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MikeJF posted:Maybe the giant space hole in season 2 was the space tentacles coming to finish the job. Oh man I totally forgot that season 2 is Q just doing a much longer and more reprehensible version of All Good Things, complete with tacked on anomaly at the end because hey remember the Devron system? Remember?
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RandolphCarter posted:But they did slide back to their earth, it’s just that someone finally greased the damned gate. I had to think long and hard, but I remember that.  But I also think it exemplifies the problem. Who hasn't spent a bunch of time looking for something, only to have it in their hand and discard it because for whatever reason it didn't feel like the right answer?
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The tentacles couldn’t destroy the galaxy without the portal because they copied that plot point straight from the video game without the context needed to make it work. Mass Effect FTL works by traveling between two linked relays/beacons, so in the games universe turning off the big node in our galaxy, left the Robo-Cthulhu’s with nothing in our galaxy to lock-on to with their partnered node to let them warp in. But Trek FTL doesn’t work like that, so the entire sequence is a non sequitur, because it’s literally lifted verbatim from another story.
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The General posted:I had to think long and hard, but I remember that. Is sliders worth watching today? Looking for a new show.
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galagazombie posted:The tentacles couldn’t destroy the galaxy without the portal because they copied that plot point straight from the video game without the context needed to make it work. Mass Effect FTL works by traveling between two linked relays/beacons, so in the games universe turning off the big node in our galaxy, left the Robo-Cthulhu’s with nothing in our galaxy to lock-on to with their partnered node to let them warp in. But Trek FTL doesn’t work like that, so the entire sequence is a non sequitur, because it’s literally lifted verbatim from another story. Amazing, that’s the kind of quality I expect from Star Trek Picard.
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Wii Spawn Camper posted:Is sliders worth watching today? Looking for a new show. Seasons 1 and 2 are excellent. They go to interesting/funny places and sometimes they put way too much effort into fleshing it out. Season 3 is the Xfiles monster of the week season. Season 4 is where it all really starts to fall apart, and season 5 you watch because you've already come this far and it'll be over soon.
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The General posted:Seasons 1 and 2 are excellent. They go to interesting/funny places and sometimes they put way too much effort into fleshing it out. Season 3 is the Xfiles monster of the week season. Season 4 is where it all really starts to fall apart, and season 5 you watch because you've already come this far and it'll be over soon. Sounds perfect thank you and good night
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Wii Spawn Camper posted:Is sliders worth watching today? Looking for a new show.
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God drat does the tonal shift between seasons 2 and 3 of Enterprise hit hard. The big bumbling wellmeaning oaf and his southern sidekick go on all sorts of wondrous and thought-provoking adventures, then boom 9/11 happens and now they're all "I don't care about T'Pol's human rights claptrap, now I'm putting you in the airlock and suffocating you". hosed up imo.
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Flowers For Algeria posted:God drat does the tonal shift between seasons 2 and 3 of Enterprise hit hard. The big bumbling wellmeaning oaf and his southern sidekick go on all sorts of wondrous and thought-provoking adventures, then boom 9/11 happens and now they're all "I don't care about T'Pol's human rights claptrap, now I'm putting you in the airlock and suffocating you". hosed up imo. Pretty accurate description of America at the time.
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I love that Starfleet had full knowledge of a molecular genetics level perfect copy of Riker walking around and existing in their own system with a lower rank and went "this will never ever cause any security or authorization problems"
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redshirt posted:Pretty accurate description of America at the time. Maybe. Does that also excuse the theme song remix?
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Flowers For Algeria posted:Maybe. Does that also excuse the theme song remix? It was a Dark Time....
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In Enterprise's defense, most of the tonal shift seemed to just be Archer going "hard man in hard times" and the rest of the cast (Trip excepted) kinda stayed the same and became foils. Trip was just processing grief in the "network television standard" manner
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Archer went from being a bad captain because he was a nepo baby to being a bad captain for entirely new reasons.
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He went from being a captain that was bad that the writers made bad on purpose, to being a captain that was bad that the writers thought was good. I'm watching season 1 right now and thoroughly enjoying him stumbling and loving everything up
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Maybe the giant space hole in season 2 was the space tentacles coming to finish the job we made along the way.
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thotsky posted:Maybe the giant space hole in season 2 was the space tentacles coming to finish the job we made along the way. 
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thotsky posted:Maybe the giant space hole in season 2 was the space tentacles coming to finish the job we made along the way. that's a really unkind way to refer to captain archer
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Philman posted:Enjoy a 4 hour rant about the picard show, and TNG. She doesn't know what a shrike is?
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thotsky posted:She doesn't know what a shrike is? She is a physicist. If The Big Bang Theory taught me anything it's that scientists can have only one discipline and are ignorant in all others, like zoology.
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nine-gear crow posted:She is a physicist. If The Big Bang Theory taught me anything it's that scientists can have only one discipline and are ignorant in all others, like zoology. Absolutely; researchers and engineers are some of the dumbest people I ever interact with because their specialties have nothing to do with why I'm working with them and they mostly all still manage to act like know-it-all pricks.
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Apparently there is film crew in town for Starfleet Academy. I'm not in Toronto so maybe this is B roll or they need some industrial poo poo.
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WAIT so Jerry O’connell was on Sliders, he’s married to Rebecca Romjin aka Number One Scott Bakula was on Quantum leap and he’s Captain Enterprise Sliders and Quantum Leap are almost the same show mash-up when??
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Jerry O’connell is show death. He's worse then Summer Glau
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naem posted:Sliders and Quantum Leap are almost the same show  Sliders is about explores a multiverse model of time (But with next to no time travel) where each decision point spawns a new universe and the protagonists enter at the present and leave at an arbitrary time regardless of what happens in the episode. Quantum Leap explores a single timeline with Sam entering at different points in which he himself was already alive and is unable to leave until he alters the outcome of the correct event.
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sweet geek swag posted:Archer went from being a bad captain because he was a nepo baby to being a bad captain for entirely new reasons. I like Archer. Mostly chill dude, just wants to watch water-polo reruns on the TV, crack a cold one and give Porthos a couple of belly scratches. So what he's not Janeway-level competent and he let the dog pee on the sacred tree, who cares? Eventually he's willing to do the grunt-while-chainsawing-the-tree ritual so everything's fine. By season 2 he's got the gist of his job and he's okay at it. I can't get over Trip, though. "Hi, welcome to the Tucker family. I'm Trip and here are my brothers Skab, Chitlins and Glop and my sister Bunt." No thank you.
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Trip was extremely realistic Pensacola FL military or military adjacent dude. Whether or not that makes for good tv I dunno but he felt real familiar having spent a lot of time in N FL.
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Bonzo posted:Jerry O’connell is show death. He's worse then Summer Glau Lower Decks made it five seasons and was cancelled because Paramount is broke
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nine-gear crow posted:She is a physicist. If The Big Bang Theory taught me anything it's that scientists can have only one discipline and are ignorant in all others, like zoology. I watched some of her other videos and I like her style, but in one video she was slamming Zoom so hard for having some nonsense called "post-quantum encryption".  In other words, she encountered the jargon of an unfamiliar field and assumed it to be bullshit.
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The General posted:Or like Quinn Mallory sliding back to his Earth. Which happened in the show 4 times. There's the squeeky gate one (which is such a loving gut punch), Another time they get back and find that Maggie can't breath it's atmosphere, they come back a 3rd time to find the planet has been invaded by aliens, and then in the finale they go back but a psychic says it will kill them, and they slide anywya, but we don't see what happens. So that's like 3.5 maybe.
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She made a pretty convincing case that it was bullshit to me based on how Zoom were describing it tbh
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Powered Descent posted:I watched some of her other videos and I like her style, but in one video she was slamming Zoom so hard for having some nonsense called "post-quantum encryption". I mean that sounds like garbage marketing speak to me, you’re telling me it’s real? We’re living in a post-quantum world?
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Powered Descent posted:I watched some of her other videos and I like her style, but in one video she was slamming Zoom so hard for having some nonsense called "post-quantum encryption". Yeah but the zoom guy had said we'd all be sending AI chatbots to meetings then loving off down the beach, and the many many problems with that would be magically solved 'down the stack', I don't blame her for not trusting a single thing that came out of the guys mouth before or after that and that she maybe missed the one obscure not loving mental thing he said. Dude is off his rocker.
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Late Enterprise to some degree has Archer wrestle with not having been prepared for all of it and "we had no choice" being an inadequate justification for a whole bunch of things they did. I don't think you're supposed to go into season three thinking he's portrayed as a fully formed, perfectly competent starfleet captain the way Picard is in tng.
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CainFortea posted:Which happened in the show 4 times. There's the squeeky gate one (which is such a loving gut punch), Hahah I probably saw that episode once in my entire life when I was like 12 and I still remember that moment
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Wii Spawn Camper posted:I mean that sounds like garbage marketing speak to me, you’re telling me it’s real? We’re living in a post-quantum world? Pretty soon the rest of the world will realize that these type of phrases and initiatives are said to boost stock prices. It's how Silicon Valley innovates.
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Flowers For Algeria posted:"Hi, welcome to the Tucker family. I'm Trip and here are my brothers Skab, Chitlins and Glop and my sister Bunt." Bunt..... FCA.
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