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This ad came across my facebook feed today and I can't expunge it from my brain
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V-Men posted:This ad came across my facebook feed today and I can't expunge it from my brain Tom Servo riffing the latest Axanar promo, presumably
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Jan 5, 2024 07:41
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Tighclops posted:To conservatives, Star Trek must look like a bunch of white dudes cruising through the universe in their living room while telling off random forehead aliens And some it's the time they're right!
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Jan 5, 2024 08:53
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Kirk did recite the Pledge of Allegiance then admonish the aliens for not following the true Consitution
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Jan 5, 2024 15:11
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Not only that, he interprets the Constitution to have a very broad application, including all peoples, even non-citizens. He's not a filthy communist but you still have to treat others by the laws you write.
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Jan 5, 2024 15:55
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Sash! posted:Kirk did recite the Pledge of Allegiance then admonish the aliens for not following the true Consitution Was that a result of a lost space probe or Dr. Contrivance's Law of Nazi Planet Development
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Jan 5, 2024 17:19
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The Doctor strikes again!
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Jan 5, 2024 17:39
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Sash! posted:Kirk did recite the Pledge of Allegiance then admonish the aliens for not following the true Consitution For decades people have said Spock's Brain was the dumbest TOS episode but that one was the worst piece of crap ever conceived in the show's entirety.
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Jan 5, 2024 17:43
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"they don't worship the sun, they worship the Son"
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Jan 5, 2024 17:58
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Feldegast42 posted:"they don't worship the sun, they worship the Son" Look, I can buy the Dr. Contrivance's Law of Nazi Planet Development thing. I can buy that Rome endured with minor social changes but major technological changes I can buy that the same social pressures and cultural mechanics gave rise to the same religious structures I cannot buy that their soldiers are walking around in lorica segmentata after the invention of machine guns
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Jan 5, 2024 18:07
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Oh no they just still wear that because they think it's sexy.
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Jan 5, 2024 18:08
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Crazy that all his theories were discredited on the same day that the holodeck was invented tho
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Jan 5, 2024 18:08
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Sash! posted:Look, I can buy the Dr. Contrivance's Law of Nazi Planet Development thing. Yeah not like there are any soldiers walking around in actual Rome these days in antique uniforms centuries after the invention of machine guns or anything
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Jan 5, 2024 19:47
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bennyfactor posted:Yeah not like there are any soldiers walking around in actual Rome these days in antique uniforms centuries after the invention of machine guns or anything Those uniforms are from 1914. They also have a non ceremonial blue uniform. They're not wearing a 2200 year old set of armor that was already replaced in antiquity.
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Jan 5, 2024 19:49
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DS9, "Children of Time": kind of awful all around! Shakaar gets booted due to Kira's backwards superstitions. Odo simps. The Defiant crew finds they're destined to crash 200 years in the past and find a no doubt horrifically incestuous colony. More and more of them start wanting to make it happen so that these people, who were never meant to exist, get to live! Creepy Oldo shows up to creep on Kira! He confesses his love and ruins the plan to have everyone get duplicated so they can condemn their duplicates to a life in isolation, forever away from friends and familt in this colony! Odo does not read the loving room and tells Kira he did this! Christ
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Jan 5, 2024 19:51
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davidspackage posted:DS9, "Children of Time": kind of awful all around! Shakaar gets booted due to Kira's backwards superstitions. Odo simps. The Defiant crew finds they're destined to crash 200 years in the past and find a no doubt horrifically incestuous colony. More and more of them start wanting to make it happen so that these people, who were never meant to exist, get to live! Creepy Oldo shows up to creep on Kira! He confesses his love and ruins the plan to have everyone get duplicated so they can condemn their duplicates to a life in isolation, forever away from friends and familt in this colony! Odo does not read the loving room and tells Kira he did this! The Enterprise version of this was actually way better.
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Jan 5, 2024 20:59
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I never loved the Odo Kira stuffFighting Trousers posted:The Enterprise version of this was actually way better. Yeah. Also the Visitor is a similar theme and structure and is one of the best ST episodes ever. I read somewhere that Odo confessing his love was a late addition to the script. There are some interesting hooks in the rest of the episode, basically everything except the Odo-Kira stuff was pretty cool. A bunch of kids who suddenly meet their Klingon Jesus after following for their whole lives what ever weirdo version of bush'idQ Worf handed down to his descendants. zoux fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Jan 5, 2024 |
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Jan 5, 2024 21:00
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Sash! posted:Kirk did recite the Pledge of Allegiance then admonish the aliens for not following the true Consitution  Even when TOS is bad it kinda owns
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Jan 5, 2024 22:18
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Sash! posted:Those uniforms are from 1914. They also have a non ceremonial blue uniform. Either this 1914 number you are citing is when the current pattern was decided on, or they reintroduced an old uniform that the definitely wore in the 1600s. All sorts of current militaries have honor guards and such that wear historic uniforms and some of them even carry current guns while wearing them, like in England. Of all the stupid things in that episode, the idea that maybe an ancient rome that still existed still put soldiers in an iconic uniform sometimes even though it's way outdated is hardly the worst of it. The worst is the set of knobs that says "boos, hisses, catcalls" like we're suddenly watching an episode of Adam West's Batman.
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Jan 5, 2024 22:46
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Fighting Trousers posted:The Enterprise version of this was actually way better. Is that the one with the Archer brain worms, or something else?
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Jan 5, 2024 22:54
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Jimbone Tallshanks posted:Is that the one with the Archer brain worms, or something else? You're thinking of Twilight. They're talking about E², where the NX-01 meets a version of itself that got thrown back in time like 200 years so they hung out in the Expanse and just inbred on the ship until they caught up with Enterprise in the present rather than pollute the timeline. So the tension of the episode is whether or not they're gonna repeat whatever threw Enterprise back in time to ensure that everyone from the timeloop gets to live, or make sure the accident doesn't happen so Archer and co can go on to save Earth from affiliation by the Xindi, and I think it's the captain of the timelost version of Enterprise who makes the call and sacrifices the ship so that Archer's NX-01 can stay in the present and continue the mission.
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Jan 5, 2024 23:01
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bennyfactor posted:Either this 1914 number you are citing is when the current pattern was decided on, or they reintroduced an old uniform that the definitely wore in the 1600s. All sorts of current militaries have honor guards and such that wear historic uniforms and some of them even carry current guns while wearing them, like in England. Of all the stupid things in that episode, the idea that maybe an ancient rome that still existed still put soldiers in an iconic uniform sometimes even though it's way outdated is hardly the worst of it. Wat. The satire of tv is the best part of the episode. Spock is like “but what if we communicate with the enemy instead of fighting guys in costume in a fake arena for others’ entertainment?” And the producers are like “then you’ll gently caress up our rating and we’ll torture you to death.”
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Jan 5, 2024 23:01
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Watched the rest of the last season of Lower Decks. I was not expecting *gestures wildly* all of that, but it was pretty neat and fun. Nice callbacks to TWOK in the finale as well.
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Jan 5, 2024 23:38
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zoux posted:I never loved the Odo Kira stuff It never worked for me because Odo is a fascist and I doubt Kira would have had anything to do with him beyond "I work with this rear end in a top hat" GATOS Y VATOS fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Jan 6, 2024 |
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Jan 5, 2024 23:41
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Arivia posted:Watched the rest of the last season of Lower Decks. I was not expecting *gestures wildly* all of that, but it was pretty neat and fun. Nice callbacks to TWOK in the finale as well. I wish Paramount would quit jerking us around with the blu-ray. Retailer announcement went out for a Dec 19th release and then it....just didn't happen. I grabbed the first 3 seasons while ago (along with Prodigy's season 1) since I don't trust these networks to keep anything around, especially with Paramount circling the financial drain.
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Jan 5, 2024 23:55
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V-Men posted:This ad came across my facebook feed today and I can't expunge it from my brain Huh. Is that a Belknap-class? zoux posted:Was that a result of a lost space probe or Dr. Contrivance's Law of Nazi Planet Development Hey now, the Nazi planet was due to a history professor deciding to try out his horribly wrong theories!
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Jan 6, 2024 00:24
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bennyfactor posted:The worst is the set of knobs that says "boos, hisses, catcalls" like we're suddenly watching an episode of Adam West's Batman. It's a real thing for crowd reaction, even of live events, to be completely faked up by foley artists. It was even a minor scandal in Finland a couple of months ago when it came out that ALL of the sound of televised cross-country skiing events, from the ski swish to the crowd cheering to that cowbell that some random person was banging, ALL of it is faked up. The modern Ancient Rome planet might not have had programmable MIDI keyboards, but they could certainly have tape loops of a given crowd reaction, which could be turned up and down in the mix to create any impression they want. (I'll grant you that the labels are comically big, but they wanted the viewers to be able to read them even if they had a lovely TV and terrible static-filled reception.)
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Jan 6, 2024 00:43
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davidspackage posted:DS9, "Children of Time": kind of awful all around! Shakaar gets booted due to Kira's backwards superstitions. Odo simps. The Defiant crew finds they're destined to crash 200 years in the past and find a no doubt horrifically incestuous colony. More and more of them start wanting to make it happen so that these people, who were never meant to exist, get to live! Creepy Oldo shows up to creep on Kira! He confesses his love and ruins the plan to have everyone get duplicated so they can condemn their duplicates to a life in isolation, forever away from friends and familt in this colony! Odo does not read the loving room and tells Kira he did this! Hell yeah I came to this thread just to discuss "Children of Time", and by discuss I mean the show should have gone hard and let Worf honor kill all the Sons of Mogh.
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Jan 6, 2024 09:55
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Sash! posted:They're not wearing a 2200 year old set of armor that was already replaced in antiquity. Never saw the episode but I mean if your going up against people who are using Phases and other stuff that can just vaporize pretty much anything bothering with Armour at all seems a bit useless in most cases. Really most person to person fire fights should be over in seconds at most.
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Jan 6, 2024 12:25
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lukevictorious posted:Hell yeah I came to this thread just to discuss "Children of Time", and by discuss I mean the show should have gone hard and let Worf honor kill all the Sons of Mogh. Especially if it's after the "time is their enemy" speech and they've finished the planting. He just shows up on the Defiant out of breath and covered in purple blood.
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Jan 6, 2024 18:14
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It's time, having watched start to finish ,for my children to see all good things.
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Jan 6, 2024 20:29
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The final episode of Season 2 of DS9, "The Jem'hadar," finally brings us into direct contact with agents of the Dominion for the first time. Hell of a season finale. I enjoyed the scene with Quark tearing into Sisko about his own prejudices against the Ferengi, and how humans used to be much worse. I also appreciate his single-minded pursuit of profit being what ends up tipping him off that the entire ordeal was just a set up to try and plant a spy on the station. RIP to the Odyssey and her crew.
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Jan 6, 2024 22:37
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Dysgenesis posted:It's time, having watched start to finish ,for my children to see all good things. Good you can finally get them started on Deep Space Nine
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Jan 6, 2024 22:37
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W.T. Fits posted:RIP to the Odyssey and her crew. I can't believe they blew up the enterprise! I'm going to send them a strongly worded letter.
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Jan 6, 2024 22:43
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Nominating "I cannot defeat this Klingon. All I can do is kill him" as the hardest loving line in any trek series
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Yeah I think about that a lot
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zoux posted:Nominating "I cannot defeat this Klingon. All I can do is kill him" as the hardest loving line in any trek series Quote the whole thing! "I yield. I cannot defeat this Klingon. All I can do is kill him, and that no longer holds my interest." Worf jobs for the whole sequence of being captured but it's for a point other than showing how badass the threat of the week is. A welcome change of pace.
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Jan 7, 2024 01:41
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Admiralty Flag posted:Quote the whole thing! Jobs? He wins every fight except for the last one, and that's likely only because the Jem Hadar were constantly throwing him into the ring. If he'd lost before that, he wouldn't have lasted to the boss fight.
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A.o.D. posted:Jobs? He wins every fight except for the last one, and that's likely only because the Jem Hadar were constantly throwing him into the ring. If he'd lost before that, he wouldn't have lasted to the boss fight. I stand corrected. I only remember him getting the poo poo beat out of him every time but forgot that he had to win to get there.
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