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[–] 58 points 1 day ago (9 children)

I don't know if I've ever actually seen the episode, but I was listening to a podcast where they suggested that this Magic: the Gathering card was perhaps a little too esoteric:

And I wondered if maybe Lemmy had prepared me a little too well for the Star Trek set.

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  • [–] [S] 30 points 1 day ago (7 children)

    Ha, I suppose we should remember that most people aren't existing in a daily flood of Star Trek memes... The poor bastards.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 day ago*

    I'm just impressed the MtG designers understood the assignment this well to include memes like this. And happy I can appreciate it even if I haven't seen all the episodes.

    Dathon also has his own card. I spoke to someone at the prerelease who said he was going to build a Dathon deck, and for the duration of the match he'd only speak in metaphors.

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  • [–] 16 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

    Yeah, it's easy to forget that most people have only seen all of TOS and TNG. And DS9, of course.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 19 hours ago (2 children)
  • [–] 15 points 1 day ago

    Probably, but that's what's great about this community. I'm in a club with an elder Zoomer whose name is Ryker. He's just the right age to have parents who grew up with TNG, but people think I'm a nutcase when I call him Number One.

    But, here, I can be understood.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 day ago (11 children)

    Okay, now I need to know if that episode had aired by the time Terminator 2 came out (or when it was set if there's an actual date).

    Would be very funny if that was the latest TNG episode, so every Trekker was quoting it, not like now because it's a classic, but because they all just saw it for the first time. Kind of like how Game of Thrones fans were when they learned the meaning behind "Hodor".

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  • [–] [S] 51 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    Just checked:

    • The TNG episode was Sept 30th, 1991.

    • Terminator 2 was July 3rd, 1991.

    Wow, that's pretty close.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    T2 is set on June 8th through 10th, 1995. I think it still works in universe.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (3 children)

    And it’s definitely a classic three years from now (1929 2029) where the T-800 travelled from.

    Unless we overtaken by by AI overlords.

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  • [–] 2 points 21 hours ago

    That was when it was released, right? I remember it was a summer release. My mother took me to see it when I was 11 or 12.

    Judgment Day was August 1997. I don't recall the day... for all the times I typed it into my DVD player to unlock the Extended Director's Cut on the DVD (Skynet Edition, IIRC). August 29? 082997? Not sure. Too lazy to look it up.

    John Connor and his friend blasting You Could Be Mine implies the movie takes place pretty close to release. If that song was a single, it did not receive a lot of radio airplay. I was a little younger than John then. I remember the other singles from the Use Your Illusion twin albums; November Rain in particular received heavy airplay. Might have varied from station to station, but I don't recall our rock station playing You Could Be Mine. John could have also been playing it on cassette.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago* (2 children)

    Kind of like how Game of Thrones fans were when they learned the meaning behind “Hodor”.

    Yeah, is Hodor still a meme?

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  • [–] 22 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

    “Does your mother like TNG or DS9?”

    “TNG.”

    “What do you think about Ferangi episodes?”

    “They’re the best.”

    “Your foster parents are dead.”

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  • [–] 3 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

    Tbf, some of us love both, possibly equally.

    Though gotta admit that I was never that big on the Ferengi episodes and probably never will be lol

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  • [–] 9 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

    I believe the joke there is that TNG's ferengi-focused episodes are awful (because they were created with the intent of being the next klingon-level ongoing threat), but DS9's ferengi-focused episodes are generally really good (because they had the space to use them as a strange different culture that we're not meant to like, but can enjoy).

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  • [–] 6 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

    Armin Shimmerman did a great interview and talked about the early Ferengi episodes and how much he hated the first bad impression and tried to fix it on ds9, the shuttlepod episode was good.

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  • One of my favorite shirts:

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  • [–] -4 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

    I hate that episode; it's one of the worst.

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  • [–] 16 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

    Zinda, his face black, his eyes red!

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