With a name like Blue Origin and a ship shaped like that, the jokes practically write themselves
If you don't want to hear me rake Blue Origin over the coals for appropriating nautical traditions and then buggering them all up, this is not the episode for you. Don't try to whine about me not warning you.
And, again, all other complaints aside, credit to you humies for finally figuring out how to get off your planet and somewhere else. You never know when the cosmic pool table is going to send something your way.
But seriously, though, go watch this instead: https://youtu.be/UmYTu3Vl6GE
Because I might know what I'm talking about there.
Maybe.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NBphZUx268
Here's the article about Slave I: https://thedirect.com/article/boba-fett-ship-name-change
As for the Lucrehulk, what can I say? I get the rationale for using an existing spaceframe as the basis for your combat vehicles, but sometimes it just doesn't work out that well. Apparently these were reasonably effective, but that's only because almost every other capital ship in the Star Wars universe is larger, steamier pile of suck and fail.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqPCCPp__eo
But seriously, though. The "Re-Imagined Series" Battlestar Galactica is an amazingly awesome warship... but I'm still going to focus on the sound-powered phones and the damage control stations.
Because way too often writers just hand-wave past that stuff. BSG isn't your momma's science fiction where everyone always knows everything that's going on, and there's always some gadget somewhere that will fix all the problems. Nope, this is a damned-near fully-analog story, where, yeah, people talk to each other on wall-mount phones, and, yeah, sometimes stuff breaks and you have to figure out what and where.
I mean, sure, the show was a lot more about exploring the definitions of humanity and sentience and sapience and all that stuff, but it's the attention to detail that really sells it.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUdpwocUGPQ
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and Wikipedia.
I don't honestly hate the ships. But they could have been so much better, with very little effort. But that's true of a lot of Star Wars.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7H_PC_OV5M
I mean, let's face it. None of the Goa'uld tech was particularly... good. They got by through terror and subjugation and keeping their slaves technologically stunted. Yes, yes, yes, the staff cannons are terrifyingly powerful... and ridiculously inaccurate, which, I guess, only makes them /more/ terrifying in terms of "collateral damage".
And, really, the inaccuracy makes a /lot/ of sense when you step back and consider that most combat between Goa'uld System Lords was largely symbolic, and no one involved wanted to lose any more jaffa than was strictly necessary to keep the rest in line and open up promotion slots for them.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-LrygLst5A
I can't even with this thing.
I don't know where to start. I don't know where to go. And I don't know what the [deleted] that ridiculous thing even /is/.
This is really one of the very few cases where making the ship organic would have improved the story/explanation significantly, although I guess having Borg tech integrated into it makes it semi-organic. Organic-ish. Organic like.
[deleted] organics.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2WPLU4OPPM
At this point, I have no idea.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCIjCTajqPY
Well, I /had/ been trying to avoid bringing down the ire of The Mouse, but I guess that's all out the window now.
The Slave I will always be the Slave I.
Yes, it's part of the Firespray class. We know that.
No, Jango (yes, I said Boba a lot - I'm old) wouldn't have bought/acquired/come by a first-of-its-class ship. Those are notoriously cranky things, and tend to have massively fewer features and upgrades than the later classes, as the designers suddenly realize what they did wrong and try to improve on it as they go.
I mean, not to go for the obvious example, but there's a reason the Enterprise Class - for your modern wet-navy, not those authoritarian prats flying about space - is only... one ship deep.
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