mattingly Posted September 29, 2020 Report Share Posted September 29, 2020 12 hours ago, archer said: Legend has it that the formula has been hidden in a vault at the Sun Trust Bank in downtown Atlanta since 1925. Maybe in the Star Trek timeline, the bank was taken out by a nuke. Or maybe, just maybe, that's how Colonel Green rose in the first place! A daring bank robbery gave him the secret formula for Coca-Cola and he used that to vault himself into power. My God, it's a story worthy of Pinky and the Brain! They have to keep it locked up so Coca-Cola doesn't take over the world. After all, since Pepsi was once one of the world's greatest naval powers, Coca-Cola would certainly take over the missile defense system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt the Bruins Posted September 29, 2020 Report Share Posted September 29, 2020 I can see people in the 24th century confusing the Coca-Cola classic formula with the original formula of the drink. "Can you believe people by the billions in the 20th and 21st centuries drank some cocaine-based patent medicine?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragitsu Posted October 8, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2020 On 8/23/2020 at 10:29 AM, massey said: If you had samurai lizard people kidnapping the brunette security chief, nobody would have a problem with it. But somebody decides to cast black actors and a blonde lady... Brunettes unite ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragitsu Posted October 10, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2020 This episode isn't all bad: Picard's "Mmmm" saves it from the trash heap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted October 10, 2020 Report Share Posted October 10, 2020 ok....blech ok....blech Ragitsu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted October 10, 2020 Report Share Posted October 10, 2020 Dr Crusher didn't get a lot of good episodes unfortunately. Although, the one where eventually it's just her and Picard exploring the universe alone was decent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted October 10, 2020 Report Share Posted October 10, 2020 13 minutes ago, Starlord said: Dr Crusher didn't get a lot of good episodes unfortunately. Although, the one where eventually it's just her and Picard exploring the universe alone was decent. I liked the one where they were escaping prisoners on a planet and gradually learned to read each other's minds enough that Crusher learned Picard didn't like her breakfast choices. Dammit, we've got replicators. Just let me pick my own breakfast foods! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 11, 2020 Report Share Posted October 11, 2020 The one where Wesley accidentally trapped her in her own private universe was pretty good too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 11, 2020 Report Share Posted October 11, 2020 33 minutes ago, Pariah said: The one where Wesley accidentally trapped her in her own private universe was pretty good too. How can you be sure it was an accident? He is a kid after all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragitsu Posted October 11, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2020 3 hours ago, Pariah said: The one where Wesley accidentally trapped her in her own private universe was pretty good too. I agree with someone else that said the "twist" should have been revealed closer to the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted April 6, 2022 Report Share Posted April 6, 2022 Star Trek: The Next Generation Cast Will Reunite In Picard Season 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted April 6, 2022 Report Share Posted April 6, 2022 1 hour ago, Starlord said: Star Trek: The Next Generation Cast Will Reunite In Picard Season 3 Let he who objects cast the first Stone.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. MID-Nite Posted April 6, 2022 Report Share Posted April 6, 2022 1 hour ago, archer said: Let he who objects cast the first Stone.... Well...that's one way to get a season three out of this show. Ragitsu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 7, 2022 Report Share Posted April 7, 2022 This would be nice except Picard died at the end of season one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted April 7, 2022 Report Share Posted April 7, 2022 ...and so should have the show. YMMV, naturally. Bazza 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted April 7, 2022 Report Share Posted April 7, 2022 Looking past the new characters, the plots, the themes -- all of which disappoint me -- I think what disappoints me the most in the new Picard series is Patrick Stewart's performance. This has nothing to do with the effects of age, which I've seen him briefly transcend in the series, so I know he can. It's not even that past events wounded him, it's not like that hadn't happened before. It's that he doesn't behave like Picard, he behaves like Stewart. I've seen multiple interviews with Patrick Stewart, and his personal gentleness, his sentimentality, his gestures and body language, are what he's using in this role now. There's rarely a sign of Jean-Luc Picard's dignity, self-discipline, determination, passion. Whatever he's gone through in his life, the core of a man doesn't change that radically between his middle and late years. Ragitsu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragitsu Posted April 7, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2022 Plain and simple, I just don't like the tone/attitude of new "Star Trek". tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted April 7, 2022 Report Share Posted April 7, 2022 29 minutes ago, Ragitsu said: Plain and simple, I just don't like the tone/attitude of new "Star Trek". Where Picard is concerned, I am absolutely in agreement. I finished the first season largely in fulfilment of the Sunk Cost fallacy. I have pretty much no interest in watching seasons two or three, regardless of what cameo appearances may be in play. Discovery was pretty hard to watch for the first season, although the performances of Jason Isaacs and Michele Yeoh made me see it through to the end. Season two was better, though the heavy reliance on Spock's presence wasn't my favorite. Seasons three and four have felt a lot more like Star Trek to me. I've seen a lot of people online complain about how woke it is, but the original series was largely the same way (first interracial kiss on TV, remember?). Strange New Worlds has a lot of potential, I think. I really liked Anson Mount as Captain Pike. And I have really enjoyed the Paramount / Nickelodeon collaboration Star Trek: Prodigy. It had the right level of optimism and wonder to feel like it belongs in the pantheon, and the animation is gorgeous. More to the point, I've enjoyed watching the series with my kids, and my son (8) is on a trajectory to become a proper Trekkie. So I guess it's generally been positive for me, and Picard is easy enough to avoid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted April 7, 2022 Report Share Posted April 7, 2022 8 minutes ago, Pariah said: And I have really annoyed the Paramount / Nickelodeon collaboration Star Trek: Prodigy. It had the right level of optimism and wonder to feel like it belongs in the pantheon, and the animation is gorgeous. More to the point, I've enjoyed watching the series with my kids, and my son (8) is on a trajectory to become a proper Trekkie. I assume you mean enjoyed rather than annoyed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted April 7, 2022 Report Share Posted April 7, 2022 2 minutes ago, BoloOfEarth said: I assume you mean enjoyed rather than annoyed. You are correct, sir. Fixed. I hate autocorrect. Autocorrect can go straight to he'll. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted April 8, 2022 Report Share Posted April 8, 2022 3 hours ago, Pariah said: I hate autocorrect. Autocorrect can go straight to he'll. I call it auto-incorrect. Seems more truthful. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted April 9, 2022 Report Share Posted April 9, 2022 I found most of TNG rather forgettable. With a few, such as "Code of Honor" and "Sub Rosa," that I wish I could forget. But I liked "Devil's Due" very much. Even after repeated meetings with Q, and presumably knowledge of all the super-aliens from TOS, Picard remains skeptical -- and cracks the fraud. Also good as an exploration of just what could be possible if some clever person put together the various technologies established in the setting. I would like to have seen "Ardra" return in another episode. I forget the name and I'm too lazy to look it up, but the episode in which an accident leaves the primitive vulcanoid villagers thinking Picard is God. So many times in TOS, the Prime Directive was brought up only so Kirk could explain why it didn't apply. Nice to see Picard take it seriously -- and show how far he'd go, and risk personally, to fix the damage and uphold the principle. Dean Shomshak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted April 9, 2022 Report Share Posted April 9, 2022 On 8/16/2020 at 8:56 PM, Dr. MID-Nite said: Season One: The Neutral Zone- The Romulans brought back as major antagonist and a pre DS9 Marc Alaimo. I just recently watched the scene reintroducing the Romulans. Brief and near the end of the episode, but the impact of how it was done was IMO everything a Trek fan could have hoped for. (And I wish the franchise had kept that musical theme for the Romulans.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted April 9, 2022 Report Share Posted April 9, 2022 If we're talking about Romulans, let's not forget this guy: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 9, 2022 Report Share Posted April 9, 2022 44 minutes ago, Pariah said: If we're talking about Romulans, let's not forget this guy: Video unavailable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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