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Didn't they want to get well known Sci-fi authors in for Season 5? I think Greg Bear was named explicitly
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naem posted:season 5 could have been so fun I really love the (later canonized) planned upgrade to stick a connie-style core and deflector dish under the saucer to evolve it more towards the "traditional" Enterprise design.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I really love the (later canonized) planned upgrade to stick a connie-style core and deflector dish under the saucer to evolve it more towards the "traditional" Enterprise design. That's one of the very few good things PIC brought to us, it canonized the NX-1 Refit.
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alexandriao posted:Didn't they want to get well known Sci-fi authors in for Season 5? I think Greg Bear was named explicitly I don't get why this isn't standard practice, since that's how the original series worked. Did too much change in how TV episode scripts work between then and now?
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Jan 10, 2024 16:09
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Brawnfire posted:I don't get why this isn't standard practice, since that's how the original series worked. Did too much change in how TV episode scripts work between then and now? $$$ maybe? They must cost more than staff writers.
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Brawnfire posted:I don't get why this isn't standard practice, since that's how the original series worked. Did too much change in how TV episode scripts work between then and now? I think the great Quaalude of the Galaxy originally wanted only writers who hated Star Trek or had never heard of it for the follow-up series. Its pretty hard to be Scifi-writer and not have heard of Star Trek by this point.
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Jan 10, 2024 16:14
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And if you pick someone who hates Star Trek, you get a Trekkie
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I think it's cliquishness on the part of writers and producers. They have a personal interest in protecting their turf and the concept of TV writing as a unique skill they're good at.
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I just watched this 4k AI upscale video of DS9 and I've done something to the YouTube app that doesn't let me see comments or tell them they're wrong, so I'm here to tell you the AI made Sisko's head look like a condom. Also my keyboard doesn't like the word condom.
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Go home Dukat you're drunk
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LookieLoo posted:I just watched this 4k AI upscale video of DS9 and I've done something to the YouTube app that doesn't let me see comments or tell them they're wrong, so I'm here to tell you the AI made Sisko's head look like a condom. I don't think there will ever be a real HD release of DS9 unfortunately Best you can do is watch the DVDs they haven't updated since 2003 or Plex serve the filez to something hooked up to an old CRT TV and pretend you're getting a really clear broadcast signal and you are in the year 1996
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcYYq-s2lW0 This video is just about Star Trek and not in any way about anything else
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Brawnfire posted:I don't get why this isn't standard practice, since that's how the original series worked. Did too much change in how TV episode scripts work between then and now? first i'm going to be a dick and say that Enterprise ended like twenty years ago, and TV's changed since then, so it's not really "now" any more anyway that said reaching out to sci-fi writers had its own problems, because they weren't used to writing within the confines of television production, and entailed a lot of time going back and forth for re-writes. sometimes the staff had to just give up and re-write it themselves anyway, which led to harlan ellison's infamous decades-long grudge i'm not really sure how modern television production 'works' but the impression i get is that spec scripts just aren't a thing any more, you're either on staff or you're nobody.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:first i'm going to be a dick and say that Enterprise ended like twenty years ago, and TV's changed since then, so it's not really "now" any more anyway Star Trek: Picard Season 1 is what happens when you hire a bunch of accomplished and popular sci fi novelists to write and produce television. Oops.
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mysterious frankie posted:Also, as an English speaker, I’d prefer certain words to not be translated simply to save face. Not the best or most egregious example, but fireman jumps to mind. When I don’t think about the word, a fireman represents a skilled professional who helps keep the community safe. When I think about the word, it’s fire and man squashed together, like Trog of The Cave People was asked to come up with it while he was having an off day.
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Fireman is a silly word, not just because it's gendered, but the non gendered equivalent is FIRE FIGHTER. That's as badass as those guys genuinely deserve
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Fireman/garbage man/lawman/scatman makes me think they’re at least partially made of that thing, and they negotiate agreeable terms on our behalf with their respective domain.
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torres just told a robot she's an engineer but shouldn't she be a warpcoreineer by now, makes you think
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She meant to say she's an ingenue.
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She meant social engineer. She makes her living scamming old people out of their pensions
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Dabir posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcYYq-s2lW0 This guy gets it. I don't always agree with his reviews, but... he gets it. This is straight-up a good piece of Star Trek all by itself.
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mysterious frankie posted:Fireman/garbage man/lawman/scatman makes me think they’re at least partially made of that thing, and they negotiate agreeable terms on our behalf with their respective domain. Fireman draw their source of power and ultimately owe their allegiance to the elemental plain of fire this is also true for law, garbage and of course scat
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GolfHole posted:torres just told a robot she's an engineer but shouldn't she be a warpcoreineer by now, makes you think
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dr_rat posted:Green screen everything and and borrow sets from lower decks on the cheap. California-class but CGI (I was about to say real-life) instead of animated.
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naem posted:Fireman draw their source of power and ultimately owe their allegiance to the elemental plain of fire I think it’s pretty clear that lawmen do not in fact owe their allegiance to the law.
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Flipperwaldt posted:Are you saying that when Archer keeps whining about his father's engine, he's such a hick he isn't even using the right word for it? the robot called her a builder instead
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Those robots are like straight out of a 1970s Dr Who episode, they are so weird, I love them.
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trials and tribbleations is a silly episode
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Non Compos Mentis posted:trials and tribbleations is a silly episode I think you mean amazing episode
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The only DS9 my wife has ever seen. And then we had to watch the TOS original episode.
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John Wick of Dogs posted:Those robots are like straight out of a 1970s Dr Who episode, they are so weird, I love them. There's at least one shot where you can see the jaw or something moving behind the mask. I guess a lot of the practical effects budget was going towards Kes goo and salamander babies that season.
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alexandriao posted:Didn't they want to get well known Sci-fi authors in for Season 5? I think Greg Bear was named explicitly Blood Wine Music
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We're 3 episodes from finishing ds9. It's going to leave a void.
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Grey Cat posted:We're 3 episodes from finishing ds9. It's going to leave a void. In case you haven't seen it, Babylon 5 (AKA the other 1990s space station show) would be an excellent successor.
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I just got the Babylon 5 blu-ray set and annoyingly the pilot episode is on a bonus disc all on its own at the end of the stack, and not just included as the first episode of season 1. I know often with pilots that doesn’t matter but they explicitly reference stuff from the pilot through the series, including having a whole rear end character return to B5 later in the series from the pilot. First time I watched the series I didn’t see the pilot so it didn’t RUIN it but come on, just put it at the front, it improves the show by being there.
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Powered Descent posted:In case you haven't seen it, Babylon 5 (AKA the other 1990s space station show) would be an excellent successor. Noted! I didn't watch it.
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Grey Cat posted:We're 3 episodes from finishing ds9. It's going to leave a void. You can live with it. *sigh* you can, live with it. Computer, repeat that entire series.
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Gutcruncher posted:I just got the Babylon 5 blu-ray set and annoyingly the pilot episode is on a bonus disc all on its own at the end of the stack, and not just included as the first episode of season 1. Every time they reference stuff in the pilot that actually has any meaning they show the scene from the pilot. You're really not missing anything. I've still not even seen it and i've rewatched the show about a dozen times.
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yeah The Gathering is rough, it's a good example of how a pilot is not necessarily a first episode
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like how people today will start watching TOS and go "oh lmao they're already doing a clip show with The Menagerie" because streaming services put The Cage first and, well, no, the public never actually got to see The Cage until the 80s
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