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Arc Hammer posted:Telling her that after he joined a group of convoy truckers holding the planet hostage by wrecking the weather control systems and ruining the locals' day. I always liked when they "attack" the resort, and Jadzia immediately steals one of their guns and tries to light them up, only to reveal its all fake. Jadzia owns
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Blistex posted:Run Silent Run Deep specifically. The Enemy Below, where Robert Mitchem is the captain of a Destroyer Escort that has to hunt down a U-Boat commanded by a German captain who's lost faith in Nazism, and as it goes on, the two of them gain respect for each other as worthy opponents.
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Danaru posted:I always liked when they "attack" the resort, and Jadzia immediately steals one of their guns and tries to light them up, only to reveal its all fake. Jadzia owns Event pictured 
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Nothing like going from Civil Defense to Meridian. An episode so lame not even Coombs can save it
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Bismack Billabongo posted:Nothing like going from Civil Defense to Meridian. An episode so lame not even Coombs can save it But we do get stupid sexy Quark. The Brigadoon stuff sucks rear end.
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What episode in all of Trek has the biggest swing between good A/B plot and bad? Meridian is a good example where the Quark/Kira plot is fun but the Dax plot is just loving torturous.
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Shocker. When the price fell. Elon and Rogan at the podcast table. NFT's their security wide.
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Sedgr posted:What episode in all of Trek has the biggest swing between good A/B plot and bad? Meridian is a good example where the Quark/Kira plot is fun but the Dax plot is just loving torturous. Literally anything + Tom Paris tries to get Harry Kim's love life "on track"
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Any Star Trek plot where a main character forms a brief but intense love relationship with an alien of the week or whatever fuckin sucks. If they ever revisited these characters like Vash was revisited then it wouldn’t be as eye rolling IMO. It doesn’t help that nine times out of ten it’s the female characters given these plots. Vash’s appearances are all fun and good, the riker ep with the trans character is good by the standards of the time but kind of a miserable watch nowadays.
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In the episode with Evil Kess, Tom gets a reaction shot where he's told his wife is dead, and he makes a  face for like a second before it cuts away to Kess eating the warp core or whatever she was doing, and I think about it all the time
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lol kess full disclosure i hated neelix but i could never get past how the show constantly was like btw y’all he’s loving a smart three year old
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Yeah, it makes a certain amount of sense to go "I know, shes a reverse Elf! Instead of being long lived, they have a very short life!" when creating the character and either they never thought that all the way through, or they did and its worse.
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Do we ever talk about how quickly Talaxians age? Maybe Kes is the pedophile here.
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Sedgr posted:Yeah, it makes a certain amount of sense to go "I know, shes a reverse Elf! Instead of being long lived, they have a very short life!" when creating the character and either they never thought that all the way through, or they did and its worse. for however weird it/the fans got, mass effect was at least smart enough to make the mayfly people asexual amphibians
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External Organs posted:Do we ever talk about how quickly Talaxians age? Maybe Kes is the pedophile here. Neelix is reborn anew each morning
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StashAugustine posted:for however weird it/the fans got, mass effect was at least smart enough to make the mayfly people asexual amphibians They saved all the weird age gap stuff for the Asari (when they aren't getting with Krogans).
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drilldo squirt posted:That episode where they have a tall buff good looking guy as adult Westly make me lol. Wesley has brown eyes, but adult Wesley has blue eyes. Nobody thinks this is weird. It's literally impossible that casting couldn't find a tall buff good looking guy with brown eyes. Therefore changing your eye colour must be no big deal. QED.
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Sedgr posted:What episode in all of Trek has the biggest swing between good A/B plot and bad? Meridian is a good example where the Quark/Kira plot is fun but the Dax plot is just loving torturous. It isn’t Trek but I don’t think anything will ever top TKO from Babylon 5. The Ascent has a pretty bad B plot compared to an enjoyable A. Quark and Odo marooned on a desolate planet, forced to work together (and ultimately failing), desperate heroics, great dialogue. Meanwhile back on the station best friends Jake and Nog aren’t getting along!
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hey, if you could get free and effortless cosmetic surgery to go from looking like adult wil wheaton to that guy, why wouldn't you?
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I thought the Weyoun defector/ get Sisko's desk back ep felt like a bit of a tonal whiplash.
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Kibayasu posted:It isn’t Trek but I don’t think anything will ever top TKO from Babylon 5. Grey 17 is Missing's A | B plot disparity in quality is far worse than TKO's, holy poo poo.
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Yea, TKO's A plot is just Bloodsport The B5 Episode. Which is fine, that's a fine movie. Not great. Grey 17 is missing though, is way worse. Especially since the A plot is not the one with the most of the main characters and actually progresses the story arch of the show. That's the B plot.
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Sourdough Sam posted:I thought the Weyoun defector/ get Sisko's desk back ep felt like a bit of a tonal whiplash. There's tonal whiplash but they're both fantastic
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The currents of the Great Material Continuum can be treacherous.
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CainFortea posted:Yea, TKO's A plot is just Bloodsport The B5 Episode. Which is fine, that's a fine movie. Not great. Grey 17 is missing's A plot is the dumbest thing. Just completely stupid from concept to execution. The B plot has Neroon, and any plotline with Neroon can't be all bad.
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Arc Hammer posted:The currents of the Great Material Continuum can be treacherous. Hey look! The best plot in all of Trek!
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sweet geek swag posted:Grey 17 is missing's A plot is the dumbest thing. Just completely stupid from concept to execution. The B plot is great. That's the point, having an A/B plot that is Terrible/Great
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Sourdough Sam posted:I thought the Weyoun defector/ get Sisko's desk back ep felt like a bit of a tonal whiplash. They're totally different but they're thematically similar. They're both about faith and holsing onto faith when things seem hopeless.
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Epicurius posted:They're totally different but they're thematically similar. They're both about faith and holsing onto faith when things seem hopeless. And Gene would have hated it specifically for using faith. I'm honestly impressed that episode made it past Berman. They must have filmed it while he was too busy watching Voyager.
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Arc Hammer posted:And Gene would have hated it specifically for using faith. I'm honestly impressed that episode made it past Berman. They must have filmed it while he was too busy watching Voyager. Roddenberry would have hated DS9 in general. A Starfleet officer finds out he's the messiah of an alien world, and over time, comes to embrace that? The space station's second in command actively resenting Starfleet? Characters with different values arguing about them? Ferengi women actually trying to get equal rights and realizing they can do more than just serve men? Would have hated it. Epicurius fucked around with this message at 02:14 on Feb 23, 2022 |
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Epicurius posted:Roddenberry would have hated DS9 in general. A Starfleet officer finds out he's the messiah of an alien world, and over time, comes to embrace that? The space station's second in command actively resenting Starfleet? Characters with different values arguing about them? Ferengi women actually trying to get equal rights and realizing they can do more than just serve men? Roddenberry was all about examining how advanced cultures interact with less developed ones. The premise would’ve been up his alley. The delivery, not having a morality of it defined, not so much. Automatic Slim fucked around with this message at 02:38 on Feb 23, 2022 |
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Arc Hammer posted:And Gene would have hated it specifically for using faith.
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Ghostlight posted:enterprise star trek: america
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Ghostlight posted:gene mutst have been rolling in his grave when enterprise came out The trick would have been to only show him In a Mirror Darkly so he could ogle Empress Hoshi.
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he'd be sold by the first decon gel scene. you think that being dead would stop roddenberry from gettin' horny?
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The straw millionaire episode where Nog initiates a series of trades is amazing. Here's a meme I made for the Simpsons thread. 
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DJ_Mindboggler posted:They saved all the weird age gap stuff for the Asari (when they aren't getting with Krogans). To be fair, they at least engaged with it somewhat. I kinda liked the random conversation you can bump into between an Asari and her Salarian father about not wanting to have "the Lifespan Talk". (Salarians live, on average, about 40 years. Asari live to around 900). They also have the Asari "teenagers" actually behaving like teenagers for that span of their life and everyone treating them as such. Despite being like 50 years old. Sedgr posted:Yeah, it makes a certain amount of sense to go "I know, shes a reverse Elf! Instead of being long lived, they have a very short life!" when creating the character and either they never thought that all the way through, or they did and its worse. What did it in was the back-filling, I think. Caretaker sets it up to look like she's subjectively probably like 19-20, basically trying to Luke Skywalker her way out on an adventure on Voyager. But then like season 2-ish they start inferring that 1 Ocampan Year == Ten Human years of age (presumably as a nice clean analogy for how the series will progress and she'll be a 70-year-old woman by the last season) and oh dear she's not even two, and was only barely 1 at the start so oops  .
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