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After The War posted:drat straight we do. I've been introducing a friend who's never seen any, and it's blowing his mind the series is as old as it is.
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Knormal posted:And then Enterprise used that model as an actual future Federation ship during their Temporal Cold War crap because no one will notice, right? Enterprise: NX-01. Since nobody on Voyager raised so much as an eyebrow at the inconsistency, got to assume that the Temporal Cold War hosed with the ship names somehow.
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Sep 4, 2017 23:40
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Paradoxish posted:I love the idea of the Ent-D being this ship that was designed to just go somewhere, set up in orbit, and do literally anything that needed to be done all by itself.
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Sep 5, 2017 07:46
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What someone said upthread about the JJTrek crew not seeming professional is spot on. I can't help thinking that it's because the makers of TOS were pretty much all ex-military, while the people behind the new movies have spent their entire working lives in Hollywood. (Also: taking literally saying "you have the bridge" to a junior officer and thinking that makes them the captain permanently.  )
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Sep 9, 2017 09:38
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Madurai posted:Trek has never been really clear on the concept of radiation, either. In Voyager particularly, "radiation" was a slightly heavier-than-air greenish gas. I think they may have confused it with chlorine.
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Sep 14, 2017 23:48
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I originally thought after First Contact that the Borg as a collective came up with the Queen as a way to crack Data psychologically as the only way to get the Enterprise access codes - they've got the combined knowledge of thousands of races, after all. But nope, she's literally their evil leader who sits around watching what's happening on 4:3 monitors and verbally countermanding drones, rather than, y'know, the Collective assessing the situation and instantly coming up with a course of action as one unimaginably huge mind.
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Jan 3, 2018 23:28
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 This is like Tiny Toons Starfleet or something. "Space bullshit" is the best term I've ever heard to describe the stuff that the Enterprise et al regularly encounter, and it should be retconned into the franchise immediately. "Captain's log, stardate 3473.2. We encountered some space bullshit that killed three of the crew. Their families have been informed."
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Jan 27, 2018 23:47
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I gave up on Farscape after three or four episodes, and now don't have enough free time to give it another shot.  As for Lexx, do what I did and watch the miniseries, then stop. (I actually watched for a few episodes of the series proper after Zev was replaced by Xev, or whichever way round it was, and felt I would have been better off stopping sooner.)
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May 14, 2018 16:56
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Shibawanko posted:I ignore the movies because there aren't any niner movies. "Little?!?"
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May 20, 2018 22:14
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Grand Fromage posted:It also gave us Spock's Dick, one of the internet's finest gifs. Edit: holy poo poo, GIS links tell me it *was* me, back in 2007. The stills, anyway; I don't remember doing it as a GIF. But then I don't remember much about that period in general.
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Jun 1, 2018 23:12
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Low Desert Punk posted:I'm rewatching Enterprise and really liking it There's a bit in the DS9 Companion where the writers talk about "who can we cybo-brainise without anyone caring? Uh... Bareil! Nobody gives a crap about him!" and being very surprised to get a load of angry mail from women who actually did give a crap.
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Jun 24, 2018 00:04
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I remember at the end of the arc when Seven joined the crew thinking it was cool that Voyager was still covered in the Borg greeblies needed to beat Species 8472. But then nope, all gone, back to the pristine hull next episode.
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Jul 6, 2018 17:47
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Brawnfire posted:I'd enjoy a show where they followed a small crew on a rinky-dink little ship, maybe like 5-7 people at very most. Make it an ensemble comedy, one of the characters is the Klingon chef as galley cook. Make him an excessively passionate dude, gets way too into things. I can write up a full treatment, just ask!
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Jul 13, 2018 23:07
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Sometimes they recycled accepted TNG scripts too! Remember that one episode that's basically A Matter Of Perspective (which yes is a Rashomon rehash) but with Paris instead of Riker? ENT also had the gall/balls to recycle a DS9 script that was Odo-centric, and cast Rene Auberjonois as the guest star!
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Jul 15, 2018 00:17
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Peachfart posted:Any of that would have required creativity, which Enterprise ran out of somewhere in the middle of the first
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Jul 28, 2018 22:34
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They arrested Harlan Ellison?!? And from a few pages back: yes, the Centaur was a cool design. It may have been an Excelsior kitbash, but it still worked well as a variation on existing hardware without feeling like random pieces glued together, or adding highlighter pens to a saucer section.
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Aug 3, 2018 22:57
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Tighclops posted:TOS was the right confluence of poo poo at the perfect time, you can see contemporary space shows try basically the same thing and miss the mark totally because they couldn't nail the formula. Nobody really cares about UFO with Ed Bishop, for example despite being part of the Gerry Anderson canon I'd actually love to see a remake, because UFO could have really great potential if done right. Although now people would probably accuse it of being a ripoff of XCOM...
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Aug 6, 2018 14:35
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egon_beeblebrox posted:Why did they decide to make the teasers in "Enterprise" so boring? Hoshi talks about a slug, cut to credits. Yep, that'll keep people interested.
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Aug 8, 2018 15:23
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:For those of you who enjoy a bit of brexit: Ah yes, the United Federation of Planets, comprised of many worlds and races working together for a better future under shared rules and values set out by an overarching multinational government, is obviously an argument for Brexit.
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Aug 10, 2018 14:50
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I’m guessing Reliant is the Khan miniseries no one asked for, named in a manner that the writers no doubt believe to be clever. Destiny has to be the Picard series.
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Aug 13, 2018 08:46
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HD DAD posted:I want it to be just a retelling of Galaxy Quest, beginning with Patrick Stewart the actor being harassed by what he thinks is his pal Jonathan Frakes, but is actually William T Riker, captain of the Titan who’s come to steal him from an alternate universe to replace that universe’s dead Picard.
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Aug 13, 2018 15:13
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Epicurius posted:With I, Robot, they had an existing script out there called Hardwired, and then when they got the rights to the book, just threw the name on there.
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Aug 13, 2018 21:32
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galenanorth posted:a prequel isn't a prequel without a few shoehorned "actually, they were the ones who discovered it, but they never told anyone" stories
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Aug 16, 2018 15:34
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A.I. Borgland Corp posted:Their Nechayev equivalent ordered the whole thing remain a secret
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Aug 16, 2018 16:01
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HIJK posted:Midnight's Edge has a good round up of the current state of the Kelvin movies and Paramount's mismanagement: https://youtu.be/kOys0IusW2U
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Aug 17, 2018 21:57
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MikeJF posted:It's always nice to see the original Probert Enterprise-C design show up. I like it, but at the same time I'm glad it wasn't used for the D. At the time I had a thoroughly reactionary dislike of the new ship - "it's different, and therefore wrong!" - but now I appreciate it for pushing further away from what had been established in TOS and the movies. The original Probert design, while good (and it looks really nice in that new render), was just a rejig of existing ships.
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Sep 11, 2018 15:22
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The transporter accident in TMP is utterly horrific because of the way they're screaming throughout the whole thing, and you can see their bodies warping and tearing as they form. It's one of those rare things in film that I've actually found more disturbing as I've got older rather than less. Thanks, empathy!
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Sep 12, 2018 12:34
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Pacra posted:What is that ship, the USS Pendulous Breasts????? I think Krull is Peak Horner, because you can literally hear pieces of every other score he did for about ten years on either side.
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Sep 21, 2018 23:06
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Mister Kingdom posted:The only Star Trek fiction I ever read was "Star Trek: The New Voyages". And the only story I can recall was the one where Kirk, Spock, and McCoy were in a transporter accident and ended up on the set of Star Trek.
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Nov 3, 2018 23:34
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Paradoxish posted:For the show, yeah, but not so much for the mission. The idea of the D running around from planet to planet never made a whole lot of sense and ship seemed more suitable as a kind of mobile starbase that could set up shop somewhere and do real long term exploration/science/diplomacy.
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Nov 5, 2018 00:04
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Q_res posted:Maybe there's some sort of hellish work-for-reward system. Maybe there's nicer apartments, hover cars, et cetera that you can request. However in exchange you have to take a job assignment from the government and put in a minimum number of hours in order to be allowed to have those nicer amenities. Of course, enrolling in Starfleet grants you unlimited access to the top tier of privileges and amenities.
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Nov 5, 2018 16:33
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thexerox123 posted:Also, as to an earlier post, I would absolutely choose to watch Voyager over Enterprise most of the time. There are plenty of great Voyager episodes. Enterprise doesn't even have entertaining leads to make up for the lousy (and often recycled) stories, though. Archer is an arrogant, entitled rear end in a top hat who deserves a good punch in the face, Phlox is Space Mengele, and the others are dull non-entities. The best character isn't even a regular (Shran). quote:(But, TOS, TNG, and DS9 are all definitely better than both.)
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Nov 29, 2018 00:52
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Cythereal posted:The Kobayashi Maru, the no-win scenario, is a recurring metaphor for death, and it's one part of a theme throughout the movie about how Kirk has always managed to cheat death. He's managed to win where he shouldn't have been able to win, but he can't keep doing it forever. Death will catch up to him
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Jan 11, 2019 00:24
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jeeves posted:I love how CBS is trying to milk Trek for everything it can like Disney did with Star Wars.
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Jan 14, 2019 23:18
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I once came up with the theory that the Borg Queen had (or appeared to have) a distinct personality despite being linked to the Collective because the combined Borg knowledge of psychological warfare from thousands of species made them realise this would be the best way to crack Data, by offering him what he most desired - she wasn't a literal queen of the entire Collective, but a kind of weapon. But then along came Voyager, and welp.
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Jan 17, 2019 21:47
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skasion posted:Did the gel packs actually do anything? I can’t think of a single episode where they were more than tangentially relevant. Neelix hosed them up with his cooking that one time, but I can’t recall an instance where they contributed any benefit the ship would otherwise have lacked.
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Jan 21, 2019 23:26
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PostNouveau posted:"We're from up north."
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Jan 30, 2019 22:44
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Grand Fromage posted:Don't you understand? It's real. Poor kid's going to be so taken aback when he eventually sees the moment in context.
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Feb 14, 2019 12:19
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Sir Lemming posted:Season 3 of TOS definitely gets more into the trope of Kirk macking on alien women. Along with the general decline in quality.
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Re-reading The 50 Year Voyage and just got to the part about The Letter. God drat, Roddenberry didn't hold back on tearing his lead actors a new one. He essentially threatened to fire Shatner if he didn't stop pulling his line-counting 'I'm the star so I get whatever I want' poo poo, and was barely less brutal to Nimoy either. I also hadn't registered that when Roddenberry came back to give the show his full attention later in season 2 after being sidetracked by other projects he deliberately made the character interactions more formal and military and cut back the humour, but in hindsight it's blindingly clear. (Ironically, I consider the earlier parts of season 2 to be the high point of TOS...)
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