Previous Thread: A thread for discussing the Star Trek franchise and its various tabletop iterations.
Possible topics include Star Trek Adventures - the new rpg being produced by Modiphius - and WizKids’ Star Trek: Attack Wing miniatures game, as well as the previous rpgs produced by FASA, Last Unicorn Games and Decipher, the Starfleet Battles Universe, and Star Trek in general.
Aside from the weird pistol/knife shoulder belt thing, that was still a nice uniform. I'd have preferred a little more robust belt with multiple phasers and shit. Like Picard was going full Blackbeard.
Eli Hill
Time and budget constraints, no doubt. Some of the security personnel seemed to have a sort of harness over one shoulder. Perhaps that was intended to let them carry a rifle?
Kevin Williams
Get ready for /pol/ memes after tomorrow's STD ep. >black leading character goes to jail, gets in fights
Eli Lewis
You can always tell when anyone whining about STD is a new fan who knows shite about Star Trek, even the very basics, because they always complain or praise the race or gender of the lead. As if there wasn't already black lead for Star Trek back in 1993 and already a female lead for Star Trek back in 1995.
I don't mind ignorant people being ignorant because everyone starts out ignorant. I DO mind ignorant people speaking authoritively about shit they are ignorant about because they want to appeared educated or learned and thus choose both to remain ignorant and then actually brag about it.
We don't have a culture of conservatism or SJW's or liberals anymore, we have a culture of people who want desperately to be "right" all the time but don't want to go through the effort of confirming if they are of correcting themselves if they're wrong. We live in the OPPOSITE of the Federation right now; a backwards culture that encourages you to be "correct" but teaches you to be afraid of confirming your "correctness" and then goes out of it's way to make learning and developing too expensive or time-consuming to do anymore, and then actually PRAISES you for remaining fucking ignorant about this stuff.
Mason Adams
That last episode of The Orville felt very TOS as compared to the prior's quite DS9 feel.
I am OK with this.
Joseph Green
I'm hoping The Orville will keep up this streak of decent episodes. It's still got some teething problems, but overall I'm enjoying myself way more than I did for the first two STD episodes.
Christopher Ortiz
>As if there wasn't already black lead for Star Trek back in 1993 and already a female lead for Star Trek back in 1995. Shit, the original pilot had a female XO who was in command of the ship for ~90% of the episode.
Director commentary was that the Yesterday's Enterprise harness was "supposed to look like a rifle bandoleer", so you're probably not far off.
Personally, the DS9 unis are my favorite - hotly followed by the movie-era "Reds". Then again, that's mostly because I'm a damned dirty enlisted man and I liked having coveralls when I was tits-deep in the guts of an aircraft/computer/whatever instead of wearing uniforms you can actually get inspected in all over the place. I mean, I loved my dungarees and the duty dress blues were pretty sexy but once you get the fluid from an E-cap or (God forbid) that horrid slime you get when jet exhaust, diesel, and asphalt make babies together on it, you need a new uniform.
I know, the replicators take care of that, but still. Coveralls, man. Not to mention getting a nice jacket you can wear on shoreleave.
Dylan Baker
I enjoy how they don't bring up anything resembling a Prime Directive.
Benjamin Wilson
Same. Though the teething problems i feel are really just that, there's no fundamental, underlying problems that'd take serious work to fix.
Frakes is directing the next one, so that's something.
Yeah, they just got on with trying to sort shit out. I really like how they just tore open the doors, busted in, and shot that guy before leaving. Nice, no nonsense, made sense.
