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Quote:Uhura had her memory and personality erased by Nomad and had to be reeducated and retaught everything, then still had to reassociate herself with herself as it were since technically she may not be quite the same person.Scotty, Uhura, and Rand wore red shirts right from the very beginning and they did alright. Heck, Scotty managed to outlive everyone but Spock I believe.
Scotty was killed and revived by Nomad. Granted he was in transporter stasis for 80 years so presumably he outlived everyone but Spock, but as I recall the final fates of Uhura, Chekov and Sulu have not been revealed in canon. -
Quote:Does Harry Mudd qualify as a nemesis or a nuisance?Kirk
lets be honest, the acting ability of Bill Shatner takes the cake from all the rest..
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KHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNN
Dont forget Harry Mudd
Heh, imagine if a businessman-con man like Harry Mudd met up with the Ferengi? -
Quote:When your recurring nemesis is KHAN.....you don't NEED any other nemesis!
Pfft, Kirk could only handle the one recurrent nemesis. Sisko had Dukat, Weyoun, the Founders, and the Pah-Wraiths. And he kicked all of their a**es.
We are talking about a man who became so vengeful that he would chase Kirk across the universe if necessary until he felt vengeance was satisfied. -
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Quote:I remember that episode: Picard was part of an away team on a diplomatic visit and he got shot in the chest, damaging his cyber heart. He apparently flatlines and enters the white light and clouds and the angelic being takes Picard's hand in greeting and steps out of the clouds to be revealed as Q!As I recall Picard did, in fact, die but then Q brought him back so he could continue making fun of him.
"Welcome to the afterlife, Jean-Luc. You're dead!" -
Quote:Futurama Bender's Game also takes a nice shot at Archer in the demolition derby. George Takei's ship starts ramming Bakula's ship and George yells "WAY TO KILL THE FRANCHISE, BAKULA!"Even the forum software knows how full of fail Archer was.
Ironically thanks to the movie reboot, only Enterprise now exists in the revised timeline. TOS, TNG, DS9 and Voyager are all altered or eliminated. -
Quote:It boils down for me to what the rare vs very rare will offer beside the level shift. My stone armor toons are looking at the very rare musculature radial and smiling at what it can do for them.I have exactly one that I will get a very rare on. I have two or three I may get a rare on. The others it will happen if it happens. they have uncommons or commons and for now that is enough.
Unless there is some UBER bonus for every slot having the very rare, there isn't much point in every alt having the very rare. -
Quote:I can't recall but doesn't this upcoming DVD tie more into the upcoming movie rather then First Flight?Not that i don't dig Nathan, but i wish they'd tried to get Chris Meloni to do it since he was the voice for Hal in First Flight. Still gonna get this though.
Don't get me wrong I loved First Flight.
Still, Vigilante is a cowboy, Hal is supposed to be a space cowboy and Nathan can easily play that role. Should be good. -
Quote:Good choice!Well he's not staring in the live action movie but Nathan Fillion ges to add to the mythos.
Green Lantern: Emerald Knights.
I also like how Nathan did the voice of Vigilante on JLU, rather appropriate casting. -
Quote:I like the mask, plus its in keeping with in the comics when he was first created until someone pointed out that his exposed neck made him more vulnerable. His costume was then modified to cover his neck and make it a whole mask.Thor is looking more and more intresting to me, for a character i never really followed in the comics especially. However yes, this is just more of the same footage that we have already seen to this point with just a few extras.
CapA, well I have to say so far has me intrested. The over all design of the movie seems solid and fits well within a WW2 vibe. Caps costume looks good. Really about the only complaint i have is his helmet. I like the mask idea, but i think it would look better with a real WW2 era helmet over the mask rather then having kinda an old football uniform appearance to it. Otherwise, both Marvel trailers have me waiting for summer movies.
Transformers, at this point who cares is my general opinion. Both the first two movies were crap to me and yes though good effects, i cant get beyond the horrible story, horrible acting and horrible jokes to say that made them worth while even just on the sheer action level of the movie. So i dont expect anymore from a 3rd. -
Quote:This is precisely why only my 2 badge hunters are going for these. All other alts will run the WST/WTF once then wait for the next one, hence no badge progress.Making them account-wide would be great, it would completely relieve my worries that these will be some of those badges that become harder to get for an alt down the road.
Quote:Unlike some would try and have you believe, this is not actually me being an alarmist, but that's all right, since it would appear that those people use words that they heard someplace but don't know the definitions of pretty regularly. I presented examples of other activities that require teams plus repetition, and give very good rewards, that just aren't anywhere near as easy to get the badges for now as they were when they were introduced, and those are the badges for the Mothership Raids. Thankfully, the developers reduced the Demolitionist badge from 25 to 10, so it isn't some arduous task. Most servers do at least 1 scheduled raid per week, so you can get both badges for it in 10 weeks with fairly minimal effort each week. My reasoning is that WST participation will be the same, as people get their Notices for their characters and move on. It's a guess, but it's a guess that is based on simple pattern recognition.
I'll go a step further on this prediction. Instead of some nebulous "After Issue 20 launches" date, I'll give you a concrete date to look forward to, March 1st. That is when WST 5 will be announced. If I am right about Notices being the driving force behind a good part of the activity for the WST right now, as people are getting all of the level 50s that they care about the Notice to make a Rare, and later a Very Rare Alpha, then WST 5 will be noticeably less busy than previous ones were. The only caveat on this is if WST 5 is the ITF. ITFs are always extremely popular, and don't need special incentives to be so. If it is the ITF, then WST 6 will be where you see the drop-off.
Also may the Dr Q TF NEVER be selected as a WST/TF. -
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Quote:My bot-poison went musculature to augment the bots attacks. After seeing what Musculature Radial Core can do in terms of damage, def debuff, hit debuff and end mod, he will be going for that.How many people are not going for the very rare alpha? Personally, the 2/3 ignore ED and the other bonuses don't interest me enough to waste components on building another rare. If Rare gets 1/2 ignore ED and the level shift, then it is sufficient for my needs. The investment for a very rare alpha slot compared to a rare alpha slot is not worth it IMO since I am not a minmaxer that requires to get the maximum benefit out of everything. Of course, I am using a Cardiac in a Mastermind so my endurance requirements are being met with just the rare. I am definite that there will be other incarnate slots that would warrant getting a very rare, but not the alpha.
Bot trap will likely eventually do the same. Bot/FF will stick with Cardiac.
Bot-storm....dunno yet. Musculature or Cardiac.
Bot-Arrow: Cardiac
Bot-Pain: Cardiac, no point in going Spiritual to augment heals if stamina remains a problem.
Brutes and tanks started with Cardiac but again after seeing what Musculature Radial Core can provide in terms of damage and end mod......now I need to rethink them.
Will all my alts get the very rare? Nah. Certain key alts will, but not all 50. Will all 50 get level shifted? Oh, yes. -
Quote:To possibly lessen some of the burnout effect, it would be nice if when the menu comes up to set conditions for the TF if there was an option to select to shut off the cutscenes.Here is how I feel about the badges:
If you are like me, you already run the same TFs over and over for regular shards and the end bonus. I plan on unlocking all of the tiers for all of the boosts. I've already ran the STF/LRSF 10+ times this past week. Yes, it does burn me out and I can't wait for the next WTF to start, but hey that's me and how I play the game.
The last badge being set at 50...is kind of high, but I have no issues with getting there. Who knows when Issue 20 is coming out and this is keeping me occupied until then. If they change it to 25, I am fine with it and if they don't do any changes I am fine with that too.
I will probably do over 50 TF's this month...but I don't do alts anymore. Since CoH is an alt game, having the badges account wide would be nice, to help out the people with alts. -
Quote:Agreed, my quarrel isn't with rerunning the WTF.....it is how many times it must be run.while i have no beef with how these new WST badges work, i do also agree that 50 is kind of much, i think a more reasonable number would be 25, its only 15 more than the 10 badge, which would take maybe another 2 weeks depending on how much you ran tfs
I'll see if I can grind out 40 runs of Khan this week. -
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Quote:Yes the Ad was cool. Both that ad and the trailer itself do a nice job of scrubbing away the memory of Viking "thor" from the Hulk Returns TV movie.Loved finally seeing Thor on tv...there were a few new scenes in this trailer....the scene of some creature right before he throws the hammer and the scene where Jane asks "Who are you?" and Thor says "You will see soon enough"...and she replies "god i hope you are not crazy" which causes Thor to chuckle...
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Quote:I believe it said "Avenger" and the full title will be Captain America: The First Avenger.Yeah, the SB commercials were really lame this year.
Although I'm not holding my breath on TF3....even in the trailer there was a lot of 'action' but it was moving so fast you couldn't see what was happening (one of my bigger complaints in the TF movies but especially in TF2).
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Oh and just thinking about it now but in the Cap. America trailer (and posters) it has "Avenge" in it; getting people ready for "The Avengers"?
TF 3 will be as big a joke as the last two. -
One of my badge hunters has secured the first two WTF badges, and also has about 40 shards (spent some for crafting or would have more) about 4 of the Essence of Incarnate from end of STF, 2 Hami O, and some more reward merits.
While needing 50 TF's for the third shoudl help ensure a nice stockpile of shards, merits, end of TF rewards, influence and recipie drops......50 is still a tad too much. -
Quote:Maybe he will be cast as the son of Indy instead of ShiaI totally forgot someone: Garret Hedlund. He played Sam in Tron: Legacy, Achilles' cousin in Troy and Beau in Country Strong. He can pull off action scenes, can be reckless or laconic or psychotic as needed, and is a terrific actor. The guy's a total chameleon.
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Quote:Also, if you think Batman is harsh or almost like a dictator in how he handles things in Gotham and thinks he's always right....there is a comic character who would make Batman look tame by comparison:Actually, Batman will more usually scare the bejeezus out of you, ask your name, suggest strongly that you've made a major error in your response to your life's misfortunes and suggest that you should call the HR department at Wayne Enterprises if you need a (better paying) job. He'll also mention off-handedly that he'll know if you do or not and he'll follow up if you choose to continue supplementing your revenue stream through illegal means.
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JUDGE DREDD
In that dystopian future the Judges ARE the law, and they are empowered to be judge, jury and executioner and have little to no qualms about deadly force being used. Dredd has been shown to be saving someone being attacked by criminals only to find the person he saved has contraband on them so they all get busted.
There was a Dredd story where the perpetrator was fatally wounded but had vital information they needed so the perpetrator was put into cryo storage until they could be thawed, healed, interrogated and THEN SENTENCED and the display on the cryo vault read Sentence: LIFE. So we are talking about someone who will spend years in cryo awaiting medical advances to save him only to be put in jail for life.
There was a Dredd story where a Cadet judge was interrogating people that had information about a crime, one was the cadet's mother. She wouldn't cooperate and then the cadet said "I'm going to start counting: each number is another year on your sentence, Mom" By the time he counted to three she cracked and talked. Afterwards the cadet sentenced HIS OWN MOTHER to the mandatory 15 years for her crimes plus another 3 for making him count. Dredd then states that anyone who sentences their own mother has the makes of a fine judge.
There's another tale where Dredd and one of his clone brothers are in the lawless lands and head to a wreck of a town where a politician and his aide are going to be hanged for a crime they didn't do. Dredd stops it and they find the real criminals, then take the politician and aide, still bound to another town. in this town the poltician's aide wiped out at least half the town so there would be no witnesses to the politician's scandalous affairs. They were tried in absentee and sentenced to hang. Dredd and his partner helped them get strung up. As they rode away on their Lawgivers, Dredd's partner said "nothing beats a hanging, eh?" Dredd's response "Agreed....as long as it's legal!"
Still think Batman is too harsh? Plus Batman and Dredd have had crossovers and in one of them, Dredd was sentencing Batman and at the end, Dredd wanted to drag Batman back to Dredd's dimension and lock him up. Needless to say, Batman didn't take kindly to that idea and Judge Anderson as I recall was the one that salvaged that situation. -
Quote:Bruce does fund social programs, the problems I can see are:Batman spent decades as a duly authorized representative of law enforcement in the comics. (Was in the Batman Encyclopedia Fleisher did in the 70s with the appropriate original comics text quoted.) Even in the 1970s and 80s, Batman and Robin were testifying in court. (And how much of an outlaw can he be now if the police are still using the Batsignal?)
As I think about it, the problem isn't Batman. It's Bruce Wayne. Back when he was just "millionaire Bruce Wayne" no one could expect that he'd have the money to fix Gotham's social injustices. Now that he's written as being richer than Bill Gates, and is spending billions of dollars on things like artificially intelligent satellites and beyond state of the line aircraft, the idea that he couldn't fund enough social programs to make a difference in Gotham tends to be harder to swallow.
1. Is the money being properly used by the people that run the programs?
2. Do the people targeted by the social programs WANT to be helped?
3, Most important of all: Bruce can't be anything other then Batman. Take Batman away from him and there is nothing. Example: in Batman Beyond after he was forced to retire due to using a gun to scare that punk into running away and right into the police, he stopped doing everything else which led to Derek Powers succeeding in taking controlling interest in Wayne Enterprises, and Bruce pretty much sat in his mansion for 20 years until Terry McGinnis came along. -
Quote:I have no copy of the Holiday Special at all in my archives and it shall remain that way.Why not something hard, like a solid week of non-stop Star Wars Christmas Special without commercials or a solid month of William Shatner singing?
As to Shatner singing....I've heard worse. Ever listen to David Hasselhoff sing? That's more akin to fingernails on a blackboard.
I would rather watch a non stop week long marathon of Galactica 1980, Highlander 2, Star Trek 5, Star Trek Nemesis (easily the two worst trek films, imo), Knight Rider 2000, Knight Rider 2010, and Leonard Part 6 (bad Cosby movie) then seek a new 0 defeat Mo. -
Calling Batman's Rogue's Gallery a "rising underclass" is a bad label.
Joker: either a super genius or raving lunatic, has seeming total randomness to his motives and actions. Conventional law enforcement can rarely handle him, and all the courts do is remand him to Arkham when Joker should face the death penalty.
Penguin: deformed at birth. Attempts to be aristocratic. Has an eccentricity when it comes to umbrellas and birds.
Riddler: eccentric genius that loves puzzle solving and matching wits with the few he deems as intellectually capable, Batman being one of them. Main weakness is that he doesn't seem to know when to stop. (as shown in Batman TAS)
Mr. Freeze: injured in cryogenic accident, exposure to chemicals forces him to life in arctic environments or with exosuits with lifesupport gear for him. Brilliant scientist who has turned his frozen genius to mastery of cold weapons.
Rha's Al Ghul: the term rising underclass definitely DOES NOT APPLY TO HIM.
Catwoman: part time burglar, part time vigilante
Poison Ivy: I think the term eco-terrorist applies to her. -