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Are you technically still an extremist is blowing yourself up is the most logical thing to do?
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Terrorism is insanely logical when the goal is to make other people melt down emotionally. In a Vulcan context I'm not so sure
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Oct 24, 2017 02:45
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DaveKap posted:It's still better than The Orville's loving college student Ikea vibe.  That's awful
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Oct 24, 2017 03:00
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Was that a phaser in the very last image when it panned down Lorca? Had a hard time determining what I was looking at.
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Oct 24, 2017 03:14
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mastershakeman posted:Was that a phaser in the very last image when it panned down Lorca? Had a hard time determining what I was looking at. Yes. He's got his gun stuck down the back of his pants.
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Oct 24, 2017 03:28
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skasion posted:Yes. He's got his gun stuck down the back of his pants. 
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Oct 24, 2017 03:30
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skasion posted:Yes. He's got his gun stuck down the back of his pants. which is incredibly odd and the more i think about it the less i want to have an answer. evil mirror version! bla bla!
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Oct 24, 2017 03:33
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How is it inexplicable his entire arc with the admiral was about the degree to which he's a broken paranoid man climaxing in holding the gun he keeps under his pillow to her head after she touched him. Do people watch this show with their eyes
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Oct 24, 2017 03:37
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Mirror universe is the new nipple clamps
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Oct 24, 2017 03:41
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The devil was generous indeed. Now I want to see Michael Dorn without makeup as worf's transgressive ancestor who started that whole business of splicing augments and Klingons.
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Oct 24, 2017 03:47
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mastershakeman posted:which is incredibly odd and the more i think about it the less i want to have an answer. evil mirror version! bla bla! It's to show that he hasn't changed and him telling Saru to get permission from Starfleet was his way of definitely not going after the admiral instead of actually having changed, as he tried to convince her of. When she couldn't tell if it was the real him, it wasn't. The phaser is to tell us that.
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Oct 24, 2017 04:00
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Phobeste posted:How is it inexplicable his entire arc with the admiral was about the degree to which he's a broken paranoid man climaxing in holding the gun he keeps under his pillow to her head after she touched him. Do people watch this show with their eyes He should have a monologue to explain it to the viewers. While looking at the camera. With charts and graphs.  But then I'm sure some people still wouldn't get it 
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Oct 24, 2017 04:02
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Oh, I get it. The phaser's from the mirror universe! 
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Oct 24, 2017 04:11
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DaveKap posted:It's still better than The Orville's loving college student Ikea vibe. The orville is supposed to be a piece of poo poo though.
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Oct 24, 2017 04:12
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:He should have a monologue to explain it to the viewers. While looking at the camera. With charts and graphs. As soon as they explained it, people would complain that it's a bad show because they explain everything.
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Oct 24, 2017 04:38
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[quote="“CharlieWhiskey”" post="“477681834”"] As soon as they explained it, people would complain that it’s a bad show because they explain everything. [/quote] That's the... ugh Christ it's not worth it.
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Oct 24, 2017 04:40
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eyebeem posted:That's the... ugh Christ it's not worth it. I don't follow. Can you explain it to me?
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Oct 24, 2017 04:52
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CharlieWhiskey posted:I don't follow. Can you explain it to me? Oh, it's easy. STD is a bad show. Hope this helps!
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Oct 24, 2017 04:53
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There is not a single likeable character on this show.
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Oct 24, 2017 05:02
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:There is not a single likeable character on this show. Well, Burnham might start bring likable now (oh god please). Saru is cool, and so is the engineer. Tilly fluctuates between likable and Neelix. The captain is, perhaps not likable, but compelling and I'm enjoying his performance. There's a lot going for this show. Needs 100% more Riker tho
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Oct 24, 2017 05:10
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That nebula looked loving ridiculous. Little scattered patches of high chroma red, green and blue, really? I've seen every APOD pic for years and never saw a nebula like that, not even with crazy false color enhancement. Also I just realized it would look white from a far enough distance.
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Oct 24, 2017 05:12
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hiddenriverninja posted:For me, it's "oh now we have the technology to better portray what the future looked like" so I don't really mind it. Yeah this is something I've never cared about. Of course it's not going to look like an ugly rear end show from 1967. They throw in bits like a lot of the props, and some small homages like that weird grate thing in everyone's quarters that Lorca had a version of (but his isn't painted a bizarre orange). Good enough for me.
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Oct 24, 2017 05:22
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CaveGrinch posted:To be fair, “I forgot about that” seems to be most people’s defense when it’s pointed out that all the other Trek series have done the exact same things. Whereas my response is "Trek writers should be learning from past Trek's mistakes and not blindly aping them out of a misguided appeal to ~~*authenticity*~~."
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Oct 24, 2017 05:24
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Is it just me or is Tilly already losing weight? For all the dumb writing on the show, having a pudgy character get swole might be the best visual indicator of time progressing that I've ever seen.
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Oct 24, 2017 05:31
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I don’t think so. I’ve seen some interviews with her recently and she looks the same.
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Oct 24, 2017 05:35
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:There is not a single likeable character on this show. Tardigrade.
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Oct 24, 2017 06:06
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Hipster_Doofus posted:That nebula looked loving ridiculous. Little scattered patches of high chroma red, green and blue, really? I've seen every APOD pic for years and never saw a nebula like that, not even with crazy false color enhancement. Also I just realized it would look white from a far enough distance. Any sci-fi nebula is bullshit anyway. If you were actually in a nebula it would effectively look as black as the rest of space does, to us. The only reason they look so colorful through telescopes after long exposure is because you're seeing tens to hundreds of light years of space compressed into perhaps a few arc-seconds of viewable area. But like 'asteroid fields,' it's not really about the scientific accuracy of the phenomenon, it's about using said phenomenon as a storytelling element. So really, who cares? ashpanash fucked around with this message at 06:13 on Oct 24, 2017 |
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Oct 24, 2017 06:11
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I don't recall exactly but didn't the TNG holodeck not really do much besides recreate forests and stuff until those binary code aliens souped it up with sultry jazz clubs?
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Oct 24, 2017 06:50
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In the future, humans have evolved beyond the need for comfortable chairs.
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Carbon dioxide posted:In the future, humans have evolved beyond the need for comfortable chairs. 
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Oct 24, 2017 07:28
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eyebeem posted:Tardigrade. It had the best character arc, fighting the good fight against its evil oppressors, then escaping to freedom after reaching its lowest point. Also it killed some of the worst characters on the show. If only it had killed Lorca and Tilly when it had the chance it would forever be remembered in canon.
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Georgia Peach posted:I don't recall exactly but didn't the TNG holodeck not really do much besides recreate forests and stuff until those binary code aliens souped it up with sultry jazz clubs? And spawn fully sentient holographic beings that want to take over the ship/galaxy/universe, yes.
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So what was the title supposed to mean since it has nothing to do with a crazy TOS villain?
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Baron Porkface posted:So what was the title supposed to mean since it has nothing to do with a crazy TOS villain? In Greek mythology, the river Lethe caused forgetfulness; thus relevant to both Sarek and Lorca repressing past traumas and most of the episode taking place in Sarek's memories. Also possibly a hint that if Tyler is Voq, he's got false memories and doesn't remember he's Klingon? Angry Salami fucked around with this message at 08:21 on Oct 24, 2017 |
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Oct 24, 2017 08:19
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Shouldn't the transporter scanners know that he's Klingon?
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Oct 24, 2017 08:24
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Lethe was also a TOS character.
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Oct 24, 2017 08:25
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Weird, out-of-context Star Trek screenshots are my new favorite SA forum joke. Also can someone please post the nipple clamp gif?
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hiddenriverninja posted:Shouldn't the transporter scanners know that he's Klingon? My new running theory is that he's got some sort of implanted personality of Voq in him that will come out at the right time - Ash Tyler was and is still human. But who knows, really. It could all be a red herring.
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Alan_Shore posted:Well, Burnham might start bring likable now (oh god please). Saru is cool, and so is the engineer. Tilly fluctuates between likable and Neelix. The captain is, perhaps not likable, but compelling and I'm enjoying his performance. There's a lot going for this show. It's gonna take a lot of work to get Burnham into a "likable" state, but at least we're slowly going toward "maybe somewhat interesting I suppose" with each character development. Saru is really cool, classic Trek, and I want a Saru-themed episode pronto. Tilly is just Neelix all the way down. Lorca is a fascist and I really dislike him, but as a character he's becoming a great pseudo-villain. I'll be fine with this as long as they don't turn him into an antihero, thereby vindicating his fascism. I do really like Jason Isaacs though and he's selling it well -- and it helps to know that even if Lorca has reprehensible ideologies, Isaacs is pretty much your standard outspoken Hollywood lefty. Stamets is cool but I hope they tune down the loopy Redditness from the last episode. Hopefully that's just a side effect of his tripping on shrooms. Doctor NicePecs is pretty one-dimensional (and I still don't know his actual name) but he's also only been in like two episodes so far. Drone fucked around with this message at 08:54 on Oct 24, 2017 |
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ashpanash posted:Any sci-fi nebula is bullshit anyway. If you were actually in a nebula it would effectively look as black as the rest of space does, to us. The only reason they look so colorful through telescopes after long exposure is because you're seeing tens to hundreds of light years of space compressed into perhaps a few arc-seconds of viewable area. I know all that, but it's still no reason to make it look like no nebula ever.
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