Grand Fromage posted:

I remember it being really good and by far the most Star Trek of any Star Trek game, but I was also ten the last time I played it.

How did you get it working? I've always wanted to replay it but modern computers just say "gently caress this noise" and no emulators or workarounds I've ever tried do anything. Best I managed was to get it to start but without audio and everything running too fast.

WampaLord posted:

I remember playing the Star Trek: Borg interactive movie game and it was great fun because John DeLancie owns.

Though my friend and I had a loving devil of a time clicking the button on the bottom of the phaser, cause the game gives you like a split second to react.

Bohemian Nights posted:

I dunno, some people react really poorly to VR, but a lot of resources is being poured into figuring out what causes this and mitigating the issues. As a personal anecdote, I don't even get slightly seasick or feel queasy from rollercoasters or any of that kind of equilibrium stuff, but after a couple of hours or so in VR I felt pretty drat strange after taking the goggles off, like being slightly hung-over for the next 60 minutes.. which isn't great for extended periods of play.

But speaking of Star Trek videogames that you can play today, there's a very well done total conversion mod for Stellaris called New Horizons that is actually really, really good and probably the best star trek strategy game to date.

It even has uniforms/ships/events that change as the timeline progresses, moving from TOS era ships to DS9-era through the course of the game

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=688086068

I heartily recommend it to anyone who owns the game (or plans to!)

MikeJF posted:

Remember that B&B's original plan didn't have the NX-01 launching for a dozen episodes as part of an ongoing buildup continuing storyline but the studio was just nixing everything and demanding TNG.

MikeJF posted:

The studio really wanted another sequel to TNG, because they wanted those sweet sweet unachievable TNG ratings, and it took a huge amount of negotiation to get a prequel. The entire temporal cold war plot existed solely to appease the studio that it's totally really a sequel and not just a prequel.

The_Doctor posted:

This is going to be an hour long show, so I wouldn't be surprised if it is more serious on occasion with comedy sides.

MikeJF posted:

Let's go concept art hog wild.

Sickbay Plus:

Timby posted:

The Discovery bridge is hideous, it looks like the aborted love child of the Sovereign and Defiant. I like the uniforms.

Coq au Nandos posted:

Voyager trip report: just finished watching selected episodes up to the end of Season 6.

It's a boring slog. My favourite episodes have all been set off the ship, like Prometheus or the ones with Barclay trying to help get in contact.

Cojawfee posted:

CBS: We tried, but it looks like no one is interested in a new Star Trek TV show, the ratings just aren't there.
Netflix: Actually, we found it to be very successful. If you don't want to make any more, we'd be happy to pay to make it our-
CBS: NO ONE WANTS STAR TREK I GUESS

8one6 posted:

I feel like I need to defend O'Brien, because he transferred to the job of Transporter Chief. The Ent-D had 20 transporter rooms (I'm not sure if that counted the cargo transporters). Even if you assume half of them aren't in operation at any given time that' still three shifts for 10 rooms for 7 days a week. O'Brien was in charge of at least 80 people. TNG's budget being what it is all of those people were always on special assignment in cetacean ops when the episodes were filming.

The_Doctor posted:

Woof.

https://twitter.com/jonathansfrakes/status/888114837917650948

skasion posted:

Actually, an ancient alien played by Salome Jens created every humanoid species in the Alpha and Beta Quadrants by spewing their genes in every direction. DS9 opened up the potential for a hilarious retcon there, but they never picked up on it.

Timby posted:

Salome Jens was both the Female Changeling in DS9, and the ancient old-rear end alien in that holographic projection in The Chase.

skasion posted:

Salome Jens is the female changeling as well, and her story in this episode is weirdly echoed by the Founders sending out 100 kids to all corners of the galaxy to see what would happen.

CPColin posted:

She must have recorded that before the events of this episode:

Drink-Mix Man posted:

I think it's supposed to be like angelic imagery. The producers said the season has something to do with science vs. religion.

The Bloop posted:

The seven Orbs of the Profits light throughout the galaxy, and only Discovery can reach them

Ginger
Scary
Sporty
Baby
Posh
Pumpkin
Spock

Brawnfire posted:

"You have to stop this, Captain."

Picard held up his tiny Troi. "But you're here too, Deanna! Can't you see? We're all here! And we never die. In my little Enterprise, no one dies. There are no Borg. There is no pain. ". He gingerly placed tiny Troi on the miniature bridge. "There now, what do you think?"

"I think it's just fine, Captain." Said Tiny Troi.

"Just fine," nodded the Captain, content.

Tighclops posted:

Honestly I'm too cynical for the The Picard Show thing to do anything other than make me laugh. Remember when they announced it?

"Oh uh... you didn't like our big 90's comicbook style grimdark tone deaf relaunch of the brand? Um... gently caress. Here's Patrick Stewart, you nerds liked him right? Oh no we don't have any writers or a director or even a story pitch yet but... P-Stew! Professor X! No we didn't just throw buckets of money at him, whatever do you mean?!"

I'm not saying that it will for sure be terrible but the whole thing wreaks of desperation. It might be nice to see the TNG era again provided they don't gently caress it up somehow but right now all I'm hearing are a bunch of muffled handjob noises coming from CBS head office so

bull3964 posted:

I'll bring it up once again.

CBS has their own digital streaming service now and they're apparently very hot for Star Trek at the moment.

If they can't figure out how to fund the remasters fully and then some by an exclusive window on All-Access, they don't deserve to be in business.

A few remaster episode releases a month is the perfect thing to bridge months of all access between new Star Trek shows and get people to keep their sub year long for multiple years.

I mean poo poo, one episode a week for the 348 episodes of Deep Space 9 and Voyager would keep me subscribed to All-Access for the better part of a decade.

simplefish posted:

There are whole episodes of well-loved BBC sitcoms and episodic dramas that are lost because archiving wasn't a thing back then and magnetic tape/storage space got constantly reused after broadcast in the 1950s/60s/70s.

Sometimes they turn up in the lofts of ex-employees or old storerooms but yeah I can easily accept that Trek scenes have been similarly lost, especially when masters were distributed around model shot/CGI/etc subcontractors/departments before the final TV-quality cuts

Brawnfire posted:

Picard: How will we keep track of ourselves?
Picard: A numbering system would be a good idea.
Picard: Which one of us was the progenitor?
Picard: If the computer is correct, it was me.
Picard: Then we'll call you number one.
Picard: ..no, I don't like that.
Picard: Too confusing.
Picard: How is that confusing?
Picard: That's what we call Riker.
Picard: Riker's not here, Number One.
Picard: Yes, it's contextual.
Picard: Entirely different scenario.
Picard: Can't we just call me Captain?
Picard: We're all Captains, Number One.
Picard: Goddamn it, fine.

Blade_of_tyshalle posted:

What, the Andorian doesn't get a phaser?

Drink-Mix Man posted:

Even this would have been more interesting if they had done it for real. Like, have the show deal with the fact that some people— especially the non-Starfleet— would probably become depressed about the idea of being confined to Voyager for the rest of their lives and stop giving a poo poo about military professionalism.

Though I think it would have been interesting if this was a bunch of people except for unexpectedly Paris. Like half the crew rebels and says "gently caress this uniform-wearing, rank-saluting garbage, I'm doing casual Friday," a bunch more flat out mutiny, and Paris the convict becomes the one backing Janeway 100% because he feels indebted to her for a second chance.

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

"Beta Z = "Beta Zed"

quote:

Born in London to Greek parents

MillennialVulcan posted:

They also take a literal timeout to introduce the bridge crew that they never let audiences get to know in season one.

Gorelab posted:

I feel bitching about this is like bitching that they don't just teleport the warp core out of an enemy ship the second the shields go down or hundreds of other things in every Star Trek series where they don't use the tech to the logical conclusion to keep things somewhat grounded.

Epicurius posted:

Are they supposed to look different? I don't notice.

Angry_Ed posted:

Not sure about those specific names but I did find a USS Robert Mugabe in a Starfleet Battles name registry PDF. Let's see what else I can find... USS Tony Blair? This list is apparently from 2012 so that makes sense but...oh...oh no...


Ohhhhhh no no no no no


Guess we know the timeline divergence point (EDIT: Also they seriously have a ship named after Bashar Al-Assad?)


Here's a link to the PDF. There's bound to be more war criminals and other ne'er do-wells in there considering I saw Khmer Rouge names in there too.

Animal-Mother posted:

Tunicate posted:

Dude my phone is saying thats a 70 mb gif

Brawnfire posted:

I'll have to reroute through tertiary, there's a cascade neutrino failure in the interstitial matrix!!????

Drone posted:

Still. Seven hours of recorded dialogue from the entire TOS cast would be amazing to have pop up out of nowhere.

Drone posted:

I mean, obviously Interplay doesn't exist anymore in that form, but I wonder if tweeting it at some of the people who worked on the project would result in anything. I mean, one would hope someone saved the data somewhere, but a poo poo ton of game stuff gets lost all the time because nobody cares about archiving anything.

Like, three of those cast members are dead, and hearing some new, never-before-released DeForest Kelley/James Doohan/Leonard Nimoy would be mindblowingly cool.