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Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.

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[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It is good to have friends, is it not, Mr. Garibaldi? Even if maybe only for a little while?

[–] teft@startrek.website 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Now, I go to spread happiness to the rest of ~~the station~~ lemmy. It is a terrible responsibility but I have learned to live with it.

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mr. Garibaldi

I can’t help but hear this in his voice

[–] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Ah, Meestah Garibaldi!

[–] Zink@programming.dev 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am 100% on board for B5 characters lying in wait to jump out among the trek memes.

[–] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah. Can we make this an official tradition?

[–] teft@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll do my best to throw one in every now and then.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

AND SO IT BEGINS

[–] Dee@lemmings.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's from Babylon 5, for anybody coming to the comments and wasn't familiar with what show this is from.

[–] AngrilyEatingMuffins@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every sci fi fan should watch it! Season one is a little rough but boy does it get good. Season four is arguably the best sci fi season ever.

[–] djmarcone@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bab5 is the best scifi tv show of all time. Some people would say that The Expanse is just as good or better, I don't know.

B5, DS9 and the expanse are all pretty much tied for me

[–] DharmaCurious@startrek.website 17 points 1 year ago (9 children)

M'star trek peeps, is the show worth watching? I've never seen it, and I've heard mixed reviews.

[–] teft@startrek.website 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

100% worth it. With the caveat that the effects aren't good. The story and characters more than make up for it though.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Maya did what it could. The effects were amazing for a TV series at the time.

[–] djmarcone@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

The cgi was done on Amigas IIRC

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

100%

S1 is rough, but it really picks up right out of the gate in S2. The last season is halfway to a different show, it's skippable. Crusader is fine, too; it's not great, but I don't regret watching it.

Oh my god yes. I’m surprised you’re not watching it now. There’s a good amount of 90s camp and cheese, but the bones are very, very solid.

[–] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 11 points 1 year ago

Y E S

Londo my beloved

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's widely considered the most contiguous SciFi series out there. The director started with 5 years of scripts and changed very little during production, other than losing the main character between seasons 2 and 3, due to medical complications. I personally consider Bab 5 to be as good, if not better than both Firefly and Farscape.

[–] AngrilyEatingMuffins@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Between one and two. Even crazier, though - he knew actors sometimes left shows so he wrote in a “trapdoor” and replacement character so that he could sub out someone with a new character without losing a step.

[–] djmarcone@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

And it worked out super well too, arguably Sheridan was superb and having Sinclair become valen just works.

[–] M500@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

In the past year it was released in 4K. As others have said, the effects are not great, but growing up in that era, it felt a little nostalgic.

I was pretty hooked on it for a while. I got kinda burned out on the last season. It’s not that it wasn’t good, I just binged it too hard.

[–] comfortable_doug@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] M500@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah it’s kind of like the spiritual successor to 90s trek with family guy humor sprinkled in. I did not watch season 3 yet, but I heard it was great!!

[–] AngrilyEatingMuffins@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought season three was the best so far

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[–] marcos@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's cheesy and cheap and often very manichaean. Yet, it's very interesting and got me hooked to an extent that nothing on the Star Trek universe managed to.

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[–] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Much of season one is outright bad. The remaining seasons are really good.

[–] shiveyarbles@beehaw.org 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is great, I lovev Star Wars

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I, also, love Battlestar Galactica.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

But that's a different franchise. Battlestar Galactica is the one with the robots everyone calls "toasters" but they can only say "exterminate" and can't walk stairs except in the later seasons.

[–] quinkin@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You moon-faced assassin of joy

[–] teft@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago

Poor Vir. Londo treats him so poorly.

[–] comfortable_doug@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I, too, love Battlestar Galactica

[–] teft@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar.

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a bad feeling about this

[–] lastjunkieonearth@lemdro.id 4 points 1 year ago

you always say that, you always say I have a bad feeling about this (drop)

[–] comfortable_doug@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Isn't that from the Star Trek song everybody hates?

[–] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 3 points 1 year ago

It's not that bad I actually liked it

[–] b9chomps@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actually watched it for the first time recently and quite enjoyed it. Lots of interesting characters and story. Like already mentioned the CGI is really bad. I wish they stuck with models rather than early 3D effects. Season 5 and the end of 4 feel a bit underwhelming after the main threat is resolved sometime in the middle of the penultimate season.

[–] M500@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s exactly where I stopped watching. They had this major plot line resolved and then it just stuck around with nothing to do.

[–] legios@aussie.zone 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As an FYI, they didn't expect to get renewed for S5 so the end of S4 was originally supposed to be the series finale. Then they had to come up with a new one

[–] M500@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks! That makes total sense.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] djmarcone@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Psi Corp and techno mage are fantastic creations in that universe.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With holo decks everything is in universe. This could just be a holodrama.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Slap a portable holo emitter on Mr. Garibaldi post haste!

[–] raffitz@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago

I'm fed up with your fabrications, Mollari!

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago
[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I can hear this meme

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