The live actors must stipulate that their animated selves will be the ideal versions of themselves. Tom was trim with a full head of hair. Riker, too. The real actors look awful (granted, LD is set only a few years after the events of NEM.)
Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 2x03 - "We'll Always Have Tom Paris"
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The live actors must stipulate that their animated selves will be the ideal versions of themselves. Tom was trim with a full head of hair. Riker, too. The real actors look awful (granted, LD is set only a few years after the events of NEM.)
If we don't tell you.......it still doesn't make you correct.
Did you catch the Gallery episode talking about de-aging Mark Hamill's voice for Mando this week?
*Worriedly scans the horizon for the arising of Great Cthulhu*
God, self centered much? I doubt they even seen any of your posts.
Pretty sure hell, or some variant thereof, just cooled.
We can tell they haven't because they aren't covered in their own piss from laughing so much whenever they're interviewed.
It’s just a joke.
Except it was.
It's Crewman6. It's entirely possible it's not a joke. Y'know the way Trump would say idiotic or insane stuff and FOX tried to claim "he's just joking"? I'd check with him first, because he may just double-down on this shit.
Yes! TNG was the first place I ever saw a good friendship between 2 women on TV (not in a comedy) and Star Trek has generally been good about that ever since. I was really *really* pleased to see them working together and giving some real depth to Tendi.
Ditto. I lost count of the "back-from-the-dead" references, but enjoyed every one of them.
Nailed it! It's why even the suggestion that she likes Boimler freaked her out. Once you go Good Guy, you never go back.
I disagree. She was referring to her life previous to the Cerritos group. I really felt for her there. Tawny did a great job.
As someone owned by 6 cats, I was laughing REALLY HARD!
I agree with your first 2, but the 3rd? No, as several others have noted, someone else is pulling the strings.
BWAH-HAH-HAH! LOVE IT!
Boimler geeking out over the VOY crew was fun, especially with his little collector's plates. I love how he calls Voyager VOY like we all do to save time.
"This is how we kick ass in the Delta Quadrant!"
The planet that Tendi and Mariner had the girl trip to had a Quarks! Right around the time Mariner also mentioned she served on DS9! My DS9 fanboy heartbeat skipped a bit faster at those callouts.
Having only learned the VOY shortcut since I've been on this board, I totally appreciated it! I'm also a DS9 fan, so the Quarks franchise (of course he did that!) was great!
Onion ring.
Nah, it's gonna be 112 here today.
All in all, I am really loving this show. It makes me laugh, and I really need that.
Nuts. I had hoped it would help you out.Nah, it's gonna be 112 here today.
And the dialogue isn't generic (could fit basically any character for the most part) - plus these characters have personality that doesn't take 30+ episodes to emerge.
^^^
So yeah, NOT like Berman era Trek at all - except for the reset button.
Liked it - nothing in particular stands out, but I still rate it an 8.
I think it was more of a riff at TOS - as they often had many of the 'extra' redshirsts who clearly died (and often with a face close up of the body with Kirk or McCoy lamenting some aspect of the death) suddenly back on duty/walking the corridor the next week.
^^^
I say that because most of the time when a main character dies and returns (like Spock) we DO often see/hear the explanation.
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Don't know why everyone is so shocked. While my criticisms have been harsh (which the show has deserved, often), I have also given it plenty of praise on those (less often) occasions when it deserved that, too. I was quite complimentary of the last couple episodes of Season 1, which were good, and I even said nice things about "Kayshon, His Eyes Open."
You live by the sword, you die by the sword!
Awww. Can't we, though....just a little??
That was absolutely not the point of the joke at all. The point of the joke was very clearly stated: "Senior officers" (aka series regulars) come back from the dead a lot. Which is a trope in TV because audiences fall in love with those characters, but the gag is that insignificant junior officers (not the audience, who follow the leads) wouldn't be privy to those details most of the time (which is true.)
It certainly wasn't an extremely obscure and not-at-all explained "joke" about the fact that 50 years ago they would sometimes recycle background actors.
That's why. Plus, I'm sarcastic.
Then said joke falls flat because every senior officer return HAS been explained in each series/film where it occurred - and the crew knew of it.
The running joke on the show is that the "Lower Deckers" are not privy to all the things going on on the ship or what the senior officers are up to.
So they extended that joke to include explanations about resurrected characters. It's a joke, but it still tracks. "Lower deckers aren't told everything, ergo resurrection details might be among the things they miss out on."
"The crew knew of it"? In those other episodes, the audience is following the senior officers and THEY know what's going on. But those shows don't bother to actually depict low-level ensigns getting the news. Hence the joke.
Don't get the problem here. The joke works perfectly if you get it. But it sounds like you're missing the point and actively trying to fault the logic.
