Star Trek - Space: The Final Frontier

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Rabo 2: Electric Boogaloo said:
Phlox has been a stand out throughout the show. He's a neat species, a really good doctor with great bedside manners and I do like how they differentiate him from the other Starfleet doctors with this whole "alternative" medicine angle with all the alien animal secretions.

Like you said he's great at delivering expositions which is something Trek doctors wind up doing a whole lot of. You really need to be good at it because the audience really needs to believe the technomedicinebable you're going on about or they just won't be invested into the episode.
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It helps that John Billingsley is a fantastic actor.
 
XYZpdq Jr. said:
I chuckled at the thumbnail and the first few lines but ain't no fucking way this joke is funny for seventeen minutes
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This channel is too agenda-driven, it stopped being funny a long time ago, now it reminds me of Jordan Peterson arguing with Soviet posters he plastered his house with.
 
Captain Syrup said:
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This channel is too agenda-driven, it stopped being funny a long time ago, now it reminds me of Jordan Peterson arguing with Soviet posters he plastered his house with.
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seriously I love bashing commies and EXTRA love laughing at DPRK
like, I've willingly watched stuff like "Always Working Together For The People"
but yeah holy shit this dude
 
XYZpdq Jr. said:
seriously I love bashing commies and EXTRA love laughing at DPRK
like, I've willingly watched stuff like "Always Working Together For The People"
but yeah holy shit this dude
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I must have watched that a dozen times over the years. Best Korea is a fucking fantasy land, a time capsule. It's also surprisingly comfy in weird ways.
 
Curzon Dax-sama said:
I must have watched that a dozen times over the years. Best Korea is a fucking fantasy land, a time capsule. It's also surprisingly comfy in weird ways.
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Watching their more recent music is a fucking trip.

Here's a song about one of Kim Jong un's rockets. They even include pictures of him smiling and looking at things, as all great Nork propaganda should. And before you comment on the hotness of the Best Korean band, remember that if you fuck them you'll be Eskimo Brothers with Kim Jong Un.



Here's one about studying and not in a "Don't be a fool, stay in school!" Mr. T way, in a "You must be smart for the Motherland and our superior people." kind of way. Norks believe they are a superior race, it's a whole weird rabbit hole.

Why didn't we ever get an enemy like the Norks in Star Trek? I guess the Romulans were sort of like them but I want a dictator like Kim Jong Un in Star Trek.
 
Mr. Racewar1488 said:
Why didn't we ever get an enemy like the Norks in Star Trek? I guess the Romulans were sort of like them but I want a dictator like Kim Jong Un in Star Trek.
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The Cardassians were also like the Norks, especially in the "We are a superior race"-department. But it's true - we never got a wacky space Hermit Kingdom with a stereotypical tinpot dictator and catchy music like "No Motherland Without You"...
 
Meriasek said:
It's always a treat when you put on some older TV show and BOOM "Brad Dourif playing an insane guy" episode out of nowhere.
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There was this ecosystem of "those guys" who ricocheted between every show. Keith Szarabajka, Mark Sheppard, Michael Ironside and of course Jeff Combs and Brad Dourif. I sometimes think sci fi died when those guys just aged out.

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Curzon Dax-sama said:
The Cardassians were also like the Norks, especially in the "We are a superior race"-department. But it's true - we never got a wacky space Hermit Kingdom with a stereotypical tinpot dictator and catchy music like "No Motherland Without You"...
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I def got DPRK vibes off Cardie Prime, but really it's probably like that sperg in Sonic Blast where he was sorta CWC-ish but it was more that he was just a general "lol sonic fans" and CWC is just SO DAMN THAT, so when you do "stalinist dictatorships" it's easy to look at pretty much the only dudes still rocking the style
 
Captain Syrup said:
There was this ecosystem of "those guys" who ricocheted between every show. Keith Szarabajka, Mark Sheppard, Michael Ironside and of course Jeff Combs and Brad Dourif. I sometimes think sci fi died when those guys just aged out.

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It's not that some actors aged out, it's Hollywood moving away from the traditional 20 to 26 episode seasons to 8 to 12 episodes. With fewer episodes, you need fewer actors, which means character actors don't get work. Then you have total productions in Hollywood, where most character actors live, dropping 40% and sound stages being so empty they're begging Twitch streamers to rent them. It's so bad for lesser known actors that they're doing things like voicing Skyrim mods. The old Hollywood system is fucked.
 
The country I would compare Cardassia to would be late Saddam era Iraq. There is a backwards, totalitarian bureaucracy, an aggressive but weak (compared to the Federation) military which can barely hold things together in petty colonial wars, and a scarily competent secret police. The population are nationalistic but indifferent to the exact form of government, racist against foreigners and the aliens whom they rule, deeply corrupt, and completely cynical. The sleazy and arrogant officers have counterparts throughout Africa and Latin America.
 
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XYZpdq Jr. said:
I def got DPRK vibes off Cardie Prime, but really it's probably like that sperg in Sonic Blast where he was sorta CWC-ish but it was more that he was just a general "lol sonic fans" and CWC is just SO DAMN THAT, so when you do "stalinist dictatorships" it's easy to look at pretty much the only dudes still rocking the style
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Mr. Racewar1488 said:
Watching their more recent music is a fucking trip.
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You should listen to their radio and TV broadcasts once in a while. There are a few nerds who stream it and it's a fucking trip. One of my favorite things ever from North Korea was this propaganda video about how Americans supposedly live:


"This is how Americans live today: drinking coffee made from snow, and living in tents, and buying guns to kill each other. Especially children. Some people complain about the guns."
 
Hey Johnny Bravo said:
You should listen to their radio and TV broadcasts once in a while. There are a few nerds who stream it and it's a fucking trip. One of my favorite things ever from North Korea was this propaganda video about how Americans supposedly live:


"This is how Americans live today: drinking coffee made from snow, and living in tents, and buying guns to kill each other. Especially children. Some people complain about the guns."
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tbh that's still not really any worse than irl in DPRK
 
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