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Ralph Crammed In posted:Disappointed with Picard, I wanted a new to me Star Trek so I started Voyager - I've only ever seen TNG and TOS and some DS9 before this. I watched the episode last night where Paris makes out with a feather wigged femme fatal on planet Film Noir. I love that the Bird Couple was literally named [w]Ren. I like to think it was all a horrible vengeance exacted by sentient avianoids who discovered Paris, in his boyhood, killed a mother bird in her nest.
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infernal machines posted:Species 8472 look like something out of Babylon 5. At least they're not "guy with a forehead prosthetic", but I think they may have been a little to quick to jump on the all CGI train You say that like Babylon 5 is a bad thing.
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Brawnfire posted:I love that the Bird Couple was literally named [w]Ren. I like to think it was all a horrible vengeance exacted by sentient avianoids who discovered Paris, in his boyhood, killed a mother bird in her nest. Lol I didn't even notice that. I was too distracted by the fact that Paris was gently scolding the bird woman from 70,000 light years into the void that smoking was bad for her.
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Bogus Adventure posted:lmao, look at that dude's head Yeah but DS9 has the Jem'Hadar and the Cardassians and the Breen.
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Feb 24, 2020 22:27
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DS9 had the most exotic aliens of all: good writers.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Yeah but DS9 has the Jem'Hadar and the Cardassians and the Breen. Cardassians came from TNG, though.
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Feb 24, 2020 22:46
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Arcsquad12 posted:Ira Behr looks like an alien. i'm the purple goatee
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Feb 24, 2020 22:47
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Farscape had the best aliens. Fight me.
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Feb 24, 2020 22:50
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Didn’t the blue Farscape lady have medical issues because of the makeup?
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Rent-A-Cop posted:Farscape had the best aliens. I'm the "alien" who is human in every manner of appearance and behavior, but is cold-blooded, like it's a generic trait I just toggled in an RPG for +20% fire resist, -10% cold resist.
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Rent-A-Cop posted:Farscape had the best aliens. They had actual Jim Henson puppets didn't they?
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Rent-A-Cop posted:Farscape had the best aliens. Andreas Katsulas wasn't on that show.
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I might like Farscape more if Ben browder was even remotely believable as an astronaut. I really feel like I couldn’t tell the difference between his roles on Farscape and sg-1. Part of it is probably that he seems to have only gotten a break two years before, and part of it is probably an Australian’s view of what an American astronaut should be. But honestly, I found him the weakest part of Farscape by some margin. I liked Claudia black, tho.
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Luitpold posted:Andreas Katsulas wasn't on that show. The Katsulas / Jurasik dynamic was so well acted and so well written, I can't think of anything in recent sci fi that approaches it.
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infernal machines posted:They had actual Jim Henson puppets didn't they? In that the show was produced in-house by the Henson workshop, yes.
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Yeah, that's gonna be hard to top
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I assumed the way to think of it was that that same process is currently playing out across dozens of planets, starships, and starbases across the Federation for probably about a few hundred slots in a class year on Earth. Relatively speaking, the odds of getting in on a galactic scale against hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of potential other candidates are slim. I thought they stated this was for extra special early admission
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Xenocides posted:Then realize that Reginald Barclay somehow passed that test. could have just taken one look at the disaster and walked immediately out admiral brahms: "well cadet... it wasn't heroic, but it's technically a pass." *stamps paper 'engineering', pencils in la forje with a shiteating smirk on his face*
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Lord Ludikrous posted:1x19 - Coming of Age Was that planet an actual Member World? I thought it was just some piddlywinks outpost or something. I seriously doubt it's only one applicant per planet regardless of how heavily populated the planet is. As for the A/B-plot structure, while it works for some episodes, late-TNG gets absurdly slavish to it IMO.
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Mulaney Power Move posted:I thought they stated this was for extra special early admission oh, right, yeah that's true - I think those were all like ultra TAG kids or something like that
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There's multiple episodes of DS9 where Starfleet loses thousands upon thousands of people in a single battle, Starfleet Academy has to be really turning them out.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:oh, right, yeah that's true - I think those were all like ultra TAG kids or something like that Imagine how much of a nerdlinger you'd have to be to be considered "special" by Starfleet
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:There's multiple episodes of DS9 where Starfleet loses thousands upon thousands of people in a single battle, Starfleet Academy has to be really turning them out. ships are mostly crewed by nco's, it's just that aside from o'brien none of them have ever been seen or mentioned. it's not considered polite to acknowledge their existence in civilized company.
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Yeah Starfleet academy is like going to West Point. After Wolf 359 when the Federation started using "escort vessels" it seems like a lot more ships went back to using enlisted personnel.
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I'm just going to imagine that Starfleet has a bunch of bumpkins with banjos travelling around its worlds singing "If you want to have a good time, jine Starfleet! Jine Starfleet! Jine Starfleet!"
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Lord Ludikrous posted:[*]The whole process of getting into Starfleet Academy just feels really off to me. In fact it makes the Federation as a whole seem really, really small. There could also be different pools. Like Bashir attended Starfleet Academy as a medical student, so his application probably wasn't contesting against kids trying to get into the command track or engineering. Some people get a leg up based on background too, I bet. Worf was the first Klingon in starfleet and they were happy to have him, but he never shows any particular aptitude for advanced math or warp theory. Nog was a good kid but I'm not sure he would beat the scores of these kids in this episode, the novelty of "first ferengi in starfleet" probably helped him get in. Yar's rape gang planet probably didn't have great schools. There's a handful of Bajorans and they mostly have tragic backstories of work camps and refugee misery, not fancy private schools. I'd expect at least a few thousand kids entering starfleet academy each year. Then again, Boothby only has so much time in a day, so maybe they lock it down to a couple hundred just so he has time to get to them all.
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Oh my god it's not loving affirmative action, Ferengi are canonically math geniuses.
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Wait, which awful racial stereotype were they meant to be?
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worf's log, stardate 45494.2: an alien threw me across the bridge today while i was in the middle of formulating an alternative solution to fermat's theorem. lost my train of thought and bruised my hip where i landed on my baldric. i hope i don't get a wesley detail for this.
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Pick posted:Oh my god it's not loving affirmative action, Ferengi are canonically math geniuses. Nog also had some engineering aptitude iirc
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nog wasn't a ridiculous engineering savant, but he was raised by one so he probably picked some stuff up.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fuzh6RT0wx8&t=179s I believe Nog had scenes where he helped Rom repair things in/around the bar before this, a few times (??), so just like in real life having actual experience is really valuable in many ways. e: And Wesley's test was probably extremely cruelly targeted to hinge around the idea of sometimes having to choose between two tragedies since his father was the consequence of such a choice and not like, Academy-wide. Giggs fucked around with this message at 03:59 on Feb 25, 2020 |
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infernal machines posted:Imagine how much of a nerdlinger you'd have to be to be considered "special" by Starfleet i don't have to, he's literally in the main cast 
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Didn’t the blue Farscape lady have medical issues because of the makeup? No, she said the stress and lack of sleep caused by the shooting schedule and prosthetics made her kidneys bleed. She is now into crystals, meditation, and naturopathy.
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infernal machines posted:Wait, which awful racial stereotype were they meant to be? lmao
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infernal machines posted:Wait, which awful racial stereotype were they meant to be? Capitalists
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infernal machines posted:Wait, which awful racial stereotype were they meant to be? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXqf7ks7l7I
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:As for the A/B-plot structure, while it works for some episodes, late-TNG gets absurdly slavish to it IMO. TNGrek really loved a musical sting paired with a reaction shot as a throw to commercials, they were mad on that poo poo
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oh but seriously I posted:TNGrek really loved a musical sting paired with a reaction shot as a throw to commercials, they were mad on that poo poo mm yea, the good stuff
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