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[-] Stamets@startrek.website 47 points 1 year ago

This is such a fucking accurate take. Endearing is definitely the best way to phrase it. Who doesn't love a good ol' giant green hand grabbing the ship like a fuckin frisbee?

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

And it's the god Apollo, of all things... Haha

[-] Stamets@startrek.website 17 points 1 year ago

I mean... who else would it be? Da Vinci as an immortal being? Hahaha...hah..ha...

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago
[-] Stamets@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago

He'll always be General Pushkin to me.

[-] veroxii@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago

It's that guy from Sliders!

[-] Hupf@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

gets punched in the face by Luke Skywalker

[-] Rhaedas@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

As campy as that was, even for the crew, I have to think what Spock might say: "Certainly odd, and yet it still has our ship captured." I still love that episode. As a kid the idea of gods being "just" alien visitors far beyond our understanding was genius, and as an adult understanding the much darker side of it that I didn't get as a kid (why Lt. Carolyn Palamas came back to the end scene looking all battered).

[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah Stargate was a pretty good show.

[-] Norgur@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

And telepathic planet devouring Chihuahuas in a lion costume

[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago

Gene Roddenberry was a horny bastard.

[-] Haus@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago

I'd go as far as to say "If Gene Roddenberry wasn't such a horny bastard, we'd all be talking about Logan's Run or something.

[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Completely agree. Imagine if he got his way when designing the Ferengi. Whenever they're on screen, huge bulge takes up most of the screen.

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 6 points 1 year ago

The ears would grow and get flaccid.

[-] aeronmelon@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

Similar to how TOS movies have sentences for titles and TNG movies have mostly single words.

...then the Kelvin movies forced the use of Trek as a verb.

[-] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 16 points 1 year ago

Wait... So it's Star: Trek Into Darkness and Star: Trek Beyond?? That makes so much sense

[-] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago

What are you talking about? They didn't make any TNG movies. I get how you could get mixed up, though, because it was a tragically wasted opportunity, just like how they only ever made three Indiana Jones movies and then stopped forever.

[-] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago

Interesting. I legit thought First Contact was excellent. I've gotten multiple people into Star Trek using that film as the gateway.

There was a family of the most normal people you can imagine and I showed that film to my friend, their eldest son. The next thing I know they have a cat named Tuvok and are dressing up like away teams for Halloween. It was awesome.

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 17 points 1 year ago

First Contact is the best TNG movie.

It continues threads from the series with Picard dealing with PTSD from being assimilated and with Data wanting to be more human. It is probably the most cinematic of the movies, both in acting and in cinematography. You also have the A and B plots working well together.

[-] themoken@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago

First Contact is legit excellent. So are cats named Tuvok.

[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Hmm, I am going to try to bribe my wife to watch it. After her sitting through 4 Stargate seasons, she doesn't trust any sci Fi recommendations from me anymore. 🤪

[-] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Oh man, if you didn't show her Window of Opportunity, you definitely should. That's how the show got its hooks in a lot of my friends and family.

[-] lunarul@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

And some movies are fine the way it is. Like how The Matrix just stands on its own and never had any sequels.

[-] RojoSanIchiban@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

They did do that long episode with a bigger budget about the guys with bad facelifts. It was kinda like a movie.

[-] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Good thing they ended Back to the Future with a paradox, thus ensuring there could never be any sequels.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 1 year ago

I can't ignore the TNG movies when they gave us scenes like Data hating a drink and asking for more.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago

To be fair, TNG has "the light within" which is a very dramatic title that doesn't tell you much about the episode. If it followed the formula described here it would be like "flute" or "flash" or "in another life"

[-] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 year ago

Isn't it called The Inner Light, which does somewhat describe Picard's situation.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Ah you're right. Thats what I get for just going from my dumb memory.

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I'm sorry but for getting the title of such an iconic episode wrong your banned from Star Trek for a month.

Please turn in your neck beard on the way out.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Lol I just finished TNG for the first time this year

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Don't make me get Yar sir. She will die to make you leave.

[-] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hey, Disaster was a good episode. About a disaster.

[-] teft@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago

The Inner Light is about that time Picard caught COVID and got sucked into alternative treatment methods via alt-light holodeck programs.

[-] RojoSanIchiban@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Like... stormlight?

teehee

[-] TheEgoBot@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago
[-] julianh@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile ds9 episodes are called "Tango" which has nothing to do with the episode, which is about two people beating the shit out each other for 5 years or something and is widely regarded as one of the best episodes in the show.

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