BottledBodhisvata posted:

The Prime Directive is pretty simple, I thought. Don't give warp technology to primitive societies or indeed elevate their tech in any meaningful way.

EvilTaytoMan posted:

I wonder if there was a holodeck programme that was their equivalent to an MMO? Like playing with people from different ships/nearby bases within a few lightyears of eachother. I guess it would depend on how subspace communication works exactly.

happyhippy posted:

The Maquis should have did that atmosphere thingy to Earth in retaliation.

"Now you are all loving Maquis like us, cunts."

MonsieurLongDong posted:

They hit all the beats right, but I think the extended engagement with Vic Fontaine is an effort to get to a classic casino heist that they were having difficulty telling without robbing Quark.

shadow puppet of a posted:

Sluggo cola, weaponized.

I'm Crap posted:

they had to change the recipe of the kanar stuff because he was having to drink so much of it that he started "acting strange"

shadow puppet of a posted:

It should have been a suicide run of tens of thousands of those solar sail ships streaming up from the planet on lovely rockets and flapping open to speed up and penetrate their shields with olde-worlde non-tech that the dominion never considered needing to be able to scan. Explosions of fertilizer bombs with wood and brass fittings shooting everywhere and loving up the works. Bayjies blowing themselves up by the score. Their gods doing nothing to help them but quietly watch. Then later with the massive losses to the industrial and agricultural labour base you'd have a reason to keep continual famines.

But that would have actually made sense and been cool, so no. Make the chatty gods do it.

BottledBodhisvata posted:

My girlfriend and I were debating as to why a Vorta comes along with every Jem'Hadar. I explained it was more like a Roman situation, with the Vorta being rich noblemen who buy armies and the Jem'Hadar are the conscripts too poor to say no. Then we discussed whether the Vorta or the Founders are actually responsible for making the Jem'Hadar, and I reckoned that the Founders probably don't actually DO anything in regards to controlling their empire. They lead from the shadows, and I reckon that the Vorta are probably the ones who created the Jem'Hadar, and the Vorta--being genius genetic manipulators--are the chief source of the Founders' artificial military might.

The question neither of us could answer is how the Founders earned the Vorta's unwavering worship and loyalty.

BottledBodhisvata posted:

But that begs the question of HOW the Founders could do all this stuff while remaining unseen. They have no visible technology--no space ships on their world, no buildings, no infrastructure.

If there's any realism to Trek's scale, then you'd need a planet, maybe several planets, devoted entirely to the breeding and manufacture of Jem'Hadar and Vorta. How did the Founders build all this stuff? Weren't they persecuted by the rest of the galaxy so bad they became hermits? Do they possess a biotechnology that we don't ever see, or do they somehow birth the Vorta out of their gooey slime pool ocean?

Ambrose Burnside posted:

probably one of my favourite things is when, iirc after being captured, worf immediately and brutally murders weyoun and dumar just lols shithousedly

Kitchner posted:

Lol at the idea you could genetically engineer a race to never rebel and leave it at that.

Life finds a way.

Zigmidge posted:

it's all good, all of it

Tighclops posted:

Even when it's bad Star Trek is still more entertaining than 90% of the poo poo that constitutes broadcast television

Nondescript Van posted:

I watched the first 6 or so episodes of DS9 and found it boring as poo poo so I skipped it. Does it get better?

My Q-Face posted:

This is hilarious. This show isn't doing very well and everybody on the internet is very critical of it, but that's just the internet, let's see what Ira says. Ira says all the same things as the internet, well obviously the problem is with everybody else but us!

BottledBodhisvata posted:

You are a sad, strange little man...and you have my pity.

BottledBodhisvata posted:

Would you feel better if he'd said neigh?

Nondescript Van posted:

Star Trek: Time Cops - follows those time cops from the 29th century as they make every excuse possible to keep Hitler alive.

Germstore posted:

Time travelers murdered Hitler in the only temporally responsible way, directly before his suicide. Why do you think he "shot himself" instead of taking a cyanide capsule like Ava?

shadow puppet of a posted:

Klingon underboob and Klingon sideboob are the real undiscovered country.

TEAYCHES posted:

watch the intro theme to enterprise and if you cant stomach that dont watch the series. if you can stomach it kill yourself

P-Mack posted:

So modern Klingons, like most hypernationalists, are just dumb idiots who are super proud of a past they don't actually know anything about.

The General posted:

I did and it's glorious.

ChogsEnhour posted:

This thread made me realise I've seen almost every episode of Voyager without even trying and I feel awful and dirty about that fact now.

Hard Clumping posted:

are you okay?

Baronjutter posted:

She could never quite tell if he was just "in character" and loving with her or not, but said the whole scene played out as if it was lifted straight from DS9.

shadow puppet of a posted:

cheerfullydrab posted:

Think how little Picard addresses the whole ship to tell people what's going on. Working the majority of jobs on the Enterprise must be this terrifying experience where you never know if you're going to have something unimaginably horrifying happen to you or your loved ones at any second. Think of the frantic rumors spreading up and down when there's Klingons on the starboard bow. Wait staff at Ten Forward probably shake all the time and have terrible PTSD from constantly wondering if they're going to get exploded. It's the uncertainty of things that really gets you.