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Picard

Started by Ratman_tf, July 21, 2019, 12:41:54 AM

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Omega

Quote from: Armchair Gamer;1121289For your consideration, the Wildspace trailer:
[video]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UHGz5r-b1do[/youtube]

I should still have the original, least the VHS. The board game itself was stolen with alot of other things. Both by Flint Dille. According to Dille a portion of the cast was from the Conan live show at Universal. The Warrior I know was a regular on American Gladiators. Apparently DS did pretty well hence why Wildspace was greenlit. Also according to flint Wildspace was indeed in the talks phase for a TV series. Then everything kinda fell through and apparently all the material for the completed, or nearly completed, Wildspace video were seized in some sort of court squabble between TSR and whomever owned the production rights.

Omega

Well 3rd ep was out and its just as brain stunted as the last two so far. Just not quite as jaw-droppingly dim as ep2. Though the sunglass wearing vulcan was a bit... orf? Was her name really O??? Someone please tell me I misheard that?

I liked the borg rehab fasility idea though. And the ship they end up with looks interesting. Serena? Sirena? Reminds me of the Vulcan ship from the first ST movie. Curious if the top detaches from the "sled" part like the original did.

Slipshot762

only reason ds9 was watchable for me was Garek, loved that character, and the jem'hadar/vorta, who I also loved.

HappyDaze

Quote from: Slipshot762;1121782only reason ds9 was watchable for me was Garek, loved that character, and the jem'hadar/vorta, who I also loved.

Damar was fun too, at least in season 7.

Omega

Quote from: Slipshot762;1121782only reason ds9 was watchable for me was Garek, loved that character, and the jem'hadar/vorta, who I also loved.

The gradually increasing anti-Federation/Starfleet undertone that creeped into later seasons tuned me off eventually. DS9 really seemed to love their conspiracies and clandestine groups.

Shrieking Banshee

Quote from: Omega;1121876The gradually increasing anti-Federation/Starfleet undertone that creeped into later seasons tuned me off eventually.

It ended with massive Federation wish fulfillment and support with everybody licking their boots. DS9 was ultimately willing to question the Federations functional and "Moral" underpinnings more than any other series of Star Trek, in a way that made it fresh without being overly grim (Even a bit too saccharine for my taste). Making it by far the best series of Star Trek ever made.

HappyDaze

I just started watching Picard yesterday. I got through two episodes, but it really seemed to drag. Some of the visuals are nice (I even like the new Starfleet uniforms that look like updated VOY uniforms), but the story just isn't grabbing me yet. It is going with the tarnished/corroded Federation approach, but I can't tell yet if it's the whole Federation or just some bad apples that are given screen time.

Bruwulf

I know I should probably try to spoiler this, but fuck it, it doesn't deserve it. Frankly, I consider this a fair warning that the show should have included, and I'm not one for trigger warnings on the whole.

So if anyone has ever thought to themselves, "You know what Star Trek has been missing for all these years? A graphic torture scene where a man's eyeball is slowly and graphically ripped out of his head in full HD glory!"?

If by some strange chance that has been a thought you've been thinking? You're in luck. Picard delivered in spades in the opening scene of today's episode.

Excuse me, I need to go be sick. Both because of the scene itself and what it means for the franchise.

Ratman_tf

I was in the headspace that Trek was dead since 2009. They're just buttfucking the decomposing corpse at this point.
The notion of an exclusionary and hostile RPG community is a fever dream of zealots who view all social dynamics through a narrow keyhole of structural oppression.
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Omega

Honestly we shouldnt be surprised this has graphic violence and swaring.

Its aking to HBO or Showtime when they picked up Outer Limits. That had alot of graphic violence, swearing, and nudity.

We will know things have gone down that road when we get the nudity going. Wouldnt surprise me at all at this point.

SHARK

Quote from: Ratman_tf;1122685I was in the headspace that Trek was dead since 2009. They're just buttfucking the decomposing corpse at this point.

Greetings!

Well, I was somewhat interested and entertained by The Next Generation. Since that series, I haven't been on board with Star Trek. The whole series or multiples have simply become terribly boring. Toss in increasing levels of SJWism and general stupidity, and yes. It has become a corpse by now. I have no interest in any new series, and even the movies have increasingly been stupid.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK
"It is the Marine Corps that will strip away the façade so easily confused with self. It is the Corps that will offer the pain needed to buy the truth. And at last, each will own the privilege of looking inside himself  to discover what truly resides there. Comfort is an illusion. A false security b

Armchair Gamer

Quote from: Ratman_tf;1122685I was in the headspace that Trek was dead since 2009. They're just buttfucking the decomposing corpse at this point.

   Filmed Trek died with the 20th century. Printed Trek limped on about a decade longer. (I hung on to some of the novels until they completely and retroactively subverted the entire history of the franchise with the last Section 31 book.)

Ratman_tf

Quote from: Armchair Gamer;1122928Filmed Trek died with the 20th century. Printed Trek limped on about a decade longer. (I hung on to some of the novels until they completely and retroactively subverted the entire history of the franchise with the last Section 31 book.)

And what the fuck is up with Section 31? It was originally a bunch of seemingly unremarkable Federation guys, who were part of a secret organization that occasionally poked around in galactic politics to ensure the survival of the Federation. Interesting enough idea.

But now they're every-fuckingwhere, with their own gear and ships and are about as clandestine as a 9 year old with a bullhorn.
The notion of an exclusionary and hostile RPG community is a fever dream of zealots who view all social dynamics through a narrow keyhole of structural oppression.
-Haffrung

Ratman_tf

Interview with Melinda Snodgrass, who wrote "Measure of a Man".

[video=youtube_share;EIVJmagX-b0]https://youtu.be/EIVJmagX-b0[/youtube]
The notion of an exclusionary and hostile RPG community is a fever dream of zealots who view all social dynamics through a narrow keyhole of structural oppression.
-Haffrung

Apparition

I actually really enjoyed the Kelvin Timeline films.  Sure, they weren't your father's Star Trek, but between Voyager, Enterprise, and Nemesis, Star Trek had crawled so far up its own butt that it needed something very different to shake off the cobwebs.  The Kelvin Timeline did a fine job of it, IMO.  As far as I am concerned, Nemesis never happened, and Beyond was the very last of Star Trek.