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pengbuzz

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  1. Predecessor of the Heavy Laser Module Gamlin uses in Macross 7, perhaps (the red pack he would put into his gunpod and wreck whatever mech that the Protodevil known as Gavil was using at that point.)?
  2. And this, ladies and gentlemen, is what is known as a museum quality display. Incredible work, Arbit!!!
  3. AKA Game of Phasers. Yeah...you have a point.
  4. His explanation comes under the heading of "stunningly and embarrassingly full of s***". Honestly, this series is so bleak and dystopian, I'm expecting the season finale to be all the main characters pulling out phasers/ disruptors/ swords/ knives/ shillelaghs/ etc. and committing suicide. Think The Happening meets Star Trek.
  5. It would probably be worth it to find a suitable large-scale Transformer toy and cannibalize the entire thigh/knee/shin unit from it. Scratching up such a structure would probably be a nightmare at that scale!
  6. Some creators can get that way with their creations; they become a retreat for them from the world in general, and as such, end up being shaped a bit differently in their minds each time they "visit". I suspect Gene was very much that way, and it required his "vision" being filtered through those who were not as connected to that vision being shaped on a whim. Hence, it took those under Gene to keep Star Trek any sort of consistent, and when Gene was allowed carte blanche, that's when stuff would get weird. (I see much of that now in Star Wars, but that's another discussion) I like how Starfleet was portrayed in WOK (at least what we saw of it): just enough military and exploration. That's kinda like saying "We're a peacekeeping force" or "it's a civil war" (both of which are non-sequiturs). Way to go, Pike! His absence was increasingly noticeable as TNG progressed from Season 1. Sometimes I wonder what he would have made of the TNG movies past Generations (probably would have had a stroke over them!). I didn't like TUD because I felt it got a little too away from the exploration (just my opinion). In all fairness though, since Starfleet's purpose seemed to vary even from TOS' episode to episode (and movie to movie), pinning it down in my mind may be a bit off. Ah; I thought you had said the "last couple". My mistake.
  7. Unless CBS puts money down (fat chance); At the rate things are going, ST:D is bound for a dose of antibiotics. You means Star Trek V and VI?
  8. I wonder if there's a market for really bad sci-fi comedy? Aside from that, i wonder if the reason the androids on Mars went berserk is that they was all the episodes of Picard in advance and just couldn't take it??!!
  9. Same here; I would have loved a crack at that one.
  10. It's just like rotten fruit: I don't need to taste it to tell it's going to royally suck. On that note: there's a major difference between folks "who think they're some kind of authority on what 'real Trek' should be", and those just giving their opinions based on experience. But to be fair, there's a lot of fans who have been betrayed at several turns by TPTB with "visions" of what those powers perceive to be Star Trek, only to find out that it is instead either a bland pastiche of sci-fi leftovers or inane ideas all smashed together with a barely-cohesive plot (if any). So with all due respect, I don't listen to "fans" who just want people to be silent because their opinions offend them. And with that, I'm done on that point.
  11. Okay... so Picard is a French artist/pirate, another guy is some futuristic metrosexual zoot-suiter, and we have (for all intents and purposes) a human booger. Is CBS hiring the same writers now as Harmony Gold? O.o
  12. Well.... maybe they can travel back to the early 1980's and nuke HG before they ever got the rights to Macross. Seriously though: I cannot understand Rick's obsession with Minmay here, especially since he has Lisa. Are they trying to pander to the "Minmay" fan club or something?
  13. Glad to help a fellow modeler in need! They helped me out tremendously when my AMT 1/72 F-14 needed a new canopy, windshield and decals, and they set the old girl back to rights!
  14. Not really sure that I like or dislike the suit. Kinda on the fence about it overall, though if this is a "1.0/1.5" version, that would be okay. As if Bruce is still testing out what works (and what doesn't), and is still trying out the majority of his suit theories early on...
  15. "Oh...the horror..." sums it up pretty much...
  16. Ah. my mistake. Federation/ Romulan project, entered into after the events of ST: Nemesis. Main designer name: Archulus (Romulan). Tell everyone what: let me re-enable the site I made for it, and y'all can tell me how bad it is (the uniforms, yes I know they suck!): http://startrekalphacentauri.weebly.com/ (still gotta be better than Discovery or Picard...)
  17. combination Federation saucer/ ToS Romulan ship layout
  18. Agreed; they need to take all the movies after T2 and simply relegate them to a type of "legends'" grouping like Star Wars has. If they ever want to do another Terminator movie, they really need to give the fans what they have been asking for and just do the "Future War" as depicted in the snippets from Terminator 1 and 2. Make "daytime" like night, night as practically pitch dark (nuclear winter effects), and humanity on the brink. I didn't get that sense from T:S at all, so they really need the Future War fleshed out a bit better (complete with special effects, HK's out the wazoo, and enough plasma rifle fire to light up good-sized city.
  19. At that rate, I may as well just pitch "Star Trek: Alpha Centauri" to them then (my creation): At least the ship looks like something halfway decent (there's an in-story reason it looks like a Federation/ Romulan Hybrid), and the story makes more sense IMO. BTW: I began this idea back in 2012. As to your points: agreed on all counts. They lost their way and started 'flailing", trying everything they could think of.
  20. So is there a concept/ formula/ idea that would revitalize Trek? Or would it just be best to let it lie fallow for a decade or so? My view at this point is the latter: just leave it be and focus on something else. They've run it as far as it will go for the moment.
  21. BTW: I believe that the last name for Hugh has been revealed:
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