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Paradoxish posted:I think MisterBibs mentioned this a few pages back, but if any of you bums are fans of the Greatest Generation and get a chance to catch one of their east coast tour shows I highly recommend it. I just got back from the Boston show a little while ago and it was a blast. Honestly kind of worth it for the totally pointless but shockingly nice challenge coin alone. I want at the Boston show too and even though I showed up when doors opened it was already packed. They did a great job with crowdwork and the show was hilarious and on point. Between that, the tacos and porch beers I enjoyed while watching A++++
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ST:DLC Zurui posted:I'd go with DSC for the obligatory TLA. ST: TOU
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Aug 22, 2017 15:41
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Abbreviation for Discovery? Easy. Star Trek Disco.
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Aug 22, 2017 15:48
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STD is what I see people using
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Aug 22, 2017 15:49
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What exactly is Star Trek Discovery discovering? Because having STD as your acronym better be worth it. Before knowing a thing about it people have already associated your show with herpes, gonorrhea, and AIDS. The mail guy who's there on an internship could've made this marketing breakthrough.
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Aug 22, 2017 15:54
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They're discovering the upper limits of how much people care about Kirk and Spock
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Aug 22, 2017 16:30
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at this point, I think I'd prefer a continuation of Star Trek: Enterprise even if they had to have completely different actors playing the same characters
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Aug 22, 2017 16:44
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I know it breaks formula, but jeez ST:D would even be better. It even looks friendly!
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DIS is the official shorthand they're using at CBS. M-A is using DSC. Edit: or maybe it's the other way around. Either way, STD is only being used by the internet, which is stupid, because we don't use STV or STE. Timby fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Aug 22, 2017 |
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Aug 22, 2017 16:58
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What if someone discovers some voyager DVDs in a couple hundred years but they got all scuffed up so it just say VGER.
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Aug 22, 2017 17:00
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Timby posted:Edit: or maybe it's the other way around. Either way, STD is only being used by the internet, which is stupid, because we don't use STV or STE. It's because those aren't funny Also because STV looks like the marshmellon movie
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Aug 22, 2017 17:08
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Enterprise season finale was something of a dud, but I know they didn't really have time for something better. And I was wrong earlier: I'm actually in season 3 of Voyager, not 4. I just started 3:20 "Favorite Son," saw Better Call Saul's Howard Hamlin as the alien and had to come here to laugh about it.
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Aug 22, 2017 17:09
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Lincoln posted:Enterprise season finale was something of a dud, but I know they didn't really have time for something better.
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Aug 22, 2017 17:13
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The Bloop posted:ORV - they wish they had these ratings I am pretty great. Cojawfee posted:What if someone discovers some voyager DVDs in a couple hundred years but they got all scuffed up so it just say VGER. Same thing happens; everybody panics, then several hours of confusing imagery, then it's over.
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galenanorth posted:at this point, I think I'd prefer a continuation of Star Trek: Enterprise even if they had to have completely different actors playing the same characters Wait. How long do Andorians live? Can we still have Shran?
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Aug 22, 2017 17:43
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Pretty sure their life span is fairly similar to humans.
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Aug 22, 2017 17:46
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It would be great if every Star Trek race lived for a couple hundred years except Humans. Star Trek needs at least one race that can say "You'll be dead before I even learn your name."
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Aug 22, 2017 18:42
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Man you guys and your ability to go to Greatest Gen live shows. Each time they do a live show I get the impression it will be their last tour. They like complained for a few minute straight about how overworked they felt from this current tour in one of the recent episodes.
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Lincoln posted:Enterprise season finale was something of a dud, but I know they didn't really have time for something better. The series finale? They got the fourth season by the skin of their teeth and were told at the outset that unless the ratings skyrocketed back to first / second season levels (which everyone knew was never going to happen) that it would be the final year. The "official" cancellation came later, but Berman, Braga and Coto all knew this was it. That's why Coto wrote Terra Prime as "his" series finale: He was positive Berman would come gently caress around and insist on ending the show himself, and he was right.
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Cojawfee posted:Star Trek needs at least one race that can say "You'll be dead before I even learn your name."
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Aug 22, 2017 18:56
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FlamingLiberal posted:El Aurians (Guinan's people) live for many hundreds of years. Thanks to the Borg there are probably not many left though. Soran was the only other named one. DS9 had this guy too. Kind of a shame, the idea of an El Aurian con artist is pretty cool, but the episode he was in was pretty unremarkable.
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Lincoln posted:Enterprise season finale was something of a dud, but I know they didn't really have time for something better. Yeah they did. They could have just stopped after the episode just prior to the finale and it would have been a better send-off.
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Aug 22, 2017 19:39
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The TNG episode where the Enterprise kids get kidnapped, one of the kids is scared about having to do more calculus. Jesus christ kid, you're like, nine, what kind of accelerated program are you on?
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Orv posted:The TNG episode where the Enterprise kids get kidnapped, one of the kids is scared about having to do more calculus. Jesus christ kid, you're like, nine, what kind of accelerated program are you on? It's the 24th century, man. If you aren't studying the mathematics of quantum neutrino fields by the time you get your first pube you'll never make it into starfleet.
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Aug 22, 2017 20:19
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The Bloop posted:It's the 24th century, man. If you aren't studying the mathematics of quantum neutrino fields by the time you get your first pube you'll never make it into starfleet. You'd think the kids would be pudgier, eating so many wonton burrito meals.
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Aug 22, 2017 20:22
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The Bloop posted:It's the 24th century, man. If you aren't studying the mathematics of quantum neutrino fields by the time you get your first pube you'll never make it into starfleet. The mathematics of wonton burrito meals. I'll be there!.
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Aug 22, 2017 20:23
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Cojawfee posted:The mathematics of wonton burrito meals. I'll be there!. Like a balloon and...something bad happens! 
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Aug 22, 2017 20:32
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A guy I dislike just revealed he's a big TNG fan, so I'm probably gonna skip all of seasons 6 and 7 except the must-watch episodes.
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Jeb! Repetition posted:A guy I dislike just revealed he's a big TNG fan, so I'm probably gonna skip all of seasons 6 and 7 except the must-watch episodes. 
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Jeb! Repetition posted:A guy I dislike just revealed he's a big TNG fan, so I'm probably gonna skip all of seasons 6 and 7 except the must-watch episodes. ???
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Relax, relax, everyone, Jeb is joking. You..you are joking, right, Jeb!?
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Too late, the damage is already done. You are 5/7ths that guy.
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Orv posted:The TNG episode where the Enterprise kids get kidnapped, one of the kids is scared about having to do more calculus. Jesus christ kid, you're like, nine, what kind of accelerated program are you on? This is one thing I dislike about TNG. There's a sense, at least in the early episodes, that they start drilling advanced math and science into kids' heads from a very young age. There are probably some benefits to that, but they don't let kids be kids. Your average nine year old doesn't need to be concerned with integration and derivatives, but cartoons, recess, and long division.
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Jeb! Repetition posted:A guy I dislike just revealed he's a big TNG fan, so I'm probably gonna skip all of seasons 6 and 7 except the must-watch episodes. The pro move is to go beyond and embrace DS9.
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Jeb! Repetition posted:A guy I dislike just revealed he's a big TNG fan, so I'm probably gonna skip all of seasons 6 and 7 except the must-watch episodes. Season 7 is mostly really dire, you're not missing much there. S6 has some good stuff though. Relics, Chain of Command, Face of the Enemy, Tapestry, the Kahless one, the Tom Riker one...on the other hand, it has Aquiel.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:This is one thing I dislike about TNG. There's a sense, at least in the early episodes, that they start drilling advanced math and science into kids' heads from a very young age. There are probably some benefits to that, but they don't let kids be kids. Your average nine year old doesn't need to be concerned with integration and derivatives, but cartoons, recess, and long division. Clearly being "better humans" means to be "more asian".  But yeah, putting more intellectual pressure on children also never looked very advanced/utopian to me. I know it was supposed to show that kids in TNG are supposed to be more intelligent/educated than your average kid today but they went the wrong way about it.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:This is one thing I dislike about TNG. There's a sense, at least in the early episodes, that they start drilling advanced math and science into kids' heads from a very young age. There are probably some benefits to that, but they don't let kids be kids. Your average nine year old doesn't need to be concerned with integration and derivatives, but cartoons, recess, and long division. It's probably totally unrealistic, but I assume the idea was that teaching methods have gotten so advanced that they've found the perfect way to teach things and it doesn't take as long, or whatever. I mean, there's one TOS episode where Uhura gets her brain completely wiped, but already relearns basic language by the end of the episode and is 100% normal in the next one, so...
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I don't find it so implausible that our imperfect meat brains have some sort of undiscovered backdoor that you can use to impart knowledge rapidly, and that the utopian society in star trek uses it to teach rather than to dispense advertising/propaganda Like, it's far from the most implausible thing happening in an average Star Trek episode
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:This is one thing I dislike about TNG. There's a sense, at least in the early episodes, that they start drilling advanced math and science into kids' heads from a very young age. There are probably some benefits to that, but they don't let kids be kids. Your average nine year old doesn't need to be concerned with integration and derivatives, but cartoons, recess, and long division. He does if he ever wants to find a job in this economy
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skasion posted:Season 7 is mostly really dire, you're not missing much there. S6 has some good stuff though. Relics, Chain of Command, Face of the Enemy, Tapestry, the Kahless one, the Tom Riker one...on the other hand, it has Aquiel. Well I'll watch any episodes folks recommend. I just wouldn't be as entertaining during mediocre episodes because I don't have much to say about them (see my posts during seasons 1 and 2).
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