Vainamoinen

You mean "Deep Sleep 9"? That's not the name I gave it ... that was Marina Sirtis.

There are some interesting theories out there that it's using Klingon technology, thus explaining the raw to aggressive look. Then again, you wouldn't name such a ship "discovery". Judging from the serial NCC-1031, this is a post-TOS and post-Enterprise series, but plays before Next Generation. If that's the era the Federation is trying to make their own cloaking device, the technology seen in the teaser could even be Romulan. Could be worthwhile chronicling the proceedings leading up to the treaty of Algeron. Lots of diplomacy there. And my question has always been: How could the Federation be coerced into THIS?!

Star Trek Discovery, anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

No. It's one of our famous compound nouns. Ein Determinativkompositum.

Not to draw on @Mington's idea, but ... what if we dress the banana up first? Take it out to dinner ... ?

George Stobbart approves of the goat bullying scene.

Deanna, eventually, has become a favorite of mine. Evidently the concept was fairly one dimensional. It was when Sirtis' own deeply sardonic personality poked through the façade of Troi that she had her very best moments. Sensing emotion, she could have used it as a superpower. She seldom did. I would love for her to return as an experienced badass 'aggressive diplomacy' captain with a lot less ethical concerns about using her Betazoid abilities. Concerning Pulaski: In a way, she was a McCoy type doc, and Data was her Spock. I forgive the character a lot, but her fault may just have been that she wasn't original enough. Diana Muldaur was well chosen for the role, and she really got everything out of Pulaski that could ever gotten out of her.

I'm just as sceptical as you are. Treating Star Trek as history has its perks, but it sounds as if that means the focus turns away from the personal, the individual, the emotional. I still see circumstances under which the idea could work. There are many ways in which that character familiarity can still be achieved to a degree. From the ever popular overarching time travel plot to age prostetics and extremely long lived alien races (among them the Vulkans of course). And depending on character development focus and episode-per-season ratio, deep familiarity can well happen within a single season (Firefly, anyone?). Lastly, I wouldn't be opposed to the idea that e.g. they'd switch back to crew one in season 3 – or maybe even switch between crews in different time frames within a single season. A lot of things are possible here, and the more I think about it, the more startreky it sounds to me. / / Not sure what the standard for teaser trailers like that is. The effects are pretty darn bad though. Not that I'd care about effects.

And don't the gamergate suppporters love the shit out of that video. To me it looks like the person has never played FPS with a controller. Which is a crime against game culture anyways and shouldn't be done under any circumstances whatsoever.

New "crews" ... the historic anthology rumor plot is thickening.

Well, this thread is unheal I mean, we're a bit behind our schedule here. Maybe talk about "Cars" for the next two weeks to give people the chance to catch up? I mean, that movie is basically the thread title. :|

http://www.pointandclickbait.com/2016/04/finally-a-feminism-for-men/

I *think* so.

The last time I've watched Voyager episodes has been more than 10 years ago, but I somehow remember one episode that was so thick with the technobabble that Janeway got so annoyed she favored the religious explanation instead. Anyone know what episode that was...?

Firewatch spotted in the gog.com "upcoming" tab! :) Make haste! Though I won't be able to play until my mainboard miraculously starts to re-accept the extra 2 GB it somehow started to dislike two years ago.

ocremix released a "Final Fantasy V" album that's essentially just gurgling and bubbling noises. They did use their newsletter mailing function to promote this, so I promptly cancelled the newsletter.

It's kind of difficult talking about Nintendo's reaction without the G-word. Jim Sterling has a shot at it, and he has to mention the S-word at the very least. http://www.thejimquisition.com/nintendos-corporate-culture/

I was the last person to obsess over everything happening in that area of the internet in the journalistic integrity thread. I take the blame for getting it and consenting to it getting closed. Not accidentally, in my last post, I obsessed over Alison Rapp's by then already ongoing brutal, reckless and illogical harassment. That was 38 days ago. And right now I'm thinking, maybe people should have obsessed over this case a good deal more, a good deal earlier, a good deal longer, a good deal louder, and with a fair bit more obsession.

I liked him better as Thor.

The movie shows a riotous world of self flagellation cults, terror attacks and fugitive concentration camps. The original book showed a world that's rather silently dying out. Both ideas are terrifying to the core. And the Children of Men movie, as far removed from the source material as it is, is one of my favorite movies, ever.

With the exception of Monsters Inc. for sheer originality, The Incredibles were the best up to that point. I love the movie score, but kept being irritated by it – what Michael Giacchino delivers here is a James Bond movie score, not one for a superhero movie. Still, Mr. Incredible humming his own character theme ... great fourth wall break. The Incredibles is a fairly schematic movie, and you're likely not getting surprised by it at all. However, their stylistic and animation choices here are the absolute top. They're doing incredible things with hair and fabric, and those nature and particularly water scenes are phenomenal. As Ben mentioned, the character models particularly of the female characters look fairly similar. It's true: Pixar has fled the Uncanny Valley and taken shelter in the doll house. I'm not sure they will ever set foot outside of it again. The message... *sigh*. Well, the message. I have the same problem with the Incredibles that I have with e.g. Harry Potter. There's a bunch of super people and they're just pretty damn superior to normals. And coincidentally they're the philantropists as well, and the saviours of the world. The normals in this movie? A rotten insurance company boss, a merciless evil overlord, a not exactly morally stable henchwoman seductress. And what's with that moral superiority anyway – as soon as Mr. Incredible breaks out from his prison cell, he easily kills six henchmen in the next two minutes. ...were there any puns to speak of?

He's still on that mission.

We're in "Incredibles" territory since yesterday, but two more things about "Finding Nemo". First: Did it occur to anyone that the only notable kid character in this kid's movie is a reckless asshole and potential main character killer? Second: The submarine/bombs/sharks scene was so incredibly dark. Has Pixar ever come as close to portraying actual, non cartoonish war before or afterwards?