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As far to the east you can get without being in Canada.
The silent destruction of the space based mega weapon in Akira.
The realization of the Director of the Pre-crime department that he has already committed murder, and he has to in order for future events to turn out right in Phillip Dick's Minority Report.
azazel the cat wrote:The one where Picard has to weigh out the risks of violating the prime directive versus trying out his new dune buggy.
Moments later Picard is doing doughnuts on the alien world with an android and a Klingon riding shotgun, violating the prime directive quite badly by tearing up a field on the alien world, and then gets some sweet airtime as he ramps his dune buggy off a cliff and into the back of a hovering transport ship before flying away, ensuring that nobody from the pre-warp alien civilization who witnessed this will ever be the same again.
You reallllly need to watch a lot more science fiction and space opera.....
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azazel the cat wrote:The one where Picard has to weigh out the risks of violating the prime directive versus trying out his new dune buggy.
Moments later Picard is doing doughnuts on the alien world with an android and a Klingon riding shotgun, violating the prime directive quite badly by tearing up a field on the alien world, and then gets some sweet airtime as he ramps his dune buggy off a cliff and into the back of a hovering transport ship before flying away, ensuring that nobody from the pre-warp alien civilization who witnessed this will ever be the same again.
You reallllly need to watch a lot more science fiction and space opera.....
"We can't let you do that!"
"...do that, Rorschach? I'm not a comic book villain. Do you think i would explain my masterstroke if there was even the slightest possibility you could affect the outcome?
.... I triggered it thirty five minutes ago."
Minnesota, land of 10,000 Lakes and 10,000,000,000 Mosquitos
Pretty much every finale to the new Doctor Who series (starting in 2005). Every one of the first four had me in tears - the Doctor announcing that he was going to die, and regenerate as someone new (Parting of the Ways), Rose and the Doctor becoming separated for good because the former had been shifted across to a different dimension (Doomsday), the Master dying in the Doctor's arms (Last of the Time Lords), and Donna Noble losing her memory of being the Doctor's companion (Journey's End).
Say what you will about the new series, but damn did it have some chilling season finales.
My Armies:
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Locclo wrote:Pretty much every finale to the new Doctor Who series (starting in 2005). Every one of the first four had me in tears - the Doctor announcing that he was going to die, and regenerate as someone new (Parting of the Ways), Rose and the Doctor becoming separated for good because the former had been shifted across to a different dimension (Doomsday), the Master dying in the Doctor's arms (Last of the Time Lords), and Donna Noble losing her memory of being the Doctor's companion (Journey's End).
Say what you will about the new series, but damn did it have some chilling season finales.
Agreed.
It is returning, it is returning through the dark. And then, Doctor... Oh but then, he will knock four times.
Mordiggian wrote:Wrath of Khan He is intelligent, but not experienced. His pattern indicates two-dimensional thinking.
Admittedly, from a series where it's pretty much a given that ships will make contact by floating in space on the same 'plane' with the same orientation, so I can't blame Khan on this one. The whole megalomaniacal genocide stuff, sure, he deserves the blame for that.
While the film defeats the impact of that quote by having Enterprise 'surface' behind the Reliant, it's a brilliant observation which breaks the stalemate between Khan (smarter) and Kirk (more experienced, better crew). If the film had followed it up, it would have been ever better.
"If you really want to know what it was like, to fight in the air in the great War, then go up to someone you have never met and who has never done you the slightest harm and pour a two-gallon tin of petrol over them. Then apply a match, and when they are nicely ablaze, push them from a fifteenth-floor window after first perhaps shooting them a few times in the back with a revolver. And be aware as you are doing these things that ten seconds later someone else will quite probably do them to you. This will exactly reproduce... the substance of First World War aerial combat and will cost your country nothing. It will also avoid the necessity of ten million other people to die in order for you to enjoy it."
warpcrafter wrote:The moment in Battlestar Galactica where the final six Cylons started hearing the song "All Along the Watchtower" at the same time. It was so ominous.
"Put Captain Solo in the cargo hold"
"He's no good to me dead"
"AAHHHHHHHH"
And anything else original from Mr. Fett.
Hoban 'Wash' Washburn: This landing is gonna get pretty interesting.
Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: Define "interesting".
Hoban 'Wash' Washburn: [deadpan] Oh God, oh God, we're all going to die?
Kaylee Frye: Goin' on a year now I ain't had nothin' twixt my nethers weren't run on batteries!
Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: Oh, God! I can't *know* that!
Jayne Cobb: I could stand to hear a little more.
"Bryan always said that if the studio ever had to mix with the manufacturing and sales part of the business it would destroy the studio. And I have to say – he wasn’t wrong there! ... It’s become the promotions department of a toy company." -- Rick Priestly
I just went from being some dude with a lightsaber to the the man who brought Sith back to the galaxy.
Thus, After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd
-Alexis de Tocqueville.
The Pegasus coming to Galactica's rescue in season three of Battlestar Galactica fending off and destroying one basestar and then ramming another exploding and its hanger pod smashing the crap out of the Basestar the back!.
Battle of Geonosis that was one of the best scenes in the prequel trology as was the battle of Coruscant.. Cosmic Zero lacing the targets for the Yamato in the Space Battleship Yamato movie.
Battle of Orb Gundam Seed... 8th MS Team Vs Gouf Custom ... the list goes on and on and on...
"Ooh, a big flashy lighty thing! Big flashy lighty things have got me written all over them. Not actually, but give me time. And a crayon!" ...
1 inquisitor, not even a inquisitor lord, and the other 2955pts went into orbital bombardment lance strikes.
I am not trying to troll, but i don't understand why firefly is so highly regarded. My GF loves it and I guess if it got her into scifi its a good thing , but me personally disliked every second of the cheesy show.
We argue all the time about which was a better show firefly or farscape and I win on pure season count most of the time. She uses the "yeah but its Joss Whedon" line and I reply with "maybe that's the problem" I seem to dislike most of the guys work aliens resurrection included"
To each their own, I guess.
Every Dakkanaught gets a 4+ Pinch of Salt save.
When you suffer a Falling Sky hit, roll a D6 - on a 4+ the hit is ignored as per the Pinch of Salt save. On a 1-3 panic insues - you automatically fail common sense tests for the next 2 weeks and get +7 to your negativity stat. -Praxiss
Deathshead420 wrote: I am not trying to troll, but i don't understand why firefly is so highly regarded. My GF loves it and I guess if it got her into scifi its a good thing , but me personally disliked every second of the cheesy show.
We argue all the time about which was a better show firefly or farscape and I win on pure season count most of the time. She uses the "yeah but its Joss Whedon" line and I reply with "maybe that's the problem" I seem to dislike most of the guys work aliens resurrection included"
To each their own, I guess.
It's the same argument as for Kevin Smith: both writers are very consistent, and that particular note that they hit sounds fantastic to some people. Personally, I'm definitely in the camp that loves Firefly, but I can see how it isn't for everyone.
...as to your ''season count" argument: by your logic, Guiding Light is the greatest show of all time.
Deathshead420 wrote:
She uses the "yeah but its Joss Whedon" line and I reply with "maybe that's the problem" I seem to dislike most of the guys work aliens resurrection included"
And I forgot to add Thumb Wars. Epic movie with cutting edge graphics.
"Bryan always said that if the studio ever had to mix with the manufacturing and sales part of the business it would destroy the studio. And I have to say – he wasn’t wrong there! ... It’s become the promotions department of a toy company." -- Rick Priestly
Deathshead420 wrote: I am not trying to troll, but i don't understand why firefly is so highly regarded. My GF loves it and I guess if it got her into scifi its a good thing , but me personally disliked every second of the cheesy show.
We argue all the time about which was a better show firefly or farscape and I win on pure season count most of the time. She uses the "yeah but its Joss Whedon" line and I reply with "maybe that's the problem" I seem to dislike most of the guys work aliens resurrection included"
To each their own, I guess.
People will remember Firefly long after people have forgotton Farscape.
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Deathshead420 wrote: I am not trying to troll, but i don't understand why firefly is so highly regarded. My GF loves it and I guess if it got her into scifi its a good thing , but me personally disliked every second of the cheesy show.
We argue all the time about which was a better show firefly or farscape and I win on pure season count most of the time. She uses the "yeah but its Joss Whedon" line and I reply with "maybe that's the problem" I seem to dislike most of the guys work aliens resurrection included"
To each their own, I guess.
People will remember Firefly long after people have forgotton Farscape.
Lexx>Failscape
"Bryan always said that if the studio ever had to mix with the manufacturing and sales part of the business it would destroy the studio. And I have to say – he wasn’t wrong there! ... It’s become the promotions department of a toy company." -- Rick Priestly
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
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Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
He never raised his voice. That was the worst thing - the fury of the Time Lord - and then we discovered why. Why this Doctor, who had fought with gods and demons, why he had run away from us and hidden. He was being kind."
"Come to plague me, rape and take me, Politician, inquisition They're closing in, the iron round. To strangulate your way to live, They promise everything but they betray
And though they crash the hammer down Hold your ground, or tomorrow it will be taken, Hold your ground or it will be taken,"
Lar'shi wrote:He never raised his voice. That was the worst thing - the fury of the Time Lord - and then we discovered why. Why this Doctor, who had fought with gods and demons, why he had run away from us and hidden. He was being kind."
For the record I wasnt saying Farscape was the best show, i was just using it as a show to go up against Firefly, which BTW has the worst theme of any show PERIOD. Every time I hear it a piece of me dies.
Every Dakkanaught gets a 4+ Pinch of Salt save.
When you suffer a Falling Sky hit, roll a D6 - on a 4+ the hit is ignored as per the Pinch of Salt save. On a 1-3 panic insues - you automatically fail common sense tests for the next 2 weeks and get +7 to your negativity stat. -Praxiss
Kal'reia Sept Tau - Farsight Sympathizers 
Da Great Looted Waaagh! 
The Court of the Wolf Lords 
