TOS posted:

Metacell posted:

Star Trek V-GER sucked.

if i recall correctly it's still the most financially successful star trek movie

I think he meant Star Trek Voyager

MacAddict4Life posted:

TOS posted:

Metacell posted:

Star Trek V-GER sucked.

if i recall correctly it's still the most financially successful star trek movie

I think he meant Star Trek Voyager

and i disagree

A follow-up to this: the Bad Astronomer on New Horizon's NEXT target:



That target in the Kuiper Belt has been designated KBO 2014 MU69 (or just MU69).

Recently it was found that MU69 would occult a star as seen from Earth, so a number of astronomers set up recording telescopes near and along the occultation path. The above is the apparent shadow that MU69 created with the red circles emphasizing the probable double-lobed nature of that shadow.

TOS posted:

MacAddict4Life posted:

TOS posted:

Metacell posted:

Star Trek V-GER sucked.

if i recall correctly it's still the most financially successful star trek movie

I think he meant Star Trek Voyager

and i disagree

Well, the name of the movie was neither V'ger or Voyager...

And V'ger is short for Voyager...

macnuke posted:

it's Veger

I was phonetic.. shoulda googled it.

"A sentient, massive entity which threatened Earth in 2271, en route to find its "Creator." In doing so, V'Ger destroyed anything it encountered by digitizing it for its memory chamber."


V'Ger it is.

make it so.

V'Per

TOS posted:

MacAddict4Life posted:

TOS posted:

Metacell posted:

Star Trek V-GER sucked.

if i recall correctly it's still the most financially successful star trek movie

I think he meant Star Trek Voyager

and i disagree

I have a question about Voyager. So they are way the hell over there trying to get home and their nominal course is best speed directly towards earth, why did they keep running into the exact same aliens over and over?
Years at warp but they can't get out of that one neighborhood.
I think the big mistake of STV and STE was not adopting the format of TOS and STNG but rather going with long story arches.
DS9 was the only ST to pull that off OK.

for the convenience of the writers and the make-up artists.

Pariah posted:

TOS posted:

MacAddict4Life posted:

TOS posted:

Metacell posted:

Star Trek V-GER sucked.

if i recall correctly it's still the most financially successful star trek movie

I think he meant Star Trek Voyager

and i disagree

I have a question about Voyager. So they are why the hell over there trying to get home and their nominal course is best speed directly towards earth, why did they keep running into the exact same aliens over and over?
Years at warp but they can't get out of that one neighborhood.

1) They were "exploring" so their actual course from one week to the next was not "best speed directly to earth."
2) Some of the aliens were chasing after them.
3) They were not traveling as fast as you might think. Although it was stated in the pilot episode that Voyager was capable of warp 9.95, their initial distance from the Federation (70k light years) and their initial ETA (70 years) would indicate an average speed of warp 8. So they were basically jerking around to save gas.

Meanwhile, the Federation takes weeks or months to travel end to end, even at so-called "high warp." So it's not unreasonable to assume that it would take Voyager half a season to travel through the space owned by a particular empire. Longer if the empire in question is chasing you outside of their home territory. (Like the Kazon were in seasons 1-2.)

Also, yes, plot magic.

I'd rather have a Voyager movie than the reboots. They're home now, so they could just make any Star Trek story they wanted, with that cast and crew.

No more looking back with endless nostalgia. You only prolong the suffering of all things fading into the past. Look to the future to what new beautiful things arise.

clouds on mars

Last edited by ukimalefu on Fri Aug 11, 2017 3:18 pm.

Fully debugged pigs ready for production.

Those pervs have been inactivated.

I'll take up the slack on the perving.

"Forest Man".

The story of a man who single-handedly recreated a forest almost twice as large as NYC's Central Park on an island in the Brahmaputra River of India begining in 1979.

ISS transits the eclipse

https://youtu.be/lepQoU4oek4?t=206

ukimalefu posted:

ISS transits the eclipse

https://youtu.be/lepQoU4oek4?t=206

Sofa. King. Awesome.

nope, nuke it from orbit, twice

What the hell is that!?!?!?

juice posted:

What the hell is that!?!?!?

A centipede and its young, in a metal cup.

dv posted:

juice posted:

What the hell is that!?!?!?

A centipede and its young, in a metal cup.

A cup of nope.

the larval stage, before they cocoon into face huggers

Kinda' sweet how it wraps around them all. Wonder if it tickles.

no, I think an entire town got teleported by aliens

Nah, people just really need to start picking up their damned loot drops.

mmaverick posted:

Nah, people just really need to start picking up their damned loot drops.

so win

dv posted:

Fill with Tequila and knock it back like a shot.

silly wombats

I got to see the inside of my eye like that last week. No retinopathy, because I am not an idiot and didn't look into the sun.

I honestly don't understand how abjectly stupid some people are. I mean, there is stupid (Trump supporter) and then there is STUPID (looking into the sun).

Warin posted:

I got to see the inside of my eye like that last week. No retinopathy, because I am not an idiot and didn't look into the sun.

I honestly don't understand how abjectly stupid some people are. I mean, there is stupid (Trump supporter) and then there is STUPID (looking into the sun).

You were saying?

Oh yeah, that's pretty much every variety of stupid right there

Warin posted:

I got to see the inside of my eye like that last week. No retinopathy, because I am not an idiot and didn't look into the sun.

I honestly don't understand how abjectly stupid some people are. I mean, there is stupid (Trump supporter) and then there is STUPID (looking into the sun).

and this despite warning after warning after stupid bloody warning

ukimalefu posted:

I wish they identified the species of trees.