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Trials And Tribble-Actions - Star Trek DS9
- Thread starter Generic Power Ranger
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I always thought it was fascinating how in TNG the touchscreen buttons were only labeled by static numbers and you essentially had to completely memorize patterns and sequences to have any clue what you were doing or what the readouts meant, to the point where an officer's brain was probably trained to read number sequences in the same way as language. Like being bilingual.
All because they still only had stickers instead of dynamic displays.
OneEightZero
aka ThreeOneFour
I'm still incensed this series isn't in HD yet.
lastplayed
Member
It won't ever be, not without massive investment. The TNG HD remaster didn't make enough money to justify it, and that wasn't nearly as much work as DS9 would be.
Frozenprince
Banned
My favorite Trek episode, so much fun and such a love letter to the entire series.
Always hated how Enterprise ruined the damn joke though, it was funny and perfect just as it was!
Always hated how Enterprise ruined the damn joke though, it was funny and perfect just as it was!
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thepotatoman
Unconfirmed Member
I started watching around season 3 and loved it to the series finale, but going back to season 1 and 2 were bad enough to make me retroactively hate the show overall.
So maybe just skip to season 3.
Frozenprince
Banned
Watch the few recommended "good" episodes of the first couple seasons to get a feel for the characters and their dynamic and then watch the S2 finale as it sets up S3. But yeah other than that, just skip them they are really bad.
funkystudent
Member
It's legit one of enterprises best stories. It mostly worked out well.
Also has Brent Spiner in it
Mr. Pointy
Member
I generally like Season 4 Enterprise, but it kind of devolves into fanwank at times.
Also, Trials and Tribble-ations would probably the hardest episode to attempt to convert to HD. I don't think any of the effects were done in HD.
Dictator93
Member
love your avatar
So many cool little mashups, like when Kirk glances at Dax on the bridge.
I recall reading some trivia from the making of this scene: IIRC the original draft had Dax speaking a funny line to Kirk after he sat on the Tribble. The scene was changed to Dax making a quick shrug when the writers realized there was no way Kirk wouldn't have tried flirting with the hot, never-seen-before crew-woman if Dax struck up a conversation.
Generic Power Ranger
Member
It's great. I like it as much as tng, and unlike that, it really felt like this show hit the ground running.
Yeah. That joke is fantastic!
This joke would have been as incredible as the one we got. At least. And that one was really good.
Haha. Yeah. You warm up to sisko but he is super weird (and intense). I'm also watching for the first time and I find it really good.
Generic Power Ranger
Member
I don't want to bump but I've been thinking about.. Well I skimmed cause I didn't want spoilers but if the way Klingons look really has changed as a species, then why does their statues and even the clone of kahless look like a proper Klingon? I assumed it was probably just a part of their population that used to look like that. Like another race or something.
Oh, and is discovery in this universe? Or in the movie universe?
Oh, and is discovery in this universe? Or in the movie universe?
Without going into "spoilers", basically the "proper" Klingons are how they usually look, and there's a specific in-fiction reason that the ones in the original series looked more human. It was a wide-reaching but ultimately temporary situation.
If you want more than that just read the posts above. It's a spoiler for about 4 or 5 episodes of the fourth season of Enterprise.
Generic Power Ranger
Member
Ah ok. So there is meaning to the madness. I'm going to leave the above alone and wait till I get around to the show. It's a shame that from all I've heard, voyager and enterprise don't live up to the other shows. Ds9 and tng are both great.
Auron_Kale
Member
One of my favorite episodes of DS9 (I'm rather partial to many of their standalone episodes as well as the arching episodes) and it was really a great anniversary episode to boot.
Just the little details were fun and you could tell everyone got a kick out of doing it. One of my favorite jokes from the episode oddly enough was when Bashir realized that he was potentially flirting with a (possible) distant relative and that it'd have caused him to be his own (distant) grandfather had they gotten together.
Just the little details were fun and you could tell everyone got a kick out of doing it. One of my favorite jokes from the episode oddly enough was when Bashir realized that he was potentially flirting with a (possible) distant relative and that it'd have caused him to be his own (distant) grandfather had they gotten together.
BlackSalad
Member
just watched the episode again,
good god, Dax.
lordy.
good god, Dax.
lordy.
Everything but season 3 is not as bad as people say it is.
Yes it is. Except for a few good stand alone episodes like Silent Enemy and Regeneration, the first three seasons are forgettable at best. For Enterprise viewing, skip right to Season 4, Episode 3.
TheCochese
Banned
This and the two TNG anniversary threads are going to get me to do a rewatch of both. Again.
Switch Back 9
a lot of my threads involve me fucking up somehow. Perhaps I'm a moron?
Dax was so hot in it.
Most of the reason I hate Season 7 is the lack of Dax.
Generic Power Ranger
Member
Lol. Yeah. The one that comes after is pretty bad. And makes little sense.
and worf feels a little out of character honestly.
Do eet! They are great!
It's not the kind of show you see often anymore. Ensemble cast of good characters in a Sci fi with a big open universe.
LCARS was really an abstract concept of what future computer systems would look like. It wasn't really designed to be functional, but to look "futuristic" and visually pleasing on an old school TV screen.
Remember, at the time most people were still rocking the command line.
I still find it hilarious when some turbo nerd tried to make an LCARS shell for a modern OS. It wasn't designed to be useful, so it's always a flaming disaster.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Yeah the editing they did in this episode is really seamless.
Go blame TNG's flanderization of the Klingons for that. I think they mellowed out later on. In the movies they weren't all WE ARE SPACE VIKINGS, and even in TOS they weren't full on warrior mode.
Go blame TNG's flanderization of the Klingons for that. I think they mellowed out later on. In the movies they weren't all WE ARE SPACE VIKINGS, and even in TOS they weren't full on warrior mode.