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Powered Descent
Jul 13, 2008

We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

Kitchner posted:

He appears as a like 17th century ship captain because he's essentially mocking the crew and wearing uniforms illustrating humanity's awful past. The explorers who killed loads of black people, a captain from WW2, and then as a judge from Earth's post nuclear war tyrannical society.

At one point in there Q is wearing something pretty darn close to Ollie North's exact uniform from the Iran-Contra hearing. Which was a current event at the time the episode was being made.

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drilldo squirt
Aug 18, 2006

a beautiful, soft meat sack
Clapping Larry
That guy committed treason and now works at fox news.

Hector Beerlioz
Jun 16, 2010

aw, hec

Powered Descent posted:

At one point in there Q is wearing something pretty darn close to Ollie North's exact uniform from the Iran-Contra hearing. Which was a current event at the time the episode was being made.



Haha

Delsaber
Oct 1, 2013

This may or may not be correct.

I'm pretty sure the writers wanted to do a full-on allegory for Iran-Contra but were shot down by Gene or his lawyer and it was turned into something else entirely.

Facebook Aunt
Oct 4, 2008

wiggle wiggle




blowfish posted:

also can only have one child

hmmm it takes two to form a babby what does that imply for their survival as a species hmmm

They said she only gets pregnant and gives birth once. They never said how many little ocompas would be squirming out of her back when it happened.
Life . . . finds a way.




Pneub
Mar 12, 2007

I'M THE DEVIL, AND I WILL WASH OVER THE EARTH AND THE SEAS WILL RUN RED WITH THE BLOOD OF ALL THE SINNERS

I AM REBORN

Kitchner posted:

Since Q is one of the best TNG characters ever created you're missing out in a lot.

Eh, he has his moments. He's usually just a plot device to give them an excuse to do crazy poo poo.


Someone photoshop those into little Neelixes.

The General
Mar 4, 2007


Pneub posted:

Eh, he has his moments. He's usually just a plot device to give them an excuse to do crazy poo poo.


But De Lancie does such a good job. He alone almost makes TNG worth while.

Pneub
Mar 12, 2007

I'M THE DEVIL, AND I WILL WASH OVER THE EARTH AND THE SEAS WILL RUN RED WITH THE BLOOD OF ALL THE SINNERS

I AM REBORN

The General posted:

But De Lancie does such a good job. He alone almost makes TNG worth while.

Yeah, De Lancie made the character worth using again (as a plot device).

Pneub fucked around with this message at 05:49 on Aug 24, 2015

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl

Zeno-25 posted:

Q is basically a trickster god, he's Loki but in Star Trek

Also TNG sucks until season 3-4, or whenever after the writers' strike was resolved and the Borg show up. It's basically a 90s version of TOS until then

80s. all of the first and second seasons came out in the 80s.

ANIME IS BLOOD
Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot

Zeno-25 posted:

Also TNG sucks until season 3-4, or whenever after the writers' strike was resolved and the Borg show up. It's basically a 90s version of TOS until then

you say that like it's a bad thing :colbert:

Thunder Moose
Mar 7, 2015

S.J.C.

ANIME IS BLOOD posted:

you say that like it's a bad thing :colbert:

It's a bad thing.

chaosbreather
Dec 9, 2001

Wry and wise,
but also very sexual.

the really funny thing about that nonce's shipartment is after all that effort the okudagram buttons are all misaligned and he's using the wrong typefaces

its crazy because there are plenty of websites devoted to deconstructing the LCARS design language, and he didn't consult any of them

so after all that time and money and molesting it doesn't even look close to authentic

ANIME IS BLOOD
Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot

Thunder Moose posted:

It's a bad thing.

I respectfully disagree goonsir :angel:

counterfeitsaint
Feb 26, 2010

I'm a girl, and you're
gnomes, and it's like
what? Yikes.

chaosbreather posted:

the really funny thing about that nonce's shipartment is after all that effort the okudagram buttons are all misaligned and he's using the wrong typefaces

its crazy because there are plenty of websites devoted to deconstructing the LCARS design language, and he didn't consult any of them

so after all that time and money and molesting it doesn't even look close to authentic

His internet time was spent ....elsewhere.

drilldo squirt posted:

That guy committed treason and now works at fox news.

One day working at fox news will be considered treason.

Figaro
Feb 21, 2006

Hi, I've come to apply for the doctor's job. I can assure you my credentials are top-notch, I've just graduated from Harvard College Yale. I aced every semester, and I got an 'A'.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/...~pmk3JTeWPYaYzn[/url]

Oh dear, is it that day already? Those poor poor desperate actors...and Icheb. Seriously who gives a gently caress what that little scote is up to.

Will watch until Edward Furlong turns up


Rynder
Mar 26, 2009
Lol an hour and 30 min. Too much of a time investment. What are they renegading about? And poor chekov looks so bored and disgusted with himself in a scene I skipped into.

Oh no poor corin nemec what's happened to you, I had the biggest crush on you in sg1 I don't want to see you like this :(

Figaro
Feb 21, 2006

Hi, I've come to apply for the doctor's job. I can assure you my credentials are top-notch, I've just graduated from Harvard College Yale. I aced every semester, and I got an 'A'.
I assume that's the Jem Hadar at the beginning, even though they all look like they've been partially melted and viewed through the dim eyes of an elderly man with cataracts.

I hate the uniforms

Rynder
Mar 26, 2009
There's a weird looking jemhadar esque ship fighting klingons who are fighting a fed ship and of course it has a massive 4 beam megalaser that can destroy anything because why not

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

Figaro posted:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/...~pmk3JTeWPYaYzn[/url]

Oh dear, is it that day already? Those poor poor desperate actors...and Icheb. Seriously who gives a gently caress what that little scote is up to.

Will watch until Edward Furlong turns up




I'm probably going to enjoy this more than anyone in this thread, but not as much as I think I will.

quote:

The film's producers are now hoping to submit it to CBS as a TV pilot, but we're not sure how successful they're going to be with that.

Star Trek: Hubris

Figaro
Feb 21, 2006

Hi, I've come to apply for the doctor's job. I can assure you my credentials are top-notch, I've just graduated from Harvard College Yale. I aced every semester, and I got an 'A'.
It's supposed to be set after Voyager but it's looks very TOS.

So far, apart from one middle aged librarian woman who looks like she's just finished writing"Fifty Shades of Grey" fan fiction, the rest of the female cast are suspiciously hot yet terrible actresses who look like they'd be more in their element getting spit roasted by hirsute men with abnormally large genitailia...rather than shrieking "direct hit sir!" and limply tossing themselves repeatedly across a green screen

Big Mean Jerk
Jan 27, 2009

Well, of course I know him.
He's me.
Everything about this looks like garbage.

Wikipedia posted:

The production team announced plans for three possible outcomes from the film: CBS picks it up for a series;

fuckin' :laffo:

Tujague
May 8, 2007

by LadyAmbien
I tried to figure out what the best fantrek is in the last thread, and I think we agreed that it was either the porno or a 15 minute trailer video for something else

I really gotta start writing this stuff down

The porno is, ummmm, well,

Rynder
Mar 26, 2009
The trailer for that one with the candyman guy was ok

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

doctorfrog posted:

I'm probably going to enjoy this more than anyone in this thread, but not as much as I think I will.


Star Trek: Hubris

15 minute mark, fan wank super ship can shoot through shields, and a real mixed bag of acting ability, and Parker Lewis (who is not terrible)! Emo chick threatens Tuvok (who is into vests now) with a knife. Edward Furlong says "man" and holds out a ship part recognizable as a Zalman heatsink.

It's better than NuTrek.

shadow puppet of a
Jan 10, 2007

NO TENGO SCORPIO


I'd like to see a fanmade production of the Voyager crew attending a sumo basho upon their return home, that sport half the bridge crew followed passionately, remember? You could have Tuvok trying to buy handprints in the Vulcan live long and prosper gesture, Janeway, the eternal scientist, illicitly scanning her favorites with a tricorder to update her personal logs on their body fat composition. Chakotay missing the whole thing while out on his vision quest to buy a pinku bento box for his gohan (rice) and peyote (yakuza speed)

Ah yes, that was no mere throwaway vignette desperate to staple some personality onto a profoundly unpersonable crew, big fans of sumo wrestling the crew of Voyager all were.

Fake James
Aug 18, 2005

Y'all got any more of that plastic?
Buglord

counterfeitsaint
Feb 26, 2010

I'm a girl, and you're
gnomes, and it's like
what? Yikes.
So I got about 15 minutes into that. The acting is terrible, the production values are worse. I finally gave up after the caradassian stopped mid fight so he could exposition all about emo chick and how her dad is noonien soong and exactly how she feels about it. Is there some kind of time anomaly? Admiral Chekov has to be like 200 years old, and the Klingon ships look even older, while nu-Voyager is all fancy, and the USS Mary Sue has super advanced Quadium Phasers (Do not steal). Tim Russ why? I understand wanting to relive the glory days, but wouldn't you have been more comfortable in the convention circuit?




FIND HIM AND KILL HIM

Tujague
May 8, 2007

by LadyAmbien

shadow puppet of a posted:

I'd like to see a fanmade production of the Voyager crew attending a sumo basho upon their return home, that sport half the bridge crew followed passionately, remember? You could have Tuvok trying to buy handprints in the Vulcan live long and prosper gesture, Janeway, the eternal scientist, illicitly scanning her favorites with a tricorder to update her personal logs on their body fat composition. Chakotay missing the whole thing while out on his vision quest to buy a pinku bento box for his gohan (rice) and peyote (yakuza speed)

Ah yes, that was no mere throwaway vignette desperate to staple some personality onto a profoundly unpersonable crew, big fans of sumo wrestling the crew of Voyager all were.

yikes

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

counterfeitsaint posted:

So I got about 15 minutes into that. The acting is terrible, the production values are worse. I finally gave up after the caradassian stopped mid fight so he could exposition all about emo chick and how her dad is noonien soong and exactly how she feels about it.

The expositional dialog is really shoehorned in, with two hammed fists. Stay long enough for Icheb's discussion with Boobarella the Betazoid and perhaps you'll wonder, like I did, if they just met a week ago or have known each other for a year or more.

The femme fatale character is high school drama club bad.

I dunno, I like it better than the Axenar one, which was heads talking to invisible interviewers, because we can't get two actors to be in the same room together.

e: and now the doctor character is telling her long distance boyfriend (Picardo) her life story, and briefly repeating his to him.

doctorfrog fucked around with this message at 08:12 on Aug 25, 2015

drilldo squirt
Aug 18, 2006

a beautiful, soft meat sack
Clapping Larry
That sounds terrible, why are you watching that?

counterfeitsaint
Feb 26, 2010

I'm a girl, and you're
gnomes, and it's like
what? Yikes.
Honestly it's kinda hard to even look at that photo without my eyes rolling out of my head. 17 characters? Really? Is this low budget Enterprise of Thrones? Unless half of them are dead by the end of this pilot/movie someone has no idea how visual media works.

Plus including poo poo like a nausicaan captain and a breen ...first officer? I guess. I don't know. I have no clue what role he serves because I don't speak dubstep. It was awkward when everyone had to repeat everything Thotgor said and make it sound natural at the end of DS9, but he had a minor role in maybe 5 episodes.



drilldo squirt posted:

That sounds terrible, why are you watching that?

So we can poo poo on it on the internet, duh.

Kitchner
Nov 9, 2012

IT CAN'T BE BARGAINED WITH.
IT CAN'T BE REASONED WITH.
IT DOESN'T FEEL PITY, OR REMORSE, OR FEAR.
AND IT ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT STOP, EVER, UNTIL YOU ADMIT YOU'RE WRONG ABOUT WARHAMMER
Clapping Larry
I think we can a agree that the best non cannon star trek production is unironicslly that advert Riker did for networking software back in the early 90s/late 80s

Delsaber
Oct 1, 2013

This may or may not be correct.

doctorfrog posted:

I dunno, I like it better than the Axenar one, which was heads talking to invisible interviewers, because we can't get two actors to be in the same room together.

Axanar is a Trek Thing shot in war documentary format and it's the best. It doesn't look like the actual feature length version will do the same thing though, unfortunately.

Delsaber
Oct 1, 2013

This may or may not be correct.

Kitchner posted:

I think we can a agree that the best non cannon star trek production is unironicslly that advert Riker did for networking software back in the early 90s/late 80s

I guess it depends on if we count the hotline.

shadow puppet of a
Jan 10, 2007

NO TENGO SCORPIO


Kitchner posted:

I think we can a agree that the best non cannon star trek production is unironicslly that advert Riker did for networking software back in the early 90s/late 80s

If we are throwing out nominations, then Sally Layd as Dr. Beaverly Gusher and TT Boy as a rappin' Commander Will Diker in Sex Trek 5: Deep Space Sex, should not be overlooked.

Its regarded as the DS9 of Trek porn for a reason.

chaosbreather
Dec 9, 2001

Wry and wise,
but also very sexual.

Kitchner posted:

I think we can a agree that the best non cannon star trek production is unironicslly that advert Riker did for networking software back in the early 90s/late 80s

gently caress you, its galaxy quest and you know its galaxy quest

suck my woke dick
Oct 10, 2012

:siren:I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!:siren:

Put this cum-loving slave on ignore immediately!

Luigi Thirty posted:

what happened was RDM saw that people were defending Dukat's behavior during the occupation on Usenet using the same arguments you would use about hitler and how he totally needed to kill all the bajorans

I guess the internet was new and people still had to learn that terrible spergs can be safely ignored.


chaosbreather posted:

gently caress you, its galaxy quest and you know its galaxy quest

:agreed:

skasion
Feb 13, 2012

Why don't you perform zazen, facing a wall?

Zeno-25 posted:

Also TNG sucks until season 3-4, or whenever after the writers' strike was resolved and the Borg show up. It's basically a 90s version of TOS until then

Ive kind of said this before myself but currently rewatching, I feel like season 1 is the only really bad one, and it's much worse than most of TOS is. Season 2 has some misses, and a clip show episode for no reason, but it's a lot closer to the standard of the rest of the show. Characters feel much more familiar than in season 1, and numerous scenes are devoted to their natural lives and interactions, as opposed to season 1's gang of interchangeable space saints running headlong from plot point to plot point. Guinan and Pulaski show up, O'Brien begins to get dialogue, Wesley becomes less freshfaced little bitch. Where Silence Has Lease, A Matter of Honor, Measure of a Man, Contagion, Q Who are all really good episodes. Season 3 has loads of good episodes and also Yesterday's Enterprise, which is probably a top-fiver in the entire show.

e: also season 2 is when they stop letting the blind guy fly the ship, which is probably a good metaphor for something

skasion fucked around with this message at 12:43 on Aug 25, 2015

chaosbreather
Dec 9, 2001

Wry and wise,
but also very sexual.

when commanders sport a beard,
the episode will be revered
when commanders are smooth chinned,
odds are good it can be binned

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Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

skasion posted:

Ive kind of said this before myself but currently rewatching, I feel like season 1 is the only really bad one, and it's much worse than most of TOS is. Season 2 has some misses, and a clip show episode for no reason, but it's a lot closer to the standard of the rest of the show. Characters feel much more familiar than in season 1, and numerous scenes are devoted to their natural lives and interactions, as opposed to season 1's gang of interchangeable space saints running headlong from plot point to plot point. Guinan and Pulaski show up, O'Brien begins to get dialogue, Wesley becomes less freshfaced little bitch. Where Silence Has Lease, A Matter of Honor, Measure of a Man, Contagion, Q Who are all really good episodes. Season 3 has loads of good episodes and also Yesterday's Enterprise, which is probably a top-fiver in the entire show.

e: also season 2 is when they stop letting the blind guy fly the ship, which is probably a good metaphor for something

first season rocks, you have no idea what your talking about. the music is like 100x more interesting

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