/strek/ - Star Trek

>>33277

[/spoiler no one does anon]

>>33283

[/no one does anon]

>>33284

im a newfag if you cant tell just trying to figure out how to format it, chose a board i wouldn't care if i got banned from.

>>33285

turns out it was extremely easy i apologize for my autism

>>33286

apology accepted

Were you fucking phoneposting?

>>33235

g. dukat

>>33238

>>33133

>Jesus Christ, they can't ALL be Jews

No you're wrong. Just watch the show and in each episode try to find an allegory for some facet of the jewish experience. When you do that it becomes very clear that the DS9 was developed as a vehicle to explore all the different facets of the jewish identity in the 20th century. It's a really preachy show too so it's not too difficult to determine who are the jews and what the show is trying to say about them and the group that is opposing them. I actually learned a lot about how jews view the world and each other when I watched ds9 this way

Don't assuming that they are going to be consistent about which races are jews, but there's all different types of jews. They changed which type of jew was the featured jew when they needed to for the story. Remember, this was in the 90's and it was very episodic. Sometimes bajorans were holocaust jews, but when the cardassians were being the israeli jews then the bajorans often took on the role palestinians.

There wasn't a jew angle to every single episode, but it seems like there was in many of them, especially in the early seasons. When the ratings were failing they changed the course of the show and they started up the dominion war.

The reason why nobody involved in the show has explicitly said that DS9 was an exploration of being jewish is because DS9 was a show that was entirely created and run by jews. Gene Roddenberry died before the started shooting and he was so ill he wasn't involved in the development either. Rick Berman and Michael Pillar (both jews) were running TNG. Brandon Tartikoff, a jewish executive at paramount, oversaw their development of DS9, and they brought in jewish writer and producer Ira Steven Behr to make the show with them. All these jews would have known not to speak up and say it officially.

>>33251

>they changed the course of the show and they started up the dominion war

Except the Founders are themselves another kind of Jew.

>>33254

Yeah but they stepped back from that episodic nature of exploring jewish identity. They focused more on war stuff.

FINALIZED SCHEDULE

August 4th - Draw Stream (2PM Central, 3PM Eastern, 7PM UTC)

Stream to determine the groups of four in the Cup. Might do a test game or two, show off some fun stuff in the meantime, but it's mostly about determining the layout of the Group Stage.

This is the due date for what is outlined in >>32730 As long as it's August 4th somewhere on Earth, you're good.

August 10th - Matchday 1 (2PM Central, 3PM Eastern, 7PM UTC)

The first nine Group Stage Matches will be held.

August 11th - Matchday 2 (2PM Central, 3PM Eastern, 7PM UTC)

Nine more Group Stage Matches held.

August 17th - Matchday 3 (2PM Central, 3PM Eastern, 7PM UTC)

Nine more Group Stage Matches held. Group A finishes the first stage of competition.

August 18th - Matchday 4 (2PM Central, 3PM Eastern, 7PM UTC)

Final Group Stage Matches held. Groups B through F finish the first stage of competition.

August 24th - Matchday 5 (2PM Central, 3PM Eastern, 7PM UTC)

First round of the Knockout Stage occurs. 8 games in total.

August 24th - Matchday 5 (2PM Central, 3PM Eastern, 7PM UTC)

Remaining rounds of the Knockout Stage occur. 8 games in total. Final day of competition

Everything can be seen live on https://cytu.be/r/8cup

This took like 2 hours to write, but here it is, /strek/'s full strategy list. I fucked up the formatting in our thread over at /8cup/ because I was lazy and wrote it in Notepad, but whatever, it's done. No idea if it makes any sense, but aaa

Porthos - GK | 189cm | Offensive Goalkeeper | GK Long Throw (1 card)

Jonathan Archer - LB | 185cm | Offensive Full-back | Incisive Run; Track Back (2 cards)

Shran - CB | 175cm | Extra Frontman | Heading; Fighting Spirit (2 cards)

Reginald Barclay - CB | 180cm | The Instigator | Heading; Low Punt Trajectory (2 cards)

Gowron - CB | 175cm | Extra Frontman | Heading; Outside Curler (2 cards)

Ezri Dax - RB | 175cm | Defensive Full-back | Heel Trick; Long Throw (2 cards)

Miles O'Brien - LMF | 180cm | Bronze | Box-to-Box | Mazing Run; Man Marking; Track Back (3 cards)

William Shatner - CMF | 195cm | Bronze | Classic No. 10 | One Touch Pass; Flip Flap; Heel Trick (3 cards)

Marc Alaimo - CMF | 180cm | The Destroyer | Track Back; Speeding Bullet (2 cards)

Gul Dukat - RMF | 180cm | Silver | Solid Player | Trickster; Scotch Move; Knuckle Shot; Outside Curler (4 cards)

Swolecard (Captain) - CF | 185cm | Gold | Goal Poacher | Captaincy (free); Acrobatic Finishing; Fighting Spirit; Cut Behind Turn; Heading; First Time Shot; Rabona (free + 6 cards)

Weyoun 1 - GK | 175cm | Defensive Goalkeeper | GK Long Throw (1 card)

Weyoun 2 - CMF | 175cm | Hole Player | Speeding Bullet; Weighted Pass (2 cards)

Weyoun 3 - CMF | 175cm | Hole Player | Speeding Bullet; Low Punt Trajectory (2 cards)

Weyoun 4 - CB | 175cm | The Instigator | Acrobatic Clear; Man Marking (2 cards)

Weyoun 5 - CB | 175cm | The Instigator | Acrobatic Clear; Track Back (2 cards)

Weyoun 6 - CB | 175cm | The Instigator | Acrobatic Clear; Long Throw (2 cards)

Gene Roddenberry - LB | 189cm | The Instigator | Super Sub; Low Lofted Pass (2 cards)

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3 Eastern, 7 UTC tomorrow. Draw stream: https://cytu.be/r/8cup

For a quick explanation of the draw: >>>/8cup/3406

>>33043

Why is Janeway still in uniform if they're all pirates?

>>33077

Because 'remember thing'

>>33043

How would MU voyager even work? They'd either have used the caretaker's array to go home in the first episode, or they'd stick around and figure out how to use it to take over the Empire, because this is Janeway we're talking about.

>>33043

Yeah… no. The MU comics worked with the TNG characters because they looked and acted like badass. This… doesn't look like they're taking risks with the characters.

>>33191

>How would MU voyager even work?

Good question.

>>33193

>>33191

My guess:

>Voyager goes on a mission to the badlands to exterminate a ship of Maquis. They are about to crush the Maquis ship when the energy wave sweeps them off to the caretaker. They make a truce with the Maquis until they get home. The old, "it's better to be tried by twelve than carried by six." They fuck the Kazon in the ass and just take a bunch of supplies from the Ocampa. They make a truce with the Maquis until they get home. Then they tear ass across the Delta quadrant slaughtering any Kazon that cross their path, and doing whatever it takes to get the supplies they need. Also seven of nine has bigger tits.

Wing commander is more star wars than trek. Freelancer is great but needs a lot of modding to fix all it's issues due to being cobbled together and rushed out the door after the main develper self destructed. Starlancer was okay. Not great, not bad, and it shipped on time and on budget, which is whole fucking lot more that Freelancer can boast. And the X series is very polarizing, people either love them or hate them for how the fun space sim aspects tend to turn into a trade empire building game halfway through.

As for more modern space games, you might enjoy Rebel Galaxy, the Startpoint Gemni series, or Evochron Legacy

>>33086

B4 is still canon.

>>33093

The point is that illogical moves are inherently weak moves in chess.

>>33093

You literally can. Logical or not, there are only so many possible legal moves you can make from a given board configuration. Since you can control what that range of motion is through your own pieces, regardless of how "logical" or "illogical" your opponent is, a good player will funnel the range of possible moves down until the only moves your opponent can make are the ones that lead to victory, regardless of how "illogical" their style is. In that scene, notice how Data was immediately able to say "checkmate in 8 moves" after Troi's move?

>>33094

And so is the ENT "These are the voyages…" episode. What exactly is your point? He's still a pile of nonsensical inconsistencies, and Nemesis is still a garbage movie, regardless of canonical status.

>>33093

There are only so many moves that can be made at any given time. Someone like Data would have no problem seeing all possible moves for several moves. This is how Deep Blue worked. It 'just' calulated every move and the ideal countermove for as many turns as it could. Chess is a solvable game, like tic-tac-toe. There is a finite number of chess games, just like there is a finite number of tic-tac-toe. The difference is there are a handful of possible tic-tac-toe games. The most well known conservative lower bound for chess is called the Shannon number. It's 10^120. There are at least 10^120 possible chess games, and the actual number is probably considerably higher. This includes stupid, but technically legal moves. If you only go by "sensible" moves, the lower bound is about 10^40 moves. To put these two numbers into reference there are about 10^80 atoms in the universe.

It is hoped that one day we will have the computing power to brute force chess and discover the perfect chess strategy. It seems even Data does not have enough computing power to do this.

>>32890

Is this 2 Guls 1 Hasperat?

>>30477

It's clearly the Kazon. They are klingon-knockoff literal space niggers (writers say they are based on LA street gangs) who aren't even worth getting biodroned by the borg and did not manage to produce a single interesting plot point. Bad as most of them were even the other asshole aliens on Voyager managed to at least bring something to the table.

Also Keiko and Kim did nothing wrong and STD is bad fanfiction.

>>33007

I don't think Kazon are a real race though and that Voyager is just as one anon described, a holodeck simulation to test the mental state of Vuclans Tuvok in regards to a ship that is crewed by the patients of an insane asylum.

>>33007

>Keiko did nothing wrong

You mean other than being a bitch to O'brien at every opportunity?

>>33006

They are as insidious as the Borg. Perhaps in fact they are indeed the Borg?

So when do we create a show about a retired Dukat overseeing Bajoran workers at his Kanar Distillery?

>>33024

>Implying anyone here will ever have kids

>Implying humanity won't be extinct by the time they could have kids

Naive.

>>32541

>6 more Short Treks

who the fuck wants these? No one watched them, I doubt even the shills at r/startrek gave a shit.

>>32889

Nobody but the handful of retards who actually pay for this shit want more Short Treks with the Discovery crew. That's why three are about the nuEnterprise crew and one is a lead-in for Picard. And the two Discovery ones aren't even live-action.

Overall I'm very pleased how little attention STD seems to be getting lately. I predict we'll get an announcement soon that season 3 will have a reduced episode count and it will quietly be cancelled while everyone is distracted by Picard and Rick & Morty Trek.

>people unironically praising game of reddit itt

You need to fuck off back to cuckchannel.

>>31375

>Dr Finn

She also raised proper sons to grow up as men (once she got a male robot role model in the picture).

The older boy takes the firearm and stands outside the fort to fight off the encroaching hoard while she goes inside to be nurturing.

You'd never see that on nu-Trek.

>>32954

Could be argued that the message needs to be repeated often due to frequent incursion by tumblrinas, /leftypol/ and rebbit, especially after we won the hunger games. O'sullivan's law.

Smug pedantic cuckposters as witnessed in post >>33010 need to be reminded early and often that they are not welcome, as was done immediately in >>33013 and >>33014. Personally I appreciate the crass and blunt responses they get, especially given how the leftist posts usually exude a smug self-assurance typical of their COR-certified echo chambers.

>>33026

That used to be the convention, yes, but a season wasn't a set number of episodes. Season 1 of Voyager was only 12 episodes long.

They’re bringing him back just long enough to say he’s gay.

Why the fuck not in US? Picard is my fave :(

>>32821

>Enterprise crew is called in to check out a rash of strange infections on a colony world

>Oh shit, they're not infected, they're actually becoming Borg drones and establishing a collective

>Shit gets sorted out before it gets too out of control, and the victims are given medical care to reverse the assimilation and remove their implants and such

>Strangely, this is only happening to women

>An investigation occurs, and it's revealed that all of these women had contact with a high-ranking officer in the Federation, who recently visited that planet

>The crew suspects some subversive plot to assimilate members of colony worlds to get them to fully join the Federation

>A few of the women, now de-Borgified, regain consciousness and eventually reveal that they had "relations" with the man

>Turns out that the guy was somehow exposed to Borg nanoprobes, which lay dormant in his system for some reason, only to "adapt" by becoming a literal STD and infecting anyone he had sex with

>The crew suspect that the true Patient Zero was Seven of Nine, but keep it to themselves…

>>32955 (check'd)

Is that supposed to be Next Generation Kirk?

>>32955

Time for another pussy snorkling contest?

>>33022

Dukat will just win again

>>31968

It's something that happens in every such game. Civ 5 is infamous for it.

>Played two games so far, one unmodded, one modded (Balance of Power)

>Both games as Federation (I like the ships) and want to try diplomacy

>Both times achieve overwhelming military superiority due to good resource management, but constantly press for peace with mild to moderate incentives

>AI always rejects

>Disposition constantly falls

>Conquer some star systems which Feds hate hoping to push the AI towards peace, AI attitude barely changes

>Everyone always hates me

>Whenever an AI decides to ask for peace (almost never), they break it practically the next turn

What am I doing wrong? Am I just supposed to pour money into my enemies just to make friends? It seems like when you demonstrate you can eat them alive and ask for peace, the AI would be eager to accept. It seems like they should be showering me with gifts for peace and alliances.

I do always try to scoop up minor races, I guess that could make everyone hate me, but not that much.

Also wanted to bump this thread, fun game.

Please no jokes that everyone should hate the Feds, I just like their ships and I'm trying out different mods. My next game will be as best faction, I just want to know what I'm doing wrong

>>32969

Check for patches?

>>32970

If you mean those in "tools" folder, than i ran all of them except the EdificePatcher. No improvement. If you meant those on the AFC, then shouldn't they be obsolete being from the 2013, while the game pack is 2017?

>>28660

It's 1/1000 scale, and is a little under 5 inches long (similar size to the Eaglemoss Oberth in your photo, I think?). It comes as part of a 2-pack with a Klingon Bird of Prey.

I'm pretty salty because the BoP seems to have received a lot more attention than the Oberth in its engineering and detailing. It's still got its share of blunders, though.

Also

>That itty bitty Micro Machines Oberth

I've got one of those floating around my home somewhere. Every time I stumble over a few of my old Micro Machines, I'm disappointed when none of them are the USS Grissom.

>>28663

Sink marks occur where plastic is molded relatively thick. The plastic contracts and "sinks" inward as it cools. Basically all of the gray patches in the WIP photo I posted (except for on the under-slung sensor pod) are areas where I had to fill visible depressions/sink marks. They molded the pallet section of the hull as a single thick piece, and so most of its flat surfaces had visible deformation.

Sink marks are a common thing in injection-molded plastic kits, but in a competently-engineered kit they're so small and shallow that they're practically imperceptible.

>Oberth Collection

Anyone think this is like having a loli collection that FBI are going to bust down your door any minute for?

>>28758

They're like a century old, wouldn't that make them more like age-shrunken GILFs?