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BioEnchanted posted:I've just seen the episode where (mid-season 4 spoilers) Dukat and Kira trade a cardassian freighter for a Klingon Bird of Prey which was a fun one. I like that it's basically her teaching him how to stop following the blueprint and start building ships made entirely of guns with one engine to let it move.
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Soul Dentist posted:I always forget the Storyteller is a DS9 episode and looking it up it was originally supposed to be a TNG script so that makes a lot of sense to me. 
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Ah, 'Dear Doctor'. The episode that permanently damages Phlox by making him culpable for an entirely avoidable genocide because he takes an instant dislike to one race of aliens, and permanently damages Archer by making him too gutless to overrule Phlox because the writers wanted to make a ham-fisted point about the (absence of the) Prime Directive. The cure was right there! Archer could have sent it to the aliens at any time! But no, Mengele thinks that the other group of aliens might evolve into the planet's dominant species at some point if the first group aren't in the way, so they have to die horribly from an easily curable disease to prove him right. One of those real "what the gently caress, writers?" stories almost every Trek series drops in eventually. (So far LD and PRO have avoided it, but there's still time...)
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Jun 11, 2023 11:33
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Beeftweeter posted:i always figured it was a garrovick kind of situation where the story semi-intensely focuses on one character we never see again just for narrative convenience. i guess that ended up being true but for a different reason
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What a bizarre way of rounding off a thoroughly positive review. Saying effectively "If SNW disappeared from canon, nothing of value would be lost" sounds incredibly negative and dismissive.
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Jun 13, 2023 16:22
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And the shutter-speed fuckery from Private Ryan and Gladiator that was ripped off by second-rate directors for half a decade. "It makes the action look realistic and immediate!" No, it makes the action look like stop-motion.
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Jun 15, 2023 21:40
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MikeJF posted:Oof, and that was from the second Bourne on - I remember being impressed by some shots from Bourne 1 where the camera stayed very steady during action and we saw him do things clearly that films would normally have obscured to cover up movie cheats. Then in the second they went as far as possible in the other direction. The knock-offs, though, settled for just thrashing the camera around wildly and doing 12 cuts for every action. Looking at you, Quantum of Solace.
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davidspackage posted:The way I remember it, after Scorpion, Janeway's like "well, these Borg enhancements to the ship are good, leave them in!" and then the next episode, B'Ellana goes "actually we have to rip it out" as if she's channelling Rick Berman.
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Jun 18, 2023 23:41
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BioEnchanted posted:Kind of want to see that Borg Cube. "We are the Party Borg. We will add your cultural and edible uniqueness to our own."
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nine-gear crow posted:I'm sure there were plenty of good looking black actors out there who could have pulled off the long haul Git-R-Dun trucker ideal. You can do both if you find the right guy. But nope, we get the guy who smiles a lot and not much else.
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MrMojok posted:Coto erasure
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It's very helpful that all those aliens only attack during the day shift.
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skasion posted:TOS did it. Leslie, the ultimate crewman! Went through at least three departments, got gassed as a redshirt in “Obsession”, came back like it wasn’t nothing
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Is there a set plan for SNW anywhere? I'm curious to see how much everything has been scaled up compared to the TOS sets.
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A large part of S3's lower quality was because Roddenberry had told the network "if you give us a decent timeslot I'll be as hands-on as I was originally and personally ensure everything is up to my standards", but they put it in the Friday night death slot and he went "gently caress it, then", so Fred Freiberger was brought in to run the show instead. He was, shall we say, not as committed to Roddenberry's vision. (A big budget cut didn't help either.) Freiberger later took over running Space: 1999 from its creators, and it became practically a different show as a result. (I'd argue that Maya and Tony are more entertaining characters than Bergman and Morrow, who they replaced, but there's a far bigger emphasis on 'crazy space monsters run around Moonbase Alpha wrecking stuff'.)
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Boxturret posted:"Nemesis"? Can't really imagine something star trek bearing that name. Sounds made up.
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Nessus posted:It was approximately 7000 vs 200, it was a pretty untenable position. They would have had to give Davy Crockett a Davy Crockett to do it. [The Boss appears with a long rectangular crate]
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8one6 posted:Water is the third most common molecule in the universe (after molecular hydrogen and carbon monoxide) and can be identified from lightyears away with loving 20th century technology, let alone the magic sensors of Star Trek. The Kazon were a loving joke within minutes of their introduction. (They were still a joke, but now a dangerous one.)
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No Dignity posted:I didn't realise he was from Yorkshire
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nine-gear crow posted:I am impressed
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dr_rat posted:I mean maybe they all tried and Berman is just insane lucky and just somehow obliviously Mr Magoo'ed his way out of all the entirely justified murder attempts?
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blastron posted:A show that didn’t chicken out of doing season-long arcs could have a season featuring aliens with weird drive tech that let them keep up with Voyager, ultimately ending with Voyager either managing to steal that tech or moving beyond its effective area. Imagine if the aliens with the galaxy-wide transporters from season 1 wound up being the recurring antagonists, instead of it somehow being the Kazon again.
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IIRC the Cheyenne's nacelles are highlighter pens as well. That must have been a great time for the model crew. "We need about a dozen brand-new starships by next week. Grab every AMT kit you can find, and raid the stationary cupboard!"
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MikeJF posted:My little headcanon is that Sisko is 'still missing' to the galaxy but yeah he's just been chilling back at their house and hasn't told anyone but family and friends.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Yeah, sure. Thread rewatch of Schizoid Man?
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Sash! posted:The next time I try a Nazi planet, I'm going to make them wear bright yellow uniforms and see if that makes things different!
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FISHMANPET posted:Onto "Cold Front" and Silik is such a lovely villain. Nothing he does makes sense, not even to him. He just admitted it to Archer. And we'll never truly find out! What an awful mystery box. 
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I'm still genuinely surprised that none of the TNG main characters died heroically in S3 of Picard, but I guess Matalas was such a TNG fanboy - or so scared of being the target of the kind of terminally online chuds he palled around with - he didn't want to. (So he killed off Ro and Shelby and Legolas instead, and even then tried to weasel out of it all three cases.)
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