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Namaer posted:Why is it an assumption in Undiscovered Country that peace with the Klingons means that Starfleet will be obsolete? The Federation is still hostile with the Romulans, not to mention all manner of hostile probes rolling up on Earth every few years. SYMBOLISM
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Drink-Mix Man posted:I challenge anyone to come up with a better Kirk moment. If you ask me i's tied with "KHAN!" Although I guess that qualifies as more as a "Shatner" moment.
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Jan 7, 2017 03:37
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Binary Badger posted:Insurrection was on BBC America last night and somehow I never got to watch it in its entirety before. Timby posted:The commentary is exclusive to the Blu-ray, I believe. And anyway, it's pretty amazing. Sirtis is clearly shithoused about a third of the way through. The commentary alone has been uploaded to Youtube so if you don't have the commentary on the disc you can just sync that up and play them together.
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Jan 8, 2017 19:28
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I'm honestly surprised they settled and allowed them to do anything. Didn't CBS pretty much have them by the balls after everything that came out during discovery? CBS/Paramount themselves put out those new fan film guidelines a while ago (http://www.startrek.com/fan-films) so it may be legally tricky to say "No, you, specifically, can't do anything" when CBS/Paramount already said "If you're going to do something, this is how you can do it" to people in general. CBS/Paramount, at that point, I guess maybe would have to prove that this specific production planned to do things the production knew would negatively affect the brand in a meaningful way.
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Jan 21, 2017 01:18
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MorgaineDax posted:I posted this in the GBS thread, but I haven't seen it here yet, and it deserves to be spread. It's my favourite quote from the 50 Years books. "The Dominion what?" -Rick Berman
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Jan 25, 2017 00:44
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MorgaineDax posted:Bingewatching Voyager leads to major whiplash sometimes. That episode would have been better (but still not good) if it just treated the holodeck like the fucktoy everyone knows it is instead of the other characters being all weird about either Janeway loving with a sapient being (which the Irish guy isn't) for her own pleasure or telling her to treat it like a real relationship (which is isn't). Janeway wanted to get laid, just let her get laid.
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Jan 26, 2017 00:25
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The_Doctor posted:Here's another working one: Hey they actually managed to remember to put in a couple DS9 shots. No I'm not bitter about how DS9 is treated why do you ask.
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Jan 31, 2017 23:39
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McSpanky posted:Not enough Akira hate in here. While I do indeed hate the designed-by-13-year-olds "blueprints" of the Akira class (though it also says something about me when I even know about them) I still like the look of it.
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Feb 2, 2017 16:56
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A lot of BSG's problems with its spiritual stuff can be solved by removing all references to any kind of Cylon plan. As soon as that word shows up you start setting up expectations of explanations because how could the Cylons have a plan if they didn't understand it? Also Kira is great. She isn't at her best in the first season though. Either through acting, direction, or both a lot of her anger comes down to just yelling a lot but then you have moments like that time she knocks Damar right the gently caress out.
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Feb 2, 2017 23:33
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Orv posted:It's the title of the first book my favorite Trek book series. Granted, not a high bar. As far as Trek novels go New Earth is indeed pretty good. The last book kind of goes to some kind of strange places for Trek (though it has been a while, I might like it more if I read it again) but the first 5 are some pretty good TOS adventure.
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Feb 8, 2017 07:28
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Big Mean Jerk posted:The IndieGogo for Ira Behr's DS9 documentary is up: I guess I'm going to have to break my crowd funding rule and back a flexible funding project on IndieGoGo. Edit: I hope James Darren sings a song in it. Kibayasu fucked around with this message at 07:07 on Feb 9, 2017 |
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Feb 9, 2017 07:04
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Pacra posted:They only get a month to raise 150k? Million dollar projects aren't out of reach of crowd funding, although IndieGoGo doesn't have quite the reach of other crowdfunders unless it's a huge project.
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Feb 9, 2017 09:12
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Data Graham posted:At a certain point I feel like every actor who goes to cons would want to just wear a t-shirt listing all the FAQs about them that people ask them on panels. I think it's the actor who played Biff Tannen in Back to the Future that carries around a print-out with all the most common questions and answers on it.
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Feb 9, 2017 16:57
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skooma512 posted:Saw the episode about Nog dealing with his war wound. Aron Eisenberg and Nog are, in general, an underappreciated part of DS9. He never got a ton of main plot work, or at least the main plot work where he is the main plot, but he was always great when he did.
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Feb 9, 2017 21:54
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MorgaineDax posted:$160,389 USD raised by 2099 backers They should take all the extra money and throw it at Avery Brooks until he agrees to do an interview. Edit: Like, even if he doesn't want the money, just annoy him by pelting him with rolled up dollar bills and only stopping after the interview. Kibayasu fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Feb 10, 2017 |
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Feb 10, 2017 17:36
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Arglebargle III posted:nice lol I considered throwing in for that shirt because it does loving own but it would probably be too easily mistaken for an actual Che Guevara shirt and I'd rather not have to explain the difference because I'm an awkward nerd. Maybe I should frame it.
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Feb 10, 2017 18:52
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showbiz_liz posted:I do kind of want a real answer to this question but on the other hand, lol Ferengi screaming. A joke and also not!
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Feb 10, 2017 23:33
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From what I recall Vic appeared in like 8 episodes (when was he introduced, season 6?) and didn't sing an entire song in every one so the complaints about him always feel really hollow and whatever the reverse of rose-coloured glasses are. The one in Paper Moon is a montage so that's gets a pass (and, you know, the episode is "It's Only a Paper Moon"), you hear him sing in AR-558 but that's a recording Bashir puts on, and if you object to an Avery Brooks/James Darren duet then you're just crazy. So that's 5-7 episodes, assuming I forgot some, where you here a minute or two of singing.
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Feb 17, 2017 01:14
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MikeJF posted:gently caress yo frames Resurrection or not I always figured the cylons in the final basestar to bite it must have been like "Oh come ON." Kibayasu fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Feb 17, 2017 |
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Feb 17, 2017 17:49
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Given what Patrick Stewart wanted Picard to do in the TNG movies I wonder how much he would have loved to play a Sisko-equivalent in DS9 - punching super-soldiers, gassing planets, blowing up all the ships. Frakes directed at least a few episodes of DS9, not to mention Defiant, so I wonder if they'll interview him too about his brief time on DS9.
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Feb 24, 2017 04:52
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Tunicate posted:For best B5 experience, just watch the G'kar and Londo episodes, skip everything else That's most of the episodes though.
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Feb 24, 2017 09:11
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The_Doctor posted:I'm watching DS9's Soldiers of the Empire. Worf has just started singing and the rest of the Klingon crew rolling their eyes at this is hilarious. The "conclusion" to that ship and its crew is easily one of my favorite episodes of DS9.
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Feb 25, 2017 01:19
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I remember watching Lexx on Space in Canada because the parental guidance promised my puberty ridden brain nudity but I don't recall a single (understandable) instance.
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Mar 1, 2017 19:15
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They should rent some costumes, hire a high school play set team, buy some model minatures, and film their own with a iPhone camera.
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Mar 1, 2017 22:31
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Someone check if it works for seasons and/or individual episodes.
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Mar 8, 2017 20:12
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Ikasuhito posted:Indeed not, your much easier to provoke. The problem with that is that it you're provoking the Sisko.
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Mar 12, 2017 07:17
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Duckbag posted:Yeah, Martok's wife is amazing. I love how Worf is basically all "just do whatever she says" when Dax knows the only way to earn her respect is to stand up to her. Sort of. Dax stood up to her but was such a know-it-all about it and refused to follow any tradition that the only was she was accepted at the end was to bow down to the matriarch. ...which isn't the best message in a marriage episode now that I think about it but whatever, Klingons. Basically stand up to Sirella but do whatever she wants anyways because otherwise  just with a Klingon hat
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I describe Star Trek 5 as a collection of some amazing, truly great, Star Trek moments but absolutely nothing leading to those moments.
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Mar 19, 2017 02:56
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VitalSigns posted:I still like DS9 but my god did I hate the wormhole aliens. It's not a Deus Ex Machina. There was no problem that the writers had no way out of they needed to solve with divine intervention. They had set-up everything they needed to solve the problem without anything to do with the wormhole aliens. All they needed to do was have Rom disable the phasers 1 second earlier like a typical resolution. But they didn't. Sisko went into the wormhole to plea with his actual gods (at a cost) to defeat a group of beings who want everyone around them to think of them as gods so they'll be left alone. It couldn't be a more appropriate way of kicking the Dominion off the station. Also it's shown that the wormhole aliens have little direct influence outside of the wormhole itself outside of the orbs, which don't really manipulate anything permanently. So unless the entire war was going to take place inside the wormhole that's a silly complaint. Plus the minefield itself was basically magic anyways, just dressed up in Star Trek technology. Kibayasu fucked around with this message at 06:19 on Mar 27, 2017 |
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Tunicate posted:The wormhole aliens are just another jumped-up alien race. They're no more gods than the changelings are. Yes, I know. In the framework of the show however they most certainly are, at least in their little domain of the galaxy. "You want to be gods, then BE gods." Yes both of them call themselves gods and both groups who wield enormous amounts of power. But only one of them wields power entirely of their own. With a wave of a hand one saved the galaxy from the other and the only thing the changelings can do is run away, close enough for me. This isn't to say that anyone who doesn't like that ending has to now, just that in a storytelling sense - structurally, thematically, in line with characters - there isn't anything wrong with it.
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Mar 27, 2017 17:45
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The_Doctor posted:My DS9 watch continues with 'Who Mourns for Morn?'. Quark has just encountered two aliens from the Goodfellasian system, and they're fantastic. There's nothing in here but worthless gold!
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Mar 27, 2017 23:06
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Wheat Loaf posted:I don't remember that part. I thought it was the Romulans using some kind of mind control device on him. After Riker figured out the first illusion was as such it was "revealed" that he was in a Romulan holdeck but things were still off so eventually he figured that illusion out too and came back to the real world.
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Mar 28, 2017 15:52
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Odo is a credit to his people.
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Mar 28, 2017 23:48
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"Don't say transporters" is like the first thing you need to do when talking about any kind of Star Trek technology.
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Mar 30, 2017 00:39
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The Bloop posted:Quadralithium ore and biomemetic gel can't be transported, sooo... I think that was things that can't be replicated, though I guess it is kind of a form of transportation. Replication is the second thing you don't talk about when talking about Star Trek tech though.
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Mar 30, 2017 04:06
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Duckbag posted:This would be a ridiculous and stupid approach because the old station name would still exist on lots of records and documents and be used in common speech and would cause lots of pointless confusion. Which... sounds like what the navy would do to me. 1701 was probably taken aaaaages ago.
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Mar 30, 2017 05:56
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The_Doctor posted:Sounds like getting between the primary and secondary hulls of the Oberth class. Who the hell thought turbolifts running at 45 degree angles were a good idea? Probably the descendants of the people who built the Olympic Stadium in Montreal.
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Mar 30, 2017 17:00
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Timby posted:Because Drexler is not a good designer. He's a fan of Gabe Koerner's hideous concept for a rebooted 1701: I think this would be a lot better with different paint and/or lighting.
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turn left hillary!! noo posted:Oh. Yes. TNG seasons 1and 2 say yes, we were. Anyways if you get to the end of Duet, one of the final season 1 episodes, and still think the show needs to get better than you are beyond saving. There are still bad episodes to come after that but it's one of the high water marks of the entire series and shows exactly what DS9 was capable of.
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twistedmentat posted:I had to look up the Storyteller, and I am glad I forgot that episode existed. What a snorefest. Did...did Voyager copy Move Along Home?
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