Star Trek - Space: The Final Frontier

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JamesFargo said:
I read somewhere that Sisko is the most realistic captain, according to Trekkies who served in the military. I'd be interested to know if that's true.
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Considering Navy captains aren't usually doubling as diplomats... Yea Sisko is realistic to a point.
 
Flexo said:
Actually it's also mentioned in the episode with data's daughter.
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Again, he said it's something he's never mastered, not something he cannot do at all. I mean, considering he had a slip of the tongue and said "Includling" with an extra L sound it's shown that Data isn't nearly as perfect as we're lead to believe.
Or Brent Spiner is just bad at remembering to not use contractions. Either way, makes for fun thinking material when you're bored.
 
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White Devil said:
Considering Navy captains aren't usually doubling as diplomats... Yea Sisko is realistic to a point.
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Well not anymore, but they had that role when communication wasnt instant. Long distances in space make that more normal again, the is the highest ranking person in a field that every space fareing aliens civilisation understands and respects.
 
Stoneheart said:
Well not anymore, but they had that role when communication wasnt instant. Long distances in space make that more normal again, the is the highest ranking person in a field that every space fareing aliens civilisation understands and respects.
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Ok, Starfleet captains are realistic if we're comparing them to 1700s age of sail naval captains.
 
Exceptionally Exceptional said:
Again, he said it's something he's never mastered, not something he cannot do at all. I mean, considering he had a slip of the tongue and said "Includling" with an extra L sound it's shown that Data isn't nearly as perfect as we're lead to believe.
Or Brent Spiner is just bad at remembering to not use contractions. Either way, makes for fun thinking material when you're bored.
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At one convention I remember Armin & Terry being asked if they could improvise and apparently their performances always had to be "dead letter perfect." Exactly as it was written, no deviation. (Time stamped below.)

No idea if TNG was like that but it would be funny if Brent was banned from fixing script mistakes the writers made because of DLP.
 
Flexo said:
At one convention I remember Armin & Terry being asked if they could improvise and apparently their performances always had to be "dead letter perfect."
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Bill Mumy tells a story where he added a, "Well..." to one of his lines, and it caused a huge log-jam. The atmosphere on set was a wee bit fascist.
 
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Since this thread has been mentioning the original series I decided to go back and watch the remasters on amazon. Watched "The Changeling" the other day. Had to laugh at the scene where Nomad erases Uhura's memory and the captain and Spock ask it why it did that.
KIRK: Sickbay. What did you do to her?
NOMAD: That unit is defective. Its thinking is chaotic. Absorbing it unsettled me.
SPOCK: That unit is a woman.
NOMAD: A mass of conflicting impulses.
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Lol certainly couldn't get away with saying that these days.
 
Flexo said:
At one convention I remember Armin & Terry being asked if they could improvise and apparently their performances always had to be "dead letter perfect." Exactly as it was written, no deviation. (Time stamped below.)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0mDHIRNWy-Q:1437
No idea if TNG was like that but it would be funny if Brent was banned from fixing script mistakes the writers made because of DLP.
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Turns out it's not in the script: https://www.st-minutiae.com/resources/scripts/114.txt

Clown College said:
Since this thread has been mentioning the original series I decided to go back and watch the remasters on amazon. Watched "The Changeling" the other day. Had to laugh at the scene where Nomad erases Uhura's memory and the captain and Spock ask it why it did that.
KIRK: Sickbay. What did you do to her?
NOMAD: That unit is defective. Its thinking is chaotic. Absorbing it unsettled me.
SPOCK: That unit is a woman.
NOMAD: A mass of conflicting impulses.
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Lol certainly couldn't get away with saying that these days.
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Uhura's entire brain was completely erased in a throwaway scene that doesn't seem to upset anyone and was never referenced again. That's the magic of TOS.
 
Calandrino said:
Uhura's entire brain was completely erased in a throwaway scene that doesn't seem to upset anyone and was never referenced again. That's the magic of TOS.
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I try to rationalize that away as Nomad didn't actually erase everything. She seems to still remember her first language Swahili.

The other day they showed that TNG episode about Geordi's mother. That episode pissed me off then and still does today.

Geordi's mother's ship has only recently disappeared. Geordi believes she's still alive and then all the other character's act like he's being irrational and crazy for it.

WTF, it's only been a few days. There's no wreckage. We don't even write people off that fast in real life, so why would they do this in the same show where the Enterprise often gets disappeared into anomalies, vortexes, warp bubbles, and the like? The same show where the Bozeman disappeared for decades and returned safely.
 
Travoltron said:
I try to rationalize that away as Nomad didn't actually erase everything. She seems to still remember her first language Swahili.

The other day they showed that TNG episode about Geordi's mother. That episode pissed me off then and still does today.

Geordi's mother's ship has only recently disappeared. Geordi believes she's still alive and then all the other character's act like he's being irrational and crazy for it.

WTF, it's only been a few days. There's no wreckage. We don't even write people off that fast in real life, so why would they do this in the same show where the Enterprise often gets disappeared into anomalies, vortexes, warp bubbles, and the like? The same show where the Bozeman disappeared for decades and returned safely.
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The same show where Geordi was declared & believed dead then showed up at his own funeral.
 
Flexo said:
The same show where Geordi was declared & believed dead then showed up at his own funeral.
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Star Trek does that a lot, though.

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It is a bummer that DS9 old man dad likes me more than Sisko "I think you are a changeling!!!!" you guys need to do better.

Even genocide Sisko would love me compared to you.
 
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