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That said, it does establish that the Pakleds managed to pull the scam off on a bunch of other people and probably will again, so I sure hope the Federation makes sure to keep an eye on them!Taear posted:Also man - to me Starbases are space stations but early TNG every single one (Farpoint included) is just a big building on a planet In original TOS all the Starbases we saw were planetside, although in TOS remastered they added a 'Starbase 6' label to the station from The Ultimate Computer. That and K7 were just referred to in dialogue as Space Stations, not Starbases. Starbase is just meant to mean a facility that supports starships while they're out on missions. (So Earth Spacedock isn't a starbase, for example, because it's a homebase.) MikeJF fucked around with this message at 09:37 on Mar 21, 2024 |
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Taear posted:I love the episode but it's absolutely packed with weird poo poo. Wesley saying "Is this before the Klingons joined the Federation", What I think's weirdest about that line is that it's not even relevant to the conversation. It's literally just "Hey, so about ten years ago I got into a barfight in Texas-" "Was that before Russia annexed Crimea?"
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Watched DS9's His Way last night after putting it off for a while. I know a lot of people appreciate Vic but god, does it feel like the show grinds to a halt because someone wants you to like his OC, Vic Fontaine, and isn't the Rat Pack cool? Though enough I really like the scene where Odo starts murmuring a song in Sisko's office and Sisko starts getting into it. I almost wish Odo had gone to Sisko for piano and singing lessons to woo Kira in the first place. I don't know about Kira here either. She's really passive in this episode until the kiss on the Promenade, which is kind of sweet, but I think maybe it would've been truer for her character to get sick of waiting and take the initiative with Odo.
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Taear posted:Wesley saying "Is this before the Klingons joined the Federation", Fun fan theory is that all these inconsistencies we see pop up in s1-s2 are because the timeline did change when the Ent-C went back through and Yar survived in the past.
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davidspackage posted:Watched DS9's His Way last night after putting it off for a while. I know a lot of people appreciate Vic but god, does it feel like the show grinds to a halt because someone wants you to like his OC, Vic Fontaine, and isn't the Rat Pack cool? I like Vic Fontaine but the Kira-Odo relationship is The Worst
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Vic was outstanding and I will hear no different. 
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zoux posted:Fun fan theory is that all these inconsistencies we see pop up in s1-s2 are because the timeline did change when the Ent-C went back through and Yar survived in the past. haha I like that MikeJF posted:In original TOS all the Starbases we saw were planetside, although in TOS remastered they added a 'Starbase 6' label to the station from The Ultimate Computer. That and K7 were just referred to in dialogue as Space Stations, not Starbases. Does this change later? Like in DS9 every time they talk about a starbase and we see it, it's in space. It's funny too that they talk about the Jarada in that episode who are NEVER mentioned outside The Big Goodbye and that one episode.
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Laterite posted:I like Vic Fontaine but the Kira-Odo relationship is The Worst Big this. It took a long time to come around to Vic because the whole rat pack lounge thing often gives me the willies but he is actually good
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Vic's less bad when you're not watching week to week but I absolutely 100% do not care about gangster las vegas and he can get lost as far as I'm concerned.
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Vic is worth being around for the payoff episodes It's Only a Paper Moon and Badda-Bing Badda-Bang, which are coincidentally on the opposite spectrum of serious.
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Zedd posted:Vic is worth being around for the payoff episodes It's Only a Paper Moon and Badda-Bing Badda-Bang, which are coincidentally on the opposite spectrum of serious. Only a paper moon is a good episode but I am never ever gonna enjoy the theme And I feel like that's the case with a lot of vic haters The idea of "you entirely immerse yourself in this game to not face up to life" is great but ugh las vegas
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MikeJF posted:Starbase is just meant to mean a facility that supports starships while they're out on missions. (So Earth Spacedock isn't a starbase, for example, because it's a homebase.) Putting a starbase on a planet seems kind of like putting a naval station in the middle of the desert.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Air_Station_Fallon Very useful?
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"but it's at the bottom of a gravity well" yeah okay whatever nerd, nobody gives a poo poo when they got support craft that can trivially make orbit, and oh yeah, transporters
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That was one of the things I actually liked about the Enterprise being built on Earth in ST09. They can arbitrarily lift that thing to orbit. Even with all their super technology, keeping your workforce alive in a natural atmosphere is literally free and completely failsafe. It isn't like you build submarines underwater, even though you can if you wanted to for some reason.
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Onto "Cold Front" and Silik is such a lovely villain. Nothing he does makes sense, not even to him. He just admitted it to Archer. And we'll never truly find out! What an awful mystery box.
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"We're all involved in a time travel plot together, but we can't tell you who or why or how because time traveling rules tell us not to. Enjoy this for the next 3 seasons."
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FISHMANPET posted:Onto "Cold Front" and Silik is such a lovely villain. Nothing he does makes sense, not even to him. He just admitted it to Archer. And we'll never truly find out! What an awful mystery box. 
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Yeah, the temporal war stuff was an awkwardly shoehorned mandate by the suits to keep potential TNG/VOY/DS9 crossover episode a possibility. They literally had no idea who the mystery guy in wide shoulder toppings was.
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Der Kyhe posted:Yeah, the temporal war stuff was an awkwardly shoehorned mandate by the suits to keep potential TNG/VOY/DS9 crossover episode a possibility. Didn't one of the showrunners want it to be future Archer or something dumb like that?
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Technowolf posted:Didn't one of the showrunners want it to be future Archer or something dumb like that? Which is such a nonsensical asspull. It would have been so much less offensive to just shrug and say  , but…Berman.
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Technowolf posted:Didn't one of the showrunners want it to be future Archer or something dumb like that? Maybe it was like Lost and they had three different people filmed, each more nonsensical the the previous.
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Der Kyhe posted:They literally had no idea who the mystery guy in wide shoulder toppings was. Benny Russell's lawyer that took over because Benny was too strung out to write anything other than memos about waves and waves of cum
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Waves and waves of jambalaya
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CPColin posted:Waves and waves of jambalaya
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CPColin posted:Waves and waves of jambalaya 
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CPColin posted:Waves and waves of jambalaya Thread title please
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CPColin posted:Waves and waves of jambalaya Don’t threaten me with a good time.
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CPColin posted:Waves and waves of jambalaya I think it's still too soon for jokes about Katrina
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Soul Dentist posted:I think it's still too soon for jokes about Katrina 
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CPColin posted:Waves and waves of jambalaya
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The general term in commonwealth countries for a landlocked naval base is "stone frigate", dunno about the USN. Where I live, we have one called HMCS Tecumseh. E: watching X-Files last night and we got to the one about the evil dog that kills people. There's one dude with blue eyes whose diction sounds really familiar but I can't quite recognize him until something clicks and I go "HOLY poo poo IT'S GARAK" Phy fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Mar 22, 2024 |
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Nessus posted:jam ba LA ya 
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Technowolf posted:Didn't one of the showrunners want it to be future Archer or something dumb like that?
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Technowolf posted:Didn't one of the showrunners want it to be future Archer or something dumb like that? Yeah, that was the given explanation but then again that also never happened. But Berman & Braga did finally end up getting the TNG crossover episode. Unfortunately it was the series ender that shat on the work of otherwise very good season of Star Trek, and on all the work the new showrunner had done on a shoestring budget with a series that was cancelled before they even filmed most of the last season.
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Pap-ri-kash!
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At the time I assumed the Romulan War was going to be the big event of Enterprise and Future Guy was a Romulan trying to interfere and make them win this time instead of the stalemate.
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The best part about Enterprise is that it's only 4 seasons and then it ends and you never have to watch it a second time.
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Grand Fromage posted:At the time I assumed the Romulan War was going to be the big event of Enterprise and Future Guy was a Romulan trying to interfere and make them win this time instead of the stalemate. That was my theory too. He had kind of a Romulan vibe to him
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I have now tried to watch Enterprise three times and in every case but one I noped out before the pilot was even over. The other time I noped out halfway through the following episode. The only thing I remember was hating the Dubya vibes permeating the whole thing and a rad part in the middle of every ship where there's no gravity.
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