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happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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If TNG was on TV now there would be 4 more Wesley's to get the tween demographic.
And shittier looking models and CGI.

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happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Voyager was the death knell for episodic sci-fi.

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Volcott posted:

What's the "Wesley episode" of Voyager or DS9?

Harry Kim is the Wesley of Voyager, so anything with him as main role that ep. He constantly tries to lose his virginity and either gets cock blocked or framed for murder for it.

As for DS9, Bashir is probably more like Wesley in the first few seasons, all stupid and naive.
Though young Alexander does get into Wesley emo terrority at times when he is around.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Advanced civilization.
Never invented shampoo or conditioner.

happyhippy
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The real reason Lore was disassembled was because they were freaked out him standing beside the colonists at the urinal just holding his dick.

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Universe Master posted:

It was great when Riker yelled at Ro and demanded she take off the sacred religious earring of her subjugated people who recently experienced years of occupation and genocide, but doesn't give a gently caress about Worf wearing his Little Miss Teen Klingon pageant sash all the time.

Well if he can't carry around his cultural significant trombone on away missions, neither can anyone else.

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Angela Christine posted:

As played tho, Sisko is a bad captain. Starfleet really should have replaced him when he became Bajoran Jesus and DS9 became an actually important posting.

He's the worst guy.

Of course he was poo poo.
He was sent to a loving dead space station in the middle of loving no where to clean up the mess from third rate Elvis lizard nazi's.
It was a dead ended job to begin with.

But he got lucky when the wormhole was discovered and they couldn't fire his rear end without the space catholic Bajoran's crying about it.
They even tried to ram his rear end into a desk job when the Bajoran cock sucking was taken out of the equation.

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Let us English posted:

Come to think of it that's one of the few things Enterprise did right, of course the first Starship captain is going to gently caress up repeatedly.

For the first few episodes, sure, until the realization that 'gently caress these aliens are truly alien to us' sets in.
But they never seem to do that with Enterprise.
Its all 'thats not how we do it back on Earth' and 'we are better than you dirty aliens' vibe.

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Pham Nuwen posted:

Sounds like heaven because Guinan wouldn't be there

No, that's where Guinan goes to drink. In silence. To get the gently caress away from every idiot with a first world problem.
And O'Brien.

O'Brien hides this place by having it called Transporter Room 8 on the computer.

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Feb 21, 2005

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Sometimes an ensign wrongly teleports some Alien Ambassador Delegates into it, thinking its an actual transporter room.
But O'Brien has it set up for the computer to auto catch this and teleport them to another transporter room.

And thus reports of a violent swearing irish ghost within the transporter beam itself spread across the quadrant.
And how sometimes on rare occasions half drunken bottles of alcohol would just mysteriously appear in mid air on the transporter pad.

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Sentinel Red posted:

I demand an episode where some goony ensign abuses the gently caress out of it, just gets Chief O'Misery to transport him everywhere on the ship until he's unfit as gently caress from lack of exercise and gets his fat rear end stuck in a Jeffries tube.

Someone do a bizzaro version of the comic where some ensign is doing this but O'Brien is whistling merrily the whole time, his life validated.

"Chief, teleport me to the toilet".
"Certainly sir"
"Now back to bed".
"Right side or left sir?"
"Right please".
"Cant reach cheeto bowl.."
"Already ahead of you sir" *has poo poo eating grin*

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chaosbreather posted:

one thing i don't get about star trek is they're always talking to someone called 'computer'

what the heck is computer

A Headmate.
In the future, Tumblr and SJW has evolved into a group with a single head mate called 'Computer'.
Computer represents all possible headmates in all possible 'kins, gender's and emotional states.

happyhippy fucked around with this message at 15:16 on May 14, 2015

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Feb 21, 2005

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EngineerSean posted:

The one thing I didn't like about kira is how well she got along with all the federation people. Like theyre basically just a new occupation force as fafar as Terek Nor goes and Kira becomes best friends with them. I know they're not quite as bad as the Cardasians but there's never a doubt that they're in charge even in bajoran territory.

She hated them at first though, and only came around when Sisko became the Emissary.
Working with someone propheized for over a thousand years does that to you.

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opus111 posted:

i always thought guinan was insanely more annoying than wesley. the way she had the captains ear, and that stupid pose she did when she saw Q. major douche chills even when i was like 7.


Shadow posted:

It was funny how they kept alluding to some insanely involved backstory for why she and the captain were so close.

Turns out it was hardly more than "remember the time we met in the 1800s?"

I mean come on. He stayed behind or some poo poo. Then left and Mark Twain got her medical attention.

What a hero.

Or how about "Why didn't you tell me about the Borg you gently caress Jean Luc? It wiped out my family and civilization and you didn't say a loving word of warning to save some of us. gently caress you Picard."

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Nigmaetcetera posted:

are drugs legal in the federation?

I am sure anything goes in the Federation.
The transporter and sickbay can remove all traces of drugs from your system instantly, so its not a bad thing anymore unless you are a fucktard.

"Holy poo poo, this acid is going bad man, I'm seeing naked Quark spiders everywhere trying to impregnate me with Odo babies."
"Quick, get into onto the pad"
*one transport later*
"Thanks, whoa, lets halve the dosage next time. Pass me that Crystalline Entity Meth."

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chaosbreather posted:


computer, engage multi-vector disco mode

If you look at the right, the door has a handle. So the doors aren't cannon, don't open sideways, and looks like it opens outwards towards us.
IMMERSION RUINED

Would be funny if whoever buys it keeps finding CDs and USB keys full of child porn hidden everywhere.

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FuturePastNow posted:

That and almost all the humans scattered across the galaxy all speak English.

I so want a sci-fi show that has all the aliens communicate to us with sign language, charades, or pictures.

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Strudel Man posted:

I never saw it myself, but isn't there that trek episode where the aliens communicate exclusively in memes? Oddly prescient.

Still in english though.
And either you mean Darmok, or that Voyager episode with the guys who had dance moves when they talked.
Interesting and different sure.
But give me an alien language that our throats can not even replicate in any way.

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Its awfully nice of every prison in the Federation universe to have universal translators built in.
In every loving one,

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Powered Descent posted:

Except for the Doctor. The goon hivemind gives the Doctor a pass.

Only because he's a bald loner with sperg problems interacting with other people.
He's a mirror of ourselves basically.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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So when the Voyager crew got home, why didn't the Federation instantly jump 50-200 years ahead in tech as they now have the Doctor's mobile emitter?

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counterfeitsaint posted:

However, in a few seasons you will meet the most klingoniest klingon who ever klingoned, and it will be amazing.



But Daaaaaaaaaad...

happyhippy
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The 24th Century thrill (and leading cause of ensign death) is sticking your dick into the warp core on the holodeck and turning down the safety protocols bit by bit.

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Kesper North posted:

Can someone tell me why a Borg ship even has buttons? Like, you see Borg pressing buttons on their ships all the time. You'd think they'd just be replicating new parts and replacing poo poo when it breaks, or moving poo poo around when they're adapting and reconfiguring. But, pressing buttons? Why isn't that an API call?

Redundant back up systems in case the tertiary junction node bolloxs that connects them all gets cut off in that section.
Notice how every Borg only has one hand converted to a thingymajig. The hand is still the best thing at grasping and manipulating small things, so makes sense to have hand controls to fix or tamper with poo poo.

Also, limited episode budget.

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shadow puppet of a posted:

Keiko was the result of someone asking the computer to create the Moriarty of complaining.

I still think Bashir messes with her brain chemistry every time Miles cockblocks some young ensign.

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Mr. Horrible posted:

Janeway did nothing wrong

Janeway did nothing but drink coffee and gently caress Paris.

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counterfeitsaint posted:

I never understood why goons insist that one life in front of you is more important than two lives that aren't right in front of you? I always thought the point was there was no good choice, and no matter what you decide, someone ceases to exist.

Except of course that tuvix was actually an interesting character I guess, which does give him an edge.

76 years with a wise cracking Vulcan with a Talaxian sense of humor.
I would be loving teleporting myself into a borg cube by day 2.

That episode is a good example of group hatred.

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Ralp posted:

Is there a Mirror Universe Thomas Riker????????? :wtc:

Nope, as he was created in a Federation accident, and there was no federation at the time in the mirror universe.

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Mirror universe Bashir is the anomaly.
If he was a brain dead retard at the age of 10, how did he get to be the evil gently caress in the Mirror Universe?

Maybe human pirates/slaves can afford gene splicing in that universe.

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There should have been a mirror universe/normal universe Q fight.
You could have our Q appear to Picard or whoever, say they are the worst versions of Q they ever met in the multiverse.
And they turn out to be basic Federation in all beliefs.
And Picard loves them.

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Mirror Barclay would be their version of the Borg.
Everyone on his planet/moon/ship hooked up into his virtual rape machine 24/7.
And doing ship things earns them minutes of respite

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QuarkJets posted:

According to Gene Rodenberry in the years after First Contact the jews all revealed that they're actually aliens, and they pulled off their masks and revealed that they were Ferengi all along. And then they left the planet. That's when mankind really started banding together

There is new age quackery that believe Jews came from space.
Not trolling, they believe Jews and martians from Mars fought and formed Atlantis or some poo poo.

google Spirit Science and you will find the motherlode of new age retardness.

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I wonder if anyone used the transporter as a defense argument.

"It was not I that grabbed Troi's titties in the turbolift and shouted HONK HONK, it was a collection of atoms and molecules in the same shape as myself. I appeared for the first time on the transporter pad in transporter room 4."

"My birth room was transporter pad 4. Miles O'Brien was my birth father".

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Moridin920 posted:

computer create a hologram prototype of an FTL engine that could get us home in a year

Ship explodes when its turned on. Prototype does not mean 100% safe or working.

Then again the computer could logically come up with stasis machines for the crew, freeze them until they get back.

The barber shop was the 10 forward for men only.
No Troi's allowed basically.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Dukat hosed Kai Winn.

happyhippy
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Kai Opaka all the way.
You can gently caress the fat off of her, can't gently caress the ugly or personality from Winn.

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Universe Master posted:

Every loving person in the Star Trek future would do nothing but smoke replicated weed and gently caress holo-whores all day long. Since you can't make a show about that, they have to pretend people would work for nothing.

They did that though, in the Eugenics wars.
All the soldiers were hopped up on drugs all the time.
They fought, raped, and partied for a few years, and now the next century or two is the come down ambient tent relaxation period.

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Pththya-lyi posted:

What I don't understand is how the Federation citizens managed to pay for the services at Quark's bar. Canonically, the Ferengis deal in latinum because it can't be replicated, so how did Starfleet officers get their hands on the latinum? Did the Federation allocate it to them (essentially paying them a salary or stipend), or are they all involved in side-businesses that earn latinum?

E: fixed typo

Rent. And they all had a tab Quark would ask the Federation to pay for at the end of the week/month.

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Remember Tasha Yar came from a rape world.
So paradise is only one a few planets, near earth.
Others have to work for their rape.

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BottledBodhisvata posted:

I really liked the episode where DS9's old security system comes online and recorded videos of Gul Dukat threaten the crew throughout the ep. Then the real Gul Dukat appears and is threatened by ANOTHER recording of one of his superiors. It makes the Cardassians out to be rather hilariously pre-emptive about their security measures. Dukat clearly had to have taken a day just to film those warnings to his Bajoran workers. Maybe all Cardassian security systems are in the form of pre-recorded warnings, and in fact the Cardassian empire is populated entirely by pre-recorded videos.

Cardassian minds are just that way.
Their crime novels are not to find out who the killer is, but what the accused is guilty of.
They must laterally think of every possibility as normal.

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