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"Secret of Vulcan Fury was cancelled in February 1999, following the continued departure of staff and because of financial problems at Interplay. During the production, three separate producers and the lead artist quit. At the time the project was shut down, it was estimated that less than 5% of the game had been completed. Lead engineer Thom Robertson later explained that the company had massively underestimated the cost of production, having expected to produce nearly seven hours of full motion video for 5% of the budget of a computer generated film such as Toy Story. They also had problems with the filming of the stop motion, as one three-day shoot was ruined when the director had red dots painted across the green screen in the hope that it would help with camera tracking. Further issues arose with the shoot as they had used a painted screen, which faded during the shoot causing problems in merging the video. Additional artists were then taken from other projects in order to mitigate those issues."
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There was uh...also an organ farm clone episode of Enterprise but it is best left forgotten like many episodes of Enterprise. Same goes for Nemesis.
We're currently in s7 of ds9 and "Treachery, Faith, and the Great River" is just two episodes away
Then there's the one where everyone's acting weird around O'Brien and he had to escape the space station, then it turns out
Turns out that was also Episode 2 of Season 2 so I feel like we aced this Twosday
:sucks teeth: oh man I would...I would really have suggested Let That Be Your Last Battlefield for the TOS entry but I guess it's two late now
The most unbelievable part of Star Trek is that their therapy is advanced enough to deal with the insane level of psychological trauma that O'Brien has experienced. Something like Time's Orphan would be incredibly traumatizing, and I'm not even sure that's in the top ten for O'Brien Must Suffer events.
I know they mention him getting some therapy for his virtual life sentence, but by season 7 he should have had daily appointments with her.
"Miles, it's Tuesday, time for your therapy session about being a time-displaced clone who saw your future self die."
"No, that's Thursday. Today is for seeing my clone die in front of me, tomorrow is having my daughter age to a feral teenager then sacrifice herself to bring her younger self back. Friday's for getting a guy who trusted me killed when I was asked to go undercover in a criminal organization for some reason."
There is an entire section of psychotherapy dedicated to O'Brien. Each person goes into this school knowing that they can only help him for one appointment before having to retire due to a work-based mental breakdown.
Ezri is not in that field.
A horrible day for everyone, just another Monday for O’Brien.
He thought he was going there for engineering but really he teaches course on mental fortitude.
"I survived it and so can you"
"Except for these events where I technically didn't survive it. But you've got replicators to fix, so that's no excuse."
Yeah.... yeah, okay
To be fair, I could also see him giving the speech at the end of the novel, "The Martian", as well:
The late 90's were a wild time for video games, but this was the death throes of Interplay, they really didn't know what they were doing.
Instead of working on a better photon torpedo, has the Federation considered constructing a giant ship-sized fist to launch at invading Borg cubes?
"What did the five opposable digits intonate towards the visage of Locutus?"
*SLAP!*
~ Buckaroo Banzai
"Humanity. Still just throwing rocks. Only we're throwing 1000 a minute at a speed of 2000 feet a second."
I seriously doubt the man would be only having one therapy session a day, given the shit he's been through.
Of the top of my head, some incidents not mentioned yet
-The time he was framed for supplying the Marquis and had his wisdom teeth removed, while being told he was going to get convicted regardless of the truth. Granted, might have been one of the tamer episodes of the suffering of O'Brian.
-The other time where he and Bashir are helping the two douche bag governments get rid of bioweapons called harvesters. Only to have said douche bag governments collude to kill both them along with their scientists tasked with destroying the harvesters because they deemed the knowledge too dangerous. During said attempt on their lives, O'Brian gets infected by the harvesters.
battletag: Millin#1360
Nice chart to figure out how honest a news source is.
Is the ship's captain called Gork?
Stupid autocorrect
They brought in Patrick Stewart! A strong showing of fan service, the story takes place after Voyager returns to Earth and you're transferred to a new Enterprise.
You'd think that at some point the Borg would think to use shields that just block everything the first time, like everyone else does.
The Borg want to see everybody's neat toys. It's no fun if they no-sell everything.
They do seem to care about efficiency on the small scale, though, only keeping currently necessary implants active and discarding unneeded drones. Weapons that they previously adapted to will work again in a later encounter and appear to adapt no faster.
There's also no particular indication on screen that blades or bullets are better against them than energy weapons. We see Worf kill two with a blade and Picard kill a small group with bullets, but both were within the window before adaptation generally takes.
Plus, there's logistics. I don't think we've ever seen a phaser run out of power during combat. Projectile weapons means either carrying ammunition or maintaining replicators. Melee weapons are only effective so long as the wielder isn't tired, hasn't been outflanked, and their weapon is in good condition.
As we've seen with the Federation, the Borg don't care if it takes 1 day to assimilate you or 1 century. Once you're a target, you're a target.
the last one was silly because the average federation doctor knows how to make a virus bomb from warhammer 40k and the average federation engineer knows how to build all manner of doomsday weapons
I mean the difference between a functional starship engine and a planet killing weapon is a couple of BIOS settings
I am fucking hype for some more John de Lancie
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