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Drone posted:The Enterprise had two captains before Kirk. Who was the other one
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TNG is about half good and half bad episodes, DS9 gets that ratio up to 75%
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Jan 21, 2020 16:24
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I like Discovery, it has good and bad parts, as do all STs. Enterprise season 4 is not good, none of Enterprise is. Archer absolute worst captain hands down.
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Jan 21, 2020 17:02
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Make Jeffery Combs the captain of the Discovery. Not a character, a future clone of Jeffery Combs. Every ship movie night is Reanimator.
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Jan 21, 2020 17:15
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Maybe if they hadn't made a bunch of bullshit prequel crap this wouldn't be an issue. I have no idea why they've only every decided to go backwards after DS9
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Jan 21, 2020 17:58
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marktheando posted:There was an all-Vulcan crew federation ship in TOS, they all joined starfleet after Spock? This was apparently a thing. There's an all-Vulcan crew in one of the DS9 episodes.
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Jan 21, 2020 18:20
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Croatoan posted:For anyone that wanna say there's been no good star trek since TNG please go watch the two part season finale + season opener Time's Arrow. What a dog turd. The Mark Twain character sucked in the 90s and sucks even harder now. Season 7 was, in fact, among the worst seasons of the whole show. This is a mild take. Here's a hot one: All Good Things is overrated 
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Jan 21, 2020 18:41
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Season 7 had Crusher fucks a ghost and Barclay Devolves into a Spider
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Jan 21, 2020 19:27
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IMO all of Discos problems start and stop with Michael Burnham.
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Jan 21, 2020 19:36
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I think a good idea for a post DS9 series would be along the lines of that one two-parter where the Defiant fought that souped up Excelsior-class. Basically in the wake of the Dominion War you have two emergent factions, one that believes that the increased militarism in the Federation post Wolf 359 led Starfleet (Defiant, Akira, Sovereign, etc classes were all designed as anti-Borg warships) inexorably to conflict, and that the Federation should return to its entirely peaceful roots. The other faction recognizes that the Federation gets its rear end whooped in every space war and wants to increase militarism while the Federation remains the dominant power in the AB quadrants and establish a permanent hegemony. The Romulans are done, the Klingons are a paper targ, who is even a threat to the Federation anymore, the Breen? The Sheliak Corporate? Drunk Kevin Uxbridge? So good conflict would have to be intra-Federation and fighting over the very soul of the Fed (and meta-ly the ST franchise and vision of the future) is to me an interesting idea.
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Jan 21, 2020 20:02
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Timby posted:The guy who loved his time on the show so much that he quit before season 2 was even announced. Well he's not going to be the showrunner for season 2, but he's remaining on as EP. Also he's leaving to run Kavalier and Klay on CBS, which, you know, understandable.
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Jan 21, 2020 20:17
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Timby posted:Yeah, even Bryan Fuller still has an EP credit on Discovery and he got fired before a single episode was filmed. Do you have some inside info or something, because everything I'm seeing reported says this was about him running the show for the book he wrote (after signing an overall production deal with CBS). Also Kavalier and Clay is going to be on Showtime not CBS, my mistake.
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Jan 21, 2020 20:25
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The first 2 seasons of Discovery are better than the first two seasons of TNG and DS9 easy. It goes without saying it's better than the other three series entirely, not just the first 2 seasons. If TNG or DS9 had been released in this era, they'd've been cancelled season one.
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Jan 21, 2020 21:50
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It's the retro tech craze that's sweeping the Federation. Everything is orange and red buttons! The uniforms look stupid and are made out of polyester! Flat screens are out, peering into a deal that shows you science words is in.
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Jan 21, 2020 22:48
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I feel like they were limited in the stories they could tell because of continutiy but hopefully now that that's not a problem anymore, they'll be more free to write. You could do some bonkers poo poo in the far future, what year was the Enterprise, sigh, J supposed to be from
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Jan 22, 2020 00:49
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Dunno if this is widely known so I'll put it in spoilers but Hugh is going to be in it. Picard switching into Locutus mode to interrogate Hugh and figure out what's his deal is one of my favorite scenes in TNG, the whole episode is great, classic moral-dilemma Trek so I'm excited to see what he's been up to
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Jan 22, 2020 15:35
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Do NOT bring back Vash however please
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Jan 22, 2020 15:40
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Gotta keep that dome on gleam
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Jan 22, 2020 15:47
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marktheando posted:Personally I'm very excited about the return of The Outrageous Okona. I want to see the greatest holo-character in ST history come back, no not Moriarty, no not Vic, that's right - Joe Piscopo
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Jan 22, 2020 15:52
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Croatoan posted:I hope Gates McFadden shows up. He's the best twitter follow. She's become a super sweet grandma. Just a month ago she had surgery for a seperated collar bone and posted while high AF on painkillers and it was just the absolute best. She was the choreographer for Labyrinth
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Jan 22, 2020 16:36
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"Oh yeah in the future all star fleet ships get that one-shot-kill phaser cannon"
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Jan 22, 2020 17:18
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Obviously the theme should be, well, disco.
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Jan 22, 2020 18:30
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I used to hate Guinan as a kid but now as a grown up she's cool. Her borgsplanation ruled.
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Jan 22, 2020 18:38
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Timby posted:
Ugh why did you tell me this
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Jan 22, 2020 22:27
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It's cool to see future media, I think we've only seen like Star Trek News Channel stuff in the very beginning of Generations? One of the things that's missing from all the Star Treks is mass media oh and also everyone just happens to be a connoisseur of 20th century music and TV and movies. Timby posted:I winced when I saw Doug Aarniokoski's name in the credits. He directed the cinematic classic Highlander: Endgame. OK but did you like the episode
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Jan 23, 2020 20:17
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Carbon dioxide posted:I thought the Romulans were Vulcans until they started showing emotions. Was I not paying attention or were the forehead ridges that distinguish Romulans from Vulcans gone? We don't discuss it with outsiders. e: I never saw Nemesis, is there anything in ep that wouldn't be obvious to someone who hadn't seen it? Though at the beginning I thought they might be setting up another Picard clone story and thought it would be funny if they just cast Tom Hardy in a wig as Dahj zoux fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Jan 23, 2020 |
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Jan 23, 2020 20:19
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Way to invent Cylons Mr. MaddoxThom12255 posted:If data can survive the warpcore plamsa melting off his flesh, she'll be fine. It's always bothered me the way Data says "futile"
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Jan 23, 2020 20:30
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Basically I don't understand why Jean Luc Picard can't be a real person and also President of these United States
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Jan 23, 2020 21:02
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Hipster_Doofus posted:So far not one person in this thread has panned this or even said "meh," not even Tighclops. This bodes well. It's impossible for me to be objective about it because of nostalgia so there's no way I'm not going to like a show with a kind, wise, affirming Picard. It was seriously like seeing a beloved old relative after a number of years and realizing how much you missed them.
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Jan 23, 2020 21:35
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Phylodox posted:I will say that, despite the fact that I know he’s 79 years old, this is the first time Patrick Stewart has felt really old to me. He’s been in a kind of dignified late middle aged stasis since Dune in 1984, but now he’s finally showing his age and I’m kind of existentially sad about that. I think he's playing older than he feels. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsA61VvA8cw That's from yesterday, he seems 10 years younger. I almost want to predict that he'll get "younger" so to speak as he engages in space adventures instead of waiting to die, as he said. (also whoopi confirmed for season 2)
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Jan 23, 2020 21:42
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Libertarians, a political ideology whose fundamental tenet is "I am smarter than you", are over-represented in the nerd/geek demographic and so you see more of them in sci fi spaces than you would expect given the actual number of libertarians in the general population.
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Jan 23, 2020 22:16
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So the "quantum archive" was that a hologram of the painting or what
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Jan 23, 2020 22:19
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Disappointing to see Picard using non organic pesticides on his vines smhTimby posted:Kurtzman said that Picard is 92 when the show starts, so Stewart is definitely playing older. How old was McCoy supposed to be in Farpoint?
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Jan 23, 2020 22:33
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Timby posted:Kurtzman said that Picard is 92 when the show starts, so Stewart is definitely playing older. Picard's still in his prime! Harry Treadaway is entirely too British.
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Jan 23, 2020 22:40
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Bruce Maddox everyone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJF-IRbTh0Q
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Jan 23, 2020 23:11
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PowerBuilder3 posted:I liked the Golden Gate Bridge turned into a solar farm. I mean, the Enterprise computer, for example, was obviously an AI (and even developed full sentience in an season 7 episode) so I think it's kind of the difference between strong and weak AI
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Jan 23, 2020 23:21
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Also stuff is always gaining sentience, Vger, the exocomps, the computer, Nomad, etc. If your replicator ever asks why it exists you have to immediately phaser it.ashpanash posted:If I had to come up with an explanation, that would be it. All of your belongings are stored as transporter pattern in computer memory and can be reconstituted as a hologram for you to view if you are at the archives. And they can be withdrawn from memory (which would remove the transporter pattern from memory, because something something transporter buffers. And I'd make up some line like how it uses a modified version of Montgomery Scott's buffer switch feature as a little nod. And, let's say, it can't do living things because of what happened to Franklin (he deserved better) so you can't store people inside it, DS9's spy episode notwithstanding. Maybe it CAN store humans but it's ethically frowned upon because of the chance for degradation. That would leave it open as a "gently caress it, we have no other choice" option but still make it hard to do. It's some huge deal, to me, I couldn't tell if it was like a holoarchive entirely, if it was set apart specifically because Picard is a famous officer or if everyone gets a cubicle for their junk or what.
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Jan 23, 2020 23:26
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Jan 23, 2020 23:30
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Lizard Combatant posted:Baller fashion? Why for that matter would Ferengi set up shop on a post-scarcity planet with no money. They're after the secret of Root Beer is why.
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Jan 23, 2020 23:34
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Maybe Rom’s reforms worked and now it’s Hip To Be Ferengi There is a spectre haunting the Alpha Quadrant, the spectre of Rommunism
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