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Powered Descent posted:If anyone hasn't read it, it's here: http://www.lcarscom.net/rdm1000118.htm The visual design of that website is horrendous, so be prepared to copy-paste the text into something so you can read it without your eyes bleeding. But it's worth it, the man absolutely nails what went wrong with Voyager. What the hell is wrong with their web designer?
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# ¿ Aug 22, 2016 20:43 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 11:32 |
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Instant Sunrise posted:One thing that a lot of people like to point out about this episode is that one of the writers would later go on to write a very similar episode for Stargate SG-1 called "Emancipation." The main difference being that instead of a planet full of black people, it's Mongolians. Wait that wasn't an episode poking fun at TNG??
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# ¿ Sep 15, 2016 01:17 |
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Actually that looks a lot like Riker in that mural?
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# ¿ Oct 28, 2016 17:05 |
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FredMSloniker posted:The intro would show off all the protagonists and antagonists. The flagship of the evil Star Empire (imagine the TNG promo guy doing the narration and pronouncing it 'Staaaaar Empire'), the classic Klingon ship named the Vengeance, flies toward the screen, and we dissolve into its bridge, where we see a Romulan, an Orion slave girl (as sexy as they can make her given the content rating), a hybrid Borg (in this show, most of the Borg are full-on robots, but this one is human), a Ferengi, a few miscellaneous aliens, and the Klingon captain. Move down, out of the bridge, to see the planet it's over, explosions visible from space. This is 10x better than the Discovery premise thus far
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# ¿ Jun 19, 2017 18:21 |
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Sash! posted:This almost exact plan did not work in the Clive Cussler Dad Airport Novel "Dragon," wherein Japanese built cars were secret nuclear weapon carriers hidden throughout the world. Wait this is real
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# ¿ Mar 3, 2018 21:38 |
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Remember the time Tom Clancy wrote about a Japanese guy seeking revenge who then piloted an airliner into Congress? Oh those innocent days before 9/11
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# ¿ Mar 3, 2018 21:59 |
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evilmiera posted:The idea of "giant piece of metal with jet engines on could be dangerous" is so obvious and boring in comparison to some of the crazier poo poo rightwing nuts could write up. Not to mention slightly more realistic. Aside from poo poo like " Iranian manages to infiltrate the Republican Guard of Iraq, murder Saddam and then Iraq just folds like wet tissue paper to Iran who could totally occupy them without issue" that appears later in that book or series, as I recall. This is actually a good point when you get down to it. Pre 9/11 Tom Clancy seems quite sane given the context.
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# ¿ Mar 4, 2018 04:44 |
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Burning_Monk posted:The best part of Stargate was that a couple seasons later they would do something like run into an army of ghost and someone would be like "remember that ghost gun we used before? I made a few 'adjustments' it's a ghost canon now." I hope that was an intentional misspelling.
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# ¿ Mar 17, 2018 01:26 |
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I thought the new Star Trek movies were pretty good except for the Khan's blood reviving Kirk thing. A more cerebral Trek movie wouldn't have made it out of Hollywood intact. It would just end up as Insurrection, Take Two.
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# ¿ Apr 26, 2018 21:41 |
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Tom Guycot posted:Apparently it will also have a new game mode that apes FTL where you're being chased by a borg cube while trying to upgrade your ship to eventually fight it. They're also adding a new ops system merged with the engineering station. Oh poo poo
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# ¿ May 10, 2018 06:08 |
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Windows 98 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHumLzUWjbs Isn't this on Netflix?
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# ¿ Jun 1, 2018 15:37 |
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Far Beyond the Stars was the Benny author guy one right? Yeah it was framed badly and would have been a perfectly fine episode if it was a holodeck history lesson or something. The whole dream thing cheapens the message. Note: I like the episode very much but I do have to mind wipe myself of the setup to enjoy it.
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# ¿ Feb 15, 2019 04:12 |
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Snow Cone Capone posted:hey so, I was browsing my local library's website for a few books and uh As a librarian I don't understand what I'm looking at here that's weird?
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# ¿ Aug 23, 2019 00:33 |
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Allen_Aldo posted:As an also librarian I can tell you that this is what the ILS (this is the library equivalent of LCARS or something) known as Polaris looks like; our consortium in north suburban Chicago has it, and local availability means at your library vs at another sort of nearby library that you can also get it from. I work in ILS/LSP development and I can tell you that my first reaction was "did some video approval account vendor accidentally send them two copies and waste taxpayer dollars?" Polaris can eat my rear end. Wait it's a Triple I product?
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# ¿ Aug 23, 2019 00:41 |
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https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Librarian
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# ¿ Aug 23, 2019 02:31 |
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HorseLord posted:England has never ever been a white monoculture. There was always "moors", going back to Roman times. Apartheid segregationist style of racism was never a thing here, beyond the efforts of certain extremists, which is why your men stationed here in WWII were so shocked and appalled to see us freely fraternize with black soldiers. While the 20th century saw the emergence of overtly fascist movements here, they've always been crushed, not by the state but by the people. The majority of the civil rights work that happened here was much more about trying to get grandma to remember that "coloured" isn't polite anymore, getting harmful stereotypes off the TV, rather than dismantling segregationism. Have you even seen Star Trek before?
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2019 15:41 |
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Star Trek is at its best when it's optimistic.
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# ¿ Jan 13, 2020 09:01 |
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Thus far only Law and Order does RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES well and it's almost played for laughs. Can you imagine if TNG did an episode where Wesley leads Gamergate and Lieutenant Ice'T of the Klingon Special Victims Unit has to track him down?
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# ¿ Jan 13, 2020 16:40 |
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I actually really liked the Star Treky twist they did for the Major in GITS. It cuts down to the idea of stolen identity and heritage and being forced to adapt to a majority culture. To be honest it wouldn't have worked with an Asian actress. The movie resonated with me. I think TNG did a similar episode with an orphan and the ensuing internal struggle.
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# ¿ Jan 14, 2020 01:29 |
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oh but seriously I posted:marina sirtis instead of troi and jonathon frakes instead of crusher and they p. much already did this Wait WHAT
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# ¿ Jan 17, 2020 06:39 |
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I thought the Riker cameo was well deserved and came off as a great payoff that cemented Archer and crew as legitimate members of the Enterprise legend. That it was a holodeck thing during Pegasus and not some post Nemesis era.... Eh.
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# ¿ Feb 16, 2020 18:00 |
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runwiled posted:King of Bad Opinions. You are so lucky you're cute... It was a sweet and adorable little cameo and trekkers be haters!
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# ¿ Feb 16, 2020 18:10 |
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I'm just always happy to see the Enterprise-D (if you know what I mean) no bloody E.
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# ¿ Feb 16, 2020 18:32 |
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It's genuinely very surprising that my favorite part of ENT is very divisive. Hell even my mother liked it and she vastly preferred TNG.
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# ¿ Feb 16, 2020 18:48 |
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The Bloop posted:seaQuest DSV poo poo I knew I forgot something for the quarantine
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# ¿ Apr 20, 2020 06:34 |
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I always thought "Cause and Effect" was one of the most boring and contrived episodes, capped off by an utterly bizarre cameo. Edit. Maybe I'm getting sentimental in my old age, but "Move Along Home" is a great Quark episode where he hopefully learned something. Insane Totoro fucked around with this message at 06:49 on Jun 19, 2020 |
# ¿ Jun 19, 2020 06:46 |
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If anything, DS9 was really weird for having a Chinese woman play a Japanese woman who is inordinately fond of old school culture and comes across as worse of a weeb than Worf and Klingon culture.
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# ¿ Jul 28, 2020 17:39 |
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John Wick of Dogs posted:I actually really like the Kevin Uxbridge episode. Maybe because I'm a man of special conscience Wait who was talking poo poo about this one?
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# ¿ Aug 15, 2020 23:52 |
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It's a beautiful episode about the intensity and passion in loving another person. And the grief and loss of not just the person but our own barriers in expressing and working through that loss. And what you'd do to get back to spending just one more day with that person.
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# ¿ Aug 16, 2020 00:49 |
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Exactly which edition of Insurrection has the commentary track? There's quite a few options.
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# ¿ Oct 4, 2020 16:44 |
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Epicurius posted:It's the Blu-ray version. Ah! Thanks it was listed as the Multi Format edition on Amazon for some reason...
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# ¿ Oct 4, 2020 20:29 |
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The biggest crime of Insurrection is wasting the potential of the villain from Amadeus.
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# ¿ Oct 5, 2020 01:00 |
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"Does this Star Trek thing help me aspire to a better humanity within myself and others?" Yes or No? It's a real simple litmus test. Voyager doesn't pass it most of the time.
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# ¿ Oct 11, 2020 23:32 |
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quantumfoam posted:Have been continuing my readthrough of 1987 SF-LOVERS mailing list. This is the best post I've seen in a while.
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# ¿ Oct 17, 2020 05:18 |
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I assumed that the plastic film was a reference to dorks keeping the toys in the wrapped box.
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# ¿ Oct 27, 2020 00:49 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 11:32 |
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You know, after watching Nemesis and Picard I think Olmos would have made more sense as Picard and Stewart would have been a better Adama.
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# ¿ Oct 29, 2020 04:50 |