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DenMan · 18-10-2020 11:12PM

Watched Discovery's season 3 opener tonight and loved it. Can't wait for episode 2 next week.

Evade · 20-10-2020 01:45PM

Sometime TNG is more prescient than you realise. The internet is slowly becoming the aliens from Darmok. Mike and Rich from RLM doing another list of their favourite TNG episodes.

https://youtu.be/Zs13fJuP0F4?t=3050

breezy1985 · 20-10-2020 02:00PM

DenMan wrote: »

Watched Discovery's season 3 opener tonight and loved it. Can't wait for episode 2 next week.

Was really good and I can't believe I am once again gonna let myself get excited about all the mystery of a CBS Trek. They have botched every landing so far but they are great at the build up episodes.

Just saw LD finale last night too man that was amazing

Rawr · 21-10-2020 10:13AM

Evade wrote: »

Sometime TNG is more prescient than you realise. The internet is slowly becoming the aliens from Darmok. Mike and Rich from RLM doing another list of their favourite TNG episodes.

https://youtu.be/Zs13fJuP0F4?t=3050

Started watching this last night. I do enjoy their banter about Trek shows. They also tend to have interesting perspectives on TNG episodes that I hadn't considered then or even since.

pixelburp · 21-10-2020 10:27AM

Rawr wrote: »

Started watching this last night. I do enjoy their banter about Trek shows. They also tend to have interesting perspectives on TNG episodes that I hadn't considered then or even since.

Yeah, I haven't finished it (cos 1+ hour videos on YouTube can be a chore), but just their perspective on Geordi alone is interesting. I still maintain he was a poor character badly acted but seeing these depths and shades highlighted was also enlightening. TNG romance writing was always kinda awful so was hard to penetrate the cheese sometimes.

Ronanc1 · 21-10-2020 12:18PM

Rawr wrote: »

Started watching this last night. I do enjoy their banter about Trek shows. They also tend to have interesting perspectives on TNG episodes that I hadn't considered then or even since.

I think Redlettermedia are probably the cream of the Youtube crop in relation to video reviews that aren't the in depth dissection essay style alá the Nerdwriter1 etc. They generally just balance the humour/slapstick very well against some very insightful critiques.

As someone mentioned in the comments in that video they should do a spin off channel called RedLetter-shirt for their Star Trek content hah!

Goodshape · 21-10-2020 12:24PM

pixelburp wrote: »

I still maintain he was a poor character badly acted

Oh? I like Geordi a lot. He wasn't often given a whole lot to do but I thought the character (and actor) did well with what they had. His love for engineering, and the Enterprise, was palpable. I'd say I have a better sense of what his actual job (and passion) was than most people on the ship.

And I just liked the guy. Seemed more personable than a lot of the crew.

mikhail · 21-10-2020 01:14PM

I'd agree. I was a kid watching, so probably not as critical as I might be now, but I always liked the character.

Evade · 21-10-2020 01:40PM

I always thought Burton acted well enough for what he got.

breezy1985 · 21-10-2020 01:56PM

Goodshape wrote: »

Oh? I like Geordi a lot. He wasn't often given a whole lot to do but I thought the character (and actor) did well with what they had. His love for engineering, and the Enterprise, was palpable. I'd say I have a better sense of what his actual job (and passion) was than most people on the ship.

And I just liked the guy. Seemed more personable than a lot of the crew.

He was the most important person on the ship because he was the only one could "run a level 2 diagnostic"

Was always my favourite in TNG too and it seems to be very cool at the moment to say that Picard, Data and Word were the Kirk,Spock,McCoy of TNG and everyone else was only background

pixelburp · 21-10-2020 03:13PM

Goodshape wrote: »

Oh? I like Geordi a lot. He wasn't often given a whole lot to do but I thought the character (and actor) did well with what they had. His love for engineering, and the Enterprise, was palpable. I'd say I have a better sense of what his actual job (and passion) was than most people on the ship.

And I just liked the guy. Seemed more personable than a lot of the crew.

To be clear: LeVar Burton is up there with Tom Hanks as an actor who exudes a high level of common decency and warmth. He seems to be a genuinely nice guy and that came across on screen. I just think he was a very limited actor who found himself wanting when Geordi had more dramatic material written for him. Not the worst in the cast either mind you

Justin Credible Darts · 21-10-2020 05:14PM

always remembered him more as cunta kinti in roots.

In tng geordi was a cardboard cut out.....along with neelix, possibly the most awful main character in any trek series...just awful

Stark · 21-10-2020 05:18PM

No way you can compare Geordi to Neelix. One was a bit bland but otherwise non-objectionable, the other ruined every scene he was in and was ugly as sin to boot.

breezy1985 · 21-10-2020 05:36PM

Justin Credible Darts wrote: »

always remembered him more as cunta kinti in roots.

In tng geordi was a cardboard cut out.....along with neelix, possibly the most awful main character in any trek series...just awful

I'd have Geordi over at least half of the Voyager crew and probably all of them except 7 and EMH as characters critically and personally all of them except 7. Add to that Troi, pre movie Checkov, Mayweather, Reed, Tilly and boy if you want cardboard security officer/Klingon spy Clem Fandango

21-10-2020 06:16PM

Reed was an absolute creepy letch
Mayweather? They cast a guy who could actually throw a few punches/kicks, show it a few times then never go anywhere with it.

ShockChance · 06-11-2020 12:09PM

pixelburp · 15-11-2020 10:18PM

Watching The Last Kingdom lately and it's a neat reminder how blatantly Klingons of the TNG functioned as space Vikings; or rather, the common representation of Vikings in media. It's not even subtle when you watch "real" Vikings shouting about honour, death, and war. I also expect Worf to walk into scene to bellow about Kahless

scudzilla · 05-12-2020 11:27PM

Recently finished run throughs of TNG and DS9, up to S6 in runthrough of Voyager now, surprised at how many episodes i missed on first run when it originally aired.

Seven of Nine though, jaysus, she's the saving grace

AMKC · 09-12-2020 10:56PM

Seen this today and thought it was good.

https://www.facebook.com/554837581290843/posts/3520178401423398/?sfnsn=mo

AMKC · 09-12-2020 11:00PM

So if TNG was going to be digitally updated what would you change in it?

Me I would but some other classes of ship in it when the Enterprise is meeting one or an ambassador is coming onboard instead of just Excelsior and Oberth class. Have some Challenger class ships in there a New Orleans class, a Springfield class and a Cheyanne class ship at least. A but of variety.

Banana Republic 1 · 09-12-2020 11:57PM

breezy1985 wrote: »

I'd have Geordi over at least half of the Voyager crew and probably all of them except 7 and EMH as characters critically and personally all of them except 7. Add to that Troi, pre movie Checkov, Mayweather, Reed, Tilly and boy if you want cardboard security officer/Klingon spy Clem Fandango

Don’t forget Vic fontaine

scudzilla · 10-12-2020 06:03AM

Just at the end of S6 of voyager run through, 7 really is the saving grace of this show

I just wanna kick Neelix in his face

And Tuvok, jaysus, he sure loves his mind melds

Justin Credible Darts · 10-12-2020 10:31AM

dont forget the underrated The doctor

Inviere · 10-12-2020 11:04AM

Banana Republic 1 wrote: »

Don’t forget Vic fontaine

I like Vic, he had a touch of old school class to him. Loved his singing too, I may have bought his album!

pixelburp · 10-12-2020 12:09PM

Fontaine was fun; sometimes a tad overdone but in general a good example of a "small doses" character. A cliché but that was kinda the point.

Banana Republic 1 · 10-12-2020 12:12PM

Inviere wrote: »

I like Vic, he had a touch of old school class to him. Loved his singing too, I may have bought his album!

I’m really life your man was a singer. he was also in a tv show called the time tunnel back in the day, a fore runner of quantum leap in fact I’d go so far as to say quantum leap lifted its premise from it.

I found the use of his character in ds9 to be extremely dull.

flazio · 10-12-2020 12:13PM

Justin Credible Darts wrote: »

dont forget the underrated The doctor

Doctor Who?

Banana Republic 1 · 10-12-2020 12:14PM

flazio wrote: »

Doctor Who?

That show has died a death.

breezy1985 · 10-12-2020 12:15PM

Banana Republic 1 wrote: »

That show has died a death.

It was always crap

AMKC · 10-12-2020 01:36PM

Banana Republic 1 wrote: »

I’m really life your man was a singer. he was also in a tv show called the time tunnel back in the day, a fore runner of quantum leap in fact I’d go so far as to say quantum leap lifted its premise from it.

I found the use of his character in ds9 to be extremely dull.

Ye I seen the Time Tunnel quit recently around last year sometime. It started of good but then got so bad. The tunnel itself was the worst part of it the way it was done just did not make sense and why all the 80 whatever underground levels and we only ever got to see one or 2 of them. It ended very weird do like it went in a loop but I suppose after the show got cancelled they decided to just do that. There was some cool episodes in it but if I was to pick between it or "Quantum leap" it would be "Quantum Leap" anytime.

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