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YOU THE ONE WHO IS POSTING NOW  EXPERIENCE BIJ!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCARADb9asE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vgpQrbLtlw WELCOME ONCE AGAIN! It's the TV/IV Star Trek Thread! Forty posts of white noise per page, 6 closet Voyager lovers, and the page 90 homoerotic image dump. Well, this thread is certainly worthy of our attention.  Let's get back into form. In this here thread we'll talk about anything. It's a Star Trek focus of course, which holds the majority of discussion, but Trek is the kind of show that warrants and merits talk about other scifi franchises as well. Also there's been no good Trek for many years, unless you liked the JJ films and have already turned in your nerd card and submitted to the Pew-Pew Overlord. Cumberbatch is a loving snake. We've got tons of Babylon 5 fans here, please note and respect Andreas Katsulas Supremacy. Farscape and Stargate SG1 are also great, depending on who you talk to. SG1 owns, by the way. Don't Hate the Gate, Mate! Whatever your flavour, please don't just poo poo on someone's opinion and bundy out, hang around and smash out your thoughts! We've had some fantastic discussion on various topics over the years (a memorable few pages on the Treaty of Algeron and also on differing viewpoints regarding the Maquis comes to mind), we don't need to bitch about Voyager or vigorously defend the 3 good episodes of Enterprise for a hundred pages. -- STUFF DISAPPEARING? PERHAPS YOU… LOST YOUR LITTLE SHIP?  -- GOONS ON IRC Get up the Beard! #RikersBeard on irc.synirc.net, quieter now but maybe if it blows up again someone will do a Month of Beard and a Month of Bij again. Holy gently caress those were great. -- ALRIGHT LETS GET THIS SHOW ON THE ROAD What actually goes on in this thread? OH, THAT'S RIGHT: THE ORIGINAL SERIES  TOS is absolutely fascinating. If you start right from the beginning, you get to see this weird time before it got settled into its own canon where none of the terminology was consistent. Then, you reach the highest of highs (Balance of Terror, holy poo poo) and you take a dive into an unflushed toilet (Spock's Brain). Overall, TOS is great. gently caress any of the few remaining haters. Well worth checking out after you get a bit of TNG into you, and if you know and enjoy early Doctor Who then this is the right show for you. THE NEXT GENERATION  I could never do better than this old post from a few threads ago: Snak posted:Think of how often we, the viewers, have seen members of starfleet accidentally make new life forms or even new sentient life. Like, people probably get up in the morning and misspeak into the replicator "computer, coffee-" "WHAT ARE YOU DOING DEAR?!" "REPLICATING COFFEE! WHY?" and computer thinks for a minute, decides that "coffee replicating coffee" means cups of coffee that can undergo mitosis. An hour later, after a few trips to sickbay they figure out the problem and fix it. poo poo like that. No big deal. Best reason to be late for a shift ever, good story to tell later. NOT WHEN ENTERPRISE SWINGS BY. Now you've got some bald guy asking if everything's okay and if they can't beam over to take a look because some dumb bitch on their bridge is "sensing confusion" and OF COURSE there's an android who points out that this qualifies as life and makes it his own personal crusade to compare every random artificial life form to himself! Now two weeks have gone by and the enterprise is long gone, but their temporary solution was to fill up both of your holodecks with colonies of self replicating coffee cups until you can learn to communicate with them or find a suitible habitate. You would just dump it in space and let if grow forever, but eventually someone would notice AND OF COURSE admiral Janeway has taken a personal interest and wants to be alerted at the first sign of intelligence so she can be the federation ambassador to the first sentient race of coffee GOD You're going to want to watch seasons 2 to 6 of TNG, probably as the first thing you do in Trek before going on to the other shows. It was made for syndication, so unless it's a listed two-parter you can just jump in anywhere and watch a standalone episode. Hit me with your recommendations, so long as they include The Defector, Measure of a Man, The Drumhead, Cause and Effect, and The Best of Both Worlds. Newbies get in HERE DEEP SPACE NINE  Where TNG builds Earth and the Federation as a utopia, DS9 slowly, methodically and brilliantly tears it apart. Turns out being permanently right on the frontier, light-years from assistance, and constantly neck-deep in poo poo will test your mettle from every direction. DS9 is Best Trek, according to both myself and thread groupthink. Thing about DS9 is that while infrequent background characters get more development than almost any of the TNG main cast, there's also a few hosed up 'rest' episodes in there, which hope you really love the Ferengi and holographic crooners. Start from the first episode and watch them in order, this time. First season is slow but honestly, stick with it. Definitely do TNG first so you understand the universe, just to get full appreciation for what's going on here. VOYAGER  gently caress Voyager. Don't waste your time. I'm not going to waste my loving time writing about this horseshit. Don't get curious about Voyager. You don't need it in your life. Just go and watch Battlestar Galactica again. ENTERPRISE  You're gonna find a lot of varying opinion about Enterprise. It's a prequel, set on the first ship fast enough for reasonable exploration of deep space. Why they decided to do a prequel is anyone's idea. Fair enough that they're shooting for a fresh start free of the existing universe, but my god man, if there's a way to gently caress it up, they found it in those first 2 seasons. It is not good television. "some sort of… prime directive" I mean, come the gently caress on, they haven't invented shields yet so instead of getting creative, they just do a find and replace in the script and use "Polarise the hull plating!" and "Hull plating at 60%!" gently caress you gently caress off. It starts an upward curve for seasons 3 and 4, which are not bad and well worth checking out, but still it's entirely inferior to TNG and DS9 by quite a long way if you ask me, and basically uses the TNG formula at literally every point I can think of. Diffrent strokes for diffrent folks I guess. HOW ABOUT THEM STARSHIPS? Starships are great! On this episode of Starship Porn we'll be looking at a famous and well-resp-  …uh yes as I was saying we'll be looking at one of the most well-respected starship classes in all of Sta-  Well, I mean, the Miranda has a long tradition of noble service to  …if nothing else, it was one of the first Federation starships to appear that was not the same design as the Enterprise but carried noticeably similar features, such as:  OH COME ON  gently caress IT NO RESPECT -- Okan170 posted:My boyfriend walked into my room and knocked my Enterprise-D and E off their stands. Clean break on the D, saucer slid across the floor. There was a pause and I looked up at him and he looks up and without missing a beat, shrugs his shoulder and goes "Welp, I guess Deanna was at the helm today!" I couldn't be sad about that, it was just too drat perfect. -- --> Commander Riker Dot Tumblr Dot Com <-- -- FOR gently caress'S SAKE Starfleet Is Not A Military The Enterprise Is Not A Battleship  -- MOVIECHAT JJ Abrams is taking his pewpew and lensflares Somewhere the gently caress Else. I'm really happy about this. I'm a pretty serious hater of the two new films, especially Into Darkness, which to me is a deeply flawed cash cow compared to what it could've been with a little time, patience and effort. Seriously, the Fuckoff Super-Huge Enemy Battleship in this one sounds like a loving WWI biplane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma8-WRh3IGM Seriously skip past Chekov's insultingly awful accent and go to the 1:00 mark for comedy. Holy poo poo, who signed off on that! RIP Christopher Pike, you were the only human officer who should've been allowed within ten loving miles of that bridge  There's a Cinema Discusso thread for Into Darkness but that's just as god-awful as the film, trust me, I was reading it for a while. -- POSSIBLE NEW TV SERIES This is nothing but complete rumour at this point and nobody really knows what it would turn out to be so anyway GET TO POSTING but remember: Martytoof posted:RIKER ALPHA TWO SEVEN is page down. RIKER ALPHA TWO NINE purges the porn stash. Make sure you don't get the two confused. Actually don't listen to fuckin Martytoof because  so what does he know  (that's a representation of me, posting) Post about your opinions of episodes or arcs. Post about future tech, about Earth as a utopia while fringe colonies suffer, about the Federation eating other cultures by forcing a unified government before allowing membership and forcing adherence to its own political structure. Talk about how the Klingons are a stagnant blight on the galaxy, or talk about the Man Skirt. Talk about the Traveler, or the Kazon, or motherfucking Wesley. Talk about the Beard and the Impact of the Beard. ENGAGE! Hyperriker fucked around with this message at 04:49 on Oct 24, 2013 |
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Hyperriker posted:JJ Abrams is taking his pewpew and lensflares Somewhere the gently caress Else. I'm really happy about this. I'm a pretty serious hater of the two new films, especially Into Darkness, which to me is a deeply flawed cash cow compared to what it could've been with a little time, patience and effort. The new Star Trek movies are the movies we deserve, but not the movies we want. They've taken some of the stigma away from saying the words "I watch Star Trek", because they immediately think of something that looked like a long ipad commercial instead of knowing you're talking about watching people act out space aliens on a set that looks like it was made with $80 worth of gray construction paper. Midnight City fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Oct 22, 2013 |
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I enjoy "Star Trek."
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Requesting that wacky foreign disco take on the TOS theme
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My favorite part about JJTrek is all the hack goon designers trying to tell me "the lines don't flow correctly" on the Enterprise without being able to explain to me what lines are or why they need to flow or why that matters in a design that is pretty impractical to begin with.
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Space Hamlet posted:Requesting that wacky foreign disco take on the TOS theme Is this the one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2Tkx6BgRFE
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egon_beeblebrox posted:I enjoy "Star Trek." You can't just post this without the sequel picture taken at a subsequent con. which I do not have
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wargames posted:Is this the one? I don't think you know what the TOS theme sounds like because that sure as hell is not based on any music from TOS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9iCHKhBU5s
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Oh man I haven't thought about Into Darkness since I saw it in theaters. That ships WW1 bi-plane sound effect is so terrible I must have blocked it from my memory. Also posting in the first page of a new era of trek threads. Engage.
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Oh no, the wacky foreign disco theme might be lost in time. It had vocals, including some memorably fake klingon
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I liek star trek. My favorite enterprise is the one from voyager.
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Hell yes, new Star Trek thread. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxR-jwSjWv4 Thanks for the great, OP, Hyperriker.
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Into Darkness was the first time I've groaned at the appearance of Nimoy.
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The OP reminded me that we really should do Bij and Beard months again soon. They're so much fun.
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Space Hamlet posted:Oh no, the wacky foreign disco theme might be lost in time. It had vocals, including some memorably fake klingon If it makes you feel any better here's a disco version of the Goldsmith theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej37DO8Mcgg It kind of rules.
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Say what you will about JJTrek, but at least he managed to make it seem like space combat was actual combat between massive ships with the lives of hundreds of people in the balance. I caught TNG 4x01 the other day and holy poo poo, was that bad.Apparently A Good Show posted:(Giant Borg ship is shooting the Enterprise) Riveting, quality television worth rewatching 20 years later. Baronash fucked around with this message at 22:50 on Oct 22, 2013 |
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I found it!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEpcjgYHE4U
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef1ZQp_eUJs
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JohnSherman posted:Say what you will about JJTrek, but at least he managed to make it seem like space combat was actual combat between massive ships with the lives of hundreds of people in the balance. I caught TNG 4x01 the other day and holy poo poo, was that bad. loving TOS is better at space combat than most of TNG. Balance of Terror in particular.
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JohnSherman posted:Say what you will about JJTrek, but at least he managed to make it seem like space combat was actual combat between massive ships with the lives of hundreds of people in the balance. I caught TNG 4x01 the other day and holy poo poo, was that bad. This will forever will riveting - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7KFfbjg3Iw
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Oh Trek thread I need to waste more of my time with your neckbeardiness. Necessary page 1 gif dump. http://imgur.com/a/iVGgC
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I'm so glad to have read such an INTERESTING new thread today. I thought that STID was a good rooty tooty pointy shooty movie  . it's not like the JJTrek movies will cause all the old star treks to fade away from existence like in Back to the Future. I still like DS9 and I still like watching it for what it is, so yeah.I'll post some more gifs when I get home.
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We're posting gifs? 
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Space Hamlet posted:Oh no, the wacky foreign disco theme might be lost in time. It had vocals, including some memorably fake klingon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55_E_QiNcQg Rest your weary heads, crew. e: Dammit, Space Hamlet. Have this instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dULOjT9GYdQ and this. Why? Because I'm in love. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU2ftCitvyQ Trickjaw fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Oct 22, 2013 |
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   Gifs? What gifs? vvvvvvvvvvvvv I like the new JJ trek too
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Thom12255 posted:Into Darkness was the first time I've groaned at the appearance of Nimoy. I must be in the minority, having enjoyed both JJ films quite a lot. They are absolutely, entirely different from the rest of the franchise and goofy as all hell really, but they are pretty fun. That said, I do think it's a time that the new Trek series shifts to a new director. From the very first time I saw Star Trek (JJ), my exiting remarks were "He really got the wrong franchise. He was meant to direct Star Wars." Then other people started saying it and when the new movies got announced, I even commented it'd be perfect if they got Abrhams for it. I was actually kind of shocked they did. So yeah. I think that's why it's so decisive. JJ Trek is Star Trek through the filter of someone who really wishes they were directing Star Wars and is not shocking at all that he is doing just that, now. Many good franchises have gone through multiple directors and I hope they continue the series under new leadership, maybe with an all new tone to boot. EDIT: Hell, Red Letter Media did a pretty amusing mash up showing just how much Star Wars he really put into it. Instant Sunrise posted:I thought that STID was a good rooty tooty pointy shooty movie I do wonder what will happen to the tone under new leadership, though. I almost guarantee they will go ahead with another movie with the main cast. Blazing Ownager fucked around with this message at 23:06 on Oct 22, 2013 |
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This is my favorite gif of all time because when I first watched that I had no idea what was going on or what any of it meant. Then after the teaser they explained he was Thomas Riker and I was still wondering why he had fake sideburns to begin with.
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The Star Trekkinest video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCARADb9asE
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JohnSherman posted:Riveting, quality television worth rewatching 20 years later. Once you've seen three seasons worth of poo poo aboard the flagship of the federation fleet, beams penetrating your inner hull ain't no poo poo.
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1st AD posted:This is my favorite gif of all time because when I first watched that I had no idea what was going on or what any of it meant. Then after the teaser they explained he was Thomas Riker and I was still wondering why he had fake sideburns to begin with. Because it's the best moment in all of Star Trek, no contest.
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Blazing Ownager posted:I must be in the minority, having enjoyed both JJ films quite a lot. They are absolutely, entirely different from the rest of the franchise and goofy as all hell really, but they are pretty fun. I didn't say I didn't enjoy the movie's, I did, I am critical of them and I believe I am justified in that because they aren't particularly smart films. However the Nimoy appearance for me in the second movie just seemed hammed in and didn't add anything to the movie. I would rather watch 2009 and STID over movies such as Nemesis or Insurrection everytime. Unlike the latter, the former films are entertaining and well produced. I would say STID was a huge downgrade compared to 2009 though and I mostly blame the writers rather than JJ but seeing as though JJ insists on using those writers for everything right now I guess he shares some of the fault and his departure is a good thing for the franchise, hopefully Orci will follow.
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1st AD posted:This is my favorite gif of all time because when I first watched that I had no idea what was going on or what any of it meant. Then after the teaser they explained he was Thomas Riker and I was still wondering why he had fake sideburns to begin with. I thought it was a brilliant cameo. If they had brought on the Riker we all know, the episode would have had to grind to a halt while they clearly give the big guest star tons of screen time and have to structure a plot that somehow involves them. By using the other Riker they were able to get a Frakes appearance and dispense with all of that, and could focus entirely on the plot. It was entirely non-disruptive or ham fisted, which I can't say for, say, Bashir's appearance on DS9. Then again they also tackled this problem expertly with Picard in the pilot, by making Sisko hate his guts. It was incredibly unexpected and hacked out that "Cameo nostalgia factor sucking up" instantly, too.
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1st AD posted:This is my favorite gif of all time because when I first watched that I had no idea what was going on or what any of it meant. Then after the teaser they explained he was Thomas Riker and I was still wondering why he had fake sideburns to begin with. I watched that episode before the TNG episode and so I was just awe struck that there was another Riker flying about the galaxy without my knowledge that whole time.
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Best Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-QBe9pPdkM I want a full length version of that. Hell a full length album. "Big Band on Star Trek" Best Trek Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Jq26BCwDs I can't type like The Sisko but I want to YELL like The Sisko isn't IT possible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjvYiSDJujA In Star Trek-related news, Star Trek Online (Star Trek's FTP 'sequel' game) is releasing a new expansion featuring our favorite Earth species, The Voth. http://sto.perfectworld.com/blog/?p=1004711 This is one of the new ground combat zones, where joint Federation-Klingon armies are battling the Voth over control of an old Dyson sphere. Possibly reached through an Iconian gateway. Welcome to our new canon 
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New thREAD!
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Diggin this new fresh thread. Keep the gifs coming. 
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