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  1. Seto Kaiba
    The book from Udon mentions Flash Back 2012... the DYRL rights are a perennially sticky wicket due to the uncertainty over who actually owns the distribution rights (a third party not BW or HG), and HG has the distro rights to SDFM.
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    I notice Zero and 7 are missing from this... I assume there needs to be some additional legal wrangling due to those shows using characters from the original series due to HG.
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    I have been waiting for this for soooooo long... bring it on!
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    Just a minor correction for mine, the showings I attended were in Rochester Hills. Not many theaters in my neck of the woods, oddly enough, but that's what you get in industrial towns, eh? Oh, yeah... it's super blatant once you're watching with the songs subtitled, isn't it? 🤣 Pretty on-brand for her, though. She's the provocative idol playing opposite Ranka's innocent idol, and she knows it. Remember, she tells Alto early on in all versions that being "all natural" is part of her appeal in Galaxy. Even her first single was suuuuper horny... "Pink Monsoon", a love song about doing scandalous things that fog up the windows on a rainy day. (She's supposedly her own lyricist too...) (Not that most pop culture isn't at least low-key horny... after reading this last night, it occurred to me that one of the folk songs my girlfriend was listening to in the car on the ride back was basically the man in the song spending five minutes bragging about how thirsty he was for this girl he just met in passing.)
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    'bout a dozen folks at the showing I attended. Mostly ones I haven't seen before from previous showings, I think. The audio mix was vastly improved over the previous film's, though we suffered a bit because there was some movie going next door that had a lot of loud bass effects that were literally shaking the walls at inopportune moments. All in all, the only lackluster bit was the same basic (and very brief) introduction from Aya Endo and Megumi Nakajima. I'd have liked to see them do something more like what they did for Macross Plus or the bit that preceded Fathom's screening of Star Trek: the Motion Picture in terms of a more documentary-like feel. Having the music videos for Gorgeous, Good Job, and The Wings of Farewell was a nice touch, IMO. Glad I went, and I'm hoping we'll see screenings of more Macross films in the not-too-distant future.
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    Kaguya-sama: Love is War picked a pretty good spot to end the season. I hope that their recently announced next series will adapt the final story arc, since the manga will be ending soon. Just an all-around fantastic adaptation.
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    30 minutes to showtime.
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    I'm definitely looking foward to Sayonara no Tsubasa tonight.
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    It shows up in a fair number of the character descriptions Gene wrote. After the first few, you start to get the impression Gene really wanted to hire strippers. (Which, considering some of the pranks he pulled on TOS era staff described in The Making of Star Trek, he may well have... just not for a screen role.) No, Wesley was originally conceived as a boy and an idealized self-insert by Roddenberry (who named the character for his own middle name). Bob Justman briefly convinced him to change Wesley into a girl named Leslie in a bid to make the character stand out more since TV at the time did much less with the troubles of adolescent girls (and the whole boy genius thing had already started to become a bit of a cliche). It didn't stick, and the character went back to being a boy shortly thereafter.
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    Ah, yeah... it took a really long time for TNG to finally figure out what to do with Deanna Troi. It wasn't until season 6 when Jellico forced her to start wearing a proper uniform (like Marina Sirtis had wanted to all along) that she finally got to act like a proper Starfleet officer and not just "the chick". That one little wardrobe change seemed to clue the writers in to the fact that they could do so much more with an empath besides repeatedly traumatizing her. Personally, I blame Gene Roddenberry. The TNG season 1 and 2 development materials and writer's bible are absolutely oozing his sexist attitudes towards women. It's screamingly obvious he saw the female regulars as principally decorative given that the character descriptions and casting guidance make frequent mention of the female characters having to have a "strip queen" body. Marina Sirtis was, and is, certainly lovely to behold but she's a heck of an actress too and they wasted a lot of potential in her character by making her a decorative installation on the bridge for most of the show. It took a long time for the show to completely outgrow that beginning, by which point they'd lost Denise Crosby and Gates McFadden, and only got McFadden back because Diana Muldaur's character bombed so hard. (My favorite Troi episode is "Eye of the Beholder", where Troi actually gets to put her powers to proper use investigating the suicide of a fellow telepath.)
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    Got through the final episodes of a few shows today... Don't Hurt Me, My Healer! was a massive waste of time. The protagonists are so utterly useless that the first actual threat they face is defeated... by the guest stars from the show's previous episodes. It can only be described as the unwanted child of the Big Lipped Alligator Moment and an Anticlimax. Skeleton Knight in Another World is another one that really never developed or went anywhere. It's another boring, minimum-effort isekai shovelware series that never manages to get past the basic premise it borrowed from another, more popular, series and is noteworthy only for a total banger of an OP. Otherwise, it's so forgettable I literally cannot remember the names of 90% of the cast and I just finished watching it. Trapped in a Dating Sim: the World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs also stumbled to its going-nowhere conclusion that really doesn't do anything except halfheartedly reveal that Leon actually does give enough of a damn about other people to bother saving them in a terribly passive-aggressive way. This one suffered more from terrible production values on almost every episode than anything else. It's especially noteworthy with the Armors, which are off-model so much I'm not actually sure what on-model is supposed to look like! Started Spy x Family, and it's had me in stitches... I can see why this one ended up a breakout hit.
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    That and "Do they still sings songs about the Great Tribble Hunt?"
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    Even better from that episode is Worf's non-answer to the TOS Klingons. "We do not talk about it."
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    TOS understandably had some Early Installment Weirdness caused by the setting still being developed, some wardrobe issues, and some differences in creative vision between its principal creative leads. Sort of. The uniform's color (or accent color on later shows) denotes the Starfleet service division the character belongs to. The three main service divisions are the Command division, Operations Division, and Sciences Division. Command division personnel are the ones on a career path towards starship or starbase command and other positions of similar authority. Science division personnel are specialists in various fields of scientific research like the ship's medical staff, resident experts in things like linguistics, biology, chemistry, astrophysics, and the like. Operations is basically everything else, covering the gamut of practical needs that make a ship work like engineering personnel, logistical support personnel, subject matter experts in various portions of starship operations, and the ship's security force. Prior to the 2350s, the Command division wore gold, the Science division wore blue, and the Operations division wore red. After the 2350s, the Command division and Operations division switched colors so Command personnel wore red and Operations wore gold. In TOS, the banding around the cuffs denotes rank and follows the same pattern used in US Navy officer uniforms. There is some early installment weirdness involving certain characters belonging to other divisions. It's also possible to switch between divisions, with later titles establishing that most Command personnel start out in other divisions to gain experience. (Most notably, Worf transfers from the Operations division to Command division in DS9 when he joins the series, which is why he switches from a gold-trimmed uniform to a red-trimmed one after accepting a posting on the station.) The TOS movies introduced a different color scheme for the undershirts that went with the "monster maroon" uniforms that had more variations for specific specialisms. Nah, that's just early installment weirdness in play... they retooled the uniforms after the pilot. Though Starfleet does change its uniform design fairly often in-universe, with several shows highlighting the introduction of new uniform styles like DS9 introducing the type used for much of its run and VOY's, First Contact introducing the uniform that became the standard for everyone except Voyager's crew thereafter, and Discovery's second season introducing a more TOS-like uniform to replace the much-maligned blue pajamas of that show's first season. There are a bunch of minor uniform variants scattered about the series though. Kirk has one dress uniform variant that's a double-breasted shirt in green, there was a short sleeved variant in TMP, the undershirt-less version of the maroons that showed up in flashbacks in TNG, the unisex "skant" from TNG, and a few others along the way.
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    *whistles* Now that's an extra-risky move, considering the fanbase's general opinion of Star Trek V: the Final Frontier closely mirror's Roddenberry's. He had a lock on the uncoveted status of the TOS era's most loathed character before his adopted sister Michael Burnham was introduced in Star Trek: Discovery. Then again, I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Strange New Worlds seems to be on a five year mission to make as many references to previous Star Trek titles as possible... to the extent that I'm almost tempted to suggest they change the title to Strange Old Worlds. Still light years better than previous attempts at new Trek tho, which is damned by the very faintest praise possible.
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    For the longest time, it wasn't. Gene Roddenberry was unhappy with how Star Trek: the Animated series turned out and declared it non-canonical in the runup to Star Trek: the Motion Picture in the late 70's. Few of Gene's increasingly vitriolic declarations were taken seriously by Paramount, with only three really carrying any weight: Star Trek licensed works are non-canonical. Star Trek: the Animated Series is non-canonical and not to be referenced. Star Trek V: the Final Frontier is at-best apocryphal and is not to be referenced. The first and third rules on that list have been adhered to religiously, but the second started losing ground shortly after Gene was ousted and kicked upstairs. After his passing, writers started gradually slipping references to TAS into mainstream Star Trek and increasing amounts of references in licensed works (esp. the Starfleet Corps of Engineers novel series). Their token insistence that TAS was non-canon lasted until 2006, when Paramount publicly reversed itself and reinstated TAS into the canon shortly before the series was re-released on DVD. So now it's kind of back to being the final two years of Kirk's five year mission... and, semi-officially, a big part of the reason that Starfleet suspected Kirk was trolling them and making things up with some of the reports they received from him. Lower Decks seems to take particular delight in referencing TAS's campier moments, but nods to TAS have shown up in DS9, ENT, the "Star Trek 2.0" remaster, and Discovery so far. The remaster was very much a labor of love. They did a fantastic job of it, IMO.
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    If memory serves, that rumor started because they did remaster selected scenes from Deep Space Nine for the What We Left Behind special that came out back in 2018. Originally the plan was to remaster all the older Star Trek shows in that manner. The official word at the time was that plans for "DS9 2.0" and "VOY 2.0" were put on indefinite hold after the "TNG 2.0" remaster was less enthusiastically received than expected.
  18. Seto Kaiba
    Based on my research into publicly-accessible military standards documents on laser safety, yes... the laser sensors would be a lower class. Depending on type, the military-use ones are anywhere from Class 1 (eye-safe) to Class 3B (eye protection necessary to protect against direct exposure). Guide laser oscillators are probably 3B or 3A. LIDAR systems tend to be Class 1 or 2.
  19. Seto Kaiba
    My favorite TOS moment actually comes from the tell-all book The Making of Star Trek. When they were shooting "The Cage", apparently nobody told the film processing company that Vina-as-the-Orion-slave-girl was supposed to be green. So they'd shoot that scene and send it out for processing, and the processor would dutifully correct "[the actress's] sh*tty green skin tones" in processing before sending the processed reels back. The team at Desilu would promptly scratch their heads and wonder how the very-obviously-green Vina had come back with normal skin tones in the processed reels, and reshoot it with another, greener body paint. This loop happened several times before someone thought to ask the processor what was going on and the poor man, practically in tears, explained that he had been furiously color-correcting Vina under the assumption that it was a lighting problem that was causing her to show up green.
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    Oh, yeah. TOS was the first one to get remastered. At the time, they branded the remaster as "Star Trek 2.0". They had first-generation camera negatives to work with for most of the footage and they did a pretty good job of it. I remember when SpikeTV got it back when I was in college. It has its moments, for sure. Just not any of them in season three... those are bad moments. It was the very epitome of "troubled production" thanks to a lot of outside circumstances including fights over creative control, executive meddling, disputes between actors, and the like. If you want the complete experience, you might wanna combine your watch of that with TAS since that was supposed to be the remainder of Enterprise's five year mission before Kirk's tenure ended and he got bumped upstairs prior to TMP.
  21. Seto Kaiba
    Crunchyroll started announcing its next season's offerings.. Classroom of the Elite S2 The Devil is a Part-Timer! S2 The Girl from the Other Side Fuuto Pi Rent a Girlfriend S2 Oddtaxi in the Woods Yurei Deco Black Summoner Dr. Stone Special Episode: Ryusui Dropkick on my Devil!!! X Engage Kiss Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer Lycoris Recoil Musasi-No My Hero Academia S5 OVAs My Stepmom's Daughter is My Ex Obey Me! The Anime S2 Orient (2nd cour) RWBY: Ice Queendom Shadows House S2 Shine On! Bakumatsu Bad Boys Shoot! Goal to the Future Smile of the Arsnotoria Teppen!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Laughing 'Til You Cry The Maid I Hired Recently is Mysterious The Prince of Tennis II: U-17 World Cup The Yakuza's Guide to Babysitting Tonikawa: Over the Moon for You Special Episode Utawarerumono Mask of Truth Yurei Deco and at least seven more to be announced. Kinda hoping one will be a Macross title.
  22. Seto Kaiba
    Just finished Love After World Domination. Definitely one of the season's stronger offerings, but the ending felt a bit... out of the blue? I know it can be hard to find a logical stopping point for a 12 episode-only anime that's adapting a manga, but the last episode is a "Giant Space Flea from Nowhere" plot. RPG Real Estate never really developed into anything of substance. It's just a cutesy slice of life schtick that is clearly aiming for the waifu crowd in a very halfhearted way. They tried to throw a serious plot in at the end, which fell embarrassingly flat. I would've liked it a lot better if they'd stuck with satirizing the (frankly absurd) housing market in Japan instead of the tedious sitcom nonsense they got up to instead. Good first episode, eleven episodes of bad followup. Don't Hurt Me, My Healer! unfortunately also started reasonably strong but quickly devolved into a stumbling mess with exactly one joke. Carla pretends to mishear something that is said to someone else and turns it into verbal abuse. It wasn't funny the first time, it wasn't funny the fiftieth. Nor, for that matter, is the endless repetition of the same plot where they go somewhere on a fetch quest and encounter some monster that conveniently isn't hostile and just wants to talk. It's not subverting expectations anymore when that's the standard form letter plot. Kaguya-sama: Love is War! season three remains a strong series to the finish. But then, that's one advantage of adapting a manga that's mostly finished AND was well divided into a story arc structure short enough to be adaptation-friendly. It'll be nice if they do a fourth arc to wrap up the entire story of the manga since now all that's left is the arc where...
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    TOS is a product of its time for both good and bad. It's sooooo melodramatic at times, but that kind of camp and the terribly unsubtle musical cues and stings were the style at the time. It is pretty fun to watch a young Bill Shatner embark on his five year mission to ensure no piece of scenery is left without his teeth-marks though. Even more fun once you read a bit on it and realize how shoestring the whole affair was, and how much insane innovation and out-of-the-box thinking went into little stuff like props and set dressing. (Or how bad the costumes were, between the ones that had to be held up with double stick tape and the ones that had to be replaced every few weeks because they couldn't be washed without also shrinking.)
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    Good lord that's pretty. The Mauler RoV-20 laser cannon is a 5,000kW (kilowatt) laser. I have to say, I love the attention to detail here. My inner engineer is torn over whether to keep the correct real-world classification of Class 4 from the warning placard on the side of the cannon or the fictional Class 5 from the tip of the barrel. Class 4 is currently a catchall for anything more powerful than Class 3B (which usually tops out around 0.5W or 30mJ depending on frequency and pulse duration). Those two labels should probably match either way, though.
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    None, to be frank. That was the reason Palladium's introduction of rules for "IMUs" or "Frankenmecha" were not so much poorly received as they were laughed out of town. The few sample designs provided looked as terrible as you'd expect and combined parts from mecha of wildly different sizes without respect for scale... with fans immediately pointing out where that didn't, and couldn't, work. (The Auroran with Defender arms got dragged particularly hard, since the Defender's cannons are each physically bigger than the entire Auroran and they forgot about the ammunition entirely.) The human-built mecha of Southern Cross are around 6m tall, MOSPEADA's are ~8m, and Macross's are 10m+. The junkyard vomit that is the cobbled together battlepod replacements was just a bad stylistic choice that also failed to account for scale... but mechanical design is hard, and Palladium couldn't exactly afford to hire a professional, so they did the best they could within the constraints they had.
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