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Veotax
May 16, 2006


Sir Lemming posted:

Samuel L. Jackson in The Secret Of Mother Vulcan Fury

And yeah, Marvel's de-aging is on point these days. Even a few years ago in whichever movie they de-aged Robert Downey Jr. it was super creepy, but now it's only creepy in a "how is this even possible" way.

That was Civil War



But yeah, Marvel does this a ton now. I think the most extensive use of it is in Captain Marvel where they de-age Samuel L. Jackson for the entire film.

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Veotax
May 16, 2006


The collar is part of the jumpsuit rather than the under-shirt on these, which also gives these more colour than the DS9/Voyager uniforms.

Looks like they're using the 'future' combadges in that shot?

Veotax
May 16, 2006


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3om4V_-Y0Q

Veotax
May 16, 2006


It's actually someone else giving a monologue. Picard doesn't speak in the teaser and is only in the last shot (the rest of the trailer is a vineyard making Chateau Picard, so I guess when he retired he re-opened the family vineyard).

Veotax
May 16, 2006


jng2058 posted:

Not once. Even when they did that Voyager ep set in the future where Kim and Chakotay gently caress with the timeline because Harry's sad, they still had Captain Geordi trundling around in an old Galaxy.

Yeah, the Sovereign was the Hero Ship at the time. You can't confuse the viewer by making them think the Enterprise is on screen when it's actually a different ship. Didn't DS9 only get to use the Galaxy after TNG ended?

Veotax
May 16, 2006


I just try to keep my hair real short, as soon as my hair starts to get to a short-medium length it gets bushy on the sides and pretty drat thin up top.

Veotax
May 16, 2006


We have our first look at Hugh from Picard


Veotax
May 16, 2006


ROJO posted:

Peter Cushing is definitely dead, and was definitely a CG monstrosity in Rogue One. I don't think any of it was a comp.

Yeah, Cushing was CG in Rogue One and Rise of Skywalker apparently used a bunch of previously unused footage of her from The Force Awakens to give Leia an ending. There was actually a CG Leia in the film, but that was a younger version in a flash back showing Luke training her to be a Jedi

Veotax
May 16, 2006


I still say that the reason Solo failed is because they put it out in May rather than December. It was too soon after TLJ and Infinity War (another Disney movie) was still in theatres and doing well.

It was still not a good movie, but it would have done fine in the usual Star Wars slot when it would have had no competition.

Veotax
May 16, 2006


You can't, legally.

None of the Short Treks went up on Netflix until season 2 of Disco started, but I can't imagine that this episode will go on Netflix since Picard will be on Amazon. Maybe Amazon will put it up when the fist episode goes up?

Veotax
May 16, 2006


Alan_Shore posted:

Boo! How did everyone watch it then? CBS?

Yeah, it's all on the CBS streaming thing in the US. Here Netflix picked up the rights for Disco, Amazon picked up Picard and who the gently caress knows who (if anyone) is going to pick up The Lower Decks.
No idea how this second season of Short Treks is going to work since it's apparently covering both Disco and Picard stuff. Is Netflix going to get the episodes that cover another service's show when DIS season 3 starts? Is Amazon going to get those episodes? Or are they just not going to come out over here?

All this 'multiple shows in the same universe' stuff falls apart internationally when different networks pick-up different shows. The CW's DC shows Infinite Crisis event is completely hosed over here, it's a big crossover event spread over five different shows. Sky has three of them, Netflix has one and the fifth hasn't been picked up by anyone so the entire thing isn't even being shown over here.

Veotax
May 16, 2006


Huh, neat. Didn't think that would work. I tried using a VPN to actually pay to watch Doom Patrol on the DC streaming thing and to get on Disney+ a few months early, both of them seemed to be blocking the US servers for NordVPN.

Veotax
May 16, 2006


Apparently Whoopi Goldberg is down to return as Guinan for season 2 of Picard

Veotax
May 16, 2006


All the TNG movies are after the show. They designed new uniforms for First Contact onwards, DS9 even switched to them after the movie came out

Veotax
May 16, 2006


I can't imagine what Voyager would have been like if Geneviève Bujold had stayed on instead of quitting after a few days of shooting.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SIZcDWKyw0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbl3cGQ5vxI

Veotax
May 16, 2006


MikeJF posted:

That's actually a modernisation of a disco ship, you can pin the aesthetic detailing on STO but the general design is all disco's fault.

Yeah, I think that with most Disco ships they include an alternate "2410" skin to fit in more with STO's post Nemesis designs.

Veotax
May 16, 2006


Tighclops posted:

Post the Spock helmet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etRJn6y48vg

Veotax
May 16, 2006


Dunno' if I'd ever post in it, but if someone could PM the Discord I'd appreciate it.

Veotax
May 16, 2006


feedmyleg posted:

My guess is that's because they were 12 at the time and from their vantage point Voyager was a light breezy time and DS9 was a boring soap opera. If those same people revisited the show today I'm guessing you'd see a lot of opinions change.

This is me pretty much. Voyager was the first Star Trek I watched, I passed on DS9 because "they're on a space station, they don't go anywhere? Boring!" and then watched Enterprise after. Also the occasional episode of TNG whenever it was on.

Years later I went back and watched TNG and DS9, realising that they were way better. Still have a soft spot for Voyager and Enterprise since I watched them growing up, but I realise now that TNG and DS9 are overall better shows.

Veotax
May 16, 2006


I remember reading at one point that Enterprise wanted to do a crossover with the Dr Who revival which started around that time, but it ended up falling through.

Though that could be complete bullshit.

Veotax
May 16, 2006


Huh, apparently the Nickelodeon Star Trek Series that was talked about ages ago is still happening.

Star Trek Prodigy is supposed to start sometime next year

quote:

Prodigy, as previously revealed, will follow a group of “lawless” teenagers who find themselves aboard a derelict Starfleet vessel—which we can only speculate for now will be called the Prodigy—that they take command of, before boldly setting off on their own adventures exploring the galaxy and doing things a bunch of teens probably shouldn’t get up to aboard a former military/science/exploratory vessel.

Also, actual clip from The Lower Decks

https://twitter.com/startrekcbs/status/1286367979244929027

Veotax fucked around with this message at 20:04 on Jul 23, 2020

Veotax
May 16, 2006


I remember the writer of The Inner Light wrote a webcomic sequel, which was of course called "The Outer Light". I remember it was terrible.

IIRC the Enterprise comes across a ship with Picard's family from the simulation, they say something along the lines of 'of course we're a space faring people, we made that incredibly advanced probe didn't we'. Then the Romulans show up and they trap them in a simulation where the Romulans win and take over the Enterprise, turning the bridge into a strip club for some reason.

Seems to have been scrubbed from the internet though, can't find it anywhere.

Veotax
May 16, 2006


I'll admit, I didn't try too hard. I think I just Googled "The Outer Light" and the first few sites didn't have it, inducing the site it was originally posted on.

Taking a look at it, yep, still terrible.

Veotax
May 16, 2006


Astroman posted:

How did they do on the scale though?

From what I remember, probably too small but not noticeably so.

From the outside it's like an oversized planet that you can't fly around, just a small section around the entrance. From the inside it's like a space zone with a unique skybox, again you can only fly around a small zone, not the whole thing.

Veotax
May 16, 2006


Bah, you guys are making want to go through the effort of pirating LDS since it hasn't been picked up by anyone in the UK.

DSC and PIC may be trashy, but I watched them because they were just on Netflix and Prime Video respectively, so I didn't have to pay anything extra and didn't have to put in any effort to watch them.

Veotax
May 16, 2006


I think that is the technobabble behind why Voyager's nacelles move when going to warp

Veotax
May 16, 2006


Huh, Janeway is returning in that Nickelodeon animated Star Trek show that's apparently still happening

Veotax
May 16, 2006


A.o.D. posted:

It was a mining ship. It was way more powerful than anything in the TOS era, but I can't see it possibly being on the same scale of power as the V'ger probe. V'ger could turn anything it encountered into pure data. I don't even think the Borg could counter it.

The Countdown prequel comics for Star Trek 2009 revealed that the Narada was augmented with Borg tech. After the destruction of Romulus the Narada stumbled upon a Tal Shiar base who souped-up the Narada with Borg tech so Nero could go on a rampage against the Federation or something.

Probably not canon to the movie, but probably is to the comics.

EDIT: This is what it looked like before getting Borged-up

Veotax fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Oct 10, 2020

Veotax
May 16, 2006


FlamingLiberal posted:

Discovery was officially renewed for Season 4

But all those Youtubers who totally aren't nazis keep telling me that it's a massive failure and is being cancelled!

Veotax
May 16, 2006


It was definitely known that he was a fraud before Voyager started production, but apparently he worked with Berman on a successful show before so Berman probably didn't care.

Veotax
May 16, 2006


Seems like the good stuff is locked behind the Patreon. I listened to the first few episodes and the free versions were just them recapping the show with a little bit if behind the scenes stuff, from what I understand the Patreon version has way more bits stuff that gets cut out of the free one.

Veotax
May 16, 2006


Looks like Amazon has picked up Lower Decks in a bunch of territories outside of the US. Show will be launching on January 22nd. Better late than never, I guess.

https://intl.startrek.com/news/star-trek-lower-decks-transports-to-amazon-prime-in-multiple-international-territories

Maybe I'll finally get around to finishing the show, pirating is too much effort these days.

Hopefully season 2 will air simultaneously with the US.

Veotax
May 16, 2006


Lower Decks is finally available internationally on Prime Video, I should really get around to watching the rest of that.

Veotax
May 16, 2006


bull3964 posted:

I believe they only scanned the correct takes. It's been 9 years though. Scanning is better and faster. Editing has become more automated. At this point they can probably speed the process up significantly by scanning more than what they need and letting computers taking the first pass at identifying correct takes.

They definitely scanned more than just the takes used, the blurays had outtake reals that were never seen before and in super clear HD. Dunno' of they scanned entire reals, but definitely more than they needed.

Veotax
May 16, 2006


I don't buy movies very often these days, but when I do its on Blu-Ray or UHD. For whatever reason I refuse to buy movies from a streaming service when I'm perfectly fine buying games digitally.

EDIT: ^^^^Also that.

Veotax
May 16, 2006


Grand Fromage posted:

I was just going through blueprints, as one does, and one of the weirdest decisions in there is Voyager has a whole spare warp core that never gets mentioned or becomes a plot point.

Wait, really? I know it's supposed to have a secondary deflector (the gold-ish dish on the upper saucer) that was never mentioned in the show, but the second warp care is new to me.

Veotax
May 16, 2006


Apparently the main cast of the animated kids show Prodigy are going to be all aliens.




The middle two look like they fit in with Trek to me, if a little exaggerated due to the art style. The others look a bit out there, but I'm cool with animated shows going with designs that wouldn't work in live action or would be too expensive to do with a show's budget.

Veotax
May 16, 2006


FlamingLiberal posted:

I've gotten the feeling that both Paramount and CBS (before Viacom re-merged a year or two ago) could never figure out how to properly merchandise Trek.

In the late 90s/early 2000s before the two companies split, they had Activision making a bunch of Trek games. I understand there were some kind of legal issues which led to Activision losing the license, but Trek gaming has never been the same since.

Didn't Activision actually sue CBS/Paramount over for cancelling Enterprise or something? Like they were paying for the license and now there was nothing to "advertise" the games. I think I remember something along those lines or something.

Angry Salami posted:

Licensed games are a lot rarer now than they were back in the 90s-2000s. I mean, outside of mobile games, Star Wars has had - what, three games since the Disney buyout?

While it's true that you don't really get licensed games like you used to (it's too expensive to make even mediocre console/PC games these games, you just put this poo poo on phones instead), the lack of Star Wars games is due to EA's incomitance. EA signed a deal to have the exclusive rights to make Star Wars games for 10 years in 2013, they've only managed to put out four games and only two of them are without controversy. People were pissed off that Battlefront 1 was multiplayer only and the microtransactions for 2 were so bad it had governments talking about if they should start passing laws about them.

Veotax
May 16, 2006


Powered Descent posted:

After Burnham got stripped of rank, she was addressed as "Specialist", but I'm not 100% sure whether that counts as an actual rank.

On :bsg:, Cally sometimes got called the same thing, but it might not be an official rank there either.

My assumption for Burnham's Specialist designation is that she was effectively a civilian, stripped of rank after being arrested before eventually getting re-commissioned into Star Fleet and becoming a Commander again.

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Veotax
May 16, 2006


Yeah, I always assumed that Sector 001 was a Federation designation.

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