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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jul 20, 2018 12:14:29 GMT
Yes. Ralph and I have recently had them. There's a whole thread about it in the General Forum. See also threads on Corner Shop etiquette.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 2, 2018 8:43:41 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 25, 2018 21:22:34 GMT
What kind of person would force their chum to watch the Planet Scotland episode of TNG...in HD no less?
Answer: A Fiend!
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Aug 25, 2018 22:07:43 GMT
One who upheld his part of the bargain by watching Shuttlepod One earlier in the week.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Aug 26, 2018 9:22:38 GMT
Beverly.... BEVERLY!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 8, 2018 18:40:54 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 8, 2018 21:27:53 GMT
*salutes*
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 17, 2018 18:14:11 GMT
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Post by KnightBeat on Sept 21, 2018 22:43:52 GMT
What does Santa need with a starship?
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 22, 2018 9:37:46 GMT
This may be the greatest threat the Earth has yet faced.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 22, 2018 16:54:56 GMT
I can't see anything.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 22, 2018 16:59:45 GMT
OH MY GOD IT'S TURNED RALPH BLIND!
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Post by Bogatan on Sept 22, 2018 17:06:55 GMT
I look forward to another Shatner album.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 22, 2018 18:48:48 GMT
Is it his Christmas album? Oh I have known about that for weeks.
-Ralph
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Post by Bogatan on Sept 22, 2018 19:01:23 GMT
I was reminded about it by Knightbeats post.
Having said that I realise I didn't know about his last album and I dont think I ever picked up Seeking Major Tom.
And I think I may have to accept I'll never find Has Been again.
So that'll be 4 albums to pick up.
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 22, 2018 19:03:21 GMT
Folks, this is what Stockholm Syndrome looks like.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 22, 2018 19:13:09 GMT
I used to own digital copies of Shatner and Nimoy albums (from the late Play Digital) but lost them due to hard drive failure.
-Ralph
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Post by KnightBeat on Sept 22, 2018 19:30:49 GMT
That must be the peril-sensitive glasses trying to protect you from danger. Bill Shatner is promoting his new Christmas album. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07GK1Q2LK/He tweeted a link to one of the recordings. It's not as bad I expected (I expected a ponderous version of white Christmas, similar to his Rocket Man cover), but isn't good enough to make me want to buy it.
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Post by Bogatan on Sept 22, 2018 21:30:01 GMT
Folks, this is what Stockholm Syndrome looks like. Has Been is amazing. Seriously. its just.... yeah.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 24, 2018 9:30:29 GMT
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Post by Bogatan on Sept 24, 2018 11:15:56 GMT
At that price should have an actual tablet in there with a custom interface
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 24, 2018 11:43:30 GMT
Yup!
I see that the Picard Desk Crystal in this collection is still available...
-Ralph
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Post by Bogatan on Sept 28, 2018 14:32:17 GMT
I was reminded about it by Knightbeats post. Having said that I realise I didn't know about his last album and I dont think I ever picked up Seeking Major Tom. And I think I may have to accept I'll never find Has Been again. So that'll be 4 albums to pick up. Result. Going through old harddrives using my new docking station that arrived this morning. Found a rip of Has Been amongst the decade old files. The CD is no closer to being found but I can at least listen to it again.
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Post by Shockprowl on Sept 29, 2018 7:18:29 GMT
I have a kind of 'best of' of Shattner and Nimoy. It's... compelling.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 29, 2018 8:19:00 GMT
That's the one I had and lost when hard drive went down!
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Sept 29, 2018 10:22:07 GMT
Oh Doc' I'm so sorry... You poor man...
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 4, 2018 19:51:43 GMT
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Post by Toph on Oct 5, 2018 1:21:28 GMT
...not gonna lie. I think I'm gonna cry real hard when she's gone.
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 2, 2018 19:45:28 GMT
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Post by Toph on Nov 22, 2018 0:28:06 GMT
So in a major surprise, CBS released Discovery on DVD/Bluray yesterday, instead of waiting two or three years *cough*netflix*cough*hulu*coughcough*
I have many thoughts and feelings which I may share in the disco thread, but the big one is more appropriate here.
I kinda feel like the Klingons get progressively less interesting with each new Trek.
In TOS, they were cast in the soviet shadow. They were us, but with a different way of doing things. More aggressive, more reckless, but usually shown to have more similarities than differences.
The movies, I feel is where they were at their best. I feel they were generally well written and far more complex than previously, especially in STVI. Where they were shown to be extremely learned and sophisticated. We were also shown klingons who had dull-as-dirt dayjobs. We were shown klingons well versed in law. I don't think there has ever been a better piece of Klingon fiction than STVI.
TNG is where the Klingons start getting distilled. Not watered down, but distilled. Some might blame this on Worf, but I don't. He has a limited view of Klingons, and a narrow idea of what they are, and what it means to be a Klingon. But when they're shown without him, they're not much more complex. In TNG, Klingons have been distilled down to a race that doesn't do much more than want to fight, talk about honor and glorious death, and stabbing political adversaries in the back.
DS9 ratchets this up, from what I remember.
Voyager gives us a new viewpoint with Torres (my favorite klingon character), but honestly? It also leans into this with a new twist. It's not culture, it's genetics. (Which really flies in the face of some of the biggest messaging presented by STVI).
Come Enterprise, and it distills out more of the complexities, to where the Klingons are almost a stereotype of the TNG version.
And now come to Discovery, where they have been boiled down to a concentrate. All the Klingons care about is killing, combat, and talking about honor (though never showing it) These are Voyager level of uninteresting alien, to me. Like... the Kazon seemed like Dollar Store Klingons. These seem like Kazon, repackaged to vaguely look like Klingons.
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