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Sinlock  Title: Savior of the Camelot Outpost
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The Existence of Replicators Completely Ruins the Idea of Deep Space Nine |
Seriously.
The entire station is supposed to be this great trading post. All this commerce is supposed to flow through there. The problem is - what commerce? Replicators are a sound and known technology. It just doesn't make any sense. True - they said that 'Gold Pressed Latinum' can't be replicated "for some reason" - but so what? Anything you could *buy* with latinum, you could replicate.
It just doesn't make any sense and is stupid.
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Manegarm  Title: European Imperialist Good Guy
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It's a conundrum that's kept me sleepless, twisting and turning in my bed many a night..
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GrilledCheez Title: The Lord's Balls
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I always imagined that there were compounds that they couldn't replicate without paying vast sums of money. But you have to suspend some belief for sure.
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the_great_intex Title: This is what cool looks like
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DS9 Sucked. Worst of all the ST series IMO. It was like watching a futuristic version of a gas station and the same loser local characters coming in with their dumb uneventful stories
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Eradiani  Title: Moderator/ EvEVault Staff
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Registered: 2002-5-3 02:18:49
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not sure which was worse.. neelix or jarjar
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Sinlock Title: Savior of the Camelot Outpost
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I like some aspects of DS9. I like Odo. I like Quark.
Probably the worst aspect is the Bajorins loser religion episodes. Any episode where they are having some quandary with the prophets or some nonsense is always going to suck.
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Yukishiro1 Posts: 3,243
Registered: 2002-9-20 23:52:57
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A lot of things about the story make marginal sense. You can tell they just stole the B5 setup and tried to iron out the inconsistencies with star trek along the way.
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NuEM Posts: 1,007
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Sinlock posted:
Seriously.
The entire station is supposed to be this great trading post. All this commerce is supposed to flow through there. The problem is - what commerce? Replicators are a sound and known technology. It just doesn't make any sense. True - they said that 'Gold Pressed Latinum' can't be replicated "for some reason" - but so what? Anything you could *buy* with latinum, you could replicate.
It just doesn't make any sense and is stupid.
Dude if you just replicate anything without buying a proper license from the Intergalactic Sony-Warner Empire you're violating the Quantum-Digital Eon Copyright Act, which not only makes you a robber and thief but also a likely pedophile!
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ZigmundZag Title: Grammar Nazi
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Registered: 2002-3-25 23:03:00
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Sinlock posted:
Seriously.
The entire station is supposed to be this great trading post. All this commerce is supposed to flow through there. The problem is - what commerce? Replicators are a sound and known technology. It just doesn't make any sense. True - they said that 'Gold Pressed Latinum' can't be replicated "for some reason" - but so what? Anything you could *buy* with latinum, you could replicate.
It just doesn't make any sense and is stupid.
Star Trek tech has always required a fair amount of hand-waving and "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" moments. Transporters are essentially fax machines with a shredder installed on the transmitting end. Artificial gravity generators are apparently the most sturdy thing on a starship since they hardly ever unexpectedly go out even when a ship has been nearly destroyed. And universal translators are embedded at birth, also almost never break down (far less frequently than a personnel fax/shredder does, anyhow) and cause your lips to actually move like the language you're hearing...yet Sisko still needed to perform a wedding in Bajoran and Picard still needed to learn Klingon.
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Yossarian_42 Title: RUSH > ALL
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Registered: 2002-2-28 11:23:20
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I hated DS9 at first but when it was on 2-3 times a day back when Spike TV wasn't garbage I watched it all and really enjoyed it. The only real downside is the Bajoran religion nonsense in the later seasons.
TNG > DS9 > TOS > Voyager > Enterprise
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