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- Comment on Fox Picks Up Four Seasons Of ‘The Simpsons’, ‘Family Guy’, ‘Bob’s Burgers’ & Returning ‘American Dad’ In Mega Deal With Disney TV Studios 12 hours ago:
Oh… I thought the season was over.
- Comment on Fox Picks Up Four Seasons Of ‘The Simpsons’, ‘Family Guy’, ‘Bob’s Burgers’ & Returning ‘American Dad’ In Mega Deal With Disney TV Studios 13 hours ago:
Will Fox at least give Bob’s Burgers a coherent airing schedule? Or did the writer’s strike cause this?
Season 14 episode 13 aired in May 2024, but the last three episodes didn’t air till September. Then immediately afterwords the following week they premiered season 15.
- Comment on A Cartoon Network executive asking an advisor if they should replace the 9:30 PM time slot with 6teen [Day 103] 1 week ago:
I don’t understand this. Anyways, how’s your sex life?
- Comment on The Star Trek Food Guide to Universal Fan Fest Nights 2025 1 week ago:
Definitely gonna try the hasperat, bloodwine and Orion hurricane. Seriously, no gagh? The Andorian and Romulan ale sound the same. Not interested in a cocktail tea. Also, a plomeek tea but not a soup?
Some odd choices. If the Chateau Picard is the same wine Star Trek Wines makes, then I’ve had it. However, if that is the case then I’d expect the bloodwine to be from Star Trek Wines, which I haven’t had.
FYI: the three Chateau Picard bottles are the same. I asked a vender at STLV. Just a different bottle.
- Comment on Oh NOOOO 1 week ago:
That is something that might make Kurt roll over in his grave.
- Comment on Sony, which is making a Helldivers 2 movie, is also making a new Starship Troopers movie, but it's not based on the Starship Troopers movie we already have 2 weeks ago:
What about Helldivers 1?
- Comment on Master Replicas New Star Trek Replica Lets You Drink Coffee Like the USS Enterprise Crew 2 weeks ago:
Just giving me ideas or how to drink beverages at STLV.
- Comment on Starbucks continues to be terrible 3 weeks ago:
I am unable to find a news report now, but I am certain I read one back in 2018 or 2019. I believe that Conservation International (an organization that helped develop the C.A.F.E. standard the company uses) was discovered covering up the certification of one of the farms in Brazil. As I remember reading, that a farm was at the time listed somewhere as being certified but after slave labor was discovered, CI uncertified the farm and attempted to claim it failed to meet the C.A.F.E. standards, thus never was awarded certification. They weren’t saying the certification was revoked; it never had any.
- Comment on Starbucks continues to be terrible 3 weeks ago:
Here are three different reports regarding three different instances in Brazil. news.mongabay.com/…/slave-labor-found-at-second-s…
news.mongabay.com/…/slave-labor-found-at-starbuck…
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Here is one on the Guatemala incident. theguardian.com/…/children-work-for-pittance-to-p…
- Comment on Starbucks continues to be terrible 3 weeks ago:
Just so people are aware, Starbucks was caught buying from farms in Brazil multiple times that used slave labor. In Guatemala, along with Nestle, were caught buying from farm(s?) that used child labor.
- Comment on Starbucks continues to be terrible 3 weeks ago:
Want a worse number? Back in 2019, the price of commodity was at less than a $1. Starbucks, at the time made up 3% of the world’s production. They decided to give $20m to their farmers. Did it help? Well based on available financial data at the time, $20m was approximately single afternoon’s profit for the company. A SINGLE FUCKING AFTERNOON! sprudge.com/starbucks-would-prefer-you-dont-think…
- Comment on Solar noon is the only real noon 3 weeks ago:
Jokes on them. I didn’t hear my alarm today.
- Comment on C.D.C. Will Investigate Debunked Link Between Vaccines and Autism 3 weeks ago:
If they end up citing the famous Lancet paper, then you know they didn’t even try to make up new bullshit.
For anyone unaware, Lancet published a paper in 1998 that claimed there were links between the MMR vaccine and environmental triggers that lead to loss of acquired skills including language. The study being conducted turned out to be fraudulent, with parents of many of the children involved in lawsuits against the vaccine manufacturers, as well as unethical treatment of children. 12 years later in 2010, Lancet retracted the paper. This paper is a very well known source anti-vaccination proponents have frequently cited. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2831678/
- Comment on What's your favourite classic movie you think everyone should have seen once in their life? 3 weeks ago:
Blade Runner: The Final Cut. My favorite movie. If you watch the theatrical cut, shame on you. Seriously don’t do it. Sadly the sequel and related media are all connected to the theatrical cut. They fundamentally changed parts of the lore because of this. Secondly, The Final Cut is the canonical version.
- Comment on Do tell!!! 3 weeks ago:
Got what? I didn’t explain to you what I know.
- Comment on New Promotional Photos of SNW Cast 3 weeks ago:
cough Pike has to go back to Talos IV cough
- Comment on Do tell!!! 3 weeks ago:
You’ll have to pay me to tell you what it meant. They didn’t ask for anything specific. Just asked if I knew anything.
- Comment on Do tell!!! 3 weeks ago:
You’ll have to pay me to tell you what it is I know and then pay me again to explain it.
- Comment on New Promotional Photos of SNW Cast 3 weeks ago:
Well the most anyone can assume is that characters original to SNW will be removed in some fashion by the time the series ends.
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- Comment on Kate Mulgrew: Janeway's Star Trek Return is "Being Pursued" | TrekCulture 4 weeks ago:
I met Seán at STLV last year (I known I encountered Ellie but wasn’t aware till after the con) and was nice. There were people who asked for photos with him, which he seemed gracious to take. Me personally, I didn’t want to ask him because it looked like he was there with his partner.
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew: Janeway's Star Trek Return is "Being Pursued" | TrekCulture 4 weeks ago:
It isn’t exclusively a series centered on Janeway. This series would be presumably similar to Picard in that notion.
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew: Janeway's Star Trek Return is "Being Pursued" | TrekCulture 4 weeks ago:
I think these type of discussions came about shortly after season 1 of Picard.
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew: Janeway's Star Trek Return is "Being Pursued" | TrekCulture 4 weeks ago:
This came straight from someone on Star Trek: The Cruise.
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- Simon Pegg announced as the 50th guest for Creation Entertainment's STLV: Trek to Vegas this Yearstartrek.website ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to startrek@startrek.website | 0 comments
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- Comment on "Star Trek is dying." How would you sell it to a younger audience? 1 month ago:
I think PRO is a step in the right direction.
- Comment on "Star Trek is dying." How would you sell it to a younger audience? 1 month ago:
He would be a better judge of that observation. However I was at STLV last year and there was a sizable number of younger fans (especially those who are teenage). Maybe not a lot.
- Comment on "Star Trek is dying." How would you sell it to a younger audience? 1 month ago:
What is the age range they are classifying as young? Are they talking like teenagers or mid-20s to 30s? The thing with Star Trek that I think attributes to the non-fans not watching would be the stylization. Going back to the comparison of MCU, HP, and Star Wars: they all have something unique (be it the directing, photography, acting, writing, music, special effects, etc.) that if you pay attention for a significant period will find. Star Trek is no different. When you watch a MCU movie or TV show you probably see the sleek costumes and fast paced fight choreography. With HP, it was probably all the special effects, makeup and set design. For Star Wars it might be the writing, special effects and music.
I’m being non-specific here of course. Star Trek like I said is no different. There are visual and non-visual language being utilized that we find enjoyment in. For anyone not currently into these properties, it could be difficult to enjoy. Especially if you haven’t been someone who watched these properties from a young age or from the early years. For example, if you had someone exposed to only the Kelvin Timeline try to watch TOS or TNG with no context for how it relates, a disconnect might form. Visually those series are not as sleek or modernized as those movies.
As for the comparison to video games… that is simply a different medium. What appeals to one person to the next will be hard to gage. That doesn’t preclude the likes of Fortnite players from enjoying Trek, but culturally that kind of entertainment is very different from what a kid who grow up with TNG was exposed to.
