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I can sorta forgive a random alien of the week not following the design rules. Since the realities of 90’s weekly television filming schedules and budgets meant they didn’t have the luxury of making anything beyond “generic space ship” and half the time it would just be a tiny indistinct blur on a tube tv anyway. But the Cardassians were actually main characters intended to be heavily featured all the time and thus got lots of production/design lead time to make nice filming models and everything. So there’s no excuse for them not to at least get nacelles. Would it really have killed them to just glue some nacelles to the underside of the Galor’s wings?
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Theyre crazy man. You'd think Jesus died with how hard they're doing all this melodramatic funeral poo poo for some robot lady who was just in the background for 99% of the episodes and only got a personality an episode ago. So weird lol
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I always kind of figured the little "fork" way back at the very tail end of the Galor class did the equivalent job of nacelles on a Starfleet ship, with all functions except "emit warp field" moved elsewhere. I admit I have zero canon evidence for this notion, and it may have come about during contemplation of the Micro Machines toy.
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:Theyre crazy man. You'd think Jesus died with how hard they're doing all this melodramatic funeral poo poo for some robot lady who was just in the background for 99% of the episodes and only got a personality an episode ago. So weird lol drat it, if you want to kill off someone not in the main cast you gotta introduce them in the same episode!
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Apr 21, 2024 01:47
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According to the most-likely-just-made-up article I read, the wings on the Cardassian ships are actually the nacelles.
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Apr 21, 2024 01:49
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The fact that the cardassian logo is just their ship is kind of lazy
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Powered Descent posted:I always kind of figured the little "fork" way back at the very tail end of the Galor class did the equivalent job of nacelles on a Starfleet ship, with all functions except "emit warp field" moved elsewhere. Those are the feet. Seen from the right angle cardassian ships look like robots.
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Apr 21, 2024 01:57
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Powered Descent posted:contemplation of the Micro Machines toy. I spent so much time figuring how those ships fit together and having them team up accordingly, MegaZord style.
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Apr 21, 2024 02:04
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Tighclops posted:The fact that the cardassian logo is just their ship is kind of lazy Maybe they're both stylized birds. Birds are popular inspirations for flying machines and emblems.
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Apr 21, 2024 02:23
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Powered Descent posted:I always kind of figured the little "fork" way back at the very tail end of the Galor class did the equivalent job of nacelles on a Starfleet ship, with all functions except "emit warp field" moved elsewhere. My headcanon is the long spire of the body is the sole nacelle of the ship to wrap the warp field around it like a bar magnet and  .
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Apr 21, 2024 02:26
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Maybe the Cardassians just suck.
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Apr 21, 2024 02:31
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Tighclops posted:The fact that the cardassian logo is just their ship is kind of lazy Starfleet should have delta-shaped ships.
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It seems to be their role. Romulans are dark elves to contrast the Vulcans, Klingons are all about conquest and honor, Ferengi are greedy and commerce-focused, Dominion are the despotic empire, Borg are the hivemind, so the only niche left is "race that sucks", and they get useless racial bonuses like tolerating hot climates and deception skills.
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Apr 21, 2024 02:58
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We have Romulans at home
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I wish we’d gotten more Romulan vs Cardassian stuff in DS9. I feel like those are two peoples with very superficial similarities but who are, in reality, far more different from each other than either is from Humans.
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Actual Satan posted:Starfleet should have delta-shaped ships.
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Akoochimoya
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Bless you
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I am far from the boners of my people
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Powered Descent posted:I always kind of figured the little "fork" way back at the very tail end of the Galor class did the equivalent job of nacelles on a Starfleet ship, with all functions except "emit warp field" moved elsewhere. The Hank Hill's butt of starship nacelles.
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It's been established that you can have nacelle engines and ring engines. There's probably a few different warp coil configurations the physics lends itself to and one of them is the brick ships.
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Andorian ships clearly just have two nacelles in a single casing at the back
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S7 Voyager is a slog so far. Bringing Barclay back as the idiot savant for comms stuff was a big blunder. He's annoying as himself or in alter ego mode as a confident douche. What writer looked at Barclay from TNG and said THIS is the dude we wanna rope into Voyager?
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Well, they wanted someone from TNG because fans love TNG, but they couldn't get anyone better
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And he’d already appeared earlier in the show’s run.
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Honestly it would be kinda lame if every race had the same "two nacelles with space between them" configuration. Vulcans don't, Spoonheads don't, even the Defiant doesn't really. Let's not even start with the Breen nonsense they fly around in. It seems like there are multiple way to create a warpfield and the differences are which should be enough for space fantasy where you can be randomly teleported around without dying.
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Mulaney Power Move posted:Well, they wanted someone from TNG because fans love TNG, but they couldn't get anyone better Troi shows up in the first Barclay episode but that doesn't invalidate your point
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Squiggle posted:Troi shows up in the first Barclay episode but that doesn't invalidate your point Projections has entered the chat.
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Squiggle posted:Troi shows up in the first Barclay episode but that doesn't invalidate your point He was also likely much cheaper.
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I mostly enjoyed this weeks Disco. It was basically an actual episode instead of a smear of poo poo serving the seasonal plot. Real lol at everybody on the DIsco saying their colleague wouldn't sacrifice themself to save the ship. That's like Starfleet 101. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcBw9GuzZI4
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Spoonhead is so derogatory that I’m actually briefly offended on behalf of a fictional alien race every time I see it lol
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Imagine a Bajoran comedian who makes it big with his character "Spoonar" wherein he does a racist depiction of a Cardsssian via pressing a spoon to his forehead. He is later cast as the "Colonel Klink" of a show about a Cardsssian POW camp.
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Jimbone Tallshanks posted:Imagine a Bajoran comedian who makes it big with his character "Spoonar" wherein he does a racist depiction of a Cardsssian via pressing a spoon to his forehead. He would get into a spat over public comms with Cardassian Jeff Dunham and his dead Bajoran puppet.
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the federations most cancelled comedian has an offensive character of every federation race the comedian is human
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Bill Cosby is a Romulan
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Wifi Toilet posted:Spoonhead is so derogatory that I’m actually briefly offended on behalf of a fictional alien race every time I see it lol lol I keep waiting for the Mods to crack down on the use of "The Spoonies".
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We're just assuming the Bajoran concept of a spoon is the same as humans. It could mean something totally different. It could be derogatory in a strange alien way we can't even comprehend.
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S7 Voyager redeemed itself a bit via the ep where the doctor is stored in 7's implants and takes over her personality. Jeri Ryan channeling the doctor is so much fun to watch.
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Big rear end On Fire posted:S7 Voyager redeemed itself a bit via the ep where the doctor is stored in 7's implants and takes over her personality. Jeri Ryan channeling the doctor is so much fun to watch. Plus it's the episode where it's made canonical that Harry stinks.
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