I know no such thing, and neither do you, but please, condescendingly gesticulate away.
What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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Being Irish, I just can't get over a great deal of Fair Haven. The place name doesn't sound Irish – it sounds like an American coastal resort. The place doesn't look Irish – it looks vaguely Mediterranean. The characters are boring Irish stereotypes – shrieking harridans and work-shy alcoholics. The accents are bordering on hate crimes.
Well, in the case of the Ferengi Hu-man is supposedly an explicitly translated word. If I say "German" then German speakers don't hear DOY-utch.
What does the UT do when people WANT to use non-English / Standard / Basic in their speech to add that certain je ne sais quoi to their language?
I mean, it's obviously just magic, but these things are fun to try and do things with.
Fair Haven or Up the Long Ladder?
I suppose the UT would do the same thing as you'd do when translating /dub an original work (book or movie / into another language). You search for the closest equivalents. So if, for example, in the book/movie there are characters of which one is definitely underclass or at any rate low in the social pecking order, and the other is very much upper class and it shows in how they speak in the original work, I'd use corresponding language /accents to convey that in the target language, as well.
After all, it can effortlessly and seemingly perfectly translate entire languages never heard before so why would it stumble on such nuances?
You're not a true IDIC adherent if you don't defend the Borg Collective's assimilation of other species as an expression of Borg culture.
Well, both really, but we were specifically talking about Fair Haven at the time. Actually I do find Fair Haven worse in some ways because it's got every bit as much ludicrous paddywhackery as the Bringloidi in "Up The Long Ladder" but we're supposed to take Fair Haven seriously, whereas the Bringloidi are mostly comic relief.
"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross, but it's not for the timid."
IDIC is simply what is.
The Borg themselves are IUVFC-adherents, though. (Infinite Uniformity, Very Few Combinations). (there seem to be a few types of drones, that's why I can't say 'one combination'.)
Basically sounds to me like the argument 'if you truly adhere to democratic principles, you must accept any dictator that has been elected democratically'.
"FAIR HAVEN" may be better than its reputation, but I can't say the same about "SPIRIT FOLK".
I take issue with best theme. TVH (and Robocop II) was Oscar winner Leonard Rosenman being a hack. First he jazz-bands the main theme, then pretends the showcase piece is a love song to San Francisco. The chase music, both themes, is the only part that truly accompanies the scenes where it's used.
And even if, somehow, it would have made the Cardassians a less convenient tool for them, I'm sure the Dominion would have found another AQ race to gain a foothold in the AQ with. The Dominion War would always have happened, and it would have been fierce.
I never said it was the correct position.
The original, unused, theme for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home if anyone's interested... it's very Boston Pops.
I prefer the one used in the actual theatrical and home video cuts of the film but yeah, I do like this alternate theme music.
I didn’t say you had to like it, but I like it a lot. :-)
Never heard it! Wow!!! A contemporary take on the TOS theme and it’s beautiful. Thank you for sharing!
In battle scenes, I prefer it when the weapons fire as solid beams.
I'm genuinely curious if VFX artists find it easier to animate phasers as "pew pew" bolts than showing it as a phaser beam weapon? Or if it's just a style preference by those in charge who like it better that way?
I've noticed that both in ship battles and in hand-to-hand skirmishes, the general trend is away from showing phaser beams and more towards pew-pew action.
I'm genuinely curious if VFX artists find it easier to animate phasers as "pew pew" bolts than showing it as a phaser beam weapon? Or if it's just a style preference by those in charge who like it better that way?
I've noticed that both in ship battles and in hand-to-hand skirmishes, the general trend is away from showing phaser beams and more towards pew-pew action.
I'm with you on preferring a solid phaser beam vs. STAR WARS-like shots. I'm fine with some aliens doing the SW shots, though, as a way of differentiating them from Starfleet.
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