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HD DAD posted:Point: never, ever listen to Star Trek fans That's because Star Trek is just bad, it's really not good and we're protein-deficient cult captives convincing each other there's a plan and a hope that the *next* serial killer to take over The Pit will throw down some chicken scraps.
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Andorians we're good in Enterprise. More Shran, that's a plan.
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Jan 21, 2020 17:08
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MichiganCubbie posted:If only we got season 5's regular crew member Shran. I seriously think that would have saved the whole mess.
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Jan 21, 2020 17:13
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skasion posted:Sure it does. Starfleet is a human organization. Vulcans had their own organization that was eventually superseded by it. Ah, Yel-Halitra
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Jan 21, 2020 18:01
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Rhyno posted:Because Lucas made prequels and people love prequels right? I really hate that they did that. I always sort of enjoyed the conceit of the Star Wars chronicle being in media res for some unseen, larger story cycle. Lucas really undercut his own storytelling technique with the prequels.
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Jan 21, 2020 18:21
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zoux posted:IMO all of Discos problems start and stop with Michael Burnham. I especially hate that she Bookends the episodes because they give her the most eye-rollingly terrible monologues.
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Jan 21, 2020 19:56
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ashpanash posted:Picard is "haunted" by Boothby, who actually lives in a orange candle he keeps by his bed. Every episode starts with Picard waking up in the morning with no idea where it'll be or with whom. With Boothby's ghost? With Q? With his wife in the Nexus? The future with no memory of the intervening years? On Ressik, randomly, one morning? Regardless, at least half an hour is spent just on Picard attempting to return to the central conflict.
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Jan 22, 2020 16:02
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FlamingLiberal posted:If he does appear there have been no leaks about it yet Dorn baked his special cornbread muffins he calls "Dorncakes" as a good luck gesture
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Jan 22, 2020 16:06
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Drone posted:John de Lancie as an old-rear end version of Q is gonna be an interesting shoehorn. "Why Picard, I thought you might be comfortable speaking peer-to-peer. Or does seeing my face all tired and wrinkled make you think too much of your impending death? Can't say I know the feeling, but I imagine it's... mortifying."
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Jan 22, 2020 16:19
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Drone posted:Couldn't tell you a drat thing about the Discovery theme, and I've seen every episode. I thought I had it but realized I was humming the Downton Abbey theme.
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Jan 22, 2020 17:39
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Tighclops posted:Is there actually anybody around here that doesn't want to be pleasantly surprised? I mean I thought it went without saying It would be a waste of a good negativity buildup. Yeah, I've got more, but
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Jan 22, 2020 21:41
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I want like, a hyperspeed techno remix of the TNG theme if they're keeping that. Or maybe a disco remix. With lots of dubbed in "Go! Go! Go! Go! Gogogogogo!"
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Jan 22, 2020 22:33
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I can't wait to watch this, all these black blocks of spoiler are too tempting.
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Jan 23, 2020 17:27
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Gaz-L posted:I think it's also fair to call out the journo about Dunkirk simply because she notes Picard wrote history books after he retired, so presumably at least one of them was about WW2. I would give anything to see a future history written by Jean-Luc Picard.
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Jan 26, 2020 02:25
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Khanstant posted:Are there any time travel fictions that work on the premise of time not being linear? We always have to think that if we go back in the past and change this or that, it must have consequences for the future but in our world the nature of time is still kind of mysterious and in a fictional world you're obviously free to construct time to work however you want. Go back in time, kill your dad, go back to present and you still exist both with a dad and a dead dad. Futurama time is circular but there's still consequences to past alteration
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Jan 26, 2020 18:09
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You may have noted some degree of disdain towards Rick and Morty among some denizens of the internet
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Jan 28, 2020 01:13
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I will never read a comic from a sci-fi property, I made the mistake of reading Trek graphic novels as a kid and I won't subject myself to that again. They need to keep exposition in the confines of the drat show/movie.
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Jan 28, 2020 15:47
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MichiganCubbie posted:I agree with this, and really, really hope it's not going that path. I'm hoping the Romulans are literally trying to reclaim Romulan drones, or something along those lines. That could be interesting. Your empire massively depopulated and the Borg defanged, it would be appealing to try to "reclaim" some of those taken in order to flesh things out a bit.
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Jan 28, 2020 15:59
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Dear Mr. Data This sucks rear end, let me disassemble you already for gently caress's sake
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Jan 28, 2020 18:41
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Cojawfee posted:Star Trek being written by lonely nerds got it right when they had a lonely nerd turn a brainstorming exercise into a weird sex thing. Then continued getting it right where the real woman showed up, saw his creepy sex thing and yelled at him. But they should have gotten a normal human to write the conclusion where she just leaves him blocked forever, and doesn't unblock him and then actually marry the guy that probably holoraped a facsimile of her. Turns out Geordi was actually the least weird with a hologram of her out of all the men and women she's worked with or met socially.
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Jan 28, 2020 21:09
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zoux posted:Did she play Rofl in TNG? Honestly it's just refreshing not to receive replay files in your inbox, for once
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Jan 28, 2020 21:19
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Rhyno posted:She'd just give up and try stabbing. The Klingon and Andorian judges present nod approvingly. The Tellarite is displeased the argument ended so soon, but must admit the tactic worked. She wins by majority vote while the Human judge whines about decorum.
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Jan 28, 2020 21:54
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Angry Salami posted:I wish Micro Machines were still around. I loved their little Star Trek ships when I was a kid... I'm pretty sure I had all of them. Brought them into school one day to show my friends. Left them there. Never saw them again. Edit: 22 years later and I'm still bummed wtf Brawnfire fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Jan 29, 2020 |
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Jan 29, 2020 16:26
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Rhyno posted:And it's puzzling when you look back 20 years and the Playmates line spanned a quarter of a toy aisle and was a juggernaut. The toy line for 2009 was a pretty big flop so they're likely not willing to push anything new into brick and mortar stores. I remember catching every new episode with my dad, spaceship toys on the floor
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Jan 29, 2020 16:41
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Rhyno posted:We watched it as a family. TNG Saturdays (later Sundays). At the end of the run the local channel moved it to 9pm and I had a firm school night bedtime. But for All Good Things , Dad overruled that and let me stay up til 11 so I could watch the entire thing. It's actually one of my favorite memories of my Dad from when I was a kid. We had a really rocky time later that lasted many years and our rift was healed because of our mutual love of scifi tv. My brother had tons of the toys, I had a shelf of the playmates ships. 
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Jan 29, 2020 16:55
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zoux posted:Yeah it's a Buick, down to the wood-grain panelling. These are the voyages of the Starship Le Sabre.
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Jan 29, 2020 17:43
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Khanstant posted:The idea of a modular ship is cool, but the basic Trek ship design doesn't lend itself to it at all. That was funny. It should have been the cube spitting out a dodecahedron, which cracks open and disgorges a sphere, which a cone twists out of, then that sheds its damaged hull to become a cylinder and then, finally, one naked drone spiralling towards the Earth from high orbit.
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Jan 29, 2020 18:47
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Admiralty Flag posted:A Borg icosahedron spits out a dodecahedron spits out an octahedron spits out a cube spits out a tetrahedron. Wait until you see the calipers these Borg use to calculate fairness.
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Jan 29, 2020 18:57
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Powered Descent posted:
I'm not even kidding, they need to use this for a design somewhere. All these nested shapes, and all of them rotating. It could be like a Borg Yorktown.
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Jan 29, 2020 18:59
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Admiralty Flag posted:The true story is they had to migrate to 5th Edition because the only two archetypes any Borg would play in 4th were Controllers or Minions. Everyone collectively gapes at Hugh as he expresses interest in trying Bard.
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Jan 29, 2020 19:04
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Admiralty Flag posted:"Solo? Is that a permitted trait in the Collective?" Yeah you've outdone me for sure, I give!
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Jan 29, 2020 19:11
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zoux posted:How much more flat could this ship be? None. None more flat. I've definitely got to check this out, I've seen pictures of that thing a thousand times and it just doesn't visually parse. It literally looks like it would be a circular floor the circumference of a moon with a bunch of miles-wide windows at about head height.
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Jan 29, 2020 19:47
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Delsaber posted:At least there's a solid chance the Enterprise-J never happened since it was part of a prevented future timeline or whatever. We can toss it in the bin along with the triple-nacelle Enterprise-D. Dude. Okay, how about this: Star Trek: Nullspace. A science vessel falls into a non-space, where the only other worlds/vessels/people are ones who have been "deleted" from continuity. Also, Space Langoliers are hunting them.
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Jan 29, 2020 19:55
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zoux posted:All good things reminds me, who the gently caress was negotiating on behalf of the UFP on the Treaty of Algeron and agreed to unilaterally not use cloaking devices while everyone else gets to. That must have happened after his intelligence regressed.
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Jan 29, 2020 21:00
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Actually, that is sort of hilarious. Vulcans have a secret offshoot; the Romulans. Then, the Romulans have a secret offshoot: The Remans. What do Remans have? Is there an indigenous subreman race they keep hush?
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Jan 29, 2020 21:34
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Carbon dioxide posted:I thought the Remans were a distinct species that just happened to live there when the Romulans arrived thousands of years ago after they hosed off from Vulcan, and the Romulans just enslaved them. One would think, since they're like loving scaly and Romulans aren't at all, but memory alpha just calls them a slave caste.
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Jan 29, 2020 22:04
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Kinda cool. I think it's interesting how closely-related the Romulans and Borg became in almost all Trek media. Even the Shatnerverse!
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Jan 30, 2020 04:21
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Jan 30, 2020 19:40
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Worf will not be appearing in Picard this season. Riker, Data, and Troi are the only TNG main cast showing up. That comment was referring to a possible future Worf appearance, saying he’d look like TNG Worf and not have the dramatic Disco look. It would be funny if every single series had differaent Klingons. Lower Decks should make them inscrutably alien.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:All you have to do is ask their opinion on giant 80’s shoulder pads Too small, by far, and why no quilting?
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