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HD DAD posted:This is honestly the best format for me. Give me a 12 episode season made up of three three-parters, and three standalone episodes where they can do something batshit. Babylon 5 had a good format too. There's a single over-arching story for the entire five seasons, but still plenty of one-offs and smaller plot arcs and stuff. It has a great mix of serialized and standalone.
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Buttchocks posted:. Maybe if Starfleet Academy taught their cadets about safety factor, they wouldn't have control panels explode regularly and a holodeck that thirsts for blood. It is a longrunning problem. In Relics we find out Scotty had to falsify his reports to incorporate a safety factor.
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Buttchocks posted:I'm watching the TNG episode "Interface" from season 7, and everyone is mindbogglingly stupid. They designed a probe for exploring unsafe environments with a sensory interface capable of killing the user. Great job, chief engineer. They are aware enough of the danger to put in an emergency cut-off on the sensory inputs......at 98% of maximum tolerance. They didn't go above 70% during testing, and just assumed there wouldn't be any problems going higher than that. Maybe if Starfleet Academy taught their cadets about safety factor, they wouldn't have control panels explode regularly and a holodeck that thirsts for blood. Risk is our business *ejects from my ship as it hits a space bump and explodes itself killing 1000 people including my barber and kids*
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HD DAD posted:This is honestly the best format for me. Give me a 12 episode season made up of three three-parters, and three standalone episodes where they can do something batshit. Sounds like the classic Doctor Who, averaged 4- and 6-parters of half hour episodes, that were mostly self-contained, and there was a mostly continuous through-line for it all without involving much of an overarching plot except in a couple of isolated seasons. Somewhere in the range of that seems pretty ideal for Star Trek. Even DS9 isn't far outside of that; for the most part, even during the war while the episodes are linked, they tend to be definite beginning-middle-end episodes and not just "Part 4 of 26"
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Speaking of falsifying reports, how crime is it to take a vehicle inspection report and change the dates and print out another copy?
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Grand Fromage posted:Babylon 5 had a good format too. There's a single over-arching story for the entire five seasons, but still plenty of one-offs and smaller plot arcs and stuff. It has a great mix of serialized and standalone. I agree, but for Star Trek I think I prefer less overarching story. I like it to be more "weird space adventures" than "big war's a-comin'," and while I'm sure there are other great, more fitting, overarching stories one could come up with for Star Trek, realistically isn't that what we're going to get?
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side_burned posted:There is a very strong argument that Far Beyond the Stars is the single best episode in the history of Star Trek. The the whole cast is puts in one great performances after an other, while playing characters that are complete different from who the usually play. Its good just so very good. Khanstant posted:Speaking of falsifying reports, how crime is it to take a vehicle inspection report and change the dates and print out another copy?
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thotsky posted:more than tng, less than ds9? Buffy was basically a new overarching plot per season, but because it was 24 episodes they'd basically introduce/hint at it towards the start, and then have one-offs episodics with occasional arc things peppered in and little hints towards it that would get more and more common towards the end until it crescendoed in the season finale. Big epic battle, reset, start the new season fresh, but oh no a new threat is lurking... MikeJF fucked around with this message at 03:55 on Apr 14, 2021 |
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MikeJF posted:Personally I think the Buffy type and level of serialisation would be ideal for Star Trek. Person of Interest or maybe even Fringe did it right by me. Give me mini-arcs resolve after a few episodes but move the overall plot along eventually, with standalone episodes in bewteen.
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I just watched It's Only a Paper Moon and I'm not gonna lie, that might be my favorite goddamn episode of this show.
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Vic’s short speech at the end always felt like a way too simplistic take on mental health issues but other than that, yeah.
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Speaking of It's Only A Paper Moon, Vic Fontaine is a great counterpoint to people who say you can't introduce a good character in the final season of a series and expect them to be memorable. maybe those people don't exist, I'm not sure. But yeah, great episode, great conceit, fun design aesthetic (I loved the decision to lean on 1960s culture in DS9 in general) and solid performances from Eisenberg and James Darren.
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It's probably not a big category but Badda-Bing Badda-Bang is hard to beat for a last fun episode before we wrap things up.
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RIP to a legend https://twitter.com/trekcore/status/1382354829234831360?s=21
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Journey's End was on the other day, and for some reason it made me think of this:
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What if Wesley was Lucas from SeaQuest but also evil
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Sash! posted:What if Wesley was Lucas from SeaQuest but also evil Computer, get me Evil Dolphin in Cetacean Ops (does that department have jokes about tursioperations truncatus)
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Yes and it's not by accident, if you get my drift
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Hubbardologist posted:Speaking of It's Only A Paper Moon, Vic Fontaine is a great counterpoint to people who say you can't introduce a good character in the final season of a series and expect them to be memorable. maybe those people don't exist, I'm not sure. If they did exist they might be quick to point out that Vic Fontaine first appeared in season six.
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Binary Badger posted:Journey's End was on the other day, and for some reason it made me think of this: Star Trek TNG: Wesley Tortures Lenin in an Agony Booth
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Binary Badger posted:Journey's End was on the other day, and for some reason it made me think of this: Not gonna lie, it took me a few seconds to realize that was Wesley. Even long to figure out if that was Picard or Sisko in the agony booth.
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The agony booth is so powerful that it transforms the person inside into a superposition of Picard and Sisko, a Siskord, the only entity capable of feeling that level of pain.
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I know nothing about comics and even less about Trek comics, but I was shocked to learn those hilariously bad Mirror Broken issues came out a few years ago and not like 1997.
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Vic Fontaine is memorable but he isn’t a good character and it’s weird that the same show that contained “Far Beyond the Stars” decided to send that up.
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Vic sucks, but Paper Moon is great and the heist one barely manages to stand on its own
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vics cool
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Star Trek TNG: Wesley Tortures Lenin in an Agony Booth I thought it was the mirror universe version of the 'come with me, cupcake' guy except he made the mistake of asking eeeevul wesley this question
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King Hong Kong posted:Vic Fontaine is memorable but he isn’t a good character StashAugustine posted:Vic sucks The soulless minions of orthodoxy are checking in
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I liked when mirror vic was a real person with exactly zero explanation
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HD DAD posted:I liked when mirror vic was a real person with exactly zero explanation Correct handling of the mirror universe
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Grand Fromage posted:The soulless minions of orthodoxy are checking in It’s ok not to like parts of an otherwise good thing.
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how have I never seen this
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Because almost all of those Masters of Horror episodes flipping suck
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oh thats a bummer I might watch that one just for the novelty of Jeffrey Combs as Edgar Allen Poe
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Vic is good. Some bad takes happening in this thread today.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Vic is good. Some bad takes happening in this thread today. 
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I just noticed Johnny Cash Machine there in the corner. Dig that set design baby!
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nine-gear crow posted:Not gonna lie, it took me a few seconds to realize that was Wesley. Even long to figure out if that was Picard or Sisko in the agony booth. More like Bruce Willis to me
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Huh, I've never seen that: a rendering of the model that Drexler did that got approved for the NX-01 before, to quote Drexler,quote:Apparently someone walked into Mr. Berman’s office and said, 'Cool! It looks just like Kirk's ship!', and that was the end of that. That was a real beating. 'Use the Akira!' came the order. 
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