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  1. JB0
    The Titan Power one looks really nice, and is a modernized take on Lion Voltron that still actually looks like Voltron(unlike some others). But it is A Voltron, not THE Voltron. (I also find the symmetrical arms and legs a little off-putting, but not as much as I would in a design that took fewer liberties in other places. It is different enough to get away with shared lion molds.)
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    It figures that even Picard's mirror would be a fastidiously moral bastion of integrity and decency.
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    Perfect! Don't have to see him to know he's there. I bet he drinks decaf, too.
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    That MONSTER!
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    Important question: does the mirror universe Picard still drink "tea, earl gray, hot"?
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    Apparently, that was the original explanation given in early drafts. It was changed to "batteries" in the final revision because it was confusing and audiences wouldn't understand.
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    That's fantastic. Headcanon accepted.
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    Makes sense to me. Toilets are just replicators in reverse. It's the circle of life.
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    So here's a random question: do we know what happened to Petit-Cola after Space War 1?
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    Use the transporters to plop it into the nearest star.
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    If you need to go bad enough, any room is a bathroom. Especially airlocks.
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    What if you have a box in the wall that makes exceptional creole at the press of a button? Spoilers: chefs are gonna swear it tastes terrible, even if it is identical to their own work. And they will genuinely believe it, too. Which was kinda my point. Whether the replicators make good food or not is irrelevant, because psychology.
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    That's the most reasonable approach.
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    Neo's end was ... a thing. It might charitably be described as "layered thick with vivid biblical and arthurian imagery"(or less charitably as "copied wholesale"). To put it delicately, the biblical reference is exceedingly clear about how impermanent that particular death is. While the arthurian side is less concrete, it still carries strong implications of resurrection. So I'd very much argue against Neo being dead-dead as opposed to recovering in Cyber-Avalon before his return. ... Maybe they reloaded Trinity from a backup? And the "death scene" is pretty much all I remember of Matrix 3. But all I remember of the second movie is the girl eating the cake, so I guess "shamelessly overt literary and religious symbolism" is a step up. I guess there was a scene where Neo fought a whole bunch of Agent Smiths somewhere in there. I've never had much desire to rewatch either one. I sorta feel that The Matrix needed no sequels, let alone the ones it got, and try to forget that they piled more onto it. I kinda hope that Matrix 4 just ignores everything but the first movie.
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    Especially given some of the transporter malfunctions they've had. Picard got turned into a child, Riker got cloned, Kirk got split into a nice guy and an a-hole, Tuvok and Neelix got combined(and then they tore the new entity apart and murdered him instead of splitting a clone)... and that's just off the top of my head.
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    Thread title demands this of me. Not sorry.
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    Saw translations of the graffitti in Pompeii once, and large swaths of it are "Soanso was here" and "for a good time call"
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    Obviously they had to ration food replication because most of their surplus energy budget went into replicating shuttles. Honestly, I've always attributed that to psychology. People know the source isn't identical, and convince themselves they can taste the difference. They never perform blind A/B taste tests, because "I know what I tasted." Sisko's dad is exceptionally biased as a professional chef. If replicators are just fine, then he's wasting his life. Therefore, they're obviously horribly flawed and pour out inedible slop.
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    I know in several of the old books, they made an explicit point of figuring out some way to get parts to build replacements in the end of any book they fired a torpedo in. It was almost like the book authors at the tim cared more about the show's premise than the showrunners...
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    There's some strong similarities between the two franchises. Maybe Uhura should've tried singing to the klingons...
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    That can work, honestly. Those which we think are alien, unrelatable aggressors can be much more than that. But that payoff needs to be there, the moment when everyone realizes that the monsters are just another race, and they can be communicated with, negotiated with, and worked alongside, More than one episode did that within an hour. The one which springs to mind is the misleadingly-titled Devil in the Dark, where a stock horror movie plot tips over on its side as the muderous monster is simply protecting her children, which federation miners have unknowingly been slaughtering with reckless abandon.
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    *applauds* Everything I wanted to say. Attitude matters a lot more than continuity or setting.
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    Customs is gonna confiscate your Switch as capitalist propaganda(read as: they are bored out of their gourd and want it for themselves). Hope you brought a good book. ... Seriously, though. Enjoy the trip.
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    It isn't all even consistently lit. Which, okay, deep space surrounded by explosions, sure, maybe everything SHOULD be lit from a diffrent angle. But it looks really bad, and appealing takes precedenoe over realism.
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    I thought they were supposed to trace stuff they couldn't legally include. How is tracing stuff they actually have a license for showing an understanding of the source?!
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