Friends of Garak edition. Discuss why Garak is best black operative. Hard mode: no Garashir shipping, he uses sex as a tool and nothing more
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>>212586407 (OP)Garak is probably the only reason why Cardassia wasn't bodied by the Klingons and Romulans. RIP Romulan Ambassador.
>>212586456Weyoun is the Dominion Garak, he gets a pass. Garak isn't afraid to do his own wetwork, but Weyoun won't.
>>212586492erm, no. They are nothing alike. Nothing at all.
threadly reminder that shatner thinks geezer trekkers have no life
threadly reminder that seething about "AI slop" means you hate version 0 of the holodeck, and are therefore not a real trek fan at all
>>212586598This is what Jellico took away from.us.
jellico is a gay man
cheers xxx
>>212586738Troi could sense the sexual tension
>>212586598it is telling the only writer consistently mentioned on trek is shakespeare
>>212587939Have you read it in the original Klingon?
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its a little too quiet today morning
>>212589035the tranny was mass reported and banned, we can assume until sunday or he resets his router.
Deanna, I appreciate a certain formality on the bridge. I'd appreciate it if you didn't dress like a gutterslut from now on.
>>212589667how about instead go to actual space or go flying? Shat did it at 93.
>>212589400>reg kinoBased
>>212590176Mental illness is cured by the 24th century.
>>212590176>the lank, thinning hair>the scar on the neck>sleeves to cover scars of various past suicide attempts>fag merch everywhere, letting you know it's 100% of his personalityAnd of course, only TNG merch visible.
all y'all said voyager was bad, but ive been really enjoying the show so far. keeps the vision and format of what star trek should be really well imho. i'm only two season in tho, when does it get bad??
>>212590682I like Voyager and I think a lot of other people here do too.
>>212590682>when does it get badPeriodically when it's a chakotay episode
>>212589400>the chutewhat did they do with the corpses?
>>212590682it never gets bad but it nevet gets better either.
>>212590724Of course the faggot who leaves his trip on would love the TNG you get from Wish, the Temu Lost in Space, the Battlestar Galactica who got the yips on game day. They say you are what you eat, and your awful taste must be from all the unwashed dicks you've gargled in your sad pathetic life.
>>212591599>>212592807Not true, I think it gets better multiple times. S2 is better than S1, S3 is an improvement, and S4 sets the tone for the rest of the show. It levels off there but the quality is decently high at that point, just inconsistent.
>>212592848I put the trip back on specifically because the Nu Trek trannies were blaming their spamming on me, revealing that for whatever reason, I make them seethe. I'm sorry if it also bothers "normal posters" like yourself, assuming you're not one of them. But if that is the case, you can filter my tripcode in like 2 clicks on 4chanX. Dropdown menu beside my post > Filter > Tripcode
>>212592861To me, S3 is the worst season. The departure of Michael Piller is deeply felt, as well as the loss of the Kazon and Vidiians as villains - whether you're a fan of them or not, S3 has no recurring enemy/race which makes it feel aimless and lacking purpose.
>>212593057I absolutely hated the Kazon. I think they're Wish.com Klingons but even more retarded and way less of a credible threat. The whole storyline with Chakotay's baby was laughable, hated everything about it. The Vidiians on the other hand were super cool and they should've never stopped using them.
But S3 just starts to have more memorable episodes.
>Flashback>Meld>The Chute>Q kino>Future's End>leads up to Seven in the finaleThere are some stinkers in there for sure but all in all, it's more consistently good than S2. I could see how you would disagree if you're a Kazon enjoyer.
>>212591089Tholian levels are easier than the klingon schmups or god forbid the romulan levels
>>212590682As a voyager hater I will say that while it is still Trek, it is comparatively weaker to that of TNG and DS9. A lot of my problems stem from the characters. Chakotay, Tuvok, Bโellana, Harry, Tom, theyโve all been done better on other shows. Theyโre bland characters with a cast you can tell is not having as much fun as the other shows. Neelix is not a funny comic relief character, heโs a grating and annoying comic relief character shoehorned into scenes he doesnโt belong in. (I like the doctor and 7)
Voyager also wastes its premise in my opinion. They skirt around a lot of the issues they would actually have to face if they were in that situation and the show ends up just being another planet of the week type deal. I could forgive a lot of Voyagers transgressions though if it werenโt so hit or miss in its writing.
>>212593196The Kazon aren't Klingons, though. They're more comparable to street gangs. I don't think they're the greatest race ever but I do like Initiations, the one where Nog (as a Kazon) explains to Chakotay why they're the way they are.
>>212593196Sorry, Meld's a season 2 episode, isn't it? always get that wrong.
>race of religious fanatics genocide themselves
you absolutely love to see it.
>>212593057S3 is also when the writers start to forget that there's 150 people on the ship who aren't just the ones in the opening credits
>>212593352>kazon are not klingonThat's how I'd describe them, those "not klingon" klingons
>>212593477why did VOY feel comfortable making this ultra realistic of American blacks, wth the same hair and everything?
Just six days until Trek returns with an all new season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
>>212593477I'd describe them as fucking idiots
I want to drink at Quarks
>>212596330Probably the best cliffhanger in TV history
>>2125963558 yr old me and my mom were convinced Riker was going to take over the captains chair moving forward
>>212596355and following it up with a fantastic conclusion
>>212596441"Family" after best of both worlds part 2 is the comfiest trek episode IMO
>Garak and mention of Garashir in the OP
>transexual posting
>complaining about tripfags
Jesus H Christ if you missed me so much you should have just came to /m/ and got me.
>>212596355>>212596399That's because it was a true cliffhanger. Contract negotiations with Patrick Stewart were ongoing. There was a chance he would not return.
>>212596732<3 we missed u
>>212596746I did not know that when I was 8 anon
>Conservatives have been harping for years about TV bias, the open flouting of the FCC rules, but Carr is the first to take it seriously. He intends to make CBS his test case as the Skydance-Paramount deal seeks his agencyโs blessing.
https://nypost.com/2025/07/11/media/why-fcc-chair-will-continue-to-throttle-paramount-skydance-merger-despite-trump-settlement/
>>212586668vulcan girls are so hot bros
>>212586668looks like t'lyn crossed with ma'jel
>>212588440one of the reasons to watch star trek is to see fabulous babes in sci-fi settings
>>212597469and also Marina Sirtis, apparently
>>212590310but not autism, apparently
>>212597469this is why you buy the blu ray set
>>212586407 (OP)Because he has the ability to effectively operate and manipulate despite literally everyone knowing he's a spy, he's just that good at it
>>212598165Doesn't hurt that he's surrounded by fellow degenerates. Even if they're technically the "good guys"
>>212598165>bajorans dont like him>feds dont like himgarak would have been kicked off the station immediately. failed premise. failed character.
>>212598392what are these reflections doing
>>212598893No because Sisko likes him
>>212590682Tuvix deserved what he got for being the worst parts of the two most insufferable characters
>>212598392this is...wrong
>>212597073Death to Paramount!
>>212598893And yet he wasn't kicked off despite everyone hating him, like I said he's just that good at playing the game
>>212599358nobody hated him
So recently rewatched season one TNG and it was a lot better than I remember. Just a few odd episodes but very comfy overall.
>>212599473holy shit bashirfaggot is gerard way
>>212599910If a season doesn't have a single S tier episode, I can't really rate it
>>212599910early eps are great especially for the lighting and music
>>212597551"high functioning" autism and aspergers are not illnesses, they are enhancements. the next step in evolution, the current apes are just not ready to accept an individual who is skilled. its not like barclay was fucking rainman or simple jack, he was just better than most his peers, but less skill and experience in social interactions, which could obviously stem from his holodeck addiction and the dissociation with reality. fleeing from it if you will. you see the buzzphrase "emotional intelligence" thrown around a lot recently, which is just a brainlet cope when they cant understand higher beings like my main man broccoli.
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>>212599817all bajorans hated all cardis at the begining of the series and there was no reason for them to accomodate garak. also garak never fooled anyone or picked up any information that people didnt want him to have because he was so bad at being a spy literally everyone knew he was a spy.
>garak, come measure me for a suit while so i can betray the klingons. ds9 fucking sucks.
of course all of the series have similar problems but only ds9 sucks because only ds9 takes itself seriously
>>212600094Code of Honor is an S tier episode
>>212600101>downplaying the importance of what people call "emotional intelligence"That term might be stupid but until there is some machine interface that unites us all like the Borg, we'll continue to rely on social interactions and interpersonal interpretation which is a science all its own.
>>212598392hey algorythm-andy, your containment boards are this way: >>>/trash/ >>>/g/
>>212600094How was this not S tier?
>>212600212>but until there is some machine interface that unites us all like the Borg,Bite your tongue.
>>212600234also >>>/piss/
>>212600190>>212600250Code of Honor isn't S tier, it's N tier.
Is SNW tonight or tomorrow? I ain't trying to start beef, I just like the show.
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>>212600284It's not N tier, it's I tier
>>212600212its not a science, its actually not even a skill, its a ruleset given by the society and elite you live in. following rules doesnt make you smart, just obedient.
>>212599910I dig the s1 atmosphere. Things feel weirder and more alien then in later seasons
>>212595855How does that make them distinct from klingons?
>>212600503it's literally just pattern recognition but applied to humans. autistics are subhuman so they struggle with it.
>>212600133He was an excellent spy, he had access to everyone on the station and even gained their trust and friendship despite everyone knowing he was a spy
>>212596330What's your favorite "fire" line in trek
>>212600503>>212600608It's pattern recognition coupled with a desire to put other people at ease, an acknowledgment that if you treat others decently they are more likely to treat you the same way, and that a person's comfort affects their general productivity.
A lot of autists can recognize patterns -- they just have a complete disregard for the comfort of others.
>>212600702you're only half right. if you recognize the pattern you can use it to your advantage to navigate situations to your own comfort and advantage. It's not about a "disregard" for other people's comfort. autistics can't even do it to help themselves. they just can't do it period. they're retarded.
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>>212600250Based, people shit on encounter at far point to, but I think it's great. What's a groppler btw, and how do I become one
>>212600783Yeah, maybe you're right. I guess the ones who can recognize it and just can't relate are sociopaths more than autists. Then again, you can definitely be both, and a lot of people's autism renders them sociopathic.
>>212600133being an obvious spy is ezmode spying, they all see him being obvious all the time and then assume when they dont see him he must not be spying
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>>212586407 (OP)I noticed that with season 4, Kira had a tighter jumpsuit. just a little bit.
>>212600101Sperg cope. You're actually a tard, not a superhuman.
>>212600892how could anyone NOT notice?
>Kim beds ANOTHER girl
How does he do it!
>>212600284>Jerry curl geordiOutside of the furniture stains it wouldnt have mattered. From redshirt to Lt Commander, Geordi was my self insert.
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>>212599237i'm sure they're shivering
>>212600865Plus being a spy is more than just stealing secrets, it's about influence, gaining it and using it which garak succeeded in
>>212601064not pictured: paramount shooting themselves in the head while ignoring gnats
>>212600522was honestly surprised at how much I enjoyed it. Felt less formulaic than the other seasons, not that the rest of TNG is bad by any means. Also really liked the Picard does a period piece on the holodeck episodes which I used to hate as a kid.
>>212600892she has the squarest shoulders i've ever seen on an actress, yet hers are so narrow. every scene look at her shoulders compared to even male actors. i can't think of another actress that never shows a downward angle in her shoulder posture. it always stuck out to me
god damned pluto kikes wont let me watch startrek without an account
>>212601124Inability to appreciate season 1 is a filter for the rest of the series.
>>212601158she bony everywhere but the ass
>>212600338>>212600660>>212600865not a single attempt to explain why the bajorans didnt kick his spoonhead off the station on day 1.
>>212601266it may come to that. requiring accounts is the first step to making it a pay service.
>>212601275evidence of his invisible connections at work
>>212586407 (OP)https://youtu.be/ClP8n6asn3w?si=TCKOYqn9U_mnGk9S
!!!FACT!!!
>>212601158Gotta be honest in terms of coom material ds9 is seriously lacking, Kira just doesn't do it for me and jadzia was just ok, they really don't get a good one till ezri but doesn't compare to 7 of 9 or t'pol or Deanna
>>212601318its getting harder to make fake accounts these days. back in the day you just made an email address and it worked, these days if you don't give them a phone number and access to your gps you can't even register. tuta.com, its a free email that will let you sign up for stuff but won't randomly disappear after 2 days because you didn't upload your fingerprints
>>2126012751) he was a damn good tailor and they had no other options
2) it was well known he was banished from Cardassia for ignoring orders
3) He had been on the station for quite some time before the Cardies withdrew based on his comments throughout the series
4) The Federation was running DS9 not the Bajorans so they had final say, and almost assuredly would not have rejected Garak claiming asylum
5) With the wormhole and all the ongoing shenanigans with rebuilding one single Cardassian who by all accounts gets along with everyone publicly is low priority
>>212601275What this anon says
>>212601335 he used his connections within the Federation to secure his spot on the station, maybe even connections within the bajorian resistance/government itself
>>212601469OOPS, wrong vid.....
https://youtu.be/aiEGcTuMgow?si=H1N_ZRJQ3mGb9YKe
!!!FACT!!!
>>212601476i can't see troi as sexy. she has some sexy scenes, i get it. i liked early-season crusher when her hair was redder. but even she wasn't sexy, not compared to what trek's definition of sexy was already set at. seven seems like the first obvious example of adding some sex-appeal to a main character since the original mini-dresses
>>212601688You get what I mean though, ds9 was seriously lacking in that department, Deanna is not everyone's cup of tea myself included but there was still something there with the cleavage and Beverly too, but ds9 just has really nothing going on in that regard
>>212601586the only one who said he was a good tailor was garak
bajorans dont give a fuck if he cant go back to cardassia
dukat and dozens of cardis were on the station for years and they werent allowed to stay
the feds are in charge to keep the cardis from coming back. bajor has final say over everything, like when they let quark sell weapons. and garak never claimed asylum, would be an acceptable explanation otherwise
bajorans would kill random cardis for no reason (Duet)
i will give you credit for trying. it was a solid effort, better than what the ds9 writers did
>>212601927You talk like a fag and your shit's all retarded
I grew up with Voyager
I want to go back and watch it
It is going to actually suck?
Everytime I tthink about it I understand Janeway is just a raging alcoholic, Tuvok is essentially an incel, Harry is a repressed faggot, Tom has mommy issues, Torres is the only normal person, Doctor was just a stand in for 'we need something funny to happen and point out the retardation' and Chakotay, I've no idea what the fuck he was
No mention of Neelix since he was based and Naomi is his actual daughter
kira is the hottest best girl in all of star trek so no i actually don't get what you mean
>>212600087Fuck you.
Also my Nick Mullen holoprogram that I use exclusively for pegging went AWOL.
>>212601861like everything else in ds9 the best sexiness came from tieriary characters and guests.
>>212601861>ds9you can tell they were bad at this because every dax ep is falls in love, oh no. but sex! and it even drags into when they pair her with worf
>but there was still something there with the cleavageshe's boobs out, no one is complaining about that part
Garak staying on the station is whatever. what i never understood is how in the everloving fuck Sisko allowed Jem'Hadar on the station. and not just Weyoun's couple body guards, they were just allowed free rein to walk around as if they were people and not sentient killing machines.
>>212601964youll love it even more because you get it.
except tom has daddy issues
>>212602069im not a kira fan but i love the zero fitness skinny aesthetic from the 90s
>>212602112I always thought it was the opposite with Tom
Like yeah, he had issues with his dad but I thought it was that he blamed it on his mom not being there to stand up for him?
He always came across as just desperately needing any woman's approval
>BF runs /m/
>VF runs /toy/
>I'm still here in /trek/
When did you realize you're traveling at Warp 0?
>>212601476Dabo girls
Holosuite girls
that one quark webm
>>212602191tom never had any underlying issues. he was a dude given a roster of issues to pretend to have. his arc with b'elanna was much better than his shit writing for what he was doing before voyager. that ep where they're made workers, yet he's still instinctively driven toward her is great character development
>>212600683>fire at willnemesis
>>2126021932017 when nutrek started.
>>212602018Oh I agree, ds9 is my favourite trek, basically the only one I really like, just lacking in that one department
>>212602246Yeah but they were just background, not actual regular characters
>>212602285I thought the only reason they put them together was because they were trying to do the odd couple thing with Dax/Worf but it fell apart since Tom is a bitch who can't stand up for himself
>>212602337I don't think I like a single thing about Nemesis, definitely my least favorite Trek movie.
>>212602438>>212602285tom paris is the cool guy that breaks rules and thats only possible on VOY specifically because he is invulnerable to any nagging woman like the captain or his wife.
>>212602438he was supposed to get kes but she was fired for being a junkie
>>212602532I find it's the opposite - he specifically craves the nagging and controlling women. Hence why he warmed up so much to Janeway as opposed to anyone else except Torres
>>212602566I could see that but only if it was Neelix/Torres. Mostly since Torres was the only one who didn't seem like a complete cunt to him
>>212602620janeway is the one craving mommy stuff, thats why she adopts neelix and tom and always shits on kim because he's the worst son.
>>212602677It's funny since they openly admitted to trying to make Janeway into a action chick like Buffy or Xena but had to balance it out with the fact she's a woman so she must be motherly
But I mean mommy issues as in craves female authority, care and love. Janeway just switches from 'I love you to' to 'fuck you go get me some beer/coffee' depending on her mood
>>212602505i liked the part where data died because picard selfishly played hero again.
data could have beamed over there, ripped shinzons head off and beamed back in under 10 seconds
>>212595631They already had klingons
>>212601124It's a matter of taste. I like seasons 1-3 were things feel very experimental, some people like 4-7 where characters are more developed and the setting is more refined. Do you like early X bands experimental stuff or do you like their later more cohesive albums. Do you like the throw shit at the wall NES library or do you like SNES's refined but samey 2D library? I usually favor the experimental stuff.
>>212601158She looks too much like my mom for me to be into her, same with Ro for that matter. Maybe my mom is bajoran
>>212602505Insurrection may as well not exist, Nemesis played straight out is basically a long B+ TNG episode, hits all the right things. It just has a stupid ending and a pointless buggy chase scene.
I remember watching the one with Tom Hardy when I was like 12
I had no fucking clue he was meant to be a clone of Picard until it was said
I honestly thought he was just meant to be an Albino Romulan and was considered special at first
>>212602950>Nemesis is a b+ tng adventureYou're a generous grader lol.
>>212603109easily could replace the spock 2 parter
>>212602950Outside of the retarded finale insurrection is a great TNG mystery ep.
>>212603233>any tng movie over any tng 2 parterIllogical
Tng 2 parters are better than any tng movie anon.
>>212603352First Contact gave me a drunk Deanna and she passed out
At the point I realized drunk women make easy prey
Never had that in the tv shows
>>212603030But he was bald anon. Picard is bald. That's how you were supposed to know
>>212602505I liked nemesis the most of the TNG films. Data dying although not a great scene in hindsight still moved me the first time I saw it.
>>212602950Insurrection to me is more like a TNG two parter than any of the other movies. Nemesis isn't exactly like Nu Trek but it's more like Abrams Trek or something, just everyone is super flanderized and the characters aren't really acting like themselves anymore.
>>212603400I remember asking on the internet and fucking getting sperged on
And I was like 'but the guy has fat lips and big eyes and looks nothing like Picard' and explaining when we saw young Picard in TNG he looked nothing like Shinzon and got torn into by like 50 year old faggots
possibly in a sexual way who knows
>>212603380Fair enough, fiest contact has the good borg battle. The whole thing would have been salvageable if instead of revenge driven psycho picard he just calmly gave instructions on how to beat back the borg on the Enterprise E
>>212603352im saying the nemesis story would fit the tng 2 part model fine.
>>212603452i cant believe i have to defend nemesis. the audience wasnt supposed to know shinzon is a clone until he explains it. he also explains that he looks different because the romulans beat the hell out of him for 20 years
>>212603458I think First Contact was actually okay. The problem was they had to pad it out with the whole Lily thing and doing a Die Hard but we already did it before
Still, generations was arguably the worst fucking shit I've ever seen. Insurrection wasn't too bad
Nemesis was weird as fuck like they literally went 'well, we're killing off TNG so let's see what fun we can have'
>>212603452>how will the audience know it's picard of he doesn't have a shaved head when he's 22
>>212603473Except for all the bad characterizations of picard sure. All of the movies could have been two parters if they fixed the retarded characterization and plot holes
>>212603671this was a mistake. not sure what they were thinking
>>212603567I'm not complaining at all
I'm just pointing out that I felt like a retard since apparently spergs knew it before I did
>>212603671>this is you, as a perfect clone, if you were a retard and had down's
i think i may have never seen nemesis at all
>>212603787its better than insurrection, worse than first contact
>>212603458First contact was the best TNG movie
>>212603958i dont understand? insurrection is better than first contact.
>>212603458He's acting that way cause he's traumatized by his experience being part of the Borg, it's a perfectly acceptable characterisation
>>212603739>how will they know it's young picard if he isn't bald
>>212604083Not it's not, he got over it to the point where he had the opportunity to erradicate the borg and he thought better of it. It was a step backward for his character. It was a stupid choice, it would have been much better to show him calmly dismantling them instead of "'picard gets revenge for the week he was a borg"
>>212603968Damning with faint praise. If I cherry pick there are nice things about each tng movie, but they're overall terrible.
>>212604277He got over his fear of Borg in general but he was hesitant to even do shit against them at the start of the movie
He's got a death wish and knows that it's a suicide mission to try to take back the Enterprise but he does it anyway since his option is either 'stop the borg and some of us can die' or 'don't do anything and never exist'
>>212600824Venusian aikido is a groppling martial art.
>>212604277>It was a step backward for his characterAnd that's what trauma does, sometimes you think you're over it and fine but then a stressful situation triggers it and you start acting irrationally
Out here defending nemesis is wild. Itโs the worst of the classic trek movies. A dumb stupid action movie that bombed big time. Also I hate fat movie data. Brent spiner gains weight and it takes me out of it.
>>212601476The only reason to watch enterprise
>>212604448>suicide mission>everyone survivesworf was a coward the enterprise was not lost.
but really its all whoopies fault for not being available to play magic negro and talk picard into fighting because unlike lily she actually knows what shes talking about
>>212586598>>212586611AI slop is gay. real OC/pictures are always better
https://youtu.be/o8RcHrz2-uU?si=uC5BnFSa9RBOZcP0
I would post about Star Trek more but I am on an Indian IP address and posting about Superman.
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>>212601476>in terms of coom material ds9 is seriously lackingNo, they only have Kira, both Daxes, Leeta and her massive milkers, some other dabo girls, that Bajoran mechanics from season 1, the Cardassian chick that wanted to fuck O'Brien...
Best jerking material is clearly from TNG
Between Rascals and Disaster
>>212604596I like parts of it. But yeah it does feel like everyone involved had given up. The actors, the writers, the people in charge. They were clearly not into it but the fine print said they had to make one more movie. Tom Hardy is good in it though.
>>212604882From 1987-1994,96, 98, 02. 15 years. Itโs a long time. The franchise was fatigued. At least the TOS cast got a break in between the series and movies. Undiscovered Country is a much nicer โBowing outโ movie. The TNG movies never really knew what they wanted to be, but they just kept pushing it and as such they went out on a dud.
>>212605273still better than beyond and darkness.
>>212605359Absolutely. Abramโs trek is a whole different beast
I wonder what is mentalcrash up to these days.
>>212604689Bro's are hard nips logical?
>>212605273>during its hayday, it fatiguedbait
>>212598962when you have two mirrors in that configuration, the nested reflections become distorted because of imperfections in the mirrors.
>>212605437TNG in specific. Not Trek as a whole.
>>212602014Cool story bro, we getting a new season of Umbrella Academy or what?
>>212602193Your boyfriend runs /m/?
>>212605462in case you aren't baiting, its an ai video and if you look in the mirrors, they eventually lose their clothes
>>212602337>another tng movie fanonWow I am out voted today lol
>>212600683for me its fire hazard
>>212604596Fat Riker and Data makes no fucking sense in universe and they should have both gotten in shape before filming. The TOS movies made sense because it only got popular in syndication. TNG was always popular and had too many episodes as it was. A movie saga on top of 7 seasons and 176 episodes is just gluttony. So maybe the actors getting fat made sense after allโฆ
>>212606254the problem is they didnt make fat data a joke
>i programed some wieght gain and aging to make my friends more comfortbleriker getting fat is fine. people get fat. scotty and uhura and kirk got fat
>>212606408Or it could have even been a callback to him trying on different hairstyles and facial hair in S1 TNG.
>Many humans, once they reach middle age, do something called โLetting themselves goโ, Captain. I too wanted to โlet myself goโ to simulate the experience/
>>212606538I wouldโve been much happier if they had done something like that, but them all trying to play it off like the android didnโt get fat always bugged me.
>>212605822i mean i could throw this at you but the whole of balance of terror is my favorite everything.
my word Archer is so fucking DUMB on behalf of the human race. I can't believe he KEEPS falling for it every time. how many times do you have to be FUCKED by ALIENS before you at the very least think twice before letting them do whatever they ask? or maybe I'm just too smart for this show. I dunno. i figured out the Andorians were there for the weapon as soon as they showed up because their story for being in the Expanse made goddamn sense whatsoever. they didn't even try to come with something believable but they didn't even need to because Archer didn't even question it! No one did! my god. The cherry on top is that he didn't figure it out until he was already on their ship once again in a position to be kidnapped. I think Earth is doomed.
>>212606600not even the whole human race, the crew complains most times. malcolm is always right.
>>212606600The thing I like the least about Archer is how incompetent he is portrayed all the time versus how hard he comes down on the crew when they fuck up, just completely ignoring the fact that he is always ending up in the middle of a shit pile himself
>>212606664So a typical O6
>>212606664Picard fucked up plenty when he first started (Waking up Lore, getting Tasha murdered, Surrendering at Farpoint like the fucking Frenchman that he was). But that means you got to watch him grow and learn from his missteps.
>>212606664he read a
>captain for dummiesand was informed he needed to be authoritative the same way bacula read
>acting mad for dummies
>>212606576Yeah well here is a condescending Pulaski
>>212606600As an enterprise enjoyer I could try and use the โhe didnโt have a book to go offโ defense, but the truth is that he is just the stupidest Captain. Heโs there in large part thanks to his father. I love scott bakula though I wish they had done more with that character than they did.
>>212606938if earth had tried to send a clever military or political power-player vulcans would have shut it down. they had to send the DUMBEST earthling to space and try and sabotage the whole project.
>>212606776A lot of good came from those Picard "fuck ups," so I'm not sure they can even be called that.
>no more Denise Crosbythat's a win
>surrendering charmed Q, which resulted in humanity receiving a warning about the Borg that may've saved it from assimilationHugely important.
>waking up LoreI think that's a rational enough decision. You would never assume an identical Data would be evil.
>>212606776The literal vaporization of Earth is on the line and Archer is still on some
>these aliens I never met before probably just want to be my friend!after that having fucked them over a dozen times already. It is ridiculous.
You know this little ruse in the episode? Archer would have fallen for it if he was on the other end. I wonder what was going through his head.
>Damn he's good kinda good at lying and trickery good thing he's on my side
>>212600824> people shit on encounter at far point to, but I think it's greatI also think the Pilot was over-hated. Itโs got an analogue charm to it and a very earnest script. I love the scene where Riker meets Data in the Holodeck, for example. Has it aged the best? No. Is it focused or polished? Hell No. But it set the stage for what was to come.
>>212607023he's waiting for a good moment to take shran aside and explain to him how lying and murdering and warring is wrong and he shouldn't do it.
>>212607023Itโs great how nobody was genre savvy enough to realize waking up the dissembled robot in a scrap heap was maybe a bad idea. And even after Lore is acting suspicious theyโre just like โWell Data is strange tooโฆ Thatโs just how Androids are!โ
>>212607151Shran already knows that and Archer knows he knows that. It was pretty clear in their previous encounter when he shut down his uppity lieutenant. However he's still under orders. The fact that Archer really thought the Andorian powers that be sent them on a mission to check up on humans in some no mans land cosmic horror hellhole section of space out of the kindness of their hearts is soooooo embarassing
>>212606776>Picard fucked up plenty when he first startedEasy Phillipa
>Waking up LoreThe fuck was he supposed to do?
>getting Tasha murderedRisk of the chief security officer
>Surrendering at Farpoint like the fucking Frenchman that he wasYeah he sure fucked up by making the correct decision
>But that means you got to watch him grow and learn from his misstepsPicard biggest growth is that he becomes more human and doesn't scowl at children on site. In terms of command he's nearly inscrutable the entire show. He's all about learning how not to be captain in every facet of his life.
>>212607255surely if archer explains it better this time shran will really understand
I've tried before with Enterprise and I just don't get why it's good
it's like a fucking modern day slop version of Star Trek (for the time period it came out in)
Like, I could stick on some shitty drama based in any state and get the same incredibly retarded story arcs, they just 'sci fied it'
It's weird as fuck
It's like they went 'what would a normal, non sci-fi show be like' rather than 'how can we take these sci-fi elements and make them into an episode people will like'
>>212607371enterprise is a tough one to like but unironically you have to embrace the faith of the heart.
>>212607064Yeah and it gives us Q, the background to 21st century earth and sets the tone that the enterprise use force as a last measure. The bookends of encounter at far point and all good things really start and end the show on that note? Even though they aren't perfect scifi scripts
>>212586407 (OP)star trek is a futuristic soap opera, ther you go, that why trekkies seem to me like a bunch of idiots, their series is plain stupid
>ent
>it's like a fucking modern day
kek. hello fellow good trekkers
>>212607434Thanks for the mongoloid input faggot
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>>212586407 (OP)I've been rewatching DS9 and noticed early Garak has a different affectation to his voice along with Rom. Were there any other characters that had this?
>>212607434You're smart. You make /trek/ go.
>>212607474I'm sorry, anon
I'm drunk, you see.
Point is that it really is like a modern day tv show (for the time period it was made in, not set in)
>>212607396I did try it. I thought that T'Pol might carry it or the average asian-fu language one but like, no. All the other characters are retarded
I don't know how to explain it. It was like they watch a normal soap opera and said 'yep, ignore the star trek elements if we can'
>>212607558Sisko went from 'I can speak' to 'I C-AN SUH-PEAK-AH'
>>212607371ENT is a TOS homage so they tried to reuse a lot of TOS style conflicts and realized how retarded they were so they just decided cgi laser fights would be fine too. Also ENT boomers of the day were hugely impressed with CGI i guess like that motherfucking gorn.
>>212607558i think rom only shows up like once before s2? never noticed much change with garak though.
>>212607558Quark sounds weird in the pilot and yeah, Rom is still doing his "evil Ferengi" voice instead of his "retarded Ferengi" voice.
Spock in The Cage is a completely different character, talks totally different.
>>212607371Other trek shows feel so otherworldly and alien a lot of the time and rightfully so. I enjoy enterprise because it exists within the same universe and feels so American. Itโs the bumbling space force dell computer monitors Big Mac quarter pounder Florida trek. Humanity hasnโt really embraced the whole other world thing yet
>>212607646>try itYou can't try faith of the heart you just have to like embrace the show holistically. Everyone agrees the intro theme is fucking terrible, like unimaginably awful and unsuited for the show. Once you can accept thats the ride that you're on and the limitations that the cast and crew are under and they're just trying their darnedest then you can play along at their dumbed down level.
>hey jim, take a load off and have some mint julep
>jim cmon, we are all on shore leave not so come and join me for some mint julep
>jim damnit ive known you since before you gotten your captaincy now come on and have a mint julep
>damnit jim im a doctor, not a bartender and as your doctor i have the unique distinction of being able to order you to come here and have a mint julep
>have some mint julep or i will deem you unfit to command the enterprise
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>>212607255>shut down his uppity lieutenantOh yeah speaking of her I noticed she's gone in this episode KEK I wonder if she pulled some shit and lost her commission or went rogue or something. Things to think about when you're watching an episode you already figured out way before Archer did. Many such cases.
>>212607709I liked the intro. It was amazing.
>>212607665It's just, shit like 'so like I will read out any question the children want so when you poop where does it go hahahahahha isn't that funny hahahhaha'
no, it's not
it's retarded
>>212607945>poop questionits not a joke, they're playing astronauts talking directly to children in the way those things go. what they're doing somehow isn't even for the audience it's just the sort of thing they felt would fit in with the tone and it works. it's completely retarded and unsuitable for television and its existence no fucking sense but they play it straight and they tried really hard. faith of the heart.
>>212607737Bones will look you in the eye and tell you to knock off the junk food and alcohol. And then immediately join you for junk food and alcohol. Heโs the best doctor.
>>212608145damnit jim im a doctor, not a dietician
>>212608033Archer gets uncomfortable
The whole thing is basically 'what if we made Star Trek but like, we put people from the modern day there'
>>212608227no its 'what if we made star trek but only archer was sort of modernish' but mostly thats because bacula can't act like anything but bacula.
>>212606538and cut to riker looking concerned as if he just now realized he is fat
no matter how dumb this show gets or how dumb Archer is in the end it's fine because as a human i do unironically believe in the indomitability of the human spirit and unironic faith of the heart. sometimes it's fun to yell at the screen at stupid characters and situations. i wouldn't have expected it from trek necessarily but here we are
>>212605807I didn't realize it was a video.
but good on the AI for "knowing" how to manipulate the reflections
>>212598962>he's looking at the reflections>>212599205is it? it doesn't feel wrong
Soulless minions of orthodoxy
>How dare you! You who consort with Romulans, invoke my father's name to support your traitorous arguments. It is an offense to everything I hold dear. And to hear those words used to subvert the United Federation of Planets. My father was a great man! His name stands for integrity and principle. You dirty his name when you speak it! He loved the Federation. But you, Captain, corrupt it. You undermine our very way of life. I will expose you for what you are. I've brought down bigger men than you, Picard!
How much time do these guys spend watching people fuck?
>>212610339I want to watch THEM fuck.
>>212586407 (OP)>Garak is best black operativeGayniggers from Outer Space
>>212607685>Spock in The Cage is a completely different character, talks totally different.In nimoys defense he had eaten his weight in lsd that first week of production
Made it to the season finale of season 5 of DS9. Pretty good stuff on rewatch. The anon who said there's no coombait on this show forgot about Leeta. She's got quite the set of gazongas.
>>212611794Don't tell him.
>>212611794She's a Kira queen
Dynamite with a phaser beam
>>212604726sure but some guys can only get laid on the holodeck, even in the bright shiny future
>>212605417sure. they represents the 1s in binary logic
>>212586598nah that's canon. In the episode of TNG where they pick up all the old cryogenically frozen people, Data says that television as a medium dies off in a couple decades. Which is perfectly in lock step with what will become the rise of low effort ai slop and a massive cultural shift back toward live music and theater.
>>212607931AI Ghibli managed to make Guinan look attractive. Not sure if I'm impressed or unsettled.
>>212612205Ick you couldn't pay me to go to live theater.
>>212612205AI wasn't even a dream when TV died anon
>>212612392I'm sure pundits and internet argue men will change your mind in a few years.
>>212612434I don't watch movies anymore, I don't care what the schizoid communist Muslim left-wing crypto Jewish libertine/ultraconservative propagandists want to say to me, and I won't give them the chance to do it in person.
>>212612494the new superman movie is pretty rad
>>212612416Trek places it around 2040. Which is around when most of the baby boomers will be dead.
>>212612518Propaganda slop
>>212612494see you at the theatre anon
>>212612564I wouldn't go to sit in a room with a bunch of stinky zoomers, and I generally disagree with your assumption that theater will make some kind of comeback. The masses will eat the AI slop if the elites decide to feed it to them.
>>212611794>She's got quite the set of gazongas.I know that you do this on purpose.
>>212612781idk what you're on about, leeta is canonically gazonga-rich.
Odo is basically sitting on the railing of the promenade. I don't like heights. I never liked seeing them film stuff at the edge of the second level of the promenade. Makes me nervous every time. And then now Odo is practically standing on one leg at the edge?? They were seriously flirting with disaster with that set.
>>212612937Thank you. I'm the one who posted about Leeta and I don't know what they're upset about?
>>212612951He has the blood of Napoleon. He does whatever he wants.
>>212613048I wonder if they had safety nets or something that they hid with camera tricks like when Jake and Nog used to sit there.
Can I just point out that Tendi is a hot little green girl?