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Just watched The Ensigns of Command, doing a quarantine watch Genuinely love that the crew of the Enterprise basically go 'wtf? This is way out of out jurisdiction' and peace out at the end. I love TNG so much.
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The_Doctor posted:One of my favourite non-trek bridge designs is this concept for the Nostromo in Alien by Ron Cobb. It’s nicely asymmetrical and multi-level, and I love that windowed section. Yeah, this really does it for me. Man, I love sci fi concept art so much. When it's good it can be so evocative, often more than the finished product
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Jul 9, 2020 22:28
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The_Doctor posted:I really like this one. Ah this one's brilliant
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Aug 1, 2020 15:55
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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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Aug 5, 2020 14:20
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Statutory Ape posted:i was born 9 months before TNG and i come from a family of nerds When I was a kid I was mostly just in it for the pew pew and spaceships but now that I'm old this is definitely what I like best about Trek I was also born into it, TNG is the first non-kid's tv thing I ever remember watching. Armus scared the poo poo out of me. He was my biggest fear in the whole world for awhile EDIT here's another clip I like. In a lesser show Riker would get into a big macho beef with the guy, but the way he handles this is perfect and an excellent example for masculinity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDJTG12NTg4 Barry Foster fucked around with this message at 17:20 on Aug 16, 2020 |
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Aug 16, 2020 17:17
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bull3964 posted:Sitting here on Monday morning trying not to do a spit take with my coffee when someone refers to LeVar Burton as "that actor." Eh if you're not American you're not likely to be familiar with him except as Geordi
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Aug 17, 2020 17:07
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It was the first Trek I saw in the cinema, so it'll always have a special place in my heart. Seeing the big D up on the big screen was a trip for a kid who grew up on TNG and had practically memorised the technical manual. Also I really loved the main theme.
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Aug 18, 2020 19:20
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MikeJF posted:The best part of generations is how sexy the D looks wait that came out That shot where she pulls a hard turn and warps away from the shockwave thrilled me when I was a kid. It was so cool to see the D perform more dynamically
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Aug 18, 2020 19:37
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bull3964 posted:I really appreciated the fact that the didn't feel the need to go faster than the speed of light to get away from the exploding star which would have been happening at sublight speeds. Certainly beats the multi-system Romulan empire destroying red matter supernova in JJTrek EDIT I may be mistaken and it may have only destroyed the one system. Whatever, it was still dumb EDIT EDIT The_Doctor posted:All these lovely shots. yesssss
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Aug 18, 2020 19:49
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Nessus posted:The Roddenberry vision was mystifying, but a lighter version where the core crew do not seem to all loathe each other or be laden with secret agendas seems to be part of what has made TNG work so well. Indeed a lot of the core premise sacrifice in Voyager could be summarized as, they laid that on a crew where that made no sense - meanwhile there was a fairly modest amount of it in DS9. The crew being well-adjusted professionals and basically decent and respectful people is what really sets TNG apart, especially nowadays where 'good character writing' too often means 'tough and cynical people making tough and cynical decisions toughly and cynically' 'No interpersonal conflict, everyone is perfect' is definitely mystifying though
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Aug 20, 2020 10:38
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BB2K posted:I'm not a huge trek guy, but I've had some free time recently and have been watching tng, and this is so refreshing and makes it so nice to watch. Its so so so pleasant and fun but not dumb. I love it. I just watched the enemy from season 3, where jordi has to work with an injured Romulan to get off a stormy planet. It was so good. Yeah it's great. TNG is like a warm bubble bath for me because of this (and the fact that it was such a fundamental part of my childhood my brain basically formed around it). It's been lockdown comfort food for awhile. The world is bleak, insane and hopeless enough already. The world needs more optimistic, idealistic TV. womb with a view posted:I do find it kind of jarring when you have plots where someone doesn't fit right into this perfect world though, and Geordi flips out on them. Like Barclay's first episode, or the one where Scotty shows up and Picard has to tell Geordi to be nice, or the one where Geordi makes a sexy holodeck simulation of a real person. You'd think to get to this utopian ideal you would have to have a basic understanding of things like social anxiety, or being old, or being a woman. Not unfair, yeah. I wonder if that's down to the time it was made. Or that its writers were nerdlingers and/or mostly men (I don't actually know if either of those are true, though)
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womb with a view posted:Riker's got a surprising mean streak in him too, but it's usually for professional incompetence. He doesn't care if you're weird on your own time, but if he thinks it's affecting operations (Ro and Barclay) he doesn't have any time for it. That's 100% the job of an effective XO, tbf
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Aug 20, 2020 12:49
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John DeLancie is always the highlight
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Aug 22, 2020 14:30
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haha this one's great
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Aug 23, 2020 18:35
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Sash! posted:You know good and well what I mean. lol ever heard of fox news? People are eminently programmable
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Aug 25, 2020 18:01
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Statutory Ape posted:its a shame that the ugly enterprise-a got the most movies Mods?!
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Sep 6, 2020 15:28
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This owns Clearly a labour of love. Going to get baked tonight and give this a watch.
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Nov 13, 2020 12:50
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Big Mean Jerk posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZlRt05RY9Y Sometimes it leans a bit too hard into memery and internet humour, but there's so much amazingly creative stuff in this video. I love it
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Nov 28, 2020 12:52
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Man the A is the most beautiful Star Trek ship bar none
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Feb 11, 2021 14:32
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FlamingLiberal posted:It’s not clear either, but it appears like they gave the crew like 2 weeks of a crash course in 32nd century tech before sending them on their way I really don't think most TV writers are up to the challenge of writing insane, hyper-advanced, Culture-style futuretech, because it breaks an awful lot of stock stories, scenarios and cliches. The ST:D writers especially are barely capable of decent 'standard' sci-fi plots... EDIT and I guess that overall people probably don't want extremely speculative sci-fi stories, they want 21st century dramatic situations with more pew pew
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Feb 12, 2021 16:14
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I dunno, I like the Constellation quite a lot.
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Apr 24, 2021 15:54
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Binary Badger posted:Before or after it met the planet killer?  Emrikol posted:The Constellation's decent, but I think they went too hard on visually selling it as old and antiquated. It looks downright crude. That's what I like about it. It's a mean little tugboat thing. It's not a showpiece ship like an Ambassador or a Galaxy or even a Nebula, it's a 9 to 5 blue collar working ship Barry Foster fucked around with this message at 13:09 on Apr 25, 2021 |
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Apr 25, 2021 13:05
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John Wick of Dogs posted:I realize he's like the 4th most important character in 1 out of these 4 movies, but I don't think the 7th Heaven pedophile needs to be on the cover By process of elimination are you talking a out the dude who played Deckard?
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Jul 8, 2021 12:47
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Chiming in as another Orville convert, and alo as someone with a similar reaction to MacFarlane which stopped me trying it for ages. Then I did try it, and really disliked the first episode, so shelved it for years. Then went back again, and by the end of the second I was pretty convinced. It kept getting better from there. It really is a great show, and the cast is honestly one of it's best aspects. It does really good Trekk-y stores, and the universe is pretty well thought out, but they're a fundamentally likeable bunch and it's fun to watch them interact. Even MacFarlane. And then there's the single best part of the whole thing, which is Bortus.
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Aug 30, 2021 22:51
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Sulu was always one of my favourites of the TOS crew. I dunno why, I think I just like a quietly competent and solidly reliable dude
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Oct 3, 2021 16:24
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John Wick of Dogs posted:Everyone dislikes Lwaxana when they are young. This is extremely accurate, haha
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Oct 21, 2021 15:13
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I had a few of those figures when I was a kid - not the cool obscure ones, just Riker, Geordi, Data, Worf, etc The phasers came with, like, the beam coming out of them, it looked stupid. I used to bite that poo poo off
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Oct 22, 2021 18:39
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Bullshit, Riker's into jazz and not a bolshy arsehole, he wouldn't be into coke, he'd be into weed and viagra (and maybe heroin too, that's how a lot of the old jazz guys did  )
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Oct 29, 2021 06:31
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Big Mean Jerk posted:This is basically every single sci-fi author of note, ever. You just get used to picking your poison. Absolutely, though some are worse than others. I couldn't finish Peter F. Hamilton's The Reality Dysfunction. It was loving gross
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Nov 1, 2021 14:11
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Bucswabe posted:I'm working my way through "excession" as my first Culture series book. It's pretty enjoyable for many of the concepts it raises but it honestly makes me feel like a dummy trying to digest it. There are so many odd names, references to places and races I don't know anything about, and a super advanced vocabulary, not to mention all the tech talk and and gibberish code. It's not a good one to start off with. I would quit out for now and start with Player of Games, which is much less convoluted. Once you're more familiar with how the universe works you'll find Excession easier
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Nov 3, 2021 07:15
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LividLiquid posted:Wil Wheaton was interviewing some Doctor or other when he asked them how to drive the TARDIS. The Doctor responded, basically, "that's a closely-kept secret passed from Doctor to Doctor and I can't share it with you," to which Wheaton offered to show them how to drive the Enterprise and they shut him down. Bill Hartnell really did come up with specific functions for the various buttons, which is kinda sweet I wouldn't be at all surprised if latter day Doctors did the same thing, especially the ones who were pre-existing Who nerds
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Nov 6, 2021 16:46
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Winifred Madgers posted:Spock: Robot body? No way! That goes against the natural order. Oh no! Poor tribble!
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Dec 24, 2021 09:14
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Mooseontheloose posted:I do not why but Skin of Evil seems to work for me as an episode even though everything around it SEEMS so cheesy. Scared the absolute poo poo out of me as a kid. Nightmares of Armus oozing under my bedroom door to come kill me for years
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Jan 19, 2022 07:45
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Brawnfire posted:If you ever find that somehow, rip it and stick it on archive.org please lol I thought I was the only one who did this Watching old VHS recordings of early to mid 2000s Adult Swim while getting high - across the gulf of time itself!!! - with all the night owl stoners of the past
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Feb 2, 2022 15:49
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Brawnfire posted:It's a whole rear end mood, isn't it It takes the choice out of your hands, which is really refreshing. I get enormous choice anxiety with streaming, and TV is kinda depressing these days So sometimes it's nice to just relax and let the TV people from 20 or 30 or 40 years ago show you what they got Old MTV also rules
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Feb 2, 2022 23:59
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I watched The Most Toys last night after being reminded of it by this thread It is, indeed, a top tier TNG episode.
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Apr 1, 2022 15:48
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Hollismason posted:Got to The Devil's Due which is a loving baller of a episode Yeah it's great, it's Trek as heck Feels like something TOS would've done, and it's done with aplomb davidspackage posted:In hindsight I really hated the concept of the emotion chip, it was a weird shortcut. Data so obviously has low-level emotions, he can be curious, concerned, embarrassed, and a whole bunch of other things. Absolutely - I was actually thinking exactly this when I was watching The Most Toys the other day. Spiner's performance is clearly supposed to relate the character's feelings. He may not be quick to anger, but you can't tell me he isn't low-level pissed after Donnie ices that lady
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Epicurius posted:Devil's Due was actually an adaptation of a Phase II script. Huh, no way! Well there you go
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Apr 3, 2022 13:06
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Tighclops posted:berman had the kazoo removed for making sounds that were too noticeable and not bland enough lmao also yeah, that's from Future Imperfect source: me, having coincidentally watched it last night
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Cross-Section posted:Cool video alert Owns
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