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  1. 17 hours ago, DoctorAtomic said:

    It's from Futurama. They're making a joke about Lando flirting with the droid. 

    Although the comics, which are canonical, did establish Lando as being pansexual.

  2. On 7/23/2023 at 12:50 PM, starri said:

    Anyone else pretty sure that Hollywood is going to learn all of the wrong lessons from Barbie's success?  You know, rather than a unique, cleverly written movie, just assume that people just want movies based on toys?

    Called it.

    Leaving aside the fact that Greta Gerwig is a better creator than Lena Dunham by the factor of approximately infinity, the former also had 60+ years of social commentary and the developments of second- and third-wave feminism to draw from when crafting a story about Barbie.

    What the hell is there to say about Polly Pocket?

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    An accident with an experimental quantum probability field causes everyone on the USS Enterprise to break uncontrollably into song, but the real danger is that the field is expanding and beginning to impact other ships — allies and enemies alike.

     

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  4. 17 minutes ago, Chicago Redshirt said:

    It would have been better if Pike, Number One or Spock had been the one to know that there was a piece of the NX-01 incorporated into the NCC-1701 and therefore they didn't have to raid the fleet museum for whatever-metal.

    Although we know Admiral April was her first captain, so unless one of them (and Spock would have likely still been at the Academy when Enterprise first launched) was part of his crew, they wouldn't necessarily have known either.

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  5. After a bunch of Hot Takes about how the movie is anti-masculinity, I had to wonder if I somehow saw a different movie.  While the narrative definitely opposed to toxic masculinity, it actually came across to me as exceedingly sympathetic to the insecurities that give rise to that kind of behavior.  

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  6. "We will take you to the Council, G'Kar.  And some day when all this is over, perhaps you will find it in your heart to forgive me."

    "Perhaps...but not today."

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    "You want my help for the sake of my people.  I will give it...for the sake of my own.  If I remove the monster from your throne, you will remove the monster from my world:  Leave Narn.  Set my world free.  Promise me this, and I will do as you ask."

    Sometimes I forget just how damned good of an actor Andreas Katsulas was.  This animated movie, with the replacement voices, no matter how good it is or isn't, no one is going to measure up to him.

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  7. 1 hour ago, tv-talk said:

    or instance the actual Kirk (as I will call him) would never have just hand-waved away his entire existence because La'an said it was better in her world. This Kirk was adamant about leaving timeline as-is to save his universe, but then had 2 hot dogs and a hot shower (literally), and suddenly was all "Eh whatever, let's just annihilate the existence of everything and everyone I have ever known."

    He didn't, though.

    He only fully got onboard when La'an told him that in her universe, his brother was alive.

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  8. All of the the released episodes are here.  They had another three in various stages of production before CBS clamped down, and pieces of one of them were put on YouTube, but I'm unsure if you can still find them.

    "World Enough and Time" is the one that was Hugo nominated.  I also do recommend "Blood and Fire."  The episode ends on a downbeat note, but it makes the story more personal than its original TNG incarnation, as it makes one half of the gay couple Kirk's nephew Peter.

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  9. For my money, the best of the fan series was Star Trek: New Voyages and its successor Phase II. They had a number TOS people, including George Takei, Walter Koenig, and Grace Lee Whitney appear in front of the camera and filmed episodes written by DC Fontana and David Gerrold (an adaptation of his aborted TNG script "Blood and Fire" which would have featured Trek's first openly queer characters) and a third episode even got nominated against Battlestar Galactica, Torchwood, and Doctor Who for a Hugo Award.

    The production values were astonishingly high.  Enterprise even ended up borrowing some of their props for the Defiant in "In A Mirror, Darkly" and turned around and gifted them some of their props, including the pencil sketches of the previous Enterprises that were in Archer's ready room.

    Sadly, this all got squashed by CBS after a bunch of idiots decided to make a fan film that they could profit off of.

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  10. On 5/27/2023 at 7:23 PM, Kel Varnsen said:

    Plus when I think about the Secret Wars comic storyline and what I know about it, Raimi is absolutely the one director will probably know better than to put Peter Parker in that stupid black costume.

    This is more likely going to be based on/inspired by Jonathan Hickman's sweeping Fantastic Four story from the 2010s instead of Jim Shooter's original 80s Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars.

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