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Pararoid posted:As much as people tell me there are good shows being made at the moment, I seem just to watch Star Trek and Stargate on loop. In general I each episode seems relatively fresh to me when I come back around to it every few years. I can't be the only one. Nothing wrong with that 
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I was so sad when that comic turned out to be based on a lie. Why you gotta be like this Roddenberry 
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I'm a little baffled as to why the TNG crew got movies besides "successful tv show." Otherwise we should have gotten the DS9 spy thriller we deserved 
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Jul 11, 2016 13:32
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FilthyImp posted:Is this some Bush did 9/11 poo poo? Well 9/11 WAS the first instance of fire melting steel  But yeah apparently the screenwriter is a total creep that thinks Bush did 9/11 for TEH OIL or some poo poo and he got a gig to put it on the silver screen.
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Jul 12, 2016 04:00
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Just finished a rerun of The Most Toys. I think this is my favorite Data episode because he tries to ice the villain at the end and then lies about it with no regret.
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Jul 14, 2016 05:01
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Sash! posted:But he's from Starfleet and I have it on good authority that they don't lie Are you going to trust that hew-mon propaganda?????
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Jul 14, 2016 05:24
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Science fiction writers often don't know anything about science.
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Jul 27, 2016 20:46
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How successful is under 2.0 these days?
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Rhyno posted:I really wish Gene had started a cult. I bet this was one of the greatest regrets of his life.
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Gonz posted:The new show starts in 5 months, and Fuller & Co. haven't mentioned the new cast, or definitively when the show is set. It's probably bad.
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Aug 2, 2016 22:08
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Tunicate posted:He kept getting told to make the music worse because if it was too good it was too noticable. It's a sad day when the staff feels threatened by a composer.
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Aug 5, 2016 19:25
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So on thread's recommendation I picked up a copy of the Gene Roddenberry biography. Pretty fascinating stuff but geez he was a piece of work. He was a real spoiled brat about women and suffered Impostor Syndrome to the point that he flat out couldn't produce anything without riffing off someone else's writing. It's sad to see how he fell apart at the end of his life but still, wow.   Gene.
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FlamingLiberal posted:They're saying she will be a Lt. Commander Good, Axanar should suffer.
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Jeb! Repetition posted:The Orville is an open-faced cheese and tomato pie with Italian seasoning, but do not call it a pizza It's a calzone, a pizza that's slightly harder to eat.
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Dec 4, 2017 18:51
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The devolution episode is lit, cat iguanas rule!
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Gonz posted:https://deadline.com/2017/12/quentin-tarantino-star-trek-r-rating-mark-l-smith-the-revenant-drew-pearce-lindsay-beer-jj-abrams-1202222161/ What the gently caress is happening
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Dec 8, 2017 22:37
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After everything that's come out I wouldn't be surprised if all the Star Trek actresses had horrible experiences on set.
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Dec 11, 2017 02:42
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Windows 98 posted:Riker cooking the gang an omelette like a smug rear end in a top hat only for it to turn out terrible was really enjoyable the best owns are Riker's self-owns.
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Dec 14, 2017 04:48
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It's a scaaaaaaaaaaaam
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Dec 18, 2017 21:40
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lol, wrong thread, but I will contribute and say that weirdly enough many time travel episodes on Trek manage to be good and interesting. Time's Arrow is weird but delightful.
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Dec 22, 2017 20:43
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Arglebargle III posted:Mark Hamill is correct when he says that TLJ Luke's characterization is driven by the needs of the plot. There's no way the suicidally earnest paladin from RotJ would behave the way he does in TLJ but they needed to make a movie set 30 years later with new stars so Luke's character has to change. Are you trying to say resuscitating elderly brands isn't a good artistic decision?????????????
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Dec 23, 2017 08:39
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IMO the main problem with Luke's characterization in VIII is that it's really loving stupid. Just really loving stupid. I don't care about the accuracy of it, it's just pants on head retarded to have Luke Skywalker creep into his nephew's bedroom like Uncle Badtouch and have his entire subplot hinge on that event. Star Wars is loving dumb. HIJK fucked around with this message at 04:36 on Dec 24, 2017 |
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Timby posted:No, it's pretty clear, from various interviews. Fuller: oh jesus christ Fuller should know better than that
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Dec 29, 2017 02:38
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Echo Chamber posted:Going by memory of the Trek thread, there's also The Axanar scammers can choke but it makes me wonder how far they're willing to take this scam. Seems pretty obvious they'll steal the money and not produce much. Paramount needs to clean this shitheel out. gently caress him.
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Dec 31, 2017 16:20
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The_Other posted:Just thought I should post this here: Irish People Watch Star Trek For The First Time "I liked it!" "Would you watch [Discovery] again?" "No!"
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Jan 6, 2018 07:08
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I'm starting to think this Gul Dukat fellow might not be all that great
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Jan 10, 2018 17:00
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It baffles me that Star Trek does in fact have a gritty and horrifying backstory that includes 2 nuclear holocausts and that there aren't any screenwriters or directors bright enough to take advantage of this, mostly because it would be a nice way to show why the Federation's utopian optimistic vision is actually super important and that that Earth had a very good and desperate reason to want it. The series finale would be humanity shedding our foibles and making that desperate attempt for a brighter future. First Contact is great because it actually showed the first contact, and that humanity is actually capable of greatness even when kicked down. Do that for a show, have characters actively doing the right thing even when it's hard. HIJK fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Jan 10, 2018 |
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Jan 10, 2018 22:31
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Baronjutter posted:That's a thing with trek, we usually are only exposed to a society's military and ruling elite and don't see the actual normal people, so it's hard to get a good feel for what the culture is actually like or how much diversity is there. I mean if an alien startrek depicted earth right now they'd think our culture was entirely focused on the corrupt amassing of wealth and power backed up by vast armies of hired or conscripted killers. We'd be a lovely one-note species centered around short sighted greed gained through horrific oppression and exploitation that made the ferrengi look nuanced. Then later in this alien trek's version of DS9 they'd introduce some human dissidents who think destroying the planet for short term personal gain is in fact bad, some human scientists who are genuinely curious about the cosmos and expanding our knowledge for reasons other immediate than wealth or power, and all sorts of every day civilians unhappy with the status quo and wishing they could live in some sort of peaceful utopia. not an empty quote
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no you guys see DS9 is too problematic to be True Trek
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Jan 12, 2018 01:38
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Mike the TV posted:Even so, dozens of crew died in that specific episode when the Borg sliced open the Enterprise. Didn't he also bring them back because he felt sorry for Picard?
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Jan 23, 2018 17:34
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skasion posted:Then why not jettison the whole franchise and sell a new show? because then you have to make an original IP instead of making money off creative bankruptcy. There's no point in originality when you can point at something beloved and say "THAT'S SO STUPID" and people eat it up and even join in saying that the beloved thing is stupid and worthless. Star Trek is not the first to undergo this.
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<rant> the problem with Discovery is not that it throws continuity out the window, the problem is that Star Trek is dead and should be remembered, not hauled out of the grave. It's insulting to see a sooper srs!!!!!! grimdark show making  faces and call itself Star Trek because that's just a GoT rip off that's wearing Star Trek's rotting flesh as a suit.It would be nice if we got a Star Trek show that encouraged optimism and a bright future for humanity. Star Trek can have dark themes but the whole point of the show is that it's humanity at its best after putting aside the conflicts of the past and triumphing against our fallen nature. But we're not gonna get that show because everyone has engorged themselves on  and BSG and Game of Thrones and they want more stupid grimdark poo poo. So Star Trek is dead and it should stay that way.</rant>
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Tighclops posted:I don't think it was necessary to spoiler that since it's arguably true that the things that once made Star Trek fun and good are now found in various other projects, and that's ok to be tired of a decade of edgelord boohoo bullshit permeating everything I spoilered it so that people could scroll past it without having to skim my venting if they didn't want to see it, I was attempting to protect the eyes of readers!!! Edgelord Boohoo Bullshit is now the name of my new rockband btw.
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Jan 23, 2018 23:05
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Delthalaz posted:How the hell did Tasha Yar get into Starfleet Academy? We saw in that episode with Wesley and the blue dude that they only accept the very highest scoring nerds. If Tasha spent her whole life running from rape gangs and scavenging for cat food, how the hell could she be in a top percentile in warp physics or neutronium engineering? She aced the physical test by out running every man on the field
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Epicurius posted:That was an Adult Swim skit. your party...so hearty!
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The Finers Arts: The TV IV: Star Trek: Troi and Geordi enter the Holodeck with chips and suspicion
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Feb 2, 2018 19:47
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I remember the Vulcan officer from Lower Decks was fairly chill and didn't lose his temper, but it's been a few years since I've seen it.
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MikeJF posted:Well, over on Disco, the Enterprise showed up, and she's got a lot more blue glowies and speed holes in the pylons. Twitter is cancer and twitter users are metastasized tumors.
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MikeJF posted:That's one of the show's creatives. Ah yes starting fights with your target audience, that'll work out well! Just ask Stargate!
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Baronjutter posted:What happened with Stargate? It was a long time ago so my memory is fuzzy...but my experience in the Stargate fandom was that the creators and the fans had a really toxic relationship that started with killing of Daniel Jackson and way past that into SGO. I remember Joe Malozzi (sp?) getting involved in backbiting on social media when that was taking off. Pre-twitter days though so good luck getting details and admittedly my memory is bad. Anyway the creators got too involved in addressing the fans via cons and in the shows and it brought the quality of the shows down quite a bit.
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