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Khanstant posted:Is there anyone in Trek or a species in broader scifi have a kind of opposite approach to prime-directive? Like upfront meddlers who might see a primitive species on the brink of race war or something and they come down and are like "actually don't do all the strife, instead here's everything anyone needs to kickstart their species into an advanced egalitarian race. The Culture is absolutely what you're looking for. They'll gladly steer civs in the direction their anthropological numbers say will make them turn out the best. The fact that this inherently entails breaking some eggs is the setup for a few pretty good Culture books.
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Powered Descent posted:That reminds me of a very short story I read years ago where in the near future, Earth gets obliterated by a relativistic rock out of nowhere. The last human alive was out at geosynchronous orbit to fix a cable TV satellite, and an alien starship arrives and picks him up. They also explain to him that it was nothing personal, they've been monitoring Earth's transmissions and decided to strike first since they simply couldn't stand up against our immense technological might. The repairman guy asks what the hell they're talking about, and they give him examples like photon torpedoes and the Death Star. He objects that that's all just science fiction, to which they reply: "We understand your word 'science', but... what is 'fiction'?" EXPLAIN IT TO HIM AS YOU WOULD A CHILD!
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Remember that NASA funded project where a woman lived in a half-flooded apartment with a Dolphin to teach it to communicate with people and to get any useful work done she had to jerk it off first?
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Excession might be approachable for a Goon, as it's the one with all the spaceships shitposting with each other.
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LCARS is updating to v1.4.2 Please do not unplug or power off your console during this process. Your terminal may restart several times.
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Drink-Mix Man posted:If I found out an inordinate amount of people were rooting for my Nazi character, I too would be strongly tempted to trash what I was doing and start writing as if for idiots. *cracking my knuckles, addressing the word processor after opening several fan letters about how cool and good the Nazi Space Lizard is* INT: SPACE STATION - NIGHT The NAZI LIZARD is SHIDDING AND FARDING. NAZI SPACE LIZARD (to audience) I am dumb, and love to shid and fard, in my pants.
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Nov 11, 2021 02:58
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jeeves posted:What are you guys talking about? The D never had any more recorded adventures after all good things and Picard is still a great character and hasn’t been ruined at all by P-Stew being given producer credits. Picard never left the Nexus and every film that followed (and the end of Generations) is him living out his ever more absurd, deeply sublimated libidinal macho fantasies.
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Nov 15, 2021 16:43
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The whole "ship everything has to happen to and be established and resolved in 44 minutes for show reasons" creates some real incongruities with "flagship of the federation with the best and brightest"
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Nov 21, 2021 17:46
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Shatner got to direct V because of a "favored nations" clause in his contract that basically says "anything Nimoy gets I get at least as good or better" and Nimoy got to direct a Star Trek (the good one about the whales.)
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Nov 22, 2021 13:21
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One of the redeemable bits V that is how the "planet of galactic peace" between 3 antagonistic powers is a shithole where all of the diplomats stationed there just gently caress around and get drunk. it's a little cynical for trek but works.
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Nov 22, 2021 18:45
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A Very Sexy Baby posted:Y'all are just flying through the year-numbered pages without comment. let's get those fs going in chat for spocks mom
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Nov 26, 2021 17:35
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Brawnfire posted:It's going to be interesting to see which fictional starship the first actual starship will end up most resembling I hope it's the event horizon
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Dec 7, 2021 19:52
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Someone write a fanfic where it is the Enterprise D captained by Picard that originally encounters the planet in The Omega Glory. I wanna see how that plays out.
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Khanstant posted:There should be a clandestine organization that creates solvable problems for the Federation so that they never lose their utopic edge through complacency. "We need a bunch of crisis actors to pretend to sacrifice their children to a computer they worship so some captain can come along and feel like he's big dickin the galaxy by unplugging the computer."
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Mar 6, 2022 18:24
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i hope they make it play beasty boys
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Powered Descent posted:Yeah. I'm not sure how, but the exact same sets, costumes and props somehow look cheaper in ST3 than they did in ST2. I don't know enough about filmmaking to say exactly what makes the difference -- lighting? shot composition? film stock? -- but it's true. It was a neophyte director in the chair in Nimoy which probably contributes to all those things.
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Arivia posted:And like, a whole series. With an expanded role for Deckard and Ilia, maybe. Can we rework Illia so she has hair, maybe add a robot?
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John Wick of Dogs posted:Why would you want to make Ilia less sexy? IDK. Maybe she could have an inconsistent accent she forgets to do in the movies? I'm not sure what we do for chef engineer we'll sort it out in the second season.
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tmp is cool because you can go run some errands come back and it's still the same scene
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