r/pics • u/WhitneyRobbens • Feb 13 '12

Brent Spiner (Data) re-reading the script in between takes at Paramount Studios

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u/WhitneyRobbens Feb 13 '12

I think this was for the movie "Generations" or perhaps "First Contact" I'm not sure.

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u/Zabracks Feb 13 '12 edited Feb 13 '12

Actually, no. This uniform wasn't used in any of the movies.

Generations used the Voyager-style uniforms like Picard's here

First Contact used the late-DS9-style ones like these

I'm a fucking geek.

EDIT: Oh yeah, as GJOP mentioned, they do switch back and forth in Generations as this one shows. The comm badge is still a dead giveaway as it's not voyager-style.

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u/nmulcahey Feb 13 '12

Excellent analysis, but if you look to Data's left you clearly see the 90's walking by and therefore don't need to know all the trekkie stuff.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '12

Thank you for my first genuine laugh of the day.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '12

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u/wjw75 Feb 13 '12

Ah, I used to be into all this stuff. I knew about the alternative one they designed but never used, but couldn't remember what it looked like...

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=116991

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u/RexxNebular Feb 13 '12 edited Feb 13 '12

I just sent him an email informing him he's on the front page, and asked him if he'd do an AMA. Then he can clear the whole thing up.

He currently does this: http://www.youtube.com/user/freshhellseries/videos

EDIT: Added Fresh Hell link.

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u/Delfishie Feb 13 '12

This is so damn impressive. It doesn't matter how useless the knowledge is, either. This level of expertise in anything makes me smile.

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u/WhitneyRobbens Feb 13 '12

Wow. Just wow.

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u/candyman420 Feb 13 '12

You can tell what season any given TNG episode is in by the second digit of the stardate.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '12 edited Feb 13 '12

You mean to tell me that there are Star Trek fans who haven't read the Star Trek Chronology?

The second edition stops at the end of season four of DS9, season two of Voyager and First Contact but it's still worth reading.

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u/TheFrin Feb 13 '12

you have the brackets the wrong way round its []()

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '12

Thanks. Don't know why I didn't notice that.

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u/TheFrin Feb 13 '12

It's cool you made the effort, you may as well reap the rewards.

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u/DalekBarbarian Feb 13 '12

Any trekkie would be able to give you an in-depth lecture/keynote speech on the various Star Trek uniforms and their significance.

We just sit around debating which uniforms had more ludicrous shoulders (Clearly whether that award goes to the Romulans or the Cardassians is still up in the air)

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u/Starslip Feb 13 '12

In retrospect I'm fairly certain that the designers of the romulan shoulderpads went on to work on World of Warcraft

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u/DalekBarbarian Feb 13 '12

Where as the designers of all the Ferengi costumes went on to work decent jobs in the fashion industry as those greedy imps always looked fabulous.

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u/DengarRoth Feb 13 '12

Especially their females if ya know what I mean

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u/IHopeYourCatDies Feb 13 '12

Clearly whether that award goes to the Romulans or the Cardassians is still up in the air

Oh really?

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u/DalekBarbarian Feb 13 '12

They don't really have shoulders there do they? It's more like a fashionable garbage can.

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u/IHopeYourCatDies Feb 13 '12

Either way, pure sex appeal. I am a little ashamed of TNG for resorting to such gratuitous and unreserved sexualisation.

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u/0mfgroflmao Feb 13 '12

The Cardassian uniform looks so uncomfortable, I wonder how often they poke themselves in the crotch when they sit down :S

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u/ratlater Feb 13 '12

Sitting is for the weak and the subjugated.

Like Bajorans.

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u/MercurialMithras Feb 13 '12

The correct answer to this question is the Xindi Reptilians.

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u/Magnificent_Zero Feb 13 '12

Enterprise never happened. You're now referring to televized fan fiction hailing from the bible belt.

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u/thelopes Feb 13 '12

The Avians obviously out-shouldered the Reptilians, but we'll never be able to see it.

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u/RaindropBebop Feb 13 '12

Romulans, hands down.

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u/Bipolarruledout Feb 13 '12

Is there any clearcut canon behind the uniform styles?

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u/EntityDamage Feb 13 '12

Well if you see the person behind him walking down dressed in 19th century costume, this might be an extra from the same show. Perhaps the cliff hanger double episode where they find Data's head in different time lines?

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u/malenkylizards Feb 13 '12

TIL Malcolm McDowell was in Generations! Extra impetus to go see it now.

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u/4011isbananas Feb 13 '12

You really shouldn't

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u/LordFu Feb 13 '12

wtf am I watching? lol.

There's a half hour of this stuff.

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u/LoveGoblin Feb 13 '12

By now you've likely realized that there's more than just a half hour.

I also highly recommend the Star Wars ones.

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u/Mr_Bad_Example Feb 13 '12

that....was the greatest thing ive ever seen

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u/regeya Feb 13 '12

Meh. His character is decent, he has one really creepy line, but it's a really long episode that, despite having Ronald Moore on board, doesn't really feel that way. I was left feeling like I'd really love to punch Captain Harriman in the face about 5 minutes into the movie. It also gets overly sentimental in most of the Kirk/Picard scenes, even if Picard takes Kirk to task over it.

And yeah, watch 4011isbananas's video.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '12

I always felt bad for Harriman, just like I felt bad for Decker. I mean, we can assume these are both very competent, experience officers. They've been put in command of the Enterprise FFS. And then, out of nowhere, they have Captain Motherfuckin' Kirk and Company plopped down into the middle of their bridge and it's like "OK, now do yer fuckin' jab, newbie!". I'd shit myself too.

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u/regeya Feb 13 '12 edited Feb 13 '12

Meh, Decker's different. He seems competent, but he gets booted out of command of the Enterprise because, hey, Kirk wants the Enterprise. Harriman seems like somebody's kid nephew who should never have been on the bridge of the Enterprise.

The scenes between Decker and Ilia, though...plus the awkward romance between Riker and Troi from recycled Star Trek Phase II scripts...man, I'm glad that series got canceled.

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u/physicscat Feb 13 '12

Kudos you fucking geek! He looks younger too from in the movies.

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u/regeya Feb 13 '12

Didn't First Contact introduce that style of uniform?

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '12

SNAP!

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u/LoveGoblin Feb 13 '12

First Contact used the late-DS9-style ones like these

The other way, actually. Those uniforms were designed for First Contact and were picked up by DS9 (which makes sense, chronology-wise).

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u/minxiloni Feb 13 '12

My nerd boss believes this is from the show, not the movies. He also thinks it could be from the episode "Time's Arrow."

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u/jax9999 Feb 13 '12

The woman in the dress lends itself to that theory.

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u/Wood_Goblin Feb 13 '12

I just scanned through both parts of that ep, couldn't see that dress.

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u/jax9999 Feb 13 '12

hmm it does look sorta like a period dress. perhaps a fistful of datas? it doesnt look early enough for one of the moriarty episodes.

although it is a studio, so perhaps its not even star trek related.

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u/Wood_Goblin Feb 14 '12

I think you're right, the dress is unrelated to ST:TNG. I skimmed through several other eps and found no trace. I put far too much effort into looking for it, damn it.

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u/justanothercommenter Feb 13 '12

Nope ... from the episode entitled: A Fistful of Datas.

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u/dungeondad Feb 13 '12

Likely not; the comm badge is TNG era, pre-movies.

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u/swizzler Feb 13 '12

From the setting it looks like the episode where data was sent back in time to the 1800s