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Posted: 10/27/2021 8:33:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryDamn. That’s awesome. Edit: And Enterprise had the best Orion Slave Girls. I’d post a pic, but thread would get shut down. 
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Posted: 10/27/2021 9:34:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My nerd boner is starting to show, but I remember seeing Generations in theaters, bigger budget, cleaner SFX.. this scene gave me chills (best quality I could find in a quick search) -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxGg9HMStoIThat at the end of the movie when the Klingon Bird of Prey exploded... (Me) "WHAT! That's the same effect used in the previous movie!" Hadn't heard about the budget part, makes sense. And yes, First Contact is the best 'Trek movie. Surprisingly I didn't mind the JJ Abrams reboots too much, I think mostly because the casting was near perfect. I wish DS9 had gotten a movie of their own. ETA: The part about the Duras sisters getting a kick-ass ship would explain the bullshit Reman Scimitar warship in Nemesis. A massive warbird built in secret with a MacGuffin of a bioweapon and able to fire while cloaked... stealing from Star Trek VI this time. /media/mediaFiles/sharedAlbum/picard-272.gif That scene, while great, illustrates perfectly one of my frustrations with sci Fi. Why, hundreds of years from now, would it take a half dozen button pushes to get the ship moving? I can speak to my phone and get navigation back out of it. Why aren't they speaking orders to their ships more? Or thinking to them? And that time Riker busted out a joystick? Sorry for that rant. 
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Posted: 10/27/2021 9:35:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Damn. That’s awesome. Edit: And Enterprise had the best Orion Slave Girls. I’d post a pic, but thread would get shut down. Quote HistoryQuoted: Damn. That’s awesome. Edit: And Enterprise had the best Orion Slave Girls. I’d post a pic, but thread would get shut down. I was looking for an image from one of the Ships Of The Line calendars from a few years ago when I ran across that. I found another cool one from the 2018 calendar of the USAF Thunderbirds flying in formation with the TOS Enterprise but i couldn't find a good quality pic to post. |
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Posted: 10/27/2021 9:43:11 PM EDT
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I was under the impression the reason they killed off the D was it didn't work so well in the widescreen of movie effects.
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Posted: 10/28/2021 2:38:01 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My nerd boner is starting to show, but I remember seeing Generations in theaters, bigger budget, cleaner SFX.. this scene gave me chills (best quality I could find in a quick search) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxGg9HMStoIThat at the end of the movie when the Klingon Bird of Prey exploded... (Me) "WHAT! That's the same effect used in the previous movie!" Hadn't heard about the budget part, makes sense. And yes, First Contact is the best 'Trek movie. Surprisingly I didn't mind the JJ Abrams reboots too much, I think mostly because the casting was near perfect. I wish DS9 had gotten a movie of their own. ETA: The part about the Duras sisters getting a kick-ass ship would explain the bullshit Reman Scimitar warship in Nemesis. A massive warbird built in secret with a MacGuffin of a bioweapon and able to fire while cloaked... stealing from Star Trek VI this time. [url] Those Plot points being re used in Nemisis would explain one of the more curious lines in that movie. When the villian says he has no interest in Picard's quaint ship. Um... Wasn't the Enterprise E still one of the newest and most advanced ships in Starfleet at that time? But it's not like these shows always obey their own internal logic. The Scimitar itself was basically what you get when you build a ship with all the cheat codes. |
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Posted: 10/28/2021 2:41:15 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That scene, while great, illustrates perfectly one of my frustrations with sci Fi. Why, hundreds of years from now, would it take a half dozen button pushes to get the ship moving? I can speak to my phone and get navigation back out of it. Why aren't they speaking orders to their ships more? Or thinking to them? And that time Riker busted out a joystick? Sorry for that rant. Well, what would you say is the best designed user interface you have seen on a science fiction ship? There have been quite a few over the years. It seems like a lot of the helm's where the pilot thinks and the ship goes where they want also wind up having to have the pilot be either naked or almost naked to use said interface properly. |
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Posted: 10/28/2021 3:14:58 AM EDT
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wish they were tic tac shaped like real life
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Posted: 10/28/2021 5:35:08 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Well, what would you say is the best designed user interface you have seen on a science fiction ship? There have been quite a few over the years. Clearly, there is only one choice: 
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Posted: 10/28/2021 5:52:51 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/02/94/d7/0294d79e5ceb3e57e5b860bdd5bdf035.jpg Not a lot of good screen caps out there |
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Posted: 10/28/2021 9:50:41 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryThat was a very nice-looking ship. |
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Posted: 10/28/2021 10:03:29 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My nerd boner is starting to show, but I remember seeing Generations in theaters, bigger budget, cleaner SFX.. this scene gave me chills (best quality I could find in a quick search) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxGg9HMStoIThat at the end of the movie when the Klingon Bird of Prey exploded... (Me) "WHAT! That's the same effect used in the previous movie!" Hadn't heard about the budget part, makes sense. And yes, First Contact is the best 'Trek movie. Surprisingly I didn't mind the JJ Abrams reboots too much, I think mostly because the casting was near perfect. I wish DS9 had gotten a movie of their own. ETA: The part about the Duras sisters getting a kick-ass ship would explain the bullshit Reman Scimitar warship in Nemesis. A massive warbird built in secret with a MacGuffin of a bioweapon and able to fire while cloaked... stealing from Star Trek VI this time. /media/mediaFiles/sharedAlbum/picard-272.gif My main complaint about the TNG movies, especially the later ones, was that they couldn't seem to come up with new ideas. They just took pieces of previous episodes and slapped them together. Hey, how about a holodeck ship that makes the people on it think they're still on their own planet! We did that in Season 7! And the cloaked observation post watching the rural people! We did that in season 3! And you know if they hadn't stopped after Nemesis, they'd have used B4 to bring Data back like Spock in Star Trek 3. I guess my other main complaint was destroying Data's character and using him as comic relief. That and the lazy writing in general. |
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Posted: 10/28/2021 10:50:12 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Well, what would you say is the best designed user interface you have seen on a science fiction ship? There have been quite a few over the years. It seems like a lot of the helm's where the pilot thinks and the ship goes where they want also wind up having to have the pilot be either naked or almost naked to use said interface properly. The TNG and later LCARS interface is certainly NOT in the top 100 interfaces. A row of buttons with small numbers printed on them? Which one shuts down the impulse reactor again? Is it this pinkish one with 15435.6 on it or the mustard yellow with 453.8? Oh shit, that one ejected the warp core. So, what's playing for movie night? We're gonna be here a while. How about a button that says ON and OFF? |
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Posted: 10/28/2021 10:52:38 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: How about a button that says ON and OFF? Maintenance/repair order; "Does not work in Off mode." |
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Posted: 10/28/2021 10:57:11 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The TNG and later LCARS interface is certainly NOT in the top 100 interfaces. A row of buttons with small numbers printed on them? Which one shuts down the impulse reactor again? Is it this pinkish one with 15435.6 on it or the mustard yellow with 453.8? Oh shit, that one ejected the warp core. So, what's playing for movie night? We're gonna be here a while. How about a button that says ON and OFF? Never mind the famous design issue of the consoles being full of plasma or something that explodes when the ship gets bumped.
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Posted: 10/28/2021 2:28:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Never mind the famous design issue of the consoles being full of plasma or something that explodes when the ship gets bumped. I still laugh my ass off watching a control panel explode removing half a red shirts face over a hit on the back end of the ship. I guess no one thought about fiber optic isolation? Hell, I figured that out 20 years ago when we were having issues in a large building with our video cables we pulled from one end of the building to the next. Each end of the building had different power sources. We had about 5V of ground potential they could not figure out. I looked at the designer and told him simple. Fiber it. Done. If cars today were like the Enterprise, the dash board would explode with every pothole.
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Posted: 10/28/2021 3:27:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Well, what would you say is the best designed user interface you have seen on a science fiction ship? There have been quite a few over the years. It seems like a lot of the helm's where the pilot thinks and the ship goes where they want also wind up having to have the pilot be either naked or almost naked to use said interface properly. Easy, it was on the Enterprise-D  Lt. Barclay is the computer I mean sure, there's that slight downside... |
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Posted: 10/28/2021 4:51:24 PM EDT
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Refit for sure.
For non-Enterprise ships I really like the looks of the: S31 Nimrod-class  Attached FileTerran Empire Styx-class  Attached File |
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