Actually, yeah, he was set up to be unlikable but somewhat redeem himself as the series reached its conclusion. He's not for everyone but he was a fascinating study in ethics and people who avoid embracing any but their own unique idea of them.
What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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I'll take your word for it.
And he somehow became a hero by the end. A tainted one, stained by years of covert behavior and downright terrible acts, but willingly helped his Federation friends liberate his homeworld and put his life on the line for a new Cardassia, a freer and more open and peaceful one. He was a cunning bastard, but one with a silver lining.
More of an anti-hero. Or a reluctant hero.
Michael Corleone of sorts by the end, but yes.
Agreed.
I chalked the look of the ships as being the result of flawless hull designs. Photo-realistic CGI of today I would only use for derelicts—as odd as that sounds.
Abandoned Thunderbolts can have grunge—but keep the Starfury clean.
Now the 1997 A NEW HOPE X-wing fighters leaving Yavin is dated. That look is fine for Babylon 5, but Rogue One+era X-wing meshes need to replace those particular 1997 scenes, because they match the models better.
The 1997 scenes used in a Rebels flashback.
Paramount should replace the shots of the Enterprise in TOS with the Disco/SNW-prise.
Um. Wow.
I like the Constitution class better than any of the later Enterprises. She looks like a real ship, designed around constraints. Why does a space ship need to be streamlined like a speedboat again? Are they going to land her on planets every couple of weeks?
We do have a choice: blurays set on "original effects".
Ya know, Michelangelo didn't have day-glo paints when he painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling. I bet a good painter could go over that ceiling in day-glo and it would look SO much FLASHIER and NEWER.
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On a circa 2008 display. I'm sure newer ones would be better but I don't feel like spending the money untl the one I've got dies.
VHS was not shit in its time. It's nowhere near as good as bluray, of course, but remember that in its time it was being compared to over the air for a lot of people. Fuzzy, interference, ghosts were the order of the day.
My cellphone, now, THAT is crap. I can not imagine having that POS as my only phone.
In TOS we saw them as part of the conference delegations in "Journey to Babel" but not in the Enterprise crew, I think.
Good luck to your casting director.
No, no Andorians are depicted in Starfleet uniform until TAS and even then the Andorian is from an alternate timeline where Spock died in childhood.
Speaking from personal experience:
1) I had cassettes snag inside the machine, resulting in the tape spooling out and getting chewed up.
2) Periodically the heads of the machine itself would need cleaning.
3) On a few occasions I had tapes that would somehow ‘blank’ themselves. Either you’d play the tape and there’d be sound or no picture, or both.
4) The VHS tapes themselves were gradually damaged by the machine used to play them, each time they are played. This was incremental, but for tapes I played a lot, noticeable over a few years.
5) The tapes themselves were expensive and very limited in terms of how much media could be stored on each. They also took up massive amounts of shelf space.
6) Fast forward/Rewind similarly damaged the tapes. Fuck, they had to be rewound in the first place.
It absolutely was shit in its time and in its time better alternatives (Betamax and Laserdisc) existed.
VHS won over Betamax and Laserdisc because:
- VHS players/recorders were cheaper and more widely available than both Betamax and especially Laserdisc, which I remember being more a novelty when I bought one.
- One theory about home video's popularity is the porn market. People could buy/rent porn without having to go to a strip club or a porn theater. Given that VHS was cheaper, the porn industry tended to produce more on VHS than Beta.
- VHS tapes themselves were more widely available, since I think I could only find Laserdisc movies at like Suncoast video. Also, JVC (the inventor of VHS) was better than Sony (the inventor of Betamax) at licensing the tech to movie studios and helping create the home video rental market.
- For the most part, the majority of VHS tapes available could record for longer (6 hours max) versus the Betamax ones (4-5 hours).
- As someone who owned a Laserdisc player, what increase that was achieved in picture quality was offset by a format with all of the issues that vinyl records had when it came to warping and scratching. Also, unless you had a Laserdisc player that could automatically switch from side A to side B, you would have to stop halfway into a film to flip the disc and replatter it to watch the other half of the movie. Also true if you want to go back to watch something from earlier in the film.
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Tape was left too close to a strong magnetic field.
Well, Betamax would suffer from tapes getting eaten and quality degradation. Laserdiscs would suffer from disc rot. They all had their shortcomings.
Sure.
VHS won out for the reasons @Citiprime outlined above. Mainly cheapness and ubiquity.
Doesn’t change the fact that it was substandard compared to other options, even if those options themselves were far from optimal.
I had/owned VHS decks from roughly 1980 until the mid-2000's. I only remember two tapes actually being eaten during that time. One was a blank that I used to constantly record/watch/tape over one watch items from TV, the other was The Brave Little Toaster*, which my daughter watched about 500 times in her formative years.
Personally, even with its flaws, I was pretty happy with VHS, overall.
*My wife was able to take everything apart and fix the tape, with just a small glitch where the eaten part had been.
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