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Sash! posted:The Mayans were wiped out in World War III, obviously. Unfortunately the Mayans didn't think to transform into space flutes and leave the planet like the Inca. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeAaYINn36Q&t=164s
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You get em Jean Luc
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Mar 24, 2019 01:17
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10pm?! Who the Christ in those days was still awake? All the adults would have gone to bed hours before. [Like 6+ hours]
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Mar 24, 2019 02:48
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:10pm?! Who the Christ in those days was still awake? All the adults would have gone to bed hours before. [Like 6+ hours] The 1960s being known for early bedtimes?
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Mar 24, 2019 02:51
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:You get em Jean Luc John Luck Pickard.
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jeeves posted:I always wonder how quickly those stubborn space According to VOY letters from home they got turbo destroyed by the Dominion, which I honestly don't remember if DS9 ever actually mentions. e: holy poo poo that was a way older post than I thought... sorry about that
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Finster Dexter posted:I honestly don't remember if DS9 ever actually mentions. I wanna say there's a throwaway line about it during the episode where Cardassia joins the Dominion (or maybe the one right after). iirc the Dominion wasted no time in sorting that poo poo out.
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Mar 24, 2019 07:26
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It's in one of the letters Belana gets from that cross-galaxy communication thing.
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I mean, the entire final Eddington episode is about how the Dominion killed absolutely every single Maquis member pretty much immediately upon absorbing Cardassia except for the tiny handful Eddington cons Sisko into rescuing.
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Mar 24, 2019 08:45
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EimiYoshikawa posted:I mean, the entire final Eddington episode is about how the Dominion killed absolutely every single Maquis member pretty much immediately upon absorbing Cardassia except for the tiny handful Eddington cons Sisko into rescuing.
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Mar 24, 2019 17:26
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FlamingLiberal posted:I appreciated that the Dominion is like ‘we don’t have time for your dumb Maquis poo poo’ and took them all out in like a couple of days or whatever Babylon 5 did something similar. In some of the early episodes, a recurrent threat were Raiders, these pirates that attacked shipping, and that the heroes couldn't track down. Then the big bad guys show up, blow up the Raider base, and then it's "Well, we're done with that plot thread now."
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FlamingLiberal posted:I appreciated that the Dominion is like ‘we don’t have time for your dumb Maquis poo poo’ and took them all out in like a couple of days or whatever I doubt very much that it was intentional on the part of the writers, but I like how this incidentally fleshes the Cardassians out too. They're an evil fascist society, but they also have pragmatic diplomatic goals so they weren't going to commit an atrocity like that under the nose of the Federation. The Dominion didn't care so they just went for it.
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Paradoxish posted:I doubt very much that it was intentional on the part of the writers, but I like how this incidentally fleshes the Cardassians out too. They're an evil fascist society, but they also have pragmatic diplomatic goals so they weren't going to commit an atrocity like that under the nose of the Federation. The Dominion didn't care so they just went for it. The cardassians didn't want another war with the Federation and as poo poo as the Marquis was that definitely would have been one.
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Mar 24, 2019 18:33
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:10pm?! Who the Christ in those days was still awake? All the adults would have gone to bed hours before. [Like 6+ hours] Are you saying people regularly went to bed at 4pm?
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Well also at the time the Cardassians joined the Dominion they were getting their asses kicked by the Klingons so they had bigger problems
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Are you saying people regularly went to bed at 4pm? Are you saying they didn't?
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Here's an interesting mindset shift I've had with the show. Twelve years ago, I would watch Star Trek and laugh, "Man, they really missed the mark on how technology evolved." Now, in the present, the technology actually has gone back to being reasonable. I can definitely understand in the context of United Earth being a society that brought itself back from the brink of collapse people going, "Yeah, no twitter and iphones this time."
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Are you saying they didn't? Not sure if you’re serious, but no. The idea that the tech in Trek is the result of restraint based upon experience is an interesting one because of how many archaisms they hold onto are instead things they see value in now for a whole host of reasons. Kinda a jab in the eye of the idea that progress for progresses sake is the course of technology. Peacoffee fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Mar 24, 2019 |
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"Latent Image" (VOY S05E11) is the best Doctor episode I've seen so far. It was one of VOY's most thoughtful and saddest
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Mar 24, 2019 23:56
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Are you saying they didn't? I think it's unlikely, but maybe you've got some interesting reading for me about American sleeping habits in the 20th century.
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Peacoffee posted:Kinda a jab in the eye of the idea that progress for progresses sake is the course of technology. Too soon. (In the most recent episode of Discovery, a character literally gets jabbed in the eye by technology.)
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:10pm?! Who the Christ in those days was still awake? All the adults would have gone to bed hours before. [Like 6+ hours] Most people. Prime time has gone to 11 since the 40s. Gunsmoke, the absolute titan of 60s TV, came on at 10 pm Saturday night and was a ratings juggernaut.
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Drone posted:Yep, I've already read (and drafted a review of) the first one. It was... bad, but not nearly in the same way as the one I liveblogged here yesterday. Mostly just lots of barely-concealed slash fiction or just generally poorly-written, strangely-thought-out garbage. it's legitimately sad that someone can take passages like this and think it's "gay" instead of reflecting on the profound authenticity of the bond they share  
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:I think it's unlikely, but maybe you've got some interesting reading for me about American sleeping habits in the 20th century. He's full of poo poo. My grandfather was an early to bed, early to rise kind of guy, and even he watched the evening news before going to bed. loving 4 PM. Even in the dead of winter the sun hasn't set by then here, and you can't get much farther north in the continental US.
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I really didn't expect people to be this invested in what was, I thought, a really obvious load of bullshit. In the 60s, nobody slept. They couldn't. What if the Russkies attacked?!
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You can't ever tell on the internet.
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So I've just had my first taste of a Star Trek series, and I thought I would post my thoughts about it here. A friend of mine introduced me to a few episodes from Season 1 of Star Trek TNG and I was pretty interested since it was quite cheesy. Netflix had the whole series up so I might as well binge watch it for the next month or so. I thought it was great! The cast they chose was excellent, everyone worked well together, and most of the plots were fairly entertaining. My favorite episodes were always the ones regarding some space-time continuum screw up, or some very strange location or being (such as the Casino purgatory episode, or anything to do with Q.) Some episodes were definitely boring through, my eyes kind of glazed over anytime the episode was about Romulans or the holodeck. Some other bits on my thoughts of the show. -Troi's Mother and Q are probably my favorite characters of the lot, I originally didn't like Lxwana when she was first introduced, but overtime I started to enjoy episodes she appeared in, Half a life probably being one of my favorite episodes starring her. Q however was a delight start to finished. -Chief O Brian needed more screen time -I thought worst episode was probably star child (the one where Troi gives birth to a space kid) something about it just didn't sit right with me. -The best episode however...hard to nail down, I'd nominate either All good things, Inner light, Cause and effect or The Measure of a Man as any of the top ones. -In the episode where Alexander and Lxwana meet, when Alexander gives that one line "The HIGHER...the FEWER" to a bickering couple I just burst out laughing, that's probably the most kid thing I ever saw on the show. -The Future's imperfection Alien is probably the worst costume creature I've ever seen on the show. -I could really tell they were running of ideas by Season 7, a lot of the episodes were just one of the major characters but a SHOCKING REVELATION I suppose it was a good idea to end the show here then continue it. Overall I had a great time watching the show, I might check out Deep Space 9 but i'll probably hold it off for a bit. I also have some questions that left me a bit puzzled too. -I've seen around a bit that The Pegasus was one of the worst episodes of the show, why was that? I found it boring at best, was it because of Rikers involvement with the corrupt captain? -Did Chief O Brian get removed late in the show because of his involvement in DS9? They didn't really say anything about him leaving the Enterprise so I was a bit confused when he stopped showing up. -That was totally Lurch who played Lxwana's servant wasn't it?
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Pixeltendo posted:-That was totally Lurch who played Lxwana's servant wasn't it? yes, it totally was
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lol but seriously I posted:yes, it totally was
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lol but seriously I posted:yes, it totally was *rings dinner bell*
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As far as The Pegasus goes, it's not the TNG episode people dislike (as far as I'm aware) but how the final episode of Enterprise tied into it.
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While Mr. Homm was indeed Movie Lurch, OG Lurch Ted Cassidy was in the TOS episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of." 
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Pixeltendo posted:... I have fantastic news: He's a main character on Deep Space 9. DS9 is also the best Trek series because the characters are fantastic. If you haven't started watching that yet I'd recommend it.
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Pixeltendo posted:my eyes kind of glazed over anytime the episode was about Romulans or the holodeck. quote:-Chief O Brian needed more screen time quote:-The Future's imperfection Alien is probably the worst costume creature I've ever seen on the show. quote:-I've seen around a bit that The Pegasus was one of the worst episodes of the show, why was that? I found it boring at best, was it because of Rikers involvement with the corrupt captain? quote:-Did Chief O Brian get removed late in the show because of his involvement in DS9? They didn't really say anything about him leaving the Enterprise so I was a bit confused when he stopped showing up.
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Pixeltendo posted:-I could really tell they were running of ideas by Season 7, a lot of the episodes were just one of the major characters but a SHOCKING REVELATION I suppose it was a good idea to end the show here then continue it. Wait til you see what was in store for Season 8...
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Watch DS9 and livepost about it frequently
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Pixeltendo posted:-I thought worst episode was probably star child (the one where Troi gives birth to a space kid) something about it just didn't sit right with me. I've just re-watched The Child. It's a script recycled from The Original Series - they were going to bring the show back and that script was written for it, they used it because there was a writer's strike. It just kinda...goes nowhere. The Child turns up, emits a weird radiation and just leaves with no proper reason. What in theory is the main story just completely ends and nothing is changed because of it. Such a strange episode, even worse to me than Code of Honour or Justice because at least they've got a point and use that point.
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Livepost for us. Feed us what Jeb! held back.
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I'd say the show loved to get really weird about Troi's vagina but then again I think the candle gently caress ghost episode was Crusher?
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