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8one6 posted:Q was very clear that nothing other than Picard's individual life changed so its likely that whoever was captain instead of him ended up as as Locutus. Jellico would have assimilated the Borg instead.
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curiousTerminal posted:Extremely choice that Jeri specifically is doing a Biden fundraiser. Soon she'll be partially responsible for both of the candidates on the '08/'12 ticket If he wins, she'll have put Joe Biden in the White House twice now.
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Oct 7, 2020 02:06
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HD DAD posted:They definitely started to get a little more adventurous with the directing in the final seasons, yeah. I first noticed it in the jump from Time's Arrow, Part I and Part II. Part I looks like what you'd expect a normal TNG episode to look like, and then suddenly Part II has that weird, fuzzy, super bright white and Vaseline lens soap opera lighting that they used all throughout DS9.
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Oct 7, 2020 05:36
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HD DAD posted:Even more yikes was that was written to explain Chakotay’s backstory. Chakotay has two aspects of his character that are set up in TNG. The first is that he was allegedly Ro Laren's teacher at Starfleet Academy, and secondly, he went "gently caress this racist poo poo" and joined the Maquis when the Federation began forcibly removing off-world Native American colonies along the Cardassian Neutral Zone. We never really get confirmation that the first one is 100% true, but it makes the Trek universe feel a little bit more connected, so people handwave it into being true.
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Oct 7, 2020 07:02
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Angry_Ed posted:"returns as Captain" so wait either she committed a war crime so bad (yet beneficial) that she got demoted, or didn't commit enough war crimes to remain admiral I’m thinking it’s just PR-speak. Most people know her more as “Captain Janeway” rather than “Admiral Janeway”. We’ll see though.
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Oct 8, 2020 20:19
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Payndz posted:Emergency Command Janeway. The hologram Chief from Carmen Sandiego is the captain on Lower Decks. It wouldn't surprise me if we get straight up Holo Janeway.
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Oct 8, 2020 23:02
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MikeJF posted:Well now it's canon that Riker and Troi regularly swing thank you lower decks. Every new thing post-TNG to come out about them makes them seem cool as poo poo.
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Oct 8, 2020 23:58
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Unmature posted:Is it intentional in the beginning of Beyond that the Enterprise with the nacelles chopped off looks like the Kelvin? There was just all that talk about Kirk trying to be like George.  Not sure about that one, but they did intentionally redesign the Enterprise in Beyond to look more spindly and fragile in order to make Kraal's attack on it feel even more brutal.
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Oct 9, 2020 05:25
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MikeJF posted:Random factoid: two days before filming Generations started they came in to do some work on the set and discovered someone had come by and stolen the captain's chair right off the bridge set, and they had to work no sleep to slap together a replacement before shooting began. Didn't this happen to Patrick Stewart more than once too? Didn't someone steal Professor X's wheelchair between X-Men movies and they had to get it back?
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Oct 9, 2020 07:11
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FlamingLiberal posted:In Insurrection, Picard leaves Ru'afo to die on the collector ship I wish they went with the original ending they'd filmed of Picard trying to save Ru'afo, and Ru'afo going "nah" and launching himself into the planet's rings and accidentally de-aging himself into nonexistence. It would have been a much more poignant ending. But test audiences wanted more Action Picard and less TNG Picard 
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TV IV > Star Trek: "You can't take the chair, Marina."
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Oct 10, 2020 05:59
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Tunicate posted:Has Lower Decks done a Captain's Blog joke yet? No, but the main(?) character gets caught in the first episode making a fake captain's log because he's a giant Starfleet weeb. It also heavily implies that the actual captain's logs used to stage set episodes are simply the final product of a LOT of gently caress up takes, because the actual captain has to keep redoing hers a lot because she keeps getting interrupted by Star Trek poo poo all the time.
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Oct 10, 2020 09:06
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Timby posted:I don't even remember Sirtis having more than four minutes of screen time in any of the movies. What was her biggest role? Crashing the Enterprise or launching the Phoenix? She sure as poo poo didn't have anything to do in Insurrection or the abomination sometimes called Nemesis. Generations: - Talked to Picard about his burned up family - Crashed the Enterprise - Made Data cry First Contact: - Got drunk talking to Zefram Cochrane - Helped launch the Phoenix Insurrection: - Shaved off Riker's beard in a horny bubble bath - Helped Riker infodump about why the Son'a are such massive shitlords - Talked about her boobs Nemesis: - Got married - Got mindraped - Did some mindrape - Crashed the Enterprise
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Crusader posted:are there any good behind the scenes articles/etc. on what went on with discovery's production the past two seasons? or is it mostly just we know about the series of showrunner firings but not a lot of other info? One of the writers quit the show after he, a black man, was repeatedly told to stop saying the n-word in the writers room, but beyond that CBS has run a super tight ship in terms of making sure behind the scenes machinations and chicanery don’t get out in the public sphere. There’s all these dipshits on 4chan and YouTube and Twitter who claim that their Double Secret Insider Sources have all sorts of dirt about what a chaos disaster show the production of modern Trek is, but they 99.9% of the time turn out to be utter lies designed specifically to honeypot the aforementioned YouTube and Twitter dipshits. Those are fun to read about but it gets super rabbit hole-y and depressing after a while. Otherwise no, sorry.
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Oct 11, 2020 23:37
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Big Mean Jerk posted:In fairness, Discovery in particular seems to be a poster child for Creative Differences just based on Fuller’s dismissal and the showrunner turnover in general. Which isn’t to say that it’s a giant disaster destined for cancellation or anything, but there’s very clear tonal shifts in the show that correspond with those departures. If nothing else, I’m more curious about this coming season just because it’ll (probably) have had a singular cohesive writer’s room/showrunner for the first time in the show’s run. And of that I’ve no doubt, I was talking more about the utterly incredulous stuff like story of Alex Kurtzman ripping a 70” plasma screen TV off the wall and throwing it across a conference room in a fit of rage because he was informed that a no-name gimmick YouTuber had made another video trashing Discovery, which totally happened, trust me guys, my sources NEVER lie. poo poo like that.
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Oct 11, 2020 23:58
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Unmature posted:I’ll take the Fox TV movie over Discovery and Picard any day I watched it a couple years back. It’s pretty bad, but Paul McGann was great in it and played a really good Doctor and it really did sell me on the prospect of a Fox Doctor Who series where the Doctor just hangs out in America now instead of the UK and by “America” I mean Vancouver 
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Oct 12, 2020 02:31
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Drink-Mix Man posted:Well, you see 60's Trek was made during the one true and good Civil Rights movement that solved racism (so says my high school textbook) so diverse casting was a good thing then. 90's Trek took place after we solved racism and everyone was getting along so the diversity in those shows was no big deal either. But now that everyone's equal and minorities are just raising a stink for no reason, diverse casting decisions are SJW pandering. It should come as no surprise then that ringleaders of this insular backwards-looking cabal of Star Trek conspiracy grifters are all either closely aligned with white supremacists or tend to casually spout white supremacist ideas in the midst of their rants about Star Trek and SJWs. Or, in the case of the dude who was at the center of the "Alex Kurtzman destroys TV because he was mad at [YouTube rear end in a top hat who will go unnamed]" story--a literal, recently outed, full-on SS regalia costume wearing Actual Nazi 
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Oct 12, 2020 02:52
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Epicurius posted:Guy was just a big fan of the episode Patterns of Force? Think more "Okay, but what if Jim Sterling was evil. And a literal Nazi."
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Oct 12, 2020 03:05
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Pastamania posted:Of the 5 older Trek shows, 4 were 'Americans fly around the galaxy telling others how to behave'. That's the thing they latched onto. And when you point out all the socialism in Trek they short circuit like a computer that just got done talking to Jim Kirk.
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Oct 12, 2020 09:18
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Drink-Mix Man posted:He's fully functional for sex ("The Naked Now", First Contact) so this likely extends to scatplay One of the lowkey funniest parts of First Contact is when Data tells the Borg Queen how long it's been since he's had sex down to the second and she just goes "Shut up, nerd." and bangs the poo poo out of him.
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Oct 13, 2020 03:52
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Delsaber posted:Only senior officers have the command codes necessary to replicate original Four Loko. "Computer, tea, earl gray and Four Loko, hot."
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Oct 14, 2020 05:28
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Unmature posted:Data joins the animatronic band I'm just picturing Picard sitting alone at a kids table with a party hat on staring down at a large pepperoni pizza forlornly while Data rocks out all herky-jerky with the band behind him just out of focus. This is what he does every week while everyone else goes up to Riker's quarters and plays poker.
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Oct 14, 2020 07:23
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Veotax posted:But all those Youtubers who totally aren't nazis keep telling me that it's a massive failure and is being cancelled! Now they can grift for another year about how Discovery will totally be cancelled THIS time around, just you wait, and give me more of your money while you wait so I can keep telling you how badly it's going to get cancelled.
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Oct 17, 2020 01:52
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Brawnfire posted:Every time I see Spiner as "himself" I think he's creepy as gently caress. You should maybe check out his web series Fresh Hell then. It really leans in to this perception and Spiner plays a great Larry David-esque miserable self-destructive rear end in a top hat.
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Oct 18, 2020 21:26
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HD DAD posted:I always thought that photo was from when they were shooting Violations. It looks simmilar but I always thought the flashback wig looked way worse for some reason. Like there was something about it that you could just tell it was a wig.
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Oct 19, 2020 20:24
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No Luck Needed posted:
Oh yeah, you can totally see the metal temple thingie in the black and white photo posted above, so yeah it was a test photo for the Jack Crusher flashback. I was on my phone when I looked at it initially so I couldn't see it, but on a bigger screen it's clearly visible.
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Verviticus posted:talk about ds9 you old fucks DS9 scares the poo poo out of Mike
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Oct 20, 2020 10:16
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HD DAD posted:terok nor is cardassian for “i banged your mom” Goddammit, Dukat. Why would you say that?
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Oct 22, 2020 06:48
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Payndz posted:Rom's so stupid he forgot thermodynamics when he designed the mines. So they worked! I’d like to think they just transported pieces of DS9 into their replicator matrix and that was how they made replacement mines. Dukat orders a sweep of the minefield and twenty minutes later his toilet just disappears.
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Oct 22, 2020 12:18
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Drink-Mix Man posted:I'm glad they keep loving with the canon. The detail-cataloging fandom is sick, just burn it all down. Watching them set themselves on fire over Enterprise 20 years ago was hilarious, and it's STILL loving hilarious today. Also Jesus Christ, next year it's gonna be 20 years since Enterprise premiered 
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Oct 27, 2020 00:21
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Insane Totoro posted:I assumed that the plastic film was a reference to dorks keeping the toys in the wrapped box. Person who has not bought a new TV, phone, tablet, computer, or anything with a screen in the last ten years spotted 
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feedmyleg posted:Just make sure you watch the original version and not the enhanced version if Netflix still gives you the option. The enhanced version isn’t really as obtrusive as people seem to think it is. It takes a bit to get used to, but it’s not like they went full Star Wars Special Edition on it or anything.
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Oct 28, 2020 01:28
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I like to think that after Mark Twain went back to his own time, he got drafted by Daniels into the Temporal Cold War because he now knows about The Future and him and Past Guinan got up to some badass 19th Century time adventures in between his career as an author.Brawnfire posted:a whole season of mysterious Future Guy just causing petty chaos, slapping drinks out of hands and upsetting pets and such If they bring Future Guy back they need to have James Horan return to voice him, and bring the same energy he brought to FF7 Remake President Shinra to the role. Just this smug gently caress who thinks he’s untouchable until he suddenly, violently, isn’t.
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Oct 28, 2020 19:30
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bull3964 posted:One of the most amusing things one Lower Decks was "Q" showing up at the end of the episode and they were all like "not in the mood for your bullshit" and just walked away. And then Q just lazily chasing after them in his floating judge throne going “Oh come oooooooooooon, please?” I feel like we’ve completed some kind of weird circle where Discord on My Little Pony was blatantly based on Q, and now after like 15 years or whatever of DeLancie being on MLP, now Q is pulling influence from Discord.
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Oct 28, 2020 19:44
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bull3964 posted:Probably because the first and last encounter with Q on TNG was a puzzle for Picard to solve? Also the second time Q shows up he whisks the bridge crew down to the soundstage planet and is like “Let’s play a game, shall we.” And then makes Riker into a Q and everyone struggles to figure out what the gently caress Q wants because the crew in Season 1 TNG was dumb as poo poo.
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Oct 28, 2020 20:24
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Boxturret posted:I felt like watching TNG all the way through for the first time so I just watched Encounter at Farpoint. It was pretty good IDK I watched Encounter At Farpoint earlier this year and while it wasn’t good (and downright cringey at time), I enjoyed it. When it comes to Trek especially it is more than okay to like things that other people don’t. A friend of mine went through and watched Season 1 TNG a little while back and we were laughing about it via Discord PMs, and his overall take was that he really liked it, so I said “well hang on, because it gets even better as it goes on.”
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Oct 28, 2020 20:38
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FlamingLiberal posted:Picard is such a dick to Riker for absolutely no reason in Encounter at Farpoint I kind of enjoyed Weird rear end in a top hat Picard from Farpoint. Especially Wesley’s super awkward bridge visit. Which goes from “Well, I guess you sit in my chair for a moment, I don’t see the harm” to “GET THE gently caress OUT, YOU LITTLE poo poo!” in like three seconds. It makes part of me wish we got more wild mood swing serial killer Picard.
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Oct 28, 2020 20:45
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:I don't think he even looks Riker in the face until their meeting in the conference room after the Enterprise has been reattached. That was something Edward James Olmos did on Battlestar Galactica. The way you could tell whether Adama respected someone or not is if he made eye contact when speaking to them. If it was someone he had absolutely no time for or just loving hated, he would stare past them or at the wall or the floor or start reading something to keep his eyes focused elsewhere. It was a really neat acting choice, and somewhat tangentially relevant because EJO was actually the runner up for the role of Picard after P.Stew.
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Powered Descent posted:Unless it's Profit and Lace. 8one6 posted:I'd rather watch Threshold than Profit and Lace again. Okay, those are exceptions. As is Code of Honor. You're kinda hosed up if you actually legitimately like Code of Honor 
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