dog buttz posted:

Seven of Nine is hot and Robert Picardo is a great actor who played a great character in that show.

Speaking of Star Trek, I watched Enterprise and was surprised at how brutal they could be. "Eh, gently caress the whole planet. Let nature take it's course" and "He'll tell us when the airlock starts to open."

Volcott posted:

"Hey at some point in the future we might theoretically have guidelines that tell us to let these guys die so I'm just gonna do that now."

That chunk of the prime directive was kinda bullshit, honestly. Just let Worf's brother kidnap the planet if they're all hosed anyway.

Isaac posted:

Isnt Q like a god why do they need beejays

Powercrazy posted:

He doesn't, he just wanted to debase the green starfleet captain for his own amusement.

Wowbagger2004 posted:

Voyager was bad

Automatic Slim posted:

Debasing figures of authority seems to be his "thing".

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In addition, Moore is bothered by the show’s lack of continuity. "The continuity of the show is completely haphazard. It’s haphazard by design. It’s not like they are trying desperately to maintain continuity of the show. They don’t care, and they’ll tell you flat out that they don’t care. Well, that is misreading the core audience. The STAR TREK, hardcore audience loves continuity; they love accumulating data on these ships. They love knitting together all the little pieces, and compiling lists, and doing trivia. That’s been a staple of the STAR TREK culture from the get-go. People really love the details. They love the fact that the details all add up and make one mosaic, and that the universe holds together. When you don’t give a poo poo, you’re telling the audience: don’t bother. Don’t bother to really learn this stuff, because it’s not going to matter next week, anything that happened this week."

The writer-producers of VOYAGER maintain that they don’t want continuity, so people can watch the shows out of order, for example, now in five-nights-a-week syndication. Says Moore, "I’ve just never believed that argument, because it seems to me that you’re just underestimating the intelligence of the audience. You’re just saying the audience is a bunch of idiots. Who is going to be watching the show in strip syndication five nights a week? People that like that show, and presumably have watched more than one show. Got forbid the stations have to run them in order. It’s an excuse that sounds plausible but is basically a way for them not to have to care about maintaining continuity, because it is tough to maintain continuity. It’s very hard to write in continuity, because of the nature of television. You are writing ahead, and you are writing at the moment, and you are changing things in post. It’s really hard to keep all the ducks in a row, which we found at DEEP SPACE NINE. In that last ten-episode run, where it was almost completely serialized, that’s a tough act to carry off. But it’s also worth the effort, because the payoff is the world has more validity. The audience can sense there is truth in it. It’s a better show, and it will last longer as a result. If you are really just so concerned that this week’s episode won’t make sense because you didn’t see that episode three years ago, why can’t STAR TREK do like ALLY MCBEAL, or THE PRACTICE, or ER, all the big successful shows do. Put a little recap at the top of the show: ‘Previously, on STAR TREK: VOYAGER...’—even if it’s an episode from two years ago. You just quickly get the audience up to speed, because the audience is not stupid. The audience has watched television for a long time. They understand that they have missed some things, that perhaps this is a reference to a show that they didn’t see. They aren’t just going to throw up their hands and move on. If you are pre-supposing that, you are aiming towards the person that is grabbing a beer, and isn’t really paying attention, and is walking out of the room every ten minutes and coming back and sitting down; all you are going to do is dumb down the show. You are reducing it to its lowest common denominator, and what’s the point of that? What do you get out of that? You just get a so-so kind of television experience."

FuhrerHat posted:

guys i think ferenghis are using my brain to spy on us

guys?

Hammerite posted:

One of the tv channels here is showing season 1 of TNG at the moment and its funny how they spent the whole time playing Ferengi up as dangerous and mysterious and so forth, when by the time of DS9 they are the comic relief

Chomp8645 posted:

Fun fact: Armin Shimmerman plays at least two different Ferengi 1930's racist Jewish caricatures in early TNG.

Ahundredbux posted:

for example when the doctor went down on some planet

Jose Mengelez posted:

it was shocking to me when the hologram doctor from star trek voyager sucked six billion cocks

Syfe posted:

The Doctor fared much better over 7 seasons as a believable non-aged character than Data did, mind you Data's makeup didn't play nice after awhile and movies forced him into longer than 7 seasons worth of time.

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Ibogaine posted:

Is not taking things seriously anymore a sign of growing up?

Jose Mengelez posted:

its a sign of early onset dementia.

Tectonis posted:

In Future's End they go back in time and it's explicitly stated that the only reason the microprocessor revolution happened was because that douche CEO got his hands on the time ship. So how could the microprocessor have also been invented when it was in JJTrek if, in order for the time ship to go back to 20th century Earth, Voyager needed to both exist and be stranded in the Delta Quadrant to kick off the string of events in the first place.

The Sphinxster posted:

Every time travel story is poo poo

Hector Beerlioz posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjRkZPjIRX8

Tectonis posted:

In Future's End they go back in time and it's explicitly stated that the only reason the microprocessor revolution happened was because that douche CEO got his hands on the time ship. So how could the microprocessor have also been invented when it was in JJTrek if, in order for the time ship to go back to 20th century Earth, Voyager needed to both exist and be stranded in the Delta Quadrant to kick off the string of events in the first place.

Ibogaine posted:

I tend to skip the time travel stories. However, the one in which they fought the Nazis in America had a certain trashy charm, I think.