themoken

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lower Decks Season 5 Official Trailer!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This. So much this. I hate what Discovery did with S31. The Federation isn’t the Federation with an official black ops gestapo running around.

  Also, I love Michelle Yeoh but I am way more interested in the Capt. Georgiou we missed out on than the genocidal maniac Empress we got.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Players are now less "accepting" that games will be fixed, say Paradox, after "underestimating" the reaction to Cities: Skylines 2's performance woes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel guilty about it, but I appreciate the monthly pass. I played EUIV for exactly one month, at a total cost of like $7 (got the base game for free at some point) with all the bells and whistles. It seemed like a good compromise because you’d have to pay it for years at this point to cover the DLC out right, but it is a disgusting level of rent seeking behavior.

  Now it bothers me that I’d need to put another $7-$10 into the machine to access those saves, but not as much as if I’d throw down hundreds of dollars on it to own the content for a 10 year old game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just finish to see all TNG movies.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Generations is a fun movie, but I demand an edit where Picard uses the Nexus to go back and save his nephew from burning to death and then uses his foreknowledge to defeat Soren easily.

  Why is it okay to go back to save millions of Veridians but not to save Remy and then the Veridians by extension? Either way you’re messing with the timeline. Soren already won.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Got You⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also curious. Possibly just sex / masturbation getting out of hand with intense stimulants, or maybe meth induced paranoia makes putting something in your ass for safe keeping seem reasonable… Meth heads generally aren’t hanging out in the safest conditions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Worst examples of Treknobabble⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Meh, Trek is always terrible at following up after the big movie action. Aging is reversible if Insurrection is canon. Literal resurrection has been possible since at least Khan. Time travel is routine in Voyage Home. None of it makes sense outside of the context of the movie, they’re basically their own canon even before JJ.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favourite controllers?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That trackpad was a game changer for playing KB+M games with a controller, but to be honest sometimes I really miss the right joystick. The trackpad can fake it, but it’s not the same.

  If they ever do another standalone controller I’d want it to be like a screen-less Deck. Both joysticks and trackpads and a couple more grips.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Archer new what he was doing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s a stretch to interpret it as petty when it probably just gave Trip a bit of focus and let his 8 year old nephew shout like “that’s my uncle!” or something. Real life astronauts get asked these questions all the time and they’re practically deified in our culture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paramount and Skydance agree to terms of a merger deal⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t hate this. Seems like Skydance has less conflict of interest (i.e. alternative franchises) than the Warner Brothers merger talks from December. Remains to be seen if this is a good thing from a Trek point of view but… Could be worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: The Sims⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sims 3 was my favorite for the open world and freelance jobs too. Was nice to be able to secure an income without disappearing off the map for 8 hours a day. Was surprised 4 didn’t follow through on that as much but I only played it a little.

  My wife plays Sims with cheats all the time and I get that it becomes a fancy interactive dollhouse in that case, but to me the game is all about that progression from bachelor in a one room box to old family man in a mansion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me at age six, at Star Trek: The Experience⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So cool, thanks for sharing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m okay with it. My problem with Disco is how high stakes breathless it is all the time, visiting the timeline with a lower stakes Academy lens could be cool. Being far future means it won’t be a TOS/TNG cameo fest (SNW’s biggest flaw) and I wouldn’t mind being able to do some actual character development on Tilly / other Disco crew if they weren’t just constantly in mortal danger.

  Of course it’ll probably end up being flashy bullshit again, but I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt for now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TrekMovie.com: Patrick Stewart Reveals New Star Trek Movie Script Featuring Jean-Luc Picard Is In The Works⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All of the arguments I see for Discovery are based on representation and that’s literally the only thing the show got right. It’s like yeah, it’s great to have a diverse cast… I just wish they were on screen doing something good. Trek lives and dies in the writing, all the acting, effects, and out of universe concerns won’t save it from absolutely horrendous writing.

  If they’d have done SNW style plots with DSC cast, it would have been amazing from the beginning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TrekMovie.com: Patrick Stewart Reveals New Star Trek Movie Script Featuring Jean-Luc Picard Is In The Works⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed wholeheartedly.

  As some have mentioned, this could be a/another backdoor pilot for Legacy where Seven more or less takes the torch from Picard, similar to Picard taking it from Kirk in Generations - although that was obviously after TNG instead of before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TrekMovie.com: Patrick Stewart Reveals New Star Trek Movie Script Featuring Jean-Luc Picard Is In The Works⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I… Don’t hate this. He meets Kirk too, which could be captain wish fulfillment. After his nephew is killed in such a stupid way he just exits reality and never returns.

  First Contact, like you said, is revenge on the Borg and saving Earth.

  Insurrection is then him inventing the perfect woman to save and finding the fountain of youth.

  Nemesis he fights an evil, young version of himself, which has gotta be worth a few years of therapy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TrekMovie.com: Patrick Stewart Reveals New Star Trek Movie Script Featuring Jean-Luc Picard Is In The Works⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is First Contact erasure and I won’t stand for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always look on the bright side of life⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Earning a pittance doesn’t mean they’re not slaves. They’re slaves because they can’t quit. Prisoners have basically zero agency in their lives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On the end of Discovery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a huge fan of Discovery but I do hope we can get a balance between bold and new and the sort of nostalgia bait we’re in now. I mean, I love SNW, and it’s really filling out some canon gaps (love Uhura getting some real attention) but I really want to get away from cameos. They felt cheap in Disco S2 and they’re still cheap in SNW, but the writing is so much better it’s forgivable. PIC and LD are also very rooted in referencing old Trek. Hell, even Prodigy couldn’t resist making Janeway a (sort of) main character.

  This is why I’m low key hyped about the Academy show, and am hoping it’s with Tilly in the far future. Give us Disco’s great, inclusive cast as peripheral characters, maybe even flesh them out more, but shift the focus to a class of cadets working as a team. Get back to that optimism and away from Burnham and whatever’s destroying the universe this season, without needing to root the show in old Trek.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jonathan Frakes Returning To Direct For ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Season 3⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  One Take Frakes returns, you love to see it