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The old thread is dying, and I think it deserves to die. How many times have you been asked to cover up the crimes of forum mods, and told it was for the good of the website? You are the bravest, most honorable posters I know, and if you're willing the accept corruption at the highest levels, what hope is there for Something Awful?
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Jul 5, 2016 22:22
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:It's been a long while since I've experienced the last season of TNG, to the point where I'm not sure that I actually have. What was so bad about it? I thought season 7 was fine. Not quite as amazing as 3-6, but still pretty good.
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Jul 6, 2016 03:25
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Earth is really a barren, polluted, Matrix-esque hellscape, but everything, including what remains if nature, is in giant holodecks, like that one from Insurrection. A fake image is projected for any ships that happen to visit.
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Jul 6, 2016 08:27
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apophenium posted:Got to chat with Grand Magus Zek at a socialist conference this past weekend. He's cool and definitely not a fan of Ferengi economic policies. That's hilarious, and I really wish he would have gone to a socialist conference in makeup and refused to break character.
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Jul 6, 2016 19:11
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Wasn't Shatner very heavily involved in Chaos on the Bridge and the whole point was that TOS was the best and gently caress you guys my show is better than yours? Roddenberry was definitely a mess, and I'm sure he found evidence to prove his points most of the time, but when the evidence didn't actually fit his narrative that didn't stop anybody from including it anyway, like the Stewart threatening in the cafeteria. The whole thing felt a lot like the 'Kirk is the bested guy in the universe' books* Shatner wrote. *At least the synopsis for them, I didn't actually read them.
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Jul 7, 2016 18:02
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Kibayasu posted:I think no one mentions that village one because it's the worst kind of bad: it's boring. There's nothing to remember about it except that it's bad. The village episode started the best bromance in all of trek though, so that's something.
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Jul 11, 2016 08:28
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Remember when Q offered to send Janeway and her entire crew home and Janeway was like "No."
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Feb 25, 2019 22:37
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:So, there's a discussion about B'elanna on facebook I've been seeing lately which I'd like the thread's input on. One side is that she's a lovely character because she's angry a lot and it's very one note and shallow. The other is that she's low-key good because of her conflicted nature due to her experiences as a half-klingon. That doesn't make any sense? Her "conflicted nature due to her experiences as a half-klingon" don't change the fact that she's pissy and wildly inconsistent. Nothing about that defense makes me want to see her on screen more.
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Mar 1, 2019 05:21
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Scudworth posted:I have a trek reference in one of my dating profiles. Did you swipe right?
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Mar 2, 2019 02:42
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I'm all for blaming things on Voyager, but it's just poo poo everywhere all the time without end. Thanks to the internet and social media everyone lives in their own personal bubble and everyone who isn't in that bubble is a fuckstick piece of sub human nazi trash. Also every single thing that happens in a show, every casting decision, every phrase uttered, is a political statement. And god help you if you aren't perfectly aligned to my politics because that means it's death threat time. The only way a "fandom" can not be utter toxic garbage is if it's so nascent that it's a stretch to even call it a fandom. In conclusion, the Kaylon were right.
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Mar 2, 2019 05:36
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One of the worst things about DS9 Bad Episodes(TM) is that some of them have such great B plots, or little bits in them. No one likes Melora, but it also introduces one of the best characters in the history of Star Trek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3KqCeusyVE Meridian is an absolute stinker, but it's got Jeffery Combs buying porn off Quark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slw6_ldBJek As mentioned, Storyteller is bad but it introduces the best bromance on Star Trek. Do you want to sit through crap episodes or miss all that?
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Mar 4, 2019 02:30
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Oh good, one of the first casting announcements will be to make sure that loving Section 31 is here to poo poo up this show too. I wonder how long until there's a scene where Picard objects to Alana and S31's enhanced interrogation techniques but then relents and acknowledges that sometimes other people's paths have more shades of grey than his, and never once brings up the lovely weekend he spend with David Warner that one time.
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Mar 5, 2019 00:32
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Look into your heart of hearts and say that you really believe she won't be from Section 31. Go ahead.
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Mar 5, 2019 01:07
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I really liked the BSG battle from the pilot movie, with Adama looking at the radar thing and giving orders changing the ship's yaw and pitch and stuff. It almost made it seem like he was guiding the ship through a three dimensional space with no real up or down. I guess that wasn't exciting enough though because no one has ever done it again, including BSG.
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Mar 6, 2019 04:54
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Geekboy posted:I had folks over to watch The Cage last year and paired it with Hollow Pursuits because lol I think this might be the only gimmick account that I think actually has a pretty funny gimmick.
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Mar 7, 2019 04:23
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Now we know that The Orville universe shares the inverse law of shields with Star Trek as well. The more ships there are, the less effective shielding is. In battles like these it basically doesn't exist, and everything is 1HKO. counterfeitsaint fucked around with this message at 08:03 on Mar 7, 2019 |
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Mar 7, 2019 06:10
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Whalley posted:- a doctor whose ego is so big she decided the entire universe was wrong instead of her own perception To be fair, she was right.
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Mar 7, 2019 08:04
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Bubble shields come in hand if you happen to be trying to escape a dyson sphere and have an old ship you don't need anymore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1yRLPD3NJc&t=40s
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Mar 10, 2019 07:43
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It's a federation ship, they just need to transfer the shield frequency to the Enterprise. To two super-engineers this was so obvious they didn't even bother to say it, they just did it.
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Mar 10, 2019 11:10
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On the plus side, they only need to re-do the special effects for a single giant fleet battle, and then just reuse it for all subsequent fleet battles.
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Mar 13, 2019 04:52
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DS9 is currently on Netflix in the US. I assume the others still are too. No idea when the current contract is up but I'm assuming that it will not be renewed.
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Mar 13, 2019 09:28
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Taear posted:I think Discovery has lost me now. I watched that Saru episode (which wasn't bad or anything!) and just haven't even touched it after. It's not that season 2 is bad, it's just not the sort of show I'm after. Like I said earlier it really reminds me of Nu-Who and doesn't feel like a new Star Trek, I dunno. Nu-Saru encourages fist fights in the mess hall. He never would have done that before kelpian menopause.
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Mar 16, 2019 13:33
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davidspackage posted:Second Skin - there's a weird thing with this episode that makes me think they rewrote the last part. If Kira was just an accessory to the plan to unmask a dissident, why was the Obsidian Order trying so hard to convince Kira she's really Cardassian? I guess you could say they were trying to make the most of things and get some secrets out of her, but that seems less interesting. I felt like that was originally the episode's main plot, and the mysterious Kira-body that gets wheeled out of cold storage would turn out to be the Cardassian woman they were trying to convince Kira of being - years before, altered to look Bajoran and replace Kira, but she failed and died. They were in a hurry to get to a place where she was considered non-cooperative and to set off the old man. They did change the ending though, the original ending was going to have Bashir tell Kira that her actual identity was inconclusive and he couldn't say for sure that she wasn't a cardassian operative.
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Mar 16, 2019 22:44
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Yeah, that's when she uses the 'fly a shuttle into the sun's corona' tech from her previous episode to fly the entire Enterprise into the sun. Later Trio tries to one up her by flying half the Enterprise into a planet.
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Mar 25, 2019 23:29
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I like that the WoK uniforms gave the impression that it was cold in space, but the whole thing is still ruined for me by that god drat flap. It doesn't make the uniform looser or any more comfortable, it's only there to indicate whether you're being formal and serious or not. And also to smear blood on. You know, in case any chief engineers feel like carrying the dead up to the bridge.
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Mar 27, 2019 22:30
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McNally posted:Modern Trek poorly ripping off what previous Treks did is the Trekkest thing of all. I'm just glad it's not Wrath of Khan again. Oh poo poo. The Botony Bay is floating out there somewhere during STD. How many seasons will it take until we get an episode where they find it, wake up some guys on it for a few hours of adventures, and then put them back to sleep by the end of the episode? You know it's inevitable.
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Apr 3, 2019 22:58
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But when test footage was shown to potential viewers, one of them briefly looked up from their phone and said "Kirk? I know who that is!"
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Apr 3, 2019 23:19
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FlamingLiberal posted:I don't agree with idea that the Khitomer Conspiracy would have been S31. It would make no sense for them to provoke a war between the UFP and the Klingons. This is why S31 as a concept is garbage. They are either involved in every type of plot like this, or they are incompetent and bad at their jobs. In a world where S31 exists, the Khitomer Conspiracy had to have gone one of three ways. Either 1) S31 knew about a supported the Conspiracy, meaning they wanted a war for no reason and failed to achieve it, 2) S31 knew about the Conspiracy and was opposed to it, but were incapable of having any meaningful effect and it was only stopped thanks to our heroes, so they still failed, or 3) S31 had no idea what was going on, which means an utter failure of intelligence.
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Apr 9, 2019 01:00
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The_Doctor posted:So, with the existence of Section 31, what does Starfleet Intelligence do all day? They select random engineers and send them on dangerous deep undercover missions against their will.
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Apr 9, 2019 04:09
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A purple beard looks really dumb, sorry. I don't care what rumors are floating around about why he decided to do it. He can do whatever he wants to his beard but I'm not going to fawn about how brave he is to be seen in public like that. I'm pretty sure the 'to spite some lady' thing was just a shitpost, but now it's been referred to and will live on as truth forever.
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Apr 11, 2019 08:11
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I said come in! posted:Just about finished with my full watch of the Next Generation. Season 7 is painful to get through but I am over half way done. Last night the wife and I watched the episode where Picard hates one of the ensigns and send her to her death in Cardassian space to help a traitor get back to his home world for some reason that makes zero sense. Probably the most painful episode to get through so far this season was Dr. Crusher having sex with a ghost. Lower Decks is an amazing episode and probably on most people's top 10.
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May 17, 2019 21:04
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I said come in! posted:How??? The plot makes no sense. I know the bar for quality Star Trek lowered dramatically starting with Voyager, but I don't see how that episode could be a top 10 best episode. It's so emotionally manipulative to the audience. The plot makes no sense, and having throw away characters you don't see ever again means there's zero investment. The shift in perspective is why it's so popular. There's 1,000 people on the ship and we never here anything from the other 985 of them. Also the plot is painfully simple and I think you're missing half of it. It's very clearly laid out that the Cardassian is spying for the Federation, and he's doing so because he's ethically opposed to the current Cardassian leadership, and the Federation wants to get their spy back in place safely. The episode comes up pretty regularly and I've never heard of anyone who had trouble understanding the plot before.
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May 17, 2019 23:21
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I said come in! posted:I understood the plot just fine, you completely missed the point. There was no logical reason to get Sito involved in this plot point is my issue, which I already covered in a previous post. Actually you said the plot made no sense to you, which is different from understanding the plot just fine. He had to have an excuse to cross the border and escorting a Bajoran prisoner as a bounty hunter was considered a good excuse. I'm not going to go over every single plot point and line of dialog that explains it as you bring up each one individually so I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.
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May 18, 2019 00:25
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I cannot wait for Star Trek: Orville
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Jun 19, 2019 01:03
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I'd love to have a scene with Ro and Kira interacting. 2 amazing actors, 2 very realized characters. I don't even care what they say or do, just chew some scenery together.
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Oct 9, 2019 00:14
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:Enterprise D is the Big D Worf: Little?!
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Oct 11, 2019 20:52
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I think I watched maybe half of the first batch of short treks before losing so much interest I just forgot about them. I wasn't going to bother this time, but I actually went out of my way to find and watch the tribbles one, just for H Jon Benjamin, and it was worth it because it was hilarious. I guess if I considered this official trek canon and I cared about how it fit in with the rest of the setting I'd hate it for making the tribbles a created by star fleet thing and shrinking the universe and all the other entirely valid complaints but "official Star Trek canon" has been hosed and rewritten and retconned and prequeled and ignored so bad already that it's basically meaningless at this point. So who cares, I watched a funny thing for 15 minutes and laughed at the perfect mix of Bob Belcher, Archer, and ARBYS in space.
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Oct 11, 2019 22:56
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The best part of the mirror universe was when Rom explains how stupid it is. The writers specifically said that whole speech was a dig that grognard trekkies who over-analyse everything to death.
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Denise is probably doing that "I'm going to pretend like I'm joking to avoid social awkwardness but you and I both know I'm not really joking" thing. She's called out people on twitter before, and hasn't she walked out of more than one con when someone gave her poo poo for leaving the show?
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