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FlamingLiberal posted:Why is there a rear deflector if the ships were solar or source-powered in any way they would want one of those https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_sail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_solar_power it actually makes the most sense when real science is considered
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Or a towed sensor array analogous to submarines' towed sonar arrays
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lmao the first one of those I recognized from context was the Pakled episode and Worf was extremely right
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 Refresh my memory. Was the episode that Geordi had a fling with holo Brahms after or before everyone got on Barclay’s case of having holo fantasies? Cause.... Original https://youtu.be/RphWASTSvJ8 Real https://youtu.be/8z31gO1YcNQ I do think these two episodes are really good. I think the actress for Brahms did a great job too Gatts fucked around with this message at 19:23 on May 13, 2020 |
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Retrowave Joe posted:It's the 23rd century version of a spare tire on the back of a Jeep. Now I wish the runabouts went around with spare warp coils on the back. And a luggage rack on top with hyperkayaks Miles has had up there for years but just never can find the time to take that big trip to the Yukon Nebula. McSpanky fucked around with this message at 20:23 on May 13, 2020 |
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Gatts posted:
well after. and as is explained each time in the thread, despite geordi being an incel it was really the computer that was hitting on him.
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The computer is a self aware entity and it loves Geordi.
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Chomp8645 posted:The computer is a self aware entity and it loves Geordi. His name is Data
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I’m on season 6 of voyager and the highs are getting higher. The episode with the planet out of sync with the universe where time passed at a super accelerated rate and Voyager in orbit became a religious icon was really, really good For every two or three stupid doctor singing at aliens / some ponderous boring personal issue episodes there’s at least one high concept sci fi one that knocks it outta the park
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Frog Act posted:I’m on season 6 of voyager and the highs are getting higher. The episode with the planet out of sync with the universe where time passed at a super accelerated rate and Voyager in orbit became a religious icon was really, really good Who did the accelerated time planet better? Voyager or Orville?
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I’m thinking I should get around to watching the Orville after I finish my current trek rewatch, which still has TNG to go through. It looks a lot better than Disco or Picard
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The Orville is more trek than any actual trek show produced since Enterprise.
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Frog Act posted:I’m on season 6 of voyager and the highs are getting higher. The episode with the planet out of sync with the universe where time passed at a super accelerated rate and Voyager in orbit became a religious icon was really, really good Just stay around a few hours longer till the fast time people invent some technology that will instantly get you back to Earth! You've burned whole weeks on dumber poo poo!
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That episode plagiarized the novel Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Just stay around a few hours longer till the fast time people invent some technology that will instantly get you back to Earth! You've burned whole weeks on dumber poo poo! yeah that one kind of bugged me out, since, in the time between them being early space age and the end of the planet's attacks on voyager, they had advanced from the 1950s to roughly equivalent to Starfleet. B'Elanna tells Janeway at the end of the episode, when they're out of orbit, they'll need about two hours to fix the warp drive if, in the previous two hours, the inhabitants of the planet managed to invent a temporal compensator more sophisticated than anything the federation / voyager possessed, than it totally follows that they'd just be able to perfect quantum slipstream or whatever in another hour or so when they've learned how to completely bridge the temporal gap
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Frog Act posted:For every two or three stupid doctor singing at aliens / some ponderous boring personal issue episodes there’s at least one high concept sci fi one that knocks it outta the park That was a mediocre episode but I liked the resolution that the aliens rejected the doctor because he couldn't sing complex enough music for them even though it sounded terrible. Reminds me of the kind of music nerd who thinks that the more technical a piece is, the better it is. And to be honest I used to be like that when I was a teenager.
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Frog Act posted:yeah that one kind of bugged me out, since, in the time between them being early space age and the end of the planet's attacks on voyager, they had advanced from the 1950s to roughly equivalent to Starfleet. B'Elanna tells Janeway at the end of the episode, when they're out of orbit, they'll need about two hours to fix the warp drive Actually I've come up with a reasoning: Janeway loving hates Qs. She's worried that if she sticks around the inhabitants are going to transcend to a new plane of existence and turn into a bunch of Qs. She wants to get away as fast as possible while they're doing that so they get the message to leave her and Voyager alone.
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"pagh tlhuHmey DechtaH partla’ Huj’eng teb Hoch qojmey getlh paghmeH ram ‘ach,’a loghDajmey je chIm loghmey ghajmey law’ tay’ ‘ang nIHwI’pa’ paghmey ghomrI’quprIp wIchIrgh larghtlhuH He’ yIn nobtun lojmItvam tIj chIrgh wIquvmoH vaj tlhIHqanglah chaw’ta’ tIlegh paghmey je tu’ wewmey largh yIn" ----------- Translation: "Blankness of soul surrounds like stifling fog filling every crevise with dull nothing even night in her eternities and hallow spaces has more to show than the blanknesses worship at her temple sniff deep the scent of life give softly at the doorway to the inner sanctum she will bless Then you’ll be allowed to see into nothings and find glowing breathing life" - David E. Howerton (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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i'm seeing the defiant all over season 3, but wasn't it destroyed by the dominion when it was boarded and all the crew taken captive and put into a simulation? did the dominion just give it back cuz odo asked for it? was it still space-worthy cuz i'm pretty sure they hosed it up?
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it was hosed up but not destroyed because they wanted to kidnap the people onboard. they give it back not just cause odo asked for it but because he threatened that they would need to use force on him personally to achieve their goals, which was incomprehensible to the founders as their entire civilisation was built on goo solidarity.
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i'm curious if the founders' plan of shooting their babies into space and then maybe reconnecting if they survive to adulthood was ever successful. i'm also not sure if providing live specimens that can reveal all their weaknesses across the universe jives with their pathological need for secrecy.
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RaySmuckles posted:i'm seeing the defiant all over season 3, but wasn't it destroyed by the dominion when it was boarded and all the crew taken captive and put into a simulation? It suffered severe damage but it was returned to the Federation.
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Timby posted:It suffered severe damage but it was returned to the Federation. well that's nice of the dominion
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They will do a lot of concessions for their own. They wanted Odo to make the choice to return to the Great Link on his own, and that meant not letting his friends die. They instead try to instill paranoia of solids in him through a long campaign of undermining his faith in people, and they only switch to actively trying to kill his friends when it becomes apparent he won't budge without their nudge.
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odo is jizz the great link is a planet of jizz
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Dr. Fishopolis posted:odo is jizz how's the weather? fit for a dip?
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Ghostlight posted:solidarity. Ha-ha! 
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RaySmuckles posted:how's the weather? fit for a dip? warm and salty 24/7
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:i'm curious if the founders' plan of shooting their babies into space and then maybe reconnecting if they survive to adulthood was ever successful. i'm also not sure if providing live specimens that can reveal all their weaknesses across the universe jives with their pathological need for secrecy. There was that episode where Odo found another changeling that had been sent out same as him. I can't remember if the guy left to rejoin the founders at the end or if he just went to be a smug prick in a different part of the galaxy
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Communist Walrus posted:There was that episode where Odo found another changeling that had been sent out same as him. I can't remember if the guy left to rejoin the founders at the end or if he just went to be a smug prick in a different part of the galaxy It basically went something like this 
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Dr. Fishopolis posted:odo is jizz The ocean cums the drop. The drop cums the ocean.
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I'm watching Who Watches The Watchers and apart from being a great episode, it has a phenomenal soundtrack. gently caress Rick Berman for firing Ron Jones.
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Communist Walrus posted:There was that episode where Odo found another changeling that had been sent out same as him. I can't remember if the guy left to rejoin the founders at the end or if he just went to be a smug prick in a different part of the galaxy After Odo was forced to make a long and torturous decision to not leave with him, the guy shot off to go back to living with herb animals. I've sure the novels had Odo searching for more of the 100 but aside from the story telling purpose most of them probably ended up vaporized in suns.
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I can’t get over Sisko’s decision at the end of “The Cardassians”. From what we see of Cardassia it’s not like there’s a few bad apples, it’s that their whole social, political and legal situations are p hosed up and likely to act against this kid. And he already has a Bajoran family. But Sisko’s just blithely like “bye, let the healing begin!!” Wtf
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It would be legitimizing Dukat's plot to deliberately separate a family for political purposes.
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Additionally, we never actually learn much about the civilian side of their world. Ulani, Tekeny, Natima, Gilora, Rekelen, Hogue, to some extent Damar all seem like pretty normal people. The govt might be messed up but govt being messed up isn't an excuse for people who like steal kids from developing countries on Earth. If anything, the biggest point the show was trying to make about them is it their military, judiciary, and secret police are hosed up, not the people as such.
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From my point of view they DID separate a family for political purposes. All Rugal knows is his Bajoran family. But to score points against Dukat they decided to take him away from that family regardless of what he wanted. Pa’Dar was almost certainly involved in all kinds of abhorrent stuff in the occupation too, and while he seems like a nice enough guy... I still wouldn’t hand a kid back to a space Nazi without some serious thought
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Chomp8645 posted:The ocean cums the drop. HBO's DS9: Laas is on the Promenade, blowing wads on passerby as a giant penis "Did you even know we could become spunk?" pentyne posted:After Odo was forced to make a long and torturous decision to not leave with him, the guy shot off to go back to living with herb animals. Peter David wrote a pretty decent DS9 book about one of the other Changelings coming to DS9, but he was a serial killer who just reveled in killing squishy solids. This was way back around season 1 or 2 but really it didn't need any bigger Founder backstory anyway, and it was before the silly EU era where everything had to be part of some 19-novel megaseries.
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