Darmok Episode

[lxskllr]

Even a bad TNG is still pretty good. That one didn't even make the bad scale.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Fritzo
This was the episode that had the visual effect blooper where Riker fired the ship's phaser and the beam came out of the torpedo tube. It looked really strange. I remember my wife (who hates Star Trek) even mentioned it when it aired.

The effects guys didn't really seem to care about that kind of stuff.
In another episode, Timescape, the torpedo launcher was also used to emit a power transfer beam.

Now with the ability to use CGI models, I'd imagine that they could code in the locations and capabilities of the individual weapons ports.

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
one does not simply walk into mordor

correct. you have to do the electric slide to get in

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: Fritzo
This was the episode that had the visual effect blooper where Riker fired the ship's phaser and the beam came out of the torpedo tube. It looked really strange. I remember my wife (who hates Star Trek) even mentioned it when it aired.

The effects guys didn't really seem to care about that kind of stuff.
In another episode, Timescape, the torpedo launcher was also used to emit a power transfer beam.

Now with the ability to use CGI models, I'd imagine that they could code in the locations and capabilities of the individual weapons ports.

I remember their effects team saying it was supposed to be a torpedo, but they screwed up the computer code and gave it a phaser effect. It ended up being cheaper to reshoot the scene instead of redoing the effect, so they left it.

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: FoBoT
one does not simply walk into mordor

correct. you have to do the electric slide to get in

or slip'n'slide
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/FoBoT/mordor13.jpg

 

[jorken]

Originally posted by: Gibsons

Originally posted by: TheVrolok
1) This episode is on of the greatest ever. I just happened to randomly watch it two days ago, as well.
2) Are you really going to bitch about that? No kidding it doesn't make sense to only speak in metaphor.. are you going to complain about the universal translator next?

Better yet while we're on the topic, I just finished watching the ep when Geordi and Ro get stuck "out of phase" in a transporter accident with an experimental Romulan engine. So here's the problem, they can pass through solid objects/people without a problem, but yet they have no problem walking around the ship without falling through the floor? In fact, they're actually walking so there must be a frictional force in relation to their feet and the floor (which requires a normal force .. which requires behind pushed on by the ground) so clearly this DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. Same holds true for any show/movie with ghosts that pass through walls/doors without a problem and yet are still somehow bound by the ground. At least that complaint is somewhat based on science and it's still lame!

Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing.

Makes sense if wookie = pedo

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: jorken

Originally posted by: Gibsons

Originally posted by: TheVrolok
1) This episode is on of the greatest ever. I just happened to randomly watch it two days ago, as well.
2) Are you really going to bitch about that? No kidding it doesn't make sense to only speak in metaphor.. are you going to complain about the universal translator next?

Better yet while we're on the topic, I just finished watching the ep when Geordi and Ro get stuck "out of phase" in a transporter accident with an experimental Romulan engine. So here's the problem, they can pass through solid objects/people without a problem, but yet they have no problem walking around the ship without falling through the floor? In fact, they're actually walking so there must be a frictional force in relation to their feet and the floor (which requires a normal force .. which requires behind pushed on by the ground) so clearly this DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. Same holds true for any show/movie with ghosts that pass through walls/doors without a problem and yet are still somehow bound by the ground. At least that complaint is somewhat based on science and it's still lame!

Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing.

Makes sense if wookie = pedo

one does not simple ewok into mordor
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/FoBoT/mordor17.jpg

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: TheVrolok
1) This episode is on of the greatest ever. I just happened to randomly watch it two days ago, as well.
2) Are you really going to bitch about that? No kidding it doesn't make sense to only speak in metaphor.. are you going to complain about the universal translator next?

Better yet while we're on the topic, I just finished watching the ep when Geordi and Ro get stuck "out of phase" in a transporter accident with an experimental Romulan engine. So here's the problem, they can pass through solid objects/people without a problem, but yet they have no problem walking around the ship without falling through the floor? In fact, they're actually walking so there must be a frictional force in relation to their feet and the floor (which requires a normal force .. which requires behind pushed on by the ground) so clearly this DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. Same holds true for any show/movie with ghosts that pass through walls/doors without a problem and yet are still somehow bound by the ground. At least that complaint is somewhat based on science and it's still lame!

Let's see, some other problems:
1) Light would have passed right through them, rendering them blind.
2) Air wouldn't have been able to interact with their lungs, so they'd have suffocated quickly anyway.
2.1) No air pressure imparted on their bodies would also have meant that they'd effectively have been in a complete vacuum.

It sure would have been a short episode though.

 

[TheVrolok]

Originally posted by: lxskllr
Even a bad TNG is still pretty good. That one didn't even make the bad scale.

Shades of Grey was pretty awful

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: her209
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmok

I have to say this episode is total FAIL. The Tamarians can only communicate in metaphors yet they have (at least one) star ship, warp drive technology, transport technology, and more? WTF.

not total fail... just not in the top 10.

Originally posted by: StinkyPinky
Beverly, her legs spread wide

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: TheVrolok
1) This episode is on of the greatest ever. I just happened to randomly watch it two days ago, as well.
2) Are you really going to bitch about that? No kidding it doesn't make sense to only speak in metaphor.. are you going to complain about the universal translator next?

Better yet while we're on the topic, I just finished watching the ep when Geordi and Ro get stuck "out of phase" in a transporter accident with an experimental Romulan engine. So here's the problem, they can pass through solid objects/people without a problem, but yet they have no problem walking around the ship without falling through the floor? In fact, they're actually walking so there must be a frictional force in relation to their feet and the floor (which requires a normal force .. which requires behind pushed on by the ground) so clearly this DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. Same holds true for any show/movie with ghosts that pass through walls/doors without a problem and yet are still somehow bound by the ground. At least that complaint is somewhat based on science and it's still lame!

Let's see, some other problems:
1) Light would have passed right through them, rendering them blind.
2) Air wouldn't have been able to interact with their lungs, so they'd have suffocated quickly anyway.
2.1) No air pressure imparted on their bodies would also have meant that they'd effectively have been in a complete vacuum.

It sure would have been a short episode though.

Wasn't this whole episode a retelling of the epic of Gilgamesh?

 

[TheVrolok]

Originally posted by: Fritzo

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: TheVrolok
1) This episode is on of the greatest ever. I just happened to randomly watch it two days ago, as well.
2) Are you really going to bitch about that? No kidding it doesn't make sense to only speak in metaphor.. are you going to complain about the universal translator next?

Better yet while we're on the topic, I just finished watching the ep when Geordi and Ro get stuck "out of phase" in a transporter accident with an experimental Romulan engine. So here's the problem, they can pass through solid objects/people without a problem, but yet they have no problem walking around the ship without falling through the floor? In fact, they're actually walking so there must be a frictional force in relation to their feet and the floor (which requires a normal force .. which requires behind pushed on by the ground) so clearly this DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. Same holds true for any show/movie with ghosts that pass through walls/doors without a problem and yet are still somehow bound by the ground. At least that complaint is somewhat based on science and it's still lame!

Let's see, some other problems:
1) Light would have passed right through them, rendering them blind.
2) Air wouldn't have been able to interact with their lungs, so they'd have suffocated quickly anyway.
2.1) No air pressure imparted on their bodies would also have meant that they'd effectively have been in a complete vacuum.

It sure would have been a short episode though.

Wasn't this whole episode a retelling of the epic of Gilgamesh?

The OP ep? Yep.