Classic Star Trek Megathread: Waves and waves of jambalaya

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FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Boxturret posted:

Say what you will about the Plinket reviews, but "Everyone wears earth tones because they live on a planet." is a great line.

Also �gently caress you Rick Berman�

# ¿ May 29, 2023 18:01

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 03:17

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Atlas Hugged posted:

I watched "Dax" last night. Great episode. I like that on the one hand, it's a classic "debate the legality of your humanity" episode that Trek does better than any other show in history while on the other hand it's a clever way to do exposition on the Trill.

I'm not a huge fan of this episode, mainly because even though ostensibly it is supposed to be about Jadzia, she is barely involved through a lot of it because she's trying to keep something secret

# ¿ May 30, 2023 02:37

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Both groups also seem to have the need to control things, with how the Prophets use Sisko and how the Founders can only trust solids that they have full control over (the Vorta and Jem'Hadar specifically).

# ¿ May 30, 2023 22:26

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

These are former Telltale people who made this game, so it's not at all surprising that there are a lot of quicktime events in the game

# ¿ May 30, 2023 22:52

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Trixie Hardcore posted:

I�m basing it on the physical pain of listening to the dialogue.

Whoever came up with that idea needs to be banned from ever writing again

# ¿ Jun 3, 2023 03:02

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Angry Salami posted:

The Prophets don't deserve anyone's loyalty.

Sounds like something a Pah-Wraith cultist would say!

# ¿ Jun 4, 2023 15:14

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

FISHMANPET posted:

Screw the haters, I love The Storyteller.

I like it better than several other S1 episodes.

# ¿ Jun 5, 2023 02:20

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

A new Star Trek strategy game was announced, Star Trek Infinite. It's from Paradox that makes great strategy games.

From the teaser it looks like at minimum you will get to choose between Federation, Romulan, Cardassian, and Klingon factions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3cM3Rsh7lQ

# ¿ Jun 9, 2023 00:39

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Railing Kill posted:

Fair Haven/Spirit Folk has got to be the worst related pair of eps in VOY, if not the whole franchise.

Needless to say, they are essential viewing.

If Retrospect didn't exist then Fair Haven would probably be the worst episode

# ¿ Jun 11, 2023 00:38

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Agnosticnixie posted:

I always wondered if the main reason Berman didn't okay the Intrepid and Sovereign for DS9 action scenes was the reaction to the destruction of Odyssey, which was apparently pretty negative. Then again it was Berman so it could easily just have been a dumber reason.

I believe the Sovereign was off limits because they only wanted those to be in the films

# ¿ Jun 15, 2023 17:22

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Enterprise shamelessly copied that Voyager episode where Seven is alone on the ship and starts to hallucinate with their own episode where Dr Phlox is (mostly) alone on the ship and starts to hallucinate

Which is annoying because I feel like Season 3 is a step up overall over seasons 1-2

# ¿ Jun 16, 2023 17:38

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

It's perfectly in Q's character to take Picard's girlfriend from him

# ¿ Jun 17, 2023 21:32

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zoux posted:

Irish village episodes are the worst voyager episodes, hands down

It's this

# ¿ Jun 18, 2023 16:44

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Arivia posted:

I don't what

it's very plainly a Star Trek episode. It's Star Trek as gently caress - it's about optimism for a better future, bringing humanity together across differences to achieve great things, and a hope for what the future will be. It's just told as a story about Janeway's ancestor. Most every classic Star Trek series has an episode like this where you get the Star Trek themes in a contemporary human-only setting - "Family," "Far Beyond The Stars," "Carbon Creek." (TOS might have one but I can't think of it offhand.)

City on the Edge of Forever is kind of like that to a degree

11:59 may have had good intentions but it absolutely doesn't work.

# ¿ Jun 18, 2023 19:28

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

A lot of those ideas were basically impossible because this was a syndicated show

# ¿ Jun 18, 2023 21:19

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Seska as a villain always sucked to me because in order to make her threatening, she constantly had to make the crew of Voyager look incompetent.

They spent a lot of time over the first two seasons talking about how inferior Kazon tech is, but she's able to routinely get the best of Voyager because the plot demands it.

# ¿ Jun 19, 2023 01:03

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Beeftweeter posted:

to be fair that's not very hard

Yes but it was even more than usual

# ¿ Jun 19, 2023 01:42

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Kesper North posted:

I'm extremely pissed about not getting to even see Prodigy S2. My girlfriend's kids are going to be even more so.

It's probably going to come out, just not on Paramount Plus

# ¿ Jun 23, 2023 23:47

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Fighting Trousers posted:

The problem with Archer is that he's a big important historical figure in the Trek universe, and Berman and Braga weren't up to the task of not telling his story as hagiography. I mean, there's an interesting kernel there - the middling nepobaby who has learn how to manage his mission and be an ambassador for these human up-and-comers, but instead they start him out as A Great Man who only gets better. Then when they try to break him down some in season 3, it didn't work because Bakula just couldn't seem to connect with it.

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Literally the only interesting thing about Malcolm is his friendship with Trip, proving yet again that Trip elevates the material.

Enterprise has the same problem that Discovery later has, which is that they are revolving a good portion of the show around the least interesting character.

I kind of like more pissed off Archer in Season 3 because at least he has more of a personality beyond 'the Vulcans were mean to my dad'.

# ¿ Jun 28, 2023 03:25

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Big Mean Jerk posted:

Lmao Enterprise Season 4 is no longer available to stream on Paramount+

Absolute garbage app. I wonder what minuscule royalties they�re trying to avoid paying by deleting this particular season.

Well that sucks because my wife and I are about to finish Season 3

Hopefully it�s a glitch

# ¿ Jul 3, 2023 18:48

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

I missed the best bits conversation but I always think of this scene from VOY �Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy�

https://youtu.be/LQo0fBzMO8Y

# ¿ Jul 7, 2023 14:47

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Pancreatic cancer is an awful way to go

# ¿ Jul 11, 2023 01:27

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https://twitter.com/NoContextTrek/status/1679272596271923201?s=20

Oh Harry.

# ¿ Jul 13, 2023 00:33

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V-Men posted:

It's hard for me to square this away when Sisko lets the Romulans join the war on a false premise or used ecological warfare on Maquis civilians.

The Maquis deserved it though

# ¿ Jul 14, 2023 17:20

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

That part felt a lot like a TOS thing similar to how NOMAD talks in 'The Changeling'

# ¿ Jul 15, 2023 02:34

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Conscience of the King is pretty good. The Alternative Factor is awful

# ¿ Jul 16, 2023 01:44

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Timby posted:

Turnabout Intruder would like a word.

Turnabout Intruder is also terrible but in a story way. The Alternative Factor is nearly incomprehensible at times.

# ¿ Jul 16, 2023 02:39

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Gaz-L posted:

It's me, I'm the other one who likes the remastered effects. I think at worst it's a wash and people are giving the original effects too much of a pass because of nostalgia.

I also thought they were fine....a lot of the original effects were extremely rough and while I'm not going to say that the ones from the remaster are amazing, they are still a step up. I don't think it really takes away from much since any of the space shots are extremely quick.

# ¿ Jul 16, 2023 23:01

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Waves and waves of cum

# ¿ Jul 18, 2023 16:37

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You�ll notice that Troi conveniently disappears in episodes where the conflict could be avoided by her being around

# ¿ Jul 19, 2023 12:43

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DaveWoo posted:

Speaking of Troi, I'm watching the episode where Troi loses her empathic ability right now, and I feel like this episode was written by someone who doesn't like Troi very much.

That episode is a mess

They make her into an enormous rear end in a top hat without her abilities

# ¿ Jul 19, 2023 16:29

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Powered Descent posted:

His reappearances are fairly recent.

I don't even think he had a voice line in that episode either

# ¿ Jul 22, 2023 03:41

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

There�s a weird thread in early TNG where there are a lot of these weird scientists living with their wives on some obscure planet that the Enterprise needs to visit

# ¿ Jul 23, 2023 01:46

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

It's not only bad but it's incomprehensible

# ¿ Jul 23, 2023 03:17

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Tighclops posted:

I fuckin love those pylons

# ¿ Jul 24, 2023 02:15

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Just watched the end of Enterprise Season 3 again, and I love how they waste literally no time after the Xindi/Sphere Builder threat is over to move straight to alien Nazis

# ¿ Jul 24, 2023 02:27

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

There's a long stretch in the middle where the main plot of the season (finding the Xindi weapon) gets mostly ignored. I didn't remember that at all.

# ¿ Jul 24, 2023 02:57

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nine-gear crow posted:

Season 3 of Enterprise is one of those few Classic Trek shows/seasons that really could have benefited from a modern TV 10 episode season, because like barely half of its episode count mattered to the plot.

There's a whole episode where half of the senior staff turn into weird frog people

# ¿ Jul 24, 2023 03:08

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HD DAD posted:

The best one was S3�s Extinction, where the happy-go-lucky rendition of the theme was immediately preceded by an alien getting burned to death via a flamethrower while screaming horribly.

There's another season 3 episode with a cold open where several of the crew are dragging a crazed T'Pol through sickbay, strapping her down to a bed, she screams, and then cut to happy theme

# ¿ Jul 25, 2023 02:09

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 03:17

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Arivia posted:

Oh man "Distant Origin" is a good episode. Probably Chakotay's best outing on the series so far.

Yeah although funnily enough, that episode is more focused on the alien scientists and their POV most of the time than Chakotay

# ¿ Jul 26, 2023 01:13

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