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criscodisco
Feb 18, 2004

do it
People like the DS9 mirror universe episodes because they get to see Kira dike out, but I don't much care for them. The Enterprise mirror universe episode, though, was top notch.

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Automatic Slim
Jul 1, 2007

nvrmind

Automatic Slim fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Apr 22, 2022

Ein cooler Typ
Nov 26, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
DS9 mirror universe owns because Vic Fontaine is a real person

treiz01
Jan 2, 2008

There is little that makes me happier than taking drugs. Perhaps administering them, designing and carrying out experiments that bend the plane of what we consider reality.

RVWinkle posted:

So aparently this is a thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuMsb4nzmis

There's all kinds of fictional space ship ambient tracks on youtube

The TNG one is my favorite. I could fall asleep to that any time.

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?

criscodisco posted:

People like the DS9 mirror universe episodes because they get to see Kira dike out, but I don't much care for them. The Enterprise mirror universe episode, though, was top notch.

DS9 Mirror universe had Smiley, who was O'Brien except even more depressed. It was great.

Remember that time when Quark defeated the Klingon Empire with economics, and the high council was just plugging away at data pads listening to his every word?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65l7RHUx2A

DickParasite
Dec 2, 2004


Slippery Tilde
Mirror universe was great because Sisko was even more of a dick to O'Brien than main universe Sisko.

criscodisco
Feb 18, 2004

do it
I wonder if mirror universe ship's engines run on matter.

Wolfsheim
Dec 23, 2003

"Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."
The only good mirror universe episode is the one where Rom keeps pointing out all the ridiculous mirror universe poo poo

None of the mirror universe people who can easily cross over ever seem to figure out that they can just stay there in a socialist utopia instead of going back to their hellscape nightmare slave wars

Having said that DS9 is still the best by far, Voyager is on par with TNG but only because after watching most of ST back-to-back Troi, Geordi and both Crushers are just as tedious as Chakotay, B'elanna Torres, Neelix and Kes when any of them star in an episode

I still haven't seen Enterprise though :shrug:

Ein cooler Typ
Nov 26, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
The ships don't run on antimatter they run on matter/antimatter reactions

criscodisco
Feb 18, 2004

do it
I would argue that since matter is plentiful, the engines run on antimatter.

1000 Sweaty Rikers
Oct 13, 2005

shadow puppet of a posted:

Could a retarded alien dress with all the flair and crisp line work of a tube of grocery store wasabi?



Oh, turns out he was a Zakdorn. Same as the stratagema master Sirna Kolrami.



*whispers* such a handsome race.

Teriyaki Hairpiece
Dec 29, 2006

I'm nae the voice o' the darkened thistle, but th' darkened thistle cannae bear the sight o' our Bonnie Prince Bernie nae mair.

Arcsquad12 posted:

DS9 Mirror universe had Smiley, who was O'Brien except even more depressed. It was great.

Remember that time when Quark defeated the Klingon Empire with economics, and the high council was just plugging away at data pads listening to his every word?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65l7RHUx2A

Every Klingon is just Murderface.

Why cookie Rocket
Dec 2, 2003

Lemme tell ya 'bout your blood bamboo kid.
It ain't Coca-Cola, it's rice.

Doesn't matter when it's Arcturian, baby

whoflungpoop
Sep 9, 2004

With you and the constellations

Blistex posted:

He did it on Tuvok's bed as well. Tuvok had to sleep that night in a puddle of Neelix's ball sweat.

they hosed up tuvoks quarters too it was all smasht furniture and gently caress fumes

whoflungpoop
Sep 9, 2004

With you and the constellations
lady klingon wanted harry kim she chased him into a starship broom closet trying to get his d and neelix was like lol harry u a bitch go away harry and stole lady klingon and they destroyed tuvoks quarters loving and lol if u don't like voyager

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

whoflungpoop posted:

lady klingon wanted harry kim she chased him into a starship broom closet trying to get his d and neelix was like lol harry u a bitch go away harry and stole lady klingon and they destroyed tuvoks quarters loving and lol if u don't like voyager

harry was a def. a Incel

criscodisco
Feb 18, 2004

do it
I like how every third planet they stopped at had a way to cut years off their journey, but was always like "nah, if we helped you we'd have to help everyone else too" and Voyager just went on its way. It's pretty easy to incinerate a planet's atmosphere from space, I'd just watch those planets burn at my hands. Once word starts to spread, planets would be bending over backwards to help us. gently caress them. It's not like we're coming back, who cares how many bridges we burn.

JediTalentAgent
Jun 5, 2005
Hey, look. Look, if- if you screw me on this, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine, you rat bastard!
I hope Star Trek does the Young Janeway Adventures with Jennifer Lawrence as Young Janeway.

Cthulu Carl
Apr 16, 2006

criscodisco posted:

I like how every third planet they stopped at had a way to cut years off their journey, but was always like "nah, if we helped you we'd have to help everyone else too" and Voyager just went on its way. It's pretty easy to incinerate a planet's atmosphere from space, I'd just watch those planets burn at my hands. Once word starts to spread, planets would be bending over backwards to help us. gently caress them. It's not like we're coming back, who cares how many bridges we burn.

This is a good plan, but there's should have also been an episode where someone references burning bridges and one of the crew says "Bridges? You don't need bridges in SPACE."

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?
So today I went to the Star Trek: Starfleet Academy experience in Ottawa, and I saw at least three potential pedophiles and a bunch of receding jawlines.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug

Arcsquad12 posted:

So today I went to the Star Trek: Starfleet Academy experience in Ottawa, and I saw at least three potential pedophiles and a bunch of receding jawlines.

So they had mirrors, thats not futuristic!

Cthulu Carl
Apr 16, 2006

Arcsquad12 posted:

So today I went to the Star Trek: Starfleet Academy experience in Ottawa, and I saw at least three potential pedophiles and a bunch of receding jawlines.

What subforums do they mod?

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?

happyhippy posted:

So they had mirrors, thats not futuristic!

Believe it when I say nobody was more shocked than myself.

big black turnout
Jan 13, 2009



Fallen Rib

happyhippy posted:

So they had mirrors, thats not futuristic!

treiz01
Jan 2, 2008

There is little that makes me happier than taking drugs. Perhaps administering them, designing and carrying out experiments that bend the plane of what we consider reality.

happyhippy posted:

So they had mirrors, thats not futuristic!

:golfclap:

Germstore
Oct 17, 2012

A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time
Turn on your space monitor.

Fat Shat Sings
Jan 24, 2016

Germstore posted:

Turn on your space monitor.

The new models only have a 33% chance of exploding with rocks and fire into your face.

VectorSigma
Jan 20, 2004

Transform
and
Freak Out



Fat Shat Sings posted:

The new models only have a 33% chance of exploding with rocks and fire into your face.

the rocks are the result of a safety feature. before that it was still molten when it hit you.

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?
Sadly there were no sparking consoles. And the Kobayashi Maru test wouldn't even let me fire on the Federation ship and high tail it out of there.

Slow-Scan Shep
Jul 11, 2001

Typical Pubbie posted:

B5 had roughly half of DS9's budget.

e:


They went to all that effort to film the show in widescreen, but they couldn't afford to do any scenes with SFX in widescreen so they had to be shot in 4:3. This is why when you watch B5 now it looks fantastic when people are standing around talking but as soon as someone fires their pulse pistol it switches to 4:3, then back to 16:9, then back to 4:3 again, then back to 16:9, and so on. It looks horrendous and is physically painful to watch.

even better is that the amiga 4000 video toaster/sgi indigo/sun ultrasparc/dec alpha that all the effects assets were kept on got tossed out and will likely never be recovered so we're pretty much stuck with that for all eternity

on the flipside the 50-pin scsi hard drive containing all the ds9 sfx assets got found but apparently not much will be done with them anytime soon because every man, woman and child in the western hemisphere did not buy a copy of the tng blurays

Slow-Scan Shep
Jul 11, 2001

happyhippy posted:

I remember reading once some one explain that the differing pads are for differing levels of security.
So Picard at the top has access to a fuckton, but ensigns would only have access to the one that their department uses.
imagining that the star trek future is just wracked with hilldog-esque private e-mail server scandals from people trying to cut down on the number of PADDs they have to use

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl

papa_november posted:

even better is that the amiga 4000 video toaster/sgi indigo/sun ultrasparc/dec alpha that all the effects assets were kept on got tossed out and will likely never be recovered so we're pretty much stuck with that for all eternity

on the flipside the 50-pin scsi hard drive containing all the ds9 sfx assets got found but apparently not much will be done with them anytime soon because every man, woman and child in the western hemisphere did not buy a copy of the tng blurays

i dunno how much effort those old assets would have ultimately saved, though. i mean, can you just take old video toaster files and stick them in modern software and click "set resolution to 1920x1080" and render?


honestly even if TNG blurays had done mindblowingly good and even if the digital assets were fully preserved, there's still a really good chance Warner Bros wouldn't have been bothered to lift a finger. not only was B5 never as popular, but WB in general never seemed to like B5 all that much. there was some really weird and nasty corporate politics going on with WB and the "PTEN" unit that B5 belonged to.

Farmer Crack-Ass fucked around with this message at 08:18 on May 29, 2016

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl
also i'd wonder at how well the B5 film got catalogued and archived. Paramount was pretty good about saving all the film from TNG and even that project had trouble tracking down the right film segments sometimes. it wouldn't surprise me one bit if Warner Bros accidentally discarded literally threw the film into a bonfire.

Milkfred E. Moore
Aug 27, 2006

'It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.'

papa_november posted:

even better is that the amiga 4000 video toaster/sgi indigo/sun ultrasparc/dec alpha that all the effects assets were kept on got tossed out and will likely never be recovered so we're pretty much stuck with that for all eternity

on the flipside the 50-pin scsi hard drive containing all the ds9 sfx assets got found but apparently not much will be done with them anytime soon because every man, woman and child in the western hemisphere did not buy a copy of the tng blurays

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

i dunno how much effort those old assets would have ultimately saved, though. i mean, can you just take old video toaster files and stick them in modern software and click "set resolution to 1920x1080" and render?


honestly even if TNG blurays had done mindblowingly good and even if the digital assets were fully preserved, there's still a really good chance Warner Bros wouldn't have been bothered to lift a finger. not only was B5 never as popular, but WB in general never seemed to like B5 all that much. there was some really weird and nasty corporate politics going on with WB and the "PTEN" unit that B5 belonged to.

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

also i'd wonder at how well the B5 film got catalogued and archived. Paramount was pretty good about saving all the film from TNG and even that project had trouble tracking down the right film segments sometimes. it wouldn't surprise me one bit if Warner Bros accidentally discarded literally threw the film into a bonfire.

That's basically what happened.

WB claims that the warehouse with all the B5 SFX footage 'burned down'. It's why the DVDs are all stretched whenever there's a CGI shot or a composite.

JMS had always intended, as far back as the 90s, to go back and have the CGI stuff rendered again in the future.

They lost enough CGI stuff that when they did The Lost Tales a few years ago, they actually had to contact fan CGI model sites and get their models and such. It seems like everything is basically gone and WB had no wish to really care about it.

shadow puppet of a
Jan 10, 2007

NO TENGO SCORPIO


B5 somehow demands to be viewed on through the fuzz and shittyness of NTSC resolution. The loss of the assets was just nature taking the most just course. I'd not want it available in a higher res.

Why cookie Rocket
Dec 2, 2003

Lemme tell ya 'bout your blood bamboo kid.
It ain't Coca-Cola, it's rice.

shadow puppet of a posted:

B5 somehow demands to be viewed on through the fuzz and shittyness of NTSC resolution. The loss of the assets was just nature taking the most just course. I'd not want it available in a higher res.

Now what can be done about the acting and the dialogue?

Volcott
Mar 30, 2010

People paying American dollars to let other people know they didn't agree with someone's position on something is the lifeblood of these forums.

Why cookie Rocket posted:

Now what can be done about the acting and the dialogue?

Have Peter Jurasik play everyone.

Volcott fucked around with this message at 18:15 on May 29, 2016

CHICKEN SHOES
Oct 4, 2002
Slippery Tilde
he'd probably have to since everyone else is dead

Volcott
Mar 30, 2010

People paying American dollars to let other people know they didn't agree with someone's position on something is the lifeblood of these forums.

Hillary Clintons Thong posted:

he'd probably have to since everyone else is dead

Are we counting Bruce Boxleitner's career?

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CHICKEN SHOES
Oct 4, 2002
Slippery Tilde
I'm sure he would be on board so long as they aren't producing another Kenny Rogers movie


he's probably doing better than the one dude who just hosts some Republican talkshow

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