Star Trek - Space: The Final Frontier

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Grand Wizard Wakka said:
The premise/lesson of this episode was the opposite. Everyone tried to tell Michael she couldn't save everyone and to leave the 6 most maximum security prisoners, but she showed them.

In earlier episodes this season, the President of the Federation tried to tell her she "still had more to learn about leadership" because she doesn't believe in making tactical sacrifices and thinks she can win everything everytime. Federation President tried to quote Needs Of The Many, IIRC, to which, no joke, Michael in offense retorted that she doesnt have anything to learn and can save everyone everytime, and went on to brag about how many times she's saved the galaxy, and that everyone's needs can be met if President White Lady would just "Do Better" like Captain of Color.
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Of course! She got that black girl magic, only Whites have to make sacrifices and hard decisions.
 
You know we talked about how star trek captains are like in real life. I have heard so far William Shatner, Patrick Stewart, Avery Brooks and Kate Mulgrew.

I haven't heard this thread discuss Scott Bakula too much. I don't know much about the guy other than he's had a successful career. I also know that he's left leaning and didn't like orange man. But even than I don't know if he was like Spiner who's twitter thread was mostly orange man bad or more the type who didn't like Trump but didn't let it shit up his social media.

Also how is he to fans? Nice and fun or kind of a douche? I really don't know because he's one of the few captain actors I don't hear fans talk about alot (not his character. Fans Clearly talk about Archer, but not Bakula himself compare to say Shatner or Stewart).

I'm just curious. Since I don't hear much about the guy like the other four captain actors.
 
Bakula's a nice guy with a reputation as a good dude who's easy to work with, and appreciates fans even if he doesn't like to spend a lot of time in the public eye.
 
The Ugly One said:
Bakula's a nice guy with a reputation as a good dude who's easy to work with, and appreciates fans even if he doesn't like to spend a lot of time in the public eye.
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That's good to hear. Thanks as I was saying I didn't know much about him. So I wasn't sure how he is to fans.

Good to hear that he's a nice guy who appreciates his fans. That's probably why there isn't much talk about him compare to other captain actors. He doesn't like spending too much time in public eye.
 
Oats12345 said:
That's good to hear. Thanks as I was saying I didn't know much about him. So I wasn't sure how he is to fans.

Good to hear that he's a nice guy who appreciates his fans. That's probably why there isn't much talk about him compare to other captain actors. He doesn't like spending too much time in public eye.
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As it should be.
 
Grand Wizard Wakka said:
STD's latest episode was about evacuating a colony, and Burnham and boyfriend, the two blacks on the show, made it priority #1 to evacuate the maximum security prison, which for some reason only had only 5 people, and of course the prisons were "guilty" of things like "stealing food to feed their children" cause all criminals are innocent, all cops are bad, etc. The governor of the colony at the end complained that Burnham decided to put the prisoners and civilians in a room together with no safety measures and Burnham threated to airlock him if he didnt check his privilege.

The episode should have been realistic, and had the prisoners just start murdering and raping everybody peacefully protesting.
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Voyager actually handled this premise pretty well when they had to transport prisoners from a ship in distress. One was reformed but still guilty and the others were varying shades of psychopaths pulling on the crew's heartstrings with sob stories.

That episode also cemented Tom Paris as one of the most based members of Starfleet.
 
Do Vulcans have the same haircut because it's a genetic trait, or do they cut it that way because it's practical (logical)?
 
Tookie said:
Voyager actually handled this premise pretty well when they had to transport prisoners from a ship in distress. One was reformed but still guilty and the others were varying shades of psychopaths pulling on the crew's heartstrings with sob stories.

That episode also cemented Tom Paris as one of the most based members of Starfleet.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QO2fXtxszEA
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There is no way a line like that would ever be written today. Fucking amazing how insane we’ve gotten in thirty years.
 
The Empirical Bogey said:
Do Vulcans have the same haircut because it's a genetic trait, or do they cut it that way because it's practical (logical)?
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I mean, mirror T'pol looks like this.
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And then there's Spock's (second most) shameful sibling.
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So I'm guessing it's a fashion choice.
 
The Empirical Bogey said:
Do Vulcans have the same haircut because it's a genetic trait, or do they cut it that way because it's practical (logical)?
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They live on a desert planet so they should mirror MENA cultures in dress and hairstyles.

Does anyone have any info on ST: Prodigy? I watched the few episodes out and it was OK. It didn't feel like a ST show at all so I was wondering if they took a script for a different show and threw a Star Trek title on it.
 
Oats12345 said:
That's good to hear. Thanks as I was saying I didn't know much about him. So I wasn't sure how he is to fans.

Good to hear that he's a nice guy who appreciates his fans. That's probably why there isn't much talk about him compare to other captain actors. He doesn't like spending too much time in public eye.
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He's openly blamed himself spending too much time away from home to do Quantum Leap and missing his daughter's teen years and letting his first marriage die, and had written into his Star Trek contract that he gets to be home for dinner. He was also a huge Star Trek fan before becoming an actor...so he gets why Trekkies want his autograph or get excited when they see him grocery shopping, but his family comes first.

There are probably not even a dozen people like that in the entertainment industry.
 
The Ugly One said:
He's openly blamed himself spending too much time away from home to do Quantum Leap and missing his daughter's teen years and letting his first marriage die, and had written into his Star Trek contract that he gets to be home for dinner. He was also a huge Star Trek fan before becoming an actor...so he gets why Trekkies want his autograph or get excited when they see him grocery shopping, but his family comes first.

There are probably not even a dozen people like that in the entertainment industry.
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Thats great to hear. That reminds me of Richard Dean Anderson who also took acting to the backseat so he could spend time with his family. Hence why he left stargate after what was originally ment to be the finale season.

I love hearing about actors like these guys who took acting aside to spend time with their family.
 
The Ugly One said:
He had written into his Star Trek contract that he gets to be home for dinner.
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Smart move.

It takes a seriously bad concept to make Scott Bakula boring. His Ernest P. Worrell version of a starship captain was no fun at all.
Tookie said:
That episode also cemented Tom Paris as one of the most based members of Starfleet.
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He always had one foot in, one foot out of Starfleet, anyway. He's the one who was most likely to 'go rogue', particularly since the writers kept seperating him from the ship.
 
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Tom Paris is a rogue, but throughout Voyager he becomes an ever more responsible adult. Especially after he gets married.

Man was both a pilot, a medical assistant, and regularly went on away missions. And he had a high maintenance(as in super bitchy and demanding) girlfriend/spouse.

So he grew up.
 
Shamash said:
Tom Paris is a rogue, but he grew up.
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Nice to see that Paris reverts to type whenever he has his memory deleted (it's a regular occurrence around these parts) and becomes a bit of a rogue again. And Tom and B’Elanna always wind up attracted to each other, anyway.

"Loosen up, baby doll, the war’s almost over!" :story:
 
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