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Tom Guycot posted:Someone needs to tell them to finish one of their dozen unfinished stupidprojects before announcing a new one.
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Tom Guycot posted:I generally liked ENT, even ranking it higher than VOY (though thats not saying a lot), and definitely more so than discovery and picard. Weirdly, my 'random timekiller Star Trek of choice' of late has been Voyager, because there's a bunch of episodes I only watched once when they were first broadcast and have forgotten 99% of what happens in them. Whereas TOS, TNG and DS9 I've seen every episode at least twice, and many probably more. Why not ENT, which has a slew of episodes I've never seen at all? Simply because I prefer VOY's kinda-okay McDonald's meal characters to the thin gruel of ENT's crew.
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Feb 21, 2023 17:04
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No Dignity posted:Picard 2x07 is a hell of a pick though, you get Head Baltar the shrink, young Picard telling his mother he doesn't want to be a 'prince' like his father but like her (a queen), perfectly justifiable spousal imprisonment because 24th century France doesn't have mental health services and weird vampire dream monsters. It's like the most batshit episode of the show
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Feb 21, 2023 17:18
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I've had some dealings with Hollywood people, and one of my takeaways was "how the hell do you find the time to watch all the stuff you're supposed to watch to keep up with current trends and your competition while at the same time working ludicrous hours making your own stuff?"
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Feb 21, 2023 18:44
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CLAM DOWN posted:This is easily answerable if you simply assume space has air
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Feb 22, 2023 19:26
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"Super-evolved into a salamander? No problem, a quick wave of my flashing light gizmo and you'll be right as rain."
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Feb 25, 2023 23:28
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RIP Discovery. I will always remember you for your turbolift dimension and the flame jets built into the walls of the bridge*. And nothing else, because I hit da bricks after maybe six episodes in total. *(Please tell me someone has a gif of the shot where the camera is panning around and little guffs of flame come from the walls in perfect synchronisation.) Small Strange Bird fucked around with this message at 09:54 on Mar 3, 2023 |
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Mar 3, 2023 09:51
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FISHMANPET posted:I've always thought that the best creativity comes from limitations. As the creator on the inside, you may feel like you're more creative when you're not beholden to limited budgets, short timetables, strict episode run times, etc. But I think the advent of prestige shows on streaming services has removed a lot of the limitations that typically existed for broadcast television, and it's let creators get sloppy. Somehow, it pretty much managed it, because its handful of writers went "Okay, we have no money, so let's squeeze as much as we can out of the characters, dialogue and ideas instead."
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Mar 3, 2023 17:34
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V-Men posted:Season1 is rough, what with the raider fighters exploding into perfect triangles. But I'd say the later seasons stand up fairly well.
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Mar 7, 2023 17:13
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It's funny how the actual uniform boots from TOS had at most an inch and a half of heel, but whenever anyone does a modern/cosplay representation they invariably at least double in height.
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Mar 9, 2023 09:53
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Astroman posted:All this talk puts me in a mood of "We really need a sci-fi show set on an O'Neil Cylinder."
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Mar 13, 2023 10:50
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MillennialVulcan posted:Ezri was worth it for that scene alone. "I'm the station's counsellor... and I just counselled my ex-husband into killing the leader of the Klingon Empire" is stone cold.
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Mar 17, 2023 12:29
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Eimi posted:That unreality doesn't bother me but then I'm a sicko who only watches TOS with the original effects. drat, there's a longer gap between TOS-R and now than between the end of TOS and the debut of TMP.
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Mar 22, 2023 18:47
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McSpanky posted:Didn't Probert or someone else in the production say that really, it should've had a total crew, including nonessential mission specialists, civilians and rotating temporary assignments, of 5,000? 1,000 is practically a skeleton crew for a ship that size, mostly due to the stupendously voluminous saucer section. With three shifts, which seemed to be the thing, that's only 50 people actually at their stations at a time. Since the bridge and engineering always seem busy, there must be a lot of really lonely ensigns dotted about the ship.
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Mar 30, 2023 16:36
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The viewscreen should be a giant 3DS, complete with 3D/2D slider.
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Apr 1, 2023 12:38
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Not all redshirt deaths stick, though; Leslie and Galloway both came back (Galloway after being vaporised!). Unexplained resurrection isn't just for senior officers.
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Apr 5, 2023 19:57
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swickles posted:What do you mean unexplained? You know about the black mountain right? But still it clings to my soul.
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Apr 5, 2023 23:28
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People keep doing HD renders of the B5 effects shots because *somehow* the assets and animation files found their way into the wild before Foundation Imaging went under, so it's not as if it would be impossible to incorporate them into a remaster. The problem seems to be that A: the people doing the renders technically shouldn't possess the files as they're WB property, so there are potential legal issues with using them (which is why they keep getting taken down from YouTube), and B: money.
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Apr 7, 2023 14:02
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Doohan's 'Scottish' accent or his Canadian one?
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Apr 11, 2023 23:45
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Gaz-L posted:Apparently the original Icheb is kind of a chud now, so idk, maybe it's for the best?
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Apr 13, 2023 08:01
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Der Kyhe posted:He also now keeps the portal door locked so that random people can no longer just waltz in.
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Apr 21, 2023 23:57
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Since JJtrek featured Simon Pegg, they should have gone with "Punch! That! poo poo!" to make ship go. I'd use "Bang zoom, let's go-go!" myself.
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May 4, 2023 09:14
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MikeJF posted:(Although tbh I've actually kinda gotten used to Warp Me. Even the 'Maximum Warp Me!' during the finale crisis was a YEAH moment) Lower Decks rules.
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May 4, 2023 18:41
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wesleywillis posted:If people don't enlist in starfleet how the gently caress do they join?
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CainFortea posted:The maquis were boomers who moved to a house 500 feet from the end of a runway, viewed the house while planes were taking off, bought it, and decided to buy stingers and shoot down the airplanes because they were mad at the sound. The [ahem, edit] latter: fighting literal fascist invaders who took over their country and installed a government of brutal collaborators. The [d'oh] former: colonisers who set up home in a disputed region and could have left at any time to go to a countless number of other habitable worlds when the borders were shifted by diplomatic treaty to prevent an open war, but instead decided to pour fuel on the fire by starting a guerrilla conflict. Small Strange Bird fucked around with this message at 19:02 on May 11, 2023 |
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MikeJF posted:It was a joke on Payndz mixing up former and latter.
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Tighclops posted:I miss the era before continuity got abused into nerd slop, odo pulling out a padd and owning worf with all the times the enterprise got taken over on his watch was a once in a lifetime event
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CainFortea posted:If you're going to have a diplomat on board they have to have authority. So if you have a full time diplomat that means there's someone running around on the ship with the ability to order the captain around, which is going to be weird if you don't see them frequently. In the first episode there's a guy called Commissioner Simmonds, who is basically Koenig's boss and whose job is to keep the nuclear waste dumps running at all costs and be an obstructive rear end in a top hat. He's trapped on the Moon with everyone else when the waste dumps blow and the Moon is blasted into space. He then completely vanishes for several episodes, despite being, y'know, Koenig's boss and you'd think wanting a say in how Moonbase Alpha is run now that everyone on it is at risk of dying horribly at any moment. Finally he reappears for one episode where some friendly aliens, who just happen to be heading for Earth, have one spot left on their spaceship. Simmonds decides that he should get the spot rather than it be left to a computer making the decision on purely utilitarian grounds, so he takes hostages until he eventually gets his way. He then wakes up from suspended animation about an hour after the ship leaves Alpha because he's not quite compatible with the system, and is left trapped screaming inside a glass box begging for help over his radio as the ship powers away faster than any of Alpha's Eagles can catch up. It's then revealed that the computer would have picked Simmonds anyway because he's a useless piece of poo poo who's a bigger drain on Alpha's resources than anyone else. (1999's first season liked its bleak endings.)
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"Earth tones." The very name is racist!
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That KFC ad is incredible and should count as the 80th episode.
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