Star Trek - Space: The Final Frontier

[Never Scored]

ENT is solid at times, but ignore the very, very last episode.

I watched through it 2-3 years ago, and I was surprised by how much I liked Enterprise, especially the last season where every episode was a two-parter. It's too bad they just pissed all over it at the end there.

 

[Curzon Dax-sama]

I watched through it 2-3 years ago, and I was surprised by how much I liked Enterprise, especially the last season where every episode was a two-parter. It's too bad they just pissed all over it at the end there.

The Augments fucking everyone's shit up is my personal favorite.

 

[Commodore 128]

Alright, sounds like I should download Enterprise then.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

Alright, sounds like I should download Enterprise then.

Physical media is king. One of my favorite purchases ever was the complete DS9 DVD series.

 

[Curzon Dax-sama]

Physical media is king. One of my favorite purchases ever was the complete DS9 DVD series.

I am incomprehensibly jelly right now...

 

[Commodore 128]

Physical media is king. One of my favorite purchases ever was the complete DS9 DVD series.

To be honest I hardly ever watch anything these days aside from car/electronics repair videos on youtube. I ripped all my DVD's and donated them to a friend a long time ago because of the space they take up. The only physical media I still keep around is my CD collection because those get regular use, everything else lives on the NAS.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

To be honest I hardly ever watch anything these days aside from car/electronics repair videos on youtube. I ripped all my DVD's and donated them to a friend a long time ago because of the space they take up. The only physical media I still keep around is my CD collection because those get regular use, everything else lives on the NAS.

You fool! A hard drive failure can erase your media library. As long as you store your physical stuff correctly, it will last unless there is a catastrophic accident. No techbro can take that away from you, either.

 

[Commodore 128]

My friends and I use retroshare or syncthing to keep our stuff mirrored, that way if one of us loses everything we can get it back.

 

[Mr. Racewar1488]

You fool! A hard drive failure can erase your media library. As long as you store your physical stuff correctly, it will last unless there is a catastrophic accident. No techbro can take that away from you, either.

With a proper RAID set up you don't have to worry about losing data. Discs on the other hand can start suffer disc rot within twenty years. Many early DVDs are already becoming unreadable and with the switch away from physical media companies are making cheaper and cheaper discs which will be unreadable in another twenty years. Blu-rays and DVDs are fine as a back up but a good NAS with four or more drive bays with quality HDDs and back up HDDs so you can replace any bad drives every five to ten years will ensure you media stays backed up until you die. And make sure your NAS isn't connected to the internet at all, that's a dumb idea unless you're running a media server for you and your friends and family.

 

[Captain Syrup]

To be honest I hardly ever watch anything these days aside from car/electronics repair videos on youtube. I ripped all my DVD's and donated them to a friend a long time ago because of the space they take up. The only physical media I still keep around is my CD collection because those get regular use, everything else lives on the NAS.

In hindsight thank God I didn’t blow rent money on DVD box sets, because even my graveyard of old vidya is a logistical nightmare. You can’t just chuck the plastic and slide the discs into a binder because the box and instruction manual are "worth something.” Now I’m basically a museum curator for a stack of GameCube manuals.

I watched through it 2-3 years ago, and I was surprised by how much I liked Enterprise, especially the last season where every episode was a two-parter. It's too bad they just pissed all over it at the end there.

I bet Dominic Keating was sitting there, holding his little cuppa tea on set, ecstatic when the writers finally tossed him a crumb, like “Here you go champ" and then bam, show gets cancelled, credits roll, back to being a meme character.

 

[AnOminous]

Bashir and O’Brien basically treated the holosuites like a very immersive co-op video game system eventually, doing the Alamo or the Battle of Britain the way you’d do a LASO run of Halo 2 with your buddy.

I like how Barclay used the holodeck to goon to his fellow crew, because you know if you actually gave such a thing to a group of people as profoundly autistic as Starfleet that's exactly what would happen.

"We aren't like you fucking 21st century CHUDS, we have EVOLVED sensibilities! Now excuse me while me and my number 1 blow off some steam on the Orgy-beer-drug-anal planet so we don't go insane and shoot up the ship."

I never knew picardjaks were a thing the world needed, but now I do.

The arcane and mystic art of the E-Stop button has tragically been lost to the sands of time by the enlightened 23rd century.

Somehow, seatbelts are also a lost technology.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

I like how Barclay used the holodeck to goon to his fellow crew, because you know if you actually gave such a thing to a group of people as profoundly autistic as Starfleet that's exactly what would happen.

This was honestly the closest thing to self-awareness that TNG ever got. In DS9, there's a whole episode where Garak mocks Bashir for his secret agent program.

 

[Captain Syrup]

Somehow, seatbelts are also a lost technology.

No mystery there, it's so when the Romulans tag your hull and every console detonates like a Fourth of July, you can leap up real quick and fly away to safety.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

Somehow, seatbelts are also a lost technology.

No mystery there, it's so when the Romulans tag your hull and every console detonates like a Fourth of July, you can leap up real quick and fly away to safety.

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It's obviously because having seat belts would make blocking an enormous pain in the ass. Realistically they should be strapped in all the time and have stations around the ship to strap in during combat/turbulence, but it's easier for everyone to do their actual jobs without it. It's a suspension of disbelief I'm willing to allow.

 

[PyramidBox]

Anybody here have recommendations for TNG era books that are just like an episode of the show in book form? Everybody seems to recommend Peter David's stuff, but I really could not get into his writing. Tried Imzadi and it just felt kind of "off," I don't know why. Synopses from other books from different authors usually come off as like "Data must reckon with a traitor from his past in order to save the galaxy from the Tablosians" or whatever and I can't get into that either.

 

[Curzon Dax-sama]

I like how Barclay used the holodeck to goon to his fellow crew, because you know if you actually gave such a thing to a group of people as profoundly autistic as Starfleet that's exactly what would happen.

And that's happening on the FLAGSHIP of Starfleet, where people are extra vetted for. You don't want to know what kind of unhinged crazy shit people cook up in the holodecks on the Melbourne or Cairo.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Anybody here have recommendations for TNG era books that are just like an episode of the show in book form? Everybody seems to recommend Peter David's stuff, but I really could not get into his writing. Tried Imzadi and it just felt kind of "off," I don't know why. Synopses from other books from different authors usually come off as like "Data must reckon with a traitor from his past in order to save the galaxy from the Tablosians" or whatever and I can't get into that either.

the Starfleet Corps of Engineers books were light fun

 

[Ultraman Orb Dark]

In my opinion Matt Smith is a malfunctioning muppet. He's miscast in dogshit projects so the cope around him became “he was let down by the writing.”

It's time to fight the Daleks on The Muppet Show tonight!

"Carbon Creek" is worth it. Also, you get to see a very detailed outline of a very naked Jolene Blalock.

What I want to know is how Granny T'Pol explained this to her granddaughter.

"Earth was a primitive world populated by carnivorous imbeciles who had yet to invent warp travel or velcro. Your Uncle Mestral somehow found life there appealing."

I watched through it 2-3 years ago, and I was surprised by how much I liked Enterprise, especially the last season where every episode was a two-parter. It's too bad they just pissed all over it at the end there.

I think the two-parter thing was done to save money on sets.

In DS9, there's a whole episode where Garak mocks Bashir for his secret agent program.

To be fair, Garak had experience in espionage, so he had a reason to point out the inaccuracies in Bashir's program.

Then again, O'Brien was a war veteran, yet he had no problem with a holographic recreation of the Battle of the Alamo while in the middle of a real-life war.

And that's happening on the FLAGSHIP of Starfleet, where people are extra vetted for. You don't want to know what kind of unhinged crazy shit people cook up in the holodecks on the Melbourne or Cairo.

In the first season of Lower Decks alone, one Ensign created a killer holographic Starfleet badge voiced by Kenneth from 30 Rock, another Ensign created a holographic copy of his crew to prepare for an interview with the Captain, and that program was hijacked by another Ensign who used it to blow off some steam by murdering the holo-crew.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

To be fair, Garak had experience in espionage, so he had a reason to point out the inaccuracies in Bashir's program.

Then again, O'Brien was a war veteran, yet he had no problem with a holographic recreation of the Battle of the Alamo while in the middle of a real-life war.

The difference is that Garak's intention was to fuck with Bashir. O'Brien and Bashir both had annihilation fantasies from unresolved trauma.

 

[Ultraman Orb Dark]

The difference is that Garak's intention was to fuck with Bashir. O'Brien and Bashir both had annihilation fantasies from unresolved trauma.

Picard after the most traumatic experience of his life:

O'Brien and Bashir processing their latest trauma in the Holosuites every Tuesday: