained that he didn't already have as part of the senior bridge crew? Who could he order around now that he couldn't before? It seemed like he was always in the Captain's position in the Night Crew for instance, and could order the other ensigns around when the show remembered they existed. Whether you see this as an argument for or against Harry's promotion I'll leave up to you. 
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through s4 of voyager and most of the way through 5 now and it's been fairly consistently watchable- some dull episodes but nothing too grating, a marked improvement on 3 and better than 1+2 there's a major decrease in the amount of technobabble being thrown about both as conversation filler and as solve the shite plot from whatever hole they wrote themselves into which has been nice, and the plots just seem a bit tighter/more thoughtful and more relevant to "we are traveling to go home" rather than "how can we make this tng reject script fit"- seems to coincide with nick sagan showing a bunch on the writing credits but that might just be me No Dignity posted:Please, continue with the updates. seconding both, I would be posting more if there was much to remark on other than "the best seasons of voyager don't make me want to poke my eyes out"
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Eighties ZomCom posted:I always found this kind of funny because what difference would it have made had he been promoted, other than a boost to his self-esteem? They're stuck in the Delta Quadrant so it's not like they have regular crew rotations. What extra authority or responsibilities would he have gained that he didn't already have as part of the senior bridge crew? Who could he order around now that he couldn't before? It seemed like he was always in the Captain's position in the Night Crew for instance, and could order the other ensigns around when the show remembered they existed. Well how would you feel if you saw dipshit Tom Paris get promoted, demoted, and then re-promoted right in front of you.
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I'm doing my first full watch on TNG (only really ever been a strict TOS/first six movies Trekkie) and I'm doing the thing multiple people always told me not to do; starting from season 1. Uh, kind of loving it so far? Sure, you have stuff like Code of Honor, Angel One or the one with the Bynars (which all feel very much like what I suppose Star Trek looks like to somebody who doesn't like Star Trek), but it all feels so inviting and warm! And gosh darn it, I like Wesley and his big dumb grin. It's interesting seeing Patrick Stewart looking quite awkward and uncomfortable in a couple of the episodes, delivering some very mechanical line readings at times. I'm assuming he had trouble finding his feet to begin with? Meanwhile Brent Spiner just sort of rolls out fully formed as the standout, I guess? Just got through the episode with the negotiator fella who turns up at the start wearing old age makeup that somehow looks even more wonky than what they did in the 60s and sat there grinning like "Oh, he's definitely going to get young somehow". That was very silly, but also quite fun! MuddyFunster fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Jul 13, 2023 |
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You're going to be in the middle of season 3 and it'll hit you why people think s1 is weak. I do agree that people exaggerate how bad it is, I recently did a full rewatch for the first time since Netflix was a DVD in the mail company and I was like, you know, this isn't nearly as bad as I remember. It's funny that you mention the old man makeup because I am doing the opposite thing of you and watching TOS for the first time all the way through and I thought the old age makeup in The Deadly Years, which used way less prosthetics than Too Short a Season and relied on shadow and contouring instead, looked much better. zoux fucked around with this message at 16:33 on Jul 13, 2023 |
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