Television The Star Trek Thread V6.0

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I was wondering whether fans of Mass Effect think it's a ripoff or homage or what

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

I was wondering whether fans of Mass Effect think it's a ripoff or homage or what

I’m a huge fan of Mass Effect. I thought it was a pretty big rip off of the first game’s plot.

Soji about to summon the ancient robot fleet is the exact same as Saren trying to use the citadel to summon the ancient robot fleet of reapers.

 

[Conor_Is_Overrated]

Space Legolas, Wishes He Was Pedro Pascal, Scissors of Nine, Tilly 2.0 and Rafi (havent thought of a dumb nickname for her yet).

<Lmaoo>

 

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TOS episode "Balance of Terror".

Excellent. First actual visual contact with the Romulans, a Neutral Zone story, reflective of its time.

Another episode where a bridge officer just pipes up with opinions, dictating advisements based on his personal hatred of Romulans.

He's insubordinate to the First Officer in a manner that would merit removal from his post.

Great examination of when force is necessary and attitudes regarding conflict. Great cat and mouse games.

 

[Conor_Is_Overrated]

I'm a big fan of Star Trek.

Started with TNG as a child, then DS9 (my absolute favorite!), then VOY... then later checked out TOS, then came out ENT... which was sadly, very sadly the last thing that was essentially ST for me.

Those awful movies... don't even talk about that.
Then I had high hopes on Discovery... it turned out to be a mess.
Then I had high hopes on Picard to mend things already... and well, it kind of started promising (the first couple of episodes), but then went to NOWHERE. The last two episodes were flat out criminally bad.

ST seems to be over...

 

[Conor_Is_Overrated]

TOS episode "Balance of Terror".

Excellent. First actual visual contact with the Romulans, a Neutral Zone story, reflective of its time.

Another episode where a bridge officer just pipes up with opinions, dictating advisements based on his personal hatred of Romulans.

He's insubordinate to the First Officer in a manner that would merit removal from his post.

Great examination of when force is necessary and attitudes regarding conflict. Great cat and mouse games.

EXACTLY!

Now, that's how an episode featuring ROMULANS should be done.
A classic for the ages.

Another great one comes to my mind: In The Pale Moonlight...

I guess we will never see something like these anymore...

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

TOS episode "Balance of Terror".

Excellent. First actual visual contact with the Romulans, a Neutral Zone story, reflective of its time.

Another episode where a bridge officer just pipes up with opinions, dictating advisements based on his personal hatred of Romulans.

He's insubordinate to the First Officer in a manner that would merit removal from his post.

Great examination of when force is necessary and attitudes regarding conflict. Great cat and mouse games.

Excellent episode, though I always thought it weird that the Romulan Captain was played by Spock’s Dad. Star Trek will often reuse actors, but they’ll often give them makeup to look different. For example Brian Thompson who is probably best known as the villain from the Stallone film Cobra has been a Klingon twice

A Jem’Hadar

A Romulan

And whatever the fuck this alien is

Meanwhile Mark Lenard looks identical as a Romulan and a Vulcan.

 

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EXACTLY!

Now, that's how an episode featuring ROMULANS should be done.
A classic for the ages.

Another great one comes to my mind: In The Pale Moonlight...

I guess we will never see something like these anymore...

That ep went to a really dark place for Sisko, and is a brilliant story all around.
Sisko's impossible moral dilemma is deftly written.

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

Excellent episode, though I always thought it weird that the Romulan Captain was played by Spock’s Dad. Star Trek will often reuse actors, but they’ll often give them makeup to look different. For example Brian Thompson who is probably best known as the villain from the Stallone film Cobra has been a Klingon twice

A Jem’Hadar

A Romulan

And whatever the fuck this alien is

Meanwhile Mark Lenard looks identical as a Romulan and a Vulcan.

Meh, all pointy ears look alike to me.

 

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I still like all the film gate hairs, and the scratches and pops of the old reel transfers.

The new effects look great, but my childhood loves that crappy old look

 

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TOS Balance of Terror...

I get that they want to do a space Run Silent, Run Deep...

But why are they whispering??

 

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TOS ep "Shore Leave".

An absolute classic.
A romance subplot is contrived for McCoy, so he can hook up with a hottie fifteen years younger.

So that someone can be horrified when he gets lanced like a boil.

The Kirk-Finnegan scenes are fantastic, great character building moments of dialogue.

It's all pretty contrived.
"Oh, all these awful things we've been putting you through, you didn't enjoy them? I don't understand, how can this BE?"

 

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Good old Vasquez Rocks.
So Star Trek, much episodes

 

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LOL

"I can't feel me legs!" In this scene, Kirk stands over Finnegan, looking fresh enough. Finnegan flips him over, whereupon Kirk passes out.
Cut to the reverse shot, and suddenly Kirk's shirt is torn up completely.

Blatant continuity error.

 

[GtehMVP]

That ep went to a really dark place for Sisko, and is a brilliant story all around.
Sisko's impossible moral dilemma is deftly written.

That's one of my fav ST episodes ever. The war is dragging on, and the situation is beyond grim as defeat seems inevitable

We get to see Garek in his element, and see how Sisko reacts to overt murder, something he helped knowingly occur. Their exchange was super rich, gave so much gravitas to Garek


It helps change the tide of the war, but the way Sisko wrestled with it added extra layers to his character too. Sometimes he's a bit of of an overactor, and didn't seem comfortable in the role (I recall he didn't care for it at first), but once he got the goatee with his shaved head, he owned the screen.

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

That's one of my fav ST episodes ever. The war is dragging on, and the situation is beyond grim as defeat seems inevitable

We get to see Garek in his element, and see how Sisko reacts to overt murder, something he helped knowingly occur. Their exchange was super rich, gave so much gravitas to Garek


It helps change the tide of the war, but the way Sisko wrestled with it added extra layers to his character too. Sometimes he's a bit of of an overactor, and didn't seem comfortable in the role (I recall he didn't care for it at first), but once he got the goatee with his shaved head, he owned the screen.

His overacting, I find, is largely in his diction, which is wonderful and stentorian.
But he hammed up his dialogue with dramatic, pregnant pauses and adding intensity by Biting! Off! Every! Word!

Do I make myself clear!

 

[Peteyandjia]

Wtf was the point of this show

Childhood memory rape

The makers of the show should be charged criminally, as mind s

 

[GtehMVP]

His overacting, I find, is largely in his diction, which is wonderful and stentorian.
But he hammed up his dialogue with dramatic, pregnant pauses and adding intensity by Biting! Off! Every! Word!

Do I make myself clear!

haha I heard that in his voice, perfect description of is speaking style.

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

TOS ep "Shore Leave".

An absolute classic.
A romance subplot is contrived for McCoy, so he can hook up with a hottie fifteen years younger.

So that someone can be horrified when he gets lanced like a boil.

The Kirk-Finnegan scenes are fantastic, great character building moments of dialogue.

It's all pretty contrived.
"Oh, all these awful things we've been putting you through, you didn't enjoy them? I don't understand, how can this BE?"

Kirk vs Finnegan was the original Rowdy Roddy Piper vs Keith David fight from They Live

 

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haha I heard that in his voice, perfect description of is speaking style.

Brooks is one of those guys whose voice is so awesome I'd listen to him read a phone book.


TOS third season episode "The Cloud Minders".
The episode George Lucas ripped off for Bespin in ESB.

Paper thin Caste society story: the miners are called Troglytes, a bit too on-the-nose.
It's interestingly written as a society so far up its own ass it can't see how uncivilized it has become.

The direction here is uniquely weird, with multiple exposure closeups and Spock voiceovers.