Star Trek: Attack of Shatner's Toupee Tribble

[IheartIheartTesla]

Picard S3 season finale (last 2 episodes I think) are being aired in IMAX theaters in 10 locations for free, and you can score tickets by registering tomorrow at 1 PM EST. I dont live remotely near those locations, but some of youse lucky mooks may be able to wrangle something.

[SpaceChampion]

23 hours ago, IheartIheartTesla said:

Picard S3 season finale (last 2 episodes I think) are being aired in IMAX theaters in 10 locations for free, and you can score tickets by registering tomorrow at 1 PM EST. I dont live remotely near those locations, but some of youse lucky mooks may be able to wrangle something.

Seeing it in IMAX sounds like a better idea than how I saw All Good Things on the Skydome jumbotron in Toronto.

IMAX is headquartered nearby, but I don't see it playing in Canada....  grrrr.

Edited April 12 by SpaceChampion

[IheartIheartTesla]

Yeah its a shame they dont have it in Toronto (or anywhere near the Midwest like Chicago, for example).

Anyway, Jeri Ryan just tweeted that she say Ep 9 for the first time a few hours ago, and its fire. Also cautioned everyone to stay as far away from spoilers (or indeed, any social media) as possible.

Have to say, I have only watched ST in reruns, so its great to be a part of 'event TV' involving Star Trek, I imagine this is how watching Best of Both Worlds Part 2 felt like back in the day.

[Mosi Mynn]

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Noooooo!  Shaw!!  

(I mean, the clue was in the name - but I was looking forward to the Titan spin off.)

 

[Ser Scot A Ellison]

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A better episode.  But I hate that everything we’re seeing seems to have been predicted.  How… pray tell… did a faction of Changlings make an alliance with the Borg?  The Borg don’t make alliances… they absorb other species.  The Changlings, as a different form of collective, seem like something that wouldn’t be able to be assimilated…

 

Edited April 13 by Ser Scot A Ellison

[Jaxom 1974]

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After 2 seasons if terrible Borg bullshit...this seems like a much better use of them...

 

[Jaxom 1974]

4 hours ago, Ser Scot A Ellison said:

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A better episode.  But I hate that everything we’re seeing seems to have been predicted.  How… pray tell… did a faction of Changlings make an alliance with the Borg?  The Borg don’t make alliances… they absorb other species.  The Changlings as a different form of collective seem like something that wouldn’t be able to be assimilated…

 

Sorry. Nope. Can't agree. Even if I knew some of that.  It all worked for me.

[RumHam]

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I was pretty checked out by the end of last season, but I thought the borg were federation allies lead by queen Jurati now? 

Edit: So Jack has an organic tranciever/transmitter, ok. Doesn't really explain how others are reviecing him though. Edit again: Ok at least they brought that up. I'll shut up till I finish the episode. 

 

Edited April 13 by RumHam

[Jaxom 1974]

37 minutes ago, RumHam said:

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I was pretty checked out by the end of last season, but I thought the borg were federation allies lead by queen Jurati now? 

Edit: So Jack has an organic tranciever/transmitter, ok. Doesn't really explain how others are reviecing him though. Edit again: Ok at least they brought that up. I'll shut up till I finish the episode. 

 

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I mean, it's like they want to forget two seasons of crappy Borg stories... it's hard to square, yeah.  But since I want to forget everything with the Borg and Jurati, I'm going to look beyond that right now... 

 

[RumHam]

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I love the borg drones saying "eliminate all unassimilated" before trying to kill the crew. Thanks for the warning!

It's not at all clear to me why the entire fleet had to be in one physical location for the borg's evil plan. But I guess all Jack had to do was wait a day before going to visit the borg and the fleet never would have been assimilated? 

Seven and Raffi staying behind makes no sense beyond "sorry, TNG cast only." Shaw was clearly fucked and it's not like she could take him to sick bay. I wish we'd gotten more of a reaction from him to the reveal that it's the borg before he went. "I'm dying so I'll stop being a dick about your name while bequething you a starship that's under borg control" was also a pretty lame attempt at tugging at our emotions. 

Until I know what destroyed the E, I'm gonna assume it was Tribbles and it was indeed Worf's fault. 

Just a heads up, I read something about a post-credits scene next week.

[RumHam]

6 hours ago, Mosi Mynn said:

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Noooooo!  Shaw!!  

(I mean, the clue was in the name - but I was looking forward to the Titan spin off.)

 

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Hey, we got Strange New Worlds despite knowing how it ends for Pike. Who knows how long he ran that ship before this and what crazy adventures they had.

I'd like to see them go back to Fuller's idea of an anthology show where each season is set on a differnt ship at a different point in time and have season one be a Titan adventure. 

 

[Ser Scot A Ellison]

I did enjoy seeing 

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Shelby.  Even if it was a throw away… “see what her arrogance got her”.  I agree with @TrackerNeil that Riker should have gotten his own ship after BOBW and been a frequent guest star with Shelby as the new XO…

 

Edited April 13 by Ser Scot A Ellison

[Mosi Mynn]

1 hour ago, RumHam said:

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Hey, we got Strange New Worlds despite knowing how it ends for Pike. Who knows how long he ran that ship before this and what crazy adventures they had.

I'd like to see them go back to Fuller's idea of an anthology show where each season is set on a differnt ship at a different point in time and have season one be a Titan adventure. 

 

Great idea.  Thanks for the glimmer of hope 

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I still want to know who thought it was good idea to put Seven on a ship captained by a survivor of Wolf 359 who was so traumatised that it was scrawled all over his Starfleet record.

 

[SpaceChampion]

I was hoping to see Riker in the background on the bridge of the D do a Riker manoeuvre only to find he can't lift his leg that high any more so just sits down normally, either disappointed or hoping no one else saw that.

[Werthead]

Whilst it was great to see the Big D back in action, it does feel somewhat odd to take an older Galaxy-class that hasn't flown for 30 years into battle rather than, say, the Defiant or the Akira or Steamrunner-class they had at the Fleet Museum, all three of which were specifically designed to fight the Borg. Hell, the Voyager might have been a better bet, depending on how much of its old anti-Borg tech was still installed.

I do wonder if they had been "deactivated" in terms of weapons systems though, whilst Geordi was restoring the Big D to full operating status before worrying about that.

[Ser Scot A Ellison]

12 minutes ago, Werthead said:

Whilst it was great to see the Big D back in action, it does feel somewhat odd to take an older Galaxy-class that hasn't flown for 30 years into battle rather than, say, the Defiant or the Akira or Steamrunner-class they had at the Fleet Museum, all three of which were specifically designed to fight the Borg. Hell, the Voyager might have been a better bet, depending on how much of its old anti-Borg tech was still installed.

I do wonder if they had been "deactivated" in terms of weapons systems though, whilst Geordi was restoring the Big D to full operating status before worrying about that.

For that matter why would any Starship in a museum setting have active weapons systems or live launchable torpedoes aboard the vessel? 

I can see it now:

“Bob… Bob… control your child… he’s activating the torpedo launcher and the phaser array.”

Edited April 14 by Ser Scot A Ellison

[RumHam]

I've seen a lot of people say "how is an old ship going to stand a chance against the new fleet" and I think it's just not? Their plan can't be combat. 

Also they do have allies, like we know those weird looking Vulcan ships exist, the Klingons (I wonder if Martok is still in charge.) Maybe even the cardassians, who knows what happened to them. 

[DaveSumm]

Every scene of this feels like a Playboy article, existing only to give the veneer that a respectable plot is happening between all the ship porn.

Yea yea yea the D is cool. But this show has taken 29/30ths of its runtime through the most convoluted and tortured means just to get us there. The red door turned out to be nothing, it didn’t need to be red or a door or have vines, it was just some random imagery to act as the obligatory mystery for the season. And Jack’s plan has to rank up with the absolute dummest we’ve seen in Trek; I’m gonna visit the Borg (who famously assimilate on first sight) and kill the Borg Queen with this regular ass phaser. Cheers Jack.

I guess he’ll turn the Borg good next week or some shit, and we’ll all pretend that didn’t already happen in Season 2.

[Werthead]

1 hour ago, Ser Scot A Ellison said:

For that matter why would any Starship in a museum setting have active weapons systems or live launchable torpedoes aboard the vessel? 

I can see it now:

“Bob… Bob… control your child… he’s activating the torpedo launcher and the phaser array.”

It's still a Federation planet which needs defences, and presumably Spacedock is armed to defend itself against an attack, the same as any orbital station. So reactivating the weapons systems on the D - which has not been converted to its full display mode - is probably not that hard.

The speculation is that the Syracuse might have been one of the Galaxy-class ships we saw in the Dominion War and lost its saucer in battle, which were all converted to heavy weapons platforms, so it might be even better-equipped for combat than the OG Enterprise-D stardrive.

Edited April 14 by Werthead

[IheartIheartTesla]

4 hours ago, RumHam said:

I've seen a lot of people say "how is an old ship going to stand a chance against the new fleet" and I think it's just not? Their plan can't be combat. 

Unless they carpet bomb the fleet [/joke]