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id like to just brag for a second and mention that on my wall, in a neat row, are three framed pictures: john delancie, brent spiner, and jonathan frakes each one signed and dedicated to my irl name this is a real series of items that i really have in my home in real life that i spent money and time acquiring
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Kirk posted:my fave story is how much he wanted to edit the last star trek movie made before he died and instead of going along with his insane cuts they just waited for him to die v nick meyer claims he had some pretty intense arguments with roddenberry about changes, yeah, but they showed the finished movie to him about a day or two before he died. he claimed at the time he liked it, but then later his rabid attack lawyer maizlish popped up and said "actually, he hated it, and wanted at least fifteen minutes cut from it" but by then no fucks were given. also, the "tell you what you want to hear to your face, then get nasty in the memos" pattern was classic roddenberry. a two-faced shithead to the very last. he was also super-paranoid about having TNG taken away from him, he was afraid that he'd get kicked out of production like he was with the trek films.
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Kirk posted:id like to just brag for a second and mention that on my wall, in a neat row, are three framed pictures: john delancie, brent spiner, and jonathan frakes bank gonna take em
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Sep 23, 2011 21:01
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InferiorWang posted:remember the dianetics ads from the 80s with the erupting volcano? obi-wan cuts off xenu's arms and legs and leaves him for dead but he survives
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Sep 23, 2011 21:13
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Kirk posted:id like to just brag for a second and mention that on my wall, in a neat row, are three framed pictures: john delancie, brent spiner, and jonathan frakes you can never calla nyone a nerd ever
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Sep 23, 2011 21:15
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that awful man posted:obi-wan cuts off xenu's arms and legs and leaves him for dead but he survives
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Sep 23, 2011 21:16
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qirex posted:no elron came up with that cover after a painful gonorrhea experience you better believe his penis gets burnt off by the lava
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Sep 23, 2011 21:25
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Sep 23, 2011 21:30
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Sep 23, 2011 21:40
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Hey let's talk about good shows like stargate Stargate owns
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Sep 23, 2011 22:01
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thanks kirk i unironically enjoyed reading all that borgchat 
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Sep 23, 2011 22:06
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Kirk posted:all those posts lost... like... tears... in the rain
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Sep 23, 2011 22:18
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Luigi Thirty posted:early SG-1 and SGU owns, the rest is lame as hell fixed that for you
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Sep 23, 2011 22:26
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CoupleBeersNoBeers posted:you can never calla nyone a nerd ever really thats why?? that was the straw that broke the torrasques back???
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Sep 23, 2011 22:35
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FEMA summer camp posted:fixed that for you
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Kirk posted:really Vorpal straw
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Sep 23, 2011 22:43
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snicker thbrbrbrbrbrbrbrb
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reallyprettymad posted:Vorpal straw interestingly the torrasque cannot be killed by vorpal weapons, as beheading it has no effect. i think it just automatically regens a head. the only way to kill a torrasque is to cast wish or something.
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ok my joke spawned a serious discussion, whatever actually I probably shouldn't be surprised because this same discussion was probably started on usenet in 1989 Kirk posted:interestingly the torrasque cannot be killed by vorpal weapons, as beheading it has no effect. i think it just automatically regens a head. the only way to kill a torrasque is to cast wish or something. slice it in half and get two of them Kirk posted:not even by the main laser, the regular turbolasers would tear the borg ship apart - despite their ability to adapt to various phasers frequencies and what have you, the sheer amount of energy output from turbolasers compared to phasers or disruptors would simply overpower whatever shielding the borg could generate I don't feel like confirming my memory but I remember reading something about the output of a standard star destroyer's heavy turbolaser being something like sixty billion gigawatts which makes it sound like "OK WE NEED A BIG NUMBER FOR A BIG GUN, HOW ABOUT A BILLION loving WATTS? NO A BILLION loving GIGAWATTS" Kirk posted:in a deleted scene in the movie Independence Day, we learn that most of mankinds modern computational technology advancements actually came from reverse engineering the alien starship that crashed in Nevada in the 1950s motorola 68020 came from aliens Kirk posted:a big questions is if the borg will continue to function efficiently despite the fact that they are cut off from the larger collective, and there are probably only 40-50 of them remaining once the cube is destroyed. some borg collectives like this that have been cut off in the past simply break down. addt'l they would have no contact with the "queen", but i believe that we're all talking about classic borg vs first contact/voyager borg you're assuming star trek and star wars are set in different universes haveblue posted:obi-wan was able to utterly defeat death star security with nothing more than the ability to make human guards not see him. the borg would loving destroy it the destruction of the empire only happened because he was able to get to the big humming thing with the lever on it
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atomicthumbs posted:the destruction of the empire only happened because he was able to get to the big humming thing with the lever on it The shields for the door to the hangar containing the Falcon?
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Cylon Dinner Party posted:The shields for the door to the hangar containing the Falcon? Whatever the thing was he went around on and pulled on the other thing and it went "nreeooow" and then a stormtrooper walked by and he put it back and then he did it again
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Sep 24, 2011 00:35
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now I remember, it was the midichlorian dispenser
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Kirk posted:this is actually a common misconception - in a deleted scene in the movie Independence Day, we learn that most of mankinds modern computational technology advancements actually came from reverse engineering the alien starship that crashed in Nevada in the 1950s, thus that's why the laptop used by one of the main characters was able to connect to the alien mothership, and why the virus that they used was nominally compatible with the alien operating system. this has been bugging me all day, it doesn't make any sense like even when you describe endianness to CS kids it's the kind of thing where rational people will latch onto one or the other and very quickly assume religious-level fervor on that position, so going from reverse engineering a computer to the systems built years later you're bound to introduce some inconsistencies
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Shaggar posted:sgu sucked YOU sucked!
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atomicthumbs posted:you're assuming star trek and star wars are set in different universes even if they weren't, individual groups of borg have been cut off from the collective by mere distance before
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Sep 24, 2011 01:21
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Me a borg me assimilate very nace!!
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the idea that we need aliens to tell us how to make build machines to let us remotely masturbate at each other is a little offensive.
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sgu blew because it took away everything good about stargate (campy adventure and comic relief) and tried to turn it into a dark and serious bsg lite.
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i remember reading ringworld, that was a pretty good book i think?
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yes it was, although people will fight you over whether the others were worth reading.
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also i remember one by whoever wrote ringworld (larry niven? idk) that posited that humans were actually aliens and that our species needed the fruit of some kind of weird tree to actually mature past the adolescent stage and then some space dude finds this tree and transforms into the adult form of humans and some other stuff happens and he flies a big spaceship full of stuff to earth and probably some other stuff happens i cant remember, i was like 12 when i read it, it seemed neat at the time.
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Cylon Dinner Party posted:The shields for the door to the hangar containing the Falcon? Tractor beam control
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yep, those are the ringworld books. imo the first two are worth rereading. the third i recall being a chore but it's been a while, and there's a fourth i haven't gotten to yet.
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yo im reading the george RRRRR martin thrones books and they are pretty good even tho peopl esaid they sucked i still wanted to read them bcuz the first season on hbo was p good and im on the second book clash of kings and it's p good ok welp cya that's my reading story
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cool, thx!
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rotor posted:also i remember one by whoever wrote ringworld (larry niven? idk) that posited that humans were actually aliens and that our species needed the fruit of some kind of weird tree to actually mature past the adolescent stage and then some space dude finds this tree and transforms into the adult form of humans and some other stuff happens and he flies a big spaceship full of stuff to earth and probably some other stuff happens i cant remember, i was like 12 when i read it, it seemed neat at the time. You forgot the birth-control-via-interspecies-sex thing.
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pseudorandom name posted:You forgot the birth-control-via-interspecies-sex thing. ?? i guess i - thankfully - did
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Rishathra That and the sunflowers are the only thing I remember of Ringworld. The only thing I remember of Rocheworld is the utility bush and the life extension drugs that temporarily induce a retarded child level intelligence with a hyperactive libido. The only thing I remember from Foundation are the hand full of anti-social hermaphrodites living on Earth. Basically what I'm saying is that 1970s scifi was written by perverts. edit: Also, Heinlein. pseudorandom name fucked around with this message at 03:50 on Sep 24, 2011 |
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