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Idle Weekend September 15, 2017: Use It or Lose It

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Idle Weekend September 15, 2017:

Idle Weekend September 15, 2017


Use It or Lose It
Idle Weekend is back! After a too-long lapse where PAX happened and we all worked too much, Rob and Danielle return to what they know best: talking about Star Trek, Farscape, and immersive sims. After a riveting discussion of criminally under-utilized licenses in games and the new Dishonored, they open a heavy mailbag and an especially exciting discussion of weekend projects. Discussed: Battlestar Galactica Deadlock, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek (TOS), Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Farscape, Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, Guy Fieri, Wonder Woman, Vienna Blood: A Max Lieberman novel, The Sheriff of Babylon, Starfighter (comic)

 

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haha this was a great episode, seriously you could just spend an hour every week talking about old sci fi TV shows and it would be totally fine. I always had a soft spot for Voyager because it was really my 'first' Star Trek show that I watched from the beginning. I had seen some TNG shows, but the 90s wasn't like now and you couldn't just go and get all 7 seasons of a show to binge watch (which would be something like 50 VCRs). But I did have Janeway and Chakotay every week and, yeah the first season wasn't crash hot - but I was looking forward to another 6 or 7 seasons of the show that established itself as its own chapter of the Star Trek universe. Unfortunately we never got that, and I went off to college after season 3 so I have actually never even seen how it ends. . 

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I enjoyed you guys talking about Star Trek, even though I cannot stand Star Trek and find them all amazingly tedious.

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I would absolutely listen to Danielle and Rob just talk about old sci-if shows again.

 

Also it doesn't sound like Elite Force was very accurate to Star Trek but I remember it had an expansion and I think the focus of that was just being able to explore the ship from voyager and wasn't really about shooting stuff. No idea if it was any good but that's a thing that exists.

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Elite Force was very video gamey and not particularly consistent with Star Trek.  For example, you have health and armor like other shooters of the era as well as a huge arsenal of weapons you can carry all at once (the in game explanation for this was they were stored in a personal transporter buffer which I thought was pretty clever but flies in the face of a lot of Trek).  I do remember really loving being able to walk around the ship.  The sequel to the game places you on the Enterprise E but I never played it so I'm not sure if you can walk around.

 

I still want to know if Danielle has seen The Peacekeeper Wars.

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