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Edit: nvm, misunderstood something
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Jul 4, 2016 04:54
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Why would they even need to pay Paramount licensing for that unless they actually used assets or original characters from the movies? I hope they just don't even specify which timeline it's set in, just to have people drive themselves crazy over nothing. thexerox123 fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Jul 4, 2016 |
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Jul 4, 2016 15:55
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Big Mean Jerk posted:
There are a few other things that we know. S1 is going to be made up of 13 episodes that tell a serialized story. It's not going to be an anthology show. It's going to be released weekly instead of all at once. And we'll be seeing "lots of crews" in the story. thexerox123 fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Jul 4, 2016 |
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Jul 4, 2016 16:44
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Nessus posted:The great plots are eternal. Man vs. Nature. Man vs. Self. Man vs. Cyborgs. Woman vs Fear Clown
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Jul 4, 2016 20:44
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And there's also a major plot point in late DS9 that effects some of the Voyager crew when they find out. The Maquis being obliterated. Overall, there isn't much you'd lose by not watching them by airdate, but there is some minor cross-show worldbuilding that would likely be most effective when viewed by airdate.
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Jul 5, 2016 18:23
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Arglebargle III posted:The moon will never be a nice place to live. 14 days of sun and 14 days of night? Yuck. They could probably create artificial day/night cycles and use the holodeck like they do on starships.
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Jul 6, 2016 13:21
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Wee Bairns posted:Looks like folks around the world will be able to watch the new Trek series on Netflix, while Canada will watch it on Bell's Space network. So it appears they really want to get it out to everyone. Oh, nice! I hope Bell gets the rights to put it up right away on the Space Go app.
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Jul 18, 2016 14:33
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So, some casting news for the next Trek movie was released that is essentially a big plot spoiler.... It's going to star Chris Pine and Chris Hemsworth. Time travel father/son Kirk movie! I like the idea, it could be fun. It suits the Kirk of this series especially.
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Jul 19, 2016 02:40
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Star Trek and the Last Crusade
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Jul 19, 2016 03:32
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CharlieWhiskey posted:It's amazing they got off easy with, "sorry i killed ur guys bro, i was hypnotized" To be fair, the way things seem to be in the Star Trek universe, that would be fairly par for the course. I'm sure that planet has had some people get hypnotized by weird space poo poo before.
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Jul 19, 2016 14:43
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Big Mean Jerk posted:He's also a huge rear end in a top hat. If you're taking pictures at a con and he thinks he was in it at all, he'll demand that you either pay him or delete the pic. I hope this becomes public knowledge so that people at cons are constantly taking pictures of him in defiance. Cause anyone who just refuses to pay or delete them, what's he gonna do?
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Jul 21, 2016 16:00
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Big Mean Jerk posted:There was a group of teens walking around Space City Comic Con earlier this year, laughing and snapchatting everything, as teens are wont to do. They passed by his booth and started to walk on until he literally chased after them and demanded that they each pay him $10 for the supposed pictures. He must have stood there arguing with them for a good 20 minutes, because they were all still there after I'd made a complete circuit around the con. You'd think that people would complain about him harassing them and he'd stop being welcome at cons?
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Jul 21, 2016 16:21
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I actually like the new ship a lot more than most of the ships that ship nerds post as examples of the best ships. Ships.
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Jul 24, 2016 00:56
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Subyng posted:The video got taken down. Is this actually what it showed? I kind of like it. It's weird and different. I found a mirror of it! I had to beam it over using trans-dimensional technology.
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Jul 24, 2016 00:57
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Timby posted:I'd be more interested if it didn't have Alex loving Kurtzman as a writer and producer. He co-created Fringe, too, and that show was great.
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Jul 24, 2016 01:57
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Timby posted:Counter-point: He co-wrote loving Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. But we're talking about a TV show that he is producer and co-creator for, not a movie that he wrote.
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Jul 24, 2016 02:05
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The_Doctor posted:It was discarded for a reason! People keep saying this, but it wasn't discarded, the film they were made for was never made. That's like complaining about TNG using Phase II ideas.
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Jul 24, 2016 14:24
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Nitrousoxide posted:What was the episode of TNG where some species that had barely achieved space flight/warp drive and had been hitting the enterprise for several hours with laser weapons and doing basically nothing? Like they were down to 99% shields. The Outrageous Okona, I think?
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Jul 25, 2016 00:27
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Nitrousoxide posted:ST I have never, ever seen those used as the acronyms for those shows
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Jul 25, 2016 18:06
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Finally saw Beyond, it was great... decided to watch the Voyager episode "The Swarm" when I got home.... Man, the swarm of ships that Voyager encountered was downright neighborly in comparison. 
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Jul 27, 2016 08:53
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Gammatron 64 posted:Yeah. People often say "oh, well he saw this planet get blown up and his mother die!" but I don't really feel like that's a good excuse. Nimoy Spock would almost definitely shed a tear but still try to remain stoic. The only times Nimoy Spock would have a full-on meltdown is if he was going through Pon Farr or if something weird was screwing with his brain chemistry. I disagree with all of you... I was just saying to my friend yesterday that the complaints about Spock's characterization always annoy me, because they've made it clear in the new movies that alt-universe Spock is a lot more in touch with his human side, and I find that an interesting thing to explore with an alt-universe!
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Jul 27, 2016 17:36
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Why cookie Rocket posted:"Well that's just typical" is one of the best McCoy jokes in a Star Trek movie, and it's well-delivered by Urban, which by itself makes Beyond the best of the reboot movies. This joke is so good that I laughed at it both during the pointless Beyond ad that played in the theatre just before the movie, and 40 minutes (or whatever) later during the movie itself.
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Jul 28, 2016 14:43
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MikeJF posted:Telepathy's troubling as hell from a moral point of view and they always skipped right over it and just went 'whatever yeah it's fine', it's a pity. 
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Aug 3, 2016 16:11
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I rewatched It's Only a Paper Moon recently, and was thinking "Why did I ever hate Vic Fontaine?" ...then I rewatched the episode that introduces him. Oof, what a stinker. He's immediately elevated to this flimsily-executed wise guru status and it's just a boring, boring episode aside from that.
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Aug 6, 2016 15:00
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Catspaw?
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Aug 7, 2016 03:53
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EX-GAIJIN AT LAST posted:Haha, Turnabout Intruder is great for Shatner's performance alone. So you're claiming that Catspaw is not bad.
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Aug 7, 2016 04:17
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I think that Best of Both Worlds and Yesterday's Enterprise are overrated.
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Aug 7, 2016 04:53
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I've been away from the thread for awhile, but I just wanted to say that I hope that The Greatest Generation podcast is a mainstay of talk/recommendations in this thread now... it's the best.
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Oct 15, 2016 00:46
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Weren't they supposed to have been kicked out of the celestial temple by the prophets, and imprisoned in the fire caves? What's Satan's motivation?
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Oct 16, 2016 02:08
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If they ever do post-Voyager Trek, I would kind of love to see a new version of the Borg... take the idea of Locutus to an extreme, where they try to create a more personable face to the Collective... and now they sell people on the idea of assimilation instead of forcing it on people. What would the Federation do if people were willingly joining the Borg because of their new friendlier sales pitch? "Join the Collective! You will never be lonely again, and you get a free ocular implant!" Work as a drone by day, escape to Unimatrix Zero at night! It can't be much worse than working a 9-5! They're supposed to be able to adapt to anything... I think this would be a sensible adaptation after all of their encounters with humans. They take a page out of the Federation's playbook, basically. thexerox123 fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Oct 18, 2016 |
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Oct 18, 2016 23:29
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Ha, exactly!
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Oct 18, 2016 23:35
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:But people in the Federation don't work 9-5s. The Federation is more than just Earth. And anyways, even if there isn't money, people still clearly have professions and schedules on Earth. Even in Starfleet, we see Barclay working on the Pathfinder project, and going home to his apartment. And people outside of Starfleet working as professors, scientists, farmers, chefs, geo-engineers... are you suggesting they don't have work/life balance because they don't work for currency? And what would make the Borg scarier for doing it is that they used to be the Federation's implacable enemies. Hell, the enemies of every sentient, advanced species. thexerox123 fucked around with this message at 23:28 on Oct 19, 2016 |
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Oct 19, 2016 23:24
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:I'm suggesting that most Federation citizens would probably see 40 hours of work a week as being an unusually long work schedule. Maybe they work 9-5 4 days a week.  I was really just using it as a turn of phrase for "the regular routine". We've seen people who are dissatisfied with their lot in life in the Federation before. cenotaph posted:Reginald Barclay, the perfect representation of the average federation citizen. I mean, he wasn't the only person working there. Barclay was going outside of his regular work hours to hang out in his simulated Voyager. But the general work/life setup seemed pretty similar to what we're used to. (Anyways, I feel like Barclay is exactly the type of person who would be tempted to join the Borg, haha. Maybe not him specifically, but people like him.) thexerox123 fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Oct 19, 2016 |
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Oct 19, 2016 23:33
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:I mean, the basic premise you're presenting is "what if a big spacefaring civilization rolled up one day and said 'hey free citizenship for anyone who wants to come along!'" so I guess the question is what would make the Borg doing this particularly scarier than if it were, say, a bunch of random not-cyborgs who just happened to like tooling around on a giant spaceship all year long? Should the Federation be so afraid of brain drain that they would implement Soviet-style emigration control? In regards to this point again... they could just be presenting this personable front to the Federation, but still using the old assimilation tactics in other parts of the galaxy. And once they have enough drones, it would be too easy for the Queen to just flip a switch and have them all attack Earth. The last thing they need is for their vulnerable people to be giving themselves willingly to the Collective.
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Oct 19, 2016 23:44
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MrJacobs posted:So would they use this tactic on the other Alpha Quadrant superpowers? 'Cause the Klingons would spoil that real quick. It's not like the Klingons did much to stop the previous Borg attacks on the Federation...
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Oct 20, 2016 01:36
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MrJacobs posted:Only because it took too drat long for them to show up, but they gave support before Wolf359. Old Admiral Mcdeadguy said as much in BOBW part 1. But Voyager ruins everything and said that they took heavy losses in a separate battle.
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Oct 20, 2016 01:46
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skasion posted:CBS is not going to cough up for a show where you need to have seen the ending of a show that concluded in the Clinton administration just to understand the premise. Or they could hire a writer who can communicate the simple concept of the Federation having just gotten out of a disillusioning war?
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May 18, 2017 04:04
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skasion posted:They could, but why would they bother? The kind of people who would be really hyped up for a sequel to DS9 are the kind of people who are going to watch a Star Trek show anyway, just because it's Star Trek and that's something they're interested in. From the point of view of a network hack, there is no point in expending effort trying to get those viewers onside, but every point in trying to engage the interest of people who couldn't tell you what the Dominion War was with a gun to their head. You could say the exact same things about another TOS prequel, as well.
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May 18, 2017 04:24
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PostNouveau posted:Right, because his race has a superpower. From eugenics. Because you can breed for that. You realize that you're talking about a show that has multiple different psychic abilities and unrealistically homogenized alien species in it, right?
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May 18, 2017 11:58
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Gammatron 64 posted:Like, I kinda get the vibe that this is going to be some kind of dark action show and that's not really Trek. Star Trek has this feeling of adventure and wonder that isn't here. So... not a DS9 fan, then?
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May 19, 2017 00:07
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