Jesus. That's dark
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Sunday, 7 April 2019 02:39 (four years ago) link
i've stalled in the fifth season. there are some great moments all along, but somehow i am not inspired to carry on
tbh i think i mostly just don't care about odo. oh, you're grouchy and have daddy problems whatever terek nor sellout bro
― mookieproof, Sunday, 7 April 2019 03:00 (four years ago) link
I've been increasingly vibing w this show but now the Dominion is here and, well...yes. There's an air of menace lingering in the background, faint perhaps at the moment, but it feels like shit might be getting real. I enjoy earlier Trek stuff but it often has a soporific air (a combination of Roddenberry's indefatigable utopianism + the ever-present ambient hum of a starship's interior) that kept me from being wholly engaged. DS9...you have my attention.
― A Cheetah Drenched in Applesauce (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 00:53 (four years ago) link
OL > mookie, tbh
(jks of course)
― Audrey Tautoulogy (Leee), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 16:34 (four years ago) link
I'm very slowly watching the series, just watched the two-parter that begins the 3rd season and the quark marries a klingon ep after it, and I'm really enjoying the show. it's definitely a bit slow going for a lot of season 1 (although tbh i love the pilot) and the early part of season 2 but has improved drastically since. the introduction of the dominion is very welcome as there isn't really a compelling overreaching narrative yet - bajoran politics, the cardassians, bajoran-federation relations etc. are not hugely diverting imo.
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 16:44 (four years ago) link
i guess the cardassian-bajoran stuff is quite good, shouldn't have poo poo'd it too much. poster's remorse.
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 22:13 (four years ago) link
Dude you are literally one episode ahead of me, rad (high fives)
― A Cheetah Drenched in Applesauce (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 22:25 (four years ago) link
My TNG rewatch stalled mid-season 4 and I’m tempted to skip straight to DS9. I’ve never “vibed hard with the ensemble” (© Old Lunch) so I’m glad that steps up.
Anybody read any of the novels and have suggestions? I'm a little curious. But I've only ever read like two Trek novels ever.
I’ve read a bunch of the PAD novels but no DS9s. Imzadi is classic, obviously; the rest were varying degrees of cheese but the New Frontier short books were fun are probably the closest to DS9 in style (i.e. a bit “adult” as a teen might conceive of adultness). YPADMMV of course.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 22:39 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I've only ever read PAD Trek novels. Reading the first original DS9 book (by PAD, natch) atm. It's fine, pretty much like a filler episode. Although also impressive inasmuch as he hadn't seen the show yet when he wrote it and was drawing only from the show bible and a handful of the initial scripts. He captured the voice of the characters surprisingly well.
― A Cheetah Drenched in Applesauce (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 22:44 (four years ago) link
Yeah, he’s creepily good at that.
I mean, his writing is very often, in a real sense, dreck, but I really enjoy those books.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 22:47 (four years ago) link
(And most of the other writers are of course oh so much worse.)
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 22:50 (four years ago) link
They got Brooks!!!! (Brief spoilers in vid.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4LPDX6uqSM
― Audrey Tautoulogy (Leee), Saturday, 20 April 2019 17:41 (four years ago) link
I want to go to that!
― DJI, Saturday, 20 April 2019 18:37 (four years ago) link
mmmm very tempting
― Nhex, Saturday, 20 April 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
― A Cheetah Drenched in Applesauce (Old Lunch), Wednesday, April 17, 2019 3:25 PM (one week ago) Bookmark
my gf and i went nuts on the rewatch on sunday and monday and I'm now on episode 3 of the 4th season
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 25 April 2019 22:03 (four years ago) link
"rewatch" should be struck from the record, I've never seen this series before
https://io9.gizmodo.com/star-treks-ira-steven-behr-looks-back-on-the-complex-le-1834401786
― DJI, Friday, 3 May 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
I'm up to the point in season 3 when Voyager kicked off and I'm wondering: is there any reason I need to start watching Voyager now? Like am I going to miss anything crossover-y if I wait until I'm done with DS9?
― Ce Ce Penistongs (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 May 2019 16:24 (four years ago) link
No overlap between Voyager and DS9.
Also, don't subject yourself to Voyager.
― Lars Ulriac Quintet (Leee), Friday, 3 May 2019 16:35 (four years ago) link
I'm hesitant to do so tbh.
I like the Maquis stuff and know it carries over to Voyager, and I did watch a little of it when it originally aired and thought it was fine, but I'm still hesitant.
― Ce Ce Penistongs (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 May 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
The Maquis storylines evaporate really quickly on Voyager, and the treatment of SF/Maquis is immensely unsatisfying and ill-thought out.
IMO you're better off sticking to DS9, as it dips back into Maquis stuff a little as late as season 5.
― Lars Ulriac Quintet (Leee), Friday, 3 May 2019 16:48 (four years ago) link
Dang the theatrical release is on a Monday??
― Lars Ulriac Quintet (Leee), Friday, 3 May 2019 23:25 (four years ago) link
the portrayal of dukat is so corny
― mookieproof, Monday, 13 May 2019 17:39 (four years ago) link
he is the greatest space Nazi ever
― Nhex, Monday, 13 May 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
Anyone watching the doc in theaters today?
― Soccer Team's Philosophies and Hypotheses (Leee), Monday, 13 May 2019 20:23 (four years ago) link
I was very close to doing it, but I'm going to wait for the wider/streaming release.
― DJI, Monday, 13 May 2019 20:56 (four years ago) link
This is so amazingly perfect and why I'm team #DS9 for life. pic.twitter.com/zPyRkMeAOT— Charles Evans (@banditref) May 13, 2019
― j., Monday, 13 May 2019 22:15 (four years ago) link
I like both, but stan harder for DS9.
― DJI, Monday, 13 May 2019 23:29 (four years ago) link
I can't say why exactly but it feels like a big deal that O'Brien died and was replaced by his future self (even if only from a few hours hence). Like he and others should be freaking out more about that, I feel.
― Blithering Hayseed (Old Lunch), Friday, 17 May 2019 01:09 (four years ago) link
Oh yeah that is crazy
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Friday, 17 May 2019 01:45 (four years ago) link
They treated it like it was nbd but it seems like a bd. Oh hi Keiko, your husband got plucked out of the present and is now dead somewhere in the future but don't worry, I am his time-displaced future self here to take his place so let's just forget all of that pesky 'dead husband' stuff and go about our lives like nothing happened, what's for dinner.
― Blithering Hayseed (Old Lunch), Friday, 17 May 2019 02:23 (four years ago) link
remember when he was found guilty of some crime or another on a planet and before anyone could appeal it was "oh, he's already in the punishment chamber nbd he'll be out shortly" and the punishment was some simulation where he experienced years of imprisonment in something like an hour?
― mh, Friday, 17 May 2019 16:09 (four years ago) link
A shaken O'Brien returns to Deep Space Nine after his mind has been altered to make him believe that he spent the last two decades in prison. Accused of espionage by the Argrathi, he was given the painful memories of a 20-year incarceration — the alien race's time- and money-saving alternative to constructing jails — and released before his fellow officers could arrive to stop the punishment. Although the process took only a few hours, the effect on O'Brien is clearly devastating, and while he's told what he went through was not real, the memories are too vivid to be dismissed.
― mh, Friday, 17 May 2019 16:10 (four years ago) link
jesus, i haven't gotten to that episode yet. they really put o'brien through the ringer (well I guess this is technically o'brien 2, the first o'brien having died to save the station)
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Friday, 17 May 2019 16:13 (four years ago) link
whoops! didn't mean to post spoilers, but that's just the first five minutes of the episode so you should be good
― mh, Friday, 17 May 2019 16:14 (four years ago) link
xposts Dude's been put through the ringer without a whole lot of follow-up on the impact. Whereas, for example, multiple references were made to Picard's similar (yet much more pleasant) experience in 'The Inner Light' and the subsequent effect it had on him. I clearly still haven't gotten to the end of O'Brien's televisual journey but I have to assume that at some point he just snaps and like beats the shit out of Quark for no reason.
― Blithering Hayseed (Old Lunch), Friday, 17 May 2019 16:16 (four years ago) link
mh, I'm utterly appalled that you spoilerized that 25-year-old tv episode. Give us a chance to catch up, for the love of pete.
― Blithering Hayseed (Old Lunch), Friday, 17 May 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
solid trek history of having characters undergo monumental life-altering experiences that . . . don't actually seem to change them at all
― mookieproof, Friday, 17 May 2019 16:19 (four years ago) link
I've been with my gf for a little over a year now, the other night i was describing the plot of the episode "the inner light" to her when she interjected: "this is the third time you've told me about this"
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Friday, 17 May 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
jim, can you say with certainty that you aren't currently being 'Inner Light'-ed, perhaps for the 3rd/4th time
― Blithering Hayseed (Old Lunch), Friday, 17 May 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link
maybe he's being 'cause and effect'ed
― mookieproof, Friday, 17 May 2019 16:37 (four years ago) link
https://www.vulture.com/2019/05/what-we-left-behind-documentary-deep-space-nine.html
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 05:40 (four years ago) link
a couple of my friends at work saw it and really enjoyed it! think there was just the one showing so i'll have to wait for home release
― mh, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 13:40 (four years ago) link
the blue goatee is really a LOT though
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 19:55 (four years ago) link
i def want to see it anyway
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 19:56 (four years ago) link
Farrell, at one point in the documentary, breaks down into tears discussing the disrespect she dealt with at the hands of an unidentified producer.
*cough*rickberman*cough*
― Tormund Giantsbabe (Leee), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 20:06 (four years ago) link
Daaaamn @ Klingons leaving the Federation. Did not see that one coming, particularly since I knew Worf would be making his way into the cast at some point. Glad I've somehow managed to avoid spoilers for the past twenty years. But yeah, man, I guess when Sisko shows up with a chrome dome at the start of season 4 you know shit's about to get real.
― I Ate Those Food (Old Lunch), Monday, 8 July 2019 16:09 (four years ago) link
'The Visitor' = some good-ass Trek. Almost choked me up a bit at the end, almost.
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 July 2019 23:16 (four years ago) link
fuck yeah, great ep
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Friday, 12 July 2019 23:20 (four years ago) link
Almost? You monster!
― The Worf of Wall Street (Leee), Friday, 12 July 2019 23:47 (four years ago) link