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zoux posted:Watching Waltz last night and it occurs to me that Dukat is basically Elon Musk. All he wants is to be liked and recognized for his (imagined) accomplishments and all the power or money in the quadrant can't make that happen. No Dignity posted:Dukat has charisma though And Dukat cares about his kids (I agree though that Dukat has become more and more believable in recent years)
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FlamingLiberal posted:RIP to the star of Robot Jox 
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davidspackage posted:And Dukat cares about his kids I don't think he does. I think he says he does and makes a big dieal about the bonds of family but he's lying...like a certain contemporary billionaire I could name.
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zoux posted:They aren't rocket pods! The Star Trek take on the SBY wave motion gun was the deflector weapon in Best of Both Worlds. "We're going to use all the power from the warp engine to power the weapon, so we can't move while firing it and it's going to make a big noise while charging and a big blue beam while it's firing." 
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Did that plan only fail because Picard/Locutus knew about it or would it have failed anyway. Seems lke it was trivial for the Borg to adapt to.
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zoux posted:I don't think he does. I think he says he does and makes a big dieal about the bonds of family but he's lying...like a certain contemporary billionaire I could name. You're probably right, his love is shown to be fairly self-centered, like with Ziyal. I'll reiterate: Dukat doesn't forget about his kids the exact instant their mother pops them out.
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zoux posted:Did that plan only fail because Picard/Locutus knew about it or would it have failed anyway. Seems lke it was trivial for the Borg to adapt to. The idea was that it'd be such a large amount of energy so fast that they'd 100% burn the cube out before the Borg had a chance to adapt. The concept was that they'd accidentally discovered a specific frequency that was the same as the cube's energy grid, so hitting it with that frequency overloaded their systems. When they assimilated Picard the Borg just changed the power grid frequency, presumably. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Jan 24, 2024 |
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zoux posted:Did that plan only fail because Picard/Locutus knew about it or would it have failed anyway. Seems lke it was trivial for the Borg to adapt to. Locutus even flat out styles on Riker about how the Borg knew how to stop it the second they assimilated Picard, so yes, the fatal flaw was letting Picard know what the plan was ahead of time, which, how the gently caress did they know he was gonna get assimilated?
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I think he was just being catty with that.
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I always wondered, are those like, floor windows in the saucer section?
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 Just big shallow ones. Good for brooding over while you look down at the planet under you.
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Also for impressing the member of the pre-warp civ you picked up in violation of the prime directive
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Cleaning detail absolutely includes getting some Windex and wiping rear end-prints off the lower saucer windows
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Hirogen being huge was cool but I get there are only so many huge dudes in Hollywood. Like how The Expanse only had a handful of people who looked like Belters are described in the books. Just not that many seven foot tall rail thin actors.
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Grand Fromage posted:Hirogen being huge was cool but I get there are only so many huge dudes in Hollywood. Like how The Expanse only had a handful of people who looked like Belters are described in the books. Just not that many seven foot tall rail thin actors. Doug Jones. Huh, you're right, it is a short list, ironically.
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Wemby is belter proportioned
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Phy posted:Cleaning detail absolutely includes getting some Windex and wiping rear end-prints off the lower saucer windows Do we still think that the Lower Decks showrunner lurks in this thread? Because this would be the best gag they'll ever do.
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MikeJF posted:
Always thought a neat use of the grav plating would be have the center line of the saucer be the grav plat, so to middle of the ship was "down". Making the bottom half of the saucer feel like the top.
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I just heard someone rate an episode as "not a homerun , but a double" and now I want to extrapolate that to a few seasons of star trek (26 episodes, 27 minimum at-bats in a game) and see what the score is.
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MillennialVulcan posted:I just heard someone rate an episode as "not a homerun , but a double" and now I want to extrapolate that to a few seasons of star trek (26 episodes, 27 minimum at-bats in a game) and see what the score is. 10-1 Logicians
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Jeffrey Combs is probably gonna have a great RBI.
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Jimbone Tallshanks posted:Jeffrey Combs is probably gonna have a great RBI. He's definitely got a high WAR
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Soul Dentist posted:10-1 Logicians Given the tone of the episode it’s honestly surprising the score was only 10-0 in the 9th. Jake and Nog must have been a hell of a pitching team.
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Doesn't baseball have some kind of mercy rule where if one team is far enough ahead by like the 5th or 6th inning, the game is called in the leading team's favor?
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Kibayasu posted:Given the tone of the episode it’s honestly surprising the score was only 10-0 in the 9th. Jake and Nog must have been a hell of a pitching team. I figure baseball has had a few rule changes before it went extinct and/or the Vulcans went for the most efficient plays and did the most logical thing instead of taking risks. I assume they walked Worf and Bashir if the bases were empty or close to it.
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Little League does. Everything else is "deal with it" even if you give up 13 runs in the first three innings like the Rockies did last season, before losing 25-1
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Atlas Hugged posted:I dunno, it seems like Paris is the one writing Captain Proton and he usually knows the solutions to the problems in the stories, but he still has to physically accomplish them despite that. There's a degree of AI throwing curve balls at the players, but it also seems like if you want to play out a specific fantasy of your own design, you can do that too. lol the idea of Barclay losing the duels in his own holodeck power fantasy would be amazing
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zoux posted:Vulcans are what, twice as strong as a human? No more like 8x. Spock smashing the computer like it was aluminum foil is a good demonstration.
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I think it's a mistake to have humans as the weakest of all the major species because they don't lean into that ever. We see tons of human starfleet officers go toe to toe with Klingons, who would never lose in a hand-to-hand fight against a human, it would be like you or I fighting a six year old. I guess Starfleet Kung-fu is the perfect scientific martial art
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davidspackage posted:I imagine Vorta are quite fragile. They'll just shoot us with their energy ball telekinesis. Remember that? Yeah, me neither.
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MikeJF posted:On DS9 they say it's 3x. The green ones are 3x stronger?!
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MikeJF posted:I bet we can whup a Tellarite's rear end though. given their disposition they probably get a lot of rear end whoopins
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zoux posted:I think it's a mistake to have humans as the weakest of all the major species because they don't lean into that ever. We see tons of human starfleet officers go toe to toe with Klingons, who would never lose in a hand-to-hand fight against a human, it would be like you or I fighting a six year old. I guess Starfleet Kung-fu is the perfect scientific martial art Yeah it was a dumb idea that they pretend doesn't exist most of the time.
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