Star Trek: Classic or Dud?

By season 4 I love not only sisko but quark and dax too. Dax becomes all jaunty and rikeresque, it really works.

<3 Jadzia Dax 4eva

dax is awesome

Glad she gets better, cos she's boring the hell out of me atm, and the doctor's not faring much better tbh. However, far fewer bajoran west wing episodes than I remember from when I watched it first time around.

...I'm 5 minutes into S1E1 and OMG you're right about Sisko, its like english is his 2nd language and the intonations he's using are perfectly normal in his language but in english its the worst. Just the way he says "Acknowledged" in that first scene . . .

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I noticed the other day that Sisko's weird intonations seem to have either stopped bothering me or just stopped completely.

For me there is one specific scene, I think it's in the episode where dark riker steals their ship, where he delivers this line reading that's so insane it suddenly revealed his genius to me. IIRC:

"EVery STAR system has been scanned with PROton mic ro scopes and STILL no defiant."

xp ...or you learned to love The Sisko without realizing

^^^

It's the path the prophets have set out for you.

Had a big crush on Dax #2.

xp Oh yeh, have they just dropped the Sisko as Bajoran Jesus thing? That was set up and then there were like, 3 episodes or something? And nobody really gives a shit that Sisko is basically God or whatever, he's still just seen as a meddling overseer from the Federation come to keep Bajorans down.

Sisko as the Emissary is a huge ongoing plot point throughout the series.

Yeah, it is far from dropped.

DS9 is so good, i love it.

The episode where Dax falls in love and they're like, "let's go count each others spots." lols for days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWmVc2iwSb0

just found out the obrien/bashir buddy thing is apparently influenced by colm meaney bringing siddig to irish bars weekly and heaping abuse on him by telling everyone he's english.

lol that's awesome!

A+

"I took your overt irritability toward me as a signal that you wished to pursue some physical relationship. " -female Cardassian scientist to O'brien, making me lol hard.

That is an excellent anecdote. I love the real life Miles/Julian buddy comedy.

Love this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zh1VGqS7s

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SySZdvsFYt4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdC6hM9Pn7s

Ode to Spot is great. What the hell is Riker's problem that he can't stay awake for a one minute poetry recitation?

Love Worf and Spot. There's at least one callback in DS9 to Worf taking care of the cat.

riker's problem is that he was being abducted by aliens while he slept and so was not getting any rest.

That episode was such a 90s commentary on sleep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGxnCzIHGa8

*clap*

it's kind of insane how much vic fontaine there is in the last ds9 season. he's practically one of the crew! guess the writers were super into it or they had justify his set or something?

loved the ep where nog recedes into vic's holodeck fantasy world.

The Vic eps are by far my favorite holodeck/suite eps of any Star Trek series.

so I was playing Star Trek:TNG pinball with my daughter the other day and she was doing pretty well but in the middle of it she commented that she didn't recognize any of the characters, and who were all these people and why did it look different etc (she has only seen TOS). so I started to explain it to her but then I got self-conscious about how boring it sounded - I told her she could watch it but she probably wouldn't like it lol.

I just can't fully commit to these latter incarnations when it gets right down to it. they're just uglier and more boring and less fun than TOS. sorry.

I mean what's up with the TNG color scheme anyway - all these teals and salmons and burgundys blech

then got into extended debate with my wife about how any of the women pee in those stupid TNG onesies. conclusion was that they use the transporter to teleport urine directly out of their bladders into the ship's urine storage tanks.

why would they store urine, in this scenario

visually TOS is the clear winner, no argument here

You wouldn't want to fly into a blob of floating excreta at warp, I'd imagine.

why would they store urine, in this scenario

what you want them to just piss into the vacuum of space? seems sort of counter to the Federation's principles

maybe they don't have drinking water in space & everyone drinks pee on the regular

makes ut hink

kinda dig how the terrible TNG/DS9 cg has dated

http://static4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20051031112357/memoryalpha/en/images/2/2b/Odo_and_female_changeling.jpg

what happens to p in the future makes u rethra

When you go to the bathroom on Earth, you are relying on gravity, pretty pretty heavily... imagine if you were halfway done and someone shut off the gravity, it would be a mess. And you'd float off the toilet. So, when we designed our space toilet, first it has to have a seat belt on it, to hold you down.

And then we decided to separate solids and liquids, 'cause they're easier to store that way. so we just have a tube for you to pee into, and it has air pulled into the tube, so it's not a big deal. For the women there's a cup fits up against them, for the guys it's just like a little funnel, you just pee into this tube and and it goes into a sewage tank.

But, the solids that come out of your body, that's a harder problem to solve, and it's an important medical one. 'Cause on Earth everything falls on the floor but in space it's going to float around, so it'll really make you sick. If you re-ingest something that came out of your body, it will really make you sick and we can't afford to get that sick.

So we designed a toilet so that instead of gravity pulling everything into the toilet it has air flow, there's air pulled down into the toilet, sort of windy when you're sitting there, but it pulls everything that comes out of your body.

Everything that's comes out of your body gets pulled down into the toilet by the air, and then in the storage tank we just expose that to the vacuum of space so it basically just freeze-dries everything, so it kills all the bacteria, so that there's no smell, and then we just store it.

And when you have a whole bunch of it stored, we put it into a little unmanned supply ship, and we undock it, and it burns up in the atmosphere. So the next time you see a beautiful shooting star going across the sky, that's what it might be.

- Chris Hadfield

haleys comet of pee

Urination is the process by which urine is disposed from the body through the urethra, in humanoids as well as certain other creatures. To pee or to "take a leak" are slangs originating from Earth referring to the act of urination.

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Urination

or as they fine film APOLLO 13 called it: "Constellation U-Rine" xp

For the women there's a cup fits up against them

yeah whatever show me where the cup goes on Troi's uniform for ex.

^^^ your wife wouldn't mind?

nah she's into it

troi girls uni cup

wait so they burn up a supply ship full of shit in the atmosphere

replicant otm, they have seen things i wouldnt believe

but again, the question wasn't "where does waste go on a spaceship" it was more "why do the women wear onesies that they would have to completely remove to urinate/take a shit" cuz that is some fucking stupid uniform design right there. which was what I was getting at, it's just part of the general "this show looks terrible" deal.