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General Star Trek thread

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  • #8042
    ilovesmybrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,151 ✭✭✭ilovesmybrick


    Played it when it came out. It's grand like, it was a bit buggy when launched, but I think they've fixed that. For the 29 quid I paid I got a decent bit out of it, and wasn't as annoyed at the issues as I have been with new games for 60+ that are buggy on launch. Now, I'm not the biggest Stellaris fan, so I think your mileage may vary depending on that. 20 quid seems a reasonable price to me tbh



  • #8043
    breezy1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,596 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121566248#Comment_121566248

    Loved it at first but really disappointed as the game goes on.

    AI is way too passive so you are usually just sitting around having to pick fights out of boredom.

    The 1 storyline is the Borg which is almost impossible if you don't get the very first few parts of the mission right early game.

    It needs more built in events to give the AI reasons to cause trouble with you. And more AI cooperation with things like the Borg.

    20e is 3 pints these days if your lucky though so it certainly killed enough time to justify that much for someone like me who never played Stellaris



  • #8044
    TaurenDruid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,475 ✭✭✭TaurenDruid


    Cheers. Yeah, I'm still in my first playthrough of Baldur's Gate 3, but for €20-ish quid, it seems reasonable to pick it up now for later in the year, considering I must have put 100s of hours into Birth of the Federation back in the day, and I've never played Stellaris.

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  • #8045
    breezy1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,596 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121566703#Comment_121566703

    Hopefully they add more ships and missions in time.

    Introducing the Dominion as Total War Mongol/Timurid style story would be a no brainer. And the games minor races are so boring and random even a nerd like me had to Google most of them.



  • #8046
    breezy1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,596 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121566703#Comment_121566703

    There's a fun game called Space Haven going for a tenner in the sale. It's a kinda Sims in space type game.

    I've burned hours on it.



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  • #8047
    TaurenDruid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,475 ✭✭✭TaurenDruid


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121567510#Comment_121567510

    I have it, and apparently played it for a whole 23 minutes! :-) It looked interesting, all right, I'll have another go after I finish BG3 another couple of times, then ST:I and Stray, which I also picked up.

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  • #8048
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,790 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    This came up in my YT feed today (same group that did some awesome DS9 season promos)

    https://youtu.be/2PbOqlimFlo?si=VOjzb-9oPYsLEBT0


    I really want to watch that first episode now.... (if only!)



  • #8049
    Stark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,353 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    Looks very Expanse-ish



  • #8050
    Inviere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,254 ✭✭✭Inviere


    Reminds me far too much of the Picard intro, which is in itself flat and uninspiring. Granted the original DS9 intro is just a few beauty shots of a studio model, but with the theme alongside, it became part of the soul of the show. This, while obviously made with love and respect, just does nothing for me...it just feels empty.

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  • #8051
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,767 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Looks great, taking a lot of cues from Picard and a few other shows tho



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  • #8052
    breezy1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,596 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    It's essentially the Discovery intro with DS9 imagery. Has no energy to it.



  • #8053
    Rawr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,468 ✭✭✭Rawr


    I like the intro, but could have done with a more sweeping and bombastic music score. A little too soft for the gravity of the scenes it was showing us.



  • #8054
    corkie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,442 ✭✭✭corkie


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121561305#Comment_121561305

    2024 Is a Hell of a Year in Star Trek History

    A year of hell, you might say. But not that one. This is a different kind of bad.

    • Irish Reunification
    • Global Political and Environmental Upheaval
    • Pretty Much the Entirety of Star Trek: Picard Season 2
    • The Bell Riots
    • The Advent of World War III ~ World War III breaks out two years later in 2026.
    • But Hey, the Baseball’s Pretty Good?
    https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/2024


    "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ~ George Santayana
    "But that's balanced out by the fact that it's a mandate not to do very much." ~ Prof. Eoin O'Malley



  • #8055
    TheIrishGrover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,742 ✭✭✭TheIrishGrover


    That's excellent.

    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121571653#Comment_121571653

    Real (intentional) Westworld vibe (And The Expanse as mentioned above of course)



  • #8056
    pixelburp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Oh yeah, the Westworld vibes off the music is kinda insane to the point of shameless, lol. As to the sequence? Yeah it's lacking a degree of something but is very in keeping with modern title sequence. It's slick and impressive work; always amazing the effort and imagination "amateurs" put into these things.

    Would Avery Brooks be persuaded to come back to acting? Seems highly unlikely though the idea of that mad bástard working in modern, prestige-era television kinda makes me chuckle.



  • #8057
    breezy1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,596 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121572229#Comment_121572229

    Could be not far off the real 2024 the way things are going.



  • #8058
    TheIrishGrover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,742 ✭✭✭TheIrishGrover


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121573602#Comment_121573602

    He REALLY comes off as a pain in the hole in everything you see/read about DS9.



  • #8059
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,621 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Possible Picard film in the works. Just a script at the moment.

    https://trekmovie.com/2024/01/05/patrick-stewart-reveals-new-star-trek-movie-script-featuring-jean-luc-picard-is-in-the-works/


    Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue



  • #8060
    breezy1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,596 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121577712#Comment_121577712
    Untitled Image

    :(



  • #8061
    pixelburp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121579024#Comment_121579024

    83 now, will only be older again if the script is mature enough, the cast and production lined up, to start filming. I'd wonder if this is just the general slush pile of Treatments, cos whatever else Picard s3 was at the end - it was an end.



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  • #8062
    breezy1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,596 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    My favourite things in new live action Trek were Rois, Shaw, La'an and Chapel.

    All new characters (SNW Chapel is a new character essentially). If we are not getting new ships and new crews I don't care anymore. Spock is the only real legacy character in SNW and it's no coincidence the episodes about him have been terrible.

    I'm done with reboots and memberberries.



  • #8063
    Inviere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,254 ✭✭✭Inviere


    Traditionally, what makes Patrick "excited" in context of Star Trek, hasn't translated very well to the screen (First Contact aside.) Picard is a legendary, treasured character within Star Trek, but we've seen his finale, twice now, nobody wants more of him.

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  • #8064
    pixelburp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121579093#Comment_121579093

    I would like to think we're seeing the cracks on the Legacy Sequel a little: Indy 5 was a giant flop, and the critical/audience reception to the Star Wars "hey it's that guy" shows have themselves been lukewarm to hostile.

    At least the enthusiasm for the proposed Enterprise show is going forward, even if its captain would be 7of9, it's a start, if it happens.



  • #8065
    flazio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,086 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    Currently reading Patrick Stewart's memoir book "Making it so", I say reading, I'm actually listening to Patrick read the audiobook. I'm just getting to the bit where Patrick gets the JLP role. Surprised there were two figures who almost lost him the role. Gene and Ian.

    This too shall pass.



  • #8066
    JayRoc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,984 ✭✭✭JayRoc


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121580378#Comment_121580378

    Just reading the same part myself.


    I have huge respect for the man, as an actor and a person.


    But it seems fairly clear he had a lot of creative input with the Picard series, and that made for **** viewing.


    I don't want to watch a thinly-veiled Patrick Stewart who goes by the name Jean-Luc Picard. It's not the same character, it's not even the same ballpark.


    I struggled through Picard seasons 1+2 through a sense of duty. Didn't even finish the 3rd and I know I'll never bother watching them again. Doubt I'll watch a Picard movie, and if they keep this up they risk tainting our memories of the TNG characters by the sheer amount of bad TV we now have to pretend didn't happen

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  • #8067
    Rawr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,468 ✭✭✭Rawr


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121580750#Comment_121580750

    I’d encourage giving Picard S3 another shot now that the whole season is available. It was a slogg mid-season, but I think they stuck the landing with the end of the season in a way I haven’t seen since Lower Decks S1 or the TNG era of shows. What ever input Steward had on S1 & S2 appears to have been removed/ignored in S3 with a lot of TNG elements returning. S2 itself appears to have been completely ignored / forgotten.

    As for a Picard movie? No, that’s really pushing it. I’m surprised we even got 3 seasons out of Steward. Given, a movie is usually just the length of just 2-3 TV episodes, but we don’t even need to continue Picard’s story. How about they cover something else? Some kind of adventure with Capt. Seven and Jack Crusher? (while Raffi fecks off off-screen for reasons we don’t care about) Maybe even something at DS9? Would love to see a movie treatment of the station.



  • #8068
    JayRoc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,984 ✭✭✭JayRoc


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121581980#Comment_121581980

    Not to change the subject, but I'm currently rewatching Lower Decks season 1 and I'm surprised at how much better it is, even the early episodes, than I recall.


    Viewed through the prism of knowing the characters for 4 years, even the initial "Mariner's an irritating arsehole" episodes are far less annoying now and really quite fun.

    I now consider it a very good season of TV.



  • #8069
    TaurenDruid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,475 ✭✭✭TaurenDruid


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121579111#Comment_121579111

    Speak for yourself.

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  • #8070
    breezy1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,596 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121581980#Comment_121581980

    I think the finale of Picard 3 is terrible. Discovery level terrible.

    Not sure how you can "stick a landing" when there was no take off. We were strung along for 8 episodes of misdirection and then just thrown a stupid Death Star scene against a bad guy completely unrelated to the entire series.



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  • #8071
    AMKC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,236 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121571653#Comment_121571653

    That intro does nothing for me. Terrible music very Discovery like and the CGI looks crap. Would I watch a show about Sisko the Emissary do. Must definitely.


    As for the Picard movie. That story has being out for a while. I think he is just too old now. He was to old at the beginning of Picard and is most definitely too old for a movie now.

    A series on a young Picard would be much better. That I would watch if done right with a good actor as a young Picard.

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    Peace and long life.



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