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  • Trick of the light

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  • I agree I wouldn’t use that word to describe the colour, but it looks just about right the way they print it on the “Uniform Color Code” uniform colour code page, so that’s just a question of what you want to call it.

  • Trick of the light

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  • The colours and cuts laid out in Franz Joseph’s Technical Manual are authoritative. They’ve got authentication stardates and everything.

  • Riker has to fight

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  • The return of the king extended cut additions are straight up trash

    Some of them I could certainly do without, but the fate of Saruman and Sauron's Mouth are worth sitting through the rest.

  • The Real Thing

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  • Good info, thanks!

  • The Real Thing

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  • I only recently heard of this one, but it looks like they just used the ship to ship combat system from the 25th Anniversary game?

    I loved that one enough that I think i should find this one emulated just for nostalgia’s sake.

  • The Real Thing

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  • I need to get my hands on it. I worked in a comic shop once upon a time, but these days I don't get out to them too often.

  • Shots fired...good thing Storm Troppers can't hit anything

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  • Though I’ve heard not everything is worth watching.

    You heard wrong 😎

    Seriously, if you ask ten Trekkies you’ll get twelve opinions on what’s good, what isn’t, and why. My best advice is to try everything, skip a few seasons ahead if a show is not resonating at first, and if it still isn’t hitting the mark for you at that point move on to the next series. Most shows* take a while to reach their potential, but until the recent stuff they’re all episodic enough that you can feel free to jump around a bit.

    *The original series is the exception, it pretty much hits the ground running.

  • Do they still get stuck in the 32nd century?

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  • Well, just the one purpose, really…

    But it was damn good at it! 👍

  • A warrior's name!

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  • Ensign Ricky… will return… in Avengers: Doomsday

  • Do they still get stuck in the 32nd century?

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  • Sure, but now thanks to AR walls the caves will be cavernous tunnels stretching out to infinity, while the crew stick to a small area demarcated by a few conspicuous stalagmites.

  • Shots fired...good thing Storm Troppers can't hit anything

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  • Thankfully most of the science fiction isn’t in that technobabble but in the plot lines; questioning what it is to be human, to be civilised, and what meaning their is to life, post-scarcity.

    This point needs more acknowledgement. Star Trek isn’t a sci-fi show because it does or doesn’t have magic, it’s because it tends to follow the genre conventions of a (very soft, pop) sci-fi show. Easy example, Star Wars doesn’t tend to focus on questions like “hey are these robots sentient? How could we know?” while Star Trek can’t stop litigating that issue.

  • Dick gets Tarred

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  • Why does her leaving voluntarily change things? People who quit a job still deserve respect.

    Regardless, I’m more concerned about the original behaviour than whether he remembered it or not. A forgetful asshole is still an asshole.

  • "That was not my fault." - Worf (regarding the Enterprise E)

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  • I don’t love the idea that every Enterprise has been the flagship. I always assumed that’s just the role the D filled. Until SNW, no one talked about Kirk’s ship being the flagship. I don’t really see why we need to assume the G is either.

    I mean, there were decades between the C was lost and the D was launched. The whole fleet doesn’t need to revolve around an Enterprise.

  • "That was not my fault." - Worf (regarding the Enterprise E)

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  • The G looks good for a late 23rd century ship. I'll never be able to accept it as a 25th century design. As far as I'm concerned, they slapped the Enterprise name on a 100 year old workhorse.

  • [Need to know more intensifies]

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    • There was a young woman from Venus
    • Whose body was shaped like a penis
    • She made a trip to Phylos
    • And you may think it’s gross
    • But Spock II took her right up his anus

  • time will tell

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  • Cannot relate, was working from home before, during, and after Covid.

  • MOAR!!!!

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  • I was scrolling “new” and upvoted this not seeing what it was in response to, feeling pretty confident it was the right call. Now that I’ve checked, turns out I was right.

  • Op doesn't have time for interviews

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  • Agreed, it presents as an abstract logic puzzle, but then gives a very concrete answer. It’s like presenting the trolly problem to someone, and when they give one of the two expected answers saying “no, stupid, you run ahead and untie the victims before the trolly reaches them.”

    It’s compounded by the fact that the proposed physical solution isn’t even very reliable, as lots of people in this thread have said. If we’re stepping outside of the logic puzzle constraints, why not just leave the door to the room open? Or have someone stand inside and shout when the light turns on? Or ask someone who knows these switches? Or any number of boring non-brain teaser solutions.

  • Op doesn't have time for interviews

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  • Go into the room and unscrew the bulb. You can now truthfully say that no switch affects the bulb’s condition, without messing with a bunch of switches whose function you don’t understand. You even know for a fact that the lack of bulb won’t cause a problem down the line, since the room is apparently no longer accessible.