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thotsky posted:The TOS Episode "Court Martial" was pretty good, although it does seem weird how the prosecution does not have to present any evidence other than the computer tapes. You would think finding the jettisoned pod and/or a body would be pretty important. It's an okay episode, but Cogley's legal strategy always seemed strange to me: raise no objections and sit out the first part of the trial, then grandstand about being "accused by technology". The Measure of a Man seemed like a more accurate depiction of a court martial.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:It's an okay episode, but Cogley's legal strategy always seemed strange to me: raise no objections and sit out the first part of the trial, then grandstand about being "accused by technology". The Measure of a Man seemed like a more accurate depiction of a court martial. He also had no idea that the evidence was fake and lucked out that they figured out the ruse
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Kirk was clearly being manoeuvred into taking a fall, and part of that was recommended him the Federation’s worst lawyer.
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Probably not good for Finney that Cogley is his attorney A week later he was probably working in an asteroid mine
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Bunch of Trek RPG books on Humble Bundle, supporting the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
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Technowolf posted:Bunch of Trek RPG books on Humble Bundle, supporting the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. For a second there you got my hopes up that it was the old FASA stuff from the 80s. 
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MikeJF posted:Oh man I just saw an early study of the Enterprise-E and it looks so much nicer without all the little jaggies Mods are asleep post smooth enterprise.
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Duckula posted:Mods are asleep post smooth enterprise. It looks like something from the wierd time travel dream sequence from Star Trek IV that nobody discusses, ever.
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Astroman posted:It looks like something from the wierd time travel dream sequence from Star Trek IV that nobody discusses, ever. wait, the what? oh gently caress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65nSJrF-zgw&t=91s how did I forget about this scene 
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It’s like some perfectly coded film hack that makes you forget about it immediately after you see it. But when you watch it, you’re like... “what the gently caress”.
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It’s just so off the wall and unexpected as a time travel sequence. Everyone dies, becomes one, is reborn through fire, awakes. Because the rest of the film is basically comedy, it genuinely does get forgotten in a moment.
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I like the visual parallelism between the BOP/Enterprise/whale.
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The_Doctor posted:It’s just so off the wall and unexpected as a time travel sequence. Everyone dies, becomes one, is reborn through fire, awakes. Because the rest of the film is basically comedy, it genuinely does get forgotten in a moment. I like making time travel a really hosed up bizarre risky experience which helps a little bit to justify why it isn't happening all the time. As opposed to stuff like the end of First Contact when right at the end of the film they're just like "Ok, time to easily open a portal back to the future". MikeJF posted:Oh man I just saw an early study of the Enterprise-E and it looks so much nicer without all the little jaggies I'd love to see the Ent-E with Ent-D style detailing and finish. The original concept with forward swept pylons is interesting.
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I finally got my copy of the DS9 tech manual, and I’m a little disappointed it doesn’t have the real world footnotes like the TNG one did. They really added to making it a fun read, and helped explain some of the decisions as to why things are a certain way.
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Senor Tron posted:I like making time travel a really hosed up bizarre risky experience which helps a little bit to justify why it isn't happening all the time. As opposed to stuff like the end of First Contact when right at the end of the film they're just like "Ok, time to easily open a portal back to the future". That looks so right to me that I didnt even recognize it wasn't the same ship from the movies.
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ENT is really inconsistent with when they care about Xindi life and when they kill without remorse. I could chalk it up to different writers, or different characters but it's almost as bad as Janeway's characterization. Mayweather offers his life for a kamizake mission and I guess it's supposed to make me feel something, but he may as well be a recurring redshirt at this point. I keep fully expecting him to die to further Archer's manpain but he's so useless he hasn't been off the ship in 5 episodes. curiousTerminal fucked around with this message at 07:11 on Jul 30, 2020 |
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So O'Brien is Irish, I guess Keiko is japanese, and Picard is Franglish, but are Ryker, Geordi, Barkley, Crusher, and Pulaski just American? I guess Worf is really Russian, but he tries his hardest to cover that up. And I guess probably most writers forget that too.
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Technowolf posted:Bunch of Trek RPG books on Humble Bundle, supporting the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. This is a fantastic deal and STA is a really great RPG system. I'm playing in a weekly game of it now and having a blast.
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Riker is Alaskan. Geordi is from loving Mogadishu.
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Archer has been incompetent for drat near 3 years, been responsible for hundreds of deaths, and thrown a temper tantrum every single time something has gone even slightly not his way, but thank god he gave a 2 sentence speech about being kinda guilty about 2 of his dozens of lovely command decisions, or else I might be inclined to think he's a piece of poo poo!
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Pick posted:Riker is Alaskan. Geordi is from loving Mogadishu. The Siskos are the only African-American main or recurring characters in Star Trek, if I recall correctly. Uhura was from the African Confederation, Geordi is Somalian, Mayweather and Burnham's families were both spacers. Kass was from a colony world, I think? MikeJF fucked around with this message at 09:49 on Jul 30, 2020 |
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I think part of why they made Geordi from Mogadishu was an affirmative statement that, in fact, Africa will not be a hosed-up hellhole forever. Also what's wrong with being from the moon
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Yate's freighter being called the Xhosa implies a South African connection for her.
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Nessus posted:I think part of why they made Geordi from Mogadishu was an affirmative statement that, in fact, Africa will not be a hosed-up hellhole forever. Everyone assumes your family are either cheese farmers or whalers.
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I was about to say the Asian characters are actually the opposite, but it turns out it's pretty varied. Sulu and Harry Kim are both Americans, Hoshi and Keiko are both Japanese. Georgiou is Malaysian according to Sperg Alpha (despite the Greek name?).
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Until explicitly told otherwise, I will claim that the reason that there's not a lot of China-Chinese or anyone from India in Star Trek is because WWIII went very, very, very, very badly for those countries.
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I was reminded last night that the very first extremely racist joke I remember being told as a small child was about Star Trek.
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Sash! posted:Until explicitly told otherwise, I will claim that the reason that there's not a lot of China-Chinese or anyone from India in Star Trek is because WWIII went very, very, very, very badly for those countries. Khan Singh?
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Pick posted:Khan Singh? He’s gen X, pre WW3
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Lol at the thought of Kahn blasting Pixies as he gears up for world domination.
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Drone posted:I was about to say the Asian characters are actually the opposite, but it turns out it's pretty varied. Sulu and Harry Kim are both Americans, Hoshi and Keiko are both Japanese. Georgiou is Malaysian according to Sperg Alpha (despite the Greek name?). I woulda thought that Sulu was supposed to be from Japan proper from how he's got some traditional Japanese dress in the movies.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I woulda thought that Sulu was supposed to be from Japan proper from how he's got some traditional Japanese dress in the movies. The only thing we know is that Sulu once said he was born in San Francisco. He might have grown up anywhere on Earth (or off Earth, for that matter).
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Snow Cone Capone posted:I was reminded last night that the very first extremely racist joke I remember being told as a small child was about Star Trek. “So a Pakled, a Ferengi and an Irishman walk into a bar...”
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SlothfulCobra posted:I woulda thought that Sulu was supposed to be from Japan proper from how he's got some traditional Japanese dress in the movies. Chekov also sports some kinda ridiculous looking neo-Russian garb in Star Trek 3, too.
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I was going to tell y'all 5 jokes but I could only think of 4
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I really like this one.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUKt3KyMhHY
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SlothfulCobra posted:So O'Brien is Irish, I guess Keiko is japanese, and Picard is Franglish, but are Ryker, Geordi, Barkley, Crusher, and Pulaski just American? wait I thought Worf's family were like, uber Greek
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sexpig by night posted:wait I thought Worf's family were like, uber Greek This clip has subtle hints as to where Worf's family is from. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=138gX3wolOo
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