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- Comment on Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track 2 weeks ago:
What can possibly go wrong?
- Comment on Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track 2 weeks ago:
It just cited the wrong Neal Stephenson book, so not way off.
- Comment on Twitter co-founder Biz Stone joins board of Mastodon's new US nonprofit | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
Well, fuck. It was fun while it lasted.
- Comment on It’s the End of the Web as We Know It 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Star Trek Writer Deep Dives Into Discovery Season 5’s Villains 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’m not clicking a Screen Rants link but “Jelly Breens” is a quality pun!
- Comment on Star Trek: The Ultimate Supercut 3 weeks ago:
Could’ve done without the vocals on the background track but that was a worthwhile supercut.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
[Boimler scream]
- Comment on ‘Section 31’ Movie Director Says It’s A “Different” Star Trek + New Character Details Revealed 1 month ago:
That took a quick, dark turn.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Star Sonequa Martin-Green on the Show’s Unexpected Final Season, the ‘Pressure’ of Representation and Taking the ‘Trek’ Cruise 1 month ago:
You say “galaxy” like it isn’t just a fraction of the universe. There is literally infinitely more to explore 🙂 More to your point, would the writers’ room have been able to transform that potential into another season, bigger and more epic than the upcoming one? We’ll never know now, will we.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Star Sonequa Martin-Green on the Show’s Unexpected Final Season, the ‘Pressure’ of Representation and Taking the ‘Trek’ Cruise 1 month ago:
Say what you will about the show (and I know you will) but Sonequa M-G has been a stellar spokesperson for the franchise. She’s just so damn wholesome and enthusiastic to be part of Trek.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Yeah, it was Pandora’s recasting, and now all the Kirks and Spocks are loose on the world.
- Comment on Star Trek: Discovery final season will premiere at SXSW; logline released 4 months ago:
Sounds like the Trekkiest Disco season synopsis since 2019. Glad to hear Tilly hasn’t entirely retired to teaching duty!
- Comment on 4 months ago:
At this point the Kelvin timeline is just a handwavey excuse for recasting Kirk and crew of TOS and following movies. And a prequel to Kelvin is an excuse to recast those parts with younger actors.
Personally, I could care less about new movies featuring the TOS characters. Star trek evolved past them 30 years ago, I wish Hollywood would realise that.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
No need to worry, TV and movie Trek are usually produced independently of each other. You can have one and the other.
- Comment on TrekMovie.com: Patrick Stewart Reveals New Star Trek Movie Script Featuring Jean-Luc Picard Is In The Works 4 months ago:
Oh man, I’d repressed the memory that Q was in s2 of Picard! I kind of liked the first season but the follow-ups were nostalgia dumpster fires. Literally what Sir PatStew said he didn’t want to make going into the show.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 4 months ago:
I’ve seen a lot of praise for Kagi, and perhaps one day I will pay for web search. I haven’t succumbed yet though.
I haven’t had any issues using non-Google search providers on Android, I use Firefox {or rather, Fennec) as a browser where I can set the default search engine; and FF comes with its own search widget that uses the same default setting.
- Comment on have you been doing crime? 4 months ago:
For more information please reread.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 4 months ago:
Google has been useless since they started “customising” search results for individual users/browsers. That was what, ten years ago?
If they’ve found a way to make their web search even worse, I have to applaud them for winning the race to the bottom.
Are there search engines that still work?
Qwant, Mojeek, Startpage, Ecosia. You could look for trustworthy SearchX instances too. Even Duckduckgo is better than Google (meaning better than nothing).
- Comment on It's canon now. And so is a certain image format. 4 months ago:
Wait till you hear about ghoti…
- Comment on It's canon now. And so is a certain image format. 4 months ago:
It’s flattering that you think anybody knows what all of those acronyms actually stand for. I’m semi-certain of NASA, the rest could just be made up for all I know (as a non-native English speaker).
- Comment on On the end of Discovery 5 months ago:
Oh no 😱
- Comment on Production Begins For ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Season 3, ‘Section 31’ Movie Starts In January 5 months ago:
Cool, cool. Looking forward to seeing how the writers are going to handwave their way out of the Gorn-shaped hole they dug for themselves.
- Comment on Work On ‘Star Trek: Prodigy’ Season 2 Has Been Completed 5 months ago:
Since you’re here, Aaron (and of course a Trek writer would be on federated social media!), can you share anything about Prodigy’s future past season 2? Hopes/wishes from the creative team? Initial signaling from Netflix re possibly continuing the show?
- Comment on Good Omens Renewed for a 3rd and Final Season on Prime Video 5 months ago:
Season 2 really felt like a stopgap measure to pad out the series, didn’t it? I appreciated the character bits but I’m hoping the final season brings more substantial story to the table.
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And if the sentence feels sparse you can drop “which” in there wherever, because apparently it’s just filler now.
- Comment on On the end of Discovery 5 months ago:
I think we have one obvious reason why season 1 was so solid: Bryan Fuller. He came to Trek with fresh ideas and thoughts about how to use them creatively in that setting. And he envisioned Disco as an anthology show that would focus on different eras each season, so the Burnham arc was one season, on to the next.
A lot clearly changed even before the show went into production, at which point he was out and Paramount probably reneged on doing new casting and design work for each new season. We’ll probably never know what could have been, and perhaps an anthology show would have the same dip in interest as it moved on.
For what it’s worth, the jump between seasons 2 and 3 did make that kind of radical change in setting that an anthology sets out to — but preserved the characters who had just fulfilled their mission to hide the sphere data, so there’s a contradiction in terms. And more to the point, the writers didn’t seem to know what to do with the characters once they made it to the future.
The evolution of Zora was an inspired idea (and literally cripped by Michael Chabon’s Calypso) but only became a detached plot strand, and Detmer’s PTSD was a gut punch only dealt with too superficially. So you’re right, despite some character highlights season three was meandering and listless. The crew had a whole future to explore, but no mission.
Rebuilding the Federation should have filled that hole with direction (or at least directives) but there wasn’t a lot of purpose to the space UN once it was restored. Maybe that dead water feels so frustrating because we’re seeing its literal mirror image in the deterioration of diplomacy and parliaments on the news every day. When Disco gets political it doesn’t mess around, but here it couldn’t deliver a show of common purpose because it was barely coherent itself. But I digress.
- Comment on On the end of Discovery 5 months ago:
When you put it that way, yeah. That would have been interesting to watch. It wasn’t really my experience of where the season’s focus lay, though.
- Comment on On the end of Discovery 5 months ago:
This is exactly what got me into Discovery! The willingness to go beyond convention and subvert viewer expectation.
So often throughout season one they’d hit me with something that I’d never seen done in Star trek before, and I’d be in the edge of my seat until next week. The whole introduction of the USS Discovery — which wasn’t until the third episode — had so much of a weird science vibe, I was blown away. And then the body horror of the USS Glenn.
Spore drives! Feral tardigrades! Space whales! All that, and pitting Starfleet in a war against Klingons that were really, truly alien for the first time in decades. Oh man, that was a wild ride, until they moored it with the dutiful canon connections in season two…
- Comment on On the end of Discovery 5 months ago:
Thanks for this. I love your personal perspectives and insights on Stamets and Sisko!
You’re absolutely right that Michelle Yeoh is a treasure, and her visible joy at playing an operetta villain was all the bts reason they needed to keep her on screen that long. Within the story though, her character was so irredeemable it didn’t make a lick of sense.
Speaking as someone who has made counterintuitive, spur of the moment decisions, however, I thought Burnham’s character was quite realistic 🙂 Terrible perhaps — me too — but thoroughly human. And I respectfully disagree, she is very much a female Kirk type in my eyes. They go 1:1 on following their gut instinct over Starfleet protocol, though maybe Kirk hijacked more ships in the process.
When you do make it back to Trek, seeing how you’re into comedy shows as well, I really recommend you to watch Lower decks. It’s a loving, dedicated bear hug of a tribute to the franchise, and has characters written with heart, too.
- Comment on On the end of Discovery 5 months ago:
You’re right, for my part I don’t have a distinct memory of season 4 — maybe because I haven’t rewatched it yet in preparation for s5 🙂 Season 3 felt lacklustre to me, the 32nd century was decidedly underwhelming, and my esteem for s4 may have been coloured by that Discovery fatigue.
As I recall, there was a lot of build-up before actually meeting the 10-c, and that I found the Arrival-style challenges of even communicating with them more interesting than whatever that guy from The expanse had going on? His character was as unconvincing as Jake Weber’s bored pirate in s3.
I’m looking forward to rewatching all of the first four seasons again to catch up before the last one, and hopefully on this wuewing s4 has as much kick as you describe 😉