STAR TREK: Picard's Assimilated Balls

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Apollodorus: Feb 13, 2010; TEST YOUR MIGHT

Otoh Seven had the emotional maturity of an (at best) eight year old and was essentially an autistic girl trying to discover sex for the first time. Turning her down was really the only ethical thing to do.

# ¿ Jul 4, 2016 04:19

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 20:31

Apollodorus: Feb 13, 2010; TEST YOUR MIGHT

Bashir & O'Brien: Battles Throughout History

> Battle of Britain
> Battle of Clontarf
> Battle of the Alamo
> Battle of Thermopylae

I think those are all the ones they specifically mentioned; presumably there were many others too.

# ¿ Jul 5, 2016 18:30

Apollodorus: Feb 13, 2010; TEST YOUR MIGHT

Nerds like B5 because of a) space battles, b) space war, c) continuity, and d) occasional lampshading of sci-fi tropes. That's it.

# ¿ Jul 6, 2016 03:27

Apollodorus: Feb 13, 2010; TEST YOUR MIGHT

JediTalentAgent posted:

That's the crazy thing, too. I really liked it, and it's sort of a plot that I think could have easily worked with the TOS or TNG crew, too.

TNG, though, probably would have spent about 1/2 the episode wringing their hands over the Prime Directive, and TOS probably would have had to have figured out a way to add some more action to it or something or more directly involve the main crew or have it unfold over a slower period of time (a year passing in an hour rather than 1 day a second) to get the main cast a way to get down to the surface for short periods to try to interact.

Part of the reason it's easy to imagine it as a TOS episode is that the Voyager episode is called Blink of an Eye and the TOS one is called Wink of an Eye.

# ¿ Jul 8, 2016 03:04

Apollodorus: Feb 13, 2010; TEST YOUR MIGHT

FilthyImp posted:

The Federation is an enlightened civilization. We've moved past such primitive concerns such as getting turnt or feeling krunk.

# ¿ Jul 8, 2016 19:24

Apollodorus: Feb 13, 2010; TEST YOUR MIGHT

Voyager has an exceptionally good theme and title sequence. Often it's the best part of the episode.

# ¿ Jul 9, 2016 15:01

Apollodorus: Feb 13, 2010; TEST YOUR MIGHT

Yes she makes sense given that one of O'Brien's functions in the narrative is to experience constant suffering.

# ¿ Jul 10, 2016 02:39

Apollodorus: Feb 13, 2010; TEST YOUR MIGHT

Naxuz posted:

Was O'Brien's neverending misery ever explained? Were the writers just "well, we need to show that not everyone is happy in the future space utopia, let's start piling poo poo upon the pudgy Irishman"?

Yeah, he was supposed to be the Everyman who falls through the cracks in the spas utopia, despite being a good guy who doesn't do anything wrong.

# ¿ Jul 10, 2016 14:05

Apollodorus: Feb 13, 2010; TEST YOUR MIGHT

criscodisco posted:

There was the episode where Neelix was dead for like 7 hours but then brought back with Borg technology thanks to 7 of 9. He promptly had a meltdown because he didn't see Talaxian heaven.

If he's that concerned with souls, shouldn't be have been at least a bit upset that he was able to merge souls with another being and then separate without issue?

That's so loving funny because almost every other alien afterlife turns out to be 100% real.

# ¿ Jul 10, 2016 23:21

Apollodorus: Feb 13, 2010; TEST YOUR MIGHT

Lol just lol if you think I didn't remember the details of that episode. That one is the main reason I said "almost every other"

# ¿ Jul 11, 2016 00:04

Apollodorus: Feb 13, 2010; TEST YOUR MIGHT

I think then you run into the problem that it's not relatable enough - which is often why the technology on Trek is never taken to its logical conclusion.

# ¿ Jul 12, 2016 16:23

Apollodorus: Feb 13, 2010; TEST YOUR MIGHT

criscodisco posted:

Right, like how they never had Janeway dyke out with 7 of 9.

Yeah but in that case I think what would have happened is Mulgrew would have killed Ryan in her trailer and buried the body in the desert rather than do that storyline.

# ¿ Jul 12, 2016 16:27

Apollodorus: Feb 13, 2010; TEST YOUR MIGHT

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

Star Trek: Voyageur

Well punned.

# ¿ Jul 13, 2016 02:56

Apollodorus: Feb 13, 2010; TEST YOUR MIGHT

Krieger-san! :swoon:

# ¿ Jul 13, 2016 04:30

Apollodorus: Feb 13, 2010; TEST YOUR MIGHT

naem posted:

Computer, bring up holo-bridge, now run protocol "nude Tane"

You want this guy naked on your bridge?

# ¿ Jul 13, 2016 16:50

Apollodorus: Feb 13, 2010; TEST YOUR MIGHT

Well, he already knows what YOU look like naked.

# ¿ Jul 13, 2016 16:54

Apollodorus: Feb 13, 2010; TEST YOUR MIGHT

Lol just lol if you think the head of the Obsidian Order doesn't have copies of all your nudes.

# ¿ Jul 13, 2016 17:14

Apollodorus: Feb 13, 2010; TEST YOUR MIGHT

It was thoroughly in character for Kent to be a DS9 fan and dismiss most other Trek, yes.

# ¿ Jul 14, 2016 05:13

Apollodorus: Feb 13, 2010; TEST YOUR MIGHT

Moridin920 posted:

Maybe they're just super open handed with their friends and super brutal to their enemies?

Idk they kinda treated the Cardassians like poo poo though.

Yeah but that was because a lot of them had been duped into believing they were fighting against a covert Dominion incursion into the AQ. And more so when they were fighting against an overt one.

# ¿ Jul 14, 2016 21:51

Apollodorus: Feb 13, 2010; TEST YOUR MIGHT

So, if I teleport - or as we say in Trek, "beam" - my computer to the UK then I can watch it on Netflix, right?

# ¿ Jul 18, 2016 22:15

Apollodorus: Feb 13, 2010; TEST YOUR MIGHT

shadow puppet of a posted:

Fact. Ezri was an androgynous J'naii, not a Trill. Her discomfort with the Dax symbiant was physiologically induced and her spots came from an undiagnosed reaction to lokar beans. Trill surgeons are lazy like NHS boob jobs, they just hastily cut a flap in you and slide the plastic lump right in.

please

that poo poo next time, jfc

Ezri looks kind of like my wife, though my wife is several inches taller. Similar mole though.

# ¿ Jul 23, 2016 03:13

Apollodorus: Feb 13, 2010; TEST YOUR MIGHT

Of course! Even had an Asian love interest who turned out to be terrible.

# ¿ Jul 23, 2016 16:19

Apollodorus: Feb 13, 2010; TEST YOUR MIGHT

Fat Shat Sings posted:

I don't know whether to be excited that that retarded looking ship means it's probably not AATrek universe, or disappointed that it's probably the worst space ship I think I've ever seen in relation to star trek.

Not even mentioning the music video CGI.

Wow, I sure hope it's not in the Aatrek universe. I do not need full-on kiddy diddling in Star Trek.

Those effects have GOT to be placeholders - which makes me wonder if people making this show have seriously poor judgment for showing it in public.

# ¿ Jul 24, 2016 00:56

Apollodorus: Feb 13, 2010; TEST YOUR MIGHT

Baka-nin posted:

Yes it was, and no it didn't, it looked worse. Babylon 5 never got that bad

Are you kidding?

# ¿ Jul 24, 2016 01:21

Apollodorus: Feb 13, 2010; TEST YOUR MIGHT

But have you got the science down to being a drunk in the middle of nowhere?

# ¿ Jul 24, 2016 01:30

Apollodorus: Feb 13, 2010; TEST YOUR MIGHT

What about "The Invisible Man" from Sci Fi?

# ¿ Jul 24, 2016 02:09

Apollodorus: Feb 13, 2010; TEST YOUR MIGHT

Wow. Glad I didn't watch it, then.

# ¿ Jul 24, 2016 02:23

Apollodorus: Feb 13, 2010; TEST YOUR MIGHT

y/n ?

# ¿ Jul 24, 2016 02:28

Apollodorus: Feb 13, 2010; TEST YOUR MIGHT

Still better than being a Philly cop.

# ¿ Jul 26, 2016 02:50

Apollodorus: Feb 13, 2010; TEST YOUR MIGHT

That is shown to be objectively false in literally the first appearance of the Borg, dude.

# ¿ Jul 27, 2016 14:21

Apollodorus: Feb 13, 2010; TEST YOUR MIGHT

Iron Crowned posted:

Well, they only use it when the saucer section has been separated, and nope, it's still right on top at that point.

Remember how in TNG they had to separate the ship so often that they couldn't be bothered to say the whole name of the process and just called it "saucer sep" and "autosep"?

# ¿ Jul 27, 2016 19:51