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DrNutt posted:I hope that this is the reason that the rest of the TNG cast haven't been approached for the series yet. I mean it doesn't have to be TNG take 2 to work as a show but to do a show with Picard and snub the rest of the cast would be a hell of a thing. I would imagine everyone except Data will have a cameo if the actors want to do it.
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Grand Fromage posted:I would imagine everyone except Data will have a cameo if the actors want to do it. Data can easily be mocap CGId for a view screen shot in 2018/9
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Sep 23, 2018 16:38
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The Bloop posted:Data can easily be mocap CGId for a view screen shot in 2018/9 I suppose, I just worry that it'll look really fake. Though since he's a robot maybe it looking fake will work?
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Grand Fromage posted:I suppose, I just worry that it'll look really fake. Yeah I think for him specifically the uncanny valley is A-OK especially if it's just a headshot cameo
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Sep 23, 2018 16:45
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The Bloop posted:Yeah I think for him specifically the uncanny valley is A-OK That could be interesting, intentionally using the uncanny valley for an android that isn't quite human enough to pass.
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Sep 23, 2018 16:46
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He's a render since his positronic backup was retrieved from B4 into an emulated server and he projects holographically until they can stabilise a human-scale positronic net 
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"Ah, Data, I see you have activated the "fat and old chip" that Dr. Soong left for you, so that you would appear to age realistically with your contemporary human friends." "Indeed I have. And I see Captain Riker has done the same."
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Astroman posted:"Ah, Data, I see you have activated the "fat and old chip" that Dr. Soong left for you, so that you would appear to age realistically with your contemporary human friends." It would be worth it just for that quip.
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Astroman posted:"Ah, Data, I see you have activated the "fat and old chip" that Dr. Soong left for you, so that you would appear to age realistically with your contemporary human friends." lmbo
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Astroman posted:"Ah, Data, I see you have activated the "fat and old chip" that Dr. Soong left for you, so that you would appear to age realistically with your contemporary human friends." *Depressed, Riker fires up another DS9 program and pretends to be Chef once again, eating away his misery. This is now canon.
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Is he still first officer on the Enterprise? Who's the captain now? Captain Crusher?
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Nullsmack posted:Is he still first officer on the Enterprise? At the end of Nemesis, Riker takes command of the USS Titan.
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Grand Fromage posted:I would imagine everyone except Data will have a cameo if the actors want to do it. Oh sure it's just a little weird that they've gone on record now to state that they haven't been approached, and recent comments from some of them have even been crossing over into "throwing shade at Discovery" territory, which you know, may not be the best way to secure a job on another new Star Trek series.
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DrNutt posted:Oh sure it's just a little weird that they've gone on record now to state that they haven't been approached, and recent comments from some of them have even been crossing over into "throwing shade at Discovery" territory, which you know, may not be the best way to secure a job on another new Star Trek series. That is probably because The Orville is courting most of the old TNG group.
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I don't read dumb EU poo poo, but the Star Trek: Countdown comic, which Kurtzman and Orci contributed towards the basic story, had B-4 allow himself to share his body with a resurrected Data, and the new Data becomes Captain of the Ent-E. And Picard is an ambassador of some sort. Even though Kurtzman contributed to it, I can easily imagine him ignoring all of it if whatever story the cook up for Old Picard needs to. Echo Chamber fucked around with this message at 00:02 on Sep 24, 2018 |
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DrNutt posted:Oh sure it's just a little weird that they've gone on record now to state that they haven't been approached, and recent comments from some of them have even been crossing over into "throwing shade at Discovery" territory, which you know, may not be the best way to secure a job on another new Star Trek series. I dunno if I'd say Sirtis was throwing shade as much as she was making a fair point...as one of the most prominent former and perhaps future CBS employees, she and the other former Star Trek actors should get free CBS All Access.
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Astroman posted:I dunno if I'd say Sirtis was throwing shade as much as she was making a fair point...as one of the most prominent former and perhaps future CBS employees, she and the other former Star Trek actors should get free CBS All Access. Still a gifting cockney urchin after all these years
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Its weird, I ate up Star Wars EU stuff, but I could never get into Star Trek EU. Maybe because Imazi read more like a romance novel than a sci fi one.
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lol but seriously I posted:Still a gifting cockney urchin after all these years I mean, would you pay for STD? Watched First Contact again yesterday. Still owns. That's a good movie.
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twistedmentat posted:Its weird, I ate up Star Wars EU stuff, but I could never get into Star Trek EU. Maybe because Imazi read more like a romance novel than a sci fi one. Most of the Star Trek EU is extraordinarily boring and reads like bad fan-fiction more than any other licensed book series. It doesn’t help that they keep recycling the same ten enemy races. At least the Star Wars EU bothered to invent new ones from time to time.
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As we all know, Nemesis is utter garbage, but I just saw this deleted scene and it's actually... incredibly good? Ah what could have been https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxyd7L-2YuQ
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Alan_Shore posted:As we all know, Nemesis is utter garbage, but I just saw this deleted scene and it's actually... incredibly good? Ah what could have been So does Data just regurgitate that fine wine into the sink later?
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Most of the Star Trek EU is extraordinarily boring and reads like bad fan-fiction more than any other licensed book series. There was some pretty inventive stuff being written in the 70s and 80s, but once TNG came on the air, the novel's writers were under a lot of restrictions over what they could add to the setting beyond what had been established on-screen. Like, one writer was told they had to remove a minor bit of backstory about Andorians they'd written in an early TNG novel because it might contradict what the show planned on doing with them... never mind that the Andorians never appeared in TNG, it was apparently important enough that the novels never even contradict purely hypothetical future episodes...
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Alan_Shore posted:As we all know, Nemesis is utter garbage, but I just saw this deleted scene and it's actually... incredibly good? Ah what could have been No, that scene is terrible and it has all the subtlety of a sledgehammer to the skull.
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Facebook Aunt posted:So does Data just regurgitate that fine wine into the sink later? If he has a fully functionally ding dong maybe he can process liquids in his positronic paunch?
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I read a shocking amount of Star Trek novels in my teens. Mostly because someone in my family knew someone else that somehow got every single one when it was published. By far the worst one I ever read was named something like "Here there be dragons". Every single sentence Picard said ended in an exclamation mark and frankly I've read bad fanfiction that was written better than that book. I think I made it 40 pages in before I closed it and returned it.
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The only Star Trek EU I recall enjoying were a handful of the Stargazer and Captain’s Table novels, some of the original TOS novels from the 70s/80s, and the first few Enterprise relaunch novels. Every TNG novel I read was the literary equivalent of wallpaper paste. The pre-Nemesis ‘A Time To...’ series was the worst offender.
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I had a couple Starfleet Academy kids books that I rather enjoyed as a child. They're suuuuuper kiddy though. Highlights included young worf having a literal line drawn down the middle of his dorm by his angry roommate, and young Geordi playing transporter capture the flag
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jivjov posted:I had a couple Starfleet Academy kids books that I rather enjoyed as a child. They're suuuuuper kiddy though. Highlights included young worf having a literal line drawn down the middle of his dorm by his angry roommate, and young Geordi playing transporter capture the flag Book #1: Young Riker tests his might in the Academy Anbo-jiutsu tournament! Book #2: Young Harry Kim finds a new rival in the Academy orchestra! Book #3: Young Kira plants a bomb in a local cafe frequented by collaborators and hides from the death squads!
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Book #1: Young Riker tests his might in the Academy Anbo-jiutsu tournament! Book #4: Young Seven of Nine walks down a dimly-lit Borg cube hallway, points the twiddly bits on her hand at something on the wall for a few seconds, then goes back the other way, her expression still blank.
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I have a million Star Trek novels. Including all of the Fotonovels, the Animated Series novels, and the Phase novels. By and large the only ones worth a drat are almost always TOS, and almost always written by women.
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Stairs posted:I have a million Star Trek novels. Including all of the Fotonovels, the Animated Series novels, and the Phase novels. Yeah weird pre tng ones by like Diane Duane and poo poo
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Sep 25, 2018 00:11
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The finest piece of literature ever written:
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Tiggum posted:The finest piece of literature ever written: Love dat season 2 Riker mixed with late DS9 Worf
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Sep 25, 2018 03:03
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Wolverine and Troi boink don't they? I love any technical manual style trek book, like I bought the Encyclopedia twice because they released a new version that had up to the end of DS9 in it.
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HD DAD posted:Love dat season 2 Riker mixed with late DS9 Worf
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Powered Descent posted:Book #4: Young Seven of Nine walks down a dimly-lit Borg cube hallway, points the twiddly bits on her hand at something on the wall for a few seconds, then goes back the other way, her expression still blank. Don't be absurd. Young Seven of Nine spent her youth in a borg maturation tube.
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Sep 25, 2018 05:48
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The only good Star Trek book is A Stitch In Time.
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The Star Trek/Green Lantern crossover comic was surprisingly okay
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Wasn't there a terrible TOS book that was captain Spock and drug addict cadet Kirk perilously close to actual slash fiction? I have it somewhere and there was a rumour that if you got a specific edition it had actual slash fic?
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