Just starting this. Spock and T’Pring are manifesting my relationship ideals
― Tàr Shrek (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 02:36 (eleven months ago) link
Dear Abby, my fiancee recently arranged for me to fight my best friend to the death... am I the asshole? Should I break up with her?
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 03:12 (eleven months ago) link
Also, whenever an away team beams out somewhere I can’t help it, I say “welcome! to Mississauga”
― Tàr Shrek (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 04:13 (eleven months ago) link
Hahah talking about Strange New Worlds, then?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 04:19 (eleven months ago) link
omg wink of an eye has my favorite OTT costume, that off the shoulder + one legged number that Kathie Brown wears is so crazy - but also the way that fabric reads on-camera? Chef’s kiss. William Ware Theiss, mad genius http://www.missionlogpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/066.jpghttps://i0.wp.com/timetravelnexus.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/StarTrekTOS_s03e11_DeelaKirkBridge.jpg?fit=1280%2C965the amount of double sided tape she must have on to keep the whole getup in place truly boggles the mind
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 18:19 (eleven months ago) link
when it starts to slip she just moves really fast
― mark s, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 18:20 (eleven months ago) link
honestly, i can’t imagine what these women went through fashion-wise for this show … i would love a book just about that and their grumpy anecdotes
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 18:23 (eleven months ago) link
if i was an alien in a spangly cape with a big bald skull for a head i'd wear some kind of headgear out in the dusty wind but no
https://i0.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Trek-Empath10.jpg
― mark s, Friday, 30 June 2023 17:09 (eleven months ago) link
now watching elaan of troyius for the first time in my life and lol it's wild: "tell me more of the ancient earth ritual called spanking"
― mark s, Sunday, 2 July 2023 16:46 (eleven months ago) link
the title annoyed me at first but now i like it
― mark s, Sunday, 2 July 2023 16:47 (eleven months ago) link
Wonder if it has been noted yet on this thread that ILX0r Josefa has the name of that actress at his fingertips along with that of seemingly ever other actress that ever appeared on TOS.
― Looking For Mr. Goodreads (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 July 2023 17:14 (eleven months ago) link
France Nuyen. Further discussion on two of my threads.
― Looking For Mr. Goodreads (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 July 2023 17:20 (eleven months ago) link
TIL Meg Wyllie was both a TOS Talosian and a Vanishing Point highway patrol dispatcher
https://live.staticflickr.com/4461/26192794099_c83dcf140a_c.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 3 July 2023 04:53 (eleven months ago) link
"silence! the chatter of inferior weaklings wearies me!"
me^^^ posting on ilx
― mark s, Monday, 3 July 2023 17:31 (eleven months ago) link
actually this ep is kind of exhausting
― mark s, Monday, 3 July 2023 17:53 (eleven months ago) link
watched The Motion Picture. istr the name being an attempt to put it above all the films around the same time that were just 'the Movie'. and it had ideas of 2001 about it, those long slow shots of the ship. but i think it underused the original crew. they even got yeoman rand back and nurse, now doctor, chapel. but all i saw Rand do was kill people in a transporter accident.
surprised that it was as early as '79, i thought they'd left a bigger gap.
― koogs, Sunday, 9 July 2023 13:06 (eleven months ago) link
In the interest of completeness, I note the presence of German-American actress Barbara Bouchet, who later moved to Italy and appeared in many B-films there, in the episode “By Any Other Name.”
― The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Elektra) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 July 2023 13:15 (eleven months ago) link
this is the one with all the people outside looking in, which just spooked the fvck out of me when i was like 10
― mark s, Sunday, 9 July 2023 15:10 (eleven months ago) link
*much* slower than i remember plotwise
I guess every era has its own unintentional freakishness, but I don't know if we can ever get the limited budget spare stage dressing surrealism back again.
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Like the closest equivalent from SNW is... Toronto?https://i.redd.it/toronto-appeared-in-star-trek-strange-new-worlds-this-week-v0-b28qitsug29b1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4ec9a30aa2b5c4b5d24b07a4f3411a4628e130b0
― Philip Nunez, Sunday, 9 July 2023 15:29 (eleven months ago) link
the mise-en-scene for the empath is just gorgeous:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_6xctl_Z8I
― mark s, Sunday, 9 July 2023 15:38 (eleven months ago) link
https://64.media.tumblr.com/885840ab2ff5cfccae1f6af996a7f697/tumblr_nu7v8qMSEK1ufg9h8o3_1280.jpg
https://64.media.tumblr.com/601090eb4b03821aaacb790bf33d895a/tumblr_nu7v1jMDHB1ufg9h8o1_1280.jpg
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 9 July 2023 15:39 (eleven months ago) link
Opps
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 9 July 2023 15:40 (eleven months ago) link
Ha! That would make for an awesome quadtych or whatever the 4 panel version of a triptych is though.
― Philip Nunez, Sunday, 9 July 2023 15:43 (eleven months ago) link
speaking of four, why is the the entire star trek universe divided into "quadrants" and is this a helpful geographical construct? i say no
― mark s, Sunday, 9 July 2023 15:49 (eleven months ago) link
Because it is similar to quatloo?
― The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Elektra) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 July 2023 15:55 (eleven months ago) link
The Milky Way Galaxy is a round, flat, barred-spiral galaxy. It totally makes sense to divide it up into four quadrants https://www.screenbinge.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Background-Of-The-Star-Trek-Quadrants-1536x864.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 9 July 2023 16:54 (eleven months ago) link
i don't think i really ever grasped they were just tootling around a single galaxy is my only excuse here (and in fact one region of that galaxy)
― mark s, Sunday, 9 July 2023 18:00 (eleven months ago) link
I think to get to the other galaxies one has to first pass through a gigantic ion storm that circles the perimeter of ours iirc.
― The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Elektra) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 July 2023 18:03 (eleven months ago) link
yes also in my defence i am often only half-paying attention
― mark s, Sunday, 9 July 2023 18:04 (eleven months ago) link
if you get to the edge of the Milky Way you fall off
― mh, Sunday, 9 July 2023 21:07 (eleven months ago) link
Right, like those Terry Pratchett books.
― The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Elektra) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 July 2023 21:31 (eleven months ago) link
not me, i'm built different -- i turn into a god
― mookieproof, Sunday, 9 July 2023 22:09 (eleven months ago) link
What does god need with a starship?
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 10 July 2023 15:52 (eleven months ago) link
Something to play with given to him by his parents iircz
― The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Elektra) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 July 2023 16:07 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A65N3Efnn0
― mark s, Monday, 10 July 2023 16:18 (eleven months ago) link
Attempting to leave the galaxy results in ESP anomalies and eye discolouration, iirc
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 10 July 2023 16:23 (eleven months ago) link
IIRC, there's also mass hallucinations and an ability to bring thought into reality but I think you have to get to the edge of the universe for that not just leaving the galaxy
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 10 July 2023 17:10 (eleven months ago) link
which quadrant is that in
― mark s, Monday, 10 July 2023 17:13 (eleven months ago) link
In the Russian quadrant, over near the Riesenrad.
― The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Elektra) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 July 2023 17:21 (eleven months ago) link
I never knew the old galaxy before the ion storms.
― The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Elektra) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 July 2023 17:22 (eleven months ago) link
The Federation can't wait to gentrify M33
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK1Locwd8Ps
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 10 July 2023 17:25 (eleven months ago) link
(heads up: Wesley Crusher content in that clip)
did anyone ever share this wonderful video here? i hope not because i want to be there when you all watch it for the first time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZlRt05RY9Y
― Ryan seaQuest (Will M.), Monday, 10 July 2023 19:14 (eleven months ago) link
cw: w.c.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 10 July 2023 19:33 (eleven months ago) link
So I can actually speak to this from experience. Not to get all Star Trek: Erowid here, but somehow I synchronized up so that I was peaking hard right when the saucer section of the Enterprise-D crashes into Veridian III in Star Trek Generations. A terrific sfx shot for 1994, but not enough to keep me from standing up and shouting at the screen: "So does everyone have to destroy the Enterprise now?"
Too bad STG was sucky enough to not be worthy of the awesome set and setting of opening night at the Vista Theatre in Silver Lake. That saucer crash though... Also, I could never dissasociate in the 24th Century. I'm too fascinated by the beauty of TNG's UI graphics standards and their utter failure at communicating information quickly.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 04:59 (ten months ago) link
s3 e18: scotty is v smitten
― mark s, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 17:31 (ten months ago) link
Never a good thing.
― Foot Heads Arms Body (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 17:38 (ten months ago) link
Don't think I've ever seen that episode, an episode that was co-written by... Shari Lewis!
― Foot Heads Arms Body (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 17:40 (ten months ago) link