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Early season Voyager is so much better than later Voyager. Just remembering basic poo poo like Janeway being a science officer, the Maquis-Starfleet problems, things are scarce.
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No 6 of 9 tho
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Mar 13, 2020 02:33
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Okay Voyager has found this dead planet with these people in stasis pods controlled by a computer but why do they involve themselves??? Why don't they just say "that's hosed up" and move on??
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Mar 13, 2020 02:34
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I don't think you "get" star trekking.
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Mar 13, 2020 02:36
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Everyone concentrates on the prime directive of "don't interfere with prewarp civilisations" but nobody thinks about the second directive "gently caress with literally anything else metaphorically or literally"
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Mar 13, 2020 04:27
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Colonel Cancer posted:No 6 of 9 tho I'm 4 of 20
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Mar 13, 2020 04:35
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Ghostlight posted:Everyone concentrates on the prime directive of "don't interfere with prewarp civilisations" but nobody thinks about the second directive "gently caress with literally anything else metaphorically or literally" One thing I like with Babylon 5 is the Narns specifically, and probably most other races, have an active policy of Do not gently caress with the Walkers/Vorlons/Minbari/Anything powerful enough that we can't comprehend their technology.
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Mar 13, 2020 04:51
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Neddy Seagoon posted:One thing I like with Babylon 5 is the Narns specifically, and probably most other races, have an active policy of Do not gently caress with the Walkers/Vorlons/Minbari/Anything powerful enough that we can't comprehend their technology. hah, I'm literally watching the ep where this becomes clear it's also the one where walter koenig shows up for the first time and everyone has to deal with a telepath who's turning into dr manhattan in an EXTREMELY THESPIAN MANNER i love that show so god drat much
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Mar 13, 2020 05:14
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Neddy Seagoon posted:One thing I like with Babylon 5 is the Narns specifically, and probably most other races, have an active policy of Do not gently caress with the Walkers/Vorlons/Minbari/Anything powerful enough that we can't comprehend their technology. Yeah, but the Narns knew of the Shadows as the Shadows hosed with them destroying all their psychics in the last big war. It's part of their 'religion' to just stay the gently caress away.
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Mar 13, 2020 05:16
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happyhippy posted:Yeah, but the Narns knew of the Shadows as the Shadows hosed with them destroying all their psychics in the last big war. It's part of their 'religion' to just stay the gently caress away. No, even the Centauri no better than to gently caress with the Minbari or Vorlons.
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Mar 13, 2020 05:48
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I've really come to like Avenue 5.
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Mar 13, 2020 05:59
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The General posted:I've really come to like Avenue 5. Avenue 5 is great.
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Mar 13, 2020 08:13
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I’m also watching early Voyager. The episode where they decide to take comedy character Neelix and give him a war guilt story and make him do serious, tearful acting really blows.
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Mar 13, 2020 09:36
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Prism Mirror Lens posted:I’m also watching Voyager. The episode with Neelix really blows.
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Mar 13, 2020 10:10
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The General posted:I've really come to like Avenue 5. Is it the last, best hope for a nice space cruise?
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Mar 13, 2020 10:13
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I’m on Voyager again as well. Wife hates it. She also hates TNG and DS9 and Enterprise. But she loves Avenue 5 so at least we can watch that together. She really likes poop jokes that extend for multiple episodes.
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Mar 13, 2020 13:30
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voyager is a poop joke that lasts for multiple episodes, though?
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Mar 13, 2020 13:31
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No, Voyager is not poop. It is poo poo. There is a difference.
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Mar 13, 2020 13:32
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PenisMonkey posted:I’m on Voyager again as well. Wife hates it.  PenisMonkey posted:She also hates TNG and DS9  PenisMonkey posted:and Enterprise.
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Mar 13, 2020 13:47
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Prism Mirror Lens posted:I’m also watching early Voyager. The episode where they decide to take comedy character Neelix and give him a war guilt story and make him do serious, tearful acting really blows. Idk the one where he dies and realizes that there's no afterlife is pretty good. Too bad they bring him back
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Mar 13, 2020 14:17
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When I first watched TNG, I really enjoyed it, but now.... I was in the hospital a few weeks ago, without much to do but watch tv, and BBC America has marathons of both TNG and DS9. I binge watched the DS9, but the TNG stuff, while I watched a few episodes, it didnt feel like there was really a lot to make me keep watching.
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Mar 13, 2020 14:23
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Colonel Cancer posted:Idk the one where he dies and realizes that there's no afterlife is pretty good. But Chakotay’s spirit can fly around the ship possessing people when he’s braindead, he clearly has an afterlife of some kind. And they find an asteroid belt that has, like, spirit energy from the dead aliens nearby. It’s p clear that there is an afterlife, but Neelix isn’t allowed in
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Mar 13, 2020 14:50
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Epicurius posted:When I first watched TNG, I really enjoyed it, but now.... Skip to season 3, the first season is roooouuuuugh.
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Mar 13, 2020 15:07
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Yeah I'm watching TNG again on and off and I'm at season 1 and there's a couple of episodes that are a slog to get through. I've been on When the Bough Breaks for a couple of weeks now. Anytime I try to watch it my attention wanders and I end up watching something else. Had the same problem with Justice and ended up just skipping through it. And they both happen to be Wesley-centric episodes...
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Mar 13, 2020 15:32
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Man watching Picard is really rough. It feels like there are 6 writers but only 1 of them actually cares that this is supposed to be a Trek show. The others are just prestige TV hacks. The Trek person usually gets bullied and over ruled but once in a while they are able to sneak in a Very Star Trek speech about hope and curiosity in the middle of some bullshit melodrama.
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Mar 13, 2020 15:38
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The General posted:I've really come to like Avenue 5. I agree, I like how there's incredibly low stakes that turn to poo poo because everyone is petty and secretive and terrified
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Mar 13, 2020 15:57
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PenisMonkey posted:I’m on Voyager again as well. Wife hates it. She also hates TNG and DS9 and Enterprise. But she loves Avenue 5 so at least we can watch that together. She really likes poop jokes that extend for multiple episodes. hmm my wife only likes voyager and some of TNG. she thinks DS9 is boring as hell and hates t'pol in enterprise enough to never want to watch any of it
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Mar 13, 2020 15:59
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Brawnfire posted:I agree, I like how there's incredibly low stakes that turn to poo poo because everyone is petty and secretive and terrified I thought the first episode was pretty crap and just rehashed the same three jokes at louder volumes to force comedy. But I gave it another go tonight seeing as other people here seemed to like it and Avenue 5 definitely gets way better in subsequent episodes as it finds its legs.
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Poopelyse posted:she thinks DS9 is boring as hell Your wife is right. It's probably the best Star Trek in terms of ~themes~ and ~characters~ but good lord it's loving dull the vast majority of the time
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Mar 13, 2020 16:12
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picard is so unrealistic you can't walk away from a wood-fired oven and not expect a pizza to be carbon a minute later
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Mar 13, 2020 16:32
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My first reaction at seeing the Troi-Rikers' house is "wow that place is like a boomer dream mansion". All it's missing is Riker's mancave in the basement.
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Mar 13, 2020 16:43
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Drone posted:My first reaction at seeing the Troi-Rikers' house is "wow that place is like a boomer dream mansion". I rolled my eyes at the windows glowing for the shields. I mean wouldn’t they be under some kind of dome that protects more than the literal house
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Mar 13, 2020 17:07
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mediaphage posted:I rolled my eyes at the windows glowing for the shields. I mean wouldn’t they be under some kind of dome that protects more than the literal house After Voyager/Insurrection/Nemesis, star trek (at least federation) shields transitioned from bubbles to form-fitting.
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Mar 13, 2020 17:17
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Blistex posted:After Voyager/Insurrection/Nemesis, star trek (at least federation) shields transitioned from bubbles to form-fitting. Which I can understand for a ship, but a house? Think about the damage that superheated air is going to cause all around it if it gets hit with something you need shields for
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Mar 13, 2020 17:19
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I haven't seen Avenue 5 but it sounds like Aniara with a laugh track, and I absolutely loved Aniara.
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Mar 13, 2020 17:20
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I haven't seen Avenue 5 but it sounds like Aniara with a laugh track, and I absolutely loved Aniara. I think it’s real hit and miss. A lot of the jokes fall totally flat, to me, I hate the Jared from Silicon Valley character, etc. But the yoga class slamming into a window is hilarious and totally believable.
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Mar 13, 2020 17:22
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The General posted:I've really come to like Avenue 5. It's great and there is a tviv thread for it now!
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Mar 13, 2020 17:22
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mediaphage posted:I think it’s real hit and miss. A lot of the jokes fall totally flat, to me, I hate the Jared from Silicon Valley character, etc. But the yoga class slamming into a window is hilarious and totally believable. He's grown on me, I like that he was the mental and moral support specialist for a luxury cruise that suddenly is the mental and moral support specialist for thousands of people in a three-year rising crisis
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Mar 13, 2020 17:23
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?? The Customer Services guy owns so hard. Edit: It takes a few episodes to get there though. Also I always laugh at the delay.
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The General posted:?? The Customer Services guy owns so hard. I like the dark joke in one of the recent episodes that it's just agreed that nobody is going to be surprised if/when he commits suicide. And mutually agreed there were no warning signs, as far as HR is concerned.
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