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Arquinsiel posted:Because I'm on that sort of a kick, I looked up the USS Farragut to see what class it was only to discover that not only was the Nebula class Farragut destroyed in the Federation-Klingon war, but it was replaced by an Excelsior class, which means that in 2373 either they had one spare and awaiting commission, or they churned it out in a couple of weeks to slap the name on it and assign it to DS9 Probably a retired and decommissioned ship which needed a new name to be thrown back into service. With Kirk I think it would be fun to have the Farragut show up in an episode of SNW along with seeing a bunch of its crew whose names we don't know. They could drop Kirk in there as a little easter egg.
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The Bloop posted:I don't believe that a plurality of posters individually saying the series is worth watching constitutes "groupthink" lmao It's just a dumb word I picked based on the fact that the majority of the group seems to think it's good, I didn't mean to inject any ill colour into the discussion.
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CharlestheHammer posted:It’s very convent that groupthink is always used for opinions you disagree with. I'm perfectly comfortable indulging in groupthink, I'm sick of being contrary I just wanna agree with people for once
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CharlestheHammer posted:It’s very convent that groupthink is always used for opinions you disagree with. Here, let me ftfy: Martytoof posted:But also just remember that it’s perfectly fine to not like it, even if you get through 9 and 10. I know the
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Senor Tron posted:Probably a retired and decommissioned ship which needed a new name to be thrown back into service.
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piratepilates posted:Also I think Lower Decks ep. 10 is good and the rest are a solid "mediocre" but that's not a dirty secret, I've said that in this thread. Same, though overall I thought the quality slowly increased through the season. Hopefully season 2 will continue this trend, or even be flat out.. good???
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The Bloop posted:It would also suck to miss the dog ep but people want watchlists for >5 hour seasons I guess *clonk* *clonk* *clonk* "...Aaaanyway," Edit: just realised that for all we know, Data created Spot the same way. 
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Oct 20, 2020 08:09
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Dog episode ruled.
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I think Disco could be really good if it could just chill the gently caress out for 15 minutes. Pick 2-3 of your Insane Dramas and spread it out over a season, rather than per episode!
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Payndz posted:God, yes, you have to watch the dog episode.
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Something minor that bugs me about modern (JJ-on) Trek: why do phasers now always fire Star Wars-style energy bolts with really feeble "plip-plip" sound effects? I skipped through some of the Discovery S3 opener to a space battle (with the inevitable madly spinning ships, but whatever) that sounded like a ZX Spectrum shooter game. C'mon, if you must do bolts rather than beams, at least make them sound powerful!
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Payndz posted:Something minor that bugs me about modern (JJ-on) Trek: why do phasers now always fire Star Wars-style energy bolts with really feeble "plip-plip" sound effects? I skipped through some of the Discovery S3 opener to a space battle (with the inevitable madly spinning ships, but whatever) that sounded like a ZX Spectrum shooter game. C'mon, if you must do bolts rather than beams, at least make them sound powerful! My take on it was they looked/sounded different and weird to emphasize that it's THE FUTURE and things are different you guys!!! Like the megaman guns. Because yeah I thought they sounded dumb as hell too. e: at least 1 modern Trek knows how it's done  
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Oct 20, 2020 11:39
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Feeble pee-pew sound effects have been a thing for years now and it's infected Star Wars too. I'm still curious as to why exactly.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Feeble pee-pew sound effects have been a thing for years now and it's infected Star Wars too. I'm still curious as to why exactly.  (I know, he wasn't "fired" so much as "wasn't asked to come back" after TFA.)All I can think is that it's a combination of cheapness and laziness. Why pay for a guy to go out for days to record the sound of wind whistling through radio mast cables when you can just play with the settings on a synth until you get something kinda-sorta like what you want - or simply pull [spaceship_engine_noise_037.mp3] from a stock library?
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If I had to come up with an excuse for it, it would be: earlier sci-fi had loud, flashy weapons because special effects were relatively primitive, and so to emphasize how crazy-futuristic everything was, sci-fi weapons were loud and flashy and made big explosions. Nowadays, everything sci-fi is sleek, and minimalist, and that extends to the weapons.
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I'd argue that a single punching beam is sleeker, but I get your point. It feels like it was only DS9 that made really good use of the visual of the Galaxy-class dorsal phaser array in action, was sort of wasted potential in TNG (like a lot of TNG)
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I'm now trying to think what the last properly memorable/powerful sci-fi weapon sound effect was. Aliens' pulse rifles? Robocop's Auto-9? (Something I found disappointing about Dredd was how the Lawgiver sounded like... just some generic gun, rather than a futuristic version of Dirty Harry's .44 Magnum.) Maybe those space-mine things from Attack of the Clones?
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Payndz posted:I'm now trying to think what the last properly memorable/powerful sci-fi weapon sound effect was. Aliens' pulse rifles? Robocop's Auto-9? (Something I found disappointing about Dredd was how the Lawgiver sounded like... just some generic gun, rather than a futuristic version of Dirty Harry's .44 Magnum.) Maybe those space-mine things from Attack of the Clones? How memorable they are is questionable, but Elysium had three I really liked a lot that, in theaters at least, both looked and sounded like stuff you don't want to gently caress around with that I dug The shrapnel ammunition that shatters the gently caress out of robots That laser cutter thing they use to create a hole in the ship really fast That gun that shoots through walls towards the end The laser thing was my favorite because it was so clearly some kind of industrial machining tool they jury-rigged to be a portable cut poo poo open quickly during a heist gun Neo Rasa fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Oct 20, 2020 |
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Oct 20, 2020 17:47
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My dad sent me this and I thought you'd all appreciate it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZtS87Do47A Good luck getting that theme out of your head for the next couple days.
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The old school beam phasers were great. I think about a ship firing while maneuvering and the beam moving along the saucer section.
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mehall posted:My dad sent me this and I thought you'd all appreciate it - I love this.
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mehall posted:My dad sent me this and I thought you'd all appreciate it - You were right; I do appreciate this! 
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Feeble pee-pew sound effects have been a thing for years now and it's infected Star Wars too. I'm still curious as to why exactly. Attack of the Clones had jaw-dropping sound in theaters. Shame about the rest of it.
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mehall posted:My dad sent me this and I thought you'd all appreciate it - It's one of the greatest TV themes of all time. I'll let you off.
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Arglebargle IV posted:Attack of the Clones had jaw-dropping sound in theaters. Shame about the rest of it. Those space mines that Jango's ship had were just awesome sound wise. The delay and then completely wild bass punching in was great.
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J33uk posted:Those space mines that Jango's ship had were just awesome sound wise. The delay and then completely wild bass punching in was great. There's something similar in Picard, two moments of sound design that really stand out: Seven's Fenris fighter slamming into the Romulan colony world's planetary shields, and the big honkin' THWOOOOOOOOOOOOOM when the Borg Cube comes barrelling out of the transwarp corridor.
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It's been done to death but I liked the Inception PWOOOOOOMS when the Pakled ships appeared in LDS
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mehall posted:My dad sent me this and I thought you'd all appreciate it - Thank you! This is the only thing about Discovery I have ever enjoyed.
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I was listening to the Greatest Gen guys on their podcast about the new Disco episode, and one of them was apparently confused as to why Michael reacted when her suit computer indicated lifeform readings. Even though the episode has a recap of Season 2 at the beginning which specifically reminds about the whole plot of Control and the reason why they had to go to the future. Then he doubles down with 'well I don't think they should have shown those CGI creatures before that to ruin the moment' even though we had just seen that dogfight between the two ships near the planet that Michael crashed into. I was just incredulous at this entire exchange.
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Greatest Gen, like many goons, are really loving bad at actually watching tv.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Greatest Gen, like many goons, are really loving bad at actually watching tv.
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Payndz posted:I'm now trying to think what the last properly memorable/powerful sci-fi weapon sound effect was. Aliens' pulse rifles? Robocop's Auto-9? (Something I found disappointing about Dredd was how the Lawgiver sounded like... just some generic gun, rather than a futuristic version of Dirty Harry's .44 Magnum.) Maybe those space-mine things from Attack of the Clones? The quake 2 railgun.
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A.o.D. posted:The quake 2 railgun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djjeIKOJgIg
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HD DAD posted:Drunken Disco speculation. Spoilered just in case. This better be the plot
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It's nice, but it's no rail.
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FlamingLiberal posted:I was listening to the Greatest Gen guys on their podcast about the new Disco episode, and one of them was apparently confused as to why Michael reacted when her suit computer indicated lifeform readings. Even though the episode has a recap of Season 2 at the beginning which specifically reminds about the whole plot of Control and the reason why they had to go to the future. Then he doubles down with 'well I don't think they should have shown those CGI creatures before that to ruin the moment' even though we had just seen that dogfight between the two ships near the planet that Michael crashed into. I was just incredulous at this entire exchange. I am so glad I dropped this podcast.
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Do they not know about dramatic irony
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I honestly had checked out of the Control plot so hard I forgot the part about destroying all life everywhere and don't remember that being mentioned specifically in the recap, so was also confused until I saw someone here post about it.
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Missing something isn’t like the worst sin, it happens. It gets goons real steamed I guess
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Finally watched the new Disco. The show rarely felt like Star Trek but now it's at the point where it feels like something other than Star Trek. In this case, Mass Effect. This is now a Mass Effect show. That's... kinda cool. Now all they need is a director (of photography) who isn't fond of a camera so shaky that it makes me feel ill in the first 10 minutes of the episode and a director (of acting) who can reign in Sonequa's overly melodramatic range. It would also help if there weren't Storm Trooper levels of bad aim and deux ex "we shot at you every other encounter but we won't shoot at you for this final encounter" levels of storyboarding. Everything else about the episode was great and I'm actually looking forward to seeing the high budget they seemed to have put towards making a future-future that looks gorgeous and Mass Effect levels of cool tech. Snow Cone Capone posted:It's been done to death but I liked the Inception PWOOOOOOMS when the Pakled ships appeared in LDS DaveKap fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Oct 21, 2020 |
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