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Fetus Tree posted:opus is gonna flip his poo poo when he comes back. people are having fun talking in darmok speak! thats almost as bad as having fun making fun of obrien!!! just catching up, I'm enjoying them so far, looking forward to watching them get less funny and beaten into the ground though!
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Fetus Tree posted:None of it makes any sense at all, which is why it is fiction Fetus Tree posted:you're in the wrong thread if you dont want to talk about poo poo like this
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May 20, 2015 01:55
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Fetus Tree posted:yeah itd be real cool to have episodes based on the idea of not being able to communicate, that way troi could have actually used her powers Troi was basically the Aquaman of the crew.
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May 20, 2015 02:13
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i like the one where famke jannsen spends the whole episode trying to gently caress picard
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May 20, 2015 03:00
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I hate so much that this is my longest thread to date. gently caress off nerds.
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May 20, 2015 03:27
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Hollis Brownsound posted:I hate so much that this is my longest thread to date. gently caress off nerds. You could post a thread with just the words "start track" as the title and an empty OP and it would go to 20 pages.
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May 20, 2015 03:50
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Naxuz posted:Aatrek's children, their faces wet That one is context-sensitive. Here's another multi-use one: PC Gamer, beholding a console.
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Entropic posted:Troi was basically the Aquaman of the crew. I'm positive you're thinking of the episode I'm thinking of right now, where she literally turned into an aqua person
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May 20, 2015 08:25
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doctorfrog posted:I'm positive you're thinking of the episode I'm thinking of right now, where she literally turned into an aqua person genesis iirc
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May 20, 2015 11:08
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkJ6FY4A9wE stargate rules lol
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Fetus Tree posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkJ6FY4A9wE true dat
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doctorfrog posted:I'm positive you're thinking of the episode I'm thinking of right now, where she literally turned into an aqua person Actually I was thinking of the one episode where her mom did something useful by reading the mind of a fish-person who's secretly a terrorist.
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Naxuz posted:Political theory post-grad checking in. Star Trek in no way addresses the myriad consequences to cultural, political and social orders that a post-scarcity economy and FTL travel within a diverse galactic society would bring and handwaves it all away with "Federation is like the UN but actually effective". What a stupid show for plebs This is a serious complaint, though. Star trek is really not about the future at all, it's about the present. TOS is about late 1960s american society, TNG is about late 80s, early 90s american society. The writers of TOS couldn't actually imagine women's roles being any different hundreds of year in the future, so the women could only be assistants, nurses, and telephone operators. The writers of TNG came up with the idea of a post-scarcity society where there was no money, but couldn't actually imagine such a thing, so people still play poker (not much fun if there is no money) and work jobs where they stand all day in the brig guarding a prisoner (who would do this if they weren't being paid?), and so on. They invented the idea of replicators being able to make anything out of energy, and then couldn't imagine the consequences, so you have everyone mining all over the place pointlessly, and freighters pointlessly transporting goods around which could have been created on the spot where needed. The question is, was this done accidentally or on purpose? Did the writers and creators of these shows realize that they weren't really about the future at all?
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May 20, 2015 19:12
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speculative scifi not about the future but about the present day instead!?
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May 20, 2015 19:16
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id stand watch over a brig for 8 hours to hang out on the enterprise doing whatever for the rest of the day
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Naxuz posted:Political theory post-grad checking in. Star Trek in no way addresses the myriad consequences to cultural, political and social orders that a post-scarcity economy and FTL travel within a diverse galactic society would bring and handwaves it all away with "Federation is like the UN but actually effective". What a stupid show for plebs Hey man, I made an offhand post and someone sounded interested in my hot take. Honestly, I still watch those episodes and I would say that I bitch about Guinan more than I do Darmok or Lal.
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Fetus Tree posted:id stand watch over a brig for 8 hours to hang out on the enterprise doing whatever for the rest of the day Why? You spend 8 hours in the brig staring at some prisoner in the holding cell, and then you get off, and now you have free time. There's no entertainment on the ship, other than the holodecks. There are 3 holodecks, and 1000 crew members. This means you will get approximately 1 hour of holodeck time every two weeks. Except, you won't really get that much, since the senior staff monopolize the hell out of them and use them whenever they want. So maybe an hour a month. The ship flies around, with the senior staff doing interesting things, but you won't be a part of any of it. You can sit in the bar and drink fake alcohol and maybe Guinan will talk to you, then go back to your quarters and replicate yourself a trombone or something. Then wake up and do it all again. Or you could live on earth, and do whatever you want whenever you want.
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i'd play pranks on worf all the time are you kidding me it sounds amazing
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Orange Sunshine posted:Why? The real answer to this is, of course, the Culture approach: your ship is more like a cruise liner with lots of fun and entertainment for the crew, some of whom occasionally do something useful (the senior staff) but mainly are just along for the ride. All the tedious guarding-of-prisoners is done by machines with variable levels of autonomy.
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I feel like we are supposed to assume there's parts of the ship we never see. Like an arboretum and a zoo and a gym and I heard there's a crew member down on the 39th deck who will blow you for some synthol.
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May 20, 2015 22:30
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i wonder if you can rig the transporter system to give you a hand job
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oldpainless posted:I feel like we are supposed to assume there's parts of the ship we never see. Like an arboretum and a zoo and a gym and I heard there's a crew member down on the 39th deck who will blow you for some synthol. In Diane Duane's TOS novels, there's a huge recreation deck with a ton of awesome video games, including a 3D starship combat simulator (that Sulu obviously owns everybody at), and a department head reporting to the captain whose one job is to make sure the crew are happy and entertained. (I think we actually see it as the big lounge-looking area in The Motion Picture).
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Jesus for a computational linguist you sure don't know how language computers workmemory alpha posted:In 2267, Captain Kirk and Commander Spock of the USS Enterprise modified one to communicate with the alien known as the Companion in the Gamma Canaris region. Responding to Zefram Cochrane's question about the theory of operation, Kirk explained that there are certain universal ideas and concepts common to all intelligent life, and that the translator compared the frequencies of brainwave patterns, selected those ideas it recognized, and provided the necessary grammar. Kirk further explained that the device spoke with a voice, or the approximation of one, that corresponded to the identity concepts it recognized. The Companion was revealed to be female because the universal translator detected this facet of its identity from its brainwave patterns, and assigned it a female voice. (TOS: "Metamorphosis")
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went on to Netflix to watch some DS9 again and lol'd when I noticed my progress from the last time I watched series 2 what a loving terrible episode it is
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dadrips posted:went on to Netflix to watch some DS9 again and lol'd when I noticed my progress from the last time I watched series 2 thats legit p funny
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Fetus Tree posted:id stand watch over a brig for 8 hours to hang out on the enterprise doing whatever for the rest of the day Same. Hell, I'd do four tens a week in that little kiosk the one mathematician dude had on Voyager, as long as it's on the D and nowhere near Voyager. You know they had whale tanks on the D? I'd be there a couple times a week just to chill and read a book.
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doctorfrog posted:Same. Hell, I'd do four tens a week in that little kiosk the one mathematician dude had on Voyager, as long as it's on the D and nowhere near Voyager. You know they had whale tanks on the D? I'd be there a couple times a week just to chill and read a book. Means the whales probably died in Generations and now a probe is coming to kill the non-reboot universe again. GJ Troi.
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man. SGA really loving sucked for what they did to carson beckett
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Orange Sunshine posted:This is a serious complaint, though. if you want that stuff you read books (not star trek books) where somebody with a singular vision and total control can play with all of that. TV shows are written by a group of people to please the maximum number of people possible in a given market segment as an advertising vehicle for other companies to use. This is why TV shows are not art and shouldn't be thought of with any more depth than 'am I enjoying this'? The writers, whatever their intent, were essentially paid to not care about any of that stuff you just said. Just read books bro.
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in addition, nobody ever watched trek for the sci-fi - its the cast (and in ToS Spock, Kirk and Bones especially) that people were interested in. It's a show about buddies.
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opus111 posted:It's a show about fixed for ds9
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opus111 posted:if you want that stuff you read books (not star trek books) where somebody with a singular vision and total control can play with all of that. TV shows are written by a group of people to please the maximum number of people possible in a given market segment as an advertising vehicle for other companies to use. This is why TV shows are not art and shouldn't be thought of with any more depth than 'am I enjoying this'? The writers, whatever their intent, were essentially paid to not care about any of that stuff you just said. art is the spirit of the time that born it, a collaboration between the past and the future, created from adversity unless you're somehow posting from the victorian era, a book is a shallow, computer generated cynical self-indulgent masturbation session written entirely to please a tiny and ever-shrinking audience of isolates, criminals and pseudo-intellectuals with absolutely no modern cultural value beyond a store of carbon
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dadrips posted:went on to Netflix to watch some DS9 again and lol'd when I noticed my progress from the last time I watched series 2 lol. i am watching ds9 for the 1st time and that is the very episode i am up to. guess i should expect some boredom
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maybe it has a good B plot. i forget. also, out of nowhere Joe Flanigan liked one of my instagram posts? idk how he even found my instagram but thats fuckin awesome
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Fetus Tree posted:man. SGA really loving sucked for what they did to carson beckett yeah what the gently caress. at least they figured out they were stupid and were bringing him back for season 6 oh wait lol cancelled
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Darmok is a cool ep and picard has that cool jacket in it.
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Darmok is a cool ep still makes more linguistic sense than Hoshi Sato learning to speak Klingon in 3 days
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