alexandriao posted:

All that being said they do start getting better at it in season 2

Facebook Aunt posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyzlVpiypOM

DS9's writer's room posted:

We wrote this high as balls and had a great time

CainFortea posted:

I liked it at first. But it's just a constant whiplash of i love you man/I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire.

Lady Militant posted:

when voyager is your favorite star trek series

Ghostlight posted:

Defiance was too good to last.

Drewsky posted:

About to wrap up my first watch of TNG, had never watched any Star Trek before this.

What series should I start next?

Infidel Castro posted:

I'd make a case for TOS because there's gonna be a lot of referential stuff in later series. It's only 79 episodes in total, and there are quite a few that you can skip without worry since it was 100% episodic back then.

If 60's Sci-Fi isn't your thing (which I get), I would suggest you watch at least these episodes as they're pretty critical to a lot of the Star Trek lore or just outright fantastic episodes.

The Menagerie
Balance of Terror
Arena
Space Seed
The Devil In The Dark
The City on the Edge of Forever
Amok Time
Mirror, Mirror
The Doomsday Machine
The Trouble with Tribbles
Journey to Babel
The Enterprise Incident
The Tholian Web

Neddy Seagoon posted:

The Cage is quite relevant now due to Discovery season 2 and Strange New Worlds.

Infidel Castro posted:

The Menagerie recycled a lot of The Cage, so it's a bit redundant to watch both if you're only going through critical episodes.

MrTargetPractice posted:

I would go against other people in this thread and suggest you watch some of the shittier Treks first. That way you have DS9 to look forward to. It's first season goes down a lot better if you've just given up on Voyager after watching the dumb salamander regression sex episode for instance.

Neddy Seagoon posted:

Let's talk about Enterprise and Acquisition


The episode opens with four Ferengi strange round-eared aliens not unlike the Ferengi Enterprise-D canonically makes first-contact with excitedly talk in their own language while their ship approaches a seemingly-disabled and drifting Enterprise. Don't worry though, these aren't TNG's serious and supposedly-dangerous Ferengi though; They're well and truly DS9 Ferengi. Played by Clint Howard, Ethan Phillips and Jeffrey Coombs. This episode is dumb as gently caress and it knows it .

Everyone on Enterprise is out cold and slumped over, while a couple of the Ferengi mysterious aliens go shopping through the ship in gas masks to poke around and see what's to be found in their prize. And be very tantalized by pointy Vulcan ears when they find T'Pol. They disable a device in Engineering that seems to have knocked everyone out before taking off their masks, and raise some eyebrows about Enterprise's air supply if a single device can get through air filters and what should be independently-pressurized sections on a spaceship. Not everyone's out cold though; Trip's sitting in Decon in his underwear and getting real annoyed at how long he's been made to wait. Nobody answers when he gets ornery at the intercom because he's been in there an hour now instead of 20 minutes, so he shorts the doors and slips on out to find everyone's taking very sudden naps.

Medbay's much the same when Trip goes in search of Dr. Phlox, just in time to hide and watch the Ferengi invaders turn up to take everything that's not nailed down. Including two of them carrying about a loving torpedo on a cart in the corridor . While Trip's hiding, the Ferengi aliens proceed to take anything they perceive might be of value. Clothing, food, Enterprise's brass dedication plate, and of course Porthos. The female crew are also unceremoniously dragged to the cargo bay for a future as slaves, while Archer gets woken up so the Ferengi interlopers can learn where the real prize is; The Ship's Vault! Riches! Jewels! Gold-pressed Latinum! Archer tries to explain they're a ship of exploration and there's no such thing, but the Ferengi attackers aren't having any of it. They've gotta keep their valuables somewhere after all, so hand'em over! And who they are is... unimportant. It's only when they bring up the female crew going to the slave markets that Archer wises up and offers to trade; He'll give them half the gold bars in their Vault if he can have the other half. Archer tries to argue down to 35% for himself, but they've decided they'll go find the vault themselves while Archer gets to load their booty onto their ship under the supervision of Krem. Krem is not a smart cookie.

Archer gets the lowdown on the Ferengi visitors, learning about their profit-driven society and the Rules of Acquisition while loading up their tiny little ship with their spoils, getting an opportunity to speak to Trip and tells him to go find the hypospray they woke Archer with. It's in the launch bay along with the female crewmembers, and Trip's able to wake T'Pol with the sole dose still in it. Just in time for Krem to come bumbling in and fawn over a T'Pol who now has to feign unconsciousness before Archer manages to get him out the door again. It's the three of them against four incompetent Ferengi aliens, and they've already cleaned out the weapon lockers, so the only option is separate them and take them down one-by-one in a series of tactical stealth strikes... hmm? What? *checks notes* Oh right, sorry, this is a comedy episode.

Trip sets up a security look on an innocuous room for later, while T'Pol sews a few seeds of doubt among the group by moving their belongings about to cause an argument. There's no way they'd steal from eachother, at least until T'Pol remotely triggers a scanner in one of their bags to cause a squabble. They never do find the third scanner they're arguing over that T'Pol kept for herself though . Trip's own efforts unfortunately lead him right into the Ferengi aliens and a dose of a good-old fashioned of an energy whip. Archer's meanwhile trying to convince Krem to turn on his fellow crew so they stop treating him like poo poo, when the others drag in Trip and are real worried others are going to start waking up soon. Trip manages to get across to Archer that there's a plan in play, offering to tell the Ferengi aliens where the Vault is so long as they spare his "wife" Hoshi. Archer and Trip have a fantastic little feigned argument over how many bars of gold Hoshi is supposedly worth to Trip, and I'm annoyed I can't find a clip of it just to show Scott Bacula clearly having a lot of fun the scene. ("Okay; fifteen!" *PUNCH*)

Trip leads them on a long meandering route through the ship that most certainly isn't going in circles to buy time, while T'Pol helps Archer take out Krem and get their hands on a few phase-pistols. Just in time for Trip to finally lead the Ferengi captors to the "vault" behind the sealed door and get them stunned by T'Pol. They revive the crew and supervise the Ferengi aliens unloading their stolen goods back onto Enterprise, along with a threat that if they ever come within a lightyear of Earth or Vulcan they'll regret it.

Wonder if we'll ever see this mysteriously-unnamed capitalistic species again...

Eighties ZomCom posted:

If Threshold was anyway scientifically accurate they'd have evolved into crabs instead.

Pondex posted:

Loved that they lingered a second on Clint Howard's fancy socks as he's stealing a pair of boots. Apparently some ferengi are dandies.

sweet geek swag posted:

FTFY

Nitrousoxide posted:

SidneyIsTheKiller posted:

Say whatever about Star Trek Nemesis but the deleted scenes definitely give off the impression Picard and Crusher have been no-strings boinking so it gets a couple points from me just for that.

HD DAD posted:

Honestly Nemesis has the bones of a good movie, but the script needed another pass by a better writer, and Paramount should have just let Frakes take the helm again instead of Baird hate-directing the thing.

Lady Militant posted:

when voyager is your favorite star trek series

Tiberius Christ posted:

The gently caress is Big Spock I only recognize bigger Luke

mango sentinel posted:

https://twitter.com/TrekCore/status/1371113892596776966?s=19

Nitrousoxide posted:

Even as a 8 year old kid watching that I thought it was dumb as hell.