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Kitchner posted:Archer and the rest of his crew are in many ways more moral and "by the book" than kirk was (who just went around loving and shooting everything). I just want to point out, Kirk did not run around shooting and loving everything. The loneliness of command was a running theme, and the few times he did interfere, it was to fix somebody else's interference. Otherwise he was very much a by-the-book guy until he decided to steal the Enterprise.
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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. I love that Hitler is always the focus of these time travel fantasists, like he's the one guy in all of history who time travellers would seek out. Not Napoleon, not Genghis Khan, not Bagosora, not Gavrilo Princip or Abdul Hamid, not Julius Caesar's assassins, not the leader of the Visigoths, no, it's Hitler.
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Shadow posted:Oh poo poo what were those "parent species that populated the universe with their DNA" aliens called? Wasn't that the Iconians?
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Oct 14, 2015 02:53
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Oh yes, The Progenitors.
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Oct 14, 2015 03:54
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Shadow posted:I'm sure it's out there. I'm ashamed to say I've never seen this movie. In the 90s the previews made it seem stupid and I was also getting tired of Tim Allen at the time. Since then it's never come up. You really should rectify this. It's the one role where Allen didn't play himself, and possibly the only reason he gets live action work anymore.
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Shadow posted:Is it on any of the standard streaming sites? I checked Netflix and Prime really quick and didn't see it. It's for rent on Prime, I don't know about anywhere else, I can't find it.
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MikeJF posted:Remember, Worf is Russian. BELO-Russian 
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Oct 16, 2015 23:15
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doodlebugs posted:Captain Kirk had the Enterprise destroy an ancient civilizations "god" because gently caress the prime directive. The Prime Directive stated "no identification of self or mission; no interference with the social development of said planet; no references to space, other worlds, or advanced civilizations." Said "god" was advanced technology that caused said social development to stagnate completely. As I said, Kirk only interfered when somebody else had done so previously.
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Oct 17, 2015 11:23
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Spock is a Cock!
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The Maquis are clearly American Jews moving into settlements in the West Bank.
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Oct 19, 2015 19:48
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Kitchner posted:cadets had a limit on how much could use the transporter because of starfleet reasons. Academy reasons, like weekend passes and furloughs at the contemporary military academies.
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Oct 22, 2015 08:05
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Ambrose Burnside posted:TOS is campy fun but that's about all it has going for it and definitely isnt actually legitimately good TV. better than voyager but that is ruthless damning w/ faint praise TV Shows can have a timeless, enduring quality to them, but they need to be judged based on when they came out and what came before. You sound like the people in my film class who said Casablanca and Citizen Kane are cliched.  What is this based on?
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Oct 28, 2015 18:09
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:I don't think that was even naval tradition. I think that was just a 1980 audience-palatable concept of "gender neutrality" in Starfleet. There was supposed to be a thing, in the original draft, where Kirk and Saavik had a romance for the second half of the film, after spending the first half under the misapprehension that she was a man. And Spock was supposed to die half-way through instead of at the end. The Mister was probably the last hold out from that.
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Oct 28, 2015 23:41
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Howard Beale posted:Saavik was also supposed to be part Vulcan and part Romulan (which was supposed to explain why she cried during Spock's funeral, among other things) and in the film novelizations, she eventually shacked up with David Marcus in The Search for Spock. And the villains in III were supposed to be Romulans, but that was dropped along with the half-romulan thing that went unspoken in the films.
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Originally, the Klingons traded the D7 ship for the cloaking technology, because the Klingon design was superior. The ship exchange didn't go both ways, the Romulan ships were inferior. The original bird of prey from TOS couldn't do warp, didn't have shields and had limited range and fuel stores. The only advantages were the cloak and the plasma weapon. Aside from that, it was no match for the Enterprise, while the Klingon D7s were meant to be essentially equal to the Federation's best. Which is why it was such a shock that the Romulans acquired them in the Enterprise incident. Even the Bird of Prey in the movie was no match for the Enterprise. All of this was retconned when they turned the Klingons from the cunning soviet analogue into the Weeaboo warrior analogue race during TNG and they changed the bird of prey from a scout ship into a heavy cruiser. Another draft of the III script had the Klingons stealing the Bird of Prey from a Romulan crew, but that was also cut out. In fact, there was a lot of stuff planned for III but later cut for various reasons, including budget and Kirstie Alley's agent's salary demands. If you pay attention to the structure of III, you can kind of feel it, the acts and story beats seem slight, like they're missing something.
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:Does Colm Meaney hold the record for most Star Trekking? He was on two of the longest series regularly. Kinda funny if so! He doesn't, but he does have probably the best track record for work outside of Star Trek except maybe for Patrick Stewart. Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Still have no idea why they didn't release the Director's Cut for Wrath of Khan on bluray, it's not like there was an issue with special effects like with The Motion Picture, and the theatrical cut of the engine room inspection seems much more disjointed after having seen the director's cut. I think Nick Meyer rustled some executive jimmies at Paramount with his director's commentary on the DVD release and they're less interested in giving him more money. He is singularly responsible for the commentary disclaimer. He mentions this in his book, View from the Bridge, which I highly recommend. Fister Roboto posted:You could make a strong case for this being the best DS9 episode. This is one of the big reasons I disagree with people who tell others to skip season 1 of DS9.
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Entropic posted:Shatner didn't do too bad for himself. She retired to Hershey Pennsylvania where she could live out her life with the residuals and the money she already made on DS9 and Becker. (And she married the "Can you hear me now" guy). It has more to do with lack of interest than anything else, given her experience trying to get the actors on Becker to strike and hold out for better deals.
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I'll never forgive him for giving Fark the win over SA in that photoshop contest.
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Powered Descent posted:Here you go thread, have all the star treks at once. That is amazing.
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I would assume because they used beaming technology to clear out the colon.
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Kitchner posted:I'm sure we've had this discussion RE: who beams who's poo poo off of the ship I know the most recent one was about who beams stuff into people's rectums, but I'm also sure this is as common a recurring theme as Klingon dongs have ridges.
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Kitchner posted:Word's dad beats his mother which is why he thinks Klingon mating is all about smacking the bitch up. He watched the Klingon category on pornhub. e;f,b Jesus Christ, it was the next loving post. 
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I can't wait for the new series to suck because I wasn't around SA when Enterprise premiered. It must have been magical. Did you notice somewhere in season 3/4 where Troi is covering her moustache with makeup?
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Bum the Sad posted:I swear I remember posting about perky Vulcan titties though. TVIV definitely existed while Enterprise was still on the air, but Not until season 2 or 3, I think. Also, decided to watch the Q episodes of TNG and caught the foreshadowing for the finale in True Q. How long was that idea in the works?
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ThePutty posted:why did they introduce ensign ro in TNG season 5 but hardly ever actually use her? does she do something important later on or something Their original intent was to have her in the Major Kira role on DS9, but Michelle Forbes turned it down. She did end up getting a couple of good episodes other than the kid one.
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Met posted:The joke is that Uhura is black. Well done. The joke is that he's so stupid he thinks the south are the ones who decided slaves should only count as 3/5ths of a person.
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Mondian posted:Yeah, Chaos on the Bridge. The whole thing is just bitching about how awful Hurley and Maizlish were and how they were just firing people left and right and rewriting scripts and going through like 30 writers in two years or something? Then they all hosed off and the show became watchable. An hour ago I didn't know this existed. I knew the show had a rocky couple of years, but I had no idea it was that bad. Great Documentary, for someone who doesn't like Star Trek, Shatner always does insightful stuff about it.
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It was a love letter to the fans, what more do you want?  Also, Archer confided in his chef like he would confide in his bartender.
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EvilTaytoMan posted:Barclay watched it first and then decided to make it more exciting by adding all the Time War and Xindi poo poo to it. I like that one better. Also he probably added all the T'Pol sex too. It fits his MO.
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Weird Alien Sex is definitely Riker's thing.
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Aleph Null posted:What caused Nazi planet? A renegade federation historian who thought he could keep it from getting out of hand, but ended up getting drugged and trotted out as a figurehead by an actual militant fascist. Orange Sunshine posted:You forgot to mention the bad lighting. Harsh shadows everywhere, weird colored lights everywhere. There's a pink light on one wall, some green lights shining over here, some blue lights over there. It wouldn't be Star Trek TOS without colored lights against the walls in every drat scene. Color TV was relatively new at the time, that was a deliberate conceit to make it as colorful and theatrical as possible. If you watch the original pilot, everything is a lot more muted. You can pick up on their intent if you watched that chaos on the bridge documentary, when Shatner is talking to Diana Muldar, who was on both series. My Q-Face fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Dec 6, 2015 |
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Naxuz posted:play through Judgment Rites. I didn't care for it. McCoy was far too hostile towards Spock, far and away worse than any ribbing he gave him in either TOS, TAS or the movies. Definitely agree on the movies though.
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muscles like this? posted:I remember disliking one of the adventure games because of some bullshit math puzzle where the alien race used base 3 or something like that. That was 25th Anniversary where they found the ancient alien derelict and the aliens had three eyes and twelve fingers, I believe. Monkey Fracas posted:Your Morn is a pretty good running joke
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Looks to me like you're drinking the Blue with The Q-Face
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:was that the episode where Q straight-up offers to zap Voyager back home and Janeway says something like "we'll find our own way, thanks"? No joke, I hate Cinema Verite. I mean, people are already stupid enough to believe things that they see in TV and Movies, why do we have to play up the "realism"? Why aren't you playing up the absurdity? Met posted:I'm watching through TOS now. I'm at the end of Season 2. While the show has it's moments, it's definitely too much a product of it's time and it's pretty hard to watch on the whole. Actually, I agree about City on the Edge of Forever. As an introspective sci-fi concept it's interesting, but interesting doesn't translate to fun at all. Spare yourself some pain. In Season three, skip to The Enterprise Incident, Is there no truth in Beauty, Day of the Dove, The Tholian Web and All our Yesterdays. Maaaaaybe The Cloud Minders, The Mark of Gideon and That which survives. Bonus points for Women's Equality if you watch the Turnabout Intruder My Q-Face fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Dec 7, 2015 |
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Chomp8645 posted:Well hey, it's better to know what it is you criticize. If you spout "Voyager sucks" even though you've never seen it you're just an angry internet rear end in a top hat. Now you can have an informed "Voyager sucks" opinion, which is much more credible and normal. What if you've only seen three episodes, and bits and pieces of other episodes? What if you watched one of the early promo bits where they bragged about how they built the light switch for the engine core into a panel on the set, and how they had technobabble dictionaries for all of the cast, but didn't talk about the stories so much, and you happened past a Peter David panel where he was talking about how it was Gilligan's Island in Space, then you didn't watch it because there was no UPN where you were when it premiered, and when you moved to an area that did have UPN, you had other things to do, but while channel surfing you happened to catch awkward dialogues about sex between the Klingon chick and Paris(I think), and other stupid poo poo from time to time, then you did happen to catch a couple of episodes when a friend tried to get you to watch it, so he showed you the Janeway plays Ripley episode, which was okay, then you saw the Klingon chick gets put on death row for thought crimes episode, then some other episode that was also terrible? No sir, I do not need to taste poop to decide I don't want to eat poop.
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Iprazochrome posted:Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As 'Fun, Watchable' Ugh, no they weren't. "I drove a vintage Corvette Off a Cliff for no reason, I'm James Tiberius Kirk!" "Our Communicators are really just mid-2000s flip-phones that can call people across the galaxy, because we don't understand how radios or cell phones work!" "We have old Spock because" "Let's bring back the Kobayashi Maru test, only Kirk beats it like it's a video game and he figured out IDKFA" "Audiences Love Khan! And let's bring back old Spock for a one minute Cameo" "Let's have Kirk die and have Spock get all emotional ... again" Watchable implies that you could watch it a second time. redbackground posted:I liked the ship-to-ship spacedive Ugh, I forgot about the parachute scene from the first one.
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Back when I used to read Star Trek novels in the early 90s, there was one that talked about how Kirk beat the Kobayashi Maru test. It also suggested that Chekov and Scotty beat it, and it was generally pretty bad, but in it, Kirk reprograms the simulator so that the Klingon captains recognize him as some famous starship captain and immediately cease fire and offer to him assistance. It was pretty corny. But it was also better than what was in the NuTrek film.
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