Big Mean Jerk posted:

The last thread ran for three years, which means this is the animated series and 1/4 of us are the same guy with different accents

also I dropped out of the last thread for nearly a year but I'm still #12 on that list. Someone please help me.

FilthyImp posted:

You mean consonance???

MikeJF posted:

One of Bryan Fuller's last shows had the two main characters as children losing parents on the same day in the first five mibutes of the show, every single one of his shows has been filled with endless death and tragedy, and yet somehow with the exception of Hannibal it's all been as far away from grit as possible.

Pushing Daisies is the happiest, brightest show about constant death ever made.

Kibayasu posted:

I think no one mentions that village one because it's the worst kind of bad: it's boring. There's nothing to remember about it except that it's bad.

remusclaw posted:

It's unfortunate how Data regressed in the movies. Then again, the TNG movies were all pretty off on characterization, didn't Troi lose her accent?

OneThousandMonkeys posted:

All the Picard love-life episodes are tied for The Worst.

Tighclops posted:

Generations was a movie that would have benefited from a lot more time to tighten up the script and maybe it would have helped not to blow all that money building the stellar cartography set and those location shoots

Cythereal posted:

I always figured that the Klingon Empire that Worf idolizes never existed. Like the Japanese concept of bushido, it was complete bullshit fabricated by an expansionist, militaristic government to justify wars that in truth were about grabbing territory, grabbing resources, or settling grudges. Worf, being raised among humans, simply wasn't in on the joke.

CommaToes posted:

I've been watching DS9's first season again for the first time in a while (I usually just watch the pilot, Duet and the last ep of the season), and I am enjoying what a shitheap the station is for the first little while.

Everything is always broken and you can tell that the crew doesn't have a handle on it yet.

schmitty9800 posted:

My wife insisted that if we were going to start watching DS9, we start with Season 1. About 20 episodes in she couldn't take it anymore, and I couldn't really blame her. My cries of "No, it gets massively better! Trust me! They start writing Bashir a lot better! Avery Brooks takes a while to find his character! All the best characters will be in later seasons! Garak! Weyoun! Martok! WORF, you remember him!" never worked

WickedHate posted:

At least one school teacher wrote in asking for several copies for her classroom. Sweet stuff.

Blazing Ownager posted:

The funniest poo poo to me was the guy who developed super powers in the original show.

The SECOND he starts gathering knowledge, they immediately start plotting to kill him. He hadn't done anything yet. The fact he turned evil seems more like a lucky break than anything else; the whole time I was watching that episode I could not shake the feeling that if the same episode was made today, he'd been the good guy.

Dude was basically an X-Man being hunted for his crime of being too smart/powerful.

MikeJF posted:

Star Trek IV time travel.

Baka-nin posted:

I guess that first paragraph explains why the Ferengi kept twitching and snarling like they were on the mother of all sugar rushes. Out of everything odd and dumb in the last outpost that's the part that really convinced me that these guys were a joke. I'm pretty sure it was the first thing they ditched while hastily retooling them, they don't act like that in the Battle do they?

Fister Roboto posted:

I'd say more like post-Cold War Afghanistan.

Nazareth posted:

I usually hate the "evil twin episode" a lot of Western shows like to have. It's rarely done well and it's so tiring when they do it. However, I didn't actually hate this episode. I liked learning about Data's background. It was cool knowing that his creation was inspired by Asiimov. I also have a feeling that we'll see Lore again. I hope he sports a moustache.

PenguinKnight posted:

Riker bringing Data, Pulaski, Geordi, and Worf over for dinner scrambled eggs and whiskey and Worf going crazy for it has to be the greatest cold opening

MikeJF posted:

sciencenews.org posted:

“Dark lime green” is how biologist Zachary Rodriguez describes the blood of the Prasinohaema lizards of New Guinea and surrounding islands. “Vivid,” he adds.

With green blood comes Granny Smith-colored muscles and bones and a blue-green mouth, exposed during defensive posturing. But the strangest thing about the five species of Prasinohaema lizard is that they can live like that.

Lime, apple and avocado can be risky blood colors. They indicate that these lizard species build up a toxic substance called biliverdin. The lizards’ red blood cells still depend on hemoglobin, the stuff that ferries oxygen and makes most animal blood red, but any lizard-blood redness is overwhelmed by massive concentrations of the green biliverdin. A breakdown product of hemoglobin, biliverdin gives the greenish edge to bruised human flesh. Most animal bodies quickly whisk it away.

High concentrations of biliverdin, say over 50 micromoles per liter, make humans sick with jaundice. The lizards, however, do just fine with 714 to 1,020 µM/L.

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

Use the Starship Enterprise (or Discovery, or whatever) to visit a variety of societies that can be contrived constructed to specifically highlight whatever issue you want to tackle.

MikeJF posted:

Honestly, one thing you can give Voyager is that it tended to try weird space poo poo. It was bad at it, but it usually had the most out-there what the gently caress stuff.

Tears In A Vial posted:

Academy flight trainer

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Academy_flight_trainer

Edit: "The otherwise indiscernible symbol in front of the cockpit was that of Cobra from the G.I. Joe franchise."

Eiba posted:

I was a pretty small child when TNG was first airing... and I have vivid memories of this episode and how utterly terrifying it was. I don't care how little sense it made, that scene in the holodeck where Geordi removes all the people and there's still a humanoid shadow is still one of the most fundamentally disturbing things to me, and I still sometimes have nightmares that feel like that scene, twenty years later.

Thanks Star Trek.

T.C. posted:

I know this isn't why they did it the way they did it, but having consistent kazon personalities showing up wouldn't have made sense with the way they were writing things. Voyager was consistently flying quickly away from them, so the only way they should have had consistent characters showing up is if they were being chased or if they had a storyline where they had to stick around and area doing something. Both of these could have had interesting story lines attached to them, but neither really happened.

Rhyno posted:

I vaguely remember Kate Muglrew not being the original choice for the lead on the show, Genevieve something was the first choice? I'd just google it but usually Timby has some amazing backstory you don't find in a random search.

Ron Moore posted:

Moore then went on to describe how a typical script might read before the science consultants did their thing:

La Forge: "Captain, the tech is overteching."

Picard: "Well, route the auxiliary tech to the tech, Mr. La Forge."

La Forge: "No, Captain. Captain, I've tried to tech the tech, and it won't work."

Picard: "Well, then we're doomed."

"And then Data pops up and says, 'Captain, there is a theory that if you tech the other tech ... '" Moore said. "It's a rhythm and it's a structure, and the words are meaningless. It's not about anything except just sort of going through this dance of how they tech their way out of it."