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Baka-nin posted:This reminds me of an anecdote from a writer on one of the many Trek related interviews I've seen. Gene chewed him out over a script proposal because "you don't know the difference between shields and deflectors!"
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Gau posted:At one point Riker comments that a ship's laser weapons "wouldn't even penetrate our navigational deflector." Go ahead and explain to me how that works. The navflector can divert High Energy photons, radiation, and microparticulates so they're basically strobing the Enterprise D with a CD drive diode. 
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Payndz posted:This is basically how Kirk gets and keeps command in the new films. Because the writers are either dumbasses who believe that someone being told "you're in charge until I get back" means they instantly get promoted from (ungraduated) cadet to captain and stay there, or are contemptuous enough of their audience to think they believe that. 
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Frames directed the reboot remake of THUNDERBIRDS if I remember correctly. Tasha Yarr was in Pet Sematary and maybe one other thing and people realized she has crazy eyes so that didn't pan out. LeVar Burton was Kunta Kinte and still does Reading Rainbow stuff. Data just released his role as Crazy Schlubby Scientist in ID: Resurgence. He's done some VO work (notable for being possibly the worst Joker ever but nothing great). Gates MacFadden and Marina Sirtis just disappeared pretty much. (Sirtis did Gargoyles VO work like 99% of the TNG cast). Wesley Crusher died on the way to his some dimension. He was cloned but the process inserted a bunch of junk DNA so instead of the Adonis we saw when Q aged him, he turned into Neckbeard Prime. He brews beer at home and spazes out over hockey a lot. Note that The Big Bang Theory is basically the TNG Old People's home much in the way that Gargoyles was the TNG Let's Take a Daycation to San Diego. FilthyImp fucked around with this message at 08:57 on Aug 4, 2016 |
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remusclaw posted:Gates was one of the choreographers in Labyrinth before doing Next Gen.
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Fall Sick and Die posted:I mean her tits are poo poo!! She must be wearing some kind of 24th century wonderbra, if people only like her or give her jobs based on her chest, then it's little wonder she's disappeared. :Sounds of LCARS crashing: alternately Computer, design a Bra that would give me rocking tits. UNABLE TO COMPLY. PLEASE SPECIFY A CHOICE BETWEEN PROGRAMS 'RYKER-EPSILON-69' AND 'LAFORGE-ALPHA-29-DELTA-37' FilthyImp fucked around with this message at 09:20 on Aug 4, 2016 |
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The only way you would have known about Stewart would be if you were some kind of New York City richmans that went to off-broadway productions. So no, not a single person in the fandom would have been aware of him. Forgot about Whoopi. I guess Jumpin' Jack Flash was out by then. Also, didn't someone say Dorn made a shitload of money by investing in Fuddruckers when it was getting off the ground? That's how he can afford all his planes and stuff, not the Trek residuals.
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Aug 4, 2016 16:25
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Gaz-L posted:Wasn't that to cover that Roxann Dawson was pregnant? I think that pregnancy caused the writers to sideline her development a lot.
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Aug 5, 2016 01:18
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Evek posted:For a second I thought you said "Chakotay hotboxes aliens". Probably would have been better. Use my peyote disc. Akoochimoya dude. Also threshold is bad because rapid evolution wouldn't make him breathe Ammonia randomly, and the concept of Warp Infinity that lets you occupy all points in time being a dumb engineering question (that Neelix of all people figures out) instead of some thermodynamic/infinite energy barrier is dumb. Also you give the Voyager a get home now card early in the series' life which is just boring and you know can't be used because of flimsy plot reasons. Just like that wormhole by the Ferengi planet that they wait too long to get into because prime directive and poo poo.
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Aug 7, 2016 15:20
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Most important ever? What is this, Axanar?
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Aug 7, 2016 18:01
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Duckbag posted:Troi takes a test and somehow becomes a senior bridge officer, despite being, you know, Troi. I liked the secret cloaking device because not only were the feds being shady as gently caress and possibly destabilizing the Romulan nonaggression pact, they also catastrophically hosed it up while also creating a device potentially more powerful than they anticipated. Datamom was a Lal rehash, but at least he wasn't running around with faux-incan forehead hats and poo poo. These are my bad TNG opinions, gomen.
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Generations is a poorly lit, meandering story that relies on an Oops I Can Fix This mechanic to get the True Ending. First Contact is a decent zombie action movie with trek bolted on.
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Jjkirk weaponized the gently caress out of that but of debris though. That's way cooler.
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Bush V Gore is the fulcrum point. That's when we veer headlong into AltBad Timeline. I can't really think of any thing before that which would start the dominoes falling, though. I posit that Hanging Chads are a symptom of the Badmess, but not necessarily a product of an earlier temporal fuckup. More than likely, the Zero point at the heart of Bush V Gore reverberated outwards in both +Time and Time- reference spaces. I have a strong suspicion that bitch Leslie cheating on me and then dumping me in 10th grade also has something to do with it. I need to gather more evidence for that though.
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Threadmasters, perhaps you can tell me about this game I saw someone play in my school library's mac around 1994. It was a top-down StarTrek, with either the TOSprise or Galaxyprise, in kind of a faux 3D gourad shading color. Warped around, dropped people off at planets, used phasers or torps. Can't for the life of me remember a name though.
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Nessus posted:Was it kind of turn based? Did you have to go to a starbase to reload and stuff? I think similar games have been around for a long while, though the graphics have steadily improved. Not so much now, of course. It wasn't quite like the DOS games from back whenabouts.
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Aug 10, 2016 23:22
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Cojawfee posted:It was lame because the viewscreen is already holographic. Your perspective into the other ship changes based on from where you view your screen.
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Wikkheiser posted:The best bridge design: I used to play this with a relative. Im the one that figured out how to synthesize the Vulcan/Romulan Pox cure  When I got a Mac, I bought it and promptly got stuck at the puzzle at the end of the first world. My parents were out an additional $25 for the Player's Guide.
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Cojawfee posted:How was the battle controlled in the very beginning of the game? My sisters and I played it once and I remember we had trouble getting past that. I have a feeling it's something really easy and we were just retarded kids. You also wanted to set engines to 4-7 and occasionally ~ to reverse impulse so you wouldn't be a sitting duck. If your shields started going brown, a shot of E would give you Emergency Powah. T would bring up Tactical which would show you damage on the enemy ship. Strategy-wise you didn't want to get into a head-on fight unless you'd weakened the ship first. Mostly it's flying around trying to come at the enemy at a WoK vector to pound their aft shields.
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What's with the dumb use of Voyager long toilet-seat saucers?
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You sick gently caress
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Falken posted:Warship Voyager And then Neelix is a uniformed ensign just fucks it all up.
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Met posted:There was a line where they accused Voyager of rampaging through the quadrant and assimilating people into their war machine. Forcing a space-pedo into the senior bridge crew, not so much. Also, you defended Neelix you monster. You're worse than The Trekposter That Shall Not Be Named
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Gaz-L posted:Kinda. Jellico isn't an rear end in a top hat so much as he is really incompetent. The man had to resort to threatening to murder hundreds to actually achieve his goal because if he'd been negotiating like he allegedly was assigned to, he would've started a goddamn war. (I really, really hate Data in command red in that episode. It just looks so wrong, and I'm almost certain his coat wasn't fitted to him anyway).
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:This seems to generally be because the weapon arrays on starships are so overwhelming that maneuverability is meaningless. Dennis Okuda wrote in a Star Trek Encyclopedia that the Enterprise-D can fire on 30 different targets simultaneously.
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Platonicsolid posted:Little?
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Trek fighters should be rear end in a top hat barges like the Goonsquad swarm. "Captain, 45 light shuttles have just dropped out of warp ... Wait, they're all dumping tetrion radiation. Shields and sensors are down."
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Big Mean Jerk posted:This story is the gift that keeps on giving. I really hope Discovery references the battle of Axanar, just to rub salt in the wound. Axanar was the Federation's biggest failure. They put a man in charge of something he had no business meddling in. We don't speak about it anymore.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:I dunno about 'fan favorite', but yeah, it certainly would have been better received earlier in the season. I get what the aim was, with interweaving the stories, but gently caress they could have done it with a time capsule, or some space anomaly or just about anything other than a holodeck for gently caress's sake. Cutting off before Arch gives his big hero speech is just the last bit of gently caress you, too.
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Cojawfee posted:Why were the Kazon around for so long? They were so primitive, how could their reach be that far? Kazon's were pretty much Delta Quadrant Klingons, and I can never quite believe that their tech is so much better than Voyager's. At least the Hirogen were like super hunter Predator fucks. The Kazon just fought amongst the scraps.
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"Live Turkeys!" My wife actually, independently, started a watch through of TOS Saturday morning, because it's on out MeTV affiliate Saturdays before SvenGoolie. She said she wanted to check out how the series started and developed. She was quite puzzled that they had two "Crewmember exhibits godlike power" episodes in a row. I told her to start counting how many times they defeat a computer with a faulty logic game. "I hate you, but I love you more"  error error error errrrorrrrrrrr
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The Voyadouble episode is fairly milquetoast until the Vidiians get on Voyager and start OrganJacking people left and right, like some terrible BioBorg plague. Like holy poo poo is that dark. Moore's comments on the hollowness of the series especially ring true with the Tuvix episode and the one where the Doc has a cascading choice failure because he lets the one crewmember die instead of HKim. You literally have a sentient being begging for his life in one, and in the other you have a sentient being grappling with depression and the enormity of choice. Both wrap up just when the moral questions get too heavy.
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Trent posted:Like the battle room from Ender's Game but with lacrosse sticks or something instead of laser guns. BRB guys totally working on a Qpak/HLmod for this poo poo.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:There are people today who rewatch Super Bowls and Stanley Cup playoffs. Why wouldn't someone watch an awesome World Series match on the holodeck? "Hey look man, if you zoom into this section at the right time index, you can see this tampon fall out while the bartended gets railed in the private luxuriobox" 
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T.C. posted:The scene that exists with her is 90% meaningless bullshit technobabble. It's hilarious that the first shooting day they started off with something that is literally just the actors trying to sell terrible dialogue before they're given a chance to actually act. It all sounds so sterile without the FX. sunday at work posted:The thing that really bugs me about that approach to techno babble is that it would have been easier to just spend an hour or two laying down same basic rules in the show bible and then inserting them into the scripts instead of making something up whole sale each time. Annular Confinement Beam is Teleporter AoE poo poo. Gravimetric is some curvature of space gravity bullshit. Biogenic is some neural energy field bullshit. The rest is usually bullshit made up to give the plot some meaning or menace. "Captain, their weapons are emitting theta-band radiation. Our sensors are useless!" "B'Elanna, can we use the deflector array to deploy a modular radiogenic pulse? That might--" "Cause runaway Theta decay! They'll be lit up like Christmas trees!" FilthyImp fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Aug 25, 2016 |
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I like to think Paris puttering around with internal combustion mechanics has some of that Treknobabble going on. "I just don't get it Neelix, everything I try just makes the car go slower" "We had a problem like that on Talaxian RefugeShip #277... As I recall, the commander decided to jettison some extra weight. About 50 bowls of Leeola Root smoothies later, the entire crew was at least 10 lbs lighter each!" "Hey wait a minute... if I reroute the gasolinotic lines through the central carbobulator--" "It might produce enough pressure to aerate the main Gofastium drive!" "Yeah. I'll have to reinforce the lubricator array with rarified Pennzoilium, but this might just work" //later// "Alright, time to start this baby u--" //Holocar explodes//
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Duckbag posted:Yeah, I'd say the turning point for their relationship comes in Scorpion. It's a pretty solid two-parter (certainly by Voyager standards, anyway), so I don't want to ruin it for you, but be on the look out for the way it "resolves" the tension that comes up between them.
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Oh Jesus, I just watched The Menagerie P.1 and the Starbase11 shuttle has PICASSO printed across its front like some lovely Mac OS7 add-on from 1996. Shuttlecraft ... Now with Intel inside!
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PenguinKnight posted:Finished up season 3 of TNG. Locutus of Borg shouldn't have been over in a two parter. it's such a neat concept to just be done with it immediately. On the other hand, you try watching BoBW part 1 then sitting around all summer wondering what the gently caress was going to happen arggghhhhhh.
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