Let me call on my friend Dr Rockso, the Rock 'n Roll Clown. (He does cocaine.)

New crowdfunding project: We need to get enough nose candy for the Paramount execs to keep 'em up long enough to get DS9 squeezed out

They're hideously cheap. I'm just glad some decision maker in the upper echelons stayed high as a kite for long enough for us to get TOS, TNG and TAS on blu-ray

Paramount are kinda cheap and Ds9 isn't popular enough for them to go all out on a remaster.

Or hell, they could just shorten a season of Discovery by 2-3 episodes and that'd pay for the DS9 remaster in full (assuming the 8 to 8.5 million per episode for Discovery that was reported a while back is accurate)

Redoing some of the more simple effects like phasers and transporters and whatnot (basically what they've already had practice doing for TNG)

They could scan and rebuild the film elements, and then upscale the original CGI only (provided it still exists as separate footage)

Basically its in the same situation as DS9 IIRC with loss of models and how the CGI was applied to the existing footage.

Not gonna happen unless they recreate all the CGI from scratch, unfortunately. Or just upscale the broadcast masters, which would be basically pointless.

Babylon 5 must come to Blu Ray.

Even in the winter, he has to clear the roads of snow.

His work is never done.

Everyone quickly gets sick of flubbing the name and collectively agree to just call the combiner "Roadworks"

For some reason, I've always wanted to see a "Menastator", all five Stunticons and all six Constructicons in an 11-piece combiner.

Dunno what we'd call a Megatron combiner, we almost got a Megastator in IDW but nothing in Combiner Wars.

somehow read that as "Megachronic." wonder if Decepticons get the munchies...

Skywarp can barely form a coherent sentence half the time.

If Cyclonus combines into Galvatronus, does Skywarp form Megatronic?

There's something weird about starting to type Good Omens into a media store's search bar and having it come up with Queen's greatest hits compliations.

Well then they need to re-release Vector Prime. Of course I would accept Vector Prime Headmaster with Alpha Trion as the head.

That said, the bendy sword is ridiculous.

I dunno, the old one is still pretty good by modern standards and the clunkiness is somewhat in-character.

We need a new vector prime

just don't leave Cybertron Vector Prime out in the sun or his wings will melt.

@Nevermore Duly noted.

I have three Cybertron Vector Primes, wouldn't throw them around though. I love that design too much,

I'm just picturing someone throwing a pile of Vector Prime toys around. I don't know why.

Multi Vector Assault mode is what they go into when they think anyone's even slightly infringing on their IP.

They MIGHT have done it for Star Trek Online ships, but even if they have that'd be a fairly specific category.

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So only if Viacom/Paramount has actively trademarked the term "multi-vector assault mode", offered goods or services under that name and has been offering those goods and services in recent years, Hasbro cannot offer goods or services under that name in the same category.

And they need to be consistently used on top of that.

Even if they are trademarked.

Words and terms used in dialogue shouldn't be affected.

Also, the trademarks only apply in commerce. You use them to identify goods and services.

Yeah, you also need to apply for it. They might've never bothered to trademark that.

Trademark affects titles and product names, not every word in writing. For example, DC called their character "Captain Marvel" as recently as 2014.

You missed my point. I was addressing the usage of the phrase in dialogue. Hence the quotation marks.

Well, they can anyway, they might just not be able to call it that...

It would be awesome for Transformers to have the likes of Overlord and Sky Lynx "engage multi-vector assault mode!"

It is a shame that "multi-vector assault mode" is probably trademarked for Star Trek.

Only if they manage to boomer-proof it

(and would that really be a bad thing?)

Wouldn't a cybernetic singularity actually remove one or more of the top levels of Maslow's hierarchy?

Tomy made some strange selections on their first wave of Tomica releases for the US

Resistance is futile.

I would be down for a nice cybernetic singularity if it meant we could actually reach the top of maslow's hierarchy.

I'm pretty sure the origin of the villains in GaoGaiGar was a computer being told to reduce the stress of the population and it's answer was to assimilate everyone.

Executions then followed by nano reanimation then cryonic suspension until everyone you know is deactivated for good so you can build happiness in a future society.

As opposed to the ones that lie already? As a civilization: we're emotional and socially broken. Might as well have the society that at least wants us to be "happy".