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Instant Sunrise: Apr 12, 2007; The manger babies don't have feelings. You said it yourself.

Baronjutter posted:

I'd love something like steam but for TV shows. You just buy the season or even per-episode and they come out exactly the same time as everywhere else, not days or weeks later. And you can always watch them any time you want, never taken away. I wouldn't just torrent poo poo if I could EASILY and permanently just buy shows/episodes without any bullshit subscription.

Isn't that what iTunes is?

# ¿ Sep 25, 2017 22:01

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 17:25

Instant Sunrise: Apr 12, 2007; The manger babies don't have feelings. You said it yourself.

thexerox123 posted:

It looked like this:

Is it just me or does that look like the Discovery 1 from 2001: A Space Odyssey?

# ¿ Sep 26, 2017 18:16

Instant Sunrise: Apr 12, 2007; The manger babies don't have feelings. You said it yourself.

DS9 was the only Star Trek show that ran concurrently with other Star Trek shows for it's entire run, that's why it was able to really get away with a lot more messing with the formula of what it means to be Star Trek.

# ¿ Sep 27, 2017 19:56

Instant Sunrise: Apr 12, 2007; The manger babies don't have feelings. You said it yourself.

Yeah but Sisko got inner lighted to the 1950s where everybody was racist instead.

# ¿ Oct 11, 2017 01:09

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Al Borland Corp. posted:

Did he? Or did Benny Russell get inner lighted to a future where a black man could run a space station?

If it wasn't for Shadows and Symbols using the Pah-Wraths to bring the Benny Russell plot back in an awkward hamfisted way that destroyed any ambiguity to Far Beyond The Stars, I would have said it was deliberately ambiguous.

# ¿ Oct 11, 2017 01:20

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Jeb! Repetition posted:

I bet Data's head was the inspiration for items that criss-cross time loops in Homestuck like the bunny or of course Lil Cal.

Considering that Andrew Hussie was the Andrew in the JAndrew TNG edits, this seems likely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNTRLPx7IuQ

# ¿ Oct 13, 2017 21:57

Instant Sunrise: Apr 12, 2007; The manger babies don't have feelings. You said it yourself.

The TNG/DS9 Maquis arc goes:

Journey's End (TNG)
The Maquis I & II (DS9)
Preemptive Strike (TNG)

And then you get into DS9 Season 3.

# ¿ Oct 17, 2017 02:15

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The problem with Jadzia was that she was just a channel to ask "What would Curzon do?" Ezri really made the character her own.

# ¿ Nov 14, 2017 01:39

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MisterBibs posted:

Only Trek-adjacent and I realize it's not in their control, but good lord I wish The Greatest Generation didn't have to air plugs for other Maximum Fun shows. Each one of them seems to be competing for Qurikiest Podcast Ever, and I never get the skip-a-bunch feature on my player to skip them and not a chunk of the Drunk Shimoda / Next Time bits in the process.

I just started listening to this and i'm playing catch up in season 2 right now, but good lord the plugs for that celebrity gossip podcast are grating.

# ¿ Nov 15, 2017 02:26

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The rim of the 6 footer also stayed dark because it was supposed to be that there was a walkway that went around the rim of the saucer section that was always dark so people could see stars from any direction on the ship.

Presumably the scene in that one season 1 episode (I can�t remember which one exactly) where Geordi has to suddenly run from the bridge to a random set of quarters in order to look at the spaceship of the week with his visor. Presumably that would be what that walkway was meant for.

# ¿ Nov 24, 2017 07:38

Instant Sunrise: Apr 12, 2007; The manger babies don't have feelings. You said it yourself.

I just got reminded about this videos existence, and I thought y'all could use a refresher on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHUO6CQvBfo

# ¿ Nov 30, 2017 07:26

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cheetah7071 posted:

I just saw TOS Omega Glory

This show was considered progressive on race at one point

At the time Star Trek started airing, most network lineups were still mostly rural shows and westerns that deliberately ignored what was going on the world, and portrayed an idyllic (and only for white people) world. CBS was running an Andy Griffith spinoff called "Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C." that was set on a Marine Corps base that made no mention of the then-ongoing Vietnam War. And Star Trek was among the few shows on the air at the time to really acknowledge social issues, along with The Twilight Zone and the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.

And the Omega Glory was written in 1965, barely a year after Goldwater's campaign and when Birchers were laying the groundwork for the southern strategy. And yet it wasn't shot until December 1967, where it had relatively few edits from what was originally written, and then it aired on March 1st 1968, only a short time after the Tet Offensive, Cronkite calling the war "unwinnable" and the infamous photo of Nguyễn Văn L�m being summarily executed in the street.

And it has this message about a twisted version of America that was so wrapped up in trying to get one over on the drat commies that they had regressed into cavemen.

# ¿ Nov 30, 2017 08:20

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CPColin posted:

You're in luck because the next two episodes of TNG after the pilot are widely considered two of the best the series has to offer.

Oh yeah, "Code of Honor" was so well-received that they hired the writer behind it to write almost the exact same script for Stargate SG-1's 3rd episode as well.

# ¿ Dec 6, 2017 00:56

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Marshal Radisic posted:

In the old TNG tech manual, Rick Sternbach discussed a few times that in the first few years show worked under the principle of "if a set or prop isn't required for an episode, it will not be built, even if it would be important to the crew in-universe." TNG might have gone without an Engineering or shuttlecraft set if they hadn't been explicitly written into the show for "Encounter at Farpoint" and "Coming of Age" respectively. This is the main reason why we never saw EVA suits or lifeboats in TNG.

As for why the crew never seem to use EVA suits in situations where hazard protection and a portable air supply would actually be useful, I suppose it's a combination of the main actors not wanting to wear uncomfortable, bulky suits for a long shoot and a desire to see the actors on the screen without their faces and silhouettes being masked by a suit.

DS9 only started using the grey uniforms after First Contact had them made, Voyager only started using the EVA suits after first contact, same with the phaser rifles, and DS9 didn't use those white-shouldered dress uniforms until after Insurrection.

It's usually too expensive to make a new one-off uniform type like that, so it's left to the big movies to make new stuff and the shows to adopt them.

# ¿ Dec 8, 2017 19:42

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A movie about the Bajoran resistance. "You all owe me one hundred Cardassian scalps."

# ¿ Dec 8, 2017 19:48

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Ben Nerevarine posted:

Were Remans ever mentioned in TNG before they showed up in Nemesis?

What do you think?

(no)

# ¿ Dec 8, 2017 20:35

Instant Sunrise: Apr 12, 2007; The manger babies don't have feelings. You said it yourself.

I was rewatching All Good Things last night, and not gonna lie, I was kinda sad that Marina Sirtis didn't do her Season 1 accent for all the scenes in past.

# ¿ Dec 21, 2017 18:02

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On the movie side of things, First Contact used a model for the E with CG for tricky shots or background ships, Insurrection was the first to go all CG, and Nemesis used a model for the crash sequence.

# ¿ Dec 22, 2017 02:35

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Gonz posted:

Speaking of, Spike is rebranding itself as Paramount Network next month, and they�re airing a few original shows in the hopes they can start some new prestige dramas.

they've come a long way from the nashville network

# ¿ Dec 22, 2017 19:41

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# ¿ Oct 4, 2018 14:47

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It�s one of my favorite DS9 episodes and I�m excited for Greatest Generation to get to it.

# ¿ Oct 4, 2018 14:54

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Pick posted:

The Federation is the most successfully culturally imperialistic force in the Star Trek universe, and they hold prosperity over the heads of developing worlds like Bajor in exchange for adherence to Federation cultural standards (e.g. no caste system). A powerful, post-scarcity institution ragging on a smaller power for its traditional practices, which that larger institution itself once engaged in prior to having transcended its benefits, is... oh, it's something like rich Californians objecting to underprivileged rural hunters. crazy lmao.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TREQGl54BU8

# ¿ Oct 5, 2018 05:56

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Instant Sunrise fucked around with this message at 04:22 on Oct 7, 2019

# ¿ Oct 7, 2019 04:13

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The Duras Sisters are the most effective Star Trek villains because they actually destroyed an enterprise without it being erased by a reset button.

# ¿ Nov 15, 2021 07:00

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Tonight on Unsolved Mysteries�.

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A doctor gives a pill to a dialysis patient who spontaneously grows a new kidney, a doctor that is never seen again�

A Russian spy breaks into the most secure aircraft carrier in the U.S. Navy, and vanishes without a trace�

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 17:25

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MikeJF posted:

They did that to substantially better effect in 2001: A Space Odyssey, where characters use thin tablets sitting on tables that were filmed with embedded screens.

2001 used 16mm rear projection for the displays, a technique that would later be used in TMP.

The problem with it is that the set lighting would wash out the screens unless they used comparatively dim lighting and made up for it with a faster film stock and a wide aperture.

# ¿ Nov 4, 2022 05:16

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