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2018/07/21 09:24:21
Subject: Star Trek: general discussion-Picard, Discovery, Lower Decks (and Orville)
..I was a bit mixed about season 1, but enjoyed it enough that I'll probably watch this.
..... I do miss having a "regular" ongoing Trek series.
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Oh yes. Lots to be excited about there, looks like the final tease of S1 will play a big part rather than just being a neat cameo. Though I still feel Saru more than earned the captaincy proper last time round, so hopefully Pike doesn't stick around for too long!
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"I will admit that some Primachs like Russ or Horus could have a chance against an unarmed 12 year old novice but, a full Battle Sister??!! One to one? In close combat? Perhaps three Primarchs fighting together... but just one Primarch?" da001
Although I wonder how long they can keep up the "Spock is just over there, just off screen, and we'll keep talking about him but never show him!".
wonder if we'll see any more redesigned species this season ?
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
Well its a bit better than AoS as they did (for no apparent) reason redesign (just) the look of the Klingons
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"Unimaginably ancient xenos artefact somewhere on the planet, hive fleet poised above our heads, hidden 'stealer broods making an early start....and now a bloody Chaos cult crawling out of the woodwork just in case we were bored. Welcome to my world, Ciaphas."
Inquisitor Amberley Vail, Ordo Xenos
"I will admit that some Primachs like Russ or Horus could have a chance against an unarmed 12 year old novice but, a full Battle Sister??!! One to one? In close combat? Perhaps three Primarchs fighting together... but just one Primarch?" da001
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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Have they definitely written out the Doctor and subsequently his story line with the lead engineer guy? I thought they had some good chemistry together.
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By 1-irt: Still as long as Hissy keeps showing up this is one of the most entertaining threads ever.
Ratius wrote: Have they definitely written out the Doctor and subsequently his story line with the lead engineer guy? I thought they had some good chemistry together.
Well one of them died...... they could do it with Spore drive stuff but is that still being used?
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Inquisitor Amberley Vail, Ordo Xenos
"I will admit that some Primachs like Russ or Horus could have a chance against an unarmed 12 year old novice but, a full Battle Sister??!! One to one? In close combat? Perhaps three Primarchs fighting together... but just one Primarch?" da001
Assuming they've lost the Infinite Improbability Drive, didnt get past episode 3 or 4 of S1
As chromedog said, you’ve missed the best episodes
Not saying they’ll change your mind, but worth persevering,
I'll get round to it one day, probably, but that's one of the perils of the streaming age that good shows get edged out by gooderer shows due to finite watching time
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Assuming they've lost the Infinite Improbability Drive, didnt get past episode 3 or 4 of S1
As chromedog said, you’ve missed the best episodes
Not saying they’ll change your mind, but worth persevering,
I'll get round to it one day, probably, but that's one of the perils of the streaming age that good shows get edged out by gooderer shows due to finite watching time
Pretty much. I watched the first 2 episodes (the ones that had nothing to do with the rest of the show... good use of my time there). Then I think I got up to halfway though episode 4, fell asleep and just never found the time or inclination to go back and try to pick it up. My office coworker watched it all and updated me on some of the developments and nothing sounded interesting or exciting enough to bother with. Meanwhile I was looking forward each week to new episodes of the Orville.
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chromedog wrote: I was watching both - they scratch different itches.
Sorta like the other ST shows all did. Although I don't remember what itch voyager was supposed to scratch.
Jeri Ryan says hi.....
Same as the "decomantation" porcess smearing gloop over a half naked Jolene Blaylock.
In fact given that a good portion of Discovery was spent in the Mirror Universe we missed out on alot of sexy outfits!
Still not seen Orvile although friends say its pretty good if occassionaly the jokes fall flat - problem I have is that I cant stand Seth Mcfarlane's cartoon shows.
Discovery was often very good fun - the only thing i felt it could have done better was not have made a bizare redesign f the Klingons.
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"Unimaginably ancient xenos artefact somewhere on the planet, hive fleet poised above our heads, hidden 'stealer broods making an early start....and now a bloody Chaos cult crawling out of the woodwork just in case we were bored. Welcome to my world, Ciaphas."
Inquisitor Amberley Vail, Ordo Xenos
"I will admit that some Primachs like Russ or Horus could have a chance against an unarmed 12 year old novice but, a full Battle Sister??!! One to one? In close combat? Perhaps three Primarchs fighting together... but just one Primarch?" da001
Yeah, Jeri Ryan did nothing for me.
Nor did captain monotone.
Seth McFarlane's cartoons don't grab me, but the writing on the orville is better (even if many of the jokes fall just as flat). There's some TNG level political commentary in there as well.
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chromedog wrote: I was watching both - they scratch different itches.
Sorta like the other ST shows all did. Although I don't remember what itch voyager was supposed to scratch.
Jeri Ryan says hi.....
Same as the "decomantation" porcess smearing gloop over a half naked Jolene Blaylock.
In fact given that a good portion of Discovery was spent in the Mirror Universe we missed out on alot of sexy outfits!
Still not seen Orvile although friends say its pretty good if occassionaly the jokes fall flat - problem I have is that I cant stand Seth Mcfarlane's cartoon shows.
Discovery was often very good fun - the only thing i felt it could have done better was not have made a bizare redesign f the Klingons.
Pffffffffffffffffffffft. Roxann Dawson was the itch scratcher if anyone was, as far as ogling female beauty. Actually, her storylines were some of the best stuff on there. Her AND Tom Paris.
As far as theme? It felt more that Voyager was hell bent on changing Janeway's religion every damn episode. Then it changed to revolve around Seven of Nine's rack, and I'm not sure that was an improvement.
Please tell me it doesn't do a lot with time travel. While Trek could put out some good episodes and movies with it, Voyager, Enterprise, and Abrams were just terrible at it.
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
That sounds wack a mole bad, with literally nothing to do with any previous Trek.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
I love how they can't admit they gakked the bed with the terrible, terrible Klingon redesign. At least the folks at Doctor Who had the good sense to realize nobody except Moffat liked the Skittles Daleks, so they quietly pushed them further and further into the background. STD keeps pushing their Klingon redesigns as "totally not garbage, guys".
Emperor's Eagles (undergoing Chapter reorganization)
Caledonian 95th (undergoing regimental reorganization)
Thousands Sons (undergoing Warband re--- wait, are any of my 40K armies playable?)
There was a thing when JJ Abrams left the trek franchise he rebooted to do Star Wars, turned out he had issues Paramount not cancelling the existing lines of licensed action figures etc etc, which would've cut into the sales of the new characters figures, persumably.
IIRC that was one of the reasons C3po had a red arm in episode 7 -- counted as a redesign so Abrams et al get .XX% of monies from things featuring said new design.
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,