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Stofsk wrote:I kinda wish they'd have spent more money fleshing out the battle in SoA. There are a few pacing issues, like where one scene the Defiant is fighting for its life and things are desperate and action is heating up and then they cut to Dukat having a drink of kanar, shooting the shit with Weyoun in Sisko's office. I mean that stuff is good character shit, but it should have been relegated to an earlier scene. Once battle starts I think it's a mistake to make those kind of scene shifts. The tone of the office scene was somewhat off-kilter. But more than that, I just wanted to see more of the battle. More tactics or shit, you know not just more 'splosions and space pewpews but Sisko giving orders and coordinating with the rest of the Fleet.

I'm inclined to suspect that was a deliberate contrast - showing that Our Heroes are desperately fighting (and some of their off-screen bros are off-screen dying :cryingfedflag: ), meanwhile the other guys are content to sit back and drink and laugh in a comfortable office while their soldiers are getting shot at.

I do agree that it's jarring, and may not have had quite the payoff the writers were going for. I think that sort of contrast can work, but I agree that they didn't quite make it on this one.

RogueIce wrote:But yeah, it did break up the pacing some and probably made the battle less than it could have been. Still, you got to see some GCSes ruin the Dom/Cardie's shit so it's not all bad.

That was a nice effects shot, but it still surprises me just how much hype it gets when - to my memory, at least - it was just a single pass of a single Galor-class ship being tag-teamed by two Galaxies. It's nice, but I would have liked to see something like a Galaxy trading face punches with one of the Dominion battlecruisers, or maybe a big photon torpedo spread wiping out a few attack bugs at once (i.e. payback for Odyssey).

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that fanart is great

warp factor fuck you

WatchedProdigal Daughter and Emperor's New Cloak today.

Not the best pair of episodes. Memory Alpha states even the production crew through PD was terrible and it was apparently an incredibly rushed job. I think there is the germ of a good episode there. With a little more time and thought put into it i think it could have been a good character episode for Ezri dealing with more symbiot issues and exploring the way joined trill related to their hosts family.

Instead what we get is an unfocused mess.

New Cloak's concept famously contradicts the first shot of the mirror universe we got in DS9; of decloaking alliance vessels. But other than that is bland and inoffensive. They were going for a send up of the mirror universe concept via ferengi but that's mostly unfunny. Was anyone really crying for mirror ezri and brunt?

I am the last trekkie standing.

I also borrowed a trio of TNG novels from a friend. Reunion. Do Comets Dream? and Tooth and Claw.

Started on Reunion. Where Picard's old Stargazer crew is all gathering on The E-D and everybody is fanboying out over them to a ridicolous. Quite a lot of Picard worship as well. Apparently all the Stargazer's ground breaking historic mission is require reading at the academy not just the Picard Manuover.

I mean it makes sense that they don't hand command of the big E to a total chump but man, they're making a way bigger fuss than the show ever did.

But published fan-fiction. What can you do?

The Academy seems to have an awful lot of required reading! Starfleet academy's graduation requirements:

* Read 10 Star Trek novels
* 1000 hours of seat time in front of the television. Watching Star Trek.
* Read all works of Shakespeare and listen to all compositions of Bach
* Know all historical info. At least until the year 2000.
* oh and a few things about how to do your work on a starship

working the ship is what non-coms are for. or would be if they had them.

secretly o'brien is running the whole show behind the scenes in starfleet

When I did the character bio for my engineer character in Online I described her as having attained her degree in warp engineering for an Australian university and being headhunted to Starfleet Academy.

NOT EVERYONE'S FIRST CHOICE

So you've probably all seen this already

Icy alien heat smugglers hunt Picard for his valuable temperature. Geordi & Data stand up to a bully who throws them both in a dumpster.

so i was just listening to the perfect song from the perfect movie

aka the punk on bus song from the one with the whales


and at the end as you all know spock nerve pinches the punk bringing silence and applause



you know that actually kinda bothers me. for all the people on the bus know spock just seriously injured or killed the punk; he grabbed his neck and he passed out

and yet they are happy to have their silence


i know this is 1986 but would picard approve? this is a generally happy movie with a great message and yet at the same time it applauds KO'ing someone cuz his music is too loud


BTW Nicholas Meyer is a saint in the Church of Picard. ST2 rox. ST4 rox. ST6 rox. also praise harve bennett and leonard nimoy for their great work on these great films

and what if the punk's stop was like a block away and now he's passed out and missed it

(which also means they'd have their silence in just a minute more anyway....)



i should write some fanfiction exploring the character of the punk

The guy who was asked to turn it down and refused?

Fuck that guy.

Yeah, he didn't just refuse.... he actually cranked it up and gave Kirk the finger!

Like I said, fuck him.

Indeed. Those guilty of noise violations should be given the death penalty, I say.

No appeals.

Clearly death should be that only penalty like on that planet that wanted to execute wesely crusher until Picard got him out of it.


Why did he do that again? Seems like the perfect scenario. Get rid of the annoying kid, and swoop in and score with his mom while she's depressed.

Darksi4190 wrote:Clearly death should be that only penalty like on that planet that wanted to execute wesely crusher until Picard got him out of it.


Why did he do that again? Seems like the perfect scenario. Get rid of the annoying kid, and swoop in and score with his mom while she's depressed.

It was season 1, he didn't know how bad things were going to get.

JLP could have had the doc any time he wanted, but he was a consumate professional.

He almost let his guard down in The Naked Now... it was close.

Just rewatched that the other day.

I dig that the first two seasons were quite ordinary (particularly against the rest of the series), but there's a certain something about them I quite like.
Probably just nostalgia.

I find that even watching S1 with the terrible fashions and colours, it feels new and futuristic... In the same way that the future scenes in BTTF II still do. You dig?

It's optimistic, and optimism ages better than cynicism, I think.

i watched the sfdebris video for "the void" voyager today. i've never seen most of voyager. i think i'd actually enjoy watching it

but anyway this episode reminded me of a TAS episode

Reunion continues. With a several page explanation of the holodeck. And its forcefield treadmills and illusions to make you think you can be much further apart than you really are. Oddly I remember a similar explanation in a shatnerverse book. Then someone sabotages the holodeck and tries to kill a dude.

Also you can tell this was written pre-DS9; O'Brien is said to really dislike holodecks.

Oh and Guinan really disapproves of actual alcohol in this book. Which seems weird.

Crazedwraith wrote:Reunion continues. With a several page explanation of the holodeck. And its forcefield treadmills and illusions to make you think you can be much further apart than you really are. Oddly I remember a similar explanation in a shatnerverse book. Then someone sabotages the holodeck and tries to kill a dude.

Also you can tell this was written pre-DS9; O'Brien is said to really dislike holodecks.

Oh and Guinan really disapproves of actual alcohol in this book. Which seems weird.

I remember at least one episode where she refused to serve a guy real alcohol instead of the synth stuff, but idk if that was a personal attitude or lounge rules.

I thought she served the real stuff in 10 forward, but only on special occasions.

Crew members are allowed one standard drink per day after the 28th day of the mission

I don't know