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The Canadian mirrors of those trailers from Space (or CTV Sci-Fi, whatever) are probably not geolocked if you don't mind how they love to toss their own ugly graphics on everything. Picard will be fine. The next season of Disco will be spaghetti thrown against a wall like always, but maybe the sauce will be a little more consistent this time now that they've somehow managed to go a full season without a showrunner quitting or getting fired. Wasn't there also a Starfleet Academy series threatening to become a reality? Maybe I'm just confusing that for one of the other dozen attempts to produce an Academy series or movie over the last few decades.
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# ¿ Jan 21, 2020 08:31 |
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# ¿ May 10, 2024 00:20 |
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I wonder if Crave will also throw it up around midnight like they did (inconsistently) with Short Treks, or wait until sometime around the CTV airing tomorrow night like they did (inconsistently?) with Disco.
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# ¿ Jan 23, 2020 04:35 |
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DaveKap posted:Finally, I hope this guy dies a horrible death by the close of this season. Don't worry, he's got big Theon Greyjoy energy, which can't end well for him.
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# ¿ Jan 24, 2020 05:38 |
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zoux posted:
There's also a London Kings logo of all things at the bottom of that shot, just in case anyone was looking for the weirdest possible DS9 reference.
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# ¿ Jan 24, 2020 07:21 |
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Captain DeSoto, still ferrying messages and VIPs around on the USS Hood.
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# ¿ Jan 24, 2020 08:11 |
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NowonSA posted:Chiming back in on some Voyager stuff, there's no reason every drat person from that ship, including the lower decks people we never saw, should not have been promoted like crazy and used as a resource to improve Starfleet by teaching, in leadership positions, or in the field. Harry Kim is going to be hosting survival lectures at the Academy for the rest of his life. But it's a cushy gig, so they won't have to promote him!
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# ¿ Jan 25, 2020 16:17 |
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skasion posted:It’s not clear at all what they’re doing. It’s just referred to as a “Romulan reclamation site” which to me implied that they’re literally reclaiming Romulans from being drones. Yeah, that would also explain the line about "fixing broken people." The cube is probably an old derelict and the Romulans are salvaging what they can from it, including drones, for reasons we'll get to eventually.
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# ¿ Jan 27, 2020 13:50 |
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Rhyno posted:Maddox might have found enough of Data's positrons to reconstitute him already. I've been wondering about another possibility after rewatching The Offspring: since Data downloaded Lal's memories into himself at the end of that episode, what if that's what survived B-4's failure, rather than Data himself? Maddox could've realized what he had was more Lal than Data and designed his androids accordingly. I also like the idea that whatever "essence" of Data can be recovered isn't going to become literally Data in another body but more of a second generation personality using something of Data as a foundation. Maybe a little like how joined Trill are their own persons and not just the symbiont speaking with a different voice.
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# ¿ Jan 28, 2020 18:46 |
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If Discovery is Doctor Who then Section 31 is pretty much Torchwood and will probably suffer the same fate. Even if it's somehow good, the appeal of a Star Trek spy series feels so limited it's hard to imagine it performing very well. I suppose it could be vaguely interesting if they widened the scope to include all the other spy poo poo with the Tal Shiar and the Obsidian Order and the less shady Starfleet Intelligence but chances are it'll just be Michelle Yeoh and a bunch of dudes in leather grimacing at things for ten episodes. Ash Tyler won't help anything either.
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# ¿ Jan 28, 2020 21:47 |
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The Bloop posted:No, you can't just take the Delta Cruiser without asking, DUMBASS! Y'know, the space lawn isn't gonna mow itself.
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# ¿ Jan 29, 2020 18:47 |
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At least there's a solid chance the Enterprise-J never happened since it was part of a prevented future timeline or whatever. We can toss it in the bin along with the triple-nacelle Enterprise-D.
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# ¿ Jan 29, 2020 19:52 |
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Brawnfire posted:Okay, how about this: Star Trek: Nullspace. A science vessel falls into a non-space, where the only other worlds/vessels/people are ones who have been "deleted" from continuity. I'm picturing this as the Café of Broken Dreams easter egg location in Fallout 2 that was filled mostly with unused character sprites and stuff.
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# ¿ Jan 29, 2020 19:59 |
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Everyone was too distracted by the massive Wave Motion Gun they slapped on the front to notice the cloaking device.
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# ¿ Jan 29, 2020 21:01 |
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HD DAD posted:Björktown I can't tell you how much I'd love to see her on Star Trek. They wouldn't even need to run her through makeup and costuming, she'd just bring her own.
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# ¿ Jan 29, 2020 22:50 |
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Bring back Ron Canada.
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# ¿ Jan 30, 2020 00:10 |
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Not having any of your shelves and cabinets and frames aligned properly is the authentic living experience for most 20-somethings the moment they get their first apartment. All Dahj was missing was a bunch of string lights. Thankfully, glow in the dark Sublime posters are banned in the Federation.
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# ¿ Feb 2, 2020 19:30 |
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Nullsmack posted:I hope Picard can eventually let us know what's been going on to other characters we know over the past 20 or so years. They brought Whoopi in to be the Kreia from KOTOR 2, listing the fates of every 24th century Star Trek character at the very end of the series before an abrupt smash cut to credits.
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# ¿ Feb 5, 2020 03:26 |
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zoux posted:I don't actually have a problem with how it played out because I like Marina Sirtis but the whole counselor-as-bridge-crew idea is kind of dumb. I feel like the only reason this happened is because TNG started in the 80s amidst a bunch of pop psychology fads. If it were written today she might just be an full ambassador or something instead. Or whatever Ilia was going to be on Phase 2.
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# ¿ Feb 5, 2020 20:28 |
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zoux posted:I like Saru a lot, I just think that on ST, captains should be a certain way and he doesn’t exude command leadership. Again neither does anyone else and also it's gonna suck out loud when the Captain is Michael Burnham Discovery should end with Michael finally taking command and let Saru be the captain until then. This would be the most natural stopping point for her arc and the series in general, I think.
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# ¿ Feb 6, 2020 01:13 |
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zoux posted:Time jail maybe. Just another face on the wall of the Tomb of Rassilon.
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# ¿ Feb 6, 2020 01:48 |
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Phlox's weird surgery made Porthos immortal and he's now the captain.
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# ¿ Feb 6, 2020 05:31 |
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Khanstant posted:Did she arrive in a little black shuttlecraft or just a Big Brother style teleport-in? I think she emerged from a bush, y'know, like a spy
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# ¿ Feb 7, 2020 03:07 |
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Brawnfire posted:This made me think that Betazoid drugs must be crazy af It would be like Dust from Babylon 5, with the added side effect of making the user ramble "great joy and gratitude" over and over.
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# ¿ Feb 7, 2020 22:15 |
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Ghost Leviathan posted:It's Star Trek though, the dumber and more impractical your melee fighting style the more effective it is. I'll admit to popping a bit when Dahj busted out that german suplex.
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# ¿ Feb 8, 2020 04:15 |
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Arc Light posted:Is it the two-handed hammer punch? I think in real fake wrestling terms it's a "double axehandle" but I've been out of the loop a while. As of Discovery this might be more of a Klingon description if you know what I mean.
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# ¿ Feb 8, 2020 05:26 |
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Lizard Combatant posted:Lol. Yeah this is limitation of treating every facet of canon as gospel. Maybe the term canon is itself part of the problem. If you want to get righteously trashed, drink everytime a YouTuber goes off about canon because the taxi shuttles are wrong or whatever.
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# ¿ Feb 9, 2020 03:19 |
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Lister posted:I hadn't thought much about the layout of the ship until looking at it now. There's a ton of empty space behind the bridge? Is it a cargo ship? If so, why wouldn't the cargo be in a walled off area instead of lining the walls behind the bridge? And I guess that's a stairwell directly behind the captain's chair? What the gently caress is going on? Rios is all about the van life.
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# ¿ Feb 9, 2020 05:04 |
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Cojawfee posted:You know for a fact that there would be some nerd that creates some hungry man meal replicator matrix. "This was the manliest meal of the 21st century" And that nerd's name was Tom Paris.
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# ¿ Feb 9, 2020 20:31 |
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nine-gear crow posted:the enterprise-j looks really cool gently caress all of you Honestly, since you mentioned it earlier, the Durandal somehow makes more sense to me than the Enterprise-J, despite the pair of detached rotating wings. Maybe I just liked the Durandal because it had an internal transit system, which makes sense, a city-ship should really have that. Even if transporters exist, one systems failure and your crew is stuck hiking through kilometers of corridors to get anywhere. May as well also have trains just in case.
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# ¿ Feb 10, 2020 08:42 |
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I want to watch the Steve show Steve the Ferret is actually Aquiel's dog and it just killed everyone on one of those seven vessels.
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# ¿ Feb 12, 2020 06:20 |
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zoux posted:best movies are the WoK ones with the flap that you can open for no reason. There's a reason: adding a little dramatic flourish as you walk off screen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uyoFpekO9g
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# ¿ Feb 12, 2020 21:19 |
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Honestly something about the La Sirena gives me a Babylon 5 vibe, maybe the hull pattern.
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# ¿ Feb 15, 2020 03:02 |
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Drink-Mix Man posted:I kind if get the impression La Sirena is kind of deliberately nondescript 'cause they don't want to do starship porn and keep the attention strictly on the characters. Also it's an unregistered freighter/courier probably converted from a civilian ship that was already nondescript to begin with, so it probably shouldn't be flashy even if people expect flash from their hero ships. This also makes it easier to replace should the plot go in that direction. The Stargazer is still out there, just saying.
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# ¿ Feb 15, 2020 07:18 |
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Drink-Mix Man posted:I just want to chime in that I like the way the designed the Borg cube interiors with the cosntantly-changing walls and things floating around. I just finished Control recently so seeing a little bit of the Oldest House weirdness going on inside the cube is a pretty fun coincidence.
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# ¿ Feb 29, 2020 21:23 |
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The idea of some ancient race 200-300,000 years ago straight up moving eight stars and a planet together as a warning for future cultures is some wild poo poo that kinda feels like something I'd find stumbling around with a science ship in Stellaris. The ability to do something like that has been mentioned at least once, the Tkon were capable of moving stars, according to The Last Outpost but I'm not sure if the timeframe lines up.
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# ¿ Mar 12, 2020 22:52 |
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Snow Cone Capone posted:I think, and have explained multiple times, that it is perfectly reasonable for virtually anybody outside of the highest echelons of Starfleet Intelligence to assume that they are able to make good on threats. Whether or not the threat was real doesn't really matter, and "evidence" could have been as simple as hacking the ship computer to make it look like a warp core breach was imminent. If all Starfleet ships still have prefix codes, Oh would probably have access to those codes and the security clearance necessary to activate the auto-destruct. But yeah, whether or not she actually would've pulled the trigger doesn't matter because I doubt too many captains would call that bluff, and a Vulcan's bluff, no less.
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# ¿ Mar 14, 2020 22:25 |
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AntherUslessPoster posted:What zhat vash is trying to stop looks like Contingency from stellaris. I always end up getting the Prethoryn Scourge. I'd almost welcome the Contingency at this point. I wonder if the New Horizons mod has updated to include any of the new stuff introduced by Picard. A supernova event that fractures the Romulans and reduces the neutral zone to lawless chaos would be a really cool wrench tossed into the mid-lategame, but maybe a pretty big scripting challenge.
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# ¿ Mar 15, 2020 21:20 |
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One incredibly goofy moment during the climax of Nemesis is Picard ordering Troi to prepare ramming speed basically via text message instead of just muting the hail or making the order after he cut the hail off.
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# ¿ Mar 16, 2020 04:32 |
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Disco is super weird because especially in the first season it felt like they intended to do a Lower Decks thing with the main cast mostly being specialists and second-stringers, but they didn't fully commit to it, so instead it was a mix of that and the usual Star Trek bridge show, except the bridge crew rarely talked. Maybe that's yet another Bryan Fuller concept which never completely settled after he left. Season 2 is better about this, those bridge people get more to do or at least more to say, but by then the show became more about its big mystery box, so they still never quite got the focus they needed or they crammed it all into one episode and hoped for the best. It's just another symptom of this show not really knowing what it wants to be, probably thanks largely to the revolving door of showrunners, so it tries to be everything at once and does it all haphazardly at best.
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# ¿ Mar 16, 2020 23:39 |
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# ¿ May 10, 2024 00:20 |
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"Strange New Worlds" would be a decent enough title for an episodic Pike series if it actually happens someday. Discovery must have wrapped production on Season 3 by now, right? I'm guessing whatever they had planned next is about to get stalled for months by the virus.
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# ¿ Mar 18, 2020 04:31 |