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Yeah, but he originated in TNG. So imagine that character, but as a sadboy 9-year old who looks like a protoceratops, in the godawful clothing federation civilians always seem to be wearing.
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Feels like there was missed opportunities for Jake, Nog, Ziyal and Alexander to have a whole episode. Maybe throw in like, that one teenage Jem'Hadar.
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El Fideo posted:Yeah, but he originated in TNG. So imagine that character, but as a sadboy 9-year old who looks like a protoceratops, in the godawful clothing federation civilians always seem to be wearing. Alexander is supposed to be this aggressive Klingon boy who's stronger than the other human children, but instead of hiding the fact that the actor had the physique of a nine year old child the show insisted on putting him in tights and poo poo so it was even more ridiculous.
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Mar 21, 2023 21:37
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DS9 has him end up accepted as the crew as basically a bad luck sink. Their O'Brien.
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What happens when O'Brien joins DS9 then?
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Specifically, a Klingon crew starts out treating Alexander as a nuisance until they notice all the disasters happening to him and apparently they have a concept of a sort of good luck charm; the person who constantly has humiliating and silly accidents happen to them so they don't happen to anyone else.
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Just seen Tasha Yar die. lol. lmao.
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Because of that episode I've always been hesitant to swim in featureless black inky puddles.
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It almost got good for a moment when it was just Picard yelling at a poo-covered man in a ditch but then having to endure the funeral scene sucked all the fun right back out.
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josh04 posted:Just seen Tasha Yar die. lol. lmao. Genuinely hysterical.
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josh04 posted:Oh yes, he's in ds9 one time. He sucks! Alexander, a character so awful and worthless even DS9 couldn't redeem him.
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josh04 posted:Oh yes, he's in ds9 one time. He sucks! A couple of times! And yeah, they really can't think of anything good to do with him. Pity, they could had some fun with misadventures with Jake and Nog. Throw in Ziyal too, and you even got the multi-species representation!
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Ghost Leviathan posted:A couple of times! And yeah, they really can't think of anything good to do with him. And Kid Weyoun
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Now there's a cool kid character
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AARD VARKMAN posted:oh yeah Picard in e1 was not remotely what i expected from years of second hand reading and memes. actually he was kind of lovely in a bunch of the earlier episodes going from tos to tng is a bit of a shock because kirk was so much...warmer? i'm watching tng for the first time right now, still on season one, after being a big tos fan, and picard doesn't demonstrate the comradery that i would expect from a starship captain.
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They're going for "a father to his crew", but miss the mark hard and he seems like an awkward weirdo. Don't worry, they get to tone right S2 onwards and Picard will really shine.
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Also that is when in no coincidence is when Patrick Stewart really starts to relax and have fun behind the scenes too.
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David D. Davidson posted:Also that is when in no coincidence is when Patrick Stewart really starts to relax and have fun behind the scenes too. Yeah, it took the man some time to shift from a stage production mindset to a tv production one, and once he does it gets much better.
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Hunter Noventa posted:Yeah, it took the man some time to shift from a stage production mindset to a tv production one, and once he does it gets much better. Patrick Stewart was in I, Claudius and Smilies People long before Star Trek. He knew how to do TV, but something about Season 1 made him regress hard.
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It was iirc a disaster behind the scenes.
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As I understand it, the uniforms kept falling off on the female actresses around Stewart. They tried to cover up, but it was too late.
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Lawman 0 posted:It was iirc a disaster behind the scenes. An absolute clusterfuck probably mostly thanks to senile Gene Roddenberry and his lawyers, and the producers probably weren't much help either.
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:As I understand it, the uniforms kept falling off on the female actresses around Stewart. They tried to cover up, but it was too late. Had he already seen everything?
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Ghost Leviathan posted:An absolute clusterfuck probably mostly thanks to senile Gene Roddenberry and his lawyers, and the producers probably weren't much help either. Was he really senile at that moment? I thought he was still coked up.
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Lawman 0 posted:Was he really senile at that moment? No, his brain was functionally gone by that point. Decades of alcohol and drug abuse dating back to the 1950s had taken their toll on his mind by the mid-'80s. There are lots of stories of him falling asleep in meetings and saying things that made no sense.
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Timby posted:No, his brain was functionally gone by that point. Decades of alcohol and drug abuse dating back to the 1950s had taken their toll on his mind by the mid-'80s. There are lots of stories of him falling asleep in meetings and saying things that made no sense. That's insane.
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Lawman 0 posted:That's insane. Insane like two lizards doing the nasty then pretending like it never happened after they revert to human form, or insane like going nearly fourty years without anybody mentioning the weird lil nanoprobes sticking out of your spunknik?
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I finally made it to season 2! Excited for the sudden uptick in quality, despite the first episode (Troi gets space-pregnant) being pretty baffling.
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I made it to season two of DS9. Some Admiral says they can't interfere on Bajor because of the prime directive? I'm no star trek knower but lol who gave that guy his job
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The prime directive is broadly "non-interference in foreign affairs", rather than the specific "don't mess with pre-warp planets".
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