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Post by The Captain on Jan 29, 2020 13:41:34 GMT -5
BTW, if you play Star Trek Online, you can get the Starfleet officer uniforms from Picard as a freebie today in honor of both the show coming out as well as the game's 10th anniversary.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Jan 29, 2020 14:32:45 GMT -5
I think my favorite line was the exchange with the reporter
Reporter: Romulan lives.
Picard: No. Lives.
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Post by Zone Was Wrong on Jan 29, 2020 16:08:41 GMT -5
BTW, if you play Star Trek Online, you can get the Starfleet officer uniforms from Picard as a freebie today in honor of both the show coming out as well as the game's 10th anniversary. Might have to log in today then. |
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Post by The Captain on Jan 29, 2020 16:19:52 GMT -5
BTW, if you play Star Trek Online, you can get the Starfleet officer uniforms from Picard as a freebie today in honor of both the show coming out as well as the game's 10th anniversary. Might have to log in today then. It's there in the Promotions Tab of the C-Store. |
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Post by Hit Girl on Jan 29, 2020 17:04:32 GMT -5
I think my favorite line was the exchange with the reporter Reporter: Romulan lives. Picard: No. Lives. Sisko - "I can live with it" |
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Post by jimmyjackezekiel on Jan 29, 2020 19:52:54 GMT -5
I have not seen the series, but from what I have read on tvtropes and other sources it doesn't sound like my cup of tea, and seems like too much of a departure from Gene's vision. (and I say that as someone who liked DS9, or at least the idea of it.)
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jan 29, 2020 20:12:41 GMT -5
I have not seen the series, but from what I have read on tvtropes and other sources it doesn't sound like my cup of tea, and seems like too much of a departure from Gene's vision. (and I say that as someone who liked DS9, or at least the idea of it.) Star Trek hasn't been Gene's vision for almost half the time the franchise has existed. It died in 1989 when he was ousted from TNG, though you could argue it died before that when Paramount ignored all his ideas for Wrath of Khan and the subsequent TOS movies. |
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Post by Hit Girl on Jan 29, 2020 20:26:16 GMT -5
I have not seen the series, but from what I have read on tvtropes and other sources it doesn't sound like my cup of tea, and seems like too much of a departure from Gene's vision. (and I say that as someone who liked DS9, or at least the idea of it.) Roddenberry didn't have a particularly clear vision for Trek beyond a general notion that the future would turn out generally good. Many of Trek's most well known elements didn't even originate from him. It's largely a myth that he wanted Trek to depict a utopia. For the most part he didn't. He simply wanted to create a fictional universe where he could talk about real world issues in a fantastical setting to avoid controversy. DS9 challenged the utopia idea at an even deeper level than TNG did after his death and deconstructed it beautifully. The problem with the concepts of this series is that they are a hodgepodge, with some extremely flawed Abrams-created ideas, and developed by a creative team who have all the subtley of a sledgehammer. |
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Post by jimmyjackezekiel on Jan 29, 2020 20:52:44 GMT -5
So basically it's designed not to age well?
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Jan 29, 2020 21:31:47 GMT -5
So basically it's designed not to age well? Nothing else post Nemesis has or likely will. |
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Post by CMWaters on Jan 29, 2020 21:34:17 GMT -5
So basically it's designed not to age well? On the whole, taking not just the good but the bad as well (space hippies, various treatments of women, etc) can we say the original series did? It had its good yes, but there was plenty of bad (not even going into how not that well some of the outfits went) |
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Post by jimmyjackezekiel on Jan 29, 2020 21:48:43 GMT -5
So basically it's designed not to age well? On the whole, taking not just the good but the bad as well (space hippies, various treatments of women, etc) can we say the original series did? It had its good yes, but there was plenty of bad (not even going into how not that well some of the outfits went) True... But I can't think of anything in the franchise past early TNG that outright feels like a period piece... At least not intentionally. |
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Post by CMWaters on Jan 29, 2020 22:04:55 GMT -5
On the whole, taking not just the good but the bad as well (space hippies, various treatments of women, etc) can we say the original series did? It had its good yes, but there was plenty of bad (not even going into how not that well some of the outfits went) True... But I can't think of anything in the franchise past early TNG that outright feels like a period piece... At least not intentionally. At the moment all I can think of is Enterprise's attempts at sexual focus early on. |
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Post by The Captain on Jan 29, 2020 23:49:02 GMT -5
So basically it's designed not to age well? On the whole, taking not just the good but the bad as well (space hippies, various treatments of women, etc) can we say the original series did? It had its good yes, but there was plenty of bad (not even going into how not that well some of the outfits went) Oddly enough, for all his reputation as a playboy, TOS-era Kirk treated every single woman he encountered with respect and as equals. He only engaged in sexual acts with enthusiastic consent from his partners. |
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Post by CMWaters on Jan 30, 2020 10:17:28 GMT -5
Second episode is up. Does feel like the middle piece of a three parter, to be sure. Some stuff gets built up, including what's with the Borg cube and such, but just enough to keep things going.
Probably the biggest surprise for me in all of this was that they brought back the rank of Commodore for one character in here.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Jan 30, 2020 11:18:54 GMT -5
BTW, if you play Star Trek Online, you can get the Starfleet officer uniforms from Picard as a freebie today in honor of both the show coming out as well as the game's 10th anniversary. I really should dust off the ol' USS Electric Mayhem and get back into this game. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2020 12:04:31 GMT -5
Thanks for the thread bump. Forgot there was a new episode today. Gonna check it out when I get home from work after I watch NXT UK.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jan 30, 2020 20:19:10 GMT -5
Surprising just how many people buy into the idea that there was ever a utopian society in Star Trek. It's always been a mostly-good with an very shady underbelly.
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Post by jimmyjackezekiel on Jan 30, 2020 20:28:03 GMT -5
The people with the miracle healing planet being considered less fortunate.
Ha! That's rich.
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Post by Larryhausen on Jan 30, 2020 23:21:04 GMT -5
BTW, if you play Star Trek Online, you can get the Starfleet officer uniforms from Picard as a freebie today in honor of both the show coming out as well as the game's 10th anniversary. I really should dust off the ol' USS Electric Mayhem and get back into this game. This makes me feel all warm and squishy. |
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