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Mx. posted:finally watching SNW and drat those klingons look hella good 
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Big Mean Jerk posted:https://twitter.com/mikemcmahantm/status/1751343787111272761?s=46&t=YuqSROOCXrcRx1gn_5vV7Q 
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*points phaser pistol* Always have been.
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mycomancy posted:Excuse me, I'm gonna need you to elaborate on this. It's a SM urban legend that there's a desk in the airport in Austria for people who think they'd booked a ticket to Australia. The fact that it's so disturbingly plausible says a lot about how stupid we tend to think the 'average' person is to not be able to tell the difference between 'Austria' and 'Australia' and also how easy it is to gently caress up travel. But honestly, yeah, a society where everybody is used to things like transporter portals and reprogrammable matter would probably look, to an outsider visiting for the first time, like Harry getting to Hogwarts of Mario actually trying to navigate the Mushroom Kingdom capitol city in the Mario movie.
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TheCenturion posted:It's a SM urban legend that there's a desk in the airport in Austria for people who think they'd booked a ticket to Australia. It's not uncommon for people travelling in Canada to end up in St John NB when they wanted to go to St John's NL. Also I had a package that got routed to the Netherlands, when I was living in Newfoundland. Hooray for having only 2 characters for both Country and Province.
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The look on people's faces when Amtrak rolls into Las Vegas, New Mexico, is pretty great though
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I got married in Panama and had one friend book a flight to Panama City, FL which was thankfully caught early enough to change without issue.
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To get back on topic, happy Threshold Day! https://twitter.com/TrekCore/status/1752019949265023148?t=z5uw2gSJl99UR0PNZ5RLZA&s=19
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:And the crews, remember Power Play? And the ship itself, as per Emergence.
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HUH, filming on Section 31 has commenced! I genuinely thought it would never happen, but here we are. https://twitter.com/thetrekcentral/status/1752391665518829693
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The_Doctor posted:HUH, filming on Section 31 has commenced! I genuinely thought it would never happen, but here we are. https://x.com/RoJoHen/status/1752392313316237546?s=20 Yes, that's right. And where exactly is Danny in For All Mankind?!
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That's... not actually a terrible cast list. Like all the money has clearly gone on Michelle Yeoh but there is some understated talent there.
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Sam Richardson!
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swickles posted:Sam Richardson!
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Nichael posted:https://x.com/RoJoHen/status/1752392313316237546?s=20 Both projects jettisoning their worst characters is absolutely a good thing. It’ll still be poo poo, but at least we won’t have to sit through anymore riveting Ash/Voq scenes.
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Face the sins of her past, like multiple genocides. Totally sins that can ever be faced and definitely should be worked through by someone continuing in a role of power with myriad ways to apply extreme violence.
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We are please to announce that filming has now concluded. Look forward to the full section 31 release later this week as a gif posted to twitter.
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Good for them. I'm glad they are getting to make this thing they've been trying for years.
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I don't know what lesson I'm meant to learn from space turbo-hitler being 'reformed'. It's just really uncomfortable that history's greatest monster is now part of their "found family". Like, it's an 10000x version of 'handing it to the taliban'. You can see the production bend everything around the fact that Yeoh is cool and wants to do a Star Trek. It's just hard to reconcile.
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well why not posted:I don't know what lesson I'm meant to learn from space turbo-hitler being 'reformed'. It's just really uncomfortable that history's greatest monster is now part of their "found family". It's especially frustrating because the easiest and best path forward for that character was right in front of them the whole time and it's Dukat. They could've just done the Gul Dukat arc again, complete with the mid-seasons good guy fakeout and heel turn. Even with these writers the basic structure of it and Michelle Yeoh's performance probably would've carried it through just fine or at least better than what actually happened. Just imagining them doing a version of Dukat's late night call to Kira about sleeping with her mom, that would've been worth it all by itself
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well why not posted:I don't know what lesson I'm meant to learn from space turbo-hitler being 'reformed'. It's just really uncomfortable that history's greatest monster is now part of their "found family". Not emptyquotin
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For contrast, in Stargate SG-1, Teal'c is the former right-hand-man of a big bad dude. Even that show has the werewithal to reveal / retcon that he hated his boss for a long time, and was working to undermine him and protect innocents in secret . Star Trek, working with the advantages of 20 years hindsight on this and a budget that would rival any, can't manage to jump out of the corner they've painted themselves into. In a series with multiple good/evil copies and clones and mirror universes and and and, we're still seeing that someone that genocides planets and eats sentient species is OK if they hang out for a bit.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:It’ll still be poo poo, but at least we won’t have to sit through anymore riveting Ash/Voq scenes. I ain't watching that poo poo. You don't have to either.
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Delsaber posted:It's especially frustrating because the easiest and best path forward for that character was right in front of them the whole time and it's Dukat. They could've just done the Gul Dukat arc again, complete with the mid-seasons good guy fakeout and heel turn. Even with these writers the basic structure of it and Michelle Yeoh's performance probably would've carried it through just fine or at least better than what actually happened. What they did with Dukat was dreadful and ruinous of the character. You couldn't pick a worse thing to claim they should replicate. Even minus the incompetent execution there's precisely zero interesting things about "This nuanced, uncomfortable character? Actually they're unrepentant ultra-Hitler"
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ashpanash posted:I ain't watching that poo poo. You don't have to either. Same. As a long-time Trek fan, I have zero interest in the S31 show. Hated the concept of S31 all the way back to when DS9 dreamed it up. Looking forward to more SNW and LDS.
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Accipiter posted:Same. As a long-time Trek fan, I have zero interest in the S31 show. Hated the concept of S31 all the way back to when DS9 dreamed it up. Grandpa did too much LDS in the '20s, now he won't stop shouting lOwEr dEcKs lOwEr dEcKs and won't take his shoes off before jumping in the pool
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Kesper North posted:Grandpa did too much LDS in the '20s, now he won't stop shouting lOwEr dEcKs lOwEr dEcKs and won't take his shoes off before jumping in the pool I hope my twilight years are that awesome.
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I liked the idea of it in DS9, it actually seemed like a truly independent thing from Starfleet who basically refused to stop them. I think about the scene at the end of the series when Bashir and O'Brien are in Sloan's mind and he tells them "there is no room with files and secrets like you see here" and that there is no central leader or place to take out. But since then, it has basically become the Federation Tal Shiar or Obsidian Order complete with having liason officers and such.
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swickles posted:I liked the idea of it in DS9, it actually seemed like a truly independent thing from Starfleet who basically refused to stop them. I think about the scene at the end of the series when Bashir and O'Brien are in Sloan's mind and he tells them "there is no room with files and secrets like you see here" and that there is no central leader or place to take out. But since then, it has basically become the Federation Tal Shiar or Obsidian Order complete with having liason officers and such. I've always maintained that if a Section 31 plot absolutely had to be done, I'd want to see the actual official Federation intelligence service dealing with S31 as a domestic threat.
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Yeah not interested in Space CIA with Space Hitler as one of it's members no matter how good of an actress Michelle Yeoh is.
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Seemlar posted:What they did with Dukat was dreadful and ruinous of the character. You couldn't pick a worse thing to claim they should replicate. The cartoon character Dukat in the last season and a half was bad, but the idea of him serving Cardassia during the occupation, and then pretending to serve Weimar Cardassia while being responsible for its downfall, that was good.
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Seemlar posted:What they did with Dukat was dreadful and ruinous of the character. You couldn't pick a worse thing to claim they should replicate. I thought his downward spiral into that was interesting
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Yeah not interested in Space CIA with Space Hitler as one of it's members no matter how good of an actress Michelle Yeoh is.
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blastron posted:Let's not kid ourselves, we're all going to watch it anyway. As someone who didn't watch Picard S3 and hasn't seen a single minute of Discovery since the pilot episode I can assure you that you don't have to watch this trash.
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Yeah not interested in Space CIA with Space Hitler as one of it's members no matter how good of an actress Michelle Yeoh is. I just remembered that the Section 31 ships in Discovery Season 2 had their registry begin with NCIA
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Kesper North posted:I've always maintained that if a Section 31 plot absolutely had to be done, I'd want to see the actual official Federation intelligence service dealing with S31 as a domestic threat. In STO's story they've started to introduce elements implying there's a kind of hidden war of Starfleet Intelligence trying to take out Section 31. From a recent intel-focused ship release: quote:The Cyclone Intel Patrol Escort [T6] is one of the few ships operated directly by Starfleet Intelligence. Often overshadowed by the salacious Section 31, Starfleet Intelligence cultivates a reputation as honorable bunglers–in a democracy, any success is a policy success and any failure is an intelligence failure. Just one more artificial narrative in a labyrinthine onion of same. Subtle movements in the shadows are not done for glory, fleet actions are happily left to Starfleet itself, should time allow. If time doesn't allow, there's the Cyclone. It bugs me that even the space battle game gets that Section 31 are unambiguously bad guys to be destroyed and yet the show.
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