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    Terraegis is the clear winner, obviously. 1. Chrome weapons. 2. His name is friggin' TERRAEGIS. That is gold.
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    Obligatory "Grimlock's New Brain" joke goes here.
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    I did get the impression the tow-cable attack was a novel tactic in Empire(Luke's lightsaber/grenade strike was likely equally novel). But the things still had numerous apparent flaws, and I don't believe I've seen evidence it could aim guns upward, or very FAR downward. And the AT-ST was complete rubbish.
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    Arthur C. Clarke said it. He has been quoted on the subject quite a lot in quite a few places. And I think it is kind of funny that the part most everyone is taking at face value(ANIMA SPIRITIA!!!!!) is far closer to magic than the part everyone is complaining about(jetpacks and holograms).
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    Yeah, that is what I was thinking of. But the deflector grid pencilwork serves (more or less) the same purpose as panel lining would have: it breaks up the smooth surface and adds superficial detail. Only it doesn't really, because it was only meant to fool management. I simplified things a bit, mostly for the sake of not obfuscating the point, which is that there was a conscious decision to keep the original Enterprise "smooth" in the face of pressure to tech it up a bit. Incidentally, I made an unintended misrepresentation as well, due solely to faulty recollection. I take the opportunity to correct it here, for it was a large one. It was Jefferies that added the unphotographable lines, not Roddenberry(who had requested their addition). It was the final blow in a long-running battle to keep the design detail-light.
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    Are you suggesting that imperial ground assault doctrine may be lacking somehow? I honestly thought the AT-AT and AT-ST established that all on their own. They should probably be applauded for giving this one a stable center of gravity instead of balancing it atop gangly, spindly, tripwire-sensitive legs.
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    Apparently, the original filming model had panel lining on it... because Roddenberry wanted to shut people up when they told him it needed more detail, so he had faint lines put on that were visible to the naked eye but would never ever show up on film.
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    As I recall the MP Megatron imports were darn close to completely unimpeded. Customs doesn't care unless you are very blatant about it(like "importing an entire shipping container full" levels of blatant). I will buy, no questions asked, the first one that turns into a working cap gun.
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    Okay, yeah. A note in the logs makes a lot more sense. ... And I may be overestimating the micrometeor threat. I just realized everything I've seen about their velocity is orbital, not free-space. I apparently have no actual idea what the impact hazards of non-orbital spaceflight are.
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    I look forward to seeing all the Megatrons in one shelf.
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    The site is legitimate, but I suspect they have limited influence in Japan. They are not affiliated with May'n (or any other artist) in any way, and are up-front about this.
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    Honestly? Dome breaches probably shouldn't set off an alarm every time. Since auto-repair seems to be so robust, and the dome is an insanely large pile of spaceglass... I imagine they take micrometeor strikes all the time. If every breach set off an alarm people would rapidly start ignoring the alarms because "it's just another micrometeor hole, the auto-repair system will have it patched before we can even get eyes on it." Save the buzzer for when the-auto-repair fails. And yeah, the Sharon incident hopefully got people fired. Out of a cannon. I have NO IDEA who thought wiring a "black box"* computer into the central computer for the entire defense network was a good idea. That shouldn't even be part of the same SYSTEM as the concert hall. *No pun intended. Honestly.
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    Assuming, of course, that the information there is accurate... this is what I said they should do with the Wii U. TurboExpress/Nomad the dang thing so people can play their home games on the road and their road games at home. They still rule the portable market, and leveraging that is their best way to cram a foot back into the door.
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    I think the original ship's biggest problem is the deflector dish. After that, there's really nothing preventing them from panel-lining the thing and suddenly it looks "modern" again. But I have a wild nostalgia boner for it regardless. I admit that it is not objectively as nice-looking as some of the others, but I will rank it higher than it deserves every time. See, that is snazzy as hell and why isn't CBS doing it?
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    Pretty much, yeah. No matter how good the story is, for the most part I want plastic robots on my shelves and not plastic orangutans and deinonychuses. And damn if that Ginrai isn't tickling my nostalgia bones somethin' fierce. Powermaster Prime was my first Prime, and I still have a soft spot for the ol' brick.
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    For me the Infinity Gokin was never an option. I respected what they were doing, but didn't like their style. I think this will hold them. The Bandai version is a much more conservative design, and the IG version is still an interesting, but startlingly different, take. The two aren't in direct competition in my eyes. The Bandai competes with the "old" Toynami, that's been reissued twice now(at least one of which self-destructed on the shelf, I believe).
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    I think the TLA will be DSC. I'm curious what the single worst is. Personally, in general I like the -D. Except for the right-angle nacelle struts, I vastly prefer straight-line struts. It admittedly has a bit of a "melty" look to it, but I feel the lines generally work. My second-worst is the NX-01. I really can't peg WHY it bugs me, but it does. My worst is the Voyager. The hinged warp nacelles murder my suspension of disbelief every time.
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    Credit where it is due, they don't try to lie about it.
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    I just thought I'd reinforce it, since it seemed to have been missed the first time. Man, I WISH my PS1 looked half that nice.
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    35. Ashy or dead.
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    Actually, the full title was Star Trek: Planet of the Titans, and was a movie that was cancelled in favor of making the Phase II TV series(which was itself cancelled in favor of making a movie). Roddenberry was not involved, as Paramount hated him and didn't want him involved. They didn't even want him to KNOW about it. And I think the wedge-shaped Discovery would look a lot better if the saucer was elongated and triangular like the Voyager(and I can't believe I'm recommending they take anything from Voyager). The round saucer just does not mesh with the angular "everything else".
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    And that's my biggest problem. It isn't an inherently crap design, but it isn't a Federation design either. The triplet bussard collectors with the wire cross protectors make it feel more like antique electronics than a starship from the future, though. I warmed up to the Defiant, I may yet warm to this thing too. But right now? I'm not feeling it.
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    The NES Play It Loud series?
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    I am pretty sure there's no way in heck that part is making it past legal unaltered. And for once, Harmony Gold's lawyers are the LEAST of their problems.
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    Looks like an ab joint. I prefer to think of it less as an ab crunch and more of a crotch thrust, because the idea of Voltron performing a crotch thrust at the robeasts is hilarious. I still don't like the legs on the blue and red lions. I still ordered the dang thing anyways.
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