Now an ameoba fetish!?! What would your paramecium girlfriend think if she heard such filth?
Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
My paramecium girlfriend would think that's cilia. But I gotta think at the macrophage level about this - no point crying over broken platelets. There's no vacuole between my ears, y'hear? I ain't lysosoming! Besides, both paramecium and amoeba would understand, since I'm no phagocyte.
Mark
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
That's viral thinking, son- you'll contaminate the whole dish with such perversion.
Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on :
Don't make me go get my Aunty Biotic.
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
Hey don't be so hard on Mark, he's a fungi.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Explaining his frequent halucinations, no doubt.
Still, I guess it's to be expected- housing is so expected on Yuggoth nowadays.
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
Hehe here's something funny posted on Trek Movie about The Immunity Syndrome.
Now, here's the thing I've never understood. Are amoebae actually flat in real life, or is the appearance just an effect of looking at them exclusively through microscopes? Although the effects here are still shinier, I think they fell seriously flat by preserving the fake-2D appearance of the amoeba.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Am I the only one who thinks this looks about as disappointing as the Tholian's unchanged appearance in last week's episode?
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
Actually I think they tried to make it look more three-dimensional. But then again the design of this particular amoeba is such that I can not conceive of it having more volume.
Edit: I think that blue outline makes it look flat.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
It was okay- nothing special- I think mainly because the ameoba was just rendered to occupy the same space/shots as the original and not make it radicaly new. It's be nice to see it move a bit though- this thing is yet another giant threat to whole solar-systems without FTL capability and another rush to risk the ship destroying it (this is before they knew it was about to reproduce).
Nice shuttlebay scene- they really got that down now.
Bad stuff- when the Enterprise first releases reverse thrust and plunges forward into the creature, they exactly reproduced the jerky "model on a string" look of the original and instead of surging forward at high speed, it kinda wobbles away from the camera's angle.
Yet another episode where McCoy is a TOTAL DICK. Seriously- Spock is going on what everyone agrees is a suicide mission and McCoy's all "Damn you! you cant let me share in this discovery, can you?!". I guess the idea was to show...er...McCoy's desire to die or some shit. He kinda recovers once Spock is recovered, but no one's shedding tears when they count Spock among the dead. I guess Spock saves Kirk's life snother dozen times prior to STII- earning him a moment's emotion when he gets killed saving the ship then. This episode it's all like "Note to Log: have Starfleet send another Vulcan- possible Vulcan shortage coming with loss of U.S.S. Intrepid."
The good- the episode is beautifully remastered and Nimoy's performance is really a winner in this episode. The loss of the Intrepid is a tad strange though- no emergency bouy with logs and such and you'd think the powerless ship would have been on the ameoba's prephery with all the "debris" Spock reported... Maybe Starfleet recovered the ship at some later date, or maybe she still floats lifeless in deep space, waiting for someone to be grossed out by a crew of 300 freeze-dried vulcans.
Would've been nice to have seen a TOS Intrepid model in Janeway's ready room or a plaque or something, but I guess she's not big on ship's nostalga.
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
Looking at some of the reviews at Cynic's Corner, she's also a traitor, war criminal, and all around incompetent officer. But that's another story...
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
She definitely had a strange persecution/guilt complex that should have cost her to lose command (see that whole "starless void" episodew here she freaks and stays in her cabin the whole time).
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: Would've been nice to have seen a TOS Intrepid model in Janeway's ready room or a plaque or something, but I guess she's not big on ship's nostalga.
Huh? That would make sense if the ship she commanded were named Intrepid, but it wasn't. Janeway was not a good captain by most definitions, but I don't think that's a fair criticism.
Posted by Toadkiller (Member # 425) on :
Actually saw this episode last night, well at least the last 1/3. I've not seen the "remastered" work before. It was nice.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote:Originally posted by MinutiaeMan:
quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: Would've been nice to have seen a TOS Intrepid model in Janeway's ready room or a plaque or something, but I guess she's not big on ship's nostalga.
Huh? That would make sense if the ship she commanded were named Intrepid, but it wasn't. Janeway was not a good captain by most definitions, but I don't think that's a fair criticism.
er...yeah, that's right I guess (I was up like 30 hrs when I posted that nuggett). A nice Voyager spaceprobe would've been nice though.
Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
Or a model of the V'ger cloud o' destruction. THAT woulda sent some mixed signals...
Mark
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Tough to make a good gas-cloud model though.
Posted by Pensive's Wetness (Member # 1203) on :
uh im at the GF's getting massaged when earlier when i was baby sitting her minions and looking at 'TIS' on youtube... ok my question:
when the Enterprise is finally inside the ameba and banking weeving inside... do you see imagery in the forground that looks like nacelles? or debris?
this isnt the best clip but... i think about to make love to the Gf so im off...
Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :
You really just resurrected the thread to brag, didn't you? Posted by Pensive's Wetness (Member # 1203) on :
*snorts* we ended up with wonderful pillow talk (for the record)...
anyway, its just watching it that i think i see imagery that reminds me of federation ships (and thats not to say that the Intrepid was supposed to be a Conny, since in either version, the ship itself was never shown directly...)
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
I think I see what you're talking about, but I'm pretty sure it's just another lava lamp blob like the rest of it.
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when earlier when i was baby sitting her minions and looking at 'TIS' on youtube... ok my question:![[Razz]](tongue.gif)