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One of the books in the Department of Temporal Investigations series ends with the capture and "unmasking" Future Guy, and it's unintentionally hilarious because it ends up being just some random guy from the 28th century, because really who else is it going to be? The future time police characters are all like "Gasp, it was him this whole time?!", but obviously it can't be any character we as Star Trek fans would recognize because he has to be from centuries past the latest continuity we've seen. So the whole thing just falls really flat, and I can't imagine the show would have been able to pull it off any better if they'd gotten the chance because they'd be under the same limitation. Having Future Guy be a Krenim is acutally better, since at least it has a tenuous hook into existing continuity.
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MikeJF posted:You mean 'hallway with a mirror in it'? Mental Hospitality posted:Enterprise3d guy has been pretty silent for a while, I think he was getting poo poo from CBS but I've read he's still working on his project. Stage9 guy said on Reddit (I believe) that he reached out to E3D guy but got no response. Edit: Found it, Star Trek Busywork Simulator design inspiration 
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Nov 23, 2016 05:12
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Pwnstar posted:I think at one point Q offered to take them home instantly if she slept with him and she refused? I said Janeway was a psychotic, power hungry, glory hound.
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Nov 26, 2016 03:27
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I think it would be interesting to see some sort of alternate reality NextGen where someone makes this idea actually work. I mean, the Ferengi as described here would make a pretty good anti-Federation who didn't really want to conquer the galaxy but were just ideologically opposite. If they'd lost the electro-whips and lecherous bouncy troll attributes, and re-interpreted them as more behind-the-scenes manipulators who didn't face the Federation head-on but bribed their way through interstellar politics and proxy wars, arms deals, and the like, it would have been really unique. But probably too slow for 90's TV, you'd really need arcs to make that work.GutBomb posted:What are you talking about? He was great in this, just last year: 
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Nov 27, 2016 13:19
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L54GYRcxSM
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Nov 28, 2016 09:21
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Baronjutter posted:The chinese captain having a chinese ship is just too much for me. I was looking forward to this, had a tiny bit of hope, but that one thing is just too stupid and all hope and interest has been lost. And also, really dude, that's your threshold?
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Nov 30, 2016 05:22
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The Fuzzy Hulk posted:but these are the same writers that made the later seasons of Heroes, Voyager pocket books, and Eight Legged Freaks.
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Dec 1, 2016 03:42
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TheBigAristotle posted:I'm at the point in the The Next 25 Years where they're talking about First Contact, never knew they discussed, for weeks, the Borg travelling to Medieval Times Rhyno posted:Watching the Enterprise finale, the way they structured this as a TNG episode really is insulting to the entire show. I can see why Blalock was so pissed off at the time.
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Dec 4, 2016 05:56
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NowonSA posted:I've also been poking around Memory Alpha here and there, and learned that the general synopsis of fairly recent Star Trek books sound pretty rad. It has Ro Laren and Ezri Dax in major captain roles, a big fat Borg invasion, and an alliance of basically every Trek bad-guy faction teaming up against Starfleet after the Borg attack. I mean it sounds like fanservice of the best kind. I greatly enjoyed the Star Wars EU/Legends books (perhaps partly because I never went completely down the EU rabbit hole where absolutely insane stuff happened), now I'm thinking I need to at least give a few Star Trek books set in the post Next Generation/DS9 time period a chance to grab my interest. Lordshmee posted:How exactly does twice-treasonous, noted Maquis terrorist, former ensign Ro Laren wind up with a third-chance captaincy?
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Dec 7, 2016 05:14
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Lowen SoDium posted:Kira was always devout with her religious beliefs but having her leave her military career and eventually become Kai is so out of character for her it's ridiculous. Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Maybe this is me being too cynical, but I feel like the DS9 writers never intended for him to come back even after Brooks voiced his concerns.
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Dec 8, 2016 04:36
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Rhyno posted:I think I screwed up somewhere
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Dec 9, 2016 09:19
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I'm not sure why Star Trek is on BBC America constantly now, but I was watching The Ultimate Computer and I didn't remember that in this instance of Kirk talking a computer to death he convinces the M5 to turn itself off because "the punishment for murder is death". drat, not even modern America sentences all murders to death. Also murder is wrong because "it's against man and God". Some pretty non-Star Trek ideas in this episode.
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Dec 10, 2016 12:09
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skasion posted:TOS was written in the 60s in an American and more or less Christian mindset. Up until the 1960s the death penalty was heavily used in the USA, rather more so than today in fact. In the 60s the vast majority (as in 90% or more) of Americans were some flavor of Christian. TOS reflecting these things isn't evidence of "non-Star Trek ideas", it's a reminder of the kind of place Star Trek's ideas originally come from. The next episode up was the Yangs vs. Kohms one, which also included this awesome religious imagery that I'd similarly forgotten about. 
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Dec 11, 2016 00:00
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Nessus posted:In Federation holodecks I imagine your surplus sex juices are broken down the same way that you apparently get rid of dishes and table scraps by putting them back in the replicator. Seems like it'd be pretty easy for the forcefield and illusion room to have a self-cleaning mode.
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Dec 13, 2016 05:08
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Fister Roboto posted:OK Admiral Locke, I'm with you for the most part, but what the hell is the point of a cloaking device that lets a ship pass through normal matter? What possible advantage could that give anyone?
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Dec 18, 2016 06:09
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And there's no reason they'd actually need to show a shuttle taking off all that often, how often did we actually see the away team beam down? If anything they usually just started with them materializing on the surface, which is just as easily achieved by dragging the shuttle prop onto the set and having everyone walk out of it. In fact that'd be one less effect shot they'd have to do.
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Jan 2, 2017 05:57
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Tighclops posted:I miss the old Lego space subthemes that gave you just enough information for your child brain to fill in all the blanks, I know those basically stopped selling well toward the end of the 90's and so that's why it's been a parade of licensed poo poo ever since
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Jan 3, 2017 01:17
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The_Doctor posted:I've always wanted a sort of lego Star Trek ships kitbash set. A collection of saucers and nacelles and rollbars and whatnot so you can make new ships. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Starship_Creator It's worth at least 20 minutes of entertainment.
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Jan 3, 2017 11:12
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twistedmentat posted:Wasn't Andromeda supposed to be based on the post Federation galaxy? I'd love to see a what would basically be a post apocalyptic Trek show, though Dylan Hunt sounds like a porn star. While I like the idea of Andromeda as a Star Trek show, watching seven years of DS9 culminate in the Federation being conquered would have been a pretty unsatisfying ending, and the premise of a lone Federation ship on there on its own would have probably been too similar to Voyager to air at the same time. Especially considering how confused casual viewers would have been by the time difference between the shows. I think the idea would have worked best if you left when and what exactly caused the Federation to fall as a mystery, at least at the start of the show.
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Jan 4, 2017 06:40
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Croatoan posted:My only question? How did that deep space station have a camera floating right where the Klingon ships were when V'ger zapped 'em?
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Cojawfee posted:Holy poo poo. quote:Mid-afternoon, over in the Stardust Theater, John de Lancie attracted a standing-room-only crowd for his much-anticipated one-man show, called… One Man Show. Marina Sirtis introduced her old friend, de Lancie, warning that material would be quite "blue." And it was, particularly his reading of epic Billy Markham poems. De Lancie exited the stage to a standing ovation. Big Mean Jerk posted:Hey hey hey, they've got the Cherry Poppin' Daddies instead. This cruise is the entirety of 1998 at sea.
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Jan 12, 2017 07:10
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TheBigAristotle posted:Hardly an original thought, but the Khan reveal was so meaningless. Nobody knew who he was! So this notion that he's actually Khan meant nothing to anyone except the audience, who have mostly just heard of him somewhere.
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Jan 15, 2017 04:58
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MikeJF posted:Well, a massive false flag operation (the planned destruction of the Enterprise by the Klingons as a pretext for war) is at the centre of the plot, for one.
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Jan 16, 2017 04:23
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Blast Fantasto posted:I was thinking of the wrong episode/scene. It's the one where he's freaking out because of the brain implant that it's blue
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Jan 22, 2017 02:56
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:It wasn't consistent. There's a cook that calls up to the bridge in Charlie X, but by the time David Gerrold was working on The Trouble With Tribbles he was told by Gene Coon that there was no cook on the ship.
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I give that episode some leeway because it's a "light" episode (see above), and I figure they didn't really take over the ship, more like they held it hostage. Sure at any point the crew could have stormed the bridge and taken control back, but they would have taken some bridge crew casualties, better to just take it slow and de-escalate the situation. It's just some Ferengi after all. And besides, we know from experience there's nothing more dangerous to the Ent-D than an old surplus Bird of Prey. It does make me wonder though, what happens if Picard or Riker lock out the command codes then get killed. Does the Enterprise become destine to just float around space forever because no one can even send a message to get an Admiral to fly out and override it?
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Jan 25, 2017 05:33
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I remember maneuvering around the correctly-scaled Voyager bridge in Elite Force felt really cramped, because video games tend to treat the player model as just a big tall cube it was really easy to get hung up on the edge of consoles and what-not. I'd imagine the issue would be even worse in a janky third-person engine, where it would be obvious when the player cube ran into something that no model polygon was actually touching. The Defiant maps in the third-person The Fallen released around the same as Elite Force were also really scaled up, presumably for the same reason. Check out Worf's IMAX console. Also I notice some of Dax's assets got scaled up as well... 
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Duckbag posted:I'm still hoping the one weird alien on the crew is a wacky mushroom man because that would be awesome and also we'd get a scene where the space mycologist has to treat him instead of the doctor.  He's the glowy guy trying to explain to the redshirt mushrooms have no culture of "hugs".
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Feb 7, 2017 03:37
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Moddington posted:I like how they have absolutely everyone on board except Brooks.
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Feb 11, 2017 04:53
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skasion posted:M'Benga owns, if only for that scene where he slaps the poo poo out of Spock. MikeJF posted:The guy who posted it:
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Nessus posted:I thought Geordi was explicitly from Mogadishu, Somalia, it just never came up, not even to the extent it did with Uhura. Was Daystrom given a specific nationality? If not, the Sisko was I think the first explicitly "African American" Trek character.
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Data Graham posted:God, I hope all the credits are in that horrible font.
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Nessus posted:It's a shame the people involved with Enterprise never got the idea to start spinning a yarn about studio interference. If they had, I half-expect Enterprise would be the fan favorite by now.
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Feb 23, 2017 09:11
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Duckbag posted:I'm still pissed that they did the thing where they cut from celestial bodies orbiting each other to electrons orbiting nuclei because that plays into hack new age stoner "woah everything is like cosmic viberations, man" synchornicity/music of the spheres bullshit. Electrons don't really "orbit" as such, and the effect has nothing to do with gravity. Equating the two is just bad science. That kind of sloppy style over substance approach can be seen throughout the series and I think really holds it back.
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Feb 25, 2017 05:59
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Beachcomber posted:Do you think if I emailed Paramount they'd be able to direct me to one of those Alaskan Rivers? They sound nice, but I've never seen anything like them here.
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Mar 13, 2017 22:39
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Hot Dog Day #82 posted:Those old movie TOS uniforms are my favorite, why would the federation ever change away from something so snappy looking
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The_Doctor posted:So apparently the Terok Nor DS9 was destroyed in the novels? And there's a new Federation-built station in its place. drat, it's hideous. I think it would look a lot better without the useless vertical rings, with just that horizontal ring it would look more like an evolution of the mushroom-type starbase. Still not great, but better.
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The_Doctor posted:There are 7 seasons?  MikeJF posted:And it still leaves ambiguity an space, as the ship could be upside-down and backwards. 
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Apr 2, 2017 23:32
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Astroman posted:I think he just basically assumed "next year" he'd have another big windfall of a tv show and that would solve his woes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO0JBFlof90 I knew Jewel Staite was in that, I didn't realize the black Power Ranger was. Edit: That's weird, for me at least that video doesn't have audio when embedded, but it does if you watch it on Youtube.
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Baronjutter posted:Wow that's bad because the borg queen is bad and also borg don't know about humans until Q. Cojawfee posted:Her parents followed a Borg cube through the inverse subspace verteron tube network array or whatever to study them and then got assimilated. Like following some bears into the woods and then the bears assimilate you into their stomach.
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