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Smiffwilm posted...

Didn't Lower Decks inspire lots of shows going forward to have episodes that had focus on the minor/background characters?

It inspired the series Lower Decks.

splodeymissile posted...

But Sito's story could've been done by having her be a more typical guest star. Like another Barclay or Ro. Well, except for the fact that they killed her off.

Interesting bit of trivia, is that Sito was originally intended to return on DS9, alive and a prisoner of the Cardassians, but the episode was never made.

That's one of my favorite TNG episodes (Lower Decks, I have yet to watch the animated series Lower Decks)

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They did that with the latter seasons of Enterprise (set in the Mirror Universe)

hexa posted...

Sub Rosa is a Beverly Crusher episode

And a very bad one at that....

#GuessTheGame #376



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splodeymissile posted...

Episode 11: Parallels

Now, this is an alternate universe story.

Usually, I try to separate different versions of a character into their own paragraphs, but that clearly isn't practical here.

Picard's a bit cheeky, asking about age. Good confusion at Worf's suddenly incorrect information. Doesn't give him too much grief over the shield fiasco. Ours is perfectly reasonable during the quantum cluster fuck.

Riker has fun putting on a sterner manner than usual. Even more fun slapping that hat on Worf. Redecorating Worf's quarters is a dick move. A few accusatory looks when Worf fails to use the panel. As captain, he does quite well. Desperate Riker has some good madness.

La Forge apparently has an appreciation for art and history or so he conspires to pretend. At least one world has to do without him.

Worf is rightly paranoid about surprise parties and just about tolerates his friends' adoration. Absolute grump and a little ungrateful at his celebration, but Alexander's gift cheers him up. Many dizzy spells. Horrified at his potential relation to Lwaxana. A bit of wounded pride at suddenly having come in ninth place. Naturally, angry and confused at the weird shenanigans. Understandably awkward around his heretofore unknown wife. Applies himself well to solving the mystery. Mourns alternate Picard. Lets Troi down gently (for want of a better phrase). Not having Alexander devastates him. Wisely decides that getting with Troi is a good idea.

Crusher guides the birthday celebrations. Gentle with Worf's confusion.

Troi helps Riker to take over Worf's room. Loves the idea of being Alexander's mum. Rather playful as Worf's wife. There's a bit of Lwaxana there, too. Broken over her sudden lack of husband. Ours has picked up a new joy in lightly teasing Worf.

Data's a good painter and its quite a thoughtful gift, too. Nothing but helpful to Worf.

Ogawa is brilliant as a doctor.

Wesley is inoffensive. Actually, he seems a bit more humble. Maybe absense makes the heart grow fonder.

It's a nice looking trophy. Since we don't initially know it's his birthday, Worf's paranoia suggests that something has gone subtly wrong. Some nice camera work to highlight the differences between worlds. Certain angles make the array seem appropriately odd. The painting changing is quite surreal and I like how there's an increasingly rapid shift between worlds, until, eventually, camera trickery gives up and we just snap to the new universe. Some inexplicable plant life in Worf's quarters provides decent foreshadowing. Like the different designs of the bridge, especially the use of only one chair in the main bit. All those Enterprises popping into one world is quite terrifying. Many Worfs in one shuttle is a nice trippy image.

It's always fun to explore alternate versions of familiar characters. Much like with some time travel stories, sometimes the high concept alone is worth devoting a full episode to explore. Still, there were two slightly deeper strands of though I appreciated here. Firstly, I enjoy the idea that nobody is disposable. Better than merely not disposable, most of the alternates are fundamentally identical to the original versions, such that Worf not only understandably takes a while to figure out what's going on, but he doesn't really treat his friends' variants any differently from how he treats his actual friends. Even with Troi, he's remarkably gentle and actually does basically start to feel interest in his version of her simply by briefly living as someone who's already started that relationship with theirs. The only character to be regarded as a tolerable loss is desperate Riker and only because he fires on the shuttle. In other words, his ethics have been so skewed that he's no longer meaningfully Riker and can be acceptably put down by a technically different, but still familiar version. The second strand is what Worf does after getting home. Due to the time reset, the events of the episode might as well be an extended, vivid dream sequence. Worf has then gotten a sneak peak at some of the many paths his life could've and still could taken. I adore that his reaction upon "waking up" is to immediately attempt to actualize the best of the worlds he found himself in: where he and Troi are together. That's taking charge and moving towards living your best life.

A great idea with great execution. Sometimes you just need an excellent premise.

Onto The Pegusus.

Parallels is one of my favorite episodes, especially when it deals with the question "What if the Enterprise failed to stop the Borg invasion in Best of Both Worlds?" in one reality.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Also in Missouri:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada%2C_Missouri
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico%2C_Missouri
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holland%2C_Missouri

There's also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California,_Maryland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood,_Maryland

Yup. Back in March 2009, my younger sister who was living in Vegas at the time, was getting married, so I flew out there.

You F around, you find out. That's life.
But yeah, hated that too.....

Master_Kazuya posted...

Can someone fill me in? I have no clue what's happening

Trump claimed Manhattan's District Attorney is going to arrest him today. The DA has neither confirmed nor denied the allegation.

I don't think he will. I think he just claimed he will be, so that if he isn't, his base will take as a "see, he did nothing wrong, and Democrats tried to illegally arrest him!" view. He knows how to play his gullible base.

None, and the only Dragonball game I've ever played was Dragon Power on the NES.

GZAgenius posted...

Spyro the Dragon Reignited. I think it took me a day or two.

Yeah, most of the Eggs/Gears are easy to get with the exception of maybe one per game (the multi-ramp jump in Tree Top in 1, the Caveman-eating Dinos in 2, and Racing Bluefoot Boobies in 3)

Probably Spyro Reignited (all three games) or Sly Cooper 1. (hardest would be Star Wars Battlefront 2015, because Hero Hunt....)

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Grover Cleveland would like a word with you.

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Yes, but unfortunately, the popular vote is not what decides the presidency.

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The law doesn't care about your feelings. Gore lost, he accepted it and moved on.

FO is far better. I got bored of Squadrons part way through and quit.

ANH. The scene where Luke finds his uncle and aunt's remains is one of my earliest memories. It spooked the crap out of me.

tremain07 posted...

It was shady because of his brother

Jeb caused Gore to lose both Tennessee and Arkansas?

AloneIBreak posted...

Sorry, I don't play shitty games.

Depends how you define shitty. One mans junk is another mans treasure.

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So did I. And the 2015 version as well (put in over 900 hours on BF1)

SHRlKE posted...

I did but it was like a million pages long and I couldnt easily find the make up of the SC. I was hoping someone on here would do me a solid if they knew off the top of their head.

SCOTUS basically ruled since the various counties of Florida used different forms of ballots, that it was causing a risk of inequality in both candidates chances, so SCOTUS ruled recounted must end immediately. That handed Florida to Bush and the presidency as well.

SHRlKE posted...

Was the SCOTUS weighted towards either DEM or GOP at the time? I didn't realise the Supreme Court got involved.

Look up Bush Vs Gore.

Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon.
Also, surprised Shining Force Neo got a 69. That game was boring AF, quit partway through.

8 to go.

DKBananaSlamma posted...

I remember Gore wanted like 3 fucking recounts in a row and eventually everyone was like "lolno, you lost bro" I was like 10 tho >_> So maybe I'm misremembering

If they had recounted the entire state of Florida, Gore would have most likely won. The fact that they kept recounting Miami-Dade County was what caused SCOTUS to finally step in and say "Enough!" and gave the win to Bush.

Gore screwed himself. Not only did he not win his own home state (Tennessee), but he also failed to win his predecessor's (Clinton) state (Arkansas). Had he won either of them, he would have gotten the required 270 electoral votes, and Florida wouldn't have been such a big deal.