If you like it halfway through season one, you're going to LOVE it once it hits its stride.
― Jeff, Friday, 9 December 2016 11:56 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM-KpMeDqK4
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 12:02 (seven years ago) link
Lol awesome
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 15:04 (seven years ago) link
That's hilarious.
― DJI, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 15:41 (seven years ago) link
oh god it took me way too long to realize what was going on
― mh 😏, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 15:44 (seven years ago) link
It's the Machine That Goes "Ping!" of the sci-fi world.
― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 15:49 (seven years ago) link
Haha, I love the last clip.
And I hope that machine gets residuals.
― nickn, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 17:39 (seven years ago) link
Did we talk about "Who Watches the Watchers" somewhere? I love how unabashedly it insults religion, and how anything that could go wrong does in the campest way possible. Also one of the proto-Vulcans gets possessed by Bob.
― Bianca Smell BO (Leee), Thursday, 29 December 2016 18:56 (seven years ago) link
can't quite remember how the one dude went from worshiping picard to shooting him two minutes later
― mookieproof, Thursday, 29 December 2016 19:49 (seven years ago) link
i voted for that one
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 29 December 2016 19:53 (seven years ago) link
I should've voted for it too!
Since the Picard was supposed to be all-powerful, an arrow wouldn't be able to wound him.
― Bianca Smell BO (Leee), Thursday, 29 December 2016 21:27 (seven years ago) link
rewatched the motion picture last night and noticed how it has the best-looking enterprise interior but the worst uniforms
― clouds, Thursday, 29 December 2016 21:38 (seven years ago) link
the scene in who watches the watchers where picard helps the alien villager along to a rational understanding of their equality -- "i do not fear you any longer" -- is as trek as you can get, i rly find it beautiful w the starfield slowly passing in the background.
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 30 December 2016 00:25 (seven years ago) link
as scripted it's the Federation Spreading Enlightenment but imo stewart puts over well that he is having a bewildering+transformative experience too. i'm not sure there are any better single scenes about contact even in darmok.
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 30 December 2016 00:29 (seven years ago) link
also am willing to admit that shatner in the same scene would have looked smug as fuck even before they started making out.
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 30 December 2016 00:36 (seven years ago) link
been watching TNG -- started with the ones on the top-40 list then stopped and went back to the beginning of season 3. too much at once really points out how hard it is to make things difficult for our heroes -- subspace interference/radiation storms/tachyon particles always messing with the warp drive amirite -- but it's pretty good. 'the inner light' made me cry
wesley still sux
― mookieproof, Friday, 30 December 2016 22:16 (seven years ago) link
lol in that interview when he can't remember Troi's name
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 31 December 2016 19:42 (seven years ago) link
What interview?
― Tuomas, Saturday, 31 December 2016 23:17 (seven years ago) link
http://trekmovie.com/2009/08/26/rick-berman-talks-18-years-of-trek-in-extensive-oral-history
got my threads mixed up, this was posted in DS9 talk
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 1 January 2017 16:34 (seven years ago) link
Did anyone read '50 Year Mission: the first 25 years'?
― great Canadian prog-psych debut from 1969 (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 1 January 2017 18:47 (seven years ago) link
"Rascals" -- not that bad! I could've done without any of the Ferengi stuff, though, and the episode would've been massively improved if it focused merely on the affected individuals. The Ro/Guinan scenes are lovely.
― https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmy8x2Lm7rE (Leee), Friday, 6 January 2017 03:19 (seven years ago) link
you didn't like #1 dad joke?
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 6 January 2017 07:03 (seven years ago) link
No, #1 dad joke was hilarious! I think that the mandate to have an episode centered around some kind of existential peril was a missed opportunity for more lolz.
― https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmy8x2Lm7rE (Leee), Friday, 6 January 2017 19:01 (seven years ago) link
Just watched "A Taste of Armageddon" -- so gonzo! It starts off with a provocative premise then dives off the deep end.
Amazingly beautiful guest actresses, though.
― https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmy8x2Lm7rE (Leee), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 01:49 (seven years ago) link
http://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2017/01/star-trek-discovery-gets-stuck-in-spacedock-for-at-least-a-little-longer/
― Jeff, Thursday, 19 January 2017 15:06 (seven years ago) link
Other than it being in the right timeline and having a female lead, none of the recent news about this show has me feeling optimistic.
― Jeff, Thursday, 19 January 2017 15:11 (seven years ago) link
A Taste of Armageddon could be remade nicely in the drone era
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 January 2017 15:24 (seven years ago) link
https://youtu.be/xd904wRUxcA
― What is home without Plumleee's Potted Meat? (Leee), Friday, 20 January 2017 05:59 (seven years ago) link
been watching season 2 of DS9. there's one episode ("Shadowplay") where they find a village where people keep disappearing. eventually they figure out that the entire village is a hologram, multiple generations of AI living out entire lifespans. they shut it down to reboot it and everyone disappears except for one person - the man who created it. rather than take him away or get him help they end up turning the hologram back on and just saying bye and leaving!
it was weird. it almost felt like they were enabling him. Trek is usually pretty adept at exploring "What does it mean to be human?" but not sure in this case it works very well.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 20 January 2017 12:04 (seven years ago) link
would it really have been more satisfying for them to take him away, where he'd never be heard of again? recently saw 'future imperfect' (similar plot + riker is tricked into thinking he's 16 years in the future) where that indeed happens
idk, the entire franchise is kind of terrible at writing endings. there are obvious exceptions, but for the most part things just go back to the way they were 45 minutes earlier, with no ramifications
― mookieproof, Friday, 20 January 2017 15:06 (seven years ago) link
To play devil's advocate, I think that the episode is asserting that the old dude created sentient AI (which had the ability to reproduce and propagate itself), and that that community was a real community. Also, he was old, let him keep his quality of life!
― What is home without Plumleee's Potted Meat? (Leee), Friday, 20 January 2017 19:40 (seven years ago) link
i haven't seen that one but it sounds like a rework of tng's "the survivors" where they leave the magical old guy with his fake wife.
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Friday, 20 January 2017 20:01 (seven years ago) link
a rework of tng's "the survivors" where they leave the magical old guy with his fake wife
which sounds suspiciously like a rework of a TSOL episode
― Οὖτις, Friday, 20 January 2017 20:28 (seven years ago) link
oh yeah, i think Dax actually says all of that. and Odo even formed a strong friendship w that girl. maybe the prime directive now includes AI due to TNG's Exocomps incident.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 20 January 2017 22:47 (seven years ago) link
maybe the prime directive now includes AI due to TNG's Exocomps incident.
TNG also broached AI sentience with Data in season 2's "Measure of a Man".
― What is home without Plumleee's Potted Meat? (Leee), Saturday, 21 January 2017 00:23 (seven years ago) link
I watched the DS9 episode. It varied the formula up by having the creator not caring about the AI people, and having a series regular speak on the AI's behalf.
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Saturday, 21 January 2017 01:11 (seven years ago) link
Odo spinning into a top at the end was a great moment!
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 21 January 2017 01:16 (seven years ago) link
Star Trek writers must really love that trope, I'm watching Enterprise for the first time, and I just saw an episode where they did the same plot once again, this time with Odo's actor playing a guy who lives with artificial versions of his old friends. It was a bit distracting to see him do another ST character than Odo... They also had the guy who played Weyoun do two different aliens within three episodes.
― Tuomas, Saturday, 21 January 2017 16:20 (seven years ago) link
He was two different aliens in a single episode, too!
― What is home without Plumleee's Potted Meat? (Leee), Saturday, 21 January 2017 19:22 (seven years ago) link
the more jeffrey combs the better i say
― Nhex, Saturday, 21 January 2017 19:25 (seven years ago) link
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/The_Dogs_of_War_(episode)
― What is home without Plumleee's Potted Meat? (Leee), Saturday, 21 January 2017 19:26 (seven years ago) link
Weyoun is in my top 5 ST characters of all time.
― Jeff, Saturday, 21 January 2017 19:29 (seven years ago) link
which one?
― mh 😏, Saturday, 21 January 2017 19:40 (seven years ago) link
I am fully on board with this:
http://io9.gizmodo.com/a-look-back-at-star-trek-nemesis-the-film-that-killed-1791577962
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 21:17 (seven years ago) link
I hated Insurrection way more than Nemesis, which was merely boring.
― What is home without Plumleee's Potted Meat? (Leee), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 21:27 (seven years ago) link
otm, I think Insurrection was bad enough that people didn't want to give another movie a shot
Nemesis was still ehhh
― mh 😏, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 21:33 (seven years ago) link
Insurrection was merely a mediocore 2-part TNG episode with a bigger budget and some goofy stuffNemesis killed TNG with how bad it was
― Nhex, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 22:15 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, Insurrection is pretty much the only ST movie that tries to do what it's parent series did instead of being an action movie or a space opera with ST characters. Whether or not that's a good idea is debatable, and it has some glaring flaws, but at least it's kinda charming and gives the actors room to do their thing. Whereas Nemesis has Picard and Data doing car chase scenes in the desert, fuck that shit!
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 22:25 (seven years ago) link
for some reason my brain relocated the car chase to Insurrection
Insurrection includes Troi talking about her boobs firming up on the reverse-aging planet and Riker steering the Enterprise with a joystick
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 01:41 (seven years ago) link
Riker steering the Enterprise with a joystick
How I loathed that.
― What is home without Plumleee's Potted Meat? (Leee), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 03:25 (seven years ago) link