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  1. kalvasflam
    gawd, if Beverly Crusher wasn't so ancient and let's face it, used, she might be waifu material. Well, at least Picard is going to be too busy with Laris As for why Jack ended up where he did at the end of the show... see above, let's just call him Colonel Jack.
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    caught a little bit of this. Boy, is Patrick Stewart egotistical... everything has to revolve around Picard. Even JLP's dead body is a weapon, surprised they didn't extract something from Picard's balls in the process, and don't even get me started on how much contortion and twist of logic you have to have to get to this fleet wide assimilation BS using Picard's DNA. Why Picard's DNA, considering how many humans the borgs have assimilated, why not just some random schmuck who had been previously assimilated, surely the collective can find one human within their big borg ship to scrap off the DNA in his lobes? What is the time frame that passed between the start of this magical operation by the changelings to now? They sure worked fast pushing all of Picard's DNA to every ship in the fleet... I think one of the problem with STP is the fact that they try to use a season arc for story line instead of a bunch of one offs. They try to build it up to the next big thing, and inevitably all of it falls flat. And someone really needs to finally put the Borg out of the Star Trek misery, they've gone back to that well so often, it's amazing that there is still a well left.
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    transporter
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    Yep, watched it over the weekend. It was one entertaining movie. The plot was a bit asinine if you stop to think about it for a minute, but hey, fun is fun. Movies are meant to be an escape from reality, not moral lesson.
  5. kalvasflam
    You gotta give the man props, still make some entertaining movies, and jumping out of a chopper at his age... well, I doubt many in Hollywood does that.
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    Just wait until NGAD is tested and ready to fly, and then all of a sudden, the world hugs it out, the defense budget is slashed again, and the US ends up with 59 of those planes... After all, a lot can change in a few years. Nobody in 1988 could've foreseen the Last Supper coming or the Soviet Union falling after just a few years later.
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    Ok, let's back up a second, P-8 is equipped with Harpoons, last time I checked, that's an offensive weapon system. And yep, the whole idea is that the 747 would make a good bomb truck on approach, because why do you need stealth when you can just paint a United coloring scheme or a Lufthansa one on top of it. Put some tick figures in the window, and doctor the electronic signature, who would know the difference. But in reality, that is not really needed, because if you have 1000 mile range on the ALCM (and I think there was at least a couple of variants that had even longer range), you'd just stand off and lob missiles from far away. Interceptors just aren't going to be flying out that far. I would say use the B-52s, except the problem there is that, those are even older air frames. Besides, if you're not down with the 747, we can always use the 777 or the 787. I heard the 787 is supposed to be very eco friendly with its lower fuel burn, but the 777 does have the advantage of larger cargo capacity. And more of them are in service as airlines. I know it's very cynical, but the people who gets to argue about this sort of stuff are usually the ones who won the war in the first place. The B-1R concept sounded a little bit out there, I remember that it involved adding AESA radars and AMRAAMs, and my first thought was... what???? B-1B to be fair is already a bomb truck, I wonder what more it would take to make it able to carry more weapons. I wouldn't be surprised if its bomb bays can already carry most of the munitions in inventory.
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    It's also a bit redundant at this point, think about when and why stealth was conceived. In this day and age, you are better off with just a bomb truck, like what they were doing with the Rapid Dragon, except, even that concept is a waste of time, just get a dozen 747, convert them with rotary bay and strap some missiles on them. The concept was around in the early 80s, and it's perfectly viable, and you can go one better by automating the cockpit so that its a UCAV missile truck. Just stealth up the missiles a bit, and make sure it has an extended range. Even the original ALCM had 1000 miles plus range. Penetrating air defenses sounds good until you realize that stealth isn't quite as good any more against more modern air defenses, and as pointed out, with hypersonic missiles, you hardly need that penetration any more unless you have to have a man in the loop making last minute targeting decisions.
  9. kalvasflam
    If the writers actually had any guts, they'd have promoted Delta by having Max killed. Then having the cast, presumably Mirage, do something audacious and overcome whatever it is that killed Max. Although, given that they all suck as pilots, probably with a successful assassination attempt in the way to go, or may be he gets killed a la Fokker, but protecting Mirage or some such thing. Give it emotional impact. But, let's face it, if they had the balls to whack Max, Delta wouldn't have been so bad in the first place. The only thing that would horrify fans more is if Epsilon managed to kill Megaroad-1 and presumably the original triangle. May be an on screen death... or some such thing, but the story writers would have been too afraid of the backlash from such an act.
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    One way to think about this movie is how desperate the producers were with trying to make Delta happen, you can practically hear them say: "tasukete, Max taicho" to be fair to Delta squad, it wasn't a four on one fight. Chuck was bushwhacked while he was gawking, Mirage gave up the moment she figured out she couldn't keep up with the boys. (and just sat there waiting to be shot) As for Bogue... well, Bogue is Bogue, you can slap the title Crimson Knight onto him, and he is still Bogue. As for Hayate... what can you say, he is a not as talented Camille in need of a slap down.
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    So Sideshow Bob is getting a chance to undo some of his past mistakes? Cause KK was all Iger. So, Andor is done, cool, will binge it over the weekend.
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    duh, have you ever heard of sleeping beauty.....
  13. kalvasflam
    Lady M is probably Milia secretly taking on a new persona to boss around Max. All the rest of it is a big smokescreen to make people think she is someone else. 🤣
  14. kalvasflam
    can't wait until the season is over so I can binge watch this stuff.... although from the sounds of it, it might be a bit difficult to stomach all at one go.
  15. kalvasflam
    The only Megaroad-1 story that makes sense now is if they set it up as the future antagonist. All along you thought you were fighting for the good guys, when... surprise, you have been fighting for the bad guy. Delta really does screw up everything doesn't it? This whole crazy Lady M thing came from there. In the vain effort to capitalize on nostalgia, the franchise is going to self destruct.
  16. kalvasflam
    Just shut up and by the new blue VFs, otherwise, your collection will never be complete. And if you don't buy the red Valks, think how lonely the blue valks will be, or their offspring Purple Valks. 🤣
  17. kalvasflam
    Ok, I was kind of joking about the garage full of red and blue Valks, but not really that much with why Max got the YF-29. Cause let's face it, if you had a prototype uber fighter, who would you want flying it or testing it? Answer: the best pilots you can find, and my guess is Max still fits that bill, and Milia is probably not too far behind. Age not withstanding, Unlike the Gundamverse, top notch experimental mecha is not accidentally handed over and then kept by snot nosed punks who has not one bit of military experience. As for Delta, they should be thankful that Max blew them away in a YF-29, because at least that's an excuse they can use, he was flying the better plane, a gen 6 vs a gen 5. what would be far more humiliating is if Max decided to come out in a VF-1 and wiped the mat with them, which would you rather go with? Grandpa beat me in a superior machine, or grandpa spanked with me in a fighter that hasn't seen active service in 40 years. That's an equivalent of having an F-4 shooting down a squad of F-35. If anything, the writers did Delta a favor having Max beat them up in YF-29. Think how much complaints people would have if he was in a VF-4 or a VF-1. Let's face it, Max was the bright spot in the movie. If he overshadowed the rest of the plot and characters by being there, that's literally just telling people how badly the movie sucked.
  18. kalvasflam
    I want the VF-35 next, the Felonski equivalent. Cause Max and Milia definitely need those. If you don't have a blue and red variant of every VF, you are doing something wrong. Somewhere in the Macross universe, there is a very large building which matching red and blue painted Valk of every type ever, just so that we can have matching Max/Milia pairs. It's almost as ubiquitous as Jolly Rogers for VF-1. I always found it hilarious that NATO decided to give a ridiculous code name like Felon to the SU-57. Flanker, Fullback, those were decent names, Firkin, hey, I can even get behind that. Felon. Why don't they just call it F***face.
  19. kalvasflam
    In terms of how Max got his YF-29... the answer is simple, cause he is Max. Now there is a question probably somewhere about how did Milia get her YF-29... wanna know the answer? Cause duh... Max has one, so of course she gets one. How else is Bandai going to hawk a Red YF-29. Heh, most likely to split up 50 years running. I am curious to see what the performance of the VF-25 and VF-31 is compared to each other, and how those rank against the VF-27 and VF-31. Honestly, it feels like Kawamori decided to be like Sukhoi and go with a bunch of Flanker derivatives, starting with the YF-24.
  20. kalvasflam
    Oh, my other post got nuked... 🤕 Anyway, going back to the one question that I had, what is considered Macross F canon these days, the movie or the series? Cause the short made it look like the movie is canon, which kinda sucks. Max is what makes the Delta movie in my opinion, otherwise, it's reminiscent of the series. Mediocre. The schooling makes me wonder if Kawamori had an advanced screening of Top Gun: Maverick. The difference is in the planes as well, why the hell does Kawamori insist on adding more and more crap to the VF-31, or for that matter, any of the Valks. I mean at this point, those things might as well be flying bricks. It's like loading up a McLaren with extra spoilers, eyelashes for headlights, extra bling everywhere, roof racks. You may as well have called the thing Nu Gundam at this point. At least the Durandal had the courtesy of still looking like an airplane, and not a damned flying brick.
  21. kalvasflam
    Rogue One was actually pretty good from my POV. TFA was in general ok, and I would say Rogue One was basically the highwater mark for the Disney stewardship of the cinematic star wars universe. It all went down hill from there. Solo wasn't that awful, but then they brought on TLJ and whatever that last movie was. Sure it was a quantum improvement from TLJ, but as hard as it was going from 0 to 1; they are still a long way from 100... or even a 50. And TLJ was more like a -30.
  22. kalvasflam
    You know, I can imagine the pitch meeting where the Paramount exec went to Stewart: Faceless exec: So, Sir Stewart, that's the general outline of the new show with you front and center, and we are proposing a generous $400K per episode. What do you say? Stewart: Let me translate this for you, you guys are looking around at the TV landscape, Netflix is way ahead of the pack, Amazon Prime is offering tons of goodies beyond TV, Apple has pockets deeper than God, Disney is ringfencing their content, HBO is coming out with edgier and grittier, and at best, you bozos have some old shows that are on TV that you're going to flip onto streaming, and you really need an anchor that make you stand apart from whatever Fox or NBC is offering, a big name for your new streaming service, does that sound about right to you? Faceless exec: Well, we actually think... Stewart: shut up, here is my deal, take it or leave it, I get creative input, if the writers do anything I don't like, I get veto power, I set the direction of the show, and I do whatever the f*** I like, got it? Oh, and I have a list of people I want on the show. Frakes, he can cameo, so can Spiner, and Sirtis... ah, I know I also want Jeri Ryan as a regular, she's still pretty hot, and is a good draw for nerds with fantasies. And I want it in the contract to have at least four seasons. Faceless exce talk it over with his colleagues for a minute: Alright Sir. Stewart, we agree to your terms. You have creative control, you have the crew you want, and $400K an episode... Stewart laughs: who do you think I am? Orlando Bloom? $750K or I walk. Faceless exec: but... but... Mr. Stewart, we don't have that kind of budget. Stewart: sell your first born, loan your family out as sweat shop labor In Shenzhen, does it look like I give a sh**? Do you want the deal or not. Faceless exec: ok... you win. The Faceless exec leaves, thankful for the deal that'll launch the new streaming service. Meanwhile, Stewart cackles gleefully: at last, I will have the Star Trek I want. The Star Trek the world deserves.
  23. kalvasflam
    No cameos…. No attempt to bring in young Boba… no Ashoka, no Rex, no clone force 99, and no baby Mando, those are the things that will ensure this series does well. Ewan can make sure he continues to earn if he plays his cards right.
  24. kalvasflam
    Well, with inflation these days, everybody needs more cash. Even Q. I mean Stewart probably signed away his appearance so that there can be future Picard shows with his likeness. This way, he can keep the gravy train rolling whilst he is still in this world. Ol’ Pat likes his lifestyle, and that kind of lifestyle must be maintained with cash flow. 🤣
  25. kalvasflam
    stop knocking the Borg Queen, they could afford the effects, they were too busy spending that money on Annie Wersching, she hasn't had a decent role since 24; getting her into the Borg queen custom is the last chance to revive her career... 😅
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