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My son, on Prodigy: Is this really Star Trek? There's nothing Star Trek about this. My son, as the Starfleet emblem is revealed on the door: IT'S STARFLEET. My son, at the end of the second episode: IT'S CAPTAIN JANEWAY! Looks like he's sold.
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Dec 25, 2023 14:56
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Yeah it starts out like it's a Star Wars kids show but Surprise motherfuckers, we're doing Star Trek! Get ready for some self improvement, Discovery, acceptance, compassion, and cooperation!
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Dec 25, 2023 16:14
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Prodigy is on US Netflix now too.
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Dec 25, 2023 18:13
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Railing Kill posted:The NPCs in Trek should either be the most chill or the most traumatized people in history. 
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Dec 26, 2023 02:56
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My son begged me to show him "Drone" after I described the premise. The episode opens with 7 and the Doctor talking about their upcoming away mission to a nebula. My son retorts, "I thought we already saw an episode about a nebula?"
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Dec 26, 2023 10:57
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Atlas Hugged posted:My son begged me to show him "Drone" after I described the premise. The episode opens with 7 and the Doctor talking about their upcoming away mission to a nebula. My son retorts, "I thought we already saw an episode about a nebula?" I don't think he's gonna be a Trekkie, sorry
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Dec 26, 2023 11:35
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To his credit he's currently walking around the living room pretending to fire quantum torpedoes at invisible aliens and he invented his totally originally do not steal species who created Species 8472 (who he is also obsessed with). Their only weakness are the Q. Janeway is his favorite captain, though he only has Pike and bits of Kirk and Picard to compare her to. He didn't really watch any DS9 with me so he's not on Team The Sisko (yet).
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Dec 26, 2023 12:45
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Janeway is my favourite captain too. She dealt with the most BS and had the hardest gig compared to comfortable Kirk, Pampered Picard, Mr God and a guy on a quantum leap vacation.
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Dec 26, 2023 17:25
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Khanstant posted:Janeway is my favourite captain too. She dealt with the most BS and had the hardest gig compared to comfortable Kirk, Pampered Picard, Mr God and a guy on a quantum leap vacation. I appreciate that in the Lower Decks episode where they call her out for murdering Tuvix, they also concede that she didn't really have any good options due to the circumstances. So while they are horrified that it was the solution she went with, they also don't condemn her for it. Tonight's DS9 episode is "Playing God," in which Jadzia acts as a mentor to a young Trill initiate, and also accidentally picks up a proto-universe that threatens to destroy the station. Nice to finally have a Jadzia focus episode where they actually let her do stuff and give her a chance to develop as a character as opposed to just having her be a prop that the plot revolves around.
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Dec 27, 2023 01:36
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W.T. Fits posted:Tonight's DS9 episode is "Playing God," in which Jadzia acts as a mentor to a young Trill initiate, and also accidentally picks up a proto-universe that threatens to destroy the station. Nice to finally have a Jadzia focus episode where they actually let her do stuff and give her a chance to develop as a character as opposed to just having her be a prop that the plot revolves around. It still feels a bit like she's a prop. They're so bad at writing her seriously
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Dec 27, 2023 11:16
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davidspackage posted:Speaking of controls, I watched the DS9 episode last night where the Defiant gets hit with sabotage, and because they can't use regular communicators, everyone's talking and repeating commands, and Nog has to repeat all of Sisko's commands to Engineering. I guess they were going for like a submarine style operation, but I'm really glad it was just for the one episode (I think?). That poo poo got real old, real fast. Except that's one of the most realistic parts of the series. Ever driven a warship from aft steering? All bridge commands are repeated back as standard procedure, even when you're not dealing with comms from completely different compartments of the ship.
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Dec 27, 2023 23:34
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Closed-loop communication. Everyone repeats orders back so it's confirmed it's been heard as said.
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Dec 28, 2023 00:17
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Have they considered using a sequence number and a checksum as well? They could write a "TCP/IP via Naval Officer" RFC for April Fools.
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Dec 28, 2023 00:36
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Jimbone Tallshanks posted:Closed-loop communication. Everyone repeats orders back so it's confirmed it's been heard as said. Naval lingo and protocol has you reply to orders with a two-element response: "I understand, and I will comply." Hence the stereotypical "Aye-aye!" It's also acceptable (and often better for clarity) to repeat or summarize the order in place of the first "aye". Fifteen years out of the Navy and I will still respond to the occasional request or instruction with "<request>, aye!" It's that ingrained.
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Dec 28, 2023 00:48
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As a brigade system veteran I use "heard" or "oui, chef" to this day
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Dec 28, 2023 03:50
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Naval lingo and protocol has you reply to orders with a two-element response: "I understand, and I will comply." Hence the stereotypical "Aye-aye!" It's also acceptable (and often better for clarity) to repeat or summarize the order in place of the first "aye". Ha, I've wound up doing this organically, just because my line manager is so incredibly rambling, imprecise, and absolutely exacting about what she wants. Can't blame me if it's not what you want, I echoed back what (I thought) you wanted and you agreed!
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Dec 28, 2023 05:09
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AlternateNu posted:Except that's one of the most realistic parts of the series. That's great! But I don't need it on my space show.
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Dec 28, 2023 08:06
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In tonight's episode of DS9, "Profit and Loss," it's easy to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of sand peas in this crazy quadrant. Not much to say here. Weird episode, but still fun. Plain, simple Garak was a delight, as he always is.
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Dec 28, 2023 08:19
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Quark sure does have some romantic flings over the course of the series.
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Dec 28, 2023 08:53
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davidspackage posted:That's great! But I don't need it on my space show. It does a good job of adding to the tension in BSG, which turns the space navy dial much higher.
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Dec 28, 2023 08:56
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Arivia posted:It does a good job of adding to the tension in BSG, which turns the space navy dial much higher.  Star Trek was best with the Navy vibe and the modern series could use more of it
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Dec 28, 2023 14:55
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Eason the Fifth posted:
But wait, they're a peaceful scientific and diplomatic corps...
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Dec 28, 2023 15:12
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My favorite episodes are the submarine ones. They're so good.
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Dec 28, 2023 15:15
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davidspackage posted:That's great! But I don't need it on my space show. They do it on every vehicle with more than one person involved in operation
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Dec 28, 2023 15:43
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Watching "Counterpoint" and this episode annoys me for the same reason that the Kazon did: the same people shouldn't be able to show up at multiple points along Voyager's path. It always makes Voyager feel like the stagnant point and the universe moving around it.
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Dec 28, 2023 15:48
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Arivia posted:It does a good job of adding to the tension in BSG, which turns the space navy dial much higher. I’ve said this before, but BSG is the most accurate portrayal of carrier life to ever grace the television.
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Dec 28, 2023 15:59
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This is easily the lamest conclusion to any episode of Voyager. Yeah sure fascism is incompetent and corrupt all the way down but come on. They'd be able to use Voyager to find the wormhole again which is presumably what they do after the episode ends. This guy would want revenge and would want it badly.
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Dec 28, 2023 16:10
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Just watched the 2022 Directors Cut of TMP. I love this god drat movie so much. My favorite Trek movie
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Dec 28, 2023 18:19
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A show that didn’t chicken out of doing season-long arcs could have a season featuring aliens with weird drive tech that let them keep up with Voyager, ultimately ending with Voyager either managing to steal that tech or moving beyond its effective area. Imagine if the aliens with the galaxy-wide transporters from season 1 wound up being the recurring antagonists, instead of it somehow being the Kazon again.
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Dec 28, 2023 22:12
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Almost anything would have been an improvement to Voyager. I'm just sitting here nodding saying "yeah that would've been cool. Mhm that too."
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Dec 28, 2023 22:26
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blastron posted:A show that didn’t chicken out of doing season-long arcs could have a season featuring aliens with weird drive tech that let them keep up with Voyager, ultimately ending with Voyager either managing to steal that tech or moving beyond its effective area. Imagine if the aliens with the galaxy-wide transporters from season 1 wound up being the recurring antagonists, instead of it somehow being the Kazon again.
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Dec 29, 2023 00:41
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Isn't the whole thing in Counterpoint that Voyager is going through these guys' territory and because they're so paranoid about telepaths they're stopping them every couple of days to inspect the ship? And they can't go around because it'd add years to their route?
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Dec 29, 2023 00:46
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Gaz-L posted:Isn't the whole thing in Counterpoint that Voyager is going through these guys' territory and because they're so paranoid about telepaths they're stopping them every couple of days to inspect the ship? And they can't go around because it'd add years to their route? Yes, but it's more like weeks between stops and the inspector always fucks off to some other locale to do another mission between inspections. Like imagine a truck crossing the United States at the Mexican and then Canadian borders. Unless the same patrol vehicle followed them the whole way, which doesn't happen because Janeway is able to rescue telepaths in their space, then you have to assume that they have a way to "fly" across their own territory. But this doesn't make sense given what we know about warp and transwarp technology. There's just a gap in logic there that's never really addressed.
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Dec 29, 2023 01:47
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Atlas Hugged posted:Yes, but it's more like weeks between stops and the inspector always fucks off to some other locale to do another mission between inspections. they kinda-sorta address it -- the inspector's assistant is constantly on Janeway about course deviations away from the route that the Devore imposed on them as the condition for allowing them to cross, and it sounds and looks like the route is circuitous enough that the inspector assigned to them can easily catch up to them by flying through regions that Voyager's not allowed to enter
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Dec 29, 2023 02:09
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Small Strange Bird posted:It shows what a bland unmemorable mush early Voyager was that I can't even recall who the galaxy-wide transporter guys were. I've seen every episode, but... e: The episode was Prime Factors.
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Dec 29, 2023 02:20
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I thought the telepath hating guys were in literally one episode?
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Dec 29, 2023 03:46
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Sash! posted:I thought the telepath hating guys were in literally one episode? They are, but it's weeks and possibly months of Voyager's journey.
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Dec 29, 2023 04:06
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Lord Hydronium posted:Everyone in their society was horny and an attractive woman teleported Harry alone to her special romance planet and all he could think about was the transporter. Hey, that's the sort of thinking that's going to get me promoted to Lieutenant (JG) someday!
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No spoilers but Paris was recently demoted and I suspect he'll get his pip back before Kim gets his second for the first time.
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