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  1. Thom
    Another problem with going so far forward in time. The world they had to create in order to be believable and not just a mirror to the time they left would have to be drastically different, not just in look but in its society as well. A thousand years earlier than our own time and the world was dominated with monarchies and religions and caste systems. But what we see in STD () is a society that has been basically stagnant for about eight centuries, at least until the Burn. Shortening the time frame they jumped to to a few centuries ahead rather almost ten would have been the better move.
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    I'm sure this has been posted before! Would be awesome to see in reality.
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    Oh Cage... Looks like he needs a sequel to Gone in 60 Seconds...
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    Loved Vance. Until the writers had him reward Michael for disobeying orders and basically getting lucky...
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    @vsim Nice striping! I almost always have trouble putting on decals stripes, so painting is probably the best way to go. @derex3592 That PE is looking good. And such cute (handsome?) cats!! And that's awesome with the clear windows on the Runabout. Looks great! @electric indigo The Mig is coming along great, esp with the paint and those 'stabby' things... Sweet! For myself, I finally got another build on the table. It's seems every one now is an attempt at a 'mojo-buster.' This one is the 1/1000 kit of the Kelvin, though I'm calling this one at 1/650. It's also not the Kelvin, but the USS Ampere NCC-0516.
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    I'd watch that!
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    Good start. I'd lean on that railing!
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    Now we know... In the end though, there were just so many bad decisions made by the writers about the characters and plot that I was just meh about everything. My give a damn has long since been busted... Tell me when Strange New Worlds is airing.
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    Wow, great looking VF-19!
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    Don't know how good your printer is, but perhaps you can scan some 1/72 scale decals, down-size and print them on clear decal paper?
  11. Thom
    Well, that was a roller coaster. RIP, Ms Roberts.
  12. Thom
    Agreed. Moderation is always key. A little more would have been good though.
  13. Thom
    I wish they had continued with those kind of asides.
  14. Thom
    Ugh! It could have been a good episode...
  15. Thom
    Goodbye 2020, you tw@t! Hello, 2021! How you doin'? Gonna be nice?
  16. Thom
    @MechTech Lovely looking rusty lighthouse, and all topped off by an F-86 pilot with an obvious lighthouse fetish!
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    And no liaison officer. They had that one woman who came aboard to acclimate the crew to the new tech, but they also needed someone onboard to be a living touchstone with this new era. I would have preferred that than Adira as the new-era character. It's just like they write in all the problems by consciously making the mistakes before-hand, even as they are glaringly obvious.
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    No thanks! After 2020 I want some damn Happily Ever Afters! Although, at the moment in the trailer when it mentioned the virus attacking the brain tissue I thought this was going to turn into a massive zombie movie.
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    Was interested...
  20. Thom
    Good plot. I like that.
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    Okay, one exception...
  22. Thom
    Alright cool episode, and how about that answer for the Burn right?! Wow, so the Progenitor race seen in TNG actually had a base on that dilithium planet and it went working quietly away all on its own for millennia or more, and then an asteroid struck the planet. Blew it pretty much into ragged bits, but enough of the ancient system still remained and went haywire. So that's what made all that dilithium all across the known galaxy go inert, thus causing all the warp cores to breach. And now the Wicked Witch wants control of it, seeing how the Emerald Chain were able to do what the Federation could not, and made an alternative to the dilithium system, freeing their ships up from the need of that dwindling resource. And now if they have the ancient Progenitor tech at their disposal, they would be able to do another Burn, thereby finally killing off the Federation and every other galactic contender and become the rulers of the galaxy at large. I tell you, I'm on pins and needles to find out how they stop the Witch from using the device. Can't wait until next week! Oh wait, yes I can, as all of that was in my head... So, the Burn was caused by a child having a tantrum? And Saru can't keep his act together, despite having done so on numerous occasions before. And Tilly proves why you don't put an untested 'officer' in the big chair, rather than someone with experience of not just the job, but the stresses and the dangers that can hit you like a bat out of left field. I'll say this, the crew of Discovery is governed more by luck than know-how, and are the most dysfunctional mess in the history of all of Star Trek. When they win, just by chance and tears of course, the Admiral had better sh*t-can the entire crew and put more dependable, professional people in charge. Dammit, where is Pike..?
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    I'm totally outside the curve then, cause I loved it! I liked it even better than the first WW, which is saying something, since I saw it eight times in the theater, cough cough... But I liked it from beginning to end. Sure there were some out there parts, but considering this is a story about a demi-goddess super-heroine who lassos lightning bolts, I didn't let it bother me. The story was good, it had a good length in which to give the MC enough time to shine while also giving the secondary characters room to be more than thin, cardboard cut-outs, because c'mon, if the secondary characters are paper thin then that's more of a problem than a biplane jock flying a jet halfway around the world. And I loved her flight scenes! Damn those were done so freaking well, especially when viewed as a catharsis for her rescinding her wish. That that and the soundtrack is just awesome! Zimmer knocks another one outa the park. I paid $14 for the first month of HBO Max, and I'll be watching it again before I cancel it before the month is out. Now, bring on WW3!!
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    I will say this. General Hux, when he wasn't being used as a joke, could have won. Starkiller Base was his baby and if not for Kylo Ren leading the Resistance right to it, the FO might have had some props. Also with TLJ, as he was the one who managed to keep the Resistance on 'the string' for two hours and was actually the more reasonable of the two on Uber-Hoth. But that was a major problem of the sequel trilogy, when do they go for good story telling over the needs of comedy relief? And poor Phasma. She could have been so badass instead of mediocre.
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    So much this! All of the Mad Max movies focus on the struggles just to survive. I would love to see one where society is starting to come back.
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