hallettj
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- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x09 "Terrarium" 5 days ago:
Ortegas and the gorn playing board games was adorable!
I liked this episode! There are some things that seem impossible, like the moon’s orbit and atmosphere - but that can be explained away by the Metrons. The vaccine thing, although on brand for Star Trek, I thought was silly and unnecessary. There are plenty of other sources of tension available.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x09 "Terrarium" 5 days ago:
I kinda appreciate how the Metrons orchestrating things can explain details that seem extremely contrived or impossible otherwise:
- a human and a gorn being stuck in the same spot in the first place
- a traversable wormhole that they didn’t detect, and that is unlike anything on record
- a moon with an orbit that passes through a gas giant thermosphere, that somehow hasn’t had its orbit decay long ago, and that somehow retains a breathable atmosphere
- Ortegas and the gorn surviving burning the atmosphere - you see a blue glow around them when that happens
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x08 "Four-and-a-Half-Vulcans" 2 weeks ago:
There was no restraint in this episode - I love it!
When Doug showed up I realized it had gone off the rails. Then cetacean ops made me reassess what “off the rails” means. But I had to retract a head shake when I realized that was a sort of dream sequence. Laughed my ass off the whole time.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x08 "Four-and-a-Half-Vulcans" 2 weeks ago:
Showing cetacean ops did seem like a lot. But OTOH, that scene isn’t actually on the Enterprise - it’s set inside La’An’s mind. So why not make it weird?
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x08 "Four-and-a-Half-Vulcans" 2 weeks ago:
I’m too sleepy to stop this train of thought. Could Bashir have been augmented by an Illyrian doctor? Or a doctor whose work was informed by Illyrian methods?
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x08 "Four-and-a-Half-Vulcans" 2 weeks ago:
So La’An became Romulan; Spock said her case was different because of her augmented heritage. Does that imply that Romulans augmented themselves? And that’s what distinguishes them physiologically from Vulcans, and is what makes them kinda evil?
I guess why wouldn’t Romulans augment themselves? And they got the bad Khan Singh kind of augmentation, instead of the good Illyrian kind.
I love the swift eyebrow raises when La’An and Pike say the thing they cannot discuss together!
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x08 "Four-and-a-Half-Vulcans" 2 weeks ago:
Perhaps an empanada?
- Comment on best episodes for people who've never seen star trek? 2 weeks ago:
I happen to remember a similar conversation - I’ll link it for more ideas: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/49435208
I’m not casting any judgement for posting a similar question! Because a) how would you know about that other thread, and b) this is a topic people can, and will enjoy, discussing endlessly
- Comment on What to watch next after ST: Voyager? 5 weeks ago:
Strange New Worlds is great! Since you’ve already seen DS9 and TNG that’d be my next pick for most enjoyment.
Discovery and Lower Decks are good too! But Picard doesn’t get my recommendation.
Watch order isn’t important. There’s a little crossover between Discovery and Strange New Worlds, but you there are only two details from Disco that carry into SNW, and those are recapped thoroughly in SNW.
There is a little interaction between SNW and Lower Decks
SNW / Lower Decks
There’s a great crossover episode in SNW season 2. It’s worth getting to know the Lower Decks characters first to get the most out of that episode.
There are three TOS episodes that are especially relevant to SNW from what I recall. The one I recommend watching is Balance of Terror.
SNW / TOS
SNW has lots of references to Pike’s “fate”, which you see in the TOS episode Glass Menagerie. It’s optional IMO. Btw Glass Menagerie includes a recut / retelling of the unaired pilot, which is my favorite episode of TOS. But the pilot doesn’t have the beep chair. Season 1 has an homage to the TOS episode Balance of Terror. It will make more sense if you’ve seen that episode. And it’s one of the best TOS episodes. Season 3 has an appearance from a character who first appeared in the TOS episode The Squire of Gothos. It might add some context. Also optional IMO.
- Comment on What are the best single episodes to show people new to Trek? 1 month ago:
I agree that The Visitor is a great choice! Although depending on OP’s goal I’d argue for Duet because,
- It’s another excellent, self-contained story
- It keeps the story in the usual space station setting
- You get more time with the regular cast (IIRC)
- There is less hand-wavy scifi stuff going on
So it might be a simpler introduction to the rest of the show.
Those factors aside, yeah The Visitor is probably the more compelling story.
Either way, DS9 has the best character writing, and is therefore the way to go!
- Comment on Tawny Newsome, Eugene Cordero and Jerry O'Connell were contestants on After Midnight (+ cameo by Rebecca Romijn) 10 months ago:
It looks like there is a playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-cwa6ZvflaDvviwm8JqO6…
- Comment on August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget. 1 year ago:
I use metric temperature when I talk to my kids. Now they give me a hard time when I give them a Fahrenheit value! Keeps me honest I guess. I’ve also got my oldest using a 24 hour clock.
- Comment on August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget. 1 year ago:
Stardate, 2024-08-30T06:34:17.993Z
- Comment on The Flight of the Phoenix illustrated in the style of a NASA infographic. 1 year ago:
That’s a good one, and also the first thing I thought of.
There’s also a remake that’s not bad that features Hugh Laurie using his native accent.