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  • ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Cast Talks Season 4, Improvising On Set, and Checking All The Boxes

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  • It certainly lowered my enthusiasm for SFA s2, knowing they went hard with a cliffhanger finale... That show had a lot of spirit and promise, I wanted to follow those kids through the academy.

    SNW — I know I'm in the minority here, but I couldn't get into the show's tone, and especially the way it's leading doggedly towards TOS, literally checking boxes for each continuity item. It feels like a dead man walking, and even more so now. This is actually the first time I've looked forward to a Trek show ending.

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    Retrospective Discussion | Doctor Who (2005) | 2x01 "New Earth"

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  • In terms of wall to wall far out aliens, Earth's future, Rose all giddy traveling with a new Doctor, and of course Cassandra, my mind went to The end of the world, but that was probably too in the nose.

    I quite agree about The beast below, also a companion's first space jaunt, right? And boom, Amy get to walk away from Omelas, but it's future UK in space. Can we just stick to Moffat episodes?

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    Retrospective Discussion | Doctor Who (2005) | 2x01 "New Earth"

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  • We may both rag on the silliness and threadbare stories in this show, particularly in this episode — but I don't need any more detail on Jack Harkness turning into a giant head in a fish tank. You die and revive enough times, that's the end result 🤣

    I think that's the sort of gaps that could never be filled satisfactorily on screen. They're much better as a space where viewers' imaginations roam wild instead.

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    Retrospective Discussion | Doctor Who (2005) | 2x01 "New Earth"

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  • I was going to rewatch this, but reading @ 's rundown soured the memory of it a bit. It's an episode I've watched a bunch, and it has some elements I really like:

    • The cat nun nurses, terrific makeup, crazy concept!
    • The face of Boe, another wild and well executed idea.
    • Cassandra! Probably the most iconic trampoline recurring villain in the early show. Even now, fans post cookies and embroideries in her likeness, even though she's visually and thematically horrible!
    • Let's just add the Duke of Manhattan, too. What a throwaway character. And I like how his neck grates when he moves.
    • And I like Chip, for some reason. In this bonkers rogues gallery, he's just a dude in scrubs with some paint on his face. Somehow that, a silly gait and the earnest, wide eyed acting is enough.

    The allure of the body swap has worn off the more I watch this, though. Not a lot of actors can pull it off, much less so when the person they're impersonating is Zoë Wanamaker at her peak of campiness.

    By now when I think back on this episode, I remember Billie Piper complimenting her own arse, and skip to the one with the werewolf instead. Oops, spoilers for next week's throwback discussion!

    This is honestly not a terrific story as a whole — VS has already pointed out the biggest pratfalls — but at least it's so full of wacky characters and running away from human guinea pigs, you won't have time to say "that's not how medicines work".

  • Risa Board of Tourism

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  • Oh, so jealous. TBF, it's still hilarious on fourth and fifth watching.

  • Risa Board of Tourism

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  • Barclay was evading real life conflict and pressure for sure, but also doing erotic power play with holo-versions of his crewmates... I think that last part was an early taste of our current deepfake porn reality 😬

    Either way, Lower decks made it clear that into the 2380s, cleaning out the holodeck biofilters was still the worst job on a starship:

    People really use it for that?

    Oh yeah. It's mostly that.

  • Risa Board of Tourism

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  • There may be a joke flying over my head here, but Barclay only appears, having rather consequential holo addition issues, two full seasons after the Bynars' upgrades?

  • Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Returning To [UK] Cinemas For 40th Anniversary – New Poster

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  • I dunno, it's almost too neat and tasteful, isn't it? I checked out Matt Ferguson's other anniversary posters, and they have a lot more going on visually.

    Sure, this movie's tone is very different, but still.

  • Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Returning To [UK] Cinemas For 40th Anniversary – New Poster

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  • Love the look on the cop's face on the right hand side. Like, "That's it, I'm transferring out of San Francisco ASAP".

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    Retrospective Discussion | Doctor Who (2005) | 2x01 "New Earth"

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  • Oh man, was there a four month gap between the christmas special and this? And people moan about "Space babies" being a poor season opener...

  • Now on Netflix: Per Aspera Ad Astra Official Movie Trailer

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  • Looking forward to it. The Chinese scifi I've watched hasn't been great, but I'm hoping this will serve as the gateway I need to start the original language Three body problem series... No pressure!

  • Activating this holodeck program automatically turns off the safeties

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  • The script where Alexander interns behind the counter for a week just writes itself.

    WORF: [exasperated sigh]

  • Activating this holodeck program automatically turns off the safeties

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  • If a bit squirmy.

  • Badger's Star Trek script (Breaking Bad)

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  • Especially in a world with replicator technology 🖖

  • Now on Netflix: Per Aspera Ad Astra Official Movie Trailer

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  • Hm, interesting. I'm a bit wary of science fiction's ability to grapple with "AI" while techbros crowbar their glorified Tamagotchi into anything with a chipset — promoting the products with allusions to scifi that the eager marketers clearly haven't understood.

    But I'll give this a watch on your suggestion that it has Star Trek elements, or vibes 🙂 As long as it isn't "The measure of a man" with Grok in the defendant's seat...

  • It's probably a very good feeling. I mean, just look how happy Odo looks.

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  • Testing... Testing...

    Whew, it wasn't my time to be hit with the ban hammer! 🥳

  • The award for most relatable line of dialog in all of Star Trek goes to Joseph Sisko in DS9: Shadows and Symbols

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  • Call me an epicurean, but

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  • Retrospective Discussion | Doctor Who (2005) | Special: "The Christmas Invasion"

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  • Well, only if you have occasion to send it somewhere exciting. Like an intercontinental package, a mesaage in a bottle or something.

  • Retrospective Discussion | Doctor Who (2005) | Special: "The Christmas Invasion"

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  • Oh, I really enjoyed Llewellyn, too! I think it's sometimes overlooked that these early revival seasons had excellent casting for minor roles as well. This actor just sells his excited, flustered engineer immediately, you are genuinely happy for him and his Mars probe making it (and then clearly not making it after all) 😄

    Where did he get the blood? Probably from a colleague, maybe even Sally. Scientists aren't too bothered about proper procedures sometimes. Carl Sagan's wife did most of the artwork for the Pioneer plaques, just some convenient nepotism to get it done on time.

    Edited to add:

    Harriet Jones, prime minister

    Yes, we know who she is.

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    Question

    Is Blorp supposed to clone the default browser process like this?

  • Doctor Who Social Club @startrek.website
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    "Thanks anyway"

    www.radiotimes.com /tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-carole-ann-ford-cancellation-reaction-exclusive-newsupdate/
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    BBC axes hundreds of news and TV jobs in £500m savings drive

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  • Doctor Who Social Club @startrek.website
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    Daft fan theory, promise I won't make a habit of those