Star Trek - Space: The Final Frontier

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Preferred Penne said:
I was playing Star Trek Online today and decided to punish myself by playing the Discovery story arc. I created a strong, sexy, 6'2" tranny named Priscilla Jewel Itsmaam. Xe/xir will be the captain of the first all-tranny crew in Starfleet, in command of the USS Yasqueen.

Also, Tilly has a bunch of lines and she's fucking insufferable as always.
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Screenshots please
 
Imagine what an annoying, bitchy hellspawn would result of a Keiko and Wesley union.
 
tigergrinder said:
What were everyone's favorite episodes across the entire franchise?
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I'm hardcore TOS.

The Doomsday Machine. Full stop, period, get off the train if you haven't watched it.
Trouble With Tribbles is the one everyone likes.
The Devil In The Dark: Why does nobody talk about this one?
A Taste of Armageddon: This is the closest thing to being anti-war you will ever get out of me.
 
L50LasPak said:
I'm hardcore TOS.

The Doomsday Machine. Full stop, period, get off the train if you haven't watched it.
Trouble With Tribbles is the one everyone likes.
The Devil In The Dark: Why does nobody talk about this one?
A Taste of Armageddon: This is the closest thing to being anti-war you will ever get out of me.
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DUDE DOOMSDAY MACHINE

I watched the HD, restored version of that episode. That was the coolest damn design. I still want to know how exactly they made it. Looks like a lot of paper mache with clear tape, watered-down acrylic paint, and lights inside it. But it's a stunning effect!
 
The OG TOS effects need more love, Doomsday Machine is the proof.
 
L50LasPak said:
I'm hardcore TOS.

The Doomsday Machine. Full stop, period, get off the train if you haven't watched it.
Trouble With Tribbles is the one everyone likes.
The Devil In The Dark: Why does nobody talk about this one?
A Taste of Armageddon: This is the closest thing to being anti-war you will ever get out of me.
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Devil in the Dark almost made my list. A very good episode.
 
I forgot to mention, according to Norman Spinrad the Doomsday Machine was a wnidsock dipped in cement. He was pisssed because he wanted something better. I dunno, you can't argue with results.
 
tigergrinder said:
What were everyone's favorite episodes across the entire franchise?
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A few of these are guilty pleasures, but most are ones that I think are strong representations of the series at their best.

TOS: Balance of Terror

I'm honestly not a huge fan of TOS, but I think this is the standout best episode of the series and one of the few that holds up well despite the now extremely dated costuming and effects work. Has an unusually tight and well-paced script for a TOS episode.

TNG: Who Watches the Watchers, Data's Day, Darmok, Lower Decks

Some of these are probably hot takes as the best episodes of TNG, but I think they're ones that really show off what TNG did well. Character-driven conflicts that try to present a moral case for both sides, careful writing, developed characters and long-term rewarding continuity for the whole cast, interesting speculative fiction concepts, maybe a little preachy and sanctimonious at times but generally presenting an optimistic view of humanity and the future.

DS9: Duet, Civil Defense, The Way of the Warrior, Our Man Bashir, Sons and Daughters, The Magnificent Ferengi, In the Pale Moonlight, Take Me Out to the Holosuite

DS9 is far and away my favorite Trek series. It was mentioned a few pages ago, but DS9 really did an impressive job of deconstructing Trek (particularly early-TNG-era Trek when it was at its most pompous and self-aggrandizing) in a way that clearly showed love and respect for the source material and genuinely improved the setting. And while all of Trek did moral dilemma episodes, I don't think any other series handled them as well as Duet or In the Pale Moonlight for presenting an actual character-driven moral conflict where the perspective of all parties is presented in a neutral and sympathetic manner, and the resolution is left up to the viewer to decide. I listed a lot of episodes here, and it was honestly hard not to add more. About half the ones I picked - Our Man Bashir, The Magnificent Ferengi and Take Me Out to the Holosuite - are guilty pleasures from late in the show's run that really only work because of the excellent continuity and careful development of characters and character relationships over the run.

VOY: Message in a Bottle, Living Witness

I'm still not entirely sure if VOY was hard to watch because of bad casting or bad writing or a combination of the two. The only characters that were memorable for me were the Doctor, Tuvok and Seven, and even for them it was rare they got an episode where they could really shine. Generally the less the rest of the cast aside from those three were shown on-screen, the better.
 
tigergrinder said:
DUDE DOOMSDAY MACHINE

I watched the HD, restored version of that episode. That was the coolest damn design. I still want to know how exactly they made it. Looks like a lot of paper mache with clear tape, watered-down acrylic paint, and lights inside it. But it's a stunning effect!
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I think it started as a wind sock or something.

But yeah TAS it's definitely worth a watch. The budget is basically non-existent but it's really the TOS gang, and when it's good it's really fucking good. Fortunately the TOS formula lends itself to stock footage of talking and walking.
 
White Devil said:
Even when playing with friends, I couldn't find STO fun. Everything about it combines to make a shitty, obtuse system of systems.
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Is STO fun at all? I legit have zero experience with any of these MMO games.

I was going to try it out on PS4 (it's free, after all) until I saw STD and Picard as the cover image. That was sure a horrible design choice on their part.
 
Every time I get to a Jake episode in DS9 I go in expecting not a lot but end up really enjoying them. It seems like they give him a bunch of shoddy b-stories that don't do much for him, but whenever he's the focus of an episode it tends to be executed really well. This one was ...Nor the Battle to the Strong.
 
basil marceaux.DOTCOM said:
Is STO fun at all? I legit have zero experience with any of these MMO games.

I was going to try it out on PS4 (it's free, after all) until I saw STD and Picard as the cover image. That was sure a horrible design choice on their part.
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STO has "episodes" so you can do quests and shit from STD and Picard, there was even a promo to get a free uniform before Picard came out just by logging in. Usually that kind of stuff is cash shop purchases.

That being said, I found STO's actual game mechanics to be less than pre-Jump to Light Speed Star Wars Galaxies, which is really saying something about game design. It's just my personal opinion though, I know a few people who got a Lifetime sub to that game and don't regret it. I personally wish it was less obtuse, ground "combat" is fucking horrible, and ship combat isn't much better. Ship combat is basically World of Warcraft but you're a starship instead of an Orc.
 
The Discovery and Picard stuff was forced onto STO as the studio was mostly only interested doing their own thing with canon Trek post Voyager. Victory is Life story arc with the DS9 gang back together is infinitely more entertaining and respectful then sitting thru Secret Hideout's Discovery or Picard. For what's worth the Disco and Picard ships aren't bad looking and once thoroughly purged of their previous ST:D and ST:P crews are popular in STO.
 
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