Arglebargle III posted:

In the future, thanks to advances in medicine, linguistics and family law, it will finally be possible to have four grandmothers capable of running a marathon. Mankind will finally discover the tetragrandmathon.

FlamingLiberal posted:

It still boggles my mind that they couldn't be bothered to have consistent uniforms either....rather than get a whole new set of the DS9 version uniforms, they had like half TNG ones and half DS9. So lazy.

Gammatron 64 posted:

I would really like to see what becomes of the Ferengi and Cardassians post DS9. Grand Nagus Zek and later Rom enact a lot of reforms making the Ferengi more progressive and egalitarian - I think it would make sense that a reformed Ferenginar would join the Federation sometime.

I'd also love to see a newly democratic, postwar Cardassia. They could take inspiration from postwar Germany, even. It sounds like the books make Garak President of Cardassia, which is rad.

Speaking of that, in one of the books, Sulu becomes President of the Federation.

Mister Kingdom posted:

I'm in the mood to play roulette for some reason.

Kin posted:

I just finished season 3 of TNG as part of my Blu-ray marathon and gently caress me, that was some good TV (best of both worlds pt1).

Something that's irking me about the set though is that that special features seem to disjointed. I don't want to jump back and forth between disks, but when you stick on the extras they'l often be talking about the episodes later in the season. I've seen them all, but I've not seen them since they aired so it's nice to not really know what's coming up.

I do really like how season 3 pretty much solidifies Pickard as the righteous hammer of authority though. You just don't gently caress with him, even when he's on holiday.

WickedHate posted:

I don't get why warp has a numerical speed gauge at all. Narratively, I mean. It just causes all these problems when you could just keep it ambiguous and say "max speed", or "we have to faster!"

Rhyno posted:

Man, Future's End is horrifying. They panned across the LA boardwalk and it took a few seconds for me to realize that yes, this is what 1996 actually looked like.

Tunicate posted:

They got shrunk down like in that episode where the defiant got tiny.

WickedHate posted:

Gene was responsible for Turnabout Intruder. Even for the times, a lot of the other people on the show were pretty aghast at it.

MorgaineDax posted:

http://www.startrek.com/article/revised-expanded-trek-encyclopedia-out-oct-18

NEW EXPANDED STAR TREK ENCYCLOPEDIA!

BUT IT'S $150!

TheBigAristotle posted:

That was one weird uh... Malkovich impression?

MorgaineDax posted:

The Fifty-Year Mission: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek: The First 25 Years really puts emphasis on the uncensored.

This is from Ande Richardson.


I've never heard of this woman before, but I'm really enjoying her quotes in the book. She's black and was friends with Malcolm X, MLK Jr, and Maulana Karenga, and worked as a Desilu secretary before becoming Gene L. Coon's personal assistant.

FlamingLiberal posted:

Yeah I was going to say that you can't leave out that part because I almost fell on the floor when i read that. Her segments of the book were some of the most interesting.

Timby posted:

Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

Edit: From the same site, Roddenberry having a small fit about the Trek III script.

VanSandman posted:

Iggy Pop can't act for poo poo.

Pakled posted:

It was in DS9 before it was in Nemesis.

CaveGrinch posted:

Pretty sure they re-thought it when they realized they were wasting the best actor on the show sitting in a chair all episode.

The_Doctor posted:

The Mega Bloks giant Enterprise is on sale for just $99 on Amazon

vermin posted:

I'll see that and raise you German Techno Faith of the Heart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74iAs6AqOhM

Gonz posted:

remusclaw posted:

As a regular reader of the Everest thread whenever it pops up in GBS, I was turned onto this great documentary on Netflix called Valley Uprising. It's about three generations of rock climbers in Yosemite and the advances they made and such. The first group treating each formation essentially like mountains and doing tool assisted climbs up them, and the later getting more brazen and athletic until people were just straight up free climbing El Capitan when only a few years prior it was essentially considered impossible to do even with tools over a long period of time.

What this brings me to is Shatner as Kirk free climbing El capitan in Trek V. First of all, Jesus Christ the people who were doing that poo poo were some of the most fit people I have ever seen, and Bill Shatner in 1980whatever is not that. Second of all is just how 80's that movie was.

"Go climb a rock".

Star Trek V's opening moments latch onto the rock climbing celebrity fad of the time that I didn't even know existed.

remusclaw posted:

I was reading the Guardians of the Galaxy 2 thread and someone mentioned in reference to Mantis how empath characters are always female in way to play up gender stereotypes and such and I though immediately about Trek. Do we ever meet any male Betazed?

Astroman posted:

Believe me, I want it to be related more than anybody, but I just don't think these guys will give any lip service to canon at all. Remember this series is literally taking place at the same time as The Cage, but you know it will not look at all like the aesthetic of that ship/technology/uniforms. I'll give you the idea that technically The Cage might not be canon because it was never aired, but what Discovery will do is basically retcon The Menagerie out of existence, which effectively erases 4% of the aired episodes of The Original Series, which is not cool.

Why they couldn't just set it in 2245 instead I have no clue. At least Berman and Braga had the decency to set Enterprise in an era we had never seen or heard about so despite their insistence on viewscreens, "phaser pistols" and Borg, the ships, tech and uniforms wouldn't be so anachronistic.

Timby posted:

Wait, what? Are you talking about the guy who said that he was named for the English accent?

MikeJF posted:

Still from Discovery:

Timby posted:

Discovery's producers attempt a bit of hilarious damage control.


I like the implication that no one had any idea of how long it took to build sets.

Edit: "You can’t cut corners or have 95 percent of what’s on screen be completely original and inspired and then have five percent something you bought at a store." Tell me, are you aware of how Wah Chang fashioned his props for the original series? Or that the VISOR was fashioned from a 99-cent barrette that Mike Okuda picked up from a drug store?

The_Doctor posted:

What bothers me is that's clearly come from people who haven't really seen the show because there was always conflict. And also, tons of people are reading it that 'everyone will hate everyone else'.

The_Doctor posted:

The great DS9 watch continues with Inquisition. This is DS9 trying to do The Drumhead, right?

The_Doctor posted:

"...I can live with it."

drat, that was so good.

Blade_of_tyshalle posted:

That Klingon looks like a lovely Warhammer figure. All black with some drybrushing.

WampaLord posted:

You got a source for that?