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Lemniscate Blue posted:One of TNG's more bizarre celebrity cameos. Holy poo poo even now I can still learn something new about Star Trek.
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Grand Fromage posted:It's especially funny having Chakotay say that line since I think he personally blew up more shuttles than any other crew member. Chakotay just loudly insisting they still have a full compliment of shuttles anytime anyone brings up all his crashes.
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Aug 1, 2023 05:31
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Angry Salami posted:Chakotay just loudly insisting they still have a full compliment of shuttles anytime anyone brings up all his crashes. They have a shuttle bay full of cardboard stands to look like it's full of shuttles. Every time Chakotay is about to enter, they call him away so he can't see just how few shuttles they have left.
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Aug 1, 2023 08:46
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They've actually just been using all the life-crafts when they ran out of shuttles. They were drat lucky they never run into any space icebergs.
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Aug 1, 2023 10:12
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I mean, they have replicators and a bunch of crew that probably lost their primary purpose when they got stranded. Exobotanist you say? That's Delta Quadrant for shuttle builder!
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Aug 1, 2023 11:05
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The voyager sequel introducing the vehicle replicator was pretty obviously a response/wink to it.
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Arivia posted:honestly the canon issue here is like i can't even imagine cromwell's cochrane going and living somewhere else. taking his ship there? absolutely. but that guy is ride or die for his lovely post-apocalyptic bar. Only because he couldn’t leave. he says himself he was outta there the moment he could find a tropical paradise to retire to. Idk if we’ve ever seen Alpha Centauri up close in Trek, maybe it’s really nice! Besides, you gotta figure the moment everyone heard Zefram Cochrane built FTL ship and met aliens, everyone he owed money came looking for him.
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Aug 1, 2023 12:19
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So why jazz?
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Aug 1, 2023 12:41
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Atlas Hugged posted:Iggy Pop. I did not see that coming. Was he a fan of the show or something? Pretty much he wanted to do something, Behr et al. really wanted him to do something, but they had to wait for him to get hurt and stop touring. They were a bit dismayed that all they had for him when he was finally available was a Vorta, but he gave the perfect performance for the episode IMO.
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Aug 1, 2023 14:50
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So odd to see Shives without his trademark cap.
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Aug 1, 2023 15:08
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Atlas Hugged posted:So why jazz? (i assume you mean in regards to riker, picard season 3 muddied this by having shaw use jazz as a comparison to his command style, which he said was like classical music, in reference to admiral picard while riker was also in the room, but gently caress that show) the short answer is that jonathan frakes is a jazz trombonist and the writers incorporated that into his character the longer answer is somewhat similar to the picard reference, i think it was intended to show a stylistic personality difference between riker and picard. at first picard was shown to be somewhat strict, regimental and, well, classical. in contrast to riker, picard is often shown listening to, playing or appreciating classical music. riker is usually improvising and bopping all over the place while smoking funny cigarettes
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Aug 1, 2023 15:23
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I just mean like in general. The musical tastes of the crew are somewhat eclectic I guess. I suppose it gets around copyright issues and trying to predict what would be popular contemporarily.
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Aug 1, 2023 15:26
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Pretty much those two reasons, yeah. Even if you have them listen to music from the era the show is being made in, it's hard to predict what'll last and what'll be forgotten this time next year.
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Aug 1, 2023 15:30
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Atlas Hugged posted:I just mean like in general. The musical tastes of the crew are somewhat eclectic I guess. Jazz is a true American art form!
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Aug 1, 2023 15:35
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There was a commercial resurgence of jazz in the late 80's in the form of smooth jazz, so it was a genre that sounded modern at the time but with enough of a legacy that it wouldn't be completely weighed down by shifting contemporary trends Now I'm imagining if TNG came out about 5 years later and Riker is into swing revival
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Aug 1, 2023 15:44
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Helm, Warp 5, pickitup pickitup pickitup!
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Aug 1, 2023 15:46
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You couldn't rent new episodes of DS9 at Blockbuster wtf
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zoux posted:You couldn't rent new episodes of DS9 at Blockbuster wtf When I say 'new' I mean 'this was the first time it was possible to see them by any method in Australia even though they were probably several years old by that point'. There's a reason we adopted internet piracy so eagerly.
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Aug 1, 2023 16:15
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They'd have like a VHS with three episodes from two different seasons
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Aug 1, 2023 16:20
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It was always two episodes with a weird face staring at you
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Aug 1, 2023 16:24
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MikeJF posted:When I say 'new' I mean 'this was the first time it was possible to see them by any method in Australia even though they were probably several years old by that point'. Doing battle with DS9's 11:00pm Thursday night broadcast that was constantly delayed by one of the worst variety shows on Earth running over time every week was a right of passage
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Aug 1, 2023 16:25
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Seemlar posted:Doing battle with DS9's 11:00pm Thursday night broadcast that was constantly delayed by one of the worst variety shows on Earth running over time every week was a right of passage Mine was 1 am on Saturday mornings. I'd watch it after I got off work Friday night waiting tables. TNG was a more sensible mid-afternoon Saturday. I can still remember watching Frame of Mind on a terrible 13in TV at the laundromat because our washing machine broke and my mom had to drag us all down there.
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Aug 1, 2023 16:34
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The original series two-episode VHS tapes seemed to always pair a good episode with a crappy one. And the crappy one usually went first, requiring a bunch of fast-forward-stop-play-stop-rewind-play just to find the beginning of it. The single releases, where each episode had its own tape, were much nicer. It would have taken up more shelf space that way if you wanted a complete collection, but who had money for that? I just wanted to own my favorite few.
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Aug 1, 2023 17:23
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The worst combo in that picture is the The Muse and For the Cause, and For the Cause is actually pretty good. It is season 4 so it's pretty much nothing but bangers.
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Aug 1, 2023 17:24
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 I don't remember the episode where Nicholas Cage and Saruman got fused in the transporter.
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Aug 1, 2023 17:32
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BonHair posted:I mean, they have replicators and a bunch of crew that probably lost their primary purpose when they got stranded. Exobotanist you say? That's Delta Quadrant for shuttle builder! Go down deep enough on Voyager, and you come across an assembly line where crewmembers do nothing but build shuttles, all day long. Don't ask why they're dressed in spiked leather. There's also a wheel that just gets pushed in circles while a big, deformed overseer cracks a whip at the thralls pushing it. Nobody knows what it does.
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Aug 1, 2023 17:45
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thotsky posted:
Lol at the fake emissary guy getting his own cover
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Aug 1, 2023 17:56
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davidspackage posted:Go down deep enough on Voyager, and you come across an assembly line where crewmembers do nothing but build shuttles, all day long. Don't ask why they're dressed in spiked leather. The astronaut picture but with Janeway holding a phaser to some poor Ensign's head.
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Aug 1, 2023 18:11
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MikeJF posted:It was always two episodes with a weird face staring at you lol odo from "broken link" looks like he's turning into a tree zoux posted:The worst combo in that picture is the The Muse and For the Cause, and For the Cause is actually pretty good. It is season 4 so it's pretty much nothing but bangers. yeah most of those pairings are pretty good, not really surprising because season 4 is overall really good. drat, what a good show
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Aug 1, 2023 18:16
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davidspackage posted:There's also a wheel that just gets pushed in circles while a big, deformed overseer cracks a whip at the thralls pushing it. Nobody knows what it does. ....It waters the Leola root? Duh?
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Aug 1, 2023 18:19
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He was more than a hero https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1686424148552175641 He was a union man
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Aug 1, 2023 18:31
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davidspackage posted:There's also a wheel that just gets pushed in circles while a big, deformed overseer cracks a whip at the thralls pushing it. Nobody knows what it does. That's the thing that powers the warp core ejector. That's why warp core ejection is always off line. Ship gets hit and the slaves just get scattered all over the place.
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Peak Performance: Oh, yet another silly incomprehensible Star Trek SUPER FUTURE GAME. Also there is a big simulated space battle that swiftly goes down the shitter once the Ferengi show up and things get real. Real dull that is. And finally, I hit the grand finale, Shades of Grey. A fairly boring "Oh no, Riker's infected by spikey thingy" medical drama that quickly becomes a tiresome clip show where he beats the infection through the power of disjointed scenes from earlier episodes. What a wet fart of a season end. I think more than any, that might well be the worst I've seen so far. Overall, my opinion of Season 2? Some well good stuff in there, some flickers of the brilliance. Measure of a Man and Q Who are truly great, but there's also a clutch of absolute trainwrecks. Outrageous Okona, I've no time for. Up the Long Ladder, get screwed. The aforementioned Shades of Grey, BOLLOCKS. Unnatural Selection, I was actually close to drifting off to sleep and my only abiding memory of it is Pulaski's dumb wrinkly face and how nobody questioned the moral implications of the super children. God, actually, I think that might have been the worst. I'm torn. Still, everything in between "poo poo" and "great" was watchable and comfortable. I'm looking forward to experiencing the legendary Season 3 for the first time. And having Beverly back, her absence has been palpable.
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Aug 1, 2023 23:42
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Sash! posted:That's the thing that powers the warp core ejector. That's why warp core ejection is always off line. Ship gets hit and the slaves just get scattered all over the place. The first time they ejected the warp core in voyager my friends and I were laughing about how the drat thing finally worked.
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Aug 1, 2023 23:55
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Shades of Gray is a clip show they had to scramble to put together after they blew the production budget. It’s intentionally just filler.
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Aug 2, 2023 00:34
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I try really hard not to skip episodes when I'm watching through because I'll just inadvertently skip everything, but I always skip Shades of Grey without hesitation. It's funny because The Menagerie has to be one of the greatest clip shows around, so Star Trek really runs the gamut.
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Aug 2, 2023 01:03
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I watched Profit and Lace last night before bed. Huh. That was an episode of Star Trek.
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Aug 2, 2023 01:07
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lol yep
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Aug 2, 2023 02:01
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God drat this show hates O'Brien.
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