Tighclops posted:

I was sure Optimus Primal was standing in the corner of the ICU room, nodding at me reassuringly

nine-gear crow posted:

BioEnchanted posted:

Eesh, The Quickening was a dark one, especially the part where Bashir and Dax inadvertently make the virus worse due to their equipment and he just hears the entire infirmary calling to him to euthanise them.

Big Mean Jerk posted:

I’ve put about two hours into that Star Trek: Resurgence game (played on a Series S, for clarity) and I’ve got Some Thoughts.

Good:
- The voice acting ranges from fine to good, with the XO, Captain, and Debra Wilson being the standouts so far.
- There’s some fun design, like a Starbase that’s kind of a melding of the Regula 1 and Earth Spacedock designs, or the bridge of the Resolute. It feels sufficiently small for a ship of that class without feeling like a cheap redress. I also like the “we’re doing TNG era in 2023” design choices like having simple holograms on the conference table or JJ/Disco-esque transparent data readouts on the very wide main bridge viewscreen.

Bad:
- Any “gameplay” outside of the narrative dialogue choices is pretty dull and tedious
- So far the lower decks NCO guy’s storyline hasn’t been anywhere near as interesting as the XO’s
- The music sucks. I’m sorry to say it, but man it’s like straight out of a cheap FMV game from the mid-90s. You’d think they’d have been able to just license existing Trek scores and repurpose them as needed.

Ugly:
- I know Dramatic Labs is a very small team, and therefore doesn’t have the same resources as previous Trek games and as a result I feel bad saying this, but… the game is ugly. Really ugly. Some of the main characters’ faces look fine, but a lot of the secondary and background characters look Star Trek Online quality or worse. Especially the Starfleet characters. And because of that disparity in quality it can often be extremely jarring in dialogue when the camera jumps from character to character. It wouldn’t be too bad if the game itself was more stylized or deliberately going for a simplistic look, but… it’s not
- All the character animations are incredibly stiff and unnatural looking, everyone seems to move around with the exact same jerky motions and posture
- All the quicktime actions feel like total dogshit as “gameplay” and often break the narrative flow far worse than any of their equivalents in prior TellTale games

I want to like this game and obviously I’m going to finish it since I’ve already spent $40 on it, but… oof. It really feels like they overestimated what they’d be capable of and then got locked into a do-or-die release date after having too many delays.

Railing Kill posted:

I could definitely see a bored teenager, living on his own for the first time, just getting high and standing at the replicator making pants for 30 minutes. Boredom does weird poo poo to people.

Also, Jake was an aspiring writer at that time. When I'm writing and I hit a wall, I could definitely see myself loving around with a replicator for no reason. Think of it like the 24th century's answer to scrolling through social media.

Trixie Hardcore posted:

Thaw isn’t bad in a good way, it’s good.

BioEnchanted posted:

I like the Vic Fontaine stuff in later seasons, it's a cute idea. Also the Chimera was a really cool episode. I loved the other changeling who has mastered form, even able to become something formless

Sash! posted:

I also have a feeling that Quark is...look, a lot of the Ferengi Mega-Capitalism is actually the state religion. Quark is a religious fundamentalist that doesn't realize all of the other Ferengi putting their latinum into the collection box in the FCA waiting room are just going through the motions for tradition and state religion reasons more than a true belief. He's so in to it that he has no idea no one else really is.

Arivia posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picardy

Atlas Hugged posted:

Keiko thinking she discovered the video was tampered with because of how well she knows her husband is loving lol

BonHair posted:

Aside from the hot atheist take here, the Bible is actually a good example of how Star Trek should handle canon. There's a ton of inconsistencies and contradictions in the Bible, and yet people manage to treat it as a whole and even build on it somewhat coherently (or not, but that's fanfiction for you). Basically, the approach should be to reference earlier stories when it makes sense, maybe try to kinda make everything fit together, but also acknowledge that it's all just stories written by lovely people in lovely times, and if the specifics get in the way of your new cool story, please ignore and replace them. Especially if they're 60s misogyni.

Atlas Hugged posted:

Blood Oath was great. Excellent Klingon centric episode.

Profit and Loss I'm a bit cooler on and only because a key part of the plot hinges on Odo being able to do whatever he wants in Security. Sisko ordered those Cardassians arrested and he then unilaterally decides to free them. He's violating an order and acting as a rogue agent. It gives the impression that DS9 has no rule of law and that the Federation can't actually be trusted to keep their word, especially if Odo isn't meaningfully reprimanded. He's not removed as Head of Security for deciding the Cardassians should be released for instance. It's a shame because otherwise the episode is quite good. Quark's performance is wonderful, Garak is a delight, the intrigue is engaging, and they utilize the cloaking device mentioned early in the episode well.

I can imagine any number of ways that Sisko and Odo explained to the Cardassians how the prisoners escaped, but almost all of them involve putting a target on Quark and despite Sisko and Odo not liking Quark, it would be against their ethics to use him as a fall guy.

Anyway, it's just another complaint that largely stems from the show needing to resolve most of its conflicts in 45 minutes. It's not a dealbreaker, but it stands out.

zoux posted:

That "So you've been arrested for murder" scene is bad rear end

Burning_Monk posted:

No you have to pay for this one.

BioEnchanted posted:

A great use of people with outdated ideas from the 20th century would be if someone assumed Torres was going to be aggressive and passionate, and she's like "What, because I'm half-Klingon?" "No, because you're half Spanish."

Actual Satan posted:

They say Gene was a visionary, I bet he knew exactly what he was doing

CPColin posted:

It's the blue spoons

BioEnchanted posted:

They're lizards, I always assumed it was some kind of crest. A naturally-occurring genetic decoration.

Railing Kill posted:

The reason she stops appearing after S3 isn't because the writers forgot she existed. She section-8'd her way out of service and is holed up in her quarters just hanging on with the help of what little counseling that ship can provide.

Neelix is Voyager's de facto counselor.

Kesper North posted:

I don't think Paramount will be willing to have Star Trek stuff appear outside their own streaming service, my bet is they go full Batwoman and zero out the data so they can write the whole season down as a loss on the merger balance sheet

Der Kyhe posted:

Pulaski was an idea that didn't really work out because she was constantly mean to an autistic person who didn't understand why he was picked on and they really didn't socialize at all because Picard didn't have the same crew dynamics that Kirk had.

McCoy and Spock threw burns to each other that could cause 3rd degree scars, but they respected each other and were both friends with Kirk giving the idea that outside camera the three were drinking buddies.

davidspackage posted:

Often Bong Soong

edit: it always bugged me what a crappy, soft, effortless nickname "Often Wrong" was. Did people in the 23rd century get too nice for proper putdowns?

"Moron" Soong

"Dipshit" Soong

zoux posted:

So last night's SNW just basically solved all the dated timeline issues (the"wait, I thought LA in 1996 was a nuclear hellscape, yet sarah silverman seems to be thriving" stuff) with a single line of dialogue.

DaveWoo posted:

Just finished "The Sound of her Voice", and while I can see what they were going for, I feel like the twist at the end doesn't really hold up to scrutiny. I mean, wouldn't it have been obvious the moment anyone looked up the ship in the computer logs? Or when Sisko was filling the other captain in on current events?

disaster pastor posted:

Yeah, Pike is even like "didn't work this time, either, and it hosed up my ship, try again next generation."

zoux posted:

The sinister underbelly of the Federation is something that comes up over and over in DS9, whether it's observed externally or internally. What's interesting about Inter Arma is that they didn't cop out by just having Sloan - a creepy CIA type just itching to introduce crack cocaine to the streets of 1980s Los Angeles - be the sole representative of section 31 but to have his actions sanctioned by beloved Dadmiral William Ross. You're not supposed to feel good about it.

Powered Descent posted:

Conscience of the King's premise is quite a bit better than its actual execution.

Fornax Disaster posted:

The physical media releases included both versions, so it’s not like the original versions were Lucased out of existence. That would have been an insult to the people who worked on the original effects.

Beeftweeter posted:

let's be real, both versions of the doomsday machine look kinda stupid