Star Trek - Space: The Final Frontier

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Quintex96 said:
No that would be wasting perfectly usable stock. The replicator merely teleports the drink you already consumed from your stomach to your cup.
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That is something I could easily see the Ferengi do. At least teleporting whatever food or drink they sold out of someone's stomach, so that person will order seconds.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
Is the first movie propaganda for mind uploading?

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No but it definitely has a bit of a transhumanist tone to it. Then again its only one person who ascends to a higher plane of existence by merging with the Machine God rather than all of humanity, so its a pretty tame example.
 
Even before Decker's ascension, Ilia gets uploaded into a "mechanism." It's debatable whether this is the same consciousness, but it was close enough for Decker in the end, and that's the basic pitch for uploading. Who cares if there's a discontinuity, the machine consciousness is indistinguishable from the biological consciousness. "A difference that makes no difference is no difference" (some guy in Caprica).

It's tame, but it's a more thoughtful take than Star Trek Picard.
 
RomanesEuntDomus said:
>Free Refill

I'm still trying to figure out just how Quark was going to twist that one into actually getting more money out of people.
I assume the underside of the cup has some legalese text on it, that clarifies that you only get a free refill upon ordering something with it.
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Think like a Ferengi. How long does it take a customer to down a drink of that size?
That's how long you have to persuade them to order another drink, buy an hour in the holosuite, or have a spin at the Dabo Wheel.
 
Quintex96 said:
No that would be wasting perfectly usable stock. The replicator merely teleports the drink you already consumed from your stomach to your cup.
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I always wondered about other uses for tech in the Trek universe. There had to be a weight loss clinic or program that would beam food out of you after you ate it.
 
Dark Edea said:
I always wondered about other uses for tech in the Trek universe. There had to be a weight loss clinic or program that would beam food out of you after you ate it.
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I dunno, maybe it's just me, but when someone mentioned beaming food out of someone's stomach, my first thought was some dickish villain of the week, who puts a technobabble-collar on his prisoners, that teleports anything the person tries to eat or drink right out of their mouth until they starve or die of thirst while they roam his paradise-like garden of fresh fruit, delicious fine cuisine, tumbling spring water and fine wines... sounds like something that would happen to O'Brien, now that I think about it.
 
RomanesEuntDomus said:
I dunno, maybe it's just me, but when someone mentioned beaming food out of someone's stomach, my first thought was some dickish villain of the week, who puts a technobabble-collar on his prisoners, that teleports anything the person tries to eat or drink right out of their mouth until they starve or die of thirst while they roam his paradise-like garden of fresh fruit, delicious fine cuisine, tumbling spring water and fine wines... sounds like something that would happen to O'Brien, now that I think about it.
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It would happen to O'Brien and the perpetrator would be O'Brien trying to frame O'Brien so that O'Brien could replace O'Brien to beat Bashir at darts. O'Brien would die in a prison cell.

BAM. I'm a Star Trek writer give me money Rick Berman.
 
Dark Edea said:
It would happen to O'Brien and the perpetrator would be O'Brien trying to frame O'Brien so that O'Brien could replace O'Brien to beat Bashir at darts. O'Brien would die in a prison cell.

BAM. I'm a Star Trek writer give me money Rick Berman.
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I think Rick Berman would request at least one scene of Keiko being her usual self, just to make O'Brien extra miserable.
 
Thanks to the big vudu sale right now, I picked up the complete DS9. It'll be the first time I've rewatched the series as a whole since it originally aired. Looking forward to it.

Normally I go physical for sci-fi shows, but with the price and dvd only nature, I figured what the hell.

Could have sailed the 7 seas, but I believe in paying for good work.
 
Dr. Sexbot said:
The sentiment is good, but you don't think anyone who actually worked on DS9 years ago is gonna see a penny of that, do you?
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Likely no, it's just the principle of it to me. I'll pay for good quality stuff.

Plus it gets the numbers up so we can see more stuff like the What We Left Behind documentary from a few years back. (The few snippets of HD material and the theoretical season 8 writers room were worth their weight in gold.)
 
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Aqua Panda said:
Likely no, it's just the principle of it to me. I'll pay for good quality stuff.

Plus it gets the numbers up so we can see more stuff like the What We Left Behind documentary from a few years back. (The few snippets of HD material and the theoretical season 8 writers room were worth their weight in gold.)
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Also, there is a chance, however small it might be, that prolonged interest in stuff like TNG, DS9 and so on will eventually tip the trajectory of that franchise away from it's mediocre and hatefilled path back to one where we get something that's enjoyable.
 
Aqua Panda said:
Likely no, it's just the principle of it to me. I'll pay for good quality stuff.

Plus it gets the numbers up so we can see more stuff like the What We Left Behind documentary from a few years back. (The few snippets of HD material and the theoretical season 8 writers room were worth their weight in gold.)
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Ain't nothing wrong with that. I've considered throwing a little money at one of those indie Trek projects (Axanar? Is that back on or is Paramount still being hardasses?) for the same reason. May not be exactly my cup of tea but it's a hell of a lot more palatable than the current official shite.
 
Dr. Sexbot said:
(Axanar? Is that back on or is Paramount still being hardasses?)
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Axanar got fucked into the ground pretty much as hard as it possibly could. I hear Renegades is still in production. I imagine Star Trek Continues probably ate shit with the whole KickVic lawsuit, even if that is largely limited to animeland.
 
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