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Post by bill on Feb 28, 2014 17:10:00 GMT
Still watching DS9. A thought occurred. Odo modelled his physical appearance to some extent on Dr Mora the guy who discovered him. Also he has always said that he finds humanoid faces difficult. Why then do all shape shifters look the same?
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Post by Mari on Mar 5, 2014 19:51:00 GMT
I know. The whole shapeshifting thing is not thought through at a lot o places.
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Post by bill on Mar 29, 2014 17:55:55 GMT
Watching 'Future's End', I think my favourite Voyager episode. (Or episodes). This would have have made a brilliant Voyager movie.
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Post by kingedmund on Oct 4, 2014 8:42:32 GMT
Gee I missed this too! I did not know that about Odo. Amber they modeled after humans to give them something better to look at than a blob after seeing Odo.
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Post by Alvamiga on Oct 4, 2014 19:41:35 GMT
I was watching an episode of Frasier the other day with the guy who plays Odo. It's odd because he has a distinctive voice, but looks very different because of all that make-up.
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Post by kingedmund on Oct 4, 2014 23:48:05 GMT
Amber! How did my phone auto correct "maybe" to amber. Odo is very different on other shows. He played on Warehouse 13.
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Post by bill on Jan 21, 2015 17:58:45 GMT
I suspect that Col is the only one really interested in ST. I have just watched ST First Contact, again. It it is one of my favourite movies. BUT, if the Borg Queen was killed in this film how come she was alive and well in Voyager? There was something else but I can't remember what it was.
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Post by Alvamiga on Jan 21, 2015 22:45:32 GMT
It was the 20 anniversary of the pilot episode of Voyager a couple of days back. I saw it a couple of days later with someone at university who had it shipped over on video tape from the USA, when YouTube and the like were a distant possibility! I was interested, but he was one of those types who owned uniforms and so on!
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Post by Mari on Jan 23, 2015 18:30:57 GMT
Wow. 20 years already? I've been rewatching the entire show. I'm in season 5 now.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jan 26, 2015 23:34:49 GMT
'What are the Jeffries tubes actually supposed to do (other than provide a used-almost-every-episode plot line where they are crawled through)?' Jeffries tubes are service conduits with exciting things like EPS lines running through them. They are named after the set designer on the original series who was looking for really cheap ways of making extra settings inside their tiny budget. Visiting a building supply yard he noticed large diameter board tubes that were used as cheap formwork for casting concrete in pre-drilled holes ... and the rest is Star Trek history (or fine equivalent).
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Post by bill on Jan 27, 2015 17:55:12 GMT
Wow. 20 years already? I've been rewatching the entire show. I'm in season 5 now. Finished Voyager, again, a couple of weeks ago. I am on the second season of Enterprise now.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jan 28, 2015 14:13:42 GMT
Currently on Enterprise Season 4.
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Post by Mari on Jan 28, 2015 17:34:32 GMT
Enterprise or the next generation? I actually rather liked Enterprise with Cpt Archer, though I did have to get into it. I hope they'll one day produce a new series. They have enough fans, I'm sure it would be a hit. Though the last 2 films weren't really my thing.
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Post by bill on Jan 29, 2015 12:16:56 GMT
I liked the first of the latest films but I thought the second was pretty poor. And why on earth change Khan from a Sikh to a white American or European?
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Post by Alvamiga on Jan 29, 2015 15:27:36 GMT
40 years of political correctness?
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Post by Mari on Jan 29, 2015 15:42:59 GMT
Hollywood does that all the time. In Pay it Forward they changed the lead character from a black man to a white one, because they were afraid no one would come since the man gets a relationship with a white woman. Remember also the commotion over the Cheerios commercial in the US last year with a mixed family? Absolutely ridiculous.
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Post by Alvamiga on Jan 29, 2015 17:03:29 GMT
This one? Obviously taking a huge risk getting banned because it's SOOOOOOOOO controversial!
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Post by ceptimus on Jan 29, 2015 19:20:18 GMT
They changed Ron's first girlfriend from black to white in the Harry Potter films because they thought inter-racial kissing might make the American audiences faint. I don't remember whether Lavender Brown's race was ever mentioned in the books. In the early films she was played by black actresses - she only had bit parts. Once the later books were written and it became clear she was to become romantically involved with Ron, a white actress was substituted. harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Lavender_Brown
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Post by Mari on Jan 30, 2015 14:14:35 GMT
Alva, yes that one.
That is very sad. I don't understand why possible faint-hearted Americans should make them do this. We're all so outspoken about some Muslim people not taking illustrations of their prophet so well, but at the same time it's apparently not possible to have a white-skinned person love a dark-skinned person and vice versa. Hypocrites.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jan 30, 2015 16:54:29 GMT
Ironically the first ever interracial kiss on American TV was between Capt Kirk and Lt Uhura in Start Trek ... decades ago ...
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Post by Alvamiga on Jan 30, 2015 17:31:54 GMT
Yes, and that was a major shocker at the time!
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Post by Mari on Jan 30, 2015 17:48:47 GMT
I read an interview/documentary thingy about Star Trek TOS and they were talking about having a mixed crew on those days. It was very interesting.
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Post by bill on Jan 30, 2015 21:58:00 GMT
40 years of political correctness? Yes but it's inverse racism. As a member of the white race I could complain that white people are being stereotyped as villains. It's as stupid as that!
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Post by Alvamiga on Jan 31, 2015 11:42:25 GMT
Are you allowed to use the term "white" these days? Shouldn't that be "person not of colour?" Political correctness seems to just be a problem of itself. I think the most offensive one I've thought of so far is "Racially Challenged"
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Post by Mari on Jan 31, 2015 18:50:27 GMT
What on earth is that supposed to even mean? Albino probably?
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Post by bill on Feb 4, 2015 17:50:29 GMT
I am about to begin Enterprise season 3. I agree that Enterprise has a few 'duff' episodes particularly in the early part of the series BUT on the whole i think it is brilliant and I do not understand some of the vitriolic reviews on IMVd.
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Post by bill on Mar 10, 2015 15:24:17 GMT
This is probably known to all other Trekkies but it passed me by until today. I learned that the first black woman astronaut, Mae Jemison, appeared in a ST TNG episode.
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Post by Mari on Mar 10, 2015 21:51:05 GMT
I didn't know who the first black female astronaut was, or the first female astronaut, period.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Mar 10, 2015 23:16:15 GMT
BUT, if the Borg Queen was killed in this film how come she was alive and well in Voyager? There was something else but I can't remember what it was. New Queen - just like changing over to a new brake lining - you have to remember that the Borg are components of the whole not individuals, so 'Queen' is a role not a person. There is some theorisation that 7/9 was intended by the Borg Collective to be a spare Queen (see the endless and deep debate on the Memory-Alpha boards ... if you think you can cope).
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Post by bill on Mar 12, 2015 17:47:25 GMT
Watching ST TNG. Again the captain has put the ship on auto destruct. Fair enough, but every time it happens the procedure is totally different. Sometimes one person can do it, sometimes two, sometimes three. Sometimes a password is required, sometimes not. Sometimes the computer sets the time period sometimes not. I just wish they would make up their minds.
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