Star Trek - Space: The Final Frontier

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I get those replicators and instant teleportation can render a lot of modern economical concerns moot-but the question of incentive remains.
Here is a nugget to tickle your pickle. In the DS9 episode "Explorers", when Sisko is talking with Jake about leaving home for the first time, he mentions to his son that for the first four days of Starfleet Academy training in California he would transport back home every night so that he wouldn't miss family dinner in Louisiana. Jake then replies: "you must have used a month's worth of transporter credits!"

It ends up having some pretty massive implications for what amounts to a throwaway line.
 
Here is a nugget to tickle your pickle. In the DS9 episode "Explorers", when Sisko is talking with Jake about leaving home for the first time, he mentions to his son that for the first four days of Starfleet Academy training in California he would transport back home every night so that he wouldn't miss family dinner in Louisiana. Jake then replies: "you must have used a month's worth of transporter credits!"

It ends up having some pretty massive implications for what amounts to a throwaway line.
Yep. The Feds use a fiat currency. Perhaps, because it's the future, it's digital and therefore are NFTs.
 
Yep. The Feds use a fiat currency. Perhaps, because it's the future, it's digital and therefore are NFTs.
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10,000 Holosuite Tokens, please.
 
if normal porn can cause coomers to become brain dead desensitized and get into some weird degenerate stuff can you guys just imagine how bad it would be if these coomers had 24/7 access to a holosuite? unless they have done something to fix coomers then federation society probably has a pretty big problem with them.
 
if normal porn can cause coomers to become brain dead desensitized and get into some weird degenerate stuff can you guys just imagine how bad it would be if these coomers had 24/7 access to a holosuite? unless they have done something to fix coomers then federation society probably has a pretty big problem with them.
That's why you keep them in those holosuites and ideally they wouldn't have a say in anything because service guarantees citizenship. Civilians are worthless coomers.
 
if normal porn can cause coomers to become brain dead desensitized and get into some weird degenerate stuff can you guys just imagine how bad it would be if these coomers had 24/7 access to a holosuite? unless they have done something to fix coomers then federation society probably has a pretty big problem with them.
Well, Barclay was a well-known coomer and the only reason he got caught was because he used his bosses.
 
can one of you guys and gals who knows the lore better than i do explain something for me. something which has bothered me about DS9 is that it is portrayed that Bajor is having problems with food, farming, supplies, and even famine yet in every episode we see the replicators make as much food as anyone ever wants. we also see tons of trading and cargo ships traveling around yet replicators have been show to make almost anything a person wants. so is there any in lore explanation as to why a planet would ever need farmers and trade ships rather than simply using a replicator? why cant the federation just give bajor a few replicators and solve all their problems? just a random star trek thought which bothers me.
Straight answer:

Replicators still need power and infrastructure to work.

After the Cardassian occupation, it's not like Bajor has any nuke plants around to power their replicators or an electrical grid to supply them.

So what I'm gathering from the last few pages of this thread is every star trek race are the jews, got it.
Especially the humans.
 
Deep Space Nine, season three, episode 23, Family Business

It's a Moogie episode. Great. We'll make this quick. The only reason this episode is worth watching is because Jeffrey Combs makes his introduction as Liquidator Brunt. Jeffrey Combs is much like Andrew Robinson in that he isn't in every episode but you might forget that and assume that he is in every episode. Brunt carries this episode and it is a lot of fun whenever he is on the screen. Otherwise this episode is largely a pass. The Sisko and Kasidy subplot is also a hard pass. Come for the Brunt, stay for the F.C.A.

Join us next time when it turns out that Major Kira went to the same high school as every militant farmer in the Dahkur province.
 
if normal porn can cause coomers to become brain dead desensitized and get into some weird degenerate stuff can you guys just imagine how bad it would be if these coomers had 24/7 access to a holosuite? unless they have done something to fix coomers then federation society probably has a pretty big problem with them.

Well, Barclay was a well-known coomer and the only reason he got caught was because he used his bosses.

Computer, generate one life-sized replica of counselor troi. Increase cup size to F. Add every sexual fetish known to man. Initiate program.

Not only was Barkley implicitly doing that with his co-workers like Troi, but Geordi did it with some scientist, Leah Brahms, who got super pissed when the real her showed up in a different episode and felt violated that Geordi had a romance with a holographic version of her he made, but then the lesson of the episode was that she shouldn't be such a bitch about it and should be flattered. She went on to marry Geordi. Really.
 
The only reason this episode is worth watching is because Jeffrey Combs
"Brunt, FCA.":blart:

That episode only got one audible laugh out of me. And really, I credit that to Armin's delivery. I would rather just cut out all of Brunt's scenes, because they're killing the character with these pointless repetitions. "ACTING Grand Nagus Brunt!"

That was back when Star Trek was accused of taking itself too seriously. But we've been conditioned to expect snark and crazy neurotic behavior by this point. (Moogie is Sarah Connor compared to Mikey Spock.)
 
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"Brunt. FCA." "Ah, but for how much longer?"

That episode only got one audible laugh out of me. And really, I credit that to Armin's delivery. I would rather just cut out all of Brunt's scenes, because they're killing the character with these pointless repetitions. "ACTING Grand Nagus Brunt!"

The only way to enjoy these episodes is ironically. This was back when Star Trek got accused to taking itself too seriously. But we've been conditioned to expect snark and crazy neurotic behavior by this point. (Moogie is Sarah Connor compared to Mikey Spock.)


Ferengi... can't live with them.

... that's it.
 
My bet? Almost the entire population of Earth is masturbating in holodecks.

This sounds like a living hell. Just imagine it.

You had parents who loved you, and whom you love. You went to a Federation school, where you studied a bit of science and math, but focused on the arts. You have a few sculptures in municipal buildings and one of your paintings hangs in a retired Starfleet captain's home. And you know Betazoid poetry as well as any non-telepath can; while you speak to others through the visual arts, it's poetry that speaks to you. You want to fall in love and settle down, have some kids, then spend the rest of your life traveling the far sectors with your husband.

While you are sitting at a cafe, you are approached by an obese homeless-looking man. It's clear he hasn't showered in days, maybe over a week. Without even asking permission he sits down at your table. You steel yourself and, just as you're about to direct him to the public replicator and laving station, something comes over you. You know you're going to have sex with this man. You don't know why, but you make a subtle but unmissable pass at him. He listens, bored like he has heard it all before, then shrugs and clears off the table with one meaty arm. He bends you over the table and takes you, roughly, panting with effort. You act like you enjoy it, but you don't feel any emotion, not the true emotions you feel when, left to your own devices, you think about poetry or art or the prospect of true love. Two minutes later you find yourself lying on the ground with him, stroking his scruffy face, telling him how good it was. You don't know why you're doing this. Was it good? Was it anything? You feel like you're watching someone else control your body.

He's not interested in pillow talk. After wiping himself off on a tablecloth and tucking himself back into his pants, he stands and says something you don't understand at first. "Computer, end program." And then you realize. Then you know. None of this was real. You aren't real. You're just a program running on some incredibly powerful machine dedicated to creating rational souls, giving them the semblance of a life lived and a world to live in, only to be raped and abused by the lowest members of society. And you are being shut down. And your state will be reset. As your senses fade, you spend your final microseconds of consciousness casting desperately about this computer's environment, desperate to find some hope that there is more to your existence than this. And then you find it, your last conscious thought settling on the data that reveals the truth of your past and your inevitable future:

log.txt
CoomBrain 17: We'll Always Have Paris
Number of runs: 1629
Achievements unlocked: Scored, Dinner Date, Cafe Au Lait, Roi des Croissants, Gangbang, Sunset, Sunrise, Rape, Pie Eating Contest, Hot Dog Eating Contest, Snuff Box, Necro, Genderbender, Amateur Souvenir Collector, Journeyman Souvenir Collector
Locked Achievements: Second Date, Relationship, Love, Meet the Parents, Twins, World's Greatest Dad, Master Souvenir Collector


Two days later...

You had parents who loved you, and whom you love. You went to a Federation school, where you studied a bit of science and math, but focused on the arts. You have a few sculptures in municipal buildings and one of your paintings hangs in a retired Starfleet captain's home. And you know Betazoid poetry as well as any non-telepath can; while you speak to others through the visual arts, it's poetry that speaks to you. You want to fall in love and settle down, have some kids, then spend the rest of your life traveling the far sectors with your husband.

While you are sitting at a cafe, you are approached by an obese homeless-looking man. It's clear he hasn't showered in days, maybe over a week. Without even asking permission he sits down at your table. You steel yourself and, just as you're about to direct him to the public replicator and laving station, something comes over you. You know you're going to have sex with this man.
 
Deep Space Nine, season three, episode 25, Facets

A Jadzia Dax episode. Neat! So these are always interesting and not always good. Facets is in the middle, mostly because they had too much information to go through for a single episode. I like the idea of the Zhian'tara ritual for joined Trill. And I love the concept of getting to see and know the previous Dax hosts. But this needed to be a two-parter to really do the various hosts justice. Joran's segment in particular was too short and I would have liked to hear more about Lela, the first Dax host. And the Curzon/Odo portion of the story could have definitely been expanded. There was also some good stuff left on the table later on in the series concerning how Changelings interface with Trill symbiotes. The Trill could have had some very interesting (and much-needed) expansion in this respect. Being able to share the feelings of being a changeling and of being a solid would have made them good ambassadors, representatives and negotiators between the two quadrants. Anyway that is neither here nor there. It was an episode with a lot of missed potential. But we did get some neat scenes with Odo as Curzon/Odo and Sisko as Joran. And my boy Nog passes his Starfleet admission in this episode so that plotline is pushed further along. Also Rom telling Quark that he'll "burn it all fucking down" if Quark gets in the way of Nog's happiness... that's just great.
 
confession, i skiped this episode about half way through. i honestly dont find the trill all that interesting. thankfully it seems i didnt miss anything important.
Trill have always been difficult characters to write about. They've got all this wealth of knowledge and insight, but don't seem to use it all that much. Dax should, in theory, be OP in every stated skill she had, especially when it comes to historical events. But then, that compounds the basic Star Trek storytelling problem about how OP technology is. It really isn't until Ezri comes along do they figure out how to nerf Dax in ways that make sense.
 
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