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Lowen SoDium posted:O'brien was still an officer when Wesley was on the ship. The only reason I remember this is because I watched the episode last week, but when Worf's dad comes on board he explicitly calls O'Brien a Chief Petty Officer. Wesley was still around at the time
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The Space Hippy ep is on BBCA now. Man, this is bad. Spock now jamming with the chick playing the deformed bicycle wheel.
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Mister Kingdom posted:The Space Hippy ep is on BBCA now. Look at this Herbert. 
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I just watched Harry Mudd's appearance on TAS. It's the best episode of trek I've ever seen
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Oh my god the TAS blu-ray comes with little posters for every episode Want I assume to put them on blu-ray they upscaled the originals; the simple style used by funimation should make it pretty easy to make it look naturally HD with the right algorithms. I wonder how it turned out. (Hell, doubt they did it, but the right interpolation would probably even be able to up the jaggy-rear end animation framerate) MikeJF fucked around with this message at 03:27 on Oct 8, 2016 |
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Data Graham posted:I gotta love a Trek-mode captain who yells "up yours" at a dude Early seasons Captain Archer on Enterprise was all being diplomatic and stuff when meeting new species, and deferential when fights started. Late season Cap'n Archer was given a surrender order by a Klingon warship, shouted "Go to hell!" at them over the viewscreen, and opened fire.
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My favorite part of the love potion episode is when it turns out the "love" effect only lasts a few minutes, followed by an hours long hangover that makes them hate everyone. There's a great progression from Mudd thinking he's selling worthless rocks to being all "holy poo poo these actually work" to suddenly realizing that they do work, but not in a way anyone would want.
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Duckbag posted:My favorite part of the love potion episode is when it turns out the "love" effect only lasts a few minutes, followed by an hours long hangover that makes them hate everyone. There's a great progression from Mudd thinking he's selling worthless rocks to being all "holy poo poo these actually work" to suddenly realizing that they do work, but not in a way anyone would want. Not in a way anyone would want? They're still like super-roofies without the whole 'the victim is all floppy and unconscious' downside, they're just not long-term roofies like the usual 'love potion'. A horrible person could still make big bucks on the black market selling them to other horrible people.
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I just re-watched the TNG episode 'The Host" again. Did they really imply Beverley and Riker('s body) hooked up?
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Beverly fucks all her patients, and Rikers body fucks all crew members, so it was unavoidable.
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Seems like every time Bones has to do anything related t Spock's health he says something along the lines of "I wish I knew anything about vulcan physiology to help him." You'd think there would be knowledge of Vulcans 200 years after meeting them. Especially since Bones has spent so much time around Spock. You'd think he would take some readings while Spock appears to be healthy to get a baseline.
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Cojawfee posted:Seems like every time Bones has to do anything related t Spock's health he says something along the lines of "I wish I knew anything about vulcan physiology to help him." You'd think there would be knowledge of Vulcans 200 years after meeting them. Especially since Bones has spent so much time around Spock. You'd think he would take some readings while Spock appears to be healthy to get a baseline. He, much like Mr. Scott, likes to set expectations low so that he can surpass them. Also he does it to gently caress with Spock.
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Cojawfee posted:Seems like every time Bones has to do anything related t Spock's health he says something along the lines of "I wish I knew anything about vulcan physiology to help him." You'd think there would be knowledge of Vulcans 200 years after meeting them. Especially since Bones has spent so much time around Spock. You'd think he would take some readings while Spock appears to be healthy to get a baseline. Chalk it down to the show being unsure about what the Federation is.
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After The War posted:They did this from time to time. Remember the tree ensign on DS9 that everyone was excited was budding? Don't be hasty! 
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After The War posted:They did this from time to time. Remember the tree ensign on DS9 that everyone was excited was budding? I still think they should've stuck a potted tree on a remote control car and driven it around in the background just slightly out of focus. Bonus points if it's wearing a combadge and uniform-coloured ribbons.
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Didn't the Futurama writers say part of the inspiration for Zoidberg was thinking about what being treated by McCoy must be like from Spock's point of view?
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MikeJF posted:Not in a way anyone would want? They're still like super-roofies without the whole 'the victim is all floppy and unconscious' downside, they're just not long-term roofies like the usual 'love potion'. A horrible person could still make big bucks on the black market selling them to other horrible people. Except that it only lasted a few minutes and afterward the victim remembered everything and hated them. People might still buy it, but they'd probably regret it.
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MikeJF posted:I assume to put them on blu-ray they upscaled the originals; the simple style used by funimation should make it pretty easy to make it look naturally HD with the right algorithms. I wonder how it turned out. If they still have the original film reels around they could have cleaned them up and rescanned them, animation was usually photographed to film in those days.
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Unfortunately, this was a no budget cartoon from forty years ago, I wouldn't count on them having the original anything.
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Cojawfee posted:Seems like every time Bones has to do anything related t Spock's health he says something along the lines of "I wish I knew anything about vulcan physiology to help him." You'd think there would be knowledge of Vulcans 200 years after meeting them. Especially since Bones has spent so much time around Spock. You'd think he would take some readings while Spock appears to be healthy to get a baseline. It's just McCoy being racist. The ship does have a expert in Vulcan physiology, Dr M'Benga, but he only shows up in like two episodes and the writers rarely remembered his existence.
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MrJacobs posted:So Riker went from loving holograms to loving robots? 
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MikeJF posted:Oh my god the TAS blu-ray comes with little posters for every episode Oh man, that is awesome. I assume you're aware of the Quantum Mechanix line? http://qmxonline.com/products/star-trek-the-original-series-art-prints-set-16
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Cojawfee posted:Seems like every time Bones has to do anything related t Spock's health he says something along the lines of "I wish I knew anything about vulcan physiology to help him." You'd think there would be knowledge of Vulcans 200 years after meeting them. Especially since Bones has spent so much time around Spock. You'd think he would take some readings while Spock appears to be healthy to get a baseline. They brought on Dr. M'Benga in the second season who if I remember right had a lot more expertise in Vulcan physiology. Duckbag posted:Unfortunately, this was a no budget cartoon from forty years ago, I wouldn't count on them having the original anything. Ehhh, if I remember right, the DVDs looked too clean for them to be transfers off decades-old videotape. I bet they've got the negatives still. Hell, remember, when TOS first aired it was considered a failure, and didn't pick up until after it was syndicated for a while. They still kept the negatives and other original materials for that show.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Hell, remember, when TOS first aired it was considered a failure, and didn't pick up until after it was syndicated for a while. They still kept the negatives and other original materials for that show. Only 'cause Roddenberry walked off with all of it. If eBay had existed in the late 60s/early 70s, Star Trek would belong to some collector now.
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McNally posted:Only 'cause Roddenberry walked off with all of it. If eBay had existed in the late 60s/early 70s, Star Trek would belong to some collector now. That doesn't make sense. We know he grabbed film clips and sold cels and clips (and other trinkets) through Lincoln Enterprises; if he had taken the whole episode negatives and been willing to sell them, how would the lack of eBay have prevented him from doing so? I have a hard time believing Paramount would have accepted him walking off with everything. They still wanted to sell the series in syndication, even if they didn't have high hopes for it early on.
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Bones and Spock in STB was a little weird - Bones says something like "If I remember right, Vulcans have their hearts where Humans have their livers, yes?" which struck me as really clunky writing.
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Apollodorus posted:Bones and Spock in STB was a little weird - Bones says something like "If I remember right, Vulcans have their hearts where Humans have their livers, yes?" which struck me as really clunky writing. I really like that TNG episode where some pre-warp alien doctors are trying to help an undercover Riker and their like "why the gently caress is his heart in his stomach?"
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WickedHate posted:I really like that TNG episode where some pre-warp alien doctors are trying to help an undercover Riker and their like "why the gently caress is his heart in his stomach?" Yeah! That was good stuff. Also they talk about his "costal struts," a/k/a "ribs" but Human ribs are obviously different from Malcorian ribs. Another example of how good writing can make up for a (by today's standards) lousy SFX budget.
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WickedHate posted:I really like that TNG episode where some pre-warp alien doctors are trying to help an undercover Riker and their like "why the gently caress is his heart in his stomach?" Although it stretches plausibility that a human heart would be recognizable as whatever the alien analogue of a heart is, if one even exists. Like maybe the biological transport system of these aliens isn't fluid filled tubes but like, some kind of spongey diffusion mechanism.
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Subyng posted:Although it stretches plausibility that a human heart would be recognizable as whatever the alien analogue of a heart is, if one even exists. Like maybe the biological transport system of these aliens isn't fluid filled tubes but like, some kind of spongey diffusion mechanism.
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greatn posted:Beverly fucks all her patients, and Rikers body fucks all crew members, so it was unavoidable. Sci-fi doctors seem to have a bad habit of getting involved with their patients. I can't remember if that happened with McCoy, but Crusher certainly walked that line a ton, Bashir went full teenager for the mute girl, even the EMH fell into that trap somehow. On Babylon 5 Franklin unfreezes a lady from a century earlier, who just lost her husband, and is leaning in for a kiss like one act later. C'mon dude.
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Just watched TNG 4.17 Night Terrors, which is a pretty good episode and one I'll always remember for the X-Files style freakout of the dead bodies sitting up on Crusher. At the very end, Data orders Picard to bed, and Picard walks down and enters the door just to the left of the viewscreen and it's a turbolift instead of the ready room. What the gently caress just happened? EDIT: looking at bridge layouts on the google, it appears that there is a turbolift door and the ready room right there. You can now mock me for being dumb. I really don't remember that turbolift. Is that where Worf went in that other mindfuck episode where the door opened from one bridge to an identical bridge? The Bloop fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Oct 9, 2016 |
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Phimosissy posted:Just watched TNG 4.17 Night Terrors, which is a pretty good episode and one I'll always remember for the X-Files style freakout of the dead bodies sitting up on Crusher. HE WAS STILL DREAMING!!!!!
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Apollodorus posted:HE WAS STILL DREAMING!!!!! It is apparently I who am at a REM deficiency and losing my mind. I've just been through a hurricane goddamnit
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Actually it was prob just a continuity error. But I am sorry you had to deal with the hurricane; here we just got a lot of rain.
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Subyng posted:Although it stretches plausibility that a human heart would be recognizable as whatever the alien analogue of a heart is, if one even exists. Like maybe the biological transport system of these aliens isn't fluid filled tubes but like, some kind of spongey diffusion mechanism. "All humanoid aliens are related and descended from these precursors who seeded like a thousand worlds, so STOP BUGGING US ABOUT IT"-The Chase
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What constitutes as "alien" in Star trek is usually some really weak bullshit. You can give them a pass on the makeup; just assume that all aliens actually look way more hideous than depicted. But when it comes to describing things that don't need to be visually rendered, you don't have such limits. Wow, Vulcans have GREEN blood? Ferengi have FOUR lobes? Boring. How about, "wow, did you know Klingons have a decentralized nervous system? If you cut its head off they keep going and eventually grow a new one! Explains why they don't view violence in a negative light; it's actually really hard to fully kill a Klingon" "Vulcan blood actually contains a potent neurotoxin. When Spock performs the neck pinch, microscopic needles on the finger tips actually inject this substance into the bloodstream, rendering the victim unconscious. Of course, this substance is not toxic to vulcans, but it does cause psychotropic effects when transferred among vulcans, giving rise to the phenomenon known as a mind meld. During this process these molecules are exchanged and travel into the brain and cause specific patterns of neurons to fire in each participant allowing them to experience each others thoughts or some poo poo like that. 
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