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dejected_warp_core,

“O’brien in Agony”

Is just a picture of Miles with Keiko

dejected_warp_core,

First off: Thanks, I hate it. Now that’s possibly in my head forever.

Secondly, you’re probably right.

dejected_warp_core, (edited )

Literally everything about the Ba’ku-Son’a conflict falls apart at the slightest scrutiny.

I know some of the other Trek movies have this problem, but this goes especially for Insurrection: it felt like a mediocre TNG TV episode stretched out way too long. Much like a Son’a skin treatment. Also, there was just something about it that felt like a re-hash of an actual TNG episode, but I can’t pin down which one.

I will contend that Generations takes the cake as the worst TNG movie. Obviously, the goal of this film was to get Kirk and Picard on the screen at the same time. Everything else in this film is a contrivance to make this happen, and it’s not even good science fiction to get us there. To add grevious insult to injury, we get tragically little screen time between Malcom McDowell and Patrick Stewart and their poorly crafted motivations in the film’s “climax”. This casting choice should have surpassed Wrath of Kahn by a light year for scenery chewing awesomeness, but is instead overshadowed by Capt. Kirk barely accomplishing anything instead.

Also, in a moment of “let’s double-down on fan-service”, Picard Season 3 has a nod to Generations. There’s a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment when the gang is on the Daystrom Institute space station. A sealed room is marked as containing the remains of Capt. Kirk, probably of interest since he went MIA only to turn up decades later in Picard’s logs as having returned from the Nexus.

dejected_warp_core,

The quarterback, when he became toast.

dejected_warp_core,

Don’t know where that comes from, but I think it has to do with the institutionalized authoritative power that comes with the job. Both are positions that can be abused, and can negatively impact people’s lives.

On the other hand, my past landlords were nowhere near as helpful about noise complaints, as the police. So there’s that.

dejected_warp_core,

This guy gets a gig where he plays an instrument. That only has one note. That you don’t even have to play in time, or with any particular sense of rhythm. For man-period induced deathmatches and Vulcan speed-dating ceremonies.

OP’s deduction is quite logical.

dejected_warp_core, (edited )

Thank you! I never saw this one before.

This sketch has everything: Patrick Stewart, Peak 1990’s SNL cast, licensed music, garbage special effects, celebrity impressions, a surprise cameo, Chris Farley flubbing his lines, and Sulu.

(To be fair I’d probably flub my lines too if I had to share the stage with Patrick Stewart on less than a week to rehearse)

dejected_warp_core,

I bet the pizza was served cold by the time it got there.

dejected_warp_core,

Uh, where’s craft services?

What, food? Naw, this cast eats the scenery. But there’s a grill in the back alley if you wanna cook something.

dejected_warp_core,

McCoy is a stray that wandered in from outside, but seems to be friendly most of the time.

Dr. T’Ana?

dejected_warp_core,

I feel like, no matter how that plays out, everyone loses.

dejected_warp_core, (edited )

I like this list but we really need to stop with the senseless violence against warp cores.

dejected_warp_core,

I’ll help out. Here you go: askamathematician.com/…/q-how-does-instantaneous-…

I love it when sci-fi teaches us about real stuff. The problem is that when you mix instant and classical (non-instant) communication channels, you get situations where information time-travels, and the receiver gets information from the future. This breaks causality (present based on future events), and so nature rightfully abhors it.

The closest we’ve come to instant communication is the use of entangled particles, but we can’t make practical use of the phenomenon. Touch one such particle, and it’s pair instantly changes to the opposite state. The catch is that you can’t know when to observe the particle, nor can you know what the original state was, via the same mechanism. So you still need to use normal photons moving at slow-ass light-speed to communicate that meta-information, thereby undoing any attempt to exploit it.

dejected_warp_core,

I have the same problem. Sorry to hear that.

BTW, for anyone following this thread, go watch Cells at Work.

dejected_warp_core, (edited )

genetically modified himself to gain superpowers,

To be fair, said superpowers weren’t the kind of thing that would make him a viable supersoldier or unstoppable terrorist like Kahn.

Admiral: About this Stamets guy, can we review the footage of his illegal genetic modification powers?

:: watches video log of Stamets taking Discovery through shroom-space ::

Admiral: Ow, fuck, that looks incredibly painful. These mods are only good for this one task? And he can only do it with that machine, from that room, on that specific ship? And he’s okay with doing this to himself every time?! Yeah, we’re good.

dejected_warp_core,

It’s a part of a long-standing internet tradition. I first knew the format as the Conversatron (1999). Posting in-character like this might go back as far as early IRC or Usenet.

Real question is: is there anywhere on Mastadon for this kind of stuff?

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    dejected_warp_core,

    :: slow clap ::

    This is brilliant. Thank you for posting another good laugh.

    dejected_warp_core,

    Worf: You have the heart of a warrior!

    Amos: Really? I see assholes and just want to punch them. So I do.

    dejected_warp_core,

    Now you have me wondering if the holodeck programs are free for all, or if private simulations are possible. The social ramifications of either are profound.

    dejected_warp_core,

    We need a “Star Wars Despecialized Editon” of Enterprise where the only thing they change is the theme song.

    If it helps at all, this was originally supposed to be U2’s “Beautiful Day”, but they couldn’t get the rights to use it. It’s still an abrupt shift in sytle and tone, but it fits the intro really well.

    dejected_warp_core,

    ::awkward pause:: … because you’re killing it. ::fingerguns::

    dejected_warp_core, (edited )

    Player: Yikes. I think I have a perk or something to move quickly through the muck…

    DM: Okay, but first… the difficult terrain would like a word.

    dejected_warp_core,

    Now that you mention it, a 3D printed roller with the necessary pattern could be used to “print” that pattern on fabric.

    dejected_warp_core,

    It’s also worth mentioning that 17 million scovilles (17,000,000 SHU) is way off the top of the chart by an order of magnitude: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoville_scale

    Gag or not, this may not be for human consumption.

    dejected_warp_core,

    Remember kids, PNG is like TNG but for screencaps. Friends don’t let friends use JPEG.

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