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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:i wasn't really paying attention to most of it hmm edit 
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:so there wasn't a technical limitation? man, that scene would have gone a lot differently if they had sent along a redshirt or two. They were there just to extract the one dude. A big group really wouldn't be ideal in that situation. The dumb part was sending over the two senior officers instead of Michael plus a few security team members. Then again this is Trek and they've been doing that poo poo from the get go.
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Sep 27, 2017 03:26
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so hold on, how come riker gordi and the robot are doing the away missions? aren't they senior officers? wouldn't sending some jr randos make more sense
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Sep 27, 2017 03:29
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appropriatemetaphor posted:so hold on, how come riker gordi and the robot are doing the away missions? aren't they senior officers? wouldn't sending some jr randos make more sense I mean in any sane military you're not sending the captain and first officer into a dangerous situation at the same time. They even poked fun of the trope in a TNG episode once.
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Sep 27, 2017 03:31
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i'm not doubting how they sent the two most senior officers over, just how they didn't send anyone else. i was wondering if i missed something since it was competing for my attention with a BRAND NEW KITTEN, and obviously std lost that battle.
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Sep 27, 2017 03:38
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Trek being Trek is far more noticeable in the era of prestige television. 
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appropriatemetaphor posted:so hold on, how come riker gordi and the robot are doing the away missions? aren't they senior officers? wouldn't sending some jr randos make more sense He is an android you heathen
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Sep 27, 2017 03:50
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The biggest flaw in STD is that it is a mash up of crap they have done before, crap that makes no sense, and the same crap you see on every military/cop show at 9pm on your favorite station. Which all mixes together into being incredibly boring.
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Sep 27, 2017 03:52
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:i'm not doubting how they sent the two most senior officers over, just how they didn't send anyone else. i was wondering if i missed something since it was competing for my attention with a BRAND NEW KITTEN, and obviously std lost that battle. Kittens are irrelevant. We will add its biological and technological cuteness to our own. Resistance is mew-tile. 
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Sep 27, 2017 03:54
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Infidel Castro posted:Yeah, that was probably the worst part of the pilot. Why would someone genetically engineer cattle to be able to sense when they're gonna die? They weren't genetically engineered or bred. He said his species was "biologically purposed" to sense death. As in, the evolutionary trait they adapted for survival was skittishness and knowing when poo poo was about to pop off, helping them avoid predators
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Peachfart posted:The biggest flaw in STD is that it is a mash up of crap they have done before, crap that makes no sense, and the same crap you see on every military/cop show at 9pm on your favorite station. no, the biggest flaw is the scenes where the klingons talk
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Sep 27, 2017 03:56
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The klingons in into darkness looked better than these dweebs.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:no, the biggest flaw is the scenes where the klingons talk oh yeah, that sucked too
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Sep 27, 2017 04:01
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Orville has actors from DS9 and Expanse/Always Sunny, which almost makes up for having to hear/see Seth.
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Sep 27, 2017 04:02
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Johnny Aztec posted:Wait, so the whole show looks like Battlefield: Earth? It's not that bad but they sure aren't afraid to just use them whenever     Arcsquad12 posted:Doug Jones looks like he'll be a lot of fun. Zachary Quinto wishes he was a good enough actor to be on Star Trek Discovery.
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Sep 27, 2017 04:53
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it's nice that they have a large budget and competent actors. too bad about everything else, though.
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Kitchner posted:Nope, they spent all the budget on lens flare effects, no money for cameos. Yeah, so I was going to ask that. The lens flares are actual computer effects? Someone literally said, "Pay this guy to make the show look like rear end!"? Jfc
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Kitchner posted:Nope, they spent all the budget on lens flare effects, no money for cameos. That's good, because you'd have to watch the theme song to find out who the guest star is.
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Ep3 of The Orville is pretty good. Twist on some old themes. Good poo poo. Mercer is an odd kind of Captain. He seems to let his crew do most of the work.
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Sep 27, 2017 06:16
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Enough about The Orville. I'm halfway through YEAR OF HELL. 
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Sep 27, 2017 06:17
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STD should have been about the founding of the soulless minions of orthodoxy.
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Sep 27, 2017 09:28
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Is Harry Mudd going to be dark and brooding now?
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In the home stretch of a DS9 rewatch and it never occurred to me before that the one of the reasons Sisko hates Vic's casino is because of Far Beyond the Stars. For Cassidy and Jake it's history that's 300+ years in the past, but Sisko lived through that poo poo first hand so the wounds are little fresher.
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Nog was definitely the last character you'd expect to have one of the most interesting arcs on the show. The ep where he asks to join Starfleet is pretty great; the way Sisko's face falls when Nog starts his reasoning with 'I don't want to end up like my father.'
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Sep 27, 2017 11:01
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girth brooks part 2 posted:In the home stretch of a DS9 rewatch and it never occurred to me before that the one of the reasons Sisko hates Vic's casino is because of Far Beyond the Stars. For Cassidy and Jake it's history that's 300+ years in the past, but Sisko lived through that poo poo first hand so the wounds are little fresher. Vic is overrated imo I was so glad sisko didn't like him either
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Sep 27, 2017 14:19
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bitterandtwisted posted:Is Harry Mudd going to be dark and brooding now? Probably. Harry just wants to scam some dweebs and make space mula.
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shovelbum posted:Vic is overrated imo I was so glad sisko didn't like him either vic owns, dummy
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Sep 27, 2017 14:59
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The General posted:Unless you ignore the warning buoys and fly to Talos IV. Due to Orci destroying the timeline, Talos IV no longer has a death sentence, because Pine and Spock never went there. Which means, in classic 1984 fashion- the Federation has never had a death penalty...
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Sep 27, 2017 15:40
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No, Talos IV is the Chozo homeworld. It's been infected by phazon.
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shovelbum posted:Vic is overrated imo I was so glad sisko didn't like him either Incalculably wrong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmXzamLDgFk
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Arcsquad12 posted:Doug Jones looks like he'll be a lot of fun. it's set 10 years before the movies specifically to avoid ever showing anyone maybe pike can show up
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numberoneposter posted:Ep3 of The Orville is pretty good. Twist on some old themes. Good poo poo. I know, right? Delegating work is so 20th century.
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Sep 27, 2017 15:54
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I bet that Rainn Wilson is the new Harry Mudd
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bitterandtwisted posted:Is Harry Mudd going to be dark and brooding now? no he's going to be some lovely Joker-knockoff character, probably after one of the producers watched Sherlock and thought "yeah you know every series needs its own Joker, because the Joker is the best villain ever and everyone loves a crazy madman that's always magically nine steps ahead of everyone else"
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:no he's going to be some lovely Joker-knockoff character, probably after one of the producers watched Sherlock and thought "yeah you know every series needs its own Joker, because the Joker is the best villain ever and everyone loves a crazy madman that's always magically nine steps ahead of everyone else" False. He's going to be Dwight Schrute down to the mustard color clothing and oblong spectacles. Netflix got him cast based on their reams of demographic data. They know from Office reruns he puts asses in $11.99 per month seats.
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All the previews have made him look like a "Gets captured on purpose, devious schemer" type villain.
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shadow puppet of a posted:False. He's going to be Dwight Schrute down to the mustard color clothing and oblong spectacles. Netflix got him cast based on their reams of demographic data. They know from Office reruns he puts asses in $11.99 per month seats. I don't think Netflix had any say in the actual production, they just paid CBS a boatload of money for the right to stream the show outside the US. That said I think it was this thread where someone pointed out "every Klingon ever is just a slightly buffer Dwight" so you might be on to something there 
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I hope he mentions Quatloos at least five times per episode.
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Captain! ensign Jim put my tricorder in jello again
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I don't think I've hated a star trek character more than Kai Winn. I'll never understand how Sisko remotely put up with her.
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