Anthony Rapp, Lt Stamets

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  1. Ghislaine H. B. BRAEME

    Ghislaine H. B. BRAEME Fleet Captain Fleet Captain

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    Sorry to correct you, Jarrod, but we, French people, say "mener une vie de bohème!" ;)
     
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    queer is gay but only cooler. ;)
     
  3. Long Syntax

    Long Syntax Fleet Captain Fleet Captain

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    I had no idea. Thanks for the explanation.
     
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  4. Mr. Laser Beam

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    Or as the Esperantinos would put it, bonvoro alsende la pordiston, lausajne estas rano en mia bideo.

    And I think we all know what THAT means...
     
  5. Ghislaine H. B. BRAEME

    Ghislaine H. B. BRAEME Fleet Captain Fleet Captain

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    I have no doubt that we all know what that means but even if it means using french words/expressions, we might as well do it right, don't you think?! We shine even more! ;)
     
  6. Mr. Laser Beam

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    Actually it was an obscure joke from Red Dwarf. :alienblush: :lol:

    That sentence actually means (in Esperanto), "Could you send for the hall porter? There appears to be a frog in my bidet"...
     
  7. Ghislaine H. B. BRAEME

    Ghislaine H. B. BRAEME Fleet Captain Fleet Captain

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    :lol:
    Bah, at less, I would have learnt a sentence in Esperanto! Thank you! :techman:
    On the other hand, I'm not sure that I use it often! Usually, we find frogs in puddles and in plates of French restaurants! :devil:
     
  8. RJDiogenes

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    I wonder if the other guy will be playing a hookah-smoking caterpillar alien.

    I was going to mention that in the other thread, but I thought I was the only living person who had read it. I loved that book when I was in grade school, and I still have it. There are also some out-of-print sequels that I need to track down someday (although I probably should have learned my lesson with A Wrinkle In Time).
     
  9. Mark_Nguyen

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    Whelp, for many years I've been hearing his voice blast from my car speakers as Charlie Brown from the Broadway revival of "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown". Naturally, this means we'll finally have a proper muscial episode of Star Trek. I'm good with this.

    Mark
     
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  10. Amasov

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    For some reason, this movie came up in my Netflix suggestions. I started to watch and said, "Isn't that kid supposed to be on Star Trek Discovery???" :lol:
     
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  11. psCargile

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    Why isn't he a xenomycologist, instead?
     
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  12. Sci

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    I cannot tell you how excited I am that one of my favorite actors from one of my favorite musicals ever is going to be on Star Trek!

    Do yourself a favor: Even though it features most of the original Broadway cast, skip the 2005 film adaptation. It was directed by Christopher Columbus and is therefore bad.

    Pick up a copy of the original Broadway cast recording and listen to it, and then try to see a production of the stage version. Far superior.
     
  13. Laura Cynthia Chambers

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    It might be specific to fungi that inhabits interstellar space, hence "astro". Or it sounds more (awkwardly) TOS-era than "xeno"
     
  14. kIgneousguy

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    For those who have not clued into it yet - Lieutenant Stamets will be a science officer who is a Mycologist named after a current living Mycologist who is amazing and innovative and just unbelievably cool - named Paul Stamets. Good on you Star Trek, if this is true! I think it's equivalent to having a astrophysics science officer named Lieutenant Sagan.

    If you do not know who Paul Stamets is, you should definitely look him up on the internet. He did a TED talk not long ago about 6 ways Mushrooms can save the world.

    https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_can_save_the_world
     
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  15. m.lp.ql.m

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    Maybe they're afraid dumb Americans will confuse it with xenophobia and get offended?
     
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  16. Shalashaska

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    ...Ron Weasley?

    Is that you?
     
  17. RJDiogenes

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    Because a xenomycologist only ever gets halfway to making important discoveries, but never quite reaches the conclusion.

    Oh, no, wait, that's a Zenomycologist. Never mind.
     
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  18. lstyer

    lstyer Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    Okay, so 56 year old Doug Jones and 45 year old Anthony Rapp are both playing Lieutenants? Harry Kim's seven years at Ensign isn't looking so weird now.
     
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  19. Balok's Decoy

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    The characters won't necessarily be the same age as the actors playing them.
     
  20. Mr. Laser Beam

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    And Saru is an alien, so that gives them some extra wiggle room there.
     
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