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Hyperriker posted:DEEP SPACE NINE Just popping in to say "Jesus god, that's a terrifying image." Is it a publicity still?
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The Dark One posted:You forgot the little Bajoran forehead ridge. I mentioned this a while back. Kira and the other Bajorans have that in the beginning of DSP too, then they just sort of disappear. Probably to do with tribbles somehow.
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I love how when Worf is asked about the change in Klingon makeup between TOS and DS9 he just replies "we don't like to talk about it."
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Apple Jax posted:I haven't played FTL in a while (mostly because I could never beat the thing The scale model thread is here if you need any help. (You seem like a crafty person but everybody needs to understand the strong opinions of nerds on primer and glue, let alone agonize over what the real shade of space-grey is.)
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) but I might have to get that mod and pick it up again. Hope they have a better ship then the E, what the hell.
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Data Graham posted:In the future, the mullet will be a unisex hairstyle Where I come from it was one in the past too
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Nebakenezzer posted:The scale model thread is here if you need any help. (You seem like a crafty person but everybody needs to understand the strong opinions of nerds on primer and glue, let alone agonize over what the real shade of space-grey is.) Awesome, don't know how I never saw that thread in CC before. Of course I can recall every detail from the glorious Enterprise refit from memory but, I really haven't done a model in a while so I kinda need some strong nerd opinions. Thanks!
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture is back up on Netflix! Watch this cinematic masterpiece and you will bear witness to such dazzling scenes as: Bearded McCoy with disco medallion berates the Shat for using a 'reserve activation clause!' Sulu practices his wide-eyed 'holy poo poo' face for hours on end! Witness Spock's bad case of constipation almost all through the movie! The first appearance of the Refit Enterprise! Some bald lady breaks out of Sick Bay! (Good thing their doors are made out of aluminum foil!) The first filmed teleporter accident since Wolf in The Fold! Acting so wooden you'll swear you can hear the woodpecker tapping on Kirk's leg! All this and more!
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Binary Badger posted:Star Trek: The Motion Picture is back up on Netflix! An emergency happens and the Enterprise crew has to go on an Important Mission while still in their pajamas. I imagine it was impressive to see the Enterprise on the big screen for the very first time, but my first theater trek was VI, and I can barely sit through TMP's endless stretches of nothing in particular. V'Ger was a cool though. 2AUs lol
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Trent posted:V'Ger was a cool though. 2AUs lol 2 AU was the Director's Edition version, the original theatrical release had the energy field being 82 AU in diameter.
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Don't forget Admiral Kirk personally assisted in dispersing Commander Sonak's pattern, er I mean tried to integrate him. He was so eager to get Spock on deck he offed Sonak!
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:2 AU was the Director's Edition version, the original theatrical release had the energy field being 82 AU in diameter. Haha better go to the planet at center of the galaxy. Warp 2 Seriously, were they just intentionally avoiding having a science consultant with at least a high school education?
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Binary Badger posted:Star Trek: The Motion Picture is back up on Netflix! Also the Kojack bald chick has her vow of chastity on file! What does that mean? No idea, but Checkov loves it!
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Did they ever explain why it made sense for the cardassians to put an ore processing plant on a space station instead of just on the ground? Seems like it'd be a lot more difficult.
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Well, considering Empok Nor also exists, I suppose the Cardies just have a whole series of Nors which they move into orbit around planets they're exploiting.
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Trent posted:Did they ever explain why it made sense for the cardassians to put an ore processing plant on a space station instead of just on the ground? Seems like it'd be a lot more difficult. All slavery in Star Trek must involve mining.
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Binary Badger posted:Star Trek: The Motion Picture is back up on Netflix! Hey that's the best part of the movie
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Jack Gladney posted:All slavery in Star Trek must involve mining. Kivas Fajo begs to differ. 
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And to the actual point of the question, must also involve grossly impractical uses of heavy-lift energy. You know, just to prove that they can. Like offshoring your smartphone assembly work to Switzerland instead of China.
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Asteroid mining? Might have been for security purposes as well since I'd assume Terok Nor was a bit more secure than any planetside facility.
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Much like Stalin's Gulag, the mining serves no actual practical purpose besides to create misery, the slave labor is probably beside the point and requires more input than it produces. It's more of a psychological thing, I'm thinking.
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You're obviously shipping it off planet in the end anyhow, so the mass has to get to space no matter what. You can process it planetside, which means you're exposing your expensive fancy facility to attack by misguided Bajorans that don't understand the generosity of their Cardassian friends who merely seek to employ as many Bajorans as possible and remove the repressive caste system. Or you can process it on Cardassian planets. Or you could process it in Bajoran orbit, where the population of Bajoran laborers is available for use but it's more difficult for Bajoran terrorists to strike at it. For all we know, the slag may have had a value too so that might not have been lost energy getting unprocessed ore into space.
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Binary Badger posted:Star Trek: The Motion Picture is back up on Netflix! "Did we just see the beginning of a new lifeform?" "Yes Captain, we witnessed a birth. Possibly a next step in our evolution." And it was never referenced again.
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V'Ger died on his way back to his home planet. wait....
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TMP is flawed but owns. If you disagree you should be patterned for data storage
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LEGO Genetics posted:You forgot the very last exchange: I don't think we ever got to see a Klingon battlecruiser
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Trent posted:Haha better go to the planet at center of the galaxy. Warp 2 I'm pretty sure they did actually have an idea of how big 82 AU is. V'Ger was intended to be unfathomably powerful even by the standards of an interstellar civilization. LEGO Genetics posted:You forgot the very last exchange: Yeah because that next step would definitely have to take place within the next century...
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Yeah because that next step would definitely have to take place within the next century... Remember that TNG episode that said warp drive was destroying the very fabric of the universe and to prove it that one scientist lady killed herself and it was most definitely not a stand in for global warming? And it was never referenced again. LEGO Genetics fucked around with this message at 09:32 on Jan 2, 2014 |
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LEGO Genetics posted:Remember that TNG episode that said warp drive was destroying the very fabric of the universe and to prove it that one scientist lady killed herself and it was most definitely not a stand in for global warming? Federation ships limited to Warp Factor 5 for emergencies probably dropped to the wayside when the Dominion War was upon them. Plus there's no reason to Voyager to adhere to it since they were stuck in an entire quadrant with no major warp travel capable race.
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pentyne posted:Federation ships limited to Warp Factor 5 for emergencies probably dropped to the wayside when the Dominion War was upon them. Plus there's no reason to Voyager to adhere to it since they were stuck in an entire quadrant with no major warp travel capable race. I thought it was that they had to go Warp Factor 5 or less at all times EXCEPT in cases of emergency. DS9 might still be holding to that rule, they just spent a lot of time in a state of emergency. And as you said, Voyager didn't give a gently caress, but if Janeway had known about it, you know she would have used it as an excuse why they couldn't get home faster. "Guys, I'd love to get us back quicker, but that pesky Federation speed limit says that we're not taking her past 4.9999, and hey, you never know when a cop could be waiting to write us a ticket!" ETA: Yep, I was right! From Memory Alpha: quote:"Until we can find a way to counteract the warp field effect, the Council feels our best course is to slow the damage as much as possible. Therefore, areas of space found susceptible to warp fields will be restricted to essential travel only, and effective immediately, all Federation vessels will be limited to a speed of – Warp 5 – except in cases of extreme emergency." WampaLord fucked around with this message at 10:07 on Jan 2, 2014 |
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Wasn't it also established that whatever ore Terok Nor processed it was highly explosive? Maybe it makes too easy of a target for Bajoran terrorists if it's on the ground.
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Tighclops posted:TMP is flawed but owns. If you disagree you should be patterned for data storage Why would we store someone who thought that? Like in the brilliant movie Moon, where they are telling the poor, bleeding, falling apart clone to get into this box as your last task and you'll be sent back to Earth. Except the box is an incinerator. You don't like TMP? Please step this way, Sir. This is also a nice part of TMP  She's a robot, bro. A robot? She doesn't look like any robot I've ever seen
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Trent posted:Did they ever explain why it made sense for the cardassians to put an ore processing plant on a space station instead of just on the ground? Seems like it'd be a lot more difficult. Well it makes no logical sense for any interstellar civilization to do anything on a planet besides sight seeing, but this is Star Trek so that's obviously not the answer.
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Didn't they add in the concept of "Variable geometry warp fields" or whatever in DS9 and Voyager to counteract the warp 5 thing because it was stupid?
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RaspberryCommie posted:Didn't they add in the concept of "Variable geometry warp fields" or whatever in DS9 and Voyager to counteract the warp 5 thing because it was stupid? Hopefully someone gets to monitor the warp geometry and takes pictures when it looks like a dick.
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TMP would've been much better if they could've heavily edited down the first act - that part really drags and once they're in space it actually gets pretty good.
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Soylent Pudding posted:I love how when Worf is asked about the change in Klingon makeup between TOS and DS9 he just replies "we don't like to talk about it." I still think they should have dealt with that by simply making up Michael Dorn in the old style Klingon makeup when they go back in time and having no one tell any difference.
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