Jeb! Repetition posted:

This speech from Picard about technological advancement is awesome.

VitalSigns posted:

Also the Borg Queen tries to tempt Data with poo poo the Borg don't even care about, like physical sensations, and sexy times, she just makes no sense. Like, is she an ant queen banging all those drones all the time? Or does being in the collective just feel like a constant orgy and that's why everyone who is assimilated surrenders immediately because it just feels that awesome to be a Borg. Which come to think of it might have been a more interesting horror than what Trek actually did, if instead of feeling repulsed and violated because he was forced to help the Borg against his will, Picard admitted that being in the collective was the most amazing incredible experience ever, betraying the collective was the hardest thing he's ever had to do in his life, and he has to struggle with this constant craving to get back in there and become Locutus again.

Duckbag posted:

Also also, there's a reason it's called space opera.

Sir Lemming posted:

My own spergtheory is that the replicator makes the most crowd-pleasing (across multiple species, no less) version of whatever you asked for, unless you can tell it exactly how to change it to suit your tastes. Which of course isn't necessarily easy, and is somewhat akin to knowing how to cook. So the average person probably won't know how to tell the computer to improve the food, and will just complain about it instead. On the rare occasion that they can eat something prepared by an actual chef, it's amazing by comparison.

Powered Descent posted:

I think I once read that they originally came up with the idea of a French captain as a nod to Jacques Cousteau.

And rumor has it that they were originally going to have Stewart do a French accent for the role, but it was so atrocious they told him to just speak normally.

Arglebargle III posted:

Nah it's been obvious forever

Powered Descent posted:

Okay, be honest, everyone. Show of hands. How many of you have ever said this line to yourselves, even semi-seriously?

Gonz posted:

Saw this today at the Hallmark Store.

Jeb! Repetition posted:

Worf just lost to his most fearsome opponent yet: a barrel

Gammatron 64 posted:

Stuff like gruesome violence and people swearing feels so weird and out of place in Star Trek. Which isn't to say it doesn't happen. There's that TNG episode "Conspiracy" which has a gigantic WTF moment you all know about. Before Discovery was out, the instant I heard they were like "well, this Star Trek is going to be darker and it'll have gore and f-bombs!" I was like "uh oh."

When people do swear in Star Trek, it's usually played for laughs because nobody swears in Star Trek. I'm one of those guys whose favorite movie is The Voyage Home and not the Wrath of Khan or Undiscovered Country (but they're up there.) I also remember being a kid and seeing Data go "Ohhhh poo poo!" had me laughing my rear end off because I didn't expect it. In retrospect I'm not sure if that was supposed to be funny or not, because Data was the comic relief of the movie, but the Enterprise was crashing after all...

WampaLord posted:

Fun fact, that repairman would go on to play Tuvok, a Vulcan!

Also I think he was in Star Trek 6.

WampaLord posted:

Yea, me too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMP5OKXrwCQ

Look at this CW poo poo. LOOK AT IT! EXPERIENCE BIJ!

VitalSigns posted:

The use of the transporter is Star Trek is often insanely reckless.

Like tons of times they'll beam over to a damaged or ancient ship without wearing space suits even though the atmosphere could fail at any moment.

In an episode of voyager I watched recently they beamed to a mining ship that they knew was full of toxic gas in some places that could flood everything at any time and no one wore a space suit and of course someone got horribly injured from exposure to toxic gas I forget who.

The Bloop posted: