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So while I hated the Doopler thing, I will concede that Richard Kind did sell the poo poo out of it and was basically the perfect voice.
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Cross-Section posted:https://twitter.com/wcruz73/status/1436333680880934927 gently caress that’s awful
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galenanorth posted:It was a repeat of "The Trouble with Tribbles", but I liked the beginning and "it's a lot easier to not be nervous around people being actively mean toward you" resolution True. Like the doopler I have an anxiety disorder, so when his own anxiety keeps making things worse and worse I was like, "yep that's how it is". I have other people in my life with anxiety disorders, and when the bridge crew was exhausted after a week of walking on eggshells to avoid setting off the doopler that felt very real too. Someone needs to work on anti-anxiety meds for dooplers.
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Sep 11, 2021 21:56
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MikeJF posted:My understanding is that a lot of the car chase was actually reference-based humour - specifically that it works better if you remember the blues brothers mall chase. I was waiting for Mariner to say "new shuttlecraft are in early this year". Problematic Soup posted:Also, I deeply appreciated the skant callback. Apparently, they’re still regulation uniforms. I think that in most cases, it looks like a crew has a wide variety of approved uniforms they can use, at least for certain functions. Speaking of uniforms, the Cerritos dress/party uniforms are gorgeous. The white with striking contrast lines is baller as hell. I think it works better in animation than it would in live action because of the stark white they can get for extra contrast.
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Sep 11, 2021 22:10
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So the Doopler homeworld would have to look like the planet from that one episode of TOS where the planet was so overpopulated, everyone was just standing around and couldn't move, right?
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Sep 11, 2021 22:11
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FlamingLiberal posted:So the Doopler homeworld would have to look like the planet from that one episode of TOS where the planet was so overpopulated, everyone was just standing around and couldn't move, right? Nah, they just need some cranky dooplers yelling at everyone. Why they didn't tell starfleet about that quirk is a mystery.
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Sep 11, 2021 22:16
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Sep 11, 2021 22:33
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Facebook Aunt posted:Nah, they just need some cranky dooplers yelling at everyone. Why they didn't tell starfleet about that quirk is a mystery. Well you see, that would be quite embarrassing. I imagine it would even be extremely embarrassing if they dooplicated before they finished telling Starfleet.
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Sep 11, 2021 22:48
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pik_d posted:Well you see, that would be quite embarrassing. I imagine it would even be extremely embarrassing if they dooplicated before they finished telling Starfleet. True, true. Well now they know that future doopler transport missions should have a nice cranky Tellarite assigned as chaperone.
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Sep 11, 2021 22:55
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At the very least I appreciate the Doopler stuff for reminding me of the duplicator box storyline from Calvin & Hobbes for the first time in decades.
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Sep 11, 2021 23:02
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Maybe the doopler world is a hellscape based on The Prestige
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One thing I appreciate about this season is how low the stakes have been. The world isn't ending, the ship isn't under attack, and no warp cores larger than 2.5cm are about to breach. I think the writer's appreciate that when you don't have to constantly raise the stakes, you have room to let your setting and characters breathe.
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I like low-stakes because after so many high stakes it literally feels like the Federation is hanging onto bare survival at a multiversal level and how does it even still exist?
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This talk of the dooplers being from a different show reminds me that aliens in Star trek are kind of boring. We need more trebles and poo poo Instead of mostly human
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I was disappointed that we only got small parts of two episodes of Boimler on the Titan this season
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We've already had ensign Peanut Hamper, but she suuuucked. We've got ensign Hairy Kzin, who I'm dying to learn more about. Maybe if we're really lucky we'll get a Lt. Cmdr RumbleRumble, the horta science officer.
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Sep 11, 2021 23:19
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How long does an exocomp's battery last? Peanut Hamper's probably dead by now.
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MikeJF posted:Someone tweaked the scene from Picard while keeping it seamless Good lord Patrick Stewart is old
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Terror Sweat posted:Good lord Patrick Stewart is old And yet probably still in better shape than some people 30 years his junior somehow.
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Arglebargle III posted:Once you improve the models you realize everything else about that sequence is awful too. There's nothing happening, just the camera slowly panning around a motionless effects shot and actors sitting in chairs. Nobody even actually talks to each other either - Riker just gives a speech and then Evil Romulan lady who has dedicated her life and is willing to sacrifice everything to destroy synths... gives up and goes home.
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Facebook Aunt posted:True. Like the doopler I have an anxiety disorder, so when his own anxiety keeps making things worse and worse I was like, "yep that's how it is". I have other people in my life with anxiety disorders, and when the bridge crew was exhausted after a week of walking on eggshells to avoid setting off the doopler that felt very real too. I know this well. A friend of mine said I could talk myself from a parking ticket to the electric chair due to my issues. Thing is most people don't know how to deal with someone like that and end up making it worse.
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Sep 12, 2021 00:42
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Arglebargle III posted:Once you improve the models you realize everything else about that sequence is awful too. There's nothing happening, just the camera slowly panning around a motionless effects shot and actors sitting in chairs. You just described at least half of all Star Trek
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Shyrka posted:Horta and Medusan crewmembers when? You're getting a Medusan when Prodigy premiers.
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Arglebargle III posted:Once you improve the models you realize everything else about that sequence is awful too. There's nothing happening, just the camera slowly panning around a motionless effects shot and actors sitting in chairs. To be fair, I've been watching a lot of Voyager and there are so, so many scenes on the bridge where there's an explosion sound, Kim says "we're trapped in some kind of energy rift", Janeway says "Tuvok, modulate the deflector to compensate," and Tuvok says "modulating... we're free of the rift," and that's it. No shots of the exterior, no sparks from the walls, barely even a camera shake. Actors sitting in chairs reading lines isn't good by any measure, and we really should expect more from such a high-budget show, but it is very much in Star Trek's DNA. e: Drink-Mix Man posted:You just described at least half of all Star Trek 
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MikeJF posted:The Vancouver was a big-boy prestige starfleet, but it was explicitly said to be purposed for large-scale engineering projects, so it was a big boy auxiliary ship. The Parliament class is the current generation auxiliary while the California is a pre-Galaxy generation.
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The California looks like it would belong during the TNG era That Vancouver one feels post-FC to me
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FlamingLiberal posted:The California looks like it would belong during the TNG era The Vancouver's registry number suggests it was built around the same time that Voyager was. e: Actually it's older than both Voyager and the Cerritos. Voyager is NCC-74656, the Cerritos is NCC-75567, and the Vancouver is NCC-70492. nine-gear crow fucked around with this message at 03:24 on Sep 12, 2021 |
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Determining ship ages from registry numbers is pretty iffy, since you've got things like the FC ships (Akira, Steamrunner, Norway, Saber) that are thought to be a new generation of designs, but all their registry numbers are in the 61xxx - 64xxx range (or even down in the 52xxx's for the Steamrunner) which would make them about as old as Nebulas and most of the other Wolf 359 ships, or stuff like the registry error on the Prometheus model. I've just come to believe that batches of registry numbers are handed out with every new construction order placed, and that the actual time the ships enter service doesn't have much to do with the numerical value of the registry.
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Starfleet often seems to prefer updating the internals on a decades-old design and continuing to commission new ships in those classes rather than retiring the whole class completely and starting over from scratch, which is probably why the California looks like it was probably developed somewhere between the Ambassador and Galaxy generations but the Cerritos has a fairly recent registry. Speaking of the Ambassador, it would be really nice to see one of those on Lower Decks eventually. Same with all those other TNG designs that went missing around the switch from physical to CG models.
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Just realised that Jack Quaid is both Boimler and Hughie of The Boys. This is dope
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I'm not taking anything registry for granted. Cerritos has a recent registry but McMahan said she's old and was refitted to her current Galaxy-era-ish look, and dialogue onscreen says she's pretty old and much older than the Vancouver, with a similar registry. And two of the Calis we saw have a registry starting with 1.
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MikeJF posted:I'm not taking anything registry for granted. Cerritos has a recent registry but McMahan said she's old and was refitted to her current Galaxy-era-ish look, and dialogue onscreen says she's pretty old and much older than the Vancouver, with a similar registry. And two of the Calis we saw have a registry starting with 1. Wasn’t the Solvang a 12XXX registry which aligns with most of the Ambassadors we saw in TNG? Makes sense for the class to be that old.
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MillennialVulcan posted:If you're going to stretch a 10 second joke out into several minutes over the course of the episode, Richard Kind is exactly the person you want having that comedic freak-out, he carried the hell out of that gag and I enjoyed it the whole way through. Martytoof posted:So while I hated the Doopler thing, I will concede that Richard Kind did sell the poo poo out of it and was basically the perfect voice. I wanted to say that. This had to be a case of, "We want X actor, we could get him for one episode, what'll we have him do?" rather than, "We have X character, what actor do we get?" Just rides perfectly with the kind of characters he's famous for playing.
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Yvonmukluk posted:Wasn’t the Solvang a 12XXX registry which aligns with most of the Ambassadors we saw in TNG? Makes sense for the class to be that old. Easy way to handwave the whole issue would be for the showrunners to say that whole ranges of ship registries are blocked off for the various different shipyards. So you get someplace like Utopia Planitia that cranks ships out quickly in the NCC-7XXXX range, versus a smaller shipyard that had the NCC-52XXX range reserved and is still working out of that.
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The Discovery’s registry number is 1031 because Bryan Fuller liked Halloween lol
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Overall production must get ramped up and scaled down according to need, so it's even harder to map time periods to registry numbers if like a full 10k range of Mirandas was rushed out the door to meet wartime deployments over a two-year span, but the preceding twenty years was mostly filled with a slow burn of science ships. Starfleet also slaps NCC numbers on everything larger than a shuttlecraft, so if you've got every station and capital ship carrying at least a few runabouts that's going to inflate pretty quickly, especially when they keep getting lost.
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