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Re: Commercially available chairs in Star Trek

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Post by parl_match »

Night_Thastus wrote: post #92
parl_match wrote: post #91

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Despite Lower Decks' jokes and loose adherence to any "hardness" of its sci-fi, I've found it to be one of the most casually optimistic of any star trek in a long time. The first few episodes are a bit rough, but I actually really enjoy it now.

I bailed partway into the first or second episode I think. I've heard it's good trek though. Is it like the Orville where it tones down the comedy a bit later on? Orville felt like a parody of trek for the first few episodes, then just became trek for the rest of its runtime.

The comedy gets better. It's also a much lower stakes show - they're ensigns, not captains. That allows it to be a little more flexible.

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Post by ebergen »

bjpirt wrote: post #67

This is one of my favourite distractions when watching Sci-Fi films set in the future - spotting objects from now. For example: - In Luke's home in Star Wars IV there's a lot of Tupperware - https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2014/02/in-praise-of-t... - In Alien, Ripley drinks from a Tupperware mug - https://twitter.com/EverRotating/status/1156650673972363264

I love these to. The manual control for Moya in Farscape is a Logitech TrackMan.

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Post by mstade »

l72 wrote: post #200
Stratoscope wrote: post #160

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My favorite example is in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , where one of Captain Pike's hobbies is cooking. Real cooking with fresh ingredients, not replicated food. Pike grew up on a ranch in Montana, where his family used Lodge cast iron pans. Cast iron isn't perfect for cooking - the heat distribution is mediocre - but one thing you can say about it is that it will outlive you . Even if it gets rusty from neglect, y…

My mother-in-law (from Alabama) recently gifted me all _her_ grandmother's cast iron (my wife can't cook). I hope they get passed down for a few more generations!

This is the dream, cast iron pans well seasoned and looked after will last practically forever and are a joy to cook with. Heck, even poorly looked after pans can usually be brought back to a long and delicious life. I envy you!

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Post by lallysingh »

fknorangesite wrote: post #126
Night_Thastus wrote: post #116

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Oof. Well hopefully it gets a little less cringey.

The first couple episodes of Lower Decks are the worst ones. The show only gets better. I get that not everything is for everyone, but I really love Lower Decks. It's terrific Trek, even if it is a comedy.

It's a combination of comedy and a giant warm loving hug to the rest of Trek.

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Post by devilbunny »

l72 wrote: post #201
dboreham wrote: post #135

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Where I came from, although most families had a colo[u]r primary tv, if there were any secondary tvs (kitchen, bedroom,...) those were b&w up until around 1985.

Even later! My grandparents still had a black and white "portable" in the kitchen in the early 90s. My friend (who was wealthy) still had a black a white portable that my friend's sister would watch soap operas on in the mid-90s.

We had a B&W portable that lived on top of the refrigerator but was dragged into the dining room to watch Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy for weeknight dinners. The TV itself was from the 70s, but we were still using it in the early and mid 90s. It still had paint dried on its case from when my parents watched it while painting the rooms of the house.

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Post by aidenn0 »

devilbunny wrote: post #216
l72 wrote: post #201

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Even later! My grandparents still had a black and white "portable" in the kitchen in the early 90s. My friend (who was wealthy) still had a black a white portable that my friend's sister would watch soap operas on in the mid-90s.

We had a B&W portable that lived on top of the refrigerator but was dragged into the dining room to watch Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy for weeknight dinners. The TV itself was from the 70s, but we were still using it in the early and mid 90s. It still had paint dried on its case from when my parents watched it while painting the rooms of the house.

To bring this conversation full-circle, we also watched those two shows for weeknight dinners, except for the one night a week that TNG was on.

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Post by Heyso »

cryptoz wrote: post #143
bjpirt wrote: post #67

This is one of my favourite distractions when watching Sci-Fi films set in the future - spotting objects from now. For example: - In Luke's home in Star Wars IV there's a lot of Tupperware - https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2014/02/in-praise-of-t... - In Alien, Ripley drinks from a Tupperware mug - https://twitter.com/EverRotating/status/1156650673972363264

FWIW Star Wars is set a long time ago, not in the future ;) I've always liked to imagine any similarities between Star Wars and humanity on Earth is because Star Wars is set so indeterminately long ago that it seems 'plausible' that Star Wars is all really true, and if we build the right telescope and point it at the right galaxy, perhaps we can watch the Rebels fight the Empire IRL!

Maybe it depicts a part of this galaxy history. I like to believe that work of art that touches us, stay in our memory, has some truth into it that fascinate us.

We are strongly led to believe we are alone in the universe, and that we are the first human like specie in the whole universe and our solar system to ever have existed. Believing otherwise is pure heresy. What is left for us to contact part of the world that we know exist but that "can't be real because that would be heresy" ?

Science-fiction, fantasy.

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