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Spock using telepathy through a wall is not something that became a regular part of the canon, is it?
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Hell, ESP in general got largely dropped outside of betazoids, didn't it? Makes sense since TOS came out during that time when it was a relatively mainstream belief that ESP in humans was real.
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Aug 24, 2023 13:18
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Atlas Hugged posted:Spock using telepathy through a wall is not something that became a regular part of the canon, is it? If it is then so is Spock hypnotising people by staring at them.
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Aug 24, 2023 13:19
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He sensed V'ger from Vulcan in TMP
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Aug 24, 2023 13:27
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TheDeadlyShoe posted:He sensed V'ger from Vulcan in TMP And the death of 400 Vulcans on the Intrepid. Vulcan telepathy has always been able to be distant when something is strong enough.
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Aug 24, 2023 13:37
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Didn't whatsherface imply that it was his human side that picked up on V'ger though?
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Aug 24, 2023 14:23
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It was his Vulcan side that made him physically able to, it was his human side that made him receptive.
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Aug 24, 2023 14:30
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In A Taste of Armageddon he controls a guard through a wall.
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Aug 24, 2023 14:45
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MuddyFunster posted:I cannot imagine the sweaty fury between parts 1 and 2 of Best of Both Worlds, holy poo poo I would have exploded. He looks at me, really pissed, and said, "I've been waiting six months to find out how that turns out, and here you are stumbling into it by accident!" I don't remember for sure but I'm pretty certain the TV station (the entities that used to control what you could watch at any given time on one of four different channels) played part 1 right before part 2, because I wouldn't have been as blown away by the show if it had been the recap plus part 2.
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Aug 24, 2023 14:55
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I couldn't even tell you how many years I waited between the end of ReBoot season 2 and seeing season 3. Apparently it was a three year gap and I guess it was five years for me because event though ReBoot season 3 aired in 1999, I didn't know it existed until 2001.
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Aug 24, 2023 15:35
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Why can't they teleport whole ships inside, why dock at all?
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Aug 24, 2023 17:51
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Khanstant posted:Why can't they teleport whole ships inside, why dock at all? I faintly recall Picard once ordering a shuttle to be beamed into the shuttlebay, but they couldn't do it because reasons. It may have been that time in the episode Coming of Age when a teenager stole the shuttle and was going to go join the circus or something. Not 100% sure of that though.
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Aug 24, 2023 18:00
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Yeah we've seen them beam mid size shuttles a few times, but that seems to be the upper limit of size for the Federation. Other civilisations can do more. The Voth beamed Voyager inside.
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Aug 24, 2023 18:09
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If the Voth Tuvix a starship, does it also Tuvix the crew?
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Aug 24, 2023 18:11
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TheDeadlyShoe posted:If the Voth Tuvix a starship, does it also Tuvix the crew? They reverse Tuvixed the whole ship and crew in an episode of Red Dwarf, so surely the inverse is possible.
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Aug 24, 2023 18:22
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Boxturret posted:They reverse Tuvixed the whole ship and crew in an episode of Red Dwarf, so surely the inverse is possible.
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Aug 24, 2023 18:47
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Actually the original stayed too, so it was more of a Thrivix situation.
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Aug 24, 2023 18:56
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 Ep 5 of season 2, "Cardassians," is a good one, but I feel like this Dickheadian cellphone salesman unnecessarily muddies the plot at the start of the episode by telling Bashir that the Cardassian orphan, Rugal, is regularly beaten and berated by his Bajoran foster parents. Not only does there seem to be no truth to these statements at all, but we never find out why Clever Glans feels the need to so confidently besmirch the parents. The long con of Gul Dukat's feels like a bit of a stretch too - "let's dump my political rival's thought-to-be-dead son in a Bajoran orphanage and hopefully we'll be able to do something useful with that in a few years". I suppose you could see it as just having been Dukat's revenge at the time, not wanting to actually kill the kid but still robbing the guy of his heir. The episode does a lot to start developing the Cardassians and their society more, and I like how bleakly it ends - Rugal goes home with the father he neither knows nor wants, and his father blows off Sisko's suggestion he might do something about the other abandoned Cardassian war orphans - since, as Garak states earlier, orphans have no status in Cardassian society.
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Aug 24, 2023 19:10
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Ok so I've been convinced to watch a small portion of Voyager with my wife. It's gonna be a combination big story beats, high points and hate watching, and I'm not watching more than ten episodes (not counting two parters). What changes would y'all make to this list? 1x1 Caretaker 2x15 Threshold 2x23 The Thaw 2x24 Tuvix 3x26 Scorpion 4x8 Year of Hell 5x1 Night 5x12 Bride of Chaotica 6x11 Fair Haven 6x17 Spirit Folk
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Aug 25, 2023 03:10
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I never appreciated this before because I've never watched TNG in order until now, but Wesley appearing out of nowhere in Parallels for the first time in two seasons is genuinely hilarious.
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Aug 25, 2023 03:27
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Body and Soul is hilarious.
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Aug 25, 2023 03:29
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Soul Dentist posted:Ok so I've been convinced to watch a small portion of Voyager with my wife. It's gonna be a combination big story beats, high points and hate watching, and I'm not watching more than ten episodes (not counting two parters). What changes would y'all make to this list? Drop Spirit Folk and do Endgame. You did the premiere, do the finale.
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Aug 25, 2023 04:08
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A friend of mine joined our Star Trek Adventures game without having any knowledge of any of the shows at all. She’s not really the type to take recommendations because she prefers to just explore stuff on her own, and somehow she settled on watching Voyager all the way through. So far she’s watched the entire first season in the span of only a few days and it’s honestly been really really fun watching her discover Trek staples like technobabble, nonsense science, etc. Voyager isn’t great Trek, but it’s easy to see why people find it so accessible.
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Aug 25, 2023 04:17
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Just watched Year of Hell. It’s a pretty good two-parter and Kurtwood Smith always makes a good villain, but the whole time it was driving me nuts that they never acknowledged that Kes had specifically warned Janeway about the Krenim previously. I’m sure I’m not the first to notice this. It seems like a pretty big oversight unless I’m missing something.
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Aug 25, 2023 04:43
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Soul Dentist posted:Ok so I've been convinced to watch a small portion of Voyager with my wife. It's gonna be a combination big story beats, high points and hate watching, and I'm not watching more than ten episodes (not counting two parters). What changes would y'all make to this list? I'd drop The Thaw or maybe Night and do a decent Doctor episode like Living Witness
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Aug 25, 2023 04:48
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Don’t even acknowledge the loving Irish town holodeck poo poo episodes let alone both of them
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Aug 25, 2023 05:41
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Just watched Year of Hell. It’s a pretty good two-parter and Kurtwood Smith always makes a good villain, but the whole time it was driving me nuts that they never acknowledged that Kes had specifically warned Janeway about the Krenim previously. I’m sure I’m not the first to notice this. It seems like a pretty big oversight unless I’m missing something. Yeah, I remember being really bothered by that. You put in some foreshadowing and then you don't even use it? TheDeadlyShoe posted:I'd drop The Thaw or maybe Night and do a decent Doctor episode like Living Witness I'd keep the Thaw but will also throw in my hat for Living Witness, cause it's probably my favorite Voyager episode.
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Living Witness is great not only because it's a good episode, but because it establishes that the doctor has a backup which, in the finest tradition of Voyager, they never acknowledge again.
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But also,jeeves posted:Don’t even acknowledge the loving Irish town holodeck poo poo episodes let alone both of them
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davidspackage posted:Yeah, I remember being really bothered by that. You put in some foreshadowing and then you don't even use it? They don’t really use the foreshadowing but there is a neat deliberate continuity trick - Seven ends up in a Jeffries tube loving around with the Krenim chroniton torpedo in Kes’ place. So Voyager’s actions between “Before and After” and “Year of Hell” change their response, and are what allows Voyager to set up their shields to negate the torpedos.
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The writers were also toying around with the idea of making Year of Hell a season long, but got blocked. So maybe the previous Kes episode had the previous idea in mind.
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davidspackage posted:Ep 5 of season 2, "Cardassians," is a good one, but I feel like this Dickheadian cellphone salesman unnecessarily muddies the plot at the start of the episode by telling Bashir that the Cardassian orphan, Rugal, is regularly beaten and berated by his Bajoran foster parents. Not only does there seem to be no truth to these statements at all, but we never find out why Clever Glans feels the need to so confidently besmirch the parents. What's weird is that we get another one of that guy's species later and it looks almost identical. And they use that same plot device later on with a "here's a person telling a definite lie that disappears" in Second Skin. I do think the plan he has makes sense because the Cardassians love wheels within wheels. First revenge is "your kid is gone, haha" second is "no they're not, here's another way to say gently caress you"
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What's a good holodeck hangout? Oh, I know, 19th century Ireland. Nothing bad happened at all!
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cenotaph posted:What's a good holodeck hangout? Oh, I know, 19th century Ireland. Nothing bad happened at all! the food scene was killer
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Eighties ZomCom posted:The writers were also toying around with the idea of making Year of Hell a season long, but got blocked. So maybe the previous Kes episode had the previous idea in mind. It was because serialization ultimately demanded that Voyager can't have a season-long arch, or even get a 3-episode TV movie which was the second attempt that was also blocked.
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Soul Dentist posted:6x11 Fair Haven
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You need to get Meld in there. Both for Neelix strangulation and for Brad Dourif
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Soul Dentist posted:Ok so I've been convinced to watch a small portion of Voyager with my wife. It's gonna be a combination big story beats, high points and hate watching, and I'm not watching more than ten episodes (not counting two parters). What changes would y'all make to this list? We should stop helping these peopel, you must watch it all as we did - or none. If you can't love trek at Spirit Folk you don't deserve it at BOBW!
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FlamingLiberal posted:Why do you hate your wife They watched all of Enterprise together, watching these two (or anything else from Voyager) should be a walk in the
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Watching all of Enterprise but only 10 episodes of Voyager is certainly a choice someone from the mirror universe would make. Maybe next they'll say they love all of Picard but will only watch the first season of TNG.
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