Star trek: the animated series has cool aliens (the blakeyrat is watching star trek thread)
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Also I'm going to assume that all the escape pods were on the saucer section to begin with.
Nope--there's a small number on the underside of the secondary hull, but you have to hunt to find a picture where you can see 'em.
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What does your crew do when ship's blowing up and you don't have the saucer section.
The shuttlecraft are in the drive section (edit: actually I'm not 100% sure of that on the Galaxy class), and can maintain life support indefinitely. Well maybe not indefinitely, but for months at least.
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The shuttlecraft are in the drive section, and can maintain life support indefinitely. Well maybe not indefinitely, but for months at least.
IIRC Enterprise-D had at least 3 bays, with at least one in each section.
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Interestingly, an episode of The Animated Series uses that idea. The Klingons have a beam that does that as a secret weapon, but it turns out it's only effective against one ship at a time so it's not a huge disturbance in the balance of power.
Yeah, that sort of technology needs to be widely deployed to be effective in a large-scale engagement -- it's a good way to teach people to get their systems engineering right, though, I reckon ;)
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Their eyes totally look like one of Londo Mollari's, um, appendages, which he used to cheat at cards with in that one Babylon 5 episode.
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Oh shit this episode is stupid. 25 foot tall Spock!!!
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Wow the next episode is even dumber. The center of the galaxy spews out new matter and it turns out it's due to magic from the devil? And witches from Salem, Mass.? I guess? I'm kind of confused.
Was this script written as a prank that got out-of-hand?
Another free avatar for some peeps:
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I'll take that one.
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It might be better cropped down a little more and flipped so it looks like you're "casting" your forum message as a magic spell. Why not.
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Oh shit it's Ridley from Metroid:
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Huh. At the moment, it's showing "busted link."
The image uploader seems rather wonky--it kept flipping the radio set back to "system-assigned."
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I see your new avatar on the topic list, but not on your actual posts.
EDIT: I also see it on the "in reply to" thing at the right of my post.
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I see your new avatar on the topic list, but not on your actual posts.
EDIT: I also see it on the "in reply to" thing at the right of my post.
I know, right? I've got an image, but it won't frigging paste.
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Discoursistency!
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Scotty throws a killer party:
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I have trouble telling if this show is intentionally funny, or hilarious by accident. I'm guessing the latter.
EDIT: OMG I'm suffocating with laughter:
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I saw your ninja. Speciest!
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Those humans behind that last ("Proof, human" in case you edit agan) picture look stoned.
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PROOF, HUMAN!
That one dude has the mother of all flat-tops, too.
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More trivia, supposedly Mudd was going to be in some of the early TNG episodes as his own grandson or something, but the actor died shortly before that could happen.
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What the fuck?
Also, goddamit, Discurse, why won't you ... oh, wait. (cross-browser edit)
Image paste doesn't work with IE.
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I assume you swapped the way it was pointing after putting it up the first time. Just discourse doing the standard delayed avatar stuff.
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Glad to see Spock's a total dick to Nurse Chapel for no reason in the animated series too.
OH HOT DAMN SCOTTY:
I did NOT expect this to turn into furry porn.
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I assume you swapped the way it was pointing after putting it up the first time. Just discourse doing the standard delayed avatar stuff.
Yes, but I refreshed the page, and I'm pretty sure that the left-hand icon was pointing to the right!
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>blakeyrat:
What part of his disgusting greasy body was he snacking from?Ha, I don't think any.
This statement does not lend credibility to your tale.
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FrostCat:
blakeyrat:What part of his disgusting greasy body was he snacking from?
Ha, I don't think any.This statement does not lend credibility to your tale.
Obviously he can't all the time.
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I did NOT expect this to turn into furry porn.
When this aired back in the '70s, I expected M'ress to lick Scotty's face at this point.
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And then don't get me started on Treknobabble, which I think reached its apotheosis in Voyager.
Not really Treknobabble, but the bestest line ever uttered in a Star Trek episode (Voyager, episode "Scorpion"):
@Chakotay said:According to my calculations, neither of us has eaten since last night.
Wut??
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Not really Treknobabble, but the bestest line ever uttered in a Star Trek episode (Voyager, episode "Scorpion"):
@Chakotay said:According to my calculations, neither of us has eaten since last night.
Wut??
Sorry, the best Star Trek line ever is clearly when Riker's dad beseeches him to "Lower your shields!" (translation: talk to me)
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OffByOne:
Not really Treknobabble, but the bestest line ever uttered in a Star Trek episode (Voyager, episode "Scorpion"):
Chakotay:
According to my calculations, neither of us has eaten since last night.Wut??Sorry, the best Star Trek line ever is clearly when Riker's dad beseeches him to "Lower your shields!" (translation: talk to me)
You're both insane. Bestest Trek line ever is in season one of Voyager: "Get this cheese to sickbay!"
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"Get this cheese to sickbay!"
I just saw that episode not too long ago. I was waiting for it the whole time.
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Lore is fantastic. And scary.
@mott555 said:My only complaint about him was he was a Frenchman with a strong British accent.
Who drank Earl Grey tea
Yeah he was the least French guy ever.Could have been a Quebeckistani refugee who grew up in an Anglophile part of Canadia. Family ditched the culture, but not the name.
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Could have been a Quebeckistani refugee who grew up in an Anglophile part of Canadia. Family ditched the culture, but not the name.
Except not, since his family owned a vineyard in France.
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When this aired back in the '70s, I expected M'ress to lick Scotty's face at this point.
That would require like up to 3 new frames of animation, they don't have the budget for that.
Wut??
That was probably intended to be a joke, but Beltram didn't give a shit and the director didn't retake it because he knew from past experience he could retake it a million times and Beltram still would give no shits.
Sorry, the best Star Trek line ever is clearly when Riker's dad beseeches him to "Lower your shields!" (translation: talk to me)
That's a legit good line.
The best line in Star Trek is in the original series, Trouble with Tribbles, where Kirk goes:
Capt. Kirk: As Captain, I want two things done. First, find Cyrano Jones, and second ... close that door.
Dude had perfect comic timing on that line.
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Beltram didn't give a shit
Is he actually a bad actor, or did he just hate being on the show? I looked him up just now on IMDB and he's been in a bunch of stuff but I don't think I've seen a single other thing he's been in.
He does seem to have an intermittent presence on TV, unlike those people who are on 6 shows all at once.
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Is he actually a bad actor, or did he just hate being on the show?
I don't know. Could be either. I really am shocked that he never got fired... it's not like his role on the show was ever critically important, they could have promoted Paris or Kim or anybody to first officer. That would have given Kim stuff to do, which would have been great since I liked him. Maybe he just has a great agent.
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I really am shocked that he never got fired... it's not like his role on the show was ever critically important
Maybe there was just so much other bad acting they didn't care? I mean it's not as if it's unique to that show--look at the second Star Wars trilogy, or, you know, better yet, don't.
Maybe they hoped beyond hope that their attempts at a romance between his character and Janeway's wouldn't be horribly awkward every time they tried it.
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Except not, since his family owned a vineyard in France.
Clearly part of the Star Trek utopia was that Britain finally conquered France.
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Clearly part of the Star Trek utopia was that Britain finally conquered France.
Actually, I think Picard's relatives actually had French accents.
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It's always amusing to see where people's suspension of disbelief occurs with a show like Star Trek.
Picard has the wrong accent‽ How outrageously stupid!
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I have to say I actually noted it and moved on, because I didn't really care. I'm just engaging in conversation here.
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I wasn't saying you were doing it, but I've heard people having a hard time getting over it.
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I wasn't saying you were doing it, but I've heard people having a hard time getting over it.
I don't understand that at all. I mean, it's not like the time Barclay showed up with the wrong haircut.
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My suspension of disbelief ended when they got my skin color wrong.
Also, WTF is this and why does it show up in a Google image search for "Star Trek Mott"?
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The one that pissed me off is when Picard got pissy about Ro's earring, while STANDING IN FRONT OF WORF WEARING HIS HUGE METALLIC KLINGON SASH THING!
Seriously, Picard? The Starfleet uniform code doesn't allow earrings? Even ones for religious purposes? But it does allow... whatever the hell Worf wears all the time?
I know they were trying to set Ro up as the "bad girl"-type character who flaunts the rules, but Jesus, that just came across as Picard being a huge dick for no reason.
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Earrings ... well, make up your own excuse. The sash is standard part of a Klingon uniform, at least sometimes.
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Right but Worf's not wearing a Klingon uniform, that's exactly the point. He's wearing a Starfleet uniform and then covering it up with a component of a Klingon uniform. I don't see how that's allowed but a tiny non-obtrusive earring (worn for religious purposes I remind you!) is not.
How do you think the US Army would respond to a guy who just comes to work every day wearing most of a US Army uniform, but replacing the hat with (say) a French beret? A soldier who, to that point, had never served in the French army? (After Wolf gets a rank in the Klingon military, it's a little more appropriate.)
EDIT: not to mention he's perfectly ok with Troi wearing civilian clothes while on duty. Troi changes to wearing a uniform only when she wants to (and after that temporary captain pointed out how unprofessional the civvies were), not because Picard told her to.
And of course, due to bad writing, Ro didn't just respond by pointing to Worf and saying, "really? Really dude? You gonna do this really???"
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