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“Life forms. You precious little lifeforms. You tiny little lifeforms. Where are you?”
- Lt. Cmdr Data, Star Trek: Generations
- Comment on One Bad Mother? In Defense of Star Trek's Lwaxana Troi 3 days ago:
I view satirical voice impression and speech synthesis of a real person as two different ethical issues entirely.
I find impressions intended for satire fall within the real of the first amendment, while the latter can be an unwelcome appropriation of identity when done wrong.
- Comment on One Bad Mother? In Defense of Star Trek's Lwaxana Troi 4 days ago:
I haven’t gotten all the way through it yet, but I have very occasionally come back to it as a hobby project over the past year because I have been trying to collect a dataset of Majel’s lines in order to train a text to speech voice.
Usually, I’d find that a bit unethical, but in this case, they literally tried to do that before she died, which I think is as close to consent to such a reproduction as most passed actors could give. Also, it’s mostly for fun for something like HomeAssistant on Raspberry Pi.
- Comment on Visited Vasquez Rocks 1 week ago:
That’s nuts. I was just up in LA a couple of days ago to see They Might Be Giants. Stopped by the TOS cast signatures in the concrete in the walk of fame.
I’ll have to see if I can get that in next time, although it’s a bigger detour than jealously checking out the Micro Center in Tustin, which we have had nothing like back where I live since Fry’s Electronics shuttered (and frankly, Fry’s staff never seemed so nice).
- Comment on New Star Trek Series In-Development 2 weeks ago:
I feel like the first five episodes will be “I’m crying because I dropped a cookie”, and then suddenly the Breen or something blow up half the Federation and crap gets real.
I feel like the premise would be much more interesting if we substitute a planet for growing up in a starship and what the heck the children do in a red alert.
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Prodigy' Season 3 Passed On By Netflix; Seasons 1-2 To Leave Soon 2 weeks ago:
On another note, I hope they put out a good Blu Ray box set like they did with Lower Decks. As of right now, you have to buy season 1 in 2 $20 sets, while season 2 is just one set.
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Prodigy' Season 3 Passed On By Netflix; Seasons 1-2 To Leave Soon 2 weeks ago:
Rest in peace.
You have brought even more dishonor to your house, Paramount.
Although Prodigy got the equivalent of 4 seasons of Lower Decks.
Honestly, I feel like it showed the value of longer seasons - I felt like we had plenty of time to both develop the plot and get episodic.
While those executive geezers don’t give a darn about animation, seeing Prodigy and Lower Decks makes me really think a 50 minute episode TNG/DS9/VOY format animated series with 15-20 episodes a season could be genius, especially if it looked something like Arcane and was somewhat realistic in some aspects but with stylizations to avoid uncanny valley. You could get more time for character development with less labor concerns than an actual shoot, create more interesting aliens while spending less on VFX, and emulate a classic aesthetic without it looking ridiculous.
- Comment on I cooked some food cubes. 4 weeks ago:
I see Kevin Riley. I say the magic wordsP
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- Comment on P+ SpongeBob crossover ad 5 weeks ago:
This is simultaneously a post-modern masterpiece and the most disgusting, atrocious thing I have ever seen.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Was Denied 2-Hour Finale Movie, Says Sonequa Martin-Green 5 weeks ago:
I hope we can yeat Saru in somewhere else - at least the occasional appearance on STA. Let’s hope that Robert Picardo claiming “he’ll be deeper” means he’ll be 99% comic relief like when he said he’d be “more than comic relief” in Prodigy, meaning the show will be a banger.
Either that or throw him through a portal to another era and call it temporal causality, although I guess the only currently running show they could throw him in is SNW, which wouldn’t make sense for obvious seasons. Now if Prodigy got its (unfortunately improbable) season 3 and he somehow managed to appear and they made a good plot out of it, I might not mind.
- Comment on EVERY Starfleet Uniform Ranked From Worst To Best- TrekCulture 5 weeks ago:
I have to agree that First Contact uniform is top-tier.
Also, guy misdated the Romulan supernova.
- Comment on Are there any Trek episodes where they enforce the Prime Directive to protect a developing world within Federation space from an external influence? 1 month ago:
The planet had previously industrialized and since de-industrialized by choice.
- Comment on Robert Picardo On How The Doctor Is “Deeper” In ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ 1 month ago:
I do have to agree. The setting may be the best part of later seasons of DISCO, even if they (in my personal opinion) frequently squandered it.
Like, I felt like they didn’t need to make up the DMA - they had practically seasons worth of material written for them just from the inherent realities of the setting.
- Comment on Robert Picardo On How The Doctor Is “Deeper” In ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ 1 month ago:
I take this with a grain of salt, in part because of this past headline: Robert Picardo Says The Doctor Isn’t Just Comic Relief In ‘Star Trek: Prodigy’ Season 2
Which isn’t to say I hated him in Prodigy. Rather, I wonder if by “deeper”, it means he’ll be absolutely ridiculous and the writing won’t be all dark and brooding on this show.
- Comment on Robert Picardo Confirms It's Star Trek: Voyager's Doctor In Starfleet Academy 1 month ago:
Glorious use of sarcasm.
In terms of writing, they really captured him well on Prodigy, though he was almost entirely a comic relief character.
Looks-wise, he definitely triggered the uncanny valley and was one of the worse aesthetic adaptations of a legacy character in that show. In general, there are some unintentionally terrifying officers on that show.
I do have to say that was one thing Lower Decks did well - when they brought on a legacy character, they were aesthetically recognizable, but never a caricature.
- Comment on Will SNW (or any future Trek) Retcon Mojave, California? 1 month ago:
This is probably the strongest counter so far, unless they’ve somehow found or are working on a way to do it without severely borking the marine biosphere.
- Comment on "Art Is Not A Democracy" Nicholas Meyer On Star Trek Movies And Discovery 1 month ago:
Say what you will about Disco, but honestly, Rainn Wilson Harry Mudd is better than the orignal.
- Comment on Top 3 episodes (all shows) for a newbie 1 month ago:
I still enjoyed Those Old Scientists when I hadn’t yet watched Lower Decks, granted, I had watched TNG already and so just enjoyed it as TNG-era characters goofing around in the 23rd century.
In fact, after having watched Lower Decks, I don’t necessarily like how Boimler and Mariner are written in this episode - they feel a bit like their basic archetypes than the developed characters they were in the series.
- Comment on Top 3 episodes (all shows) for a newbie 1 month ago:
The other good thing about Chain of Command is it gives important context for DS9 without having to stare at scrolling text.
- Comment on Will SNW (or any future Trek) Retcon Mojave, California? 1 month ago:
I could understand a few across the city, but I’d say 50 miles of parkland around a city is a little excessive.
You could also probably at least partially pull off “lush” with more native species, which they don’t seem to do.
Additionally, I imagine there’s some people still enjoying desert off-roading or a newer equivalent in the 23rd and 24th century (probably with regulations, of course).
Granted, I’m a bit biased, considering I live in the Southwest and am a fan of some of the more beautiful deserts. I do hate the climate change-induced annual shattering of heat records, though. Never fun when it’s 110s out, especially when you have to walk to classes… No
- Comment on Will SNW (or any future Trek) Retcon Mojave, California? 1 month ago:
I think it is in Menageries, but I’ll have to check.
- Comment on Will SNW (or any future Trek) Retcon Mojave, California? 1 month ago:
I agree weather controls exist - in fact, they’d probably be needed to solve extreme heat and drought in the city.
However, I don’t think terraforming Mojave is the same thing as terraforming a planet - most planets they colonize that aren’t already suitable for human life don’t have a native ecosystem to begin with. What the pilot seems to depict is the elimination of an existing ecosystem and many habitats, which I feel doesn’t seem very Trek-esque. While they would modify the local environment to improve living conditions, I don’t think they would be inclined to do this much environmental damage.
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- Comment on Season 3 Teaser Trailer | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1 month ago:
I agree he’s not the best Captain Kirk, but I did enjoy his performance in the time travel episode (might have just been the writing and La’an performance like you said, though).
Now what we need is more George Samuel leaving crumbs. I mean, the dude’s only got 8 years or so live… Give our boy some screen time!
- Comment on Season 3 Teaser Trailer | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1 month ago:
Part of me is like, “Seriously! Mire multiverse stuff! Can we take a break, please?”, while the other half of me is like, “If it’s as good as LD or PRO multiverse stuff, I’ll take it!”
I am a bit worried about the fourth wall breaking stuff, but I wonder if they’re doing a Benny Russell “dreamer and the dream”-type thing, which might be fun.
The Clue episode looks fun. The trailer makes it look like this season is 75% quasi-holodeck episodes, which would be quite funny but is probably not the cases.
- Comment on Season 3 Teaser Trailer | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1 month ago:
Star Trek: The Search for Hemmer.
- Comment on Second Wave Of Nacelle Star Trek Figures Includes ‘Generations’ Kirk, Sailor Worf And Geordi, And More 1 month ago:
I admit that overall, I would call TOS films the better series of Trek films - Search for Spock and Final Frontier are probably the only ones I wouldn’t rewatch, meaning 2/3 overall of the TOS films are actually enjoyable in my opinion. In comparison, I am not a fan of half the TNG movies (NEM and Insurrection).
However, I disagree with lumping all the Next Generation movies as “completely null”; First Contact was at least reasonably fun. My biggest complaint might be the Guinan snub for Barclay.
Meanwhile, I feel like Generations is the rare Star Trek film that really just feels like a 2 hour episode (with TMP and maybe Voyage Home the only two other ones like it). I enjoyed the mortality commentary (almost worth the sacrifice of Picard’s entire family, but not quite), while nothing strikes me as more classically Star Trek than campily choreographed fight scenes between a bunch of old men. I also personally enjoyed Data’s arc - I feel like they made sure when it got annoying, it was purposeful, and they dialed it back right when they needed to.
Overall, I don’t think it’s fair to lump the first two TNG films into the bottom 5 like their later counterparts (which do deserve it); Generations probably joins Voyage Home for my favorite Trek films to rewatch.
- Comment on Second Wave Of Nacelle Star Trek Figures Includes ‘Generations’ Kirk, Sailor Worf And Geordi, And More 1 month ago:
I love Generations. Now disliking V is something I could get behind.
- Comment on Second Wave Of Nacelle Star Trek Figures Includes ‘Generations’ Kirk, Sailor Worf And Geordi, And More 1 month ago:
Bem better come apart, or this one will make sure someone else does. Laugh
- Comment on "I Hope That's Not a F—ing Secret": 'Starfleet Academy' Gets an Out-of-This-World Update from Jonathan Frakes 2 months ago:
For some reason, I have the impulse to put this in here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkinoUGmKZ4
(Phish wanted Frakes to do a horn part for one of their tracks, but his skills were not up to the task. To honor the attempt, they made this track out of a bunch of the failed takes.)
- Comment on "I Hope That's Not a F—ing Secret": 'Starfleet Academy' Gets an Out-of-This-World Update from Jonathan Frakes 2 months ago:
“I like the bridge.”
