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Typical attack wing. It feels at times like they haven't even seen the show.
"The Provisional Government is going to fall, and when governments fall people like me are the first ones shot." -- Quark (Emissary)
Quark: It’s good to want things.
Odo: Even things you can’t have?
Quark: Especially things you can’t have.
-Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, “The Passenger”
You know I was thinking the same thing since I saw the ship, but I haven't had the time to find the episode. Great find Meangreen . It not too bad I see people all the time flying Ferengi and Jem Hadar attack ships backwards. At least with the Vidiians there is the excuse that they were only in a few episodes
How do you mess up the Jem Hadar ships? It's fairly obvious from the model and not to mention that there are plenty of cards that show which side it faces.
"The Provisional Government is going to fall, and when governments fall people like me are the first ones shot." -- Quark (Emissary)
Quark: It’s good to want things.
Odo: Even things you can’t have?
Quark: Especially things you can’t have.
-Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, “The Passenger”
I know! For a ship that was all over the place on DS9 I see people with them backwards. When I see it I think Guy Flegman from Galaxy Guest, "Did you even watch the show?"
But it doesn't even matter if you've seen the show because on cards like phased polarized beam it shows which direction the ship is facing so they have no excuse.
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"The Provisional Government is going to fall, and when governments fall people like me are the first ones shot." -- Quark (Emissary)
Quark: It’s good to want things.
Odo: Even things you can’t have?
Quark: Especially things you can’t have.
-Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, “The Passenger”
ds9lord wrote: How do you mess up the Jem Hadar ships? It's fairly obvious from the model and not to mention that there are plenty of cards that show which side it faces.
If, like me, as a Trek fan, refused to watch DS9 (until recently), its easy enough to do.
ds9lord wrote: How do you mess up the Jem Hadar ships? It's fairly obvious from the model and not to mention that there are plenty of cards that show which side it faces.
If, like me, as a Trek fan, refused to watch DS9 (until recently), its easy enough to do.
DS9 is greatest Trek!!
The Correct Order is as follows:
DS9>NextGen>Original Series>Enterprise>Voyager.
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Getting the Vidiian ship backwards isn't too difficult I think it was only in one or two episodes. I have seen a few websites on ships that show it backwards as well. It is a lesser known race that had very little screen time plus by its looks it could go either way.
Walshicus wrote: It's packaged correctly though, isn't it? Generally ships face upward in the packaging and the Fina Prime is slotted with the broadest edge forward...
(Also, hello all! Been lurking for a while but finally got around to making an account.)
Walshicus wrote: It's packaged correctly though, isn't it? Generally ships face upward in the packaging and the Fina Prime is slotted with the broadest edge forward...
(Also, hello all! Been lurking for a while but finally got around to making an account.)
DS9 - TNG - and then can't quite decide about the other 3. TOS has some howlers, Enterprise has season 3, and Voyager has to get the cheese to sickbay.
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PlaguelordHobbyServices wrote: Ugh, Mr. S, I lost some respect for you man, anyone who puts TNG under Voyager has problems.
Here's my list
TNG - DS9 - Voyager - TOS - Enterprise
I get that a lot I prefer a series with an overall story arc as opposed to the "hey lets go look at stuff over here, now lets go over here, oh and Data is finding his humanity again" of TNG. I'll still watch TNG, but I don't get as much out of it as I do DS9 & Voyager. I can count on one hand episodes from DS9 and Voyager I skip but I jump all over the place when I watch TNG.
PlaguelordHobbyServices wrote: Ugh, Mr. S, I lost some respect for you man, anyone who puts TNG under Voyager has problems.
Here's my list
TNG - DS9 - Voyager - TOS - Enterprise
I get that a lot I prefer a series with an overall story arc as opposed to the "hey lets go look at stuff over here, now lets go over here, oh and Data is finding his humanity again" of TNG. I'll still watch TNG, but I don't get as much out of it as I do DS9 & Voyager. I can count on one hand episodes from DS9 and Voyager I skip but I jump all over the place when I watch TNG.
I get what you mean, we went back to watch TNG and found ourselves omitting huge chunks of it because it was a 'Troi has a headache/funny feeling' episode or a 'erm, Geordi tries to get laid a bit' episode or a 'isn't Wesley special/magical' episode or a 'Data: a bit like Pinnochio isn't he...' episode or a 'we're totally frelling out of ideas so here's a Dr Crusher episode...' But it's bouyed up by JLP, swaggering Riker post beard, Q, Guinan, iconic introductions (ships and species), some excellent 2 parters and FOUR LIGHTS!
Voyager had some reasonable moments, rewatching it recently (by myself, wife refuses to even look at it) and I considerably warmed to Janeway herself and a good many ideas in it... But it's still dragged down by some really awful stories (occurring after DS9 means it has no excuse there) and utterly dire cast and character development (again, after DS9, not a damned excuse to be had there)... Filthy 'orrible Neelix aside, the stone carving that is Chakotay (who seemed to be an excuse to play synthesized panpipes and introduce 'something something noble savage trope - spirit animal'... and the worst of them all, someone I came to despise a whole second time as even worse that Neelix...
When the show first came on Nelix got on my nerves, but now he doesn't bother me as much now days. I still don't care for Kes & Harry but they don't get much screen time.
On DS9 the only person that I can't stand is Keiko. It would have been better if they would have bumped her off instead of always wrecking Worf's love life.
I like TNG when there is something going on. I have tried to watch Ent a few times but the whole cast (except Phlox) starts to pluck my nerves.
On DS9 the only person that I can't stand is Keiko. It would have been better if they would have bumped her off instead of always wrecking Worf's love life.
Keiko is truly terrible in that series, you can almost see the actress squirming as she's forced to portray the most unreasonable harpy in the quadrant, along with the entirely hamfisted way the producers reinforced her 'nipponeseness' by constantly having her listening to classical japanese music, pruning bonsai and eating seaweed, whilst tinymouth obrien sulks, looks downcast as he's castigated, eats oirish stew and sneaks off to be with his true love, Dr B...
Also the terrible things that befall the Chief and his family are sort of a running meme in the series aren't they...
Obrien is a robot that thinks he's really Obrien.
Obrien is confined to a prison for 20 years but it's in his brain.
Cakehole is possessed by a PahWraith (and actually becomes less terrible).
Obrien is 'processed' by the bloody Cardies and sentenced to death.
Mollie falls into a vortex... (or is subconsciously trying to escape her mother).
Cakehole... Terrible awful shrewish Cakehole...
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O'Brian was the go to guy whenever the writers needed to pick on someone. I could have lived with him having one more tragedy if it would have gotten Keiko out of the show. Curse Data for ever introducing them.
I could never quite reconcile how before he was 'Transporter Chief Miles O'Brian" on the Enterprise-D, he was a lowly grunt on a colony world fighting off a bunch of revolutionaries and how he did "bad things" and it was a "horrible war" and he has nightmares about it all the time (PTSD). So Star Fleet let him tool around on the flag ship of the Federation, and then promoted him to Chief Engineer on board DS9... on the edge of the very place where he got all his PTSD...
Mr. O'Brian was unfortunately the "Sulu" of the Next Generation/DS-9. It was obvious he was capable of a lot more, but the writers...!
He still has a good card for STAW.
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What's so difficult to understand. O'Brien was a grunt, transfered to engineering then had a stellar carrier from there. The writers of both TNG and DS9 do a good job of documenting his career. His Defiant crew card is very disappointing. It's probably one of the modt punitive cards in the game, Action + disable + NO ATTACK for a whopping 5 points. Glin Daro laughs at him all day long
Just watched the episode where Dr Bashir was going to be the new hologram and the 'family secret' is revealed...
I think they may have gotten the actors to be his parents by just pressganging a couple of mildly arabic looking folks off the streets of London... they are both appalling actors.
I have seen the dad do better work, I don't recall seeing the mom in anything before. The best part of that episode is watching Dr. Zimmerman and Rom compete for Lita. Also when O'Brien keeps making the holographic Bashir walk into the wall, that's pretty funny .
The whole genetically modified thing was a real disservice to the character. Alexander Sedig was not a fan of that plot twist, supposedly he fought the writers on it tooth adn nail, but lost. I have read that is why he delivers all of his lines about being enhanced very dry and flat.
. It not too bad I see people all the time flying Ferengi and Jem Hadar attack ships backwards. At least with the Vidiians there is the excuse that they were only in a few episodes 
