TNG "Ship in a Bottle"? and i'm sure Voyager did it with the Doctor at some point though not necessarily well
― ciderpress, Thursday, 11 May 2017 01:10 (six years ago) link
I'll have to look that one (Ship in a Bottle) up.
― DJI, Thursday, 11 May 2017 03:59 (six years ago) link
Ship in a Bottle gets into the ethics of holodeck beings like Triumph of the Will gets into the ethics of fascism.
― ledge, Thursday, 11 May 2017 12:09 (six years ago) link
yeah it's not at all a hard look at it but it plays off the concept
― ciderpress, Thursday, 11 May 2017 13:45 (six years ago) link
Its decent for a TNG ep
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 May 2017 16:24 (six years ago) link
Rewatched "Ship in a Bottle" for the poll and was underwhelmed. I think knowing the episode's ONE TRICK THAT WILL SHOCK YOU beforehand drains a lot of the fun from it.
― Bashir-Worf Hypothesis (Leee), Thursday, 11 May 2017 17:31 (six years ago) link
OTOH, Voyager's "Blink of an Eye" is fun!
I think knowing the episode's ONE TRICK THAT WILL SHOCK YOU beforehand drains a lot of the fun from it.
haha yes
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 May 2017 17:46 (six years ago) link
yeah i rewatched it last night after mentioning it in here and i still enjoyed but the ending is certainly more effective if you aren't expecting it
― ciderpress, Thursday, 11 May 2017 17:50 (six years ago) link
Blink of an Eye another good exmaple of the sort of silly high-concept thing that produces the most watchable Voyager eps
― ciderpress, Thursday, 11 May 2017 17:52 (six years ago) link
pretty sure Moriarty was lying about being awake while in storage. he was smarter than data, you know!
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Thursday, 11 May 2017 18:58 (six years ago) link
I can't believe this is going to air first before Discovery ever does. Or maybe I can.
http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-first-trailer-for-seth-macfarlanes-star-trek-spoof-1795237662
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 May 2017 22:33 (six years ago) link
ew
― Οὖτις, Monday, 15 May 2017 22:36 (six years ago) link
i'll watch that tripe. over/under on episodes until cancellation?
― Nhex, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 00:26 (six years ago) link
Oh god that's a TV series?? Why couldn't it just be a movie, where we could hold our breaths during its opening weekend and then forget about it afterwards?
― Bashir-Worf Hypothesis (Leee), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 01:21 (six years ago) link
boo. makes me want to retroactively forget any Family Guy episodes i have watched
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 01:40 (six years ago) link
I wish Cleveland Show was still around tbh
― Nhex, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 01:41 (six years ago) link
Just watch Galaxy Quest again
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 02:32 (six years ago) link
I'm glad he helped get cosmos mk ii made and that he likes to hire old school film composers but other than that seth mcfarlane completely sucks shit
― fish louse (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 23:42 (six years ago) link
Otm
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 23:43 (six years ago) link
MacFarlane's smoothness creeps me the fuck out. He's like an unattractive version of Jude Law's sexbot from AI.
― El Tuomasbot (milo z), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 23:45 (six years ago) link
cosmos mark 2 was kind of pointless
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 23:46 (six years ago) link
dude is chummy with patrick stewart, no?
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 23:55 (six years ago) link
this is probably anathema on this thread, but is it okay to ask if patrick stewart is a normally intelligent person? he always seems like a genial dope to me, but i am not a fan exactly.
― remy bean, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 00:10 (six years ago) link
An actual trailer, who knew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dxe_ugmIVM
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 21:45 (six years ago) link
new Lady Gaga album cover? cool
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 22:02 (six years ago) link
something about this feels more babylon 5.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 22:05 (six years ago) link
can't watch the discovery trailer (not for canada apparently) but i just watched the orville one, cool to see beverly from larry sanders show in there!
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 22:19 (six years ago) link
fuckin lens flares, really?
― El Tuomasbot (milo z), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 22:21 (six years ago) link
idk doesn't looks terrible to me
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 22:56 (six years ago) link
So fucking irritated that this is going to be on their proprietary streaming service. I literally watch NOTHING on CBS.
― DJI, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 23:38 (six years ago) link
May have to dust off my t0rrentz client.
― DJI, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 23:39 (six years ago) link
Looks kind of good. The trailer is paced like a summer movie - I'm assuming the show will be allowed to breathe a bit.
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 23:42 (six years ago) link
I remember that he had a reputation for being a prima donna and also he referred to himself in the third person when that was a thing.
― Bashir-Worf Hypothesis (Leee), Thursday, 18 May 2017 00:11 (six years ago) link
reading the next 25 years, his input at the time of TNG was that he wanted the captain to shoot and fuck more. they wrote him a die hard episode in season 6 just to placate him.
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Monday, 22 May 2017 06:20 (six years ago) link
i think patrick stewart seems to have chilled out a lot over the last 10 years or so - from interviews i've read he seems to acknowledge that he was an uptight prick through at least the shooting of the first season of tng
a combination of counselling through his anger about having an abusive childhood and coming to terms with the realisation that his dad suffered from undiagnosed ptsd from wwii seems to have allowed him to become the chill brooklyn-dwelling stoner (and best bro of ian mckellen) that he is now
having said that, fuck him for looking better at 76 than i ever have or ever will
― 🎵 it's grey pubic now, stoner blue 🎵 (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 22 May 2017 13:35 (six years ago) link
lol
― Nhex, Monday, 22 May 2017 19:33 (six years ago) link
Every time I netflix the original series episode, I end up fast forawrding at about the 7 min mark - that shoudl could have been much shorter
― Violet Jynx, Monday, 22 May 2017 19:35 (six years ago) link
. We returned home - we baked sponge cakes - lots of junk food and called injustice to the people who got it - like they did not get along with them so shocked. They do not get the same thing that they are very shocked.
― Violet Jynx, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 14:41 (six years ago) link
https://68.media.tumblr.com/f1f39c326eda2f768efb879bdf703797/tumblr_or8f1s9dMq1vaqoiqo1_500.gif
― bitumen: the animated series (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 9 July 2017 07:52 (six years ago) link
Uh, okay.
https://io9.gizmodo.com/star-trek-discoverys-main-character-has-suddenly-becom-1797161552
During the panel, Sonequa Martin-Green revealed that her character, First Officer Michael Burnham, is actually the adoptive daughter of Sarek and Amanda—that’s right, Spock’s parents. According to Martin-Green, Sarek and Amanda took Burnham in after her parents were killed and she was raised on Vulcan. Sarek is also the one who committed her to Captain Philippa Georgiou, which explains their connection and relationship.This essentially means that Michael Burnham is Spock’s adoptive sister, which raises a lot of questions: The main one is how we went an entire series, several movies, and two universes without Spock ever mentioning he had a sister. It seems unlike Spock to completely ignore someone who seemed to be a major part of his life—especially one who came into his life after such tragedy.At the Star Trek: Discovery panel, producer Alex Kurtzman promised there actually is a really good explanation for how Michael disappeared out of Spock’s life so completely, which will keep Trek’s canon in tact. Unfortunately, they’re keeping that explanation to themselves.“We’re aware [of the situation],” Kurtzman said during the panel. “You’ll see where it’s going, but we are staying consistent with canon.”
This essentially means that Michael Burnham is Spock’s adoptive sister, which raises a lot of questions: The main one is how we went an entire series, several movies, and two universes without Spock ever mentioning he had a sister. It seems unlike Spock to completely ignore someone who seemed to be a major part of his life—especially one who came into his life after such tragedy.
At the Star Trek: Discovery panel, producer Alex Kurtzman promised there actually is a really good explanation for how Michael disappeared out of Spock’s life so completely, which will keep Trek’s canon in tact. Unfortunately, they’re keeping that explanation to themselves.
“We’re aware [of the situation],” Kurtzman said during the panel. “You’ll see where it’s going, but we are staying consistent with canon.”
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 22 July 2017 23:07 (six years ago) link
Anyway, full new trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC7IMj7WFyE
(And, unmysteriously, a new trailer for that Orville thing. Maybe we should be glad he didn't just remake GalaxyQuest?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMKECRnZe2U
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 22 July 2017 23:10 (six years ago) link
Borrowing a plot device from Star Trek V isn't the greatest of ideas.
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Saturday, 22 July 2017 23:15 (six years ago) link
i've had to unfollow all the trek FB pages i follow because of how awful the comments for discovery are. and cue the predictable "lol orville looks better than discovery" from pasty whitebread fucktards
― clouds, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 17:45 (six years ago) link
I think we all know what Orville is, regardless of how the production value looks
― mh, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 18:01 (six years ago) link
shoot PWFs out of a canon
see what i did there
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 18:03 (six years ago) link
nope
― Nhex, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 18:11 (six years ago) link
what's "pwf" in this context?
― mh, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 18:15 (six years ago) link
see my post
― clouds, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 18:19 (six years ago) link