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    Image of W10002 W10002
    11:00 AM

    In reply to Webcomics Artists Take on Commander Riker and His Amazing Beard
    How do you know when you're watching the crappy season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. When there's no beard on Riker. The beard inspires good episodes.

    Or so the myth goes.
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    ThisDudeRufus promoted this comment W10002 was starred W10002 was unstarred
    Image of pr10n pr10n
    11:02 AM

    @W10002: I thought it was the collars. No collars = sux0r.
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    Image of jabber jabber
    11:25 AM

    @pr10n: You sure? I thought it was the shirt tugging. If Picard didn't tug down his uniform then it's a bad episode.
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    EdificeComplex promoted this comment jabber was starred jabber was unstarred
    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    11:53 AM

    @W10002: Beard theory also works for Sisko.
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    Image of EdificeComplex EdificeComplex
    12:40 PM

    @jabber: I was re-watching nu Star Trek the other day. I noticed that nu Spock performed the Picard Maneuver in the scene where he accuses nu Kirk of cheating. He stands up and tugs down his uniform. That must mean it's good.

    (For the record I enjoyed Abram's Star Trek. Flame me if you must.)
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    01:22 PM

    @OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear: Do DS9 episodes get good when Sisko grows a beard or is it when he shaves his head and goes full " A Man Called Hawk" in space?
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    10:32 AM

    In reply to Webcomics Artists Take on Commander Riker and His Amazing Beard
    I thought Troi was Riker's beard...

    Kidding.
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    11:51 AM

    @ManchuCandidate: That is all kinds of brilliant. I now must go through the series to validate your hypothesis.
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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    01:57 PM

    @ManchuCandidate: Heh.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    10:25 AM

    In reply to Webcomics Artists Take on Commander Riker and His Amazing Beard
    Ok, so for image#2 why does Troi look like she's just had something inserted in an uncomfortable place?
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    Jrsy Devil's Advocate® was starred Jrsy Devil's Advocate® was unstarred
    Image of jbq jbq
    10:29 AM

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: She totally walked around like that and you know it. Those Betazoid, probably DID have something inserted in an uncomfortable place.
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    Image of Mecharine Mecharine
    10:30 AM

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: Considering the face Riker is making, he's probably telling her where it will be inserted.
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    Jrsy Devil's Advocate® promoted this comment Mecharine was starred Mecharine was unstarred
    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    10:32 AM

    @Mecharine: Make it so! Number 1 is going for number 2...
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    10:34 AM

    @#c17215723:
    Her mom, for sure. Deanna? Nope.
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    Edited by ManchuCandidate at 12/01/09 10:34 AM ManchuCandidate was starred ManchuCandidate was unstarred
    Image of cadrina cadrina
    10:13 AM

    In reply to Webcomics Artists Take on Commander Riker and His Amazing Beard
    "Kirk-level lover of the ladies"
    since when?
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    Dr Emilio Lizardo promoted this comment cadrina was starred cadrina was unstarred
    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    10:15 AM

    @cadrina: He's a few 100,000 xp short of Kirk level.
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    10:24 AM

    @cadrina: He was more like Kirk's sappy younger brother.
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    Image of CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton) CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton)
    11:10 AM

    @cadrina: And this is why there are holodecks.
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    Image of gods-n-clods gods-n-clods
    04:26 PM

    @CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton): And this is why Reg Barclay became addicted to them.
    (Like I wouldn't.)
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    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    08:55 AM

    In reply to The Most Badass Robot Army Dream Team
    Robbie from Forbidden Planet. Nice robot, strong, smart, can replicate booze and gemstones.
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    Image of TotalFanGirl TotalFanGirl
    11/30/09

    In reply to Celebrate The Holidays With Starfleet Cookies, A Klingon Christmas, And Abrams-Inspired Trek Novels
    Okay, maybe I just didn't eat enough at Thanksgiving, but has anyone checked out the cookies at GeekyCookies.com? They are so darn cool! They've got PacMan and Ghosts, Mario Mushrooms and Codex's Staff...I want some!!!
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    11/30/09

    In reply to Celebrate The Holidays With Starfleet Cookies, A Klingon Christmas, And Abrams-Inspired Trek Novels
    I hope some one puts a recording on youtube.
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    11/30/09

    In reply to Celebrate The Holidays With Starfleet Cookies, A Klingon Christmas, And Abrams-Inspired Trek Novels
    Akron is dilithium rich? Ohio?
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    Dr Emilio Lizardo was starred Dr Emilio Lizardo was unstarred
    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    11/30/09

    In reply to Celebrate The Holidays With Starfleet Cookies, A Klingon Christmas, And Abrams-Inspired Trek Novels
    "May you die in battle with honor. May you die in battle with honor, everyone" cried Tiny Kla'pac as he waved his Bal'leth over his head.

    Somewhere the whole theme of helping others in A Christmas Carol might be lost in a Klingon Translation.
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    Image of RoboBagins RoboBagins
    11/30/09

    @ManchuCandidate: I now have to see that show. I hope they offer roasted turkey legs for everyone in the audience to much on and wave over their heads during the performance.
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    Image of Bigdamnhero Bigdamnhero
    11/30/09

    @ManchuCandidate: You deserve a second star for that.

    If I had the means, I would fly all the way from Los Angeles just to see this.
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    11/30/09

    @RoboBagins: Turkey legs and ale. No warrior would drink water. Prune juice for the under-aged.
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    11/30/09

    @ManchuCandidate: "You may be an undigested bit of targ, a blot of grapok sauce, a crumb of krada, a fragment of underdone gladst. There's more of bloodwine than of blood about you, whatever you are!"

    Some of the original would follow. A Klingon that values money too much would definitely need a good kick in the pants.
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    Edited by OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear at 11/30/09 3:50 PM OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear was starred OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear was unstarred
    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    11/30/09

    In reply to Celebrate The Holidays With Starfleet Cookies, A Klingon Christmas, And Abrams-Inspired Trek Novels
    Eat the red shirt first.
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    Image of franklinshepard franklinshepard
    11/30/09

    In reply to Star Trek
    Wow, Kirk's original death was really lame. I didn't think it could've been lamer than the one we got, but somehow it was.
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    11/30/09

    In reply to Six Things I'm Thankful For In Science Fiction
    Yeah, the only thing on this entire list that I really care about is that Futurama is coming back. And all four of the DVD movies fall kinda flat on the whole basis that they both tried to be a movie and tried to be four stand-alone episodes. And failed at both.

    See, the advantage that the series had was that when they ran long, they could pick the worst parts to trim out. When they switched it up to a four-ep movie format, suddenly they were both forced to pad the main story to fill out ~90 minutes, and they were forced to disregard the overall pacing so they could keep all the secondary stories within a strict range of runtimes. On the flip side, they had to sacrifice any pretense of quality on the secondary stories so they could try to keep the main stories flowing well enough to be followed. It just didn't work the way they'd hoped, even if it succeeded in bringing new life to the series.
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    Image of worsethannormal worsethannormal
    11/30/09

    @Purple Dave: "And all four of the DVD movies fall kinda flat on the whole basis that they both tried to be a movie and tried to be four stand-alone episodes."

    I think it's more like they just tried to be movies. It was the same with the Simpsons movie. They took a 30 minute show and tried to expand it out to 2 hrs. If you look at the Family Guy movie, they put 4 episodes together so they could keep the fast pace of the show and still fill 2hrs.

    The Simpsons and Futurama movie (I only saw one) were made more to be 2hr movies and so the energy level is much lower.
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    Purple Dave promoted this comment worsethannormal was starred worsethannormal was unstarred
    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    01:42 AM

    @worsethannormal:
    I've never seen the Simpsons movie, and that may be true, but I'd really like to believe that the Futurama crew could turn out a really good movie if they made it a _movie_.

    See, I bought the first two seasons of Tripping the Rift, and I liked them. Then they released a movie, and it kinda sucked. It wasn't until I'd watched it a second time that I realized the reason for that was because it was four unrelated episodes that had been smashed together. But the crazy thing was that when the third season came out, those same episodes worked fine on their own.

    The difference is that with the Futurama movies, each one is supposed to work as both a cohesive movie and four stand-alone episodes. Only they don't.
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    Image of Cash907Censored Cash907Censored
    11/29/09

    In reply to Star Trek
    Uh... those first two scenes from ST:TMP weren't deleted. They have been in every version I've ever watched, from Laserdisc and VHS, to DVD and bluray. I watched them three times to see if there were perhaps longer versions or something, but they are word for word the same as the released version of the scene.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    11/29/09

    In reply to Star Trek
    Klingons in the new Star Trek seem almost gentlemen like.
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    Image of Byronotron Byronotron
    11/29/09

    In reply to Star Trek
    it was the comic adaptation, it's never been in any release.
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    Byronotron was starred Byronotron was unstarred
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