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bombarding an inhabited planetary surface using knockout rays from an interstellar spaceship is surely an act of war in like 99.many-nines% of all possible situations and godlike infliction of terror in most of the remainder
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Squizzle posted:indiscriminately lazor-sedating a few neighborhoods surely wont create any negative externalities But that drat dog wouldn't shut up! We had to do SOMETHING
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I'm honestly really happy the CinemaSins backlash came. I was fine with that channel when it was just some haha lols diversion, but the moment it became clear that both they and their fans actually thought their observations were real, actual problems with media, my heart sank to a degree I really can't express, and watching that thought pattern permeate seemingly legitimate criticism, I legit died a little inside in ways that will never come back. We live in an age where people thinking media illiteracy is just as good as media literacy has led to us electing a loving racist game show host to the highest office because brand is everything, and I just want to go back to the days where noticing these "well why didn't they just" things is just fun and fun alone, and I'm happy we're here in this thread right now.
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lmbo so my friend and I found this issue of STAR TREK: THE MAGAZINE at a local antique shop, and the interview with Marc Alaimo is buck wild I'm going to eventually type the whole thing in but I just had to share some choice excerpts before I go to bed tonight: "The interesting thing about Dukat, which none of the regulars could do, is that he could be bad. He could be good, very likable, very charming, all of those things, and I think he was very sexy, but he could also be a son of a bitch, and if you didn't see things his way: tough. That's what it takes to be a leader; I'm convinced of that. Every group needs a dictator, and that's what Dukat was." quote:Much of Dukat's energy was expended on trying to charm Major Kira, and Marc is in no doubt why he did it. "Oh, he wanted to sleep with her! Listen, Nana [Visitor] is one of the women in my life. She doesn't know it, of course, but I couldn't even talk when I was around Nana." "He was capable of anything, but I don't think his nature was instinctively evil. You can't have seven children and then be an evil killer." "I always thought [Dukat] was indestructible and incredibly strong, I wanted to at some point demonstrate that; I wanted to pick somebody up very easily with one hand - literally pick them up off the ground - but we never got to do it. In my mind I knew that's how he was - physically incredibly strong, and almost indestructible; and fearless."
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I do wonder if part of why the writers swerved Dukat straight into space Hitler wasn't just because of nazi groupies, but also because they were sick of Alaimo.
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Mar 4, 2024 07:51
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davidspackage posted:I do wonder if part of why the writers swerved Dukat straight into space Hitler wasn't just because of nazi groupies, but also because they were sick of Alaimo. They'dve offed Dukat a LOT sooner than the literal series finale if that were the case, I'd imagine.
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LividLiquid posted:Stargate wasn't around for 70 years. lol look at this fool who didn't see Stargate: The Motion Picture in the theater in the late 60's! Absolute classic. Although as nice as it looked I am sorta glad they cut down how long it took people to travel through the gate wormhole to near instantly from it's original 47 minutes in the film.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:lmbo so my friend and I found this issue of STAR TREK: THE MAGAZINE at a local antique shop, and the interview with Marc Alaimo is buck wild I had that one! I distinctly remember how weird that interview was, it always stuck with me. RIP Star Trek: The Magazine and the pre-Titan Star Wars Insider. They were both absolute godsends for weird dorks in the days before every show had a comprehensive wiki.
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Mar 4, 2024 08:40
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Timby posted:Don't worry. The fourth-season premiere was the result of Berman and Braga loving off and handing new showrunner Manny Coto the mother of all holes to dig out from. If I knew what was happening later in the episode, I'd have stuck around. I didn't, and I still think I made the right call based on what I knew.
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Mar 4, 2024 09:07
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He wasn't acting, he was giving us his truth
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nine-gear crow posted:They'dve offed Dukat a LOT sooner than the literal series finale if that were the case, I'd imagine. Sure, but then they'd be out of the show's biggest antagonist, and he was popular with fans, even if they loved to hate him. Maybe Marc went to the writers one too many times. Alaimo: you know, I think now would be an excellent time to introduce that Dukat-Kira love affair I keep mentioning to you guys. And maybe finally write that scene where I deadlift O'Brien -- Writer: YOU KNOW WHAT, Marc,
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Armin Shimmerman also has some of that energy, although maybe not so grandiose. If being invested in your character (and your career/position as an actor) leads to good performances I'm all for it.
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Mar 4, 2024 10:29
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Someone mentioned earlier that security and engineering both wearing yellow makes sense since they should be working hand in hand, but really security should be 95% engineering stuff outright. I feel like sending a bunch of your engineering nerds with rifles and cotton onesies to fight the people boarding the ship with powered armor is a good way to lose a lot of engineers.
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Mar 4, 2024 10:38
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Season 3's thesis seems to be "it's ok to commit crimes against humanity if 9/11". "Similitude" certainly has an interesting moral quandary at its core, but holy wow Archer wasn't even phased. He just goes straight to the medical atrocity.
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Atlas Hugged posted:Season 3's thesis seems to be "it's ok to commit crimes against humanity if 9/11". "...or is it?" boom, problem solved
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“Similitude” is the one where they create a doomed Tucker clone to harvest the organs of, right? They should have grown the organs inside a beagle. Then Archer would have thought twice about it
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Mar 4, 2024 14:59
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Similitude lives and dies of the strength of Connor Trinneer's performance, and it's one of his best episodes.
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Mar 4, 2024 15:07
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The performance is great but it's the single most evil thing Archer has ever done.
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Mar 4, 2024 15:08
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People were like "Wow, Janeway makes a lot of questionable decisions!" and Berman was like "I know! What if we made a captain who was ALL questionable decisions!"
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Atlas Hugged posted:The performance is great but it's the single most evil thing Archer has ever done. ...Yet.
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A lot of Enterprise was a reflection of the issues with post 9/11 United States without any level of nuanced awareness or commentary.
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bull3964 posted:A lot of Enterprise was a reflection of the issues with post 9/11 United States without any level of nuanced awareness or commentary. Yeah. The Memory Alpha article says how well received that episode was and it 100% comes down to the audience at the time thinking Archer did what had to be done. The next episode has Archer torturing a blood bank employee to complete his mission. In fact, Archer has tortured more than one dude this season. At least with Janeway it was a toss of the coin whether she'd harvest your brain to your screaming protest or if she'd pull a Principal Skinner and insist the clone go by Trip from now on and no one ever mention this again.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:lmbo so my friend and I found this issue of STAR TREK: THE MAGAZINE at a local antique shop, and the interview with Marc Alaimo is buck wild God I love the episode where he intentionally strands himself on a planet with Sisko so he can convince him that he's a good guy.
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thotsky posted:Armin Shimmerman also has some of that energy, although maybe not so grandiose. If being invested in your character (and your career/position as an actor) leads to good performances I'm all for it. It's one of the things that makes Garak so great too, that Andrew Robinson just dove into the character. Thankfully it also gave is "A Stitch In Time" as well. Just... don't be all Jared Leto about it.
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davidspackage posted:Sure, but then they'd be out of the show's biggest antagonist, and he was popular with fans, even if they loved to hate him. Maybe Marc went to the writers one too many times. It's one of those stories that gets regurgitated and passed around internet threads like this one over and over, I have no idea if it's true, but supposedly in the middle of DS9s run when they were trying to make their villains nuanced and complex, Dukat got really popular and they were slowly ramping up to a Dukat and Kira romance. One of the reasons it didn't happen was that Nana Visitor threatened to walk if they tried to pull something so stupid.
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counterfeitsaint posted:It's one of those stories that gets regurgitated and passed around internet threads like this one over and over, I have no idea if it's true, but supposedly in the middle of DS9s run when they were trying to make their villains nuanced and complex, Dukat got really popular and they were slowly ramping up to a Dukat and Kira romance. One of the reasons it didn't happen was that Nana Visitor threatened to walk if they tried to pull something so stupid. The version that usually makes the rounds, and I believe it's been repeated by the 2 involved, is it was her and Ira Behr screaming at each other over the big console in the Ops set
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Atlas Hugged posted:Season 3's thesis seems to be "it's ok to commit crimes against humanity if 9/11". They’re not crimes against humanity if the victims aren’t human 
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counterfeitsaint posted:It's one of those stories that gets regurgitated and passed around internet threads like this one over and over, I have no idea if it's true, but supposedly in the middle of DS9s run when they were trying to make their villains nuanced and complex, Dukat got really popular and they were slowly ramping up to a Dukat and Kira romance. One of the reasons it didn't happen was that Nana Visitor threatened to walk if they tried to pull something so stupid. I do believe it's recounted by Nana Visitor in the official DS9 Companion book at least once.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:They’re not crimes against humanity if the victims aren’t human Crimes against humanity? Why, the very term is racist.
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skasion posted:Crimes against humanity? Why, the very term is racist. I was gonna say "Azetbur Intensifies".
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Archer asking T'Pol to untie the blood bank worker so he could crack him in the jaw is just the most 2003 thing I've seen in the show. "Ends justifying the means" bullshit.
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I can't decide what's worse: the fact that ENT S3 is 24 in space, or that they handed the lion's share of that tone to Scott Bakula. The guy is just too affable. When he's being ruthless I just don't buy it. It makes everything seem forced in addition to be terrible in and of itself. I'm a bit of an ENT apologist, but no one is going to die on the hill that is S3.
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He comes across as a very divorced dad, which is kind of prescient given that Musk and company all have limp, bewildered fury as their primary personality trait at this point.
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I always figured stunning someone with a phaser was like anesthesia, you come out of it fine in 99.9% of cases but every once in a while you stun someone and trigger a nervous system condition you didn't know they had or they collapse and crack their head open on the curb, so you don't want to just stun everyone willy-nilly.
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You can also kill someone who is already unconscious by point-blank shooting them to head with the stun setting. Its a plot point in ST6.
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Railing Kill posted:I can't decide what's worse: the fact that ENT S3 is 24 in space, or that they handed the lion's share of that tone to Scott Bakula. The guy is just too affable. When he's being ruthless I just don't buy it. It makes everything seem forced in addition to be terrible in and of itself. I'm a bit of an ENT apologist, but no one is going to die on the hill that is S3. I am very much an ENT apologist (as evidenced by my posting  ) but no, it's basically impossible to die on the hill of Archer as Hard Man Makin' Hard Choices.
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Fighting Trousers posted:I am very much an ENT apologist (as evidenced by my posting  "Mom, can we have Adm. Adama?" "No, we have Adama at home, dear." At home: Capt. Archer.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:lmbo so my friend and I found this issue of STAR TREK: THE MAGAZINE at a local antique shop, and the interview with Marc Alaimo is buck wild The interview with him from What We Left Behind is essentially the same, and borderline creepy to watch.
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Okay but that's what it took to deliver the most charismatic and engaging villain in the entire series so who's to say if it's good or bad
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