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EX-GAIJIN AT LAST posted:Goldberg Goldsmith
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So, uh, someone buy this for me. I ended up getting the 1/350 Enterprise refit model from Amazon because it was on sale. Now I think I'm going nuts because I'm planning on getting a pearlescent white gloss paint as the base for the aztec decals and aaaaagh. The model is pretty drat big too.
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Jul 19, 2016 00:37
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Drink-Mix Man posted:This is coming from the series that brought us "A black hole just opened up in orbit around the earth, but everything is fine since we used momentum to escape from it." I don't remember a black hole opening near the Earth in any Star Tracks.
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Jul 28, 2016 00:07
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howe_sam posted:The red matter detonation in Trek 09 happens some indeterminate distance from, but presumably close to, Earth since they were just fighting Nero there. Drink-Mix Man posted:The climax of ST '09 Yeah, but they'd since gone to warp. I figured they were in deep space for that.
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Jul 28, 2016 21:53
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Gonz posted:The new show starts in 5 months, and Fuller & Co. haven't mentioned the new cast, or definitively when the show is set. A secret one, apparently.
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Aug 2, 2016 22:11
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Baronjutter posted:Speaking of clothing, the costumes in trek are often pretty bad. Gene had some wierd ideas that pockets were somehow something that would be totally obsolete in his advanced utopia. Pockets are for THINGS and we've evolved past the need for things. Certainly no one has any need to carry around tools or bits of technology with them. Didn't Kirk pull a handkerchief from a trouser pocket during his inspection of engineering during Star Trek II?
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Aug 6, 2016 01:31
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remusclaw posted:They should set in on an Excelsior, but post DS9. At first I thought this might be a cool idea, but then I realized that they'd probably play it up as a crew having to figure out workarounds because they don't have the most up-to-date ship. And then it would just be "technobabble coming out of their asses to solve mundane problems" every episode.
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Aug 11, 2016 23:24
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Also don't forget that the shuttle visited Mir 11 times, all of them while DS9 was in production.
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Aug 15, 2016 01:20
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cheetah7071 posted:Weren't cloaking devices presented as a new technology in TOS? Brand-spankin'-new, yeah. TOS introduced the notion that being visually invisible was new, but they could still be picked up on motion tracking. Then they introduced the cloaking device proper, which made them invisible to sensors. Enterprise shat all over that by having the Romulans be able to cloak poo poo anyway.
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Aug 21, 2016 20:24
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So, DS9 rewatch. Someone launch Melora out an airlock. Make sure you put a note in her personnel file saying she's insubordinate too.
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Aug 23, 2016 01:57
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Apollodorus posted:Intelligence reports Romulans now using Klingon design. Which, in turn, was because nobody could find the Romulan ship model from Balance of Terror. So much of Star Trek is the result of accidents and screw-ups.
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Aug 23, 2016 22:08
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After The War posted:Copied from Memory Alpha, because I love the hell out of Fizzbin scenes. A lot of that technology was first developed when Riker was serving aboard the Lollipop. It was a good ship.
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Aug 25, 2016 23:15
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"Okay, Morta. The Enterprise computer system is controlled by three primary main processor cores, cross-linked with redundant melacortz-ramistat 14-kiloquad interface modules. The core element is based on an FTL nanoprocessor with 25 bilateral kelilactirals. With twenty of those being slaved into the primary Heisenfram terminals. Now, you know what a bilateral kelilactiral is?"
"Of course I do, Human. I am not stupid!"
"Alright, wa..wa..Wait! Wha..what is a, a ferromactal drive? Just explain it to me!"
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My birthday was on Thursday, but that meant I left Section 31 for good.
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Aug 28, 2016 00:46
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Fister Roboto posted:I just noticed that Gowron has a clit on his forehead. Why do you think his eyes are always bulging?
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Aug 28, 2016 08:10
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egon_beeblebrox posted:One friend of mine says DS9 is better, but he'd rather watch Voyager. Which is very strange. The Seventh Seal is a better movie than Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, but usually I'd rather watch Bill and Ted.
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Aug 29, 2016 15:07
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Rhyno posted:Look at this bullshit opinion right here. The makers of Bill and Ted recognize the superiority of the Seventh Seal! Just look at Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey!
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Aug 29, 2016 15:36
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"Fuckin' Garth of Izar. Dude's been a staff puke the last 15 years and they're saying he's some brilliant tactician at some backwater skirmish. Look at the loving records, man. He's the loving logistics officer of Starbase 8 and they're writing him up for a decoration because he managed to find Admiral Whatshisnuts a supply of Andorian moonshine. That's how it is in this loving fleet. You have your nose firmly up the brass' rear end and they shower you with medals. We fuckin' fought off the loving Orion vanguard and not a fuckin' peep."
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Aug 29, 2016 23:54
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Gammatron 64 posted:That's a Star Trek \ TV budget thing in general. The Enterprise-D is huge and has tons of rooms never shown onscreen, but in the show, we mostly just see a bunch of beige hallways and never really get that sense. Like, there's a huge shuttlebay we never see, plus a room where they literally keep whales and dolphins. I was thinking about the scale of a Galaxy class the other day and wondered if, like during the Dominion War for example, they stripped a Galaxy class of all excess personnel (families, science crews, maybe beef up engineering and security a bit, I think you'd end up with a crew of like 500), consolidated them in quarters on the interior sections of the saucer, and then locked off the vacant areas and shut off power to them. No life support, no gravity, no replicators, no lighting, no automated cleaning robots (or whatever), in a considerable portion of a Galaxy class starship. Reroute that power to shields or weapons or both. Would that make an appreciable difference?
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Sep 8, 2016 17:16
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I could have sworn there was an ambassador whose name started with M. M'rel or something like that? There was an Andorian ambassador M'Giia in Starfleet Academy and Klingon Academy.
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Sep 8, 2016 22:43
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Railing Kill posted:Now all I can tihnk of is that scene from Chasing Amy. 
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Sep 13, 2016 21:38
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Data Graham posted:I agree, but the author kind of overreaches right at the end: I want to say he tried recycling it a third time, but I can't remember for what movie. I could be wrong.
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Sep 18, 2016 00:06
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egon_beeblebrox posted:Robocop 2? YESS that was it.
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Sep 18, 2016 00:09
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FilthyImp posted:When was it we locked all the Californians up in concentration camps again? Not soon enough
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Sep 27, 2016 15:16
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Doing another DS9 run. Eat poo poo and die, Red Squad.
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Oct 4, 2016 01:24
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Xand_Man posted:IIRC it made her feel like she was doing something useful when the Dominion War was starting to heat up. The school went under when the Dominion War was starting to heat up because families started leaving the station, so Miles Then she sorta stopped showing up in episodes unless it was an O'Brien Must Suffer episode. Edit: Speaking of O'Brien Must Suffer, I just started Time's Orphan, where the O'Briens' eight year old daughter falls into a time portal and comes back at the age of 18. I'm paraphrasing what was said: O'Brien: What if I try again, bring her back from an earlier time? Bashir: Then there will be no one to grow up into this young woman. Keiko: We'll be taking those ten years away from her, we can't do that! Get hosed, Keiko. You just said that you want your daughter to keep the ten years she spent living on a planet by herself. I know there's no episode if you say "yes, I want to save her from growing up alone on an alien planet," but Christ. You're terrible. McNally fucked around with this message at 23:23 on Oct 4, 2016 |
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Oct 4, 2016 23:04
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Hell, remember, when TOS first aired it was considered a failure, and didn't pick up until after it was syndicated for a while. They still kept the negatives and other original materials for that show. Only 'cause Roddenberry walked off with all of it. If eBay had existed in the late 60s/early 70s, Star Trek would belong to some collector now.
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Oct 8, 2016 23:00
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:That doesn't make sense. We know he grabbed film clips and sold cels and clips (and other trinkets) through Lincoln Enterprises; if he had taken the whole episode negatives and been willing to sell them, how would the lack of eBay have prevented him from doing so? Hyperbole.
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Oct 9, 2016 15:44
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The_Doctor posted:Apologies for tumblr content, but I thought this was hilarious. Look, Starfleet isn't just banging rocks together. They know how to build a quantum space hole.
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Oct 17, 2016 14:36
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QuantaStarFire posted:Could also be for exterior access. Put on an environmental suit, decompress the room, step outside for a bit to work on something. Didn't the room lack doors, though? It looked like it was a room accessible only via jefferies tubes, with a control panel that opened the wall in front of it into space. It's as though one of the designers designed, like, a back door for himself or something
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Oct 31, 2016 06:12
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Angry Salami posted:I thought it was kinda weird how you have "It's Only a Paper Moon", with it's theme of 'Don't hide away in Vic's fantasy world, you have to face reality', then just a few episodes later you have "Badda-Bing Badda-Bang", which was basically 'Everyone, drop everything! We need to hang out in Vic's fantasy world!' Isn't it a matter of context? "Don't hide away in Vic's fantasy world FOREVER, you have to face reality" vs "the hideaway we go to so we can unwind from the grim reality we face needs some attention" was how I saw them.
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Oct 31, 2016 15:11
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Encounter at Powerpoint
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Nov 17, 2016 22:07
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The Frenemy Within Butterknife of the Mind This Side of A Reasonably Priced Resort I, Dirtt Journey to Cleveland The Moderately Uncomfortable Years The Alpha Glory A 486 Crackers and a Puppet Show Spock's Appendix Is There No Truth In Meh, I'd Hit It? Let That Be Your Last Soccerfield One of Our Yesterdays
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Nov 17, 2016 22:13
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Drink-Mix Man posted:Star Trek V: The Final Front Yard Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered County
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Nov 17, 2016 22:14
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Drink-Mix Man posted:Star Trek III: The GPS Directions to Spock's House Star Trek IV: We Need to Go Back, I Forgot My Wallet
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Nov 17, 2016 22:17
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Star Trek: Millennials
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Nov 17, 2016 22:21
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Woah woah woah. Star Trek from TNG onwards had some of the highest budgets on TV But it wasn't UNLIMITED, therefore...
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Dec 8, 2016 02:16
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Timby posted:Let's wait and see if CBS All Access is even around when Discovery airs. FTFY
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Dec 21, 2016 00:32
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cenotaph posted:I really wish they would let Vulcan and Romulan women have long hair again. T'Pol looked so much better with the long hair in the mirror episode. And I don't mean more attractive, I mean not dopey. NO EVERYBODY MUST HAVE A SPOCK HAIRCUT SO WE KNOW THEY ARE VULCAN (some producer, probably)
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Dec 22, 2016 16:23
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I recently watched Balance of Terror and would like to make a couple spergy points: Spock says that they didn't have ship to ship visual communication, not that they didn't have view screens. That doesn't even necessarily mean that Starfleet didn't have the ability to video chat with each other, it just means they never talked face to face with a Romulan. The "simple impulse" thing can suggest that all the output of their warp core was being used to maintain the invisibility screen, considering the Romulan ship was invisible almost the entire episode (particularly when the Enterprise was chasing it) and one of the Romulans telling Commander Sarek that the invisibility screen "uses too much fuel." I mean, really, people are taking these remarks to amazing lengths in saying "nobody should have view screens in Enterprise!" or "the Romulans didn't have warp engines!" You're telling me the Romulans sent their ship to attack Earth outposts like 50 years ago or whatever, only now got there, and are heading back to Romulus, ETA 50 years?
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VitalSigns posted:I'm sure the Federation keeps records about that sort of thing and has some kind of 2 factor authorization to keep something stupid from happening like a clone impersonating his double and stealing a starship. Mid-level? Data was third in command. Edit: ... and yet outranked by Crusher and Troi. Starfleet's command structure makes no loving sense.
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