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The man is right.

I remember hearing someone ask Armin at a con if there was any improv or adjustment to stuff on the show and they shook their heads. It always had to be DLP - Dead Letter Perfect he said. Bill Mumy recounts a time he suggested like a slight word change and it became a huge ordeal. (trying to find the vid, can't yet)
 
Flexo said:
The man is right.

I remember hearing someone ask Armin at a con if there was any improv or adjustment to stuff on the show and they shook their heads. It always had to be DLP - Dead Letter Perfect he said. Bill Mumy recounts a time he suggested like a slight word change and it became a huge ordeal. (trying to find the vid, can't yet)
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In fairness, TNG writers were a hell of a lot smarter than JJ Abrams and co. JJ Trek could have been--and probably was--DLP and would still be dumb movies.
 
Flexo said:
I remember hearing someone ask Armin at a con if there was any improv or adjustment to stuff on the show and they shook their heads. It always had to be DLP - Dead Letter Perfect he said.
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I find this a little ironic.
According to Leonard Nimoy, they really didn't have a clear idea of who Spock was when they started TOS. You can see him getting anxious or emotional in the two pilots, despite the lines about his emotional human ancestor (not mother, not yet).
When they were filming Corbomite Maneuver, director Joseph Sergeant said, "Hey, Leonard-- instead of being frightened like everyone else, why don't you show you're fascinated?" And Spock's whole demeanor grew from that.
 
Drag-on Knight 91873 said:
In fairness, TNG writers were a hell of a lot smarter than JJ Abrams and co. JJ Trek could have been--and probably was--DLP and would still be dumb movies.
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Wait, they had a script? ;) (i'm joking)

BScCollateral said:
I find this a little ironic.
According to Leonard Nimoy, they really didn't have a clear idea of who Spock was when they started TOS. You can see him getting anxious or emotional in the two pilots, despite the lines about his emotional human ancestor (not mother, not yet).
When they were filming Corbomite Maneuver, director Joseph Sergeant said, "Hey, Leonard-- instead of being frightened like everyone else, why don't you show you're fascinated?" And Spock's whole demeanor grew from that.
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True. And there are accounts - I think some in the DS9 documentary too - that a solid, good TV production has a kind of two way street between the writers and actors, where they kind of feed off each other and really build a great character from them. Weyoun is certainly one example where the writers just created this one-off villain, but then after Jeffery Combs turned in such a masterful performance they're like, "well damn, we gotta bring him back for more!" and then kept building off what he would give them.
 
Flexo said:
Weyoun is certainly one example where the writers just created this one-off villain, but then after Jeffery Combs turned in such a masterful performance they're like, "well damn, we gotta bring him back for more!"
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Same with Andrew Robinson and Garak. He was never planned to be such a major character, but he put in such a masterful performance that they really had no choice in the matter.
 
Apparently somebody has found one of the original Enterprise models that was lost/stolen a long time ago and it's being sold on Ebay.

Captain April made a video about it:
 
Miller said:
Apparently somebody has found one of the original Enterprise models that was lost/stolen a long time ago and it's being sold on Ebay.

Captain April made a video about it:
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I think I remember some "we find crap in people's garages" show found a Phase II Ent in pieces in some dude's garage
 
If you hold on to any random piece of crap long enough, it will become valuable.

I guess that makes hording sound like a good idea, which I don't think it is.
 
Star Trek: Borg was an interactive movie game that came out in 1996, back when game makers suddenly had access to CD-ROMs and hundreds of megabytes of storage! It takes place shortly before Star Trek: First Contact, when the Borg are sending the lone cube containing the Borg Queen to Sector 001. The premise is that you play as Cadet Qaylan Furlong, whose father was killed 10 years ago during the battle of Wolf -359. Q, apparently done messing with Picard for a while, decides to mess with you, sending you back in time 10 years to try and prevent your father's death and the destruction of his ship.

The gameplay is relatively simple. It's an interactive movie, meaning that the majority of the time you simply watch events unfold, and at certain strategic moments the game will ask you to click on 1 of several hotspots on the screen (some may be hidden!) to represent your choices. You make your choice, and then watch the consequences of your actions. If you know the correct path you can get through the whole thing in about half an hour or so, but if you get stuck it could be several hours while you try and determine the right action to take (or more commonly finding the right hotspot to click on).

I bring it up because someone took the time to AI upscale to 4K the entire game, then put it on a website to play through for free.

Star Trek: Borg Remastered

The website design is really overdone for my taste, but hey I'm not paying for it. Protip: don't use the 'full screen' option in the settings, that just makes the entire website including the LCARS fullscreen. Instead, right-click on the video and select full-screen. You'll have to shrink it back down to properly make choices but in-between you can watch it play out in full HD.

If you want to see the TV sets and costumes from new and unusual angles in their AI-upscaled glory then give this a try.
 
I had read somewhere just about every ship and captain in Starfleet have been fucked with by one higher entity or another. In addition to the (un)usual day to day drudgery one would see with an Enterprise in their encounters.
 
Uranus Pink said:
I had read somewhere just about every ship and captain in Starfleet have been fucked with by one higher entity or another. In addition to the (un)usual day to day drudgery one would see with an Enterprise in their encounters.
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What higher entity fucked with Admiral Bitchaev when she was a captain? They didn't do a good enough job...
 
Seeing fat riker say fuck twice in 50 seconds made my day .......... Paramount plus/ cbs all access sucks dick, but re-watched first season of discovery, and I hate it less than the first watch ..... the captain lorka character is good, the special effects are fun, and its not woke other than what the hell is a mikey spock and the klingorcs ........
 
2 Star Trek "headcanons" I like:

1: The "official canon" as it was in 1975 plus the animated series (if that wasn't "canon").

2: The "official canon" as it was in 2005, minus that animated series (if that was "canon").​

(so the first option is just a TOS world)
 
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Just another black man threatening to beat up women.


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