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doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

TNG had an ep about a self-running biological telepathic robot space ship, and an autistic telepath fell in love with it and they ran off together.

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doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

That space arms planet Minos I think had little floaty things about the size of a desk lamp. One of them flew into space and almost destroyed Enterprise.

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

Moridin920 posted:

If I lived in the Trek universe I would hoard replicators and slowly but surely build a star ship with a computer core that ran all the tactical and maneuvering poo poo equipped with massive gently caress off armor and shield generators and phaser banks.

For battle I would strap myself down, hit the intertial stabilizers, and let the ship blink in and out of warp while firing phasers with pinpoint accuracy. Scripts would be running to automatically manage shields and automatically beam enemy crew into space and/or my brig if their shield fails even for a moment.

Any torpedos heading my direction would be transported away.

Also, self replicating wild weasels everywhere. By the time Wesley figures out wtf is happening he is breathing space, his ship a burning wreck behind him.

You have to die, because I shot you with a bullet that split three ways, and it hit you in your head, your chest, and your crotch. Nuh-uh because I have bullet proof magnetic armor that attracts your bullets. Yeah well my bullets are made out of diamonds that go through bullet proof armor

and the flash beats both superman and batman because

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

I love all Star Trek episodes equally and unironically. ALLAMARAINE.

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

No, no sir. But you see I love it EQUALLY. Not "oh this episode is good, this is not." Oh let's rank all the episodes because we're jerkoffs on the internet.

Star Trek is eternal and wonderful as a whole. Dig it or don't.

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

chaosbreather posted:


computer, engage multi-vector disco mode

That dude from Trekkies, his place still hasn't sold? That movie is from 1997.

Google translate:

quote:

Interested parties should be able to raise the money it myself; The apartment has no kitchen and the windows are shuttered. The bank does not give a mortgage on the house. The house should not be used as a tourist attraction.

quote:

Alleyne can only do not enjoy; The 62-year-old interior designer since 2013 is in prison for downloading more than 5,000 images of child pornography. His wife now wants to leave the house because the house evokes bad memories for her. And so it is for sale.

Jesus Christ, man.

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

When I've exhausted all else I'll probably watch Stargate. I only got as far as one of the forest episodes, was like, 'Armin Shimmerman, 'sup,' and just never picked it back up. I know it gets better and all and is all self aware and good popcorn sci-fi that doesn't take itself too seriously, and there's guns all the time, but I just look at that episode list and it's like, ok, that's a lot of hours. Maybe when I'm 60 and getting chemo through an IV, I'll get started, perk me right up.

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

gfanikf posted:

That said the ads on hulu can suck a dick.

Yep, $15 a month for slightly fewer ads, no thanks Hulu.

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

Hm, well I stopped using Hulu a year ago when I got rid of Flash, but the attraction of paid Hulu was access to more shows, whole seasons, and fewer ads, but I could be misremembering. In all, if I pay anything, I expect zero ads, so they can do without my money.

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

Entropic posted:

Troi was basically the Aquaman of the crew.

I'm positive you're thinking of the episode I'm thinking of right now, where she literally turned into an aqua person

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

Fetus Tree posted:

id stand watch over a brig for 8 hours to hang out on the enterprise doing whatever for the rest of the day

Same. Hell, I'd do four tens a week in that little kiosk the one mathematician dude had on Voyager, as long as it's on the D and nowhere near Voyager. You know they had whale tanks on the D? I'd be there a couple times a week just to chill and read a book.

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

I liked Janeway sometimes, but so much of the time I didn't. They really squandered a potentially interesting everything and a pretty fun actress. She should have kicked a little more rear end and had an arc, not played around with dumb poo poo in the holodeck and have an ethical transplant every other episode.

God that holodeck stupid town loving sucked.

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

a broken clock is no delight, but twice a day the time is right

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVo5bDSlQtU

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

I'm the guy that warmed up to Pulaski, then was sad she left, but mostly was ok with it. She was good, it just took a while because she wasn't as hot as Crusher, and I was 10.

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

Borg ships could have been invincible flying computer balls instead, but that would have been more boring than space cyborg zombies, which are cool and interesting in these days of late 80's and early 90's television. In the far future, only giant robots that fight in big senseless blurs with invincible humans with superpowers who crash into buildings will make much better matter for TV shows and movies, no one will complain then.

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

Remember on TNG they opened a drawer and there was a baby Borg sleeping in it? Pre-teen me thought that was pretty cool.

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

Angela Christine posted:

All babies are borg.

Well, if you mean that the physical signs of assimilation in your home are bright plastic toys and drool instead of cables and conduits, yeah.

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

opus111 posted:

Season 1 and 2 of tng are amazing. If you don't like S1 then that means you don't like ToS...

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

Mr. Horrible posted:

I like the Enterprise opening. The montage of humanity's transition from bumbling around with gliders to FTL starships is aspirational and hopeful, just like the cheesy power ballad playing in the background.

I guess if you're too cynical and jaded to appreciate that then you're going to get what you deserve want soon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjeX5drV9ms

Would rather watch this than the new Star Trek movies.

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

Mr. Horrible posted:

As I understand it though, Trek nerds have been mad about each new incarnation of the franchise ever since TOS, even before the new things were available to see. I don't really understand that level of hostility. I guess watching all that anime as a kid made me more accepting of alternate continuity? I wanted to get into the new movies, I just couldn't get past all the Michael Bay styling.
Yeah, I went into the first Trek retread knowing it was going to jump right in my face and go, THIS AINT YOUR GRAMPAS STAR TREK, and I'm fine with that. I was just kinda disappointed that it was just a space action movie. With stunts and shouting! It was an ok popcorn movie, and I feel like the franchise has more potential than that. And I have no shortage of popcorn movies to watch. It's going to be a while, movies are kind of boring shiny poo poo these days anyhow.

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

Pththya-lyi posted:

Also because it went off the rails after Season 2

you might say THEY WENT THE WRONG WAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

Omi-Polari posted:

Star Trek: The Next Generation is a good show

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

gazorra is a goddamned galactic treasure

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

Harry's station was connected to a small box that simulated responses, and his command shifts were really on the holodeck.

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

I love Star Trek, and I love navel-gazing 70's space movies, but I couldn't make it through TMP.

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

Blistex posted:

All of the Shakespeare stuff was a huge inside joke about Shatner and Plummer.

Back in the 50's Shatner was Christopher Plummer's understudy at Stratford. They were doing some Shakespearian play, and Plummer hurt himself (banging some chick) and couldn't go on stage, and that was one of Shatner's big breaks.

This is beyond wonderful.

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

Entropic posted:

Yeah, it just runs at 0.000001 Hz is all. Morty won't know the difference.

Run it at three trillion times real time to see if he breaks outta that drat thing or goes insane.

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

Typical Pubbie posted:

When I watch DS9 with my friends we laugh at that kind of stuff because it's supposed to be absurd and funny. Then after they leave I rewatch the episode and masturbate furiously before shooting hot sticky loads all over the dom-jot table I have in my basement.

You joke, but that's a legitimate warmup for using the little jackoff sticks they play domjot with.

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

counterfeitsaint posted:

"Computer, create a holodeck character capable of satisfying Captain Janeway sexually."

Next episode Voyager arrives at earth, commanded by a hologram Riker wearing the doctors hologram mcguffin.

Riker posed the same question to a transporter, and got Thomas.

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

Tighclops posted:

It really is a different world now, with more and different distractions and expectations. There is better TV these days but I would say the same decent to poo poo show ratio is about the same. At least there's an internet now that makes it possible for shut in nerds to reach out to other shut in nerds, back then you were basically left rocking back and forth waiting to die until TNG came back on







doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

Starship Mine was so drat good.

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

Kitchner posted:

It was, however Data trying to do small talk was awkwardly embarrassing.

Counterpoint: it was fun and great.

Also Picard calling himself Mot the ship's barber was neat because the ship's barber is a harmless bald blabbermouth.

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

*braces for nerds to point out how bad that really good episode was*

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

Harveygod posted:

Which of you are going to this?

Having missed out on Quark's bar in Las Vegas, I'm intrigued. My wife has actually wanted us to take a cruise with the kids---aw gently caress never mind.

I hope we get a photo dump like with the cruise starring Rick Springfield.

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

counterfeitsaint posted:

The episode was crap because Malcolm was cartoonishly eager to die as some kind of honorable sacrifice. Even a klingon would be at least try to get free before dying for his ship.

It was an attempt to shovel some ham into a boring cardboard box of a character. I was supposed to have more respect for the character, I ended up having less respect for the show.

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

I wouldn't mind working with Frakes. Like if we were neighbors and we had to fix a fence. Just like a good afternoon, no bringing up Trek, just fuckin' hanging out.

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

Oh hey this was linked to the Simpsons one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghgiw-xU-gs

I know how I'm forever wasting the next 41 minutes.

e: Ah it's just the series preview, I was hoping it was something from halfway through the series run. Well, I can reminisce how hopeful the damned show made me, up until, oh, about halfway through the first season and reality was setting in.

doctorfrog fucked around with this message at 06:21 on Aug 18, 2015

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doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

Tighclops posted:

Sir, the dehumidifiers on deck 15 are offline!

The frizz won't stay on deck 15...

The real reason for the sweep in Starship Mine.

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