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Robutt posted:Idris Elba was good and while I felt like the villain's background and motivation were really, really interesting, they were revealed way too late for there to be any real meaningful exploration of the moral conflict between him and the crew. If they'd not held onto those details for a third act reveal and instead had it all be known much earlier in the film, we could have got a great deal more debate and character work which I thought Beyond kinda needed. Wow, yes, I thought so as well. I suspect Pegg just somehow missed that angle, wanting to frontload action since he was already doing a good number of character moments already. Kinda good to do one for your antagonist, though... Robutt posted:Also, the new warp effect is really cool and the 'field' jackets that Kirk and Chekov get to wear are so snazzy! Yes! I loved them. Also the whole thing with Uhura's necklace cracked me the gently caress up. Hell, I even liked the dumb motorcycle, which turned out to be kind of cool. And Sabotage, and even Kirk's callback to it in the first movie. Just fun stuff. Go see Beyond. It's really great. Also, obviously the Kelvin timeline is a mirror... So the odd numbered movies are good now 
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I liked Jayla too. Also thank goodness no shoehorned love interest. She's just her own person, though she bonds most with Scotty due to their shared mechanical bent. And the "offer to join Starfleet, if you want it" sounds like a pretty clear "if the fans will it" to me. Personally, I'd be quite fine with it.
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Drone posted:The only special lady in Scotty's life should be the Enterprise. I have a really hard time picturing otherwise. ample nacelles, if you'll pardon the, uh, engineering parlance
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Blazing Ownager posted:With the unfortunate death of Anton (I will say I just saw the movie and it bummed me out every time he was on screen no matter how much I tried to avoid being bummed about it) I suspect her introducing is real good timing, and that she may very well take his spot on the bridge in the next film. I am also totally OK with that as she was a good well-defined character and like you said, they didn't see the need to saddle her with relationship stuff. I agree with all of the above, in detail, especially being loving bummed about Anton, because he was so good in this. Jayla seems to be emerging as a very well-timed fan favorite, so I think chances are good. She's a whiz kid, out-engineering Scotty on occasion, and she's got a warrior aspect to her that the shows usually filled with Klingons for obvious reasons, but she's free to have other dimensions since she doesn't have the cultural and canon baggage of a known race. I like it. Also probably some naivete? The closest comparison I can think of for her is probably Chiana from Farscape, who was also a great character. Gnome de plume posted:her traps and how they played their parts later on. I though this was worth calling out. I really liked this. I feel like Hollywood blockbusters don't even bother to put Chekhov's gun on the mantelpiece anymore, they just summon it from thin air and fire when needed. Pegg did a good job of attacking this not like a movie writer, but like a, well, science fiction writer. Mind fuckin' blown, right? armoredgorilla posted:Just got back from Beyond. Yes. the real blah posted:As corny as hell as it was, I really dug the Sabotage scene and the "Classical music" line. I was going to hate that so much, and then the setup was perfect and the payoff was glorious, and it felt totally earned. Also, the bit where Kirk goes "Good choice." and you just get that clicking sense that this crew is a team, that they don't just work well but fit perfectly together. They're pointed like the Starfleet arrowhead they all wear: a little warped, but boldly so, and sharp where it counts, and focused on the right direction - upward. As symbols go, I think it's one of the best in history. Certainly one of the most personally meaningful to me. ...So yeah. I'm still a little emotional about this movie. What time do we get new TV series details, anyone know?
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Thom12255 posted:Literally the ugliest ship. It has a solidity and seriousness that I find oddly appealing, but it doesn't feel like a proper Starfleet design. More like a Maquis kitbash. I mean, they're saying all the right things, but that ship design. I'm just like "That's what you went with? Really?"
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Drink-Mix Man posted:Aw, man. Beyond kinda started looking a little like that, actually. But otherwise, if you want that, you have to go to print SF.
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Kazinsal posted:It looks like they rendered it in Star Trek Online. ...Surely you don't think... I could see it, sadly.
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Gammatron 64 posted:Well, I liked it how in Beyond, they didn't beat the bad guys by shooting lasers at them. They killed them with music. It was like, the most Macross thing ever. Yesssss I was like "OMG they're doing the Lynn Minmei thing! I am so loving happy right now!"
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Big Mean Jerk posted:So there's definitely a decloaking sound at the very end of the teaser. That's my theory. I think it's even a very reasonable theory. It would be a very natural evolution of the universe; from various time travel episodes we know that the Federation includes all the Alpha Quadrant races in a few centuries don't we?
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Kibayasu posted:This had made me realize that Starfleet ships are basically flying saucers from the 40's with a few tubes glued on. You should watch Forbidden Planet. It's basically Star Trek with no mixed crew on a flying saucer. Its influence on TOS is not to be underestimated.
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MorgaineDax posted:Picard would have taken that deal. But Sisko would hit it.
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I'm still holding out hope that Combs will get cast on Discovery.
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Star Trek Beyond did a good job with the future city thing.
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Pakled posted:I wanna know what a Denebian slime devil is. Here's a picture! There were better illustrations in a couple of RPG sourcebooks, but this is in-show canon. http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Denebian_slime_devil
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turn left hillary!! noo posted:Ok, we'll split it. You get Bezos for Trek, but I already claimed Elon Musk for a B5 remaster. I'm holding out for a Musk-produced anthology series where each season is a different Culture novel.
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It took years for me to find out what a tam o'shanter was.
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I'm sure to the Q Continuum, we all look the same.
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Sad King Billy posted:I have to admit though he did get more likable once he grew the beard, he was smug and arrogant beforehand. Obligatory 
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:Frakes directing an episode: Given what a prolific genre TV director he is, it would almost be more surprising for him not to be doing an episode, but still. Bonus points if he gets drunk with Sirtis and does commentary.
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If birds of prey run on JET-A, I think that is in fact the most metal. (danger zooooone)
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A friend of mine made this for me.
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Baronjutter posted:Notice how China and chinese people in general have very little mention or appearance in trek... Previous to Discovery that might be true, but Michelle Yeoh's prime universe character stans Zheng He pretty hard.
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This week on Archer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh0mrIjW-H0
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I'm a huge fan of HJB and Star Trek and am fine with the Archer coma dream season having a Star Trek episode, why not. I read somewhere yesterday that Kurtzman mentioned they'd leased a gigantic studio space for "more shows", and it seemed to hint at one of those being a Pike show. I would be fine with that too.
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Sash! posted:Do you want Tribbles? Because that's how you get Tribbles. B'ELANAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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Alan_Shore posted:I'd love it. I don't care Both logic and Rule 34 dictate that people will do anything for the D. is it that this joke is too pon farr or has it not pon farr enough
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I liked Diane Duane's Romulans a lot.
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Honey... bare Jadzia, you say.
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I'm really sad guys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEBLI1zWXYw RIP
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Didn't someone at some point claim that the point of divergence was something stupid early, like the Roman Empire?
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Turns out the MU Roman Empire was just slightly hornier than the one in ours. Diddling while Rome burns!
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oh but seriously I posted:greek/roman gods are cannon. whichever i did not study classics Who does mourn for Adonais?
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Powered Descent posted:Plato's stepchildren.  And the children shall lead us.
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Pick posted:Lmao Conflicted Sisko. and all it cost was one mana, one creature, and the self-respect of a Starfleet officer
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Yeah you don't want Space Tetris getting loose on the Enterprise, all those loving nerds will be Grandmaster in a week and never get any more work done.
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I always got the impression that it's not considered illegal, just super, ultra rude, and people don't usually go and look in other people's porn folders just so they don't have to act on what they find, but they absolutely do when they feel like it or have an excuse. Typical boomer approach to privacy in other words.
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MikeJF posted:I mean a Magellanic cloud is still a healthy billion stars, although only a few of the satellites are that big. Milky Way is just three or four hundred billion. At least. We're still figuring things out since we doubled the radius last year, took it from 75,000ly to 130. (Ironically, it's the hardest galaxy to get a good idea of the structure of, since it's like trying to draw a house from the inside vs looking out the window at other ones) Wow, that's a lot more than I realized. my god it's full of stars
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Nessus posted:Yeah well uh... um... uh... Like ours, you mean? 
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unintelligible electronic grating The Breen Confederacy wishes to hear more of this "cold" war.
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