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CHICKEN SHOES
Oct 4, 2002
Slippery Tilde
ol Smiley is in Star Gate Atlantis. Just started watching that. He seems good as a Stalinist guy

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Cthulu Carl
Apr 16, 2006

criscodisco posted:

Not really. Everyone either hung out in the dining hall or the old timey Irish town.

On TNG, while Ten-Forward was always supposed to be there, the original designs had lots of smaller social areas around the saucer section. I believe the idea was small lounges and coffee house type places, things like that.

I believe it was cut for budgetary reasons, but I can't quite remember.

Also, on Enterprise, you get a quick glimpse of a LCARS display of an enterprise from the 27th century or something. People love to make fun of it, because it's so bizarrely proportioned, but according to the designer, it was out of perspective because it was supposed to be a generational ship with shopping centers, several universities, and suburb areas, so it's supposed to be massive. I like that idea the best.

Enterprise-J?

I don't know how I feel being able to recall which one because I've only seen that episode like once.

Cthulu Carl
Apr 16, 2006

Hillary Clintons Thong posted:

ol Smiley is in Star Gate Atlantis. Just started watching that. He seems good as a Stalinist guy

He also works good as the dude building the transcontinental railroad in Hell On Wheels.

criscodisco
Feb 18, 2004

do it

Cthulu Carl posted:

Enterprise-J?

I don't know how I feel being able to recall which one because I've only seen that episode like once.

Yep, that's it.

chaosbreather
Dec 9, 2001

Wry and wise,
but also very sexual.

I love the stupid future ships like the quad nacelled Enterprise, the J and the Timeship Revolution. And the one with the multi vector assault mode, that was tops

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

JediTalentAgent posted:

It's sort of funny that Ten-Forward and Quark's were static and permanent socializing locales for the crew to unwind and relax, but did the Voyager ever manage to get anything like that other than whatever fantasy holodeck place they set up like that?

With the benefit of hindsight, you could have maybe played with the lack of holodecks to have the crew forced to find other distractions to eat away their time: We can't afford power to holodecks, so a few crewmembers save up their replicator rations to build some primitive holoware or holosuit or holoironmaiden to engage in low-grade holoadventures or other entertainment diversions that run on fractions of that sort of power. Crewmembers having to come up with new recreational activities that don't use holodecks and the precious holodeck power.

A progression of the "Rec Deck" through the series until it looks like a Dave and Buster's in space by the time they get back to the Alpha Quadrant. Voyager then gets bought by Quark as a sort of Riverboat Casino in space..

They could have resorted to a cop out with having them making vr equipment.

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl

papa_november posted:

Yeah, I get the feeling that B5's effects would look even cheesier at anything beyond 480i. They're also simple enough to redo given a big enough budget.

B5's render farm was Amiga-based for the pilot, then went to faster machines (SGIs etc) as the show went on. Not sure if it was all done in Lightwave for the duration of the show.

I do still kind of appreciate what the remastering did to TNG - sometimes you got to see how wooden the sets were, but other times you got to see all those great easter eggs (I swear half of those LCARS displays were printing out anime summaries). It certainly didn't detract from the show.

Yeah, I don't feel like the TNG sets really suffered that badly from high-def. Like, okay, sometimes you see some imperfections... but so what, we all know it's a show anyway.

And, yeah, Rick Sternbach was a big anime fan - there are Dirty Pair references all over the show, to the point where he even blatantly uses Nanmo as a model not once but twice:








Big Mean Jerk posted:

The real benefit to TNG HD was the color correction. No more magenta uniforms.

Absolutely. I tell people, look, even if you don't have a fancy bigscreen, hell even if you're watching on some old tube television, the blurays are going to look SO much better because it's not the pink haze in the first couple seasons and you're not going to have the effects artifacting from the video editing process they used. (Which isn't a slam on TNG - it was crucial in helping them control costs when it was made)

Which is why it was so painful to see my friends posting "oh yeah, watching TNG again on Netflix!" when the blurays were coming out. :gonk:

criscodisco posted:

Not really. Everyone either hung out in the dining hall or the old timey Irish town.

On TNG, while Ten-Forward was always supposed to be there, the original designs had lots of smaller social areas around the saucer section. I believe the idea was small lounges and coffee house type places, things like that.

I believe it was cut for budgetary reasons, but I can't quite remember.

Yeah, set construction is heinously expensive, and even on a show as lavishly budgeted as TNG, a new set could still mean you don't get to do something else that's even cooler. Battlestar Galactica only got to introduce the Pegasus because of a Lost in Space pilot that failed to sell, so BSG was able to scavenge and redress the sets.

What about when TNG did their poker games, though? Was that in anyone's actual living quarters? Maybe that was intended to be set in a little side lounge.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy
Someone wanted to reboot Lost in Space just seven years after that abomination of a movie?

criscodisco
Feb 18, 2004

do it
I thought they were in Ben's room.

Gutcruncher
Apr 16, 2005

Go home and be a family man!
In case anyone wasnt aware, Netflix got the HD version of TNG about a year or so ago. They just straight went and replaced all the old lovely looking episodes with the sexy looking ones.

Grandma Panic!
Nov 4, 2006
Also to be honest the new HD versions of The Original Series are very good and worth watching.

Entoloma
Jan 2, 2009
On a related note I'd just like to mention how much I enjoyed playing Star Trek: Elite Force. I thought it was a good game but I especially enjoyed being able to wander around parts of Voyager. Would have loved to be able to do something similar with DS9.

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!

Crowsbeak posted:

Someone wanted to reboot Lost in Space just seven years after that abomination of a movie?

I sort of liked the movie with the exception of the CG monkey and the comedy. It had some style to it and given the cast I was really surprised they didn't go out of their way to make it a satire/parody of the original project too much.

I legit wanted to see them have another go at it with a sequel, post Episode One, but it never happened.

But onto the TV remake. Yup, and it had a TV pilot movie directed by John Woo, if I recall correctly.

I watched it on Youtube almost 6-7 years ago and it's not really good at all and quite a bit of the changes they went to for the TV show.

-The gimmick of them being unique as a family in space feels sort of undone by the existence of colonies, transport ships full of other people, etc.
-It actually feels like it was trying to be TOO serious.
-Penny is just a baby
-Robot does not exist in any real form worth mentioning
-A great amount of time is invested in another Robinson son that we've never mentioned before.
-And the pain, the pain... No Doctor Smith.

The only thing I could speculate is that if the show went to series, we'd seen last two elements would be connected, but it seems like doing a pilot of a cult classic show and more or less removing all reference of the two most popular figures from the show is odd.

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.
Man, everyone is constantly poo poo-talking Neelix's food behind his back. I mean, saying some really mean things. At least he's loving trying, you assholes.

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.
Like what if I was floating around in the Pacific on a ship with a bunch of aliens who had recently crash landed on Earth, and they made me be their ship's cook. I don't know how to make food out of stuff we'd find, even if this is my planet, and I wouldn't just intuitively be able to guess what the alien palates are like. It'd make me feel even worse if they were constantly insulting my cooking even if I was trying very hard.

Monkey Fracas
Sep 11, 2010

...but then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you!
Grimey Drawer
Ahhh they couldn't even make it through the first season without doing a holodeck episode

Not that I'm exactly complaining- it's a Doctor - focused ep and corny nonsense is entertaining to me anyway



Man Janeway is still just not coming together as a character

Endless Trash
Aug 12, 2007


Blistex posted:

Are you Neelix?



Everyone always forgets the underrated sequel, when I went back the next year and he spotted me

Endless Trash fucked around with this message at 17:34 on May 31, 2016

rocket_man38
Jan 23, 2006

My life is a barrel o' fun!!

FrensaGeran posted:

Everyone always forgets the umderrated sequel, when I went back the next year and he spotted me


Hahaha! Did you talk to him again?

Endless Trash
Aug 12, 2007


rocket_man38 posted:

Hahaha! Did you talk to him again?
That dude wants 40 bucks for an autograph I'm not made of money

shadow puppet of a
Jan 10, 2007

NO TENGO SCORPIO


FrensaGeran posted:

That dude wants 40 bucks for an autograph I'm not made of money

Serously? That is crazy.

God drat do I ever want to learn the inside lingo of Trek actors use to communicate to eachother about types of fans and types of conventions.

"So's I'm sitting there in front of these two palm-lickers waiting for them to pass that green-pressed latinum and up walks a real comm badge-n-ears type who gets upsets because his wife, dressed in Dabo Don't, as they do, who was naturally one of those Quizzers too had to pay me to suffer through the old rub n' hug, so I says to him I says..."

shadow puppet of a fucked around with this message at 17:43 on May 31, 2016

GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

i hate this convention thing
you are paying CBS to NOT make more star trek
stop going to conventions ya mooks

GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

except FrensaGeran
only FrensaGeran can go

Big Mean Jerk
Jan 27, 2009

Well, of course I know him.
He's me.
If people stop going to conventions how will Bob Picardo afford lunch? How will Garrett Wang afford weed?

GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

they can both literally just come to my house, ive said this a million times

whoflungpoop
Sep 9, 2004

With you and the constellations

FrensaGeran posted:

That dude wants 40 bucks for an autograph
is that what he quoted the guy who insulted his old pals

Endless Trash
Aug 12, 2007


whoflungpoop posted:

is that what he quoted the guy who insulted his old pals

I have since then lessened my stance on the issue and find that Jeri Ryan was also quite good.

Someone to Watch Over Me is beautiful stuff.

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

FrensaGeran posted:

Everyone always forgets the underrated sequel, when I went back the next year and he spotted me


Robert Picardo remembered you from a one-time meeting a year prior to this picture being taken, and instinctively made that face? WHAT THE gently caress did you say to him to leave that kind of an impression? I'm guess at these conventions he has to interact with hundreds of weird, smelly, awkward nerds a day, how did he remember you specifically?

-He has a photographic memory?
-You're the gooniest looking person at the convention?
-You have a distinctive odour?
-You were the most insulting/autistic person he dealt with that day?

Please tell me you were wearing a very distinctive t-shirt both times.

GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

he's probably dressed as robert picardo

shadow puppet of a
Jan 10, 2007

NO TENGO SCORPIO


Blistex posted:

Robert Picardo remembered you from a one-time meeting a year prior to this picture being taken, and instinctively made that face? WHAT THE gently caress did you say to him to leave that kind of an impression? I'm guess at these conventions he has to interact with hundreds of weird, smelly, awkward nerds a day, how did he remember you specifically?

-He has a photographic memory?
-You're the gooniest looking person at the convention?
-You have a distinctive odour?
-You were the most insulting/autistic person he dealt with that day?

Please tell me you were wearing a very distinctive t-shirt both times.

OP is Jennifer Lien.

whoflungpoop
Sep 9, 2004

With you and the constellations
jenny from da crack rock

Decrepus
May 21, 2008

In the end, his dominion did not touch a single poster.


My favorite Star Trek is The Next Generation because it had just the right amount of intrigue, action, character development, and hot babes to really keep me interested.

posted from the Battle Bridge

Booblord Zagats
Oct 30, 2011


Pork Pro
Dr. Crusher was a grade A MILF

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

Booblord Zagats posted:

Dr. Crusher was a grade A MILF

:agreed:

Bloody Hedgehog
Dec 12, 2003

💥💥🤯💥💥
Gotta nuke something

FrensaGeran posted:

That dude wants 40 bucks for an autograph I'm not made of money

Could you pay him less if you only wanted him to autograph a picture of Meg Mucklebones?

Cthulu Carl
Apr 16, 2006

Booblord Zagats posted:

Dr. Crusher was a grade A MILF

But Troi owned that cameltoe.

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl

Decrepus posted:

posted from the Battle Bridge

there's that episode Disaster where the ship gets completely hosed up and Picard is stuck in an elevator with some kids because they were going to take a tour of the ship with ~*the Captain*~ when poo poo went down


and at the beginning, before everything went spoon-faced, one of the kids asks "hey can we see the photon torpedoes, or the battle bridge??" and Picard basically says "uh... nnnno... but we're totally going to see the arboretum!"


then at the end of the episode Captain Picard says "I think it's time for that tour... starting with the battle bridge." and the kids' faces light up, it's such a sweet moment




most of the TNG episodes with little kids are godawful, but that one was pretty decent

rocket_man38
Jan 23, 2006

My life is a barrel o' fun!!

FrensaGeran posted:

That dude wants 40 bucks for an autograph I'm not made of money

That's actually cheap sadly. Shatner charges 100 from what I hear.

criscodisco
Feb 18, 2004

do it

Cthulu Carl posted:

But Troi owned that cameltoe.

Simian_Prime
Nov 6, 2011

When they passed out body parts in the comics today, I got Cathy's nose and Dick Tracy's private parts.
Tuvok is basically Obama. It's uncanny.

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Cthulu Carl
Apr 16, 2006


Ay chihuahua :swoon:

*tugs collar to release steam, thumps foot repeatedly on ground and howls*

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