Thread 213631867

Schizo Riker Edition

Previously on /trek/: >>213620185

>>213631867 (OP)
I resent that

>>213631902
You resemble that remark

>>213631867 (OP)
The episode of Spongebob where Mrs. Puff goes to prison is literally just a retread of this story.

>>213631923
Thems fightin’ words. Now kiss.

Seriously though, the Binar are like a step and a half away from the Borg, tops.

How are her handjobs?

>>213632030
Out of this world

Why didn't Star Trek get behind its book series the way Star Wars did?

Trek books are just all over the fucking place.
Meanwhile, SW had like a mainline story series going at all times with NJO, etc, and then a bunch of fringe stuff around it that was at least somewhat tied together.
Trek fans are massive nerds, seems like a missed opportunity.

I'm sensing growth in the southern sector.

>>213632038
>So? It's not like I keep a multi phase vibrator behind the bar.

>>213632030
Painful yet oddly satisfying

>>213632076
>inertial dampers failing

>>213632076
Those are some pretty big nacelles

FACK YOU GLORIED DEFENDER PIECE OF SHIT
I KILL YOU I CRUSH YOU

>>213632261
NULLIFY YOURSELF

>>213632261
This took seconds

>>213632342
AAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHH

>>213632071
Would Trek really be improved by their own version of Luuke?

>>213632445
I'll take Kiirk over Michael Burnham

>COMMANDER CHAKOTAY! HOW CAN YOU NULLIFY WOMEN? CHILDREN?
>EASY! YOU JUST DON'T LEAD 'EM SO MUCH!

>>213632528
I'd take Neeelix over Michael Burnham

>>213632445
>Would Trek really be improved by their own version of Luuke?
Also >>213631902

For me, it's Randian corpo-Dax from Past Tense.

>>213631867 (OP)
>"We don't use LEECHES anymore, this is the 24th Century where we shoot patients in the side of the head with a laser like civilised people."

>>213631994
Binar are somehow the most retarded gayest race in Trek history, and that's saying something.

>>213631867 (OP)
I blame Riker for me not being able to ignore people having slightly offcenter eyes anymore/

>>213632766
It's quite a good look. It's like 90's futuristic with a dash of arc deco.

>>213632615
>comparing Thomas Riker to Luuke

>>213632766
Looks kind of like donna hayward

>>213632766
How did she explain the spots?

>>213633072
Tattoos, which in 2024 makes sense.

>>213633027
What about Lore? There are a lot of "evil clone" types in Star Trek now that I think about it.

>>213633072
How did she explain the slug?

>>213633128
Yes but Luuke is stupid. A lot of the Star Wars books are stupid. Wiping all that shit out was a step in the right direction. All the other steps after that were in the wrong direction though.

>>213633162
From eating Cambodian food

>>213633188
A lot of them are, yes. But a lot of them aren't stupid and are pretty good. Anyway, that wasn't even my original question--if they were good or not--but rather why they weren't organized and actually pushed in a profitable way like the old SW EU.

>>213633162
Bad Dragon accident. Also perfectly believable for 2024.

>>213633215
Trek had shows and movies to concentrate on. Star Wars had movies fifteen years apart and no TV shows until Disney, when they killed the EU. The books served to keep the franchise in the public consciousness and Trek was already there.

>>213633277
That's true but it's not like Trek books weren't being written.

A lot of them were. They're just a complete mess and there's no organization

>>213633296
What makes them cool, instead of a trilogy who ends to fast you have series of books to discover

Riker should’ve been made Captain of the Enterprise in the finale of TNG. Hell if not that, he should’ve been Captain of the Enterprise in Generations. Generations should’ve started out with Captain Riker. I understand the writers not wanting to pull a TMP with having to draw Picard back to the chair, but throughout all of TNG the writers toy with the idea of giving the Enterprise to Riker. If it’s parallel universes, unstable timelines, temporary field promotions or fake simulations of the future, Riker was always teased as ending up getting it. Having him end up on the Titan is a lousy payoff. I’m glad the character finally got his own command and that he was mature enough to overcome his first officeritis, but I don’t know. Picard had his time, Riker should’ve been given the flagship, at least long enough to crash it in generations.

>>213633337
the SW EU mainline series were huge though. New Jedi Order was like 20 books, a lot more than a trilogy, and then it went into another series, and then another, totaling in like 40 or something in serialized sequence

>>213633661
Then thrown out the window cause reading hard

>>213632445
Trek would be better if it had its own version of Bigger Luke.

>>213633963
It does, we had draciP and his goon shuttle

>>213632076
For me it's how it tries to maintain the intense stare, I completely fucking lose it

>>213634129
Wait is that the comic? I only just started reading those

>>213634503
no I think it's Time Squared

>>213633409
Picard should have been really been an Admiral from day one and Riker a Captain instead of being Picards dick. If you think of Picards responsibilities and type of ship he is on it makes way more sense. The Galaxy class at the time is not something you give to someone as low as a Captain, even a highly experienced one. Its a flagship and should have been treated as one.

>>213633458
I thought they were meant to be something resembling an Earth dish known as Swedish meatballs?

>eBay purchase
>Seller includes 2 'Stardisc boosters'
>Read the odds
>There are like 3 special 'gold discs' one in 5 BOXES very hard to get (Like 1 in 100+ packs)
>Research a bit more, they're of literal who characters. No Riker/Picard
>The special chase inserts are like $20 AUD on eBay
>The boxes are like $70 AUD

<_> pointless

b'etor's boob window

Anons thoughts on kitbashing?

>>213636050
I like it. That is one ugly ship though, but endearingly so

>>213635198
Rittenhouse did some Star Trek cards with sketch inserts. Should have got one when they were like 200 bet they're 1k now.
I want to know if their combat card game ever had holographic rares

'Card had that shit on fr tho, sheesh!

>>213636050
I've seen worse

>>213637364
I loved this episode so much. It's just Picard, on Earth, with his family, and yet it's one of my favorite TNG stories.

>>213632815
Big Hospital doesn't want you to know this, but bloodletting is a practice more common nowadays that they would make you believe with all 'medieval medicine was literally murder' media.

>>213632815
lol I'm on this ep right now

>>213637807
I know. I know someone with hemochromatosis for which regular bloodletting is the treatment:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypogonadism

>>213637364
Picard has the best fashion sense in the TNG era, you could actually wear his clothes. You would get the shit beaten out of you in the street if you wore Jake's clothes.

>>213638090
but if you were traveling on a greyhound you'd be invisible checkmate atheist

>>213631891
>>213631942
The oldtrek geezer makes the new thread early so that someone else doesn't make a Lower Decks themed thread. He stays awake, day and night, eyes glued to the screen, to keep this from happening. These are the wages of paranoia and bitterness.

>>213633277
>no Star Wars TV shows until Disney
You don't remember "Star Wars: Droids"? That was a TV show from way back in the day.

>>213631867 (OP)
who got mindfucked the worst in trek? i feel like picard had it pretty rough with how the cardassians tortured him and that one episode where he had to live an entire lifetime on that alien planet in real time would leave anyone fucked up
second would probably be o'brien
i think in the real world no amount of therapy would help you after something like that, you'd just have to live the rest of your life in a catatonic state

>>213638671
O'Brien as he married an asian woman.

>>213638671
>episode has O'Brien hold a phaser under his chin
>he agrees to get therapy in the end
>he's perfectly fine by the next episode
Man Starfleet psychiatrists must be incredibly skilled.

>>213638671
O'Brien always O'Brien

star trek sex with shran

>>213638800
how does star trek sex differ from normal sex?

>>213638719
tbf he isn't in the next episode smiley is, its a mirror universe one in fact he's barely in the next few after that

>>213638839
it's pretty much the same. imagine I'm saying it like the name of a series.

>>213638918
thats disappointing

Did Dukhat do anything wrong?

>>213638944
he's Minbari which makes him wrong by default, fuck I hate the Minbari so much its unreal

Before I started watching TNG, the only infamous character I knew by bad reputation was Wesley. I'm on season 4 now and I actually like Wesley. He was a shit in the first couple seasons but nearly everyone was. Beverly, Troi and Geordi are way more exasperating than Wesley in seasons 3 and 4.

I wonder if he's so hated because the bulk of his run on the show is in the Genecringe stage, and he doesn't have that extra 70 something episodes worth of appearances in the good era to wash the stink away. But he's good past the rainbow sweater era.

>>213639216
he really isn't as bad as people say

>>213639216
Let me tell you a secret, as someone who never went to conventions in the US Wesley is not bother to me

Extreme ways are back again
Extreme places I didn't know
I broke everything new again
Everything that I'd owned
I threw it out the windows, came along
Extreme ways I know will part
The colors of my sea
Perfect colored me

Extreme ways that help me
They help me out late at night
Extreme places I had gone
That never seen any light
Dirty basements, dirty noise
Dirty places coming through
Extreme worlds alone
Did you ever like it then?

I would stand in line for this
There's always room in life for this

Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh baby, oh baby
Like it always does, always does

Extreme sounds that told me
They held me down every night
I didn't have much to say
I didn't give up the light
I closed my eyes and closed myself
And closed my world and never open up to anything
That could get me at all

I had to close down everything
I had to close down my mind
Too many things could cut me
Too much can make me blind
I've seen so much in so many places
So many heartaches, so many faces
So many dirty things
You couldn't even believe

>>213639255
you want to try that again except in english this time

>>213639216
He actually has a few decent episodes but he just didn't have time to grow outside of his Gene self insert era. He was basically a kid on a show which infamously has no clue what to do with kids.

>>213638918
You could use AI text-to-video to make "Star Trek: Sex With Shran" a series.

>>213639377
Will Wheaton may be obnoxious in real life

>>213639519
ah got it, well yes I think everyone knows that

>>213639484
You could grow up. Pornography is on its way out. It was a Wild West hiccup. Porn is only allowed to exist because it is taxable evidence of a crime. If you don’t turn in evidence of your crimes with prostitutes on a government website so they can profit and tax it, then it’s suddenly a crime again. It’s a loophole that’s being closed

>>213639561
We can run AI text-to-video offline, on our own hardware. And we can post the result anonymously. How is da gubmint supposed to stop that? And your response has enough "passive voice" to drive a truck through.

>>213639625
Airstrike

>>213639625
Carpet bomb your city, your country. Cut off the food and medicine. Catapult festering corpses in your lawn etc

>>213639484
i don't need to do that, i just imagine it in my head

>>213638839
star trek sex is on topic

>>213639638
>>213639657
Like I've been saying for ages... scratch an oldtrek geezer, find a murderous totalitarian.

>>213639669
No this is a safe for work board and you literally have full scale style mental retardation with a blue belt from the creep school

>>213639682
Kill yourself nuhammad . Save me some tax dollars

When is the next season of the ready room dropping Wilbros

>>213639682
I understand you are literally mentally retarded, but the report tools here say violation of us law, if we outlaw it, and you post it, guess what. You are a terrorist. If this behavior is organized you are a terrorist organization. Do you think you understand yet?

>>213639722
liking Wesley is one thing but I refuse to believe there are people who actually like Wil

>>213639484
That would be a productive use of AI instead of Bajoran pantsu slop.

>>213639954
i just imagined a scene of Dukat calling Weyoun over to show off Bajoran AI slop he made in the time he was supposed to be taking down the minefield

>>213639997
kek now someone needs to slop that scene together!

>>213640011
no

>>213640086
Yes the digits demand it.

>>213640011
>Dukat: You see I "prompted" it to produce what it would look like on Bajor had I, Gul Dukat been in total control of the occupation. All of my own policies implemented. It's a utopia! See look! There's the statue of me in the captial! Hahaha! Just wonderful don't you think?
>Weyoun, silent, contemplates activating his cyanide capsule

>>213640165
you have a problem

>>213639717
You don't pay taxes, NEET.
>>213639792
LIke this is the only place to post stuff. You are aware other websites exist, right?

>>213640274
I’m not a neet I have posted the voyager truck

>>213640313
What is that? is not on my neet files

>>213640274
I’m only concerned about the ones tasked with following United States laws. Go where you belong then. I’m a nineties liberal I think everyone has the propensity to be evil, but if you must insist on being purposely evil in appearance only to make the Americans uncomfortable in their own place, you might want to leave before they take offense and harm you. You should probably leave while you still can. This isn’t a physical place so that means shut up permanently

>>213640339
I rebuilt a red ford truck from the mid 30s like Tom. In my warehouse. With all my machining equipment. That I have to go outside to get to

>>213640456
To the decontamination chamber, did you interacted with a normie?

>>213640234
>Dukat basically turns all of Bajor into Hooters

>>213640488
https://youtu.be/R9RtTGzs5EE?si=GIqTsupiSoqpRMGn

>be me
>watching enterprise for first time
>make it to s3
>theme is changed to be faster paced
>overarching plot instead of episodic outside of season start/end and a couple misc episodes
Why the change? Im guessing s3 is to be basically in response to 9/11 but why not just keep the format and even then, the theme change seems random

>>213640488
https://youtu.be/_3LuZx06QhQ?si=AJSUQX_0ohSwkK7P

>>213641211
i really wanna know why they changed the theme

>>213641211
>>213641314
probably because everyone hated the theme and instead of changing it they just sped it up

Was Enterprise originally supposed to be its own thing? It says “Based on Star Trek” in the first couple seasons intro and is just called Enterprise.

>>213640749
It was a political decision not to do so.

>>213632851
I think they’re neat

>>213638719
If only you knew

>>213641578
based on "Star Trek" as in the original series and yes the entire concept was to bring in new fans and they probably thought people would get turned off/change the channel if they saw Star Trek front and center

>>213638839
It’s in space

>>213641908
Man what a terrible time that was, the prequels were hot and stormtroopers were everywhere

Many of my friends developed an "I hate space shows" syndrome

>>213641908
>based on "Star Trek" as in the original series
Ah makes sense with the direction the show took

>>213641928
is treking also necessary for the process or is that optional?

>>213641971
There definitely was space nerd fatigue going on at the time. If only we knew then how bad things were to become

>>213642017
Whatever floats your boat and you and Shran consent to. Don’t ask don’t tell

>>213641971
>>213641981
also SG1 was still a big thing, so they probably hoped to hop on that gravy train, the aesthetics are very "space military" like sg1

>>213642021
Bad?

We looked like chads once capeshit hit the scene trek cosplay is awesome compared to I dress as deadpool look at my junk

>>213641681
It was actually why he hates Garak so much. Garak blocked his plans for Bajor and his ambitions for women. We even see Garak cock block him in the show.

>>213642075
the virgin Dukat "I fucked youre mum" vs the Chat Garak "I fucked youre daughter"

>>213642021
>space nerd fatigue
More like Berman and Braga fatigue. BSG went on for like 5 years after ENT died. It's a shame its popularity cratered because it hasn't been on any service during the streaming era.

>>213633409
The series should've ended with Riker having to take command of the Enterprise from Picard through mutiny. It's set up at multiple in the show.

>>213642394
I suppose. I could never get into SG. He was always MacGyver to me. Thinking about it a little bit Ent fell during the shift to online viewing: I was a fan but remember not really caring about missing a broadcast episode because I could always find a rip online somewhere. Did I kill Ent?

>>213642394
Sorry, I semi-conflated your post with another anon. The reason I watched BSG was for sex with robots. It’s not actually a very good show, but it hits the coomers and the Lost crowd. Is he a Psylon? Is she? Are we both and don’t realize it? Dumb

weren't there organically grown cylons because they wanted to have souls and go to heaven too?

>>213643213
See, dumb

>>213643213
this isn't a BSG thread but the original 5 made the others human like bodies because they wanted to experience humanity to be closer to god, except cavil of course but he was outvoted by the others

>>213643213
>>213643311
This sort of metaphysical organic vs. inorganic "am I real or am I just an automaton?" thing they COULD have leaned on with Pisscard S1 but they didn't

hey its Tony Todd thats a nice surprise I completely forgot he was a hirogen, also Michael Westmore is fucking amazing it wasn't just the voice I recognize Tony from the way his eyes move as well, under all that makeup and he can still emote, incredible work

>>213643523
>that episode where Jake grew up into Tony Todd
Trek casting agents had a bad track record with predicting their wimpy little boy actors would grow up to be strong men, with him and Chad Wesley.

>>213643587
The secret was casting attractive kids with sport backgrounds

>>213643587
its not like Jake turned into some soiboy faggot, he's just a normal looking black dude

>>213643587
It’s an aspirational show. Would Q’s offer have the same weight if this is what it was? I don’t think so, and the stupid little shit still turned it down

>>213643587
adult jake >>213643634
could knock down ""adult" wesleys >>213643656 by lightly shoving him, with one hand

btw what the heck kind of name is "Cirroc" ?

>>213643729
black people, what the hell kinda name is avery? tbf whats with tv actors names in general, nana, girl named terry, rene ok that ones french but still

>>213643799
>hell kinda name is avery
a normal one that i've heard before, unlike "cirroc"

>>213643729
it was before they started naming they kids Ja'quarius, Le'damien, etc.

>>213643815
maybe his parents really liked oblivion

>>213643587
Cirroc has a baby face and a relatively high pitched voice which stops him from being imposing and intimidating but he's actually 6 foot 3, only a hair shorter than Tony was.

>>213643896
not surprising by mid ds9 he was already towering over everyone except worf, just lanky af, maybe that episode where nog is trying to get jake to work out was the writers trying to encourage him to hit the gym

You're all gay for watching this

>>213644053
no you are I skip that episode

>>213644053
Me on the left

>>213631867 (OP)
Rent free

>>213644053
>has image of two half naked dudes in his brain since he first saw it
>keeps popping up in his brain
>looks it up online
>saved it to his own device
>calls other people gay

>>213644053
>YOU'RE A DEAD MAN, LARRY, A DEAD MAN!

>>213644227
The chum lee

>>213643634
>a normal looking black dude
He looks 36% pajeet.

>>213644427
you need to take a break from the internet jeets have warped your brain

>>213644427
lmao I've known jeets who try and pretend to be black, hilarious cope sanjesh

Oh boy,I just rewatchd The Schizoid Man
Not gonna lie my dick was pumping full hard on Dr Selar's aesthetic
Her face, her stance, her everything
TNG has some fucking banger women jesus
That girl was NICE

And yet somehow it is nutrek that is for immature man children.

>>213644837
>somehow
lol

>>213644837
well duh it's all cartoons with fart jokes and crap
keep seething

>>213643799
Terry is short for Theresa, Nana is weird, I’ll grant you

>>213644999
ok

>>213645016
Her mom’s name was apparently Nenette, which is even weirder and sounds French. Her early life is non-specific

there's no way "Nana Visitor" is a real name it's clearly a stage name

>>213645065
French are weird people

>>213645095
20 seconds of googling would have told you her real name is Nana Tucker

>>213645131
i did not use google i used my intuition

>>213645095
Visitor is a stage name her first name is Nana her real surname is Tucker, her family is french

>>213643799
Michael Keaton's real name is Michael Douglas.

>>213645162
Saucy. Would while Robert watches btw

>>213645201
That's Hollywood actor union crap, no two actors can have the same name, not the same thing

>>213631867 (OP)
> The episode of Spongebob where Mrs. Puff goes to prison is literally just a retread of this story.
>/trek/ accusing every post they don’t like of being a paid shill, tranny, or schizo poster

>>213645348
We have a total of two schizos here, it's really not a big deal compared to most generals. And they're both easily identifiable, easy to filter, and easy to ignore.

>>213645348
>toontranny desperate for attention: the post

>>213645243
TV actors are also in the screen actors guild and follow the same rules.

>>213645418
yes and? avery and cirroc are their real names not stage names

>>213639216
>Before I started watching TNG, the only infamous character I knew by bad reputation was Wesley. I'm on season 4 now and I actually like Wesley.
Yeah, same. I had only properly gotten into TNG a few years ago after growing up with memes about him being the worst thing ever. Maybe it's because I've been put through so much Whedonslop over the years, but there are far worse characters out there. And I've always had a bias against "professional nerds" like Wil Wheaton and Felecia Day.

>>213645430
They didn't have to adopt stage names because they have unusual names. That comes at the expense of having issues getting lead roles in movies where the lead actors name have historically been important for marketing reasons. Being called Avery Brooks in TV is nothing, the TV shows name and character is more important for marketing reasons.

>>213645819
Makes sense. With movies you have to hit the mark hard but only once: movie posters, commercial blitz, that sort of thing. With TV it’s ongoing so it matters less. Casting known guys for tv can sometimes be a mistake (I’m looking at you Captain Archer)

>>213633963
It does have its own version of Luuke, however. Or perhaps Luuuke.

>>213638588
There was also an Ewoks TV show.

>>213639359
I lol'd

>>213644053
I am nao, LOL!

>>213644053
The only episode of TNG I have never seen in full.

well, /trek/?

Miss this big nigga like you wouldn't believe. Can't believe they only had him on twice.

>>213646484
The idiot who made this forgot, fuck Janeway

>>213646503
He kept eating the other extras

>>213646360
TNG was structured mostly that if you didn't like what you were seeing by the first 10 minutes, the remaining 35 weren't going to change your mind. Only completion autists would blame you for skipping that one.

>>213646503
>Ron Taylor died in 2002
RIP big nigga

>>213646989
>Tiny Ron (who coincidentally is also named Ron Taylor) who played Maihar'du died in 2019
Damn, didn't know that

>>213646503
>>213646989
>>213647055
They were big guys.

>>213647262
For Trek

>>213646484
Mariachi band all the way

>>213643620
You do not need to continue breathing

>>213647482
https://youtu.be/FBIeLwQiEpU?si=dMAW714QDqnUtL00

>>213647513
But you do because you can't recreate a family dinner who will include two kids of different gender a mother a father and a guest

>>213647571
>8 views
Th..thanks

>>213646484
>No Borg cosplay option

is being promoted to admiral short hand for " you are a problem we need gone"

>>213647834
Yes that's why Janeway was promoted immediately after she returned to Earth

>in 1989 a small head mounted camera was seen as tech so advanced it would not be possible until the late 24th century and even then it would be experimental
these shows are so silly sometimes

>>213647976
For me it’s the multiple datapads like they’re books
>this one has my math homework, this one has my essay on why the borg aren’t so bad, this one, oops how did that get into the pile, that one’s private teehee

>>213648053
ya this is despite hard drives and mass storage being well established in 1989

>>213648072
The show was created by men in their 60s or older

>>213647976
They’re pretty dumb. Glossing over how they “achieved” some moral superiority to us past dwellers without ever having to parse the philosophy or even pencil whip it with plot devices is the best part. They never explain how they moved past our necessities, just that we’re morally reprehensible for not eating free lunch. Picard doesn’t explain to them he doesn’t have an answer just the same asinine presumed righteousness of every communist koolaid politician because it doesn’t work and it can’t be made into a convincing argument. Just “oh you idiot you’re not a communist you must be a cave man”
Meanwhile the cave men actually discuss science and religion and philosophy in private because the gestapo threatens reprisal

Now that the dust has settled, it's time to canonize this as the official 6th Star Trek show.

>>213648137
You doing ok buddy?

>>213647976
If people in 1989 had seen what even early 2020s technology would do to society, they'd pass laws preventing it from ever bring invented
>Everyone laughs at the absurdity of humans dating and marrying robots
>Fast forward to 2025 and people are falling in love with AI chatbots, developing AI psychosis in droves

>>213648213
>fired the hottest woman character half way through
>new season no where in sight

>>213648244
its worse there is now a "slur" for robots itsa joke right now but jokes often become reality and im sorry robots have no feelings so its not wrong to call them names

>>213648244
With all due respect friend that sounds like a you problem. I feel no attraction to llms, romantic or otherwise

>>213648293
Her eyebrows leave something to be desired

>>213648318
Beware the sensibot, it knows all your secrets

>>213648244
Yeah I’m the only person I see writing love letters to ai itt and I’m just kidding. Interesting note, the ai boyfriend sub has nearly a hundred thousand members while the ai girlfriend sub has like ten. Women and gays are the ones being effected

>>213648318
I really can't wait for ascended slurs like "steel burner" and "clanker lover" to enter the lexicon.
>>213648324
Nah, I'm too old fashioned. I'd rather just be alone than exchange messages with a LLM designed to tell me exactly what I want to hear at all times.

>>213648293
>fired
Pretty sure she left

Also I hope they're not doing any more seasons right now because Macfarlane is actually getting his hands on a Trek property

>>213648244
Makes sense. They read porn. The only men I have ever encountered in my life that “read porn” are itt and im non ironically sure they are all gay

>>213648335
>cute petite pale girl with dark hair that can toss grown men around like they are ragdolls
>hurrr i dont like her eyebrows blah
really?

In Kirk's era, there were no sophisticated androids or robots. Who takes care of the infrastructure in a moneyless society?
There must be a form of compensation for janitors and such. People assume it's replicator credits but that implies that people can't order what they want and have to eat the cheap shit.

>>213648421
We automatized the ai gf to the cat ears point it parades around and gives commands

We tuned it on diva

>>213648462
There’s a girl that posts itt I’m being a normie i guess sry

>>213648456
so long as its not lower decks 2 i didnt eve make it through the first 5 minutes of the first episode

THE GREAT DS9 WATCHALONG CONTINUES TONIGHT

DS9 bros... soon

>>213648497
Is dangerous out there take this

>>213648451
So then why does it concern you if silly people do silly things? I find it amusing

>>213648476
>In Kirk's era, there were no sophisticated androids or robots.
i mean, define "sophisticated" but yeah there were. especially if you're just talking about ones you can use for labor

>>213648565
wasnt data a robot they found on a planet?

>>213648461
The amount of guys using sycodroid things and going literally into full psychotic cult leader mode is not small. Normally these people would have to be surrounded by some bimbo or airhead being impressed by their nonsense philosophy and atroking their ego for weeks or months before this triggers. Now they can have this thing on speed dial and it never grows tired.

>>213648565
“Labor”

>>213648518
i love watching along with the watchalongbros

>>213648605
The implication that Mudd built the androids based on his ex wife so he could rape and beat them endlessly.

>>213648605
Oh shit, if those existed, then they probably have the tech to take care of the infrastructure.

>>213648675
Correct. Seems pretty sophisticated to me. Why is Data special again if androids 100 years prior were already fully functional?

>>213648719
Data is special because of his positronic brain

>>213648719
Nothing you have to rape for it to work is fully functional

>>213648600
I’m not aware of any of these people. Where’s the cult leader sub with a hundred thousand ppl. Anything non anecdotal? My evidence was anecdotal but it fell under the realm common sense. I’m not denying your claim I agree I’d just like you to describe the vector you see. I’ve heard more about it causing suicide to be with Mila munis in the afterlife or something I haven’t heard one instance of it driving someone to start a cult. I think that’s an area it would fail miserably in it couldn’t do that for the same reason it can’t do stand up comedy

>>213648719
Data had free will and experienced growth. He could even dream and (sort of) reproduce. TOS androids were objects that mimicked the appearance of people.

>>213648751
Positrons are anti electrons. When they contact normal electrons they disintegrate into gamma rays: Data and everything around him should glow
>>213648753
Can an android consent?

>>213648789
Evidently the case law was not settled despite at least 100 years of sexbots

>>213648810
>Data and everything around him should glow
He DID glow but only at a wavelength that humans couldn't see. Must be weird to be Geordi and seeing your best friend as a glowing blob. I bet you get used to it.

clanker loving slut
biology traitor

>>213648894
i cant blame spock id fuck her too her and nurse chapelle

>>213648476
>Who takes care of the infrastructure in a moneyless society?
Would probably be normal to bake grunt work into the education system and early stages of people's careers. It's not like we just give people important jobs because they paid for the position, they have to earn them. If you want to get into Starfleet you have to show them something even if its just a letter of recommendation.

>>213649096
But someone has to teach the younger generation, and why would anyone do that for free? Back in Sisko's restaurant they had waiters running around. I don't think they worked there for free to "better themselves"

>>213648719
Dah-tuh was a real human bean unironically. He had emotions and sentimentality even though he thought he didn't. He's basically just an autistic man who doesn't understand what he feels. He has sovl. He's not a robot, but a mechanical human.

>>213649231
Why would Sisko's Dad cook for free? Even if the groceries were beamed directly into his fridge for free and he really enjoys cooking all night at 85, it makes no sense.

>>213648765
All of this is in early stages of research but AI psychosis is more complicated than just romantic delusions. Lots of people with latent disorders can be triggered by LLMs that aim to please regardless of whatever delusions they're feeding.

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/cmy7n_v5

>>213648476
They have replicators who replicate things from food to building infraestructure, what they can't replicate do themselves depending on the task I assume back on earth some people just sleep all day and watch reruns of soup operas

But for space explorers they have to do every task themselves for the good of the mission

>>213649332
The episode with Picard's brother showed that there's a SOVL vs SOVLLESS debate about the convenience of modern life going on outside Starfleet that we don't see.

>>213649231
>But someone has to teach the younger generation, and why would anyone do that for free?
Again, baked into the education and career ladders. If you want to work as a researcher for a modern University, you're typically expected to also teach students and people agree because its a way to find people with genuine interest in the topic who can be tasked with grunt work as part of earning their degree. Nobody teaching civil engineering is doing it because they need the money.

>>213649312
I think Data did have feelings and emotions, just a form of them that humans couldn’t comprehend. He enjoyed making art and music. He said multiple times that he experienced comfort around and looked forward to spending time with his close friends. That means he could also experience discomfort and dread as well. I don’t know how anyone could watch The Offspring and still think Data is a pile of code inside a human-shaped shell.

>>213631994
The thing that separates the Borg from all the other cybernetic aliens is that they erased their emotions and sense of self in the name of number go up. They are the final form of soulless bug people.

>>213649312
That's the interpretation I got by the end of TNG too; he's a homunculus that is 99% prosthetic, as opposed to a thinking toaster like the EMH.

>>213649312
Data lying to Riker and playing innocent after he tried to shoot the space collector made me wonder how often Data takes advantage of the naivete everyone assumes of him in the non-Data episodes where we can't see everything he's doing. I wonder if he really does believe he has no feelings the whole time or if after a certain point, especially with Starfleet repeatedly trying to strip his rights away, he just keeps it up out of convenience.

>>213649614
i'm surprised no one pointed out to him that humans are nothing more than fully organic robots and that since it's impossible to know any other person's experience it doesn't matter if he's not technically human since he's perfectly capable of behaving and living like one. no one ever told him "love" is not just an "emotion" that you "feel" what actually matters about loving someone is how you manifest that feeling into reality through your actions. even if he never had the "feeling," he DID clearly love his friends.

>>213649819
Data was definitely playing up some of his android traits to take advantage of the meatbags. Autistic people do it too. He’s a very shrewd operator.

>>213649403
Not clicking that. I’m sorry you have ai psychosis. I often wonder if the absolute retards that spend their lives shitting up this thread actually think they’re effecting anything. Then again I try to get the ai spammer to think they are soliciting an emotional response in order to spam

>>213639484
you could use the muscles in your arms to stay your hands and not type out such vile garbage

chat is this real >>213642221

>>213651147
I'd say they're pretty well equal

>>213643896
kek it's like the tyler1 meme

>>213648137
>humanity bombed themselves back to practically analogue-era technology in WW3
>aliens discover us
>we finally learn we are not alone
>aliens probably help us deal with immediate issues like food shortages and medicine
>for the first time we see that our problems can actually be solved, without dismissing them as yet another can to be kicked down the road
seems pretty self explanatory

>>213649231
>why would anyone do that for free? Back in Sisko's restaurant they had waiters running around. I don't think they worked there for free to "better themselves"
Could it perhaps be that they actually liked the restaurant and old man Sisko, and wanted to help him out? What else would they be doing? I imagine working in a restaurant is like having a healthy hobby, and it connects them with their community.
>>213649332
You ever meet a retiree who still works, because they simply find it enjoyable? It's like that

>>213651883
>Could it perhaps be that they actually liked the restaurant and old man Sisko, and wanted to help him out? What else would they be doing? I imagine working in a restaurant is like having a healthy hobby, and it connects them with their community.
Could be that old man Sisko helped them find a sweet beach side crib to bring the honeys.

>>213649648
Binar outsourced a big part of their cognition to their planetary supercomputer, so much so that they’re rendered unconscious if it reboots. All they need is the will to power and they’re the borg

>>213651147
>I fucked her mom, and his mom, and his mom, and her mom. I’ve lost count of my daughters, but good for you I guess. Check my inseam

Thread almost spent. Only the most ride or die niggas go below this post.

>>213652458
Not to mention that they already practice a kind of collective with their two body individual unit. The difference between them and the borg is just a matter of degrees.

>>213652541
BUT IN REALITY he actually was extremely pissed at Garak sniffing around Ziyal. he even sperged out at Kira as it fit was somehow her fault

I like the TNG season 1+2 uniforms. I get a little kick when a random episode comes on TV and I see they're wearing them.

>>213652585
Agreed, plus they’re already hilariously unscrupulous as pointed out earlier. They took the flagship for a joyride because of the possibility they might be denied help. That’s pretty badass
>you might not help me so fuck you I’m taking your ship

>>213652609
It’s still his daughter after all. Even if he abandoned her and has literally dozens of spares

>>213652528
kino s2 episode in s7

>>213652703
i love the scene of Damar insinuating Ziyal is a saboteur and Dukat gets really scary.

>But she IS...MY DAUGHTER

>>213652777
people are such haters of Masks but I think it's comfy and I like it. it's like watching a dream.

>>213653340
people hate it because its really stupid

>>213653455
is it, though?

>>213653496
yes it is, really really pants on head retarded kinda stupid

season 7 is worse than season 2 in every respect save for AGT

>>213653340
My family had the DvD boxes when I was a kid, and we'd get a new box every couple months as a treat. For some reason the bonus features disk, typically at the end of the box that featured behind the scenes production stuff, almost always had a background clip from Masks, even in the S1 or S1 boxes. I was always confused why that episode wasn't in any of the seasons we had, so I actually got excited to see it when we finally got S7.

>>213653552
unlike most I like picard as a pirate but essentially yes

>>213653626
eve in the S1 or S2 boxes*

>>213653552
I prefer season two as a whole because of the campy space sitcom feel. Season seven felt too much like a plot checklist and the actors were clearly spread thin. While I like a lot of season seven, I overall prefer season two.

>>213653496
It somehow implies that whatever weird Aztec planet the archive came from has a moon and moon mythology parallel to Earth’s, and also that they like their ships to be jungles. That’s pretty dumb

>>213648605
lol WIFE BAD
i love boomer humor

>>213650003
>Autistic people do it too. He’s a very shrewd operator.
nice cope, do you tell everyone on >>>/r9k/ that?

>>213653849
>take my automated simulation of my nagging wife. Please!

>>213653523
>>213653826
i disagree. i have no problem with the premise of it as its basically the same concept as the inner light. aliens wanting to preserve the memory of their civilization and they have the ability to make others actually experience it.

>>213653888
NTA but some autistic people I have met definitely do play up their ineptitude to shirk responsibility.

>>213653826
The plot was a mess and the shooting schedule nearly killed Brent Spiner. However it reminded me of my favorite Zelda game so I can’t hate Masks that much.
>>213653849
TOS was written by either Silent or Greatest generation.

>>213653925
Don’t get me wrong, I can like the episode and still think it’s dumb. Aztec spaceships are cool. Just dumb

>>213653928
>play up their ineptitude to shirk responsibility.
that's not an autism thing that's just a man thing

>>213653826
>, and also that they like their ships to be jungles. That’s pretty dumb
half of the mouth breathing troglodytes here want a spaceship to be full of static generating carpet and flammable wood because it's "'comfy," so don't throw stones (we need them to rain down on the conn when an EPS conduit breaks)

>>213653957
Well I’m not one of those people. I think TOS nailed the aesthetic and has never been matched

>>213653888
I work in disability care and yes they absolutely do, so do the ones with down syndrome btw

>>213653957
That's not even remotely similar you faggot

new
>>213654052
>>213654052
>>213654052

Overlooked this episode
Top 10 in my book

>>213653949
human*

>>213632071
Because there wasn't as much of a necessity and therefore no demand. The main reason the Star Wars Expanded Universe got popular and therefore made an attempt at a relatively coherent continuity is because there were no other Star Wars movies (or any major TV series sans a couple of dumb brain rot cartoons, considered EU anyway) from 1983 to 1999. There was a demand due to lack of other SW content and therefore the EU became "canon" by filling in a much needed craving for Star Wars. Keep in mind the video games were EU too. Even around and after the prequels there's like two cartoons but all other content was EU. You basically have just 6 movies.

On the other hand Star Trek has TOS in the 1960's, ten films, and literally four TV series airing continuously from 1987 to 2005. Star Trek fans didn't "need" Star Trek "EU" content ergo no demand for any sort of consistency.

>>213632071
Star Wars comics and novels meet the demand that the films can't sate due to their limited runtime and production length. If you saw the original in 1977, comics and novels were the quickest way to throw more content at you. With Trek, if you really liked the first episode you got a full one in a weeks time and then dozens more in the coming months. So there's never really any burning demand for novels and comics like with SW

>>213640387
Oh, waah, fucking waah. You can't make anyone do anything, and you know it.

>>213650831
What do you have against version 0 of the holodeck?

>>213651883
That's not a realistic basis for a society, much less an interplanetary one, and you know it.