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splodeymissile posted...

Seems they might be the main recurring alien this time.

Ferengi flopped hard as big bads.

CassandraCroft posted...

It takes light 9 HOURS to travel around it. In comparison it takes light 14.5 SECONDS to travel around The Sun.

a star nine light-hours across is absurdly huge.

Earth is about eight and a third light-minutes from the sun.

The sun smiled on October 26

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/9/4/AAEhCpAAD3my.jpg

This was actually a gigantic solar flare.

Prison Peko...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/7/2/AAEhCpAAD3EE.jpg

splodeymissile posted...

Why are they not on Netflix?

Every studio ever saw Netflix become hugely successful, and thought "I can do that do!"
Now all we have is countless streaming services nobody actually wanted, and they're all suffering - even Netflix.

We're starting in on a "consolidation" phase now, where the parent companies are gluing their subsidiary streamers together.

Radiation doesn't make other things radioactive.
You can be bombarded with alpha (entire helium nuclei) beta (very fast electons) and gamma (absurdly wiggly photons) radiation and never become radioactive. You just become dead.

Stray neutrons are the only things that make other atoms become radioactive.

Motorhead - No Voices in the Sky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n9J5dMl0hM
1916 is a fucking great album

CassandraCroft posted...

In my opinion it would probably have been better if they had Kirk and Khan together but since their scenes were filmed 3 months apart that wasn't possible.

It's a testament to Harve Bennett's genius that it worked out so well.
Kirk and Khan fighting each-other across screens is basically the prototype for internet flamewars.

3 & 4 need to be watched in one setting. They're directly contiguous and basically just a long movie split in half.

Wrath of Khan has an interesting history behind it.

The budget was cut in half after TMP floundered, and Harve Bennett (a TV guy) made it work brilliantly, in the no-budget style of Doctor Who.
Enterprise and Reliant use the same set, just slightly rearranged and lit differently. Pretty much every set was used at least twice.

TMP isn't even a bad movie, especially compared to Nemesis or something.
It just takes too long to get to the plot, with filler vignettes that don't really serve any purpose other than "look at this neat effect we couldn't do in the 60s!"

Maybe get into the Romulan ale, then watch TMP.

So... going for the TOS films after that, or skipping right to TNG?

It's that time of year again...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFrPrIxluWk

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/0/1/AAEhCpAAD1Kp.png

Pluto is just... odd.
I was maybe twenty episodes into Kamen Rider, and it just vanished.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/8/8/AAEhCpAADOnQ.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/7/4/AABjp5AAD0O2.jpg

splodeymissile posted...

On to The Slaver Weapon.

Keep in mind this is a Larry Niven story that's been adapted into Trek, so the general continuity is going to be a bit odd.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/5/3/AAEhCpAADz9V.jpg

Nobody need permission to die.
Even in Alberta.

splodeymissile posted...

Episode 6: The Infinite Vulcan

This is the one Koenig wrote.

splodeymissile posted...

(apparently, they couldn't afford Koenig)

He did write a TAS episode, tho.

splodeymissile posted...

Similar to the previous episode, while the animation is limited (I got a little tired of seeing young Spock running), the designs are stunning.

Again, Filmation.
Any given Filmation production will have an elaborately-painted establishing shot (or several), just to kill some time by slowly panning across it. It's cheaper than animation.

splodeymissile posted...

Three quibbles: while I get the need for different angles and unique shots to keep excitement at a similar level to other shows, without completely bankrupting the studio, some of them do have a weird sense of space to them. Kirk feels like he's floating above the ground at some points when he's talking to the trapped Scotty, as one example. Secondly, I don't want to harp on limited animation too much, because the production is overall gorgeous, but the shaking and explosion effects are quite naff. Finally, while the music is exciting, the sound mixing makes it drown out a lot of the noises from the insect captain at first. The voice of the entity was almost a problem, but it kind of fits with its despair at the end, so, I'm actually okay with it.

Filmation just does that.

137 or 173 may be the last element possible, as S1 electrons would have to orbit beyond the speed of light for the next one.

BlazinBlue88 posted...

40k? Wtf?,

Ethanol hits the liver, then gets turned into acetaldehyde. The next step is Acetyl-CoA, where it's fucktons of calories, then acetic acid, where you pee that out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetyl-CoA

Note that acetaldehyde is toxic as fuck, and that's why we are all going to die of some cancer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetaldehyde

Smackems posted...

If you're counting calories that's a pretty hefty sum

A decent whiskey bender is somewhere in the realm of 40000 calories.
An average human consumes about 2000 calories a day, or 2500-3000 in America.

BlazinBlue88 posted...

500 calories a bottle

That's... not significant, unless you're chugging ten at once.

Wine is still asstons of sugars. That's its own metabolic path.

Wine: sugar
Beer: carbs & protein
Liquor: mostly just ethanol
Liqueur: oh shit it's sugars again

Smackems posted...

Why do you know that

Drunks plan ahead.
It's the alcoholics who fuck up.

Have we done "Wasabi" yet?

BlazinBlue88 posted...

Very low calories, nearly sugar free, high ABV.

Ethanol is about 450% calories, regardless of how you get it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetyl-CoA