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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Yeah, turns out the Maquis are a bunch of dumbasses. Remember the time when some of the Maquis were sneering at Starfleet discipline, so Chakotay says "oh you wanna do things the Maquis way, huh?" and just hauls off and knocks him on his rear end? Sounds like a real effective organization there. I just watched that episode last night and that bit got a lol out of me.
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dr_rat posted:Eh, there's gas giants near by you can just grab a bunch of water from and get as much oxygen as you need pretty much. It's barely anything on a planetary scale, scoop it from Earth, it's fine. Earth loses about a hundred thousand tons of air a year to solar wind and simple evaporation into space. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 17:20 on Jul 28, 2023 |
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The Icarus Factor: A potentially bland, but mildly enjoyable space station stopover with some soapy drama about Riker's dad, who is MANLY MANS, just like his lad. It's all very low stakes, Riker given the option to captain his own ship or not. I mean, we know how that pans out, right? Anyway, the episode offers up two fantastic absurdities; Worf's ridiculous ascension ritual thingy and Riker and his old man having some utterly daft Gladiators stick fight, complete with plastic looking suits of armour, ending in some very cheesy dialogue that would have worked much better in that Royale hotel a few episodes ago. But y'know, when the old man finally offers up "I love ya son!" and they hug? AAWWWW. Pen Pals: A fine one, nothing exceptional, just nicely acted "what will we do about the Prime Directive?" type stuff. I liked all the stuff with Wesley having his first taste of command, that was all very well done, him lacking confidence, expecting conflict when there wasn't any, etc. When the TOS looking little alien girl waddled in, I did smirk a bit, but it was fine.
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MikeJF posted:It's barely anything on a planetary scale, scoop it from Earth, it's fine. We must find and take vengeance on all these "solar winds" for stealing all our precious air. 
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dr_rat posted:We must find and take vengeance on all these "solar winds" for stealing all our precious air. Solar wind mills give you space cancer.
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Marsupial Ape posted:Solar wind mills give you space cancer. I wonder if there's still Flat Earthers in the 2300s. "NO ANDORIANS ARE JUST PAID ACTORS"
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Arivia posted:I wonder if there's still Flat Earthers in the 2300s. "NO ANDORIANS ARE JUST PAID ACTORS" "That one's real name is Jeffrey Combs!!!"
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Marsupial Ape posted:Solar wind mills give you space cancer. The solar wind kills all your birds of prey.
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Fighting Trousers posted:"That one's real name is Jeffrey Combs!!!"
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Fighting Trousers posted:"That one's real name is Jeffrey Combs!!!" "And this Mr. Combs is also a Vorta, a Tellarite, and a... Re-animator, is that correct?" says the psychiatrist.
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Animal-Mother posted:"And this Mr. Combs is also a Vorta, a Tellarite, and a... Re-animator, is that correct?" says the psychiatrist. No, no there was this alien race called the Progenitors you see, and along time ago they seeded planets all around the galaxy with their DNA and um the Progenitors were an alien race that looked a lot like Jeffery combs I guess? So that's why all these aliens look like Jeffery Combs. I'm not crazy i tell you, I'm not crazy!!!!
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Pulaski owns because she boned Riker's dad and then didn't care to tell Riker about it because it's none of his business
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Pulaski just owned in general. Other than with treating infectious diseases. God that episode had some dumb medicine in it.
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Fighting Trousers posted:"That one's real name is Jeffrey Combs!!!" Needs to be said by a character played by Tracy Morgan.
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CPColin posted:Pulaski owns because she boned Riker's dad and then didn't care to tell Riker about it because it's none of his business It almost, ALMOST redeems her for all the smirking shittiness towards Data.
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feedmyleg posted:Ate there any good Trek Discord servers? I’m sure there are a lot of them out there, dunno how many are good. I’ve been in this one for a while. Which I guess is maybe the biggest one? https://discord.gg/startrek I’d kind of like to find a smaller one.
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Q Who: WELL. No surprises for who guest stars here. The big surprise (for me) is the introduction of the Borg, in an episode that starts off with Ensign Cutesy McFlibertygibbets dousing Picard with hot chocolate no less. It is a pretty fantastic intro, even if honestly, I've always been of the opinion that their whole vibe in ship and costuming was "whatever scraps we've got knocking about in the effects department bins" or, to annoy my hardcore Trek loving IRL mates, "poo poo Cybermen". I have seen BoBW and First Contact (also, Picard S3, which finally convinced me I needed to try this show) so I'm not entirely unfamiliar, I just didn't realise they came in this early. That big pull out on the massive matte painting is wondrous stuff. Great sense of oncoming doom to it in that ending. Lastly, Ron Jones' score:  The Samaritan Snare: Somebody a while back mentioned an episode where Troi is conveniently off the bridge just long enough for them to dump Geordie in the poo poo. Well, that's this one! While it has small problems (I know the Enterprise is suddenly on a time limit, but the whole Pakled thing resolves without them at least getting a "Ha, gently caress you" or any kind of rebuke), I enjoyed the quiet stuff with Picard and Wesley in the shuttle. The Pakleds themselves are so DORKY, I can't help but love them. Ensign Chococidal McManiac is back too, weirdly? Is she a low key constant recurring character like O'Brien or more a Janice Rand "just in this handful of episodes, gone and forgotten soon after"?
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Sonya Gomez is, uh, both? I don't think she's in too many TNG episodes, but she does come back later in Lower Decks. As do the Pakleds.
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Yeah, those are the only two TNG episodes Gomez appears in. She got a bigger role in the novels and then came back for a Lower Decks spot.
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Sonya Gomez is from Mars and has three boobs.
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8one6 posted:Sonya Gomez is from Mars and has three boobs. This is only something Arnold Schwarzenegger day dreamed about because he was bored at his construction worker gig before be became an actor. Turns out he never actually went to mars at all. The lies he told himself in the 80's!!!!
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MuddyFunster posted:Q Who: WELL. No surprises for who guest stars here. The big surprise (for me) is the introduction of the Borg, in an episode that starts off with Ensign Cutesy McFlibertygibbets dousing Picard with hot chocolate no less. It is a pretty fantastic intro, even if honestly, I've always been of the opinion that their whole vibe in ship and costuming was "whatever scraps we've got knocking about in the effects department bins" or, to annoy my hardcore Trek loving IRL mates, "poo poo Cybermen". I have seen BoBW and First Contact (also, Picard S3, which finally convinced me I needed to try this show) so I'm not entirely unfamiliar, I just didn't realise they came in this early. That big pull out on the massive matte painting is wondrous stuff. Great sense of oncoming doom to it in that ending. Lastly, Ron Jones' score: The Pakleds make a return in several episodes of Lower Decks, where they've stolen and scavenged so much stuff that their ships are a legitimate threat.
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Roadie posted:The Pakleds make a return in several episodes of Lower Decks, where they've stolen and scavenged so much stuff that their ships are a legitimate threat. That scene where they rip the Solvang to pieces still takes my breath away
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MuddyFunster posted:The Samaritan Snare: Somebody a while back mentioned an episode where Troi is conveniently off the bridge just long enough for them to dump Geordie in the poo poo. Well, that's this one! While it has small problems (I know the Enterprise is suddenly on a time limit, but the whole Pakled thing resolves without them at least getting a "Ha, gently caress you" or any kind of rebuke), I enjoyed the quiet stuff with Picard and Wesley in the shuttle. The Pakleds themselves are so DORKY, I can't help but love them. Ensign Chococidal McManiac is back too, weirdly? Is she a low key constant recurring character like O'Brien or more a Janice Rand "just in this handful of episodes, gone and forgotten soon after"? A small part I like about Samaritan Snare is the lighting in the shuttlecraft. It probably didn't turn out as well on TVs with poor reception back then but I like that there were options for lighting besides the bland office lighting that every set took on in late TNG.
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MuddyFunster posted:Ensign Chococidal McManiac is back too, weirdly? Is she a low key constant recurring character like O'Brien or more a Janice Rand "just in this handful of episodes, gone and forgotten soon after"? I believe the plan was to have her and Geordi to become an item. Not great to have him date a subordinate, but I really liked her and was sad not to see more of her. The actress, Lycia Naff, had to get a short haircut for a different movie or show, and asked someone higher up at Star Trek if that was okay, and got a greenlight. When she'd had the cut, they were suddenly all "what did you dooooo" and cut her from the show.
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CPColin posted:That scene where they rip the Solvang to pieces still takes my breath away That's an amazing scene. I love the tonal shift from joking about that new starship smell to... that. poo poo just got real and there are real stakes in this episode. It helps that the slow pan over the aftermath is so eerily beautiful. Once of the best pieces of art direction in all of Star Trek, it has a deep impact on the viewer and gives them time to be emotionally ready for what happens afterwards. I'm putting that episode on, it's good y'all.
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MikeJF posted:snip Chilling.
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mllaneza posted:That's an amazing scene. I love the tonal shift from joking about that new starship smell to... that. poo poo just got real and there are real stakes in this episode. It helps that the slow pan over the aftermath is so eerily beautiful. Once of the best pieces of art direction in all of Star Trek, it has a deep impact on the viewer and gives them time to be emotionally ready for what happens afterwards. you're coming dangerously close to suggesting star trek is a good show. on the internet. in 2023. do you want to retract this obviously wrong opinion before youtubers eat you alive
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Arivia posted:you're coming dangerously close to suggesting star trek is a good show. on the internet. in 2023. do you want to retract this obviously wrong opinion before youtubers eat you alive gently caress them, star trek owns
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davidspackage posted:The actress, Lycia Naff, had to get a short haircut for a different movie or show, and asked someone higher up at Star Trek if that was okay, and got a greenlight. When she'd had the cut, they were suddenly all "what did you dooooo" and cut her from the show. That is unbelievably lovely. Well, that's unsettling. "Hahaha, comedy claw arm got the ship, how sill-JESUS CHRIST". I imagine that crew went into the situation like "Oh, it's those jackasses, this'll be a cinch."
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The reason it explodes in a line like that is that the arm grabs the nacelle just before they try to jump to warp and escape, and the nacelle is crushed/ripped off right as they make the warp jump and it smears them across space.
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Arivia posted:you're coming dangerously close to suggesting star trek is a good show. on the internet. in 2023. do you want to retract this obviously wrong opinion before youtubers eat you alive  It's time for everyone's favourite game: Trek Showrunner or Internet Nazi! You have three guesses to pick who in that picture is the actual for real Star Trek showrunner, the rest are avowed white supremacist YouTubers. Choose wisely.
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MuddyFunster posted:That is unbelievably lovely. That's was actually more common occurrence than many would guess, and its not unusual for the actors to have a clause in their contract saying that they aren't allowed to do major changes to their looks without getting OK'd by the studio because this happened: https://www.cinemablend.com/television/2440169/keri-russell-was-responsible-for-felicitys-infamous-haircut
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