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Drone posted:Jean-Luc, blow up the drat thread! "planty of latters lift in teh albavet" - nine-gear crow (kidding, the op is pretty good)
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BioEnchanted posted:I kind of like Eddison in Deep Space 9, the mid-series Security Chief for the Federation (alongside Odo as chief of Bajoran security), because he's just there as some guy. No major subplots so far or drama, he just does his job and goes home. It's an amusing contrast to everyone else having some kind of major personal stakes in every situation.  loleddington is one of the only people on the station that takes things incredibly personally, even if he later says it's not
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just throwing it out there: eddington was a loving idiot for becoming a terrorist because he figured out how to grow plants
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May 28, 2023 19:25
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dr_rat posted:Oh come on we all know 95% of all computation power in the federation goes to holodecks related activities. complaining about the food is fine. we see lots of people cooking their own stuff: riker, sisko and even pike. riker and sisko in particular note that it either tastes better or provides more variety, and i think that's a pretty solid reason for doing it. i'm lazy as poo poo and probably wouldn't bother personally, but if they want to do that, then i don't see the harm ...however, becoming a terrorist because you've discovered tomatoes is insane
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May 28, 2023 19:37
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DesperateDan posted:I remember not trusting eddington right from the start, and gently caress the original starfleet security guy who was up himself too, luckily he seemed to disappear like a tng first season chief of engineering i think the writers said that was intentional. before the klingon arc derailed everything, the main threat of the show was the changelings — you were supposed to not be sure if he was an infiltrator, and to be fair, they do an excellent job of it. see also: BioEnchanted posted:I kind of like Eddison in Deep Space 9, the mid-series Security Chief for the Federation (alongside Odo as chief of Bajoran security), because he's just there as some guy. No major subplots so far or drama, he just does his job and goes home. It's an amusing contrast to everyone else having some kind of major personal stakes in every situation. he's really pretty boring at first and just does his job, which is exactly what you'd expect from a changeling infiltrator
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May 28, 2023 19:57
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HD DAD posted:I have his musical “Constable Odoooo” forever engraved in my brain for some reason also gonna have to  thisit's tattooed. i'll probably have advanced dementia at some point and call people "con-stable ooodoooo"
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May 28, 2023 19:58
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Arglebargle III posted:If Wishes Were Horses or The Storyteller? gently caress it, i like "if wishes were horses". it's a more TOS-ish episode than TNG; it really reminds me of "shore leave", right down to children's book characters appearing and things seemingly going disastrously wrong. that said i don't think it's excellent or anything, maybe a solid C+ "the storyteller" is a D at best though
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May 28, 2023 20:56
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holefoods posted:I just want to know if Riker was a bad cook or if it really was just the eggs. i think it's implied he's a terrible chef but just loves cooking anyway. which is fine, he looks like he enjoys the poo poo out of it
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May 28, 2023 21:15
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BioEnchanted posted:I also like the Prophets because whatever they are trying to do it seems that they aren't TRYING to cause problems, they just have trouble with the concept of linear time, and so make mistakes. When asked questions directly, they are surprisingly forthcoming, you just need to know how to connect with them. They're mysterious but not in the way of being total assholes, the mystery is just a lack of communication. At least so far, I am only halfway done with the series. *dukat-ishly* the prophets were completely full of poo poo they understand linear time just fine, how else do you explain (end of series spoiler) sisko's whole arc? they basically possess his mom in order for him to be born, indicating a thorough understanding of how that would affect the future
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May 28, 2023 23:13
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Arivia posted:luckily i was mostly okay, i just needed to be kept calm while i was on the vent. i just sent some weird messages and stuff like the enterprise theme song thing, i knew where i was and what was going on. sounds like a long road, getting from there to here
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May 28, 2023 23:14
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BioEnchanted posted:AH! But did they understand linear time at that point, or did that happen after Sisko taught them about linear time? All time exists at once for them after all, so maybe they altered that event in the past after Sisko spoke to them in the present. i don't see how that would work. this is giving a pretty significant chunk of plot away so i'll be careful: joe sisko has memories of her being basically (to borrow an episode title) his perfect mate (because the prophets needed sarah sisko and joe sisko to conceive ben sisko, who because of this is also part-prophet, apparently). she eventually snaps out of being possessed by a prophet and leaves him, and then later dies. he's got an old photo of her, which is how (ben) sisko identifies her in the first place. he doesn't remember her at all — he was raised by his stepmom, something his dad didn't ever tell him about until the episode in question (season 7's "image in the sand", if you're curious). but basically if it were something the prophets had modified after meeting sisko then they'd probably be like "uh, who the hell was that?" Beeftweeter fucked around with this message at 23:33 on May 28, 2023 |
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May 28, 2023 23:28
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BioEnchanted posted:I think it's obvious, but my post there was a joke, making fun of how confusing things get. Or to quote both Miles' O'Brians: I hate temporal mechanics. lol, some people truly don't get it anyway. it is pretty confusing!
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May 28, 2023 23:33
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Tunicate posted:the pah wraiths were imprisoned purely because they were a different color than the other wormhole aliens, the interest in bajor is primarily in order to keep people from freeing their political prisoners the prophets are the true wormhole fascists
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May 28, 2023 23:43
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dr_rat posted:It should be noted that the Animated series is the only series to be officially considered cannon. lmao jesus christ quote:At the time of its introduction in the early 1950s, Sugar Smacks had the highest sugar content in the US cereal market (55% per weight), surpassing Sugar Crisp (later renamed "Golden Crisp") by competitor Post Cereal which had debuted with what The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets would later call "an astonishing sugar content of 51 percent". highly illogical
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May 29, 2023 00:16
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Atlas Hugged posted:So I'm thinking about the aphasia episode and there's that whole subplot with the space freighter alien and his cargo. and he got the aphasia virus anyway, lol
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May 29, 2023 00:49
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BioEnchanted posted:I heard that apparently Keiko isn't that well liked, which is weird to me because I always thought she was fine. She's very supportive (although without being a total doormat, she pushes back when Miles is being childish), and has fairly reasonable problems when they crop up. At least one of the Steve Shives video titles implies that fans don't like her. there's a lot of really lovely misogynistic takes out there about her
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May 29, 2023 04:59
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Atlas Hugged posted:"I'll get you next time O'Brien!" he says as he's transported onto a Klingon cattle freighter that is on a 6 month long haul trip. it turns out every time o'brien had a bad day, that guy was secretly puppet mastering from the shadows. like the g-man from half-life
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May 29, 2023 05:09
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i thought "the quickening" was generally pretty well-received (imo as it should be). what are people's complaints about it? i guess i could see people disliking it if they don't like dax or bashir as characters but that's hardly a reason to dislike the story. it even takes bashir down a few pegs
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May 30, 2023 16:30
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oh hey, it looks like at least some of the movies are back on paramount+. i had TWOK and TMP on my list and they're back beyond that, no idea which ones specifically are up though, because the loving search doesn't work at all lol e: scrolling through the main "home" screen, it looks like it's probably all of them. saw III-X also
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BioEnchanted posted:I like when it implies that Weyoun has hobbies outside the dominion, like at the end of the baseball card episode where he adopts the mad scientist and starts helping him with his dumb idea for "Keeping the cells entertained". in a different episode they had written weyoun as having a bizarre collection of trinkets from around the station and cut it quote:A scene in the script for "You Are Cordially Invited" that was ultimately cut involved the Starfleet crew clearing out their quarters, which had been occupied by various members of the Dominion. Doctor Bashir's quarters were occupied by Weyoun, who was apparently fond of collecting various items and studying them in his quarters. The items included shoes, coasters, bits of string, broken bottles, power cells, picture frames, and chair legs. i really wish they had gone through with it though, that sounds hilarious. i could see him being a weird hoarder that's incredibly protective of his junk pile in an attempt to understand these alpha quadrant creatures
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Tighclops posted:Lookit this these are extremely well done
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Sash! posted:Plus he's probably high. He's like the third highest person in Star Trek history. obviously gene is first, but who is second?
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Brawnfire posted:I think that ship hit a patch of phased space or other some such bullshit lol it's not that it's really bad — it's certainly better than anything i could do by hand — but there's a bunch of bizarre errors that make it pretty funny
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FISHMANPET posted:Screw the haters, I love The Storyteller. ok. why
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Atlas Hugged posted:I can't tell if "eat a pile of edibles before binging episodes" is working exactly perfectly or not, but holy gently caress "If Wishes were Horses" was another out there episode. I kind of figured it was a first contact scenario, and then the conference between the imagined creatures confirmed it for me before the reveal at the end. This is another episode with a really unique premise but come the gently caress on with this Rumpelstiltskin poo poo. would the white rabbit from alice in wonderland be more plausible? that one shows up in two episodes
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BioEnchanted posted:I loved the gag where Quark quotes Picard's "THE LINE MUST BE DRAWN HERE!" line in frustration. i wish he had said "this bar, no farther"
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Atlas Hugged posted:With Odo, it's a fine line between wanting to embrace uncanny valley because he's only imitating what he thinks a human is supposed to look like, and he only does so imperfectly after having spent years practicing, and also just looking like a guy in makeup. The makeup works best when he's only in a scene briefly and the camera doesn't linger on him too much, but the more time he's on screen, the more obvious it is that he's not a Changling struggling to appear humanoid, but a dude in makeup. they do change odo's makeup at some point, although i don't remember when exactly. you get used to it, and the later iterations look better also, you don't learn this in season 1, but morn is supposed to be in quark's bar all the time. that's basically his entire characterization: he's quark's best customer. in a much later episode quark even dedicates a seat to him because everyone thinks he's dead. it's a running gag and very much intentional e: extremely minor spoiler i guess Beeftweeter fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Jun 7, 2023 |
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perhaps today is a good day to dine
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the honor is to serve... appetizers
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Arivia posted:Having watched it this last month, you’re supposed to dislike Paris in the first five minutes is the thing. Like he’s got the literal central character arc Caretaker is built around, culminating in him actually showing some well, care, by going back for Chakotay in the staircase out. the first 5 minutes of TNG is basically picard talking about what an incredible machine this new enterprise is
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nine-gear crow posted:It was so weird going back and seeing him without the bleach blond hair after like a decade of him playing Damien Dahrk in the Arrowverse. 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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Zaroff posted:I thought Sisko’s problem was that Vic’s holodeck program wasn’t racist enough - it didn’t have anything to do with the staff getting overinvested in Vic Fontaine DLC. i think it was both, he said that black folks like him and kasidy weren't welcome in 1962 las vegas unless they were entertainers or service workers, but beyond that he also didn't understand why they were so emotionally invested in saving a holographic bar
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disaster pastor posted:And the episode strongly implies that Sisko wouldn't have been such a grumpy dad about their emotional investment at the start if he didn't already have that underlying offense about the whitewashing implicit in Vic's program. it does, but they'd also shown sisko as not being completely accepting of the crew's hijinks anyway. like when o'brien has yoshi in ops, or when bashir tells off dukat while sisko is talking to him on the viewscreen it makes sense to an extent. yes, this is their home, and they deserve to have some recreational time, but it's also their workplace and they're supposed to be professional
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they didn't come up with the founders = changelings thing until season 3. it makes the final episode of season 2 a bit anachronistic but still very enjoyable
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Atlas Hugged posted:I heard it described to me by a friend when I first commented on how good the dynamic between Quark and Odo was that this basically encapsulates the major different between B5 and DS9. DS9 benefited from being made after TNG and so they did manage to avoid a lot of the blunders that early TNG made (with a few exceptions) and started strong with the character interactions and relationships, but they unfortunately don't develop too much over the show. it does evolve, i'm not really sure what you're expecting but quark and odo eventually respect each other. it turns into sort of a version of the bones/spock relationship dynamic
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Khanstant posted:You can still have that if SNW continues on and eventually their Kirk takes over. Assuming we like him enough anyway. i really wouldn't mind if they did a couple of episodes where we follow a different crew on a different ship. it doesn't even need to be kirk on the farragut not that i don't like the SNW cast or anything, but it'd be an interesting idea. disco kinda did that with introducing pike anyway and the results were good enough
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bennyfactor posted:He was also the response for the Final Jeopardy clue tonight, and nobody got it. couldn't believe this honestly
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i never really watched boston legal when it was on the air, were those jump cuts and weird pans in the original? good lord that's distracting
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Powered Descent posted:Hill Street Blues? lol maybe it was remington steele
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BioEnchanted posted:I think something that hit me in DS9 was that it's episode with Q really shows his true colours - in other series he's more of a nuisance, a goofy imp who just shows up to do shenanigans and then go away once bored, but the episode with his Ex Vash shows him in a new, much crueler light that also shows how powerful he really is - when he reveals that after leaving the continuum, the only reason Vash survived her trip around the galaxy was that he'd been protecting her from countless diseases that she didn't even know existed. Then to make a point, he shows her what would have happened to her without his help, and suddenly most of her hair has fallen out, she's barely able to stand under her own power, and her skin has been badly ravaged by countless sores and buboes. It's a really effective scene to show how little empathy he has, that he would do that to someone just to make a stupid point. i get what you mean, but since Q was just trying to prove that he was useful to her (and then "cured" her again, instantly), it kinda makes the opposite point: he's not completely without compassion and did care about her
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