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bennyfactor
Nov 21, 2008

MikeJF posted:

I want a Nausicaan landscape architect to show up on Lower Decks.

HU-MON. PLANT ROSE BUSH.

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bennyfactor
Nov 21, 2008

Atlas Hugged posted:

I am the nerdiest of nerds.



feedmyleg posted:

What the hell is that ship supposed to be

"Star Fleet Battles" is basically the Franz Joseph Technical Manual Extended Universe (except more fashy, maybe? Might be confusing that with something else), and all the ships in the 70s manual were just kitbashes of the Connie 1 silhouette to make ship sizes that were smaller and larger along the 20th century navy corvette - frigate - destroyer - cruiser - heavy cruiser/battlecruiser - battleship spectrum. If it's not specifically from that book, you can nevertheless see how it's supposed to be a "constitution but more petite" design that goes along those "use the exact same parts but make them smaller/bigger or more/less of them" Franz Joseph style rather than what we see with Reliant/the Miranda class vs Enterprise/Connie 2 in the 80s or the Nebula and others vs Galaxy in 90s trek where they have similar parts and aesthetics but the overall ship silhouette isn't basically identical.


E: A shameful snipe. Here is a fanmade cutaway of the Reliant as penance

bennyfactor fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Jun 3, 2023

bennyfactor
Nov 21, 2008

Animal-Mother posted:

Come to Quark's, Quark is Worf...


nine-gear crow posted:

It's just Armin Shimerman in his normal Quark makeup but he's wearing a fake Klingon forehead and Worf's bandolier.



GLORY TO YOU, AND YOUR BEVERAGE

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bennyfactor
Nov 21, 2008

T.C. posted:

Chekhov with the ice burn here

https://twitter.com/GineokwKoenig/status/1669064468209479681?s=20

Edit: Oh, apparently there has been twitter drama about Shatner being bad on Boston legal and this is a legitimate defense of his acting skills. I thought the joke was the omission of star trek meaning that he thought Shatner was bad in trek. Jumped the gun!

He was also the response for the Final Jeopardy clue tonight, and nobody got it.

bennyfactor
Nov 21, 2008

Mike the TV posted:

Why did they take this photo on the Enterprise D :confused:

Computer, create an adversary beige photo studio capable of defeating Data Jake's transit moquette clothing.

bennyfactor
Nov 21, 2008

nine-gear crow posted:

Why does it look like Spock just drank the Grimace Shake in that pic and THAT'S the thing that killed him?

It's the glow from his SpockScope™.

bennyfactor
Nov 21, 2008

Fighting Trousers posted:

I still maintain that William Boimler's faked death to join Section 31 is a wink and nod to the ENT novel's retcon of Trip's death, so I can't help but wonder if we'll see some more of ENT references in season 4.

Playing the same trick on Riker TWICE, drat

bennyfactor
Nov 21, 2008

Knormal posted:

Oh yeah, I'm too used to the extending docking bridges of NuTrek. That or I blocked the 20 minute pod sequence in TMP out of my memory.

could probably hook one of those up to the pod dock on the back of the bridge hump that it shares with the constitution refit. I know TNG shows a starbase gangway attached to the ENT-D at some point, but is there ever one in the TOS films for either of the Enterprises or the Excelsior?

bennyfactor
Nov 21, 2008

Sash! posted:

The greatest animated gif ever?

Possibly.

Somebody made a version of it using the remastered show so it was a higher resolution, did anybody save it? Or was it aatrek, bleh

bennyfactor
Nov 21, 2008

F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:

How many security breaches in Star Trek could be solved by simply installing a camera in sensitive areas, like Engineering and Transporter Rooms? There's more than once in TOS where someone just strides right into areas and no one's there to stop them.

The refit Enterprise most certainly had cameras in Engineering. There's a whole bit about it in Star Trek III.

bennyfactor
Nov 21, 2008

Taear posted:

It's a shame how up in the air it is, like that ONE episode is the only source we have for it.
Still, where's the cardassian emperor

It's called the Cardassian Union officially in the shows, and at some point they talk about their history and having poets and a republic or some such. It's just the Klingons and the Romulans that are officially (Star) Empires.

bennyfactor
Nov 21, 2008

Der Kyhe posted:

Copacomraganda, the worst kind of ganda!

Vic Fontaine singing "Copa Comradaganda" during bossa nova night

bennyfactor
Nov 21, 2008

Feldegast42 posted:

I still liked his cameo as the captain of the ship the enterprise kept crashing into in that time loop episode

Oh yeah, that was him and his ship wasn't it

I recommend we decompress the thread's main shuttle bay

bennyfactor
Nov 21, 2008

V-Men posted:

This ad came across my facebook feed today and I can't expunge it from my brain



Tom Servo riffing the latest Axanar promo, presumably

bennyfactor
Nov 21, 2008

Sash! posted:

Look, I can buy the Dr. Contrivance's Law of Nazi Planet Development thing.

I can buy that Rome endured with minor social changes but major technological changes

I can buy that the same social pressures and cultural mechanics gave rise to the same religious structures

I cannot buy that their soldiers are walking around in lorica segmentata after the invention of machine guns

Yeah not like there are any soldiers walking around in actual Rome these days in antique uniforms centuries after the invention of machine guns or anything

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bennyfactor
Nov 21, 2008

Sash! posted:

Those uniforms are from 1914. They also have a non ceremonial blue uniform.

They're not wearing a 2200 year old set of armor that was already replaced in antiquity.

Either this 1914 number you are citing is when the current pattern was decided on, or they reintroduced an old uniform that the definitely wore in the 1600s. All sorts of current militaries have honor guards and such that wear historic uniforms and some of them even carry current guns while wearing them, like in England. Of all the stupid things in that episode, the idea that maybe an ancient rome that still existed still put soldiers in an iconic uniform sometimes even though it's way outdated is hardly the worst of it.

The worst is the set of knobs that says "boos, hisses, catcalls" like we're suddenly watching an episode of Adam West's Batman.

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bennyfactor
Nov 21, 2008

zoux posted:

I'm not even talking about STO, I'm talking about canon. Every time we go into the future, someone's a captain. Beverly? Captain. Nog? Captain. Data? Well he's dead but he's still a captain.

I liked that one comic book (?) someone posted in some iteration of this thread where Geordi is the captain of the Enterprise-Whatever and the bridge staff is just a bunch (a fistful?) of holographic Datas.

bennyfactor
Nov 21, 2008

Jimbone Tallshanks posted:

Except for Worf, who is Goku.

Mainly when it comes to parenting skills.

Are there any DS9 scenes with Klingons wearing the vorta/jem-hadar headsets? Because, you know, that would be perfect for this...

bennyfactor
Nov 21, 2008

nine-gear crow posted:

"Sir, there's another starship coming in... It's the USS Suck My Dick!"

Worf: "Visual contact"
Riker: "On screen..."
Shelby: "The Tolstoy... The Kyushu... ... The USS Suck My Dick..."

bennyfactor
Nov 21, 2008

FuturePastNow posted:

Are you telling me London won't win the Series in two years?

Next year: Blue Jays build new stadium in London, Ontario to be closer to Detroit/Cleveland and rename themselves the Kings, trade for Shohei Ohtani who Canadians inexplicably call "Buck"; MLB collapses at end of decade due to invention of Parises Squares.

bennyfactor
Nov 21, 2008
the Ferengi are more Monegasque than Swiss, a state that exists as a tax loophole, casino, and entertainment zone for extremely rich yacht life people. It's the Ferenginar of the Mediterranean.

bennyfactor
Nov 21, 2008

Der Kyhe posted:

I spent more time than I want to admit first thinking that this actually happened, and then finding evidence that it didn't.

Good journalism from SkyNews for altering their archive footage and putting it to Youtube.

I don't think this is fake; rather, two different parts of the ceremony.
If you watch the segment from trek central, and then you watch the youtube link, you'll notice that the instruments playing each song sound like the same group of instruments. Additionally, in the video with the first contact music, they never actually raise the flag. The youtube video doesn't have any of the first contact music in it, but they do play the actual swedish national anthem as the flag is raising. My surmise is that the band played the first contact music while the dignitaries were filling into their seats, before the actual speeches and flag raising, which is why there is video of the flag but it's not raised yet. It's not uncommon at these kinds of events for the military band to play some other music as the event is starting.

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bennyfactor
Nov 21, 2008

SlothfulCobra posted:

Right, first contact.



Why did budget Steve McQueen have the Interocitor? Was he an alien or from the future?

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