What spurred this craziness on? Too much tea earl grey hot or coffee black?
Star Trek
Austin Walker
Aiden Taylor
Coronavirus.
Henry Morales
One indigested apple dumpling.
Joseph Lopez
Looks like Klingon Augment Virus to me.
Jose White
Kevin Walker
Just watched the first episode, don't transporters purge your body of foreign bodies and infections when you teleport?
Also Isn't she basically the same archetype as Rick early seasons Rick? Smart, super capable due to adventures that happened before the series started, would probably be boss of everything if she cared, etc - a power fantasy with a mopy sidekick.
Caleb Edwards
Was this show designed specifically to make Final Space look better?
Kevin Campbell
I don't get who finds this funny. In any demographic. I'm not trying to be a shit, I do have a hard time with humor. But who laughs at this?
Xavier Carter
>don't transporters purge your body of foreign bodies and infections when you teleport?
They're supposed to have filters, but pretty much anything with the transporter is basically magic.
Nathan Miller
Transporters do a lot of things. Sometimes they can turn you into a penis monster.
Landon Phillips
Yeah, but diseases have evaded the filters before. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen -- especially with new diseases.
Elijah Wright
That episode scared the fuck out of me when I was a kid. All the transporter accidents were so gruesome. I didn't blame Barclay or McCoy one bit for thinking transporter tech was bullshit.
Nathaniel Jenkins
Star Trek the motion picture was straight up nightmare fuel in that regard. Screaming uncircumcised penis monsters with huge red raw dick holes for mouths is one thing but screaming body horror transporter accidents would be the kind of shit that fucks you up for the rest of your life.
Gabriel Myers
It’s supposed to be like a little kid playing with a car’s electric windows, but even Mariner isn’t supposed to be this childish.
Jaxon Hill
She's doing it out of spite. What's Bumfuck gonna do about it?
Jayden Stewart
Don't they get at least detected though?
Carson Myers
cute newgrounds cartoon
Joshua Mitchell
Maybe she is? Perhaps it's the flaw that got her demoted and someone will really chew her out eventually.
Kayden Lee
>I didn't blame Barclay or McCoy one bit for thinking transporter tech was bullshit.
The way they're described to work IS bullshit, considering the episode with the dyson sphere in TNG where Scotty managed to place himself into suspended animation with rigging one to "lock the pattern buffer into a diagnostic"... But the other guy who was trapped with him that also went into the pattern buffer didn't make it out.
> "Yeah it just disassembles you and then reassembles you"
Technically, Trek teleporters are just a very fancy meat grinder that happens to reform the packaged meat into what it originally was after it's been moved to the destination.
Through a matter beam.
That can't pass through kilometers of rock.
> Oh but those terrorists on that one planet with dimensional folding transporters in TNG, technology that the federation abandoned despite being able to pass through kilometers of rock and ship shields isn't a technology worth pursuing because it causes genetic damage despite keeping the body completely intact and aware with no mid-transport "assembly" disaster risk like in that one scene from TOS movie
yeah and not because it utterly buttfucks the entire power level behind the plot device of the teleporter, right?
StarTrek would be improved if the teleporter never existed, or if only the Borg had the tech, since they're "soulless" and thus wouldn't mind if they were "murdered" on a spiritual level by their teleporter technology
Hudson Scott
* and: these are concepts that a show like Lower Decks will never explore because it's not Trek.
Aiden Taylor
>even Mariner isn’t supposed to be this childish.
I think that's the point. She's the Rick of the show, but that means she's goddamn *Rick,* deeply fucked up but so far in denial even she doesn't realize it. She's clearly hyper-competent and should be on the deck of the Enterprise or some fancy ship like that, but is so traumatized by the shit that went down she just wants to be a loser space janitor with no responsibilities. Her mom wanted Boimler to rat her out to give her a *promotion* for "taking the initiative" and put her career back on track, not to kick her out of Starfleet entirely.
Brayden Sanders
I think all the black coffee in this show is spurring my craziness on. If you catch my drift.
Jose Smith
Oh fuck this chick is supposed to be Wesley if he stayed in starfleet instead of fucking off with his gay lover to space canada isn't she.
Adam Foster
As far as Trek lore goes I'm more than willing to let that one slide considering medical and quarantine tech on Star Trek is inconsistent as fuck. Having it just make everyone zombies was dumb as hell though and pretty much confirmation of how little thought and effort really went into this series.
Chase Howard
Officer Meme, you're on Tactical!
Jack Adams
>medical and quarantine tech on Star Trek is inconsistent as fuck
This. For completely unknown pathogens, it's a crapshoot of heuristic algorithms that aren't guaranteed to detect something that doesn't conform enough to known parameters. The fact is that the transporters have to give most things the benefit of the doubt or they're going to end up filtering out some alien delegate's natural digestive bacteria.
David Sanchez
Robot Chicken's night crew was a better executed version of this idea.
Liam Johnson
It was pure R&M-tier rooty tooty action shooty bullshit and from the preview at the end of the episode it's safe to say all action in the series will be similar.
Jace Morales
>pure R&M-tier
I don't understand why this is a problem. For all that people like to shit on it for being popular, Rick and Morty is goddamn LOVING to its canon. The characters might be genre savvy assholes, but that genre is and will remain Trek.
Bentley Johnson
Didn't expect this show to suck so bad but wow. Seems intentional.
Brayden Nguyen
We do not discuss that with outsiders
Jackson Torres
It was so fucking weird how casual everyone was about the science officer's death.
"Wow! That's awful! But we get Spock back so it's ok". One of many things wrong with that movie.
Bentley Morgan
It's not shitting on it for being popular. It's shitting on it for treating cynicism as intelligence and substituting well written comedy that comes from character interactions with over the top violence and gore. Having and maintaining lore isn't the problem. Honestly lore is probably the easiest part of the equation to get right. Everything has lore. Writers love lore. It makes their worlds feel large and 3 dimensional even if the characters are flat and 2 dimensional but lore without the characters and conflicts to back it up is just frosting on a bad cake.
Mason Cook
why couldnt it just compare a crewmember's last known configuration with the current and go
>hmmmm all this extra dna wasn;t here before
Julian Williams
Here's what should happen in the series:
>Crew debates with a group of protesters on a Federation planet they visit whether statues of President Archer should be taken down
>Mariner gets publicly put on blast for her holodeck sexual harassment escapades and her career in starfleet is threatened for real this time
>A plague infects the ship and T'ana is the only one aware of it while no one else believes her even as the crew start dying one by one
Xavier Diaz
It was also weird just how out of place it was. It didn't happen during some huge conflict or to clue the audience or the cast into something going wrong. It was just a random scene near the beginning of the movie. There was no reason for the teleporter to fuck up like that. It didn't connect to anything else in the movie. Just some dudes getting teleported had a horrific mishap and died horribly.
Logan Bailey
lol like when he turned into a pickle