Star Trek - Space: The Final Frontier

[XYZpdq Jr.]

AND she can solder with nails on
Uhura really was the total package

 

[Curzon Dax-sama]

goo-bers.

Goo-ners. Because gooning is what Odo did when virtually everything and everyone relied on him not screwing the female Changeling.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

yeah now that I think about it we really need a good slur for the founders, ds9 dropped "spoonhead"
goobacks
goo-xx
chameloid
shapeshifter

hell there's lots of trek races without slurs
I think Vulcans had knife-ears like elves like everything Vulcan?

Shapeshitters
Googobblers
Goobacks is really good, I second it
@basically gayer fez
DIFFFEREEEENT! DIFFFEREEENNNNT!

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

okay looking more for a minute I'm not seeing it, but I recall in the 00s it was a meme for a hot minute that a show, I thought it was soap, especially General Hospital, was technically connected to like, dozens if not a hundred plus shows if you got AKSHUALLY on aside jokes that would imply they were the same continuity

 

[Captain Syrup]

okay looking more for a minute I'm not seeing it, but I recall in the 00s it was a meme for a hot minute that a show, I thought it was soap, especially General Hospital, was technically connected to like, dozens if not a hundred plus shows if you got AKSHUALLY on aside jokes that would imply they were the same continuity

Where is the soap opera general thread, @Null?

 

[Mr. Racewar1488]

okay looking more for a minute I'm not seeing it, but I recall in the 00s it was a meme for a hot minute that a show, I thought it was soap, especially General Hospital, was technically connected to like, dozens if not a hundred plus shows if you got AKSHUALLY on aside jokes that would imply they were the same continuity

You're thinking of Tommy Westphall from St. Elsewhere.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Where is the soap opera general thread, @Null?

I've heard that the reason radio often uses Herb Alpert's Rise for fill music is a secret handshake about the wacky time Luke and Laura first got together

 

[Ultraman Orb Dark]

Tom accidentally breaks the ship's computer trying to make all the General Hospital Extended Universe at once on the holodeck

Imagine them making a hologram of one of the doctors and calling that their new EMH mobile emitter and everything.

It would have been funnier if Voyager was stranded on the far side of the Gamma quadrant instead of what we got.

"The Wadi are an intelligent race, and we need to protect them, even if it means losing our way home."

Janeway finds the Great Link in the first few episodes, jettisons the warp core into it to obliterate the planet, and then they get stranded that way

Shaxs from Lower Decks nods in approval.

Unpopular opinion: Chakotay was the better starship commander.

The problem was that he barely got to take command or suggest his own ideas. For a former terrorist, he was shockingly obedient to Janeway. It's almost like he had a crush on her--oh...

What, it’s like the prequel trilogy, but instead of clones there's an army of identical looking guys named Sonny?

My mom used to watch that show religiously, and that's one of the two things I remember, that there's a guy named Sonny.

This also may be the only time I get a chance to bring this up, but does anyone else think Sonny looks like 90s Steven Seagal?

iirc if you count all possible tie-ins and crossovers General Hospital makes Kamen Rider Decade look like a slacker

What? Just how many crossovers does a show about hospital workers have?

 

[Uncle Buck]

Off the top of my head, Takei had a recurring role in GH in the 80s, and Tuvok and Damar had spots throughout the 2000/10s. Constance Towers - Helena Cassadine - was also on DS9, as was the woman who played Skye Quartermaine.

 

[40 Year Old Boomer]

Screw the Ocampa, I wanna go home.

I'd say lost opportunity to have the chorus be "this is the worst trek, I wanna go home", but we have JJ/modern Drek.

Also, @Ultraman Orb Dark please use the "insert thumbnail" feature when uploading images.

 

[Fatsuit Shinji]

Correct. It's honestly a big reason why the show stunk.

I would have told the Caretaker to fuck himself and used the array to get back. Prime Directive, baby. Not my clowns, not my circus. I do not care about the Kazon, the Ocampa, or the Caretaker's bullshit. My first duty is to my crew. Janeway was a bad captain, full stop. "Nooo, I can't let this race I don't know about get access to advanced alien technology that the more advanced alien did nothing to protect!

What makes this worse is the Federation had time delayed, and proximity settings on their fuses for their photon & quantum torpedos and tri-cobalt bombs. Of which Voyager had the capability to emplaced the needed torpedos and/or tri-cobalt bombs in and around the Caretaker Array. Set the timer and head back through the wormhole, and the Array goes boom.

 

[WonderWino]

You have no idea, like, for real: Janeway playing whack-a-mole with the goo people and their slaves could have been an interesting story.

My headcanon for this is that the stress drives janeway batshit and by the end of the series so fucks off to her readyroom, pushes a button under the desk and the wall slides open, revealing a wall of severed weyoun heads on spikes that she sits and watches governor style after every weeks runin with the weyoun of the week, which would naturally have a whole kenny thing going on where he gets killed a different way every episode

Plus she would of course have a weyoun skull coffee mug

> Be me.
> Bad bitch boss captain stranded in the Gamma quandrant.
> Need to eliminate founders.
> Go travel back into time.
> Visit each of their planets and bury into the core an antimatter bomb.
> Go back to present.
> Tell Founder to fuck off and leave us alone.
> Hit button, blow up one planet with 30% of their goo-backs on it.
> Ask them if they want to continue.
> They agree to leave us alone and stand down from the war.
> I beam down a bit of Neelix's cheese as a parting gift. Let them deal with a bit of germ warfare for a few decades.
> Send Harry Kim on mission to replace Ketrechel White with coffee.
> Kim dies (again) but now I have cloning facilities at my disposal.
> Jem'hadar army also now mine.
It's good to be the queen.

The funny thing is the whole going back in time to bury a planet destroying bomb was a central plot point in that whole war of the prophets ds9 trilogy. Except it was done to blow up bajor in the present

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Just how many crossovers does a show about hospital workers have

I was mixing it up with St Elsewhere, a different hospital soap

 

[Sayer of the N-Word]

The problem with the Founders is that the transformation animation was so expensive. The people on the Delta Flyers podcast said that Odo's transformations would use up huge chunks of an episode's budget, and more than two would force the producers to take money from episodes that hadn't been filmed yet. You can justify having such an expensive race if they're almost never seen, like Species 8472, or if it's a main cast member who only does it infrequently. Voyager couldn't have supported that strictly for a race of recurring enemies, especially not if they would have a lot of screen time.

Also having two shows about fighting the Founders airing at the same time would have been tricky. The writers for both would have to coordinate background material and major plot points, and the producers would have to coordinate air dates on different TV channels.

 

[Ultraman Orb Dark]

What makes this worse is the Federation had time delayed, and proximity settings on their fuses for their photon & quantum torpedos and tri-cobalt bombs. Of which Voyager had the capability to emplaced the needed torpedos and/or tri-cobalt bombs in and around the Caretaker Array. Set the timer and head back through the wormhole, and the Array goes boom.

SF Debris pointed this out in his reviews, but if Janeway really wanted to save the Ocampa and get her crew home, all she had to do was stay behind, send Voyager back to the Alpha Quadrant, then blow up the array herself.

I was mixing it up with St Elsewhere, a different hospital soap

Ah, okay.

The problem with the Founders is that the transformation animation was so expensive. The people on the Delta Flyers podcast said that Odo's transformations would use up huge chunks of an episode's budget, and more than two would force the producers to take money from episodes that hadn't been filmed yet. You can justify having such an expensive race if they're almost never seen, like Species 8472, or if it's a main cast member who only does it infrequently. Voyager couldn't have supported that strictly for a race of recurring enemies, especially not if they would have a lot of screen time.

That explains why they abandoned the arc with the Caretaker's wife.

Also having two shows about fighting the Founders airing at the same time would have been tricky. The writers for both would have to coordinate background material and major plot points, and the producers would have to coordinate air dates on different TV channels.

True, though it is honestly funny to imagine Voyager's crew coming home to warn Starfleet about these dangerous aliens, only to be told they already know.

 

[Curzon Dax-sama]

My headcanon for this is that the stress drives janeway batshit and by the end of the series so fucks off to her readyroom, pushes a button under the desk and the wall slides open, revealing a wall of severed weyoun heads on spikes that she sits and watches governor style after every weeks runin with the weyoun of the week, which would naturally have a whole kenny thing going on where he gets killed a different way every episode

Plus she would of course have a weyoun skull coffee mug

"I could be the last Weyoun-"
"Don't you get histrionic with me, I've killed like 30 of you back in the Gamma quadrant!"

 

[The Nothingness]

yeah now that I think about it we really need a good slur for the founders, ds9 dropped "spoonhead"
goobacks
goo-xx
chameloid
shapeshifter

hell there's lots of trek races without slurs
I think Vulcans had knife-ears like elves like everything Vulcan?

Taking inspiration from the slur Q called Worf, I will include goobrain.

 

[Ultraman Orb Dark]

yeah now that I think about it we really need a good slur for the founders, ds9 dropped "spoonhead"
goobacks
goo-xx
chameloid
shapeshifter

hell there's lots of trek races without slurs
I think Vulcans had knife-ears like elves like everything Vulcan?

There was an episode of Prodigy where Dal gave a hologram of Odo the nickname "jellyman". Maybe something like that?

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

There was an episode of Prodigy where Dal gave a hologram of Odo the nickname "jellyman". Maybe something like that?

Kinda reminds me of the bantz between Captain Future's sidekicks

 

[Ultraman Orb Dark]

Kinda reminds me of the bantz between Captain Future's sidekicks

He actually had an entire holographic crew for the Kobayashi Maru simulation, and gave them all nicknames.

Odo: Jellyman
Uhura: Earpiece
Scotty: Mustache
Spock: Pointy Ears
Dr. Crusher: Big Red