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#696629
Topic
All Things Star Trek
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Sadako said:

My local community college just approved my course on 'Ethics and Star Trek'.

The class is basically this: Every Thursday night, we watch an episode of Star Trek, then we talk about how that episode featured a terrible justification for the Prime Directive.

You'd find more and better examples in TNG than you would in TOS*.

 

*I'm assuming that by Star Trek, you're referring to the original series alone and none of its spinoffs.

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#696572
Topic
General Star Wars <strong>Random Thoughts</strong> Thread
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Tobar said:

Here's Billy Dee's entire segment.

 

SilverWook said:

doubleofive said:

My wife and I watched the clip of Billy Dee on Dancing with the Stars. I'd never been more embarrassed, but then it cut to Ewoks in the audience cheering him on and I thought I'd die of shame.

I'm not sure this is the first ABC/Disney/Star Wars crossover, but it's not a good start.

Those guys were too damned tall to be Ewoks. >_<

If Star Wars could feature tall Jawas, some silly reality TV show can feature tall Ewoks. =P

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#696563
Topic
Star Wars: Episode VII to be directed by J.J. Abrams **NON SPOILER THREAD**
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imperialscum said:

when it comes to reproducing creatures, puppet based SFX just suck compared to CGI. CGI can reproduce more natural behaviour and motion of a creature. In the end they both look fake.

I'll take the less-than-fluid movements of puppets over the plastic surfaces and weightlessness of CGI any day.

I just don't see the reason in investing great amount of time, effort and money in making a stop-motion SFX with a puppet. Especially when it usually look very unnatural. The way to solve this is either putting a guy into a costume or using CGI.

You do realize that in this day and age, the herky-jerkiness of stop-motion can be corrected, don't you?

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#696199
Topic
Star Wars: The New Dawn (The First Episode in DuracellEnergizer's New PT Re-Write) *COMPLETE*
Time

INT. NYAX/OBI-WAN, ANAKIN, & SIRI'S CELL

Anakin sits cross-legged on the deck, shirtless, looking down upon Siri, who lies beside him unconscious with his balled-up shirt placed under her head to serve as a pillow.

Groaning, the female Jedi knight slows regains consciousness, sitting up with considerable effort.

SIRI: (touches the side of her head with a grimace) What happened? (looks about the cell) Where's Kenobi?

ANAKIN: You were both stun-blasted and Ben was taken away. (beat) That was four hours ago, I think.

SIRI: (grave) For suborning, no doubt.

The cell door is suddenly unlocked and opened, allowing the two Mandalorian Knights to haul the unconscious form of Obi-Wan inside. Once they have dropped him to the deck, Anakin scurries over to examine the Jedi.

ANAKIN: (angry) What have you done to him, you bastards?!

MANDALORIAN #10: He'll survive.

Without further ado, the Mandalorians leave. Once they are gone, Siri scurries over to Nik and Ben's side.

ANAKIN: Can you tell if he's okay?

SIRI: (places a hand on his cheek then forehead) He's suffered a severe shock, but he's recuperating fast. He should come to soon.

ANAKIN: We'll let him rest, then. (beat) Get my shirt.

Siri obeys and scurries over to grab the wadded-up shirt she'd been using as a pillow. Returning to Anakin's side, she places it under Ben's head.

ANAKIN: What did they do to him?

INT. NYAX/SPARRING CHAMBER

Fuelled by his anger and hate, a Bpfasshi Dark Jedi strikes out at the six Mandalorian Knights surrounding him with incredible ferocity, lunging and slashing at them with the buzzing chartreuse blade of his lightsaber. Though each of the Mandalorians are seasoned warriors, they have to struggle to maintain themselves against the Bpfasshi's violent defense.

One of the Knights dives forward, somersaulting across the deck to the Dark Jedi, bringing his Mandalorian iron sword up in a slash that will sever the Bpfasshi's legs at the knees. Anticipating the attack, the Dark Jedi leaps up into the air, then lands on the blade of the sword, pinning the weapon down. Before the Mandalorian can move away, the Dark Jedi decapitates him at the jaw with his lightsaber.

Taking advantage of the sudden disorientation of the Mandalorian Knights, the Dark Jedi leaps up into the air, somersaults over the Mandalorians, and lands outside of the circle they had formed around him. Lunging forward, he runs one of the Mandalorians through, killing him instantly. Pulling his weapon free, he turns to face the remaining four warriors as they rush at them.

Swinging wildly, he misses the first warrior, who manages to land a nasty blow to the bicep of his right arm. Grunting with pain, he manages to bring his lightsaber up in time to parry the blow of the second Knight. Throwing out his hand, he pushes the Knight back into the Mandalorian behind him, skewering him on his companion's sword; before he can free his sword from the form of his companion, the Dark Jedi cuts them both down. Breathing heavily, the Bpfasshi Dark Jedi turns to face the remaining two Mandalorian Knights.

The Mandalorians rush forward toward the Dark Jedi and as a team strike out, the one of the left aiming for the Bpfasshi's head with the one on the right aiming for the legs. Throwing himself backward, the Dark Jedi avoids losing his head, though he does receive a nasty slash through his left ankle.

Grunting with pain, the darksider sends his chartreuse lightsaber spinning across the floor towards the Mandalorian on his right. The Knight fails to avoid the spinning lightsaber in time and the energy blade cleaves through both her ankles, cutting her feet off and sending her crashing to the deck.

The Bpfasshi gets back on his feet, using his dark side-enhanced adrenaline to block the pain shooting up from his wounded ankle out, and retrieves both his lightsaber and one of the fallen Mandalorians' swords. Then, with yellow-green energy blade in one hand and physical blade of Mandalorian iron in the other, he pounces upon the last Mandalorian.

The remaining Mandalorian Knight defends herself well against the Dark Jedi's fierce attack, but in the end she falls to the darksider, losing both hands and the right side of her head to the combined blades of her adversary.

Exhausted, the Bpfasshi Dark Jedi deactivates his lightsaber and throws the sword of Mandalorian iron to the deck. Surveying the wounded and slain strewn about him, he runs the back of a hand across his sweaty brow.

BPFASSHI DARK JEDI: Mandalorian bastards, I've won! It's over!

A door to the chamber slides open and Pre Vizsla steps inside. As the Mandalorian approaches the Dark Jedi, the latter brings his lightsaber back up, reigniting the yellow-green blade.

BPFASSHI DARK JEDI: You're dead!

The Dark Jedi lunges forward, bringing his lightsaber down in a straight stroke toward the Mandalorian's head. Without the slightest effort, the Mandalorian seizes the darksider's wrist before the blade can connect and, with a twist, snaps the Dark Jedi's wrist, causing him to drop his lightsaber.

PRE VIZSLA (FORCE HOUND): Rage and hate are powerful emotions -- they fuel the Force and, in turn, fuel you.

Reaching out with the Force, Vizsla calls the Dark Jedi's fallen lightsaber to his free hand.

PRE VIZSLA: (cont'd) But the power they give you is fleeting. Once it's gone, you're left tired and weak, defenseless as a small child.

Throwing out his hand, he releases the Dark Jedi. As the Bpfasshi staggers back, the Mandalorian ignites the darksider's weapon and, with one clean stroke, beheads him.

PRE VIZSLA: (cont'd) It is a lesson your kind rarely come to learn.

Disengaging the Dark Jedi's weapon, he lowers it to his side, his eyes behind the all-concealing visor of his helmet focusing on the decapitated remains of the fallen Bpfasshi.

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#696188
Topic
The Conspiracy Theories Thread(was: 911 Conspiracy theories)
Time

An intelligent designer akin to the Abrahamic God should be intelligent enough to know how to design and create a universe that can function self-sufficiently without Him having to intervene to make things happen/keep things running.

Saying that life can't arise naturally doesn't make the universe look designed -- it makes God look incompetent.

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#696160
Topic
Star Wars: Episode VII to be directed by J.J. Abrams **NON SPOILER THREAD**
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TheBoost said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

As I hate the whole PT-spawned notion that only certain genetic supermen get to have an afterlife, I hope Episode VII -- or any of the sequels, really -- clearly establishes that everyone -- be they Jedi or not, Force-sensitive or not -- gets to survive death as spirits in the Force.

 I'm not sure that concept is in the PT at all. 

Really, all we get is that Qui Gon learned to be a ghost. Where other peoples souls/whatever go after death isn't touched on.

I mean, if that's your reading (which I dont think has much evidence behind it), then the OT supports it just as much.

Perhaps my perception has been tainted by PT-era EU.

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#696089
Topic
What do you LIKE about the EU?
Time

Unlike many (most?) others, I don't hate The Crystal Star -- I actually found it a fun read the one time I read it.

I admit, though, that my perception is coloured by my love for parallel universe stories. Perhaps if there were more and better Star Wars stories which dealt with parallel universes and divergent timelines, I'd be less forgiving of the book's flaws. As it is, though, I have to accept what little's been given to me.

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#696084
Topic
If you need to B*tch about something... this is the place
Time

Oh, I've got a program to read it, and the files open fine if they're stored directly on the laptop or opened from a flash drive. It's just that the folders containing the files on the CDs simply won't show up when I try to open them. Older discs seem to work just fine, though -- it's only lately that I'm having this problem.

The disc drive on the desktop's never been cleaned, though, so perhaps the laser's dirty and it's improperly burning the data onto the discs, making the files unreadable on other computers. *shrug* 

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#696045
Topic
General Star Wars <strong>Random Thoughts</strong> Thread
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Tobar said:

SilverWook said:

Straight out of Ralph McQuarrie's paintings! I knew some helmet replicas had been made, but it's the first time I've seen a complete concept costume. :)

 So you haven't been following Rebels then I take it?

In other news, this was posted on Facebook today:

It's uncanny -- I've actually got Sith who weild iridescent crystalline swords in my personal canon.