STAR TREK: Picard's Assimilated Balls

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Facebook Aunt: Oct 4, 2008; wiggle wiggle

maybeadracula posted:

Discovery: heart in right place. Head up own rear end

So relatable.

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# ? Jun 5, 2024 21:04

blatman: May 10, 2009; 14 inc dont mez

if i was running a starship lost in the delta quadrant i would simply reroute holodeck power to a bank of replicators instead of suffering though a 10 year voyage of leola root burgers

# ? Nov 5, 2023 19:17

redshirt: Aug 11, 2007

Warp Speed on my mark....

4....3.........2........1.....

# ? Nov 5, 2023 19:17

Sedgr: Sep 16, 2007; Neat!

Powered Descent posted:

replicate a bunch of replicators

Rom. Though he is a genius.

# ? Nov 5, 2023 19:19

Soul Dentist: Mar 17, 2009

davidspackage posted:

Does the inside of the cup fan out too?

I imagine the madness of chasing your last drops of raktajino...

It does, meaning you have to quaff it like it was blood wine

# ? Nov 5, 2023 19:32

Apollodorus: Feb 13, 2010; TEST YOUR MIGHT

maybeadracula posted:

Discovery: heart in right place. Head up own rear end

Every other scene is a 5-minute monologue of a character processing their trauma.

I recognize that some people really want or need that but I�m not sure it�s what I want or need.

# ? Nov 5, 2023 19:35

gimme the GOD DAMN candy: Jul 1, 2007

discovery was trying to be prestige television despite how meaningless that term is. it didn't really have any other themes or ideas. it is completely hollow.

# ? Nov 5, 2023 19:38

Soul Dentist: Mar 17, 2009

Urghhh the speechifying is interminable and just embarrassing to have to listen to

# ? Nov 5, 2023 19:39

Powered Descent: Jul 13, 2008; We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

maybeadracula posted:

Discovery: heart in right place. Head up own rear end

Picard: heart up own rear end. Head is missing entirely.

# ? Nov 5, 2023 19:44

maybeadracula: Sep 9, 2022; by sebmojo

Apollodorus posted:

Every other scene is a 5-minute monologue of a character processing their trauma.

I recognize that some people really want or need that but I’m not sure it’s what I want or need.

I mean I actually agree that Discovery seems to fundamentally misunderstand what Star Trek is in exactly the same way Donald Trump doesn't know what dogs are for

But they occasionally put in a speech about Star Fleet or the Federation that seems like they at least know that they're supposed to think it's about something, just like Trump spent his life hearing expressions about dogs

they just have no goddamn clue how to show it because they seem not to understand it

edit: typos and poo poo

maybeadracula fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Nov 5, 2023

# ? Nov 5, 2023 19:53

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

Despite them saying it over and over, discovery couldn't convince me the federation was worth saving. So I'll argue rear end not in the right place.

# ? Nov 5, 2023 19:55

Apollodorus: Feb 13, 2010; TEST YOUR MIGHT

gimme the GOD drat candy posted:

discovery was trying to be prestige television despite how meaningless that term is. it didn't really have any other themes or ideas. it is completely hollow.

Yes this is exactly the problem. It is trying to make a concept developed for a different era of TV fit the mold of a new era.

But as SNW shows, you don�t have to do that.

However I am glad Discovery tried and (imo) largely failed because it was part of the process of reviving Trek in a new era. It has shown the people in charge of the franchise what does and doesn�t work.

# ? Nov 5, 2023 21:36

StrangersInTheNight: Dec 31, 2007; ABSOLUTE FUCKING GUDGEON

alexandriao posted:

I mean this sounds like a you problem. It doesn't break my immersion at all

Sorry for not being more clear - I don't have this problem, I'm saying that for the LD detractors, this is what happens. But that when you look at what Trek is, the referential nature is actually on point.

# ? Nov 5, 2023 21:47

davidspackage: May 16, 2007; Nap Ghost

Apollodorus posted:

However I am glad Discovery tried and (imo) largely failed because it was part of the process of reviving Trek in a new era. It has shown the people in charge of the franchise what does and doesn’t work.

That assumes that the people in charge have critical thinking skills.

Paramount guy: gotcha, folks don't like a black woman lead. Cancel Prodigy, order 3 more seasons of Picard and start making NFTs of Data's characters from the western episode

# ? Nov 5, 2023 21:50

Apollodorus: Feb 13, 2010; TEST YOUR MIGHT

davidspackage posted:

That assumes that the people in charge have critical thinking skills.

Paramount guy: gotcha, folks don't like a black woman lead. Cancel Prodigy, order 3 more seasons of Picard and start making NFTs of Data's characters from the western episode

Sounds like someone�s learned the rules of acquisition by heart.

# ? Nov 5, 2023 21:51

MikeJF: Dec 20, 2003

Tigey posted:

Although the docking pylons looked cool, from an 'in-universe' practical design perspective they probably should have pointed outward.

Yeah but consider: you're an alien designing around a spherical shield bubble and consider that more important.

Although I always thought they should've shown Cardassians docking in some wierd way that worked better on DS9 than regular ships. Like maybe they all dock vertically or something. Or there's just a that hangs over the pylon and most of the ship points outwards.

Powered Descent posted:

Replicators don't scale up very well. Remember that for most of the TNG era, they weren't much bigger than a microwave. (It wasn't until Prodigy that we saw one big enough to do an entire shuttlecraft.)

Even in prodigy the vehicle replicator can't just do a full craft. It's basically a bunch of replicator projectors on the ends of moving arms and they wave around drawing a preliminary scaffold and then slowly go over it replicating bit by bit for ages. It's closer to how a 3D printer extruder moves.

When they had a 5 minute time limit they had to set it to just replicate the hull and basic stabilisers and ignore literally everything else to get it done within that timeframe, it didn't even have seats.

# ? Nov 5, 2023 21:51

McSpanky: Jan 16, 2005

Apollodorus posted:

However I am glad Discovery tried and (imo) largely failed because it was part of the process of reviving Trek in a new era. It has shown the people in charge of the franchise what does and doesn�t work.

Actually you don't gotta hand it to em for getting everything wrong over and over again

# ? Nov 5, 2023 21:53

Apollodorus: Feb 13, 2010; TEST YOUR MIGHT

McSpanky posted:

Actually you don't gotta hand it to em for getting everything wrong over and over again

Nothing Discovery has made is as bad as Code of Honor or Repentance

# ? Nov 5, 2023 21:55

McSpanky: Jan 16, 2005

Apollodorus posted:

Nothing Discovery has made is as bad as Code of Honor or Repentance

How many war crimes did Captain Picard commit again

# ? Nov 5, 2023 21:59

MikeJF: Dec 20, 2003

Honestly probably quite a few if you wanna get technical

# ? Nov 5, 2023 22:00

Kwatz: Aug 14, 2008

Apollodorus posted:

Nothing Discovery has made is as bad as Code of Honor or Repentance

I mean sure, if we just ignore that they continually palled around with female space hitler through a major swath of the show.

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Der Kyhe: Jun 25, 2008

MikeJF posted:

Honestly probably quite a few if you wanna get technical

Yes, and Picard got his technical in Nemesis, so the system works.

# ? Nov 5, 2023 23:16

Tighclops: Jan 23, 2008; Unable to deal with it; Grimey Drawer

gimme the GOD drat candy posted:

discovery was trying to be prestige television despite how meaningless that term is. it didn't really have any other themes or ideas. it is completely hollow.

and when that didn't work they went OH poo poo and and brought in the Enterprise, because they realized they had driven away everybody but hardcore fans lmao. Empty poo poo.

# ? Nov 5, 2023 23:23