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taking qs & rating poasters as episodes of Star Trek series (foxmo)
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Date: November 10th, 2017 4:23 PM Author: Poppy Gas Station any series except for the animated series or Discovery. I've seen every episode of every other series— even Enterprise. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34655842) |
Date: November 10th, 2017 4:50 PM Author: Poppy Gas Station come on I've humiliated myself for this thread's premise (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34656190) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 4:50 PM Author: angry opaque parlour Do it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34656207) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 4:56 PM Author: Poppy Gas Station I rate you as "Threshold," episode 15 of Voyager's second season.
In it, Tom Paris gets to fuck the shit out of Janeway's MILFy ass, but before you UNZIP, it's because they've been turned into weird giant salamanders by the nonsensical reason a tech which could bring them home is useless.
To add to the episode's unsettling characteristics, Janeway and Paris's frog babies are left abandoned on an alien world. |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 4:57 PM Author: angry opaque parlour You fucking shitbag.
You rate me as THE WORST episode in all of Star Trek history?
So bad that it's not even considered CANON by the fucking show itself??? |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:04 PM Author: Poppy Gas Station (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34656449) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:09 PM Author: aromatic main people hominid Harsh rating, hoss, but fair. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34656554) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:11 PM Author: angry opaque parlour This rating is BULLSHIT.
At least give me a reach-around before I get fucked |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:13 PM Author: Poppy Gas Station I actually made this thread to rate you as "Threshold," which means the whole experience has kind of been anticlimactic for me, if it makes you feel better (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34656638) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 4:53 PM Author: Yellow nowag (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34656247) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 4:53 PM Author: Yellow nowag [foxmo huh. I thought you were a gecko.] (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34656253) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:01 PM Author: Poppy Gas Station I rate you as "Darmok," the second episode of TNG's fifth season.
While the episode works when you're watching it, it falls apart on inspection— if the universal translator can't handle idioms, what has it been doing this whole time? Star Trek should never shine a light on its plot conveniences. That said, fans love it, and it still has a certain charm. |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:03 PM Author: angry opaque parlour Shaka, when the walls fell. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34656437) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:16 PM Author: Yellow nowag (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34656679) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:04 PM Author: Yellow nowag 180. Remember vividly watching the episode when it came out. Saw "ENEMY MINE," which is a bit similar, around the same time. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34656453) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:39 PM Author: arousing base I think that it's fine as is.
The UT works differently for known and new races and can probably only do idioms with races that are already known (e.g. Klingons). For new races, they're generally hearing formal first contact shit (Hello, I am such and such a name of such and such ship and such of such power is presumably a standard greeting), then as diplomacy happens they exchange language books. The UT is just unprepared to handle a race that talks exclusively in stories that the Federation doesn't know-- there's no starting point.
The real contrivance is that on a ship of 1,000 people that fucking Deanna Troi is the one helping with translation. There wasn't anybody better, really?? |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:45 PM Author: Yellow nowag Pretty good explanation. Objection re: Deanna Troi works for any task Troi is assigned. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34656992) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 6:01 PM Author: arousing base Yeah, fair enough, but at least she has the informed ability of counseling skills (lol) and her "emphatic abilities" are biological so it's easy enough to accept nobody else has them, I guess.
(Although why the Feds don't just recruit a betazed into every one of their exploratory ships to easily read alien minds is its own imponderable, other than "it would break two thirds of the plots.") |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 6:02 PM Author: Poppy Gas Station if a language is only metaphor, then it would be functionally equivalent to normal speech. i.e., the UT is unlikely to have interpreted it otherwise. if the whole culture really was based on a small set of allusions, they would not have been able to develop the sort of sophistication necessary to be a spacefaring race.
a funnier twist would be if the alien just had hella autism and could only speak in canned phrases. |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 6:09 PM Author: Poppy Gas Station like it turns out "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" is like "Sonic and Tails at Green Hill Zone" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34657236) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 4:55 PM Author: Scarlet national security agency crackhouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34656273) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:05 PM Author: Poppy Gas Station I rate you as "What Are Little Girls Made of?," episode nine of the first season of TOS, where a missing scientist is found living in the company of sexy robots. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34656495) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 6:25 PM Author: Scarlet national security agency crackhouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34657364) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 4:55 PM Author: contagious ratface TNG tyia (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34656275) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:03 PM Author: Poppy Gas Station I rate you as "Haven," episode ten of TNG's first season, notable for introducing the fact that Betazoid wedding customs developed under the influence of the IFNB. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34656442) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:19 PM Author: contagious ratface 230983205982309485094385092850984095840985093845098340957209580294850942894869083459068409584098509348509384509384509834095834098503985038503984509834059834098530985098509385098305980394850398663 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34656716) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 4:57 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle demanding office legal warrant (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34656319) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:09 PM Author: Poppy Gas Station I rate you as "Suddenly Human," the fourth episode of TNG's fourth season.
The main plot of the episode, involving a human boy raised by aliens who murdered his family, is actually not bad, but for some reason the episode is only remembered because of GIFs of Will Wheaton getting a facial. |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:18 PM Author: angry opaque parlour http://tng.trekcore.com/hd/albums/season-4/4x04/suddenly-human-hd-295.jpg (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34656712) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:04 PM Author: aromatic main people hominid RATE me as a DS9 recurring character. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34656467) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:11 PM Author: Poppy Gas Station I rate you as Captain Boday. While never seen on screen, we know two important facts about him: (1) his skull is transparent, and (2) he must fuck like a champ. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34656585) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:24 PM Author: aromatic main people hominid I'll take it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34656786) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:13 PM Author: anal bawdyhouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34656640) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:18 PM Author: Poppy Gas Station I rate you as "The Naked Now," the third episode of TNG's first season.
This is the first episode after Encounter at Farpoint. Why are we redoing a bad TOS episode? Why are we having the characters act like not-themselves before we know who they are? Why does Tasha want Data's positronic rod, and why does he remember this as something special after her death? Why do I have such strong opinions about this show I watched as a kid, even today? |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:19 PM Author: Yellow nowag For many men of a certain age, watching early TNG episodes was about the only 'quality time' they spent w/ their dad. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34656720) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:20 PM Author: Poppy Gas Station I watched it with my mom, my dad doesn't like Star Trek (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34656731) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:22 PM Author: Yellow nowag I guess that's why you're
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:24 PM Author: anal bawdyhouse My parents both loved TOS, and refused to watch TNG (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34656775) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:23 PM Author: anal bawdyhouse Jfc i remember people being so desperate for new Star Trek. It was a mass delusion that episodes like this were considered "okay"
Have you caught the documentary "Chaos on the Bridge" on Netflix? |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:27 PM Author: Poppy Gas Station no, I've only seen Shatner's first trek doc, which is mostly notable for showcasing how 180 kooky Avery Brooks is, and also its egregious rehabilitation of Kate Mulgrew (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34656825) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:33 PM Author: angry opaque parlour 180 analysis.
Avery Brook is 180, but he is CLEARLY on a different spatial plane. |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:30 PM Author: Poppy Gas Station the best episode of Season One of TNG is the "The Big Goodbye" which is also a huge mistake. you do your first episode centering around this new technology, and you introduce everything about it that makes it ethically unsettling and then never bring it up again until VOY. (DS9 wisely tuned the holodeck down.) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34656846) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:31 PM Author: Poppy Gas Station also when I first saw it at four it was like looking into the face of existence and knowing there was no God (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34656861) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:33 PM Author: Yellow nowag (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34656875) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:35 PM Author: angry opaque parlour Redeem yourself and rate me as a DS9 episode or character (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34656892) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:43 PM Author: Poppy Gas Station I rate you as "Explorers," the twenty-second episode of DS9's third season.
Disliked among those who think only the arc-episodes of DS9 are any good (these people should just watch Babylon 5), it's actually a good little character episode with an underrated Bashir B-plot. It's also notable for being one of two episodes to really make good on the reason Avery Brooks took the role in the first place. |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:45 PM Author: angry opaque parlour This was also the first episode for Sisko to rock the goatee (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34656996) |
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Date: June 8th, 2022 3:28 PM Author: Geriatric Gunner (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#44648838) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:36 PM Author: arousing base I have some thoughts about what I should get, but I don't want to bias your answer by saying what they are. But be warned that while there are multiple right answers, there are definitely wrong answers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34656902) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:47 PM Author: Poppy Gas Station I rate you as "The Royale," the twelfth episode of TNG's second season.
The episode seems to be in line with the first season's aping of TOS tropes, where aliens have weirdly set up some micro-aspect of human society. However, this episode has an underrated twist which showed the writers' room on TNG was getting more confident at making original SF stories.
It's not beloved, but it is underrated. |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:58 PM Author: arousing base You fucking nailed this one, I always thought that ep was underrated and I love it for the now-obsolete Fermat's Last Theorem reference. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34657123) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 6:13 PM Author: Poppy Gas Station ty I pride myself on being able to please or infuriate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34657278) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 4:01 PM Author: Rod Taylor circa The Time Machine / 101 Dalmations tp. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#49651664) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:36 PM Author: contagious ratface can you rate me as the following:
-an impassioned picard speech
-a sexy tng female
-a characteristic of the crystalline entity |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:56 PM Author: Poppy Gas Station — the buck up speech he gives Wesley at the end of "The First Duty"
— Leah Brahms
— the fact that it "converts" all life but then leaves behind hydrocarbons and nitrates, which was either really clever or really stupid, but you can't tell with Star Trek writers' rooms |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 4:01 PM Author: Rod Taylor circa The Time Machine / 101 Dalmations (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#49651663) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:44 PM Author: Topaz Hell Liquid Oxygen (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34656977) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:51 PM Author: Poppy Gas Station I rate you as "Dax," the eighth episode of DS9's first season.
A number of things about this episode are complete missteps: Why do this so early? Why do it before we care about Dax? Why invite comparisons to "The Measure of Man," one of TNG's greatest episodes? That said, it works in a way no early episode of TNG really does because the cast is all committed to their roles in a way few people were early on in TNG. |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 5:52 PM Author: beady-eyed sepia cuck (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34657074) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 4:01 PM Author: Rod Taylor circa The Time Machine / 101 Dalmations (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#49651661) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 6:03 PM Author: contagious ratface in the future will people wear tng style jumpsuits (in ur informed opinion) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34657187) |
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Date: November 10th, 2017 6:09 PM Author: Poppy Gas Station while luxury space fascism is my favorite form of government, my guess is the uniforms will look more like late DS9 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#34657245) |
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Date: February 6th, 2026 4:01 PM Author: Rod Taylor circa The Time Machine / 101 Dalmations (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#49651659) |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 12:20 PM Author: Geriatric Gunner (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#49635722) |
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Date: February 2nd, 2026 8:48 AM Author: Poppy Gas Station I rate you as "The Outcast," where Riker tries to get all up in that non-binarussy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#49640714) |
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Date: February 2nd, 2026 5:01 PM Author: Geriatric Gunner Lmao, that sounds 180 - will watch and circle back, Thank! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3792526&forum_id=2...id#49642197) |