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Also, how does a man get camel toe?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

He looks quite a bit like a young Martin Short, if you look up for a moment.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

How does a man get camel toe?

They are aliens. Maybe their plumbing is different.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Can we blame Rick Berman for this one?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Idk, I’m kinda into it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Meanwhile, as the aliens slowly and painfully saw themselves in half vertically from the crotch up, Q looks on from the softness of knit.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It was really pushing the limits at the time.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It really wasn't. You could turn on MTV any time of day and see sexier outfits than that.

Or even Soul Train.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

This was broadcast tv rather than cable. That’s a more restrictive set of rules. Cable only channels could show more.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

It was broadcast weirdly.. It and DS9 were some of the last major shows to be in 1st-run syndication, so every market had it on a different time slot and channel as opposed to network shows. Paramount made the show, and they didn't have a network and no network wanted to buy the sequel to an old 60s TV show that had been canceled early. It probably saved the franchise, since the first few seasons were God-awful, but it was up aired in time slots usually used for a movie-of-the-week or reruns of old programs.

But then Paramount launched their own broadcast network. Voyager's pilot was the first thing UPN aired, and the show franchise stayed with UPN throughout Voyager and Enterprise's runs. After Enterprise went off the air, so did UPN. They mentioned with the WB network to form the CW.

1st run syndication kinda went away with the explosion of cable in the 90s and 2000s. That's when TNT, Scifi, Comedy Central, and other basic cable channels started getting stronger original programs.

Then streaming came along.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Soul Train was on broadcast TV. And it was on the weekends after Saturday morning cartoons.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Man, it takes balls to wear that outfit.

Or insanity, you can clearly see the nuts

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Should have gone the Benny Hill way and have the planet go nude while covered by the environment in the shots.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Fucking season 1 man.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Also, how does a man get camel toe?

One of many reasons the 2380s will look back upon this post with disdain.

Edit: Okay, apparently I was far too subtle trying to point out that a man can be trans. Just me being woke SJW in TenForward I guess 🤷

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago

If that's what we have to look forward to in the future, there is no way I'm becoming a country singer who gets cryogenically frozen on a spaceship for 300 years.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

My main issue with this is that the bottoms are too tight.

Far be it for me to judge an alien race's fashion, but that does not look comfortable.

The tops aren't particularly great either, though I like the "design" of the female version better than the one that guy is wearing.... "Like" is probably too strong of a term.

In every case, the first few seasons of TNG had it's problems. This episode was one of them. A society where the only punishment was death? What the actual fuck?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Good news, when they aren’t being executed they are free to jog and fuck all day long

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

In every case, the first few seasons of TNG had it’s problems. This episode was one of them. A society where the only punishment was death? What the actual fuck?

Sci-Fi loves taking real world things to extremes. In the US cattle rustling (stealing) was punishable by hanging for a very long time.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Picard's actions were terribly written too. He kidnapped a woman from the planet and brought her up to the ship with her god on it to confirm she worshiped it and it terrified her.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Yeah. The whole episode was kind of off the wall in terms of sanity.

Not the worst episode they made, but it was up there.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

The 70's had their own weird shit:

[–] [email protected] 50 points 8 months ago (2 children)

That wasn't an attempt at sexiness, that was an attempt at making a movie while doing all the drugs.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Lol Zardoz was ahead of its time!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hey, I love Zardoz. I have an original Zardoz poster what was (until I recently swapped it for a The Human Duplicators poster) on my wall in a frame.

But seriously, it was a drug-fueled mess. John Boorman admitted as much:

Um, it was The '70s, and I was doing a lot of drugs. Frankly, even I'm not entirely sure what parts of the movie are about.

The insanity of Zardoz is exactly why I love it. Does it make sense? Not much. But I love a lot of movies that don't make much sense.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Lol it's not my style at all (I'm more a Barbarella cheese fan), but I do appreciate the spectacle it achieved, even if it looks outrageously silly today. It's definitely a product of its time. Seriously though, you could take the movie and all it's wild production stories, claim it was made in the 80s, and everybody would believe you. I'm not unconvinced Boorman wasn't a time traveler

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago

The sexiness was just a very happy accident.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I like to imagine what went down in the casting office for this episode.

"Yeah, yeah. She's fine, lets show off that belly button to prove she had a mom. But him... Let's give the world an anatomy lesson with him." Then the rest of the room erupts into wolf-whistles and lewd comments.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I genuinely worry about the people who find either of those outfits titillating.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Maybe if they swapped...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, not enough neon and mesh for what we found attractive in the 80s.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

None of those were "sexy" outfits though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

If you're the right age, nothing is sexier. Especially the pale dude in the (audibly) loud windbreaker and caesar haircut.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Hey man, you have your spank material and I'll have mine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Dude's probably on a list after wearing that shit on TV

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Nice tits bro

[–] [email protected] 48 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That, my friend, is a moose knuckle.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

My chesticles are up here!

Keep your leering starman gaze away from my cameltoe.

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