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Cat Hatter posted:Why not? The TVIV Star Trek thread hardly does anything except complain about how terrible Star Trek is and always has been. um.... we also repeat the same tired jokes over & over. you will find
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And discuss ships, that’s due to kick off Friday in the cycle.
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v disappointed that self-proclaimed Trekkie Mike 1) had BoBW in his top 5 like a basic casual fan and 2) failed to bring up Family, which is basically BoBW Part 3
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Both places are fine it is you that are bad
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Hey Trek people, I need some good Romulan episodes to show a friend who got into Star Trek Online and likes them, what are some good ones? Balance of Terror is a given but what else are there that have interesting Romulan elements.
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sexpig by night posted:Hey Trek people, I need some good Romulan episodes to show a friend who got into Star Trek Online and likes them, what are some good ones? Balance of Terror is a given but what else are there that have interesting Romulan elements. "The Defector" and "Unification" (both parts) are direct set ups for the Romulan storyline in STO. Technowolf fucked around with this message at 03:24 on Aug 5, 2020 |
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Aug 5, 2020 03:09
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I'm finally watching Nemesis and I described Shinzon's aesthetic within one minute as "bald Neo with shoulderpads squeaking across the room in his holographic leather."
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sexpig by night posted:Hey Trek people, I need some good Romulan episodes to show a friend who got into Star Trek Online and likes them, what are some good ones? Balance of Terror is a given but what else are there that have interesting Romulan elements. “The Enemy” and “The Defector” from TNG are big ones for establishing the 90s-era Romulans though neither is a super good episode. “Face of the Enemy” really is a good one. I guess there’s also the DS9 two-parter with the Tal Shiar and Obsidian Order getting jointly smoked.
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Some other good ones are "The Enemy" (TNG), "The Mind's Eye" (TNG), "The Next Phase" (TNG), "Face of the Enemy" (TNG), "The Chase", and "The Pegasus" (TNG) are also decent Romulan episodes. E: Quote is not edit, dumbass
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Aug 5, 2020 03:23
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This thread got me to waste like $80 in real American dollars basically chasing electronic baseball cards.
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Aug 5, 2020 04:52
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Sash! posted:This thread got me to waste like $80 in real American dollars basically chasing electronic baseball cards. oh was this for the attack wing gacha game youtube keeps showing me ads for where starfleet captains accept mercenary contracts to kill klingons in the neutral zone in dumbass ships that don't even have warp nacelles
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Aug 5, 2020 05:03
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The other one where you endlessly run RNG quests to get parts to level your Age of Sail Data but you can't stop because you just got another Sisko you needed.
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Sash! posted:The other one where you endlessly run RNG quests to get parts to level your Age of Sail Data but you can't stop because you just got another Sisko you needed. I played this for a while and if you sign up for Google Rewards or whatever, you can make enough in Play credit by answering "yes I went to Panera today, yes I payed with a credit card, no you can't see the receipt" once or twice a day, to pay for the fancy reward tiers.
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Aug 5, 2020 05:45
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Man, STO would be so much better if they would just port the auto-triggers for abilities from consoles. Like, it still wouldn't be good, but it would at least be a usable space dress-up simulator. As it is, like, ain't nobody got time for five drat hotbars worth of abilities.
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I have no idea how you would turn Star Trek into an MMO but you could have easily said the same thing about turning Trek into a FPS and Elite Force was great. And the MMO has been running forever now so what the hell do I know.
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Technowolf posted:Some other good ones are "The Enemy" (TNG), "The Mind's Eye" (TNG), "The Next Phase" (TNG), "Face of the Enemy" (TNG), "The Chase", and "The Pegasus" (TNG) are also decent Romulan episodes. Redemption 1 / 2 are also big on Romulan stuff.
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Arivia posted:oh was this for the attack wing gacha game youtube keeps showing me ads for where starfleet captains accept mercenary contracts to kill klingons in the neutral zone in dumbass ships that don't even have warp nacelles I rewatched the ad to be sure and yes, their example Federation ship has no warp nacelles. it seems to have the back END of a warp nacelle as the back of the secondary hull. starships don't work like that and my brain hurts now
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sexpig by night posted:Hey Trek people, I need some good Romulan episodes to show a friend who got into Star Trek Online and likes them, what are some good ones? Balance of Terror is a given but what else are there that have interesting Romulan elements. on top of those mentioned, Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges
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8one6 posted:A CinD movie thread? Let me guess: all the good movies are bad and all the bad movies are good actually. Until SMG writes a 1500 word essay on how Kirk is drawn to the Tribbles as a metaphore for his toupee and the Enterprise is the audience surrogate while Spock struggles with his latent homosexuality. Half of the thread will take this cue to leave and the other half will swoon and engage.
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Dog_Meat posted:Until SMG writes a 1500 word essay on how Kirk is drawn to the Tribbles as a metaphore for his toupee and the Enterprise is the audience surrogate while Spock struggles with his latent homosexuality. Half of the thread will take this cue to leave and the other half will swoon and engage. SMG will then, offhandedly, reveal he's never actually watched Star Trek, they just saw a poster for it once.
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SMG’s schtick wears very thin when you realise he’s clearly not watching what he talks about. A lot of his ‘analysis’ depends on him getting (sometimes quite major) plot points wrong. Either he’s terrible at paying attention, only sees what he wants to see when he’s watching, or he’s just going by Wikipedia plot summaries.
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Didn't include a christian and/or Marxist reading of the film, 5/10 SMG impersonation.
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Aug 5, 2020 13:38
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The_Doctor posted:SMG’s schtick wears very thin when you realise he’s clearly not watching what he talks about. A lot of his ‘analysis’ depends on him getting (sometimes quite major) plot points wrong. Either he’s terrible at paying attention, only sees what he wants to see when he’s watching, or he’s just going by Wikipedia plot summaries. Like come on now, if you’re going to be a gimmick poster at least put some effort in
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Dog_Meat posted:Until SMG writes a 1500 word essay on how Kirk is drawn to the Tribbles as a metaphore for his toupee and the Enterprise is the audience surrogate while Spock struggles with his latent homosexuality. Half of the thread will take this cue to leave and the other half will swoon and engage. "I met those two women once. One of them began her conversation with, "What you Star Trek writers don't understand is that Kirk secretly wants to be raped by Spock." I gnawed off a leg and escaped." - David Gerrold
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The_Doctor posted:SMG’s schtick wears very thin when you realise he’s clearly not watching what he talks about. A lot of his ‘analysis’ depends on him getting (sometimes quite major) plot points wrong. Either he’s terrible at paying attention, only sees what he wants to see when he’s watching, or he’s just going by Wikipedia plot summaries. He's worth it for the times he does come up with something strikingly insightful, I feel
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Barry Foster posted:He's worth it for the times he does come up with something strikingly insightful, I feel Nah, not even vaguely worth it. 
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The_Doctor posted:Nah, not even vaguely worth it.
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Angry Salami posted:"I met those two women once. One of them began her conversation with, "What you Star Trek writers don't understand is that Kirk secretly wants to be raped by Spock." I gnawed off a leg and escaped." Marshak and Culbreath were utterly insane.
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I keep forgetting how relatively young David Gerrold is for a TOS writer. You’d think all of them would be ancient and dead at this point, but nope, he’s younger than Patrick Stewart. He was only 23 when he wrote The Trouble with Tribbles.
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It takes a real galaxy brain to join a student activist group in 1969 and try to shut down meetings until they agree to change their platform to support the Vietnam War.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Marshak and Culbreath were utterly insane. quote:Marshak was an avowed Objectivist (a devotee of Ayn Rand) from the age of thirteen, and believed that Star Trek advanced Objectivist ideals. She explained these ideals at several points in Star Trek Lives! I guess one could be objectivist in a post scarcity society. Those entries. 
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How is Stark Trek: The Animated Series?
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sponges posted:How is Stark Trek: The Animated Series? TAS is awesome. The Blu-ray is often on sale.
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sponges posted:How is Stark Trek: The Animated Series? It's the only show that this thread won't recommend that you skip at least half the episodes. Is there even one tas episode that is generally agreed to be crap?
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No, they're all good
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Cat Hatter posted:It's the only show that this thread won't recommend that you skip at least half the episodes. Is there even one tas episode that is generally agreed to be crap? I'd say that the episodes that are sequels to TOS episodes aren't great, but I wouldn't recommend skipping them. TAS is great.
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Really good Bill Tilley cards this week https://twitter.com/billtilley1973/status/1291537502457802754?s=19 PS sorry for the bad joke earlier
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I like that episode, so I assume Greatest Gen hated it and just wanted the show to get back to the war instead.
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SlothfulCobra posted:So O'Brien is Irish, I guess Keiko is japanese, and Picard is Franglish, but are Ryker, Geordi, Barkley, Crusher, and Pulaski just American? Riker is Canadian. Geordi is from...Somalia, I think? Crusher is from space scots. Barcley is fom a family of Sea Steaders. Pulaski is from the moon. No, not that one, that one.
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