do you think it's like harry potter and the transporter just beams the waste products out of them
― mh, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 16:02 (one year ago) link
Maybe that's why they have a whole person dedicated to being a transporter chief.
― Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 16:57 (one year ago) link
As a prank they probably beamed waste to nearby other starship's bridges. "A littel gift"
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 21:23 (one year ago) link
Did the Orville do a joke about that?
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 21:29 (one year ago) link
I know Firefly addressed the toilet issue, they just had hidden foldaway loos and used them fairly casually.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 23:58 (one year ago) link
Isn't there a transporter mess up in the first Star Trek film that winds up with a crew member reappearing severely mangled. & is the transfer to the evil universe tied in with transporter misfiring?hink I'd be thinking twice about having specific parts of me removed in a transporter process. In case they weren't as accurate as hoped and organs etc get removed along with their contents
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 07:21 (one year ago) link
Or would at least be wary of being a guinea pig in the refinement process if they did eventually get it right.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 07:25 (one year ago) link
wait until you hear about tuvix
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 07:48 (one year ago) link
There was that time an extra Riker was created.
They should have beamed people into the holodeck, but made it seem like it was the transporter room, and then have the transporter controls operated by look-alikes of the people who have been beamed - and then they are like "WTF WE ACCIDENTALLY DUPLICATED OURSELVES"
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 14:28 (one year ago) link
I checked out the first season of Enterprise from the library, and watched the first episode (I forgot that they're double episodes). There's a real nascent MRA vibe simmering through it that left a pretty bad mouthfeel, like some kind of return of the repressed of humanity's worse impulses that also feels like resentment for having to adhere to '90s Trek values.
― Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Monday, 9 January 2023 05:24 (one year ago) link
never ever say mouthfeel. especially when what you're talking about has nothing whatsoever to do with eating, or mouths
but tbh if you feel icky about that one then you should probably stop
― mookieproof, Monday, 9 January 2023 05:43 (one year ago) link
it’s been a long road, gettin from there to here
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 9 January 2023 05:53 (one year ago) link
Interesting thread revive timing, the algo just popped this up for my suggested viewing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VEZH8bqytA
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 9 January 2023 06:43 (one year ago) link
last ever Enterprise today and they made it an TNG crossover which i guess shows how much faith they had in it
― koogs, Monday, 9 January 2023 17:32 (one year ago) link
faith of the heart iirc
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 9 January 2023 17:41 (one year ago) link
the last Enterprise episode is... something
― mh, Monday, 9 January 2023 17:47 (one year ago) link
I want to see FLintstone STar Trek like their ship is stone and pterodactyls work the transporter
― | (Latham Green), Monday, 9 January 2023 20:35 (one year ago) link
that Star Trek fan episode is unnerving to watch - it's serious, I guess, but the acting and the way the audio is mixed makes me think they're going to break into MST3K parody at any second
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 9 January 2023 21:23 (one year ago) link
Episode 2: Almost competent, with a familiar Trek formula except instead of the technobabble deus ex machina, it's just a babble deus ex machina, which was incredibly anticlimactic (watching Hoshi grunt at the viewscreen and then things just work out was boring).
Mouthfeel: undifferentiated and bland.
― Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Wednesday, 11 January 2023 02:05 (one year ago) link
onleee you could get away with such things
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 02:37 (one year ago) link
COunsellor Trois hair was stupid in the first season like a flower pot on head
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 11 January 2023 18:49 (one year ago) link
agreeshe was always styled like one step away from “magician’s assistant”
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 11 January 2023 20:38 (one year ago) link
Lol
― Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 January 2023 20:52 (one year ago) link
The future Trek envisioned: classic
The future as executed by Trek: mixed
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 11 January 2023 20:53 (one year ago) link
Troi’s version of the Riker beard effect is, she gets better when she can’t be bothered to do the accent anymore.
Troi is great in the books. And even Lxwanna works in DS9. From the interviews, you get the sense Sirtis would have been much better off if she’d just played her as herself.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 20:56 (one year ago) link
Or if she’d been trusted to do so.
Troi was a terribly-written character, she didn’t have a lot to work with
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 11 January 2023 21:54 (one year ago) link
Basically any the female character on TNG wasn't well-served by the writing, maybe Pulaski excepted (though I haven't watched season 2 in ages).
― Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Thursday, 12 January 2023 01:03 (one year ago) link
Sirtis definitely got frustrated with how her character was treated. She described a lovely scene where she had a conversation with Scotty in "Relics" which got cut - I imagine that's not the only time something like that happened.
― Duane Barry, Thursday, 12 January 2023 01:35 (one year ago) link
Eposode 3: I'm starting to cotton onto how Enterprise is Star Trek: This Is Why We Have Rules, but can they do it in a less insultingly stupid way?
― Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Thursday, 12 January 2023 04:09 (one year ago) link
short answer is no
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 12 January 2023 04:09 (one year ago) link
Strange New Worlds is kind of the anti-Enterprise show in that it doesn’t take the characters for granted and Enterprise just has these cut-outs it repeatedly slams against the weak plots
― mh, Thursday, 12 January 2023 06:05 (one year ago) link
The accuracy
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 January 2023 06:10 (one year ago) link
where is the lie
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 12 January 2023 06:48 (one year ago) link
Was STNG Enterprise the only ship that has a psychologist as a bridge officer? Eventually Troi just wears a regular uniform and it's somehow even sexier
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 12 January 2023 16:30 (one year ago) link
DS9 eventually has one, although technically that's a station.
― Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Thursday, 12 January 2023 20:23 (one year ago) link
I don't could DS9 as a ship and I never will. That's why Ds( missed the bite - who can care about a floating metal crab with visitors? THen they were like "OH by the way now Sisko became Jesus" - I knwo I'll take a lot of flack for this as ds9 has many devotees but I'm ready
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 12 January 2023 21:12 (one year ago) link
MOBY DS9
who can care about a floating metal crab with visitors?
...you put it like that.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 January 2023 21:40 (one year ago) link
Rewatching season two of TNG again. Pulaski is horrible. She doesn’t like using the transporter and insists on using a shuttlecraft. REMIND YOU OF SOMEONE?? Just finished the Wesley-crushes-on-a-shapeshifter episode and the Hotel Royale episode, good fun! I just love when Wesley’s crush morphs into a big alien gorilla. The “actors in goofy alien costumes” look is one of the best parts of the show, which is why I enjoyed “Lonely Among Us” (the Anticans and the Selay) and “Too Short a Season” (the old admiral gets younger and younger) better than most.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 12 January 2023 21:49 (one year ago) link
who can care about a floating metal crab with visitors? THen they were like "OH by the way now Sisko became Jesus"DS9 - floating space can next to a planet, Sisko Jesus, wormhole adjacent for adventures. Bab5 - floating space can next to a planet, Sheridan Jesus, jumpgate wormhole adjacent for adventures.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 12 January 2023 23:06 (one year ago) link
I don't could DS9 as a ship and I never will
you never defiant
― mookieproof, Friday, 13 January 2023 00:27 (one year ago) link
wesley airlock when? never done. big failure
― mh, Friday, 13 January 2023 03:20 (one year ago) link
OK I kinda like ds9 but I like controversy too
I'd like to see a DS9 Red Dwarf crossover. The ships goes into a time warp and ends up at ds9 throwin it back with shiny Quark
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 13 January 2023 15:19 (one year ago) link
legend channel is showing o/g and im watching it bit by bit in random order (this ep is the one with apollo)
"you seem wise for a woman" says the annoying but also horny greek god to the lady officer* who you can barely see thru the wildly vaselined lens**
*scotty also has his eye on her **did any other show of the time do this? ans must be yes but i honestly don't recall being struck by it so much and so often lol
― mark s, Friday, 13 January 2023 17:25 (one year ago) link
ppl whose decisions have been really very iffy so far in this story: kirk, spock, bones, scotty, chekov
also spock seems to be flirting w/uhura, was that a thing?
― mark s, Friday, 13 January 2023 17:42 (one year ago) link
Um…yes.
― Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 January 2023 17:42 (one year ago) link
she seemed extremely surprised
― mark s, Friday, 13 January 2023 17:43 (one year ago) link
Spock thinking "It is logical that a greek god is horny"
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 13 January 2023 17:45 (one year ago) link
always found the description of the unworshipped gods physically disintegrating from ennui kind of affecting
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 14 January 2023 01:59 (one year ago) link