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So you'll sit through the poo poo with Allemerain/Shap, but won't go peep the better episodes later? DS9 is a lot tougher to recommend ship-in-a-bottle episodes, because without the context of Quark and his family dynamics, it's a lot harder to like an episode like Magnificent Ferengi (which is loving incredible, btw). I'm going to have to recommend Trials and Tribble-ations. It was the Trek anniversary episode on DS9, and you can really tell that everyone was having a good time on set for it. Plus, you get to see Miles O'Brien, only enlisted man in Starfleet, get chewed out by Kirk. Also, Worf as a space trader. It's a super fun episode, with relatively "low stakes" in terms of plot, and I wouldn't be surprised to see more people recommend it
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CainFortea posted:I dunno, I just didn't really care about anyone on the station. Like, if you told me the next episode Sisko dies my immediate reaction would be "Huh, I wonder if his replacement is any better". Yes, Season 5, Episode 6. I will be cocky and say I doubt I'm getting probed
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drat, how did I forget about House of Quark. loving weird that the Ferengi episodes are the best episodes
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Watching Nana Visitor chew the gently caress out of the scenery in the Mirror Universe episodes are pretty great, too. It's pretty clear she's loving how over the top she gets to be
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Sep 24, 2020 14:42
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josh04 posted:That the transporter brings people straight into the command room on DS9 never stops being hilarious. I mean, why is it any different than Voyager or the Enterprise, where the turbolifts will happily whisk randos straight to the bridge, no questions asked, regardless of alert status? I'm thinking especially of the TNG episode with the frozen schmucks from the 90s being brought on board
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Sep 24, 2020 21:54
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OP, you missed Trials and Tribble-ations on your watch list post. Unless you secretly already watched it, loved it, and bought the novelization
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Sep 25, 2020 21:53
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Best two characters were Quark and Garak. Sometimes Morn
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This is bullshit, Pick. You haven't even talked about how those Vulcans are loving pricks about baseball Edit: spoilers, Vulcans are loving pricks about baseball
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I mean, there's also all the episodes where Miles O'Brien gets sadistically tortured. Those are funny, in the sense that the writers are needlessly punishing this dude for no discernible reason
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Sep 26, 2020 22:21
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Ghost Leviathan, for the crime of making me remember Paradise, the only episode to just make me mad every time I think of it, I sentence you to a sixer
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Sep 26, 2020 22:49
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FunkyAl posted:I choose Pick, for not recommending an episode 
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Sep 26, 2020 23:22
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Well, I'm goin right back in that box.  Props, it was a good reference and got a laff out of me
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mysterious frankie posted:Thanks to my recent sixer I have learned the value of clemency, and so choose to probe NO ONE. Look at this evolved human, who so embodies the root beer ideals of the Federation. It's insidious
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So about Starfleet being human-centric: It literally evolved from the human military/defense/exploration force, per Enterprise (and that's even before Space Force  ). I read a supposition once that you see a lot of humans on vessels because true interspecies vessels might be difficult to accommodate due to varying biology (ignore that one TNG episode for sake of this argument please). That is to say, you can't have the argon-breathers on a human vessel, the atmospheres just don't gel. Hell, even Vulcans may prefer a more Vulcan-centric ship, as the psychic noise is probably diminished, and the ambient temperature rests a few onkians higher, mimicking their desert world.So the vessels we see are those aliens who are willing to crew on a human-centric ship, and suffer the attendant environmental mismatches for whatever reason. Maybe for cross-training on a command track or something? Possible. The species most familiar with Starfleet are probably going to have been part of the Federation for the longest, and consequently that's why we probably see more Vulcans (and Bolians for some reason...?). A lot of the newer races probably have sizable self-defense forces yet that their people serve in that may be seen as more prestigious, or any number of other things. I think, ultimately, that Starfleet seems human-centric primarily by virtue of the fact that we're human, and can empathize more with a single Black dad than a single Cardassian father, despite wide similarities in their careers
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I am going to needlessly rejoin the fight and formally recommend The Magnificent Ferengi (S06E10). There's probably a lot I could say about this episode, but I'll keep it short and perplexing: Iggy Pop is perhaps the best Vorta?!?!
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Miss posted:I would like to probate myself, in recognition of my many successes THIS IS A POST WORTHY OF STO-VO-KOR! Peanut President posted:Baseball rules. gently caress you. THIS IS A POST WORTHY ONLY OF FEK'LHR!
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Grand Fromage posted:Lotta soulless minions of orthodoxy ITT. Not seeing any episode rec's from you, Mr./Ms. Blue Star 
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I'm cashing in my probe for Brute Squad! I'm hoping they take my irritability as a sign of my fertility 
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Oct 8, 2020 02:35
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Boooooooooooooooo
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You know what DS9 needs? More springball
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Oct 14, 2020 17:03
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Today is a good day to die! (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) mercenarynuker fucked around with this message at 14:07 on Oct 17, 2020 |
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grassy gnoll posted:That Weyoun isn't immortal. Maybe you should talk to Worf again about it. Fuckin LOL
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Oct 21, 2020 16:23
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Listen, sometimes your cells just get bored and you've gotta take them on the cellular equivalent of a rollercoaster. This is just basic science that the soulless minions of orthodoxy are trying to suppress
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Oct 21, 2020 18:38
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I for one would like to congratulate everyone but President Peanut for choosing episodes that CainFortea didn't actively hate. The real winners were the friends we made along the way
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Oct 22, 2020 02:25
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CainFortea posted:This was good enough of a thread that I'm going to continue watching DS9 from where I quit in my chronological Star Trek watch, at the end of season 2. That means the thread was an unparalleled success, then! There will still be some stinker episodes in there, but there's also been several episodes not recommended that are excellent that you now get to experience. Like all the ones with Intendant Kira Nerys, for example
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Yeah, I think the Maquis concept really underestimated the audience's ability to remember the setting's tenets, including that the Federation is capable of settling displaced peoples on planets that presumably aren't a political hot zone. See also that episode with the Gamma Quadrant refugees who really want to settle on Bajor based on a vague prophecy despite countless reasons why that's a bad idea. That episode always makes me laugh, because Star Trek is really bad at numbers. The total settlers from the Gamma Quadrant? 50k people. That's a small city, like Biloxi, Mississippi, or Carson City, Nevada. That civilization is basically near total collapse/extinction. The Federation/Cardassian war mentioned in TNG resulted in "millions" of casualties per Picard, which is a comparatively REALLY low number for a conflict that lasted 23 years! Edit: for reference, the Dominion War cost Cardassia alone nearly a billion people after just 2 years. That seems way more in line for spacefaring civilizations spread across multiple planets and crazy advanced weapons systems mercenarynuker fucked around with this message at 12:00 on Oct 23, 2020 |
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SlothfulCobra posted:The only thing about the Maquis that seems incongruous to the rest of Star Trek is that it depicts humans in the far future as being active members of the galactic community with wants and needs rather than passive observers. Can't believe that humans would feel some kind of attachment to their homes. I mean sure, the worlds SHOULD be an internal matter for the Cardassian government. But it's pretty easy to see how Cardassia would view the Maquis as Federation plants (especially given their antagonism towards Cardassia), and the Federation populace would be hard pressed to just allow a planet to be massacred when it was filled with their former colonists. This isn't even that crazy of a scenario, I mean look at eastern Ukraine and the separatist militias to get an idea of how that can serve as pretexts for invasion/conflict
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It's pretty much that exactly. They fought a 23 year war, worlds were exchanged presumably, even if Cardassia maybe started stepping on the toes of the agreement (per TNG). Cardassian colonists were probably just a lot more likely to head home and go back to Cardassian rule, since loyalty to the state is something their civilization is big on
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Yeah, I believe they did get put down, bodily
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I really considered it, but I wasn't sure how well the inverses of characters would play without some grounding in their original versions. Since you liked that one, feel grateful that there's 2 more yet
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