You could play a drink-shooting game on Klingon episodes, but if you shoot to honor, you'd drop dead of alcohol poisoning.
Did the recurring items ever annoy anyone else?
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Actually, I find that understandable for a tv show's first year... if I recall, the gel-packs were what made Voyager new/different, and should be a source of initial problems as it were. (disclaimer: But that's memory, based on a single Voyager viewing).
I agree with the Raktijino... I can't see that many humans/humanoids liking the same thing, in the same group... especially Klingon anything. The rest I'm okay with and enjoyed the continuity provided by stembolt references, even more so once I learned that particular items started as a joke (even the initial reference where Nog & Jake didn't know what a self-sealing stembolt was used as or was good for. ...or was really worth for that matter).
I cringe every time the word cheese is mentioned in ENT.
And how often was that?
A WARRIOR's DRINK! Rofl! (kudos to the writers!)
"It is a good day to die."
The whole tedious Klingon honour drivel and this phrase in particular is about the only oft-repeated thing that annoyed me. Although the 47 references got ridiculous at times.
The whole tedious Klingon honour drivel and this phrase in particular is about the only oft-repeated thing that annoyed me. Although the 47 references got ridiculous at times.
Trek aliens do tend to be very conformist. They dress the same, have the same / very similar hairstyles, have very limited cuisines... Yeah. Not especially believable, IMO.
Yeah, funny how everyone but them seemed to go for the stuff.
I see nothing especially unbelievable in that, as it may be a fallacy to assume our species' percentage of non-conformity is at all representative of the universal norm. In other words, your thinking and our ability to understand it may be the aberration. Not to mention the controversy surrounding each non-conformist alien on Trek over the years, it's no wonder writers and producers tried to avoid it for the most part unless needed for a story/plot.
Well, to be fair, there's rarely enough time in any given episode or film to do a lot of diversity in alien cultures.
My wife and I have been re-watching DS9 lately so that one has been bugging me. Surely by the time they've all been there for two or three weeks they'd quit explaining how they know the wormhole is about to open every time and just say "There's something coming through the wormhole."
It occurs to me, reading this, that part of the reason recurring mentions of items/tech/effects are irritating is because of frequency.
When new episodes aired once a week at most, the "elevated neutrino emissions"-type lines were nothing more than reminders, along the same lines as the quick flashback montage at the beginning of an episode -- it's a bookmark to get our minds back into the the right spot. However, when one watches several episodes in one sitting on DVD, those innocuous place-markers start standing out a lot more because we just saw that forty minutes ago... and dammit, we saw it forty minutes before that, too!
You'd run into the same problem watching a whole string of old Perils of Pauline or Hopalong Cassidy serials from the silent or early sound-picture days: what was just an "oh, yeah - right. Here we go" setup when viewed once a week at the Saturday matinee would start to grate when seen for the fourth or fifth time in the space of a couple of hours. After a certain (calculable?) number of repetitions, you reach a sort of "trope event horizon".
On DS9 they didn't eat gagh; they ate racht. Um, live worms? And not just for a lark, they ate there for real and wondered why people didn't like it.
Actually, both.
Ezri Dax once had a problem with a shipment of gagh that she had ordered while Dax was in the previous host (Jadzia). Jadzia loved Klingon stuff, but Ezri couldn't stand it, so she was faced with the problem of what to do with the dozen or so varieties of Gagh she suddenly had to deal with.
"It is a good day to die."
The whole tedious Klingon honour drivel and this phrase in particular is about the only oft-repeated thing that annoyed me. Although the 47 references got ridiculous at times.
Trek aliens do tend to be very conformist. They dress the same, have the same / very similar hairstyles, have very limited cuisines... Yeah. Not especially believable, IMO.
Yeah, funny how everyone but them seemed to go for the stuff.
I also think it's funny how the characters on the various ST series seemed to drink only one beverage...ever. I'm sure we all have things we tend to drink, but I seriously doubt anybody drinks "Tea, earl grey, hot" everyday for literally years...
Also, we often saw the military side of things so many of the characters had to dress similarly. When we see civilian Cardassians and Bajorans they do have different hairstyles and clothing (although, Kira seemed to have a limited array of off-duty clothing options).
One thing I noticed in Generations that was kind of cool was that during the evacuation to the saucer section they seemed to recycle many of the civilian costumes we saw during the evacuation in Encounter at Farpoint. That was a nice touch and created a sense of continuity with human clothing designs over the years.
Harry's clarinet got more development than his character.
The term "offline" always bugged me. "Phasers offline! Warp drive offline! The transporters are offline!"
Just say it's broken, dude.
Just say it's broken, dude.
You should come and visit my house and see an everyday earl grey drinker for yourself... Well maybe not everyday, but most days I enjoy a cup. I simply don't like any other black teas.
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Good point. Excellent point, really. I wonder if anyone else can pickup the ion trail.
It does make me wonder, after 2 or 3 DVD shows, who doesn't fast forward through the titles? And why can't the [tab-stop/DVD bookmark] stop right after the titles for EVERY episode, so I don't have to use the fast forward usually followed by an expletive and fast rewind?
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