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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 "I Hope That's Not a F—ing Secret": 'Starfleet Academy' Gets an Out-of-This-World Update from Jonathan Frakes 1 week 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 1 week ago:
“I like the bridge.”
- Comment on Review: Star Trek Adventures 2E Technical Manual – Trek Central 1 week ago:
Currently running a campaign on 1st edition. May look into this.
- Comment on Nacelle Opens Up Pre-Sale for Upcoming Star Trek Action Figure Line 3 weeks ago:
Oh, my gosh. Weyoun is so beautiful! And you can make him smile! Now all we need is a Lakarian City playset…
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew: Janeway's Star Trek Return is "Being Pursued" | TrekCulture 3 weeks ago:
Just give us Prodigy S3. Granted, we’d have to see how they work it out, considering they’ve hit the Picard era.
Maybe we could just have a little “accident” where Admiral Janeway is visiting the Protostar when they all get whisked into the 2430s and can’t return so they don’t have to deal with Picard crap. It wouldn’t be as radical of a future as Discovery - we’ll just have a nice, peaceful era with only the occasional threat. The Protostar has some new worlds to explore, while Janeway struggles to reintegrate into Starfleet and catches up with her still-surviving friends, probably including elderly Mr. Tysess and Tuvok (who, even with conservative estimates, probably still have 3 decades ahead of them) as well as the Doctor.
Besides potentially being able to do TNG monster of the week, you’ve got at least 1 free episode plot for checking in on Solum. Besides having some plot on thea now non-destroyed Solum, we could have Ilthuran’s reaction to being reunited with Gwyn after decades as well as, at a minimum, a bit of comedy from a nice, non-fascist Ascencia (It would be even funnier if this Ascenscia at one point became a legit Starfleet officer).
- Comment on Which shows are worth watching? 4 weeks ago:
Yes I did, and now I’ve fixed it.
- Comment on My Attempt at Jellico circa 2381 4 weeks ago:
Ironically, the Cerritos is on 4 shifts, based in the existance of delta shift.
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- Comment on Has Anyone Else Noticed Jellico's Face Constantly Changes in Prodigy? 4 weeks ago:
Note: In a few of these, I have multiple images of what I consider to be the main variants, which I would say are S1 E15 version, S1 E19 version, S2 E5/E9 version, and S2 E14 onward.
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- Comment on Which shows are worth watching? 4 weeks ago:
Some of the early episodes are important in my opinion but a little rough at times.
Once you hit season 2, there is rarely a bad episode - they’re all at the very least funny, except for “A Mathematically Perfect Redemption”, which is just the most brutal form of torture and an experiment in anti-storytelling. .
- Comment on Which shows are worth watching? 4 weeks ago:
Not totally right. Strange New Worlds, Lower Decks, and Prodigy are all decent. TOS is also worth a watch with an episode list, and TAS has a few good ones as well.
Discovery, in my opinion, isn’t as bad some say either. It’s hardly peak Star Trek, but I’ve found I enjoy it sometimes.
As others have set, Lower Decks is not the first show you should watch though - it’s more enjoyable after watching everything. Also, both Lower Decks and Prodigy, I’d recommend watching through the first 10 or so episodes before making a judgement - the first few episodes aren’t their best. Lower Decks is often funny and at least once a season (from season 2) puts out a masterpiece that belong with the best of Trek. I’d say the top/my favorite LD episodes are (in no particular order):
- S1 E8 "Veritas"
- S2 E5 “An Embarrassment of Dooplers” (I hate the Dooplers, but everything else about that episode is solid)
- S2 E9 "Wej Duj"
- S2 E10 "First Contact"
- S3 E1 "Grounded"
- S3 E5 "Reflections"
- S3 E6 "Hear All, Trust Nothing"
- S3 E8 "Crisis Point 2: Paradoxus"
- S4 E4 "Something Borrowed, Something Green"
- S4 E6 "Parth Ferengi’s Heart Palace"
- S4 E9 "The Inner Fight"
- S4 E10 "Old Friends, New Planets"
- S5 E2 "Shades of Green"
- S5 E4 "A Farewell to Farms"
- S5 E6 "Of Gods and Angles"
- S5 E7 “Fully Dilated” (I think there were some things I wish this episode did better, but I still enjofed it.)
- S5 E9 “Fissure Quest”
- Comment on William Shatner Confirms Talks for Star Trek Return at 93 Years Old 4 weeks ago:
By Beta canon or otherwise, it’s heavily implied he doesn’t live that long in most timelines.
- Comment on William Shatner Confirms Talks for Star Trek Return at 93 Years Old 5 weeks ago:
Honestly, I kind of want Kirk to stay dead.
- Comment on Master Replicas Reveals New Line of Star Trek Action Figures 1 month ago:
I guess you can always remember the skin balloon from Doctor Who… unless you’ve never watched Doctor Who, in which case forget I ever said anything.
- Comment on Master Replicas Reveals New Line of Star Trek Action Figures 1 month ago:
If you go to their website, there is a picture of a Tendi, but it is mildly terrifying. You have been warned.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Season 1 Wraps Filming 1 month ago:
I just wish there were no mysterious threats…
- Comment on "Star Trek is dying." How would you sell it to a younger audience? 1 month ago:
They’ve said it’s coming in early this year - there’s literally a clip of it out: m.youtube.com/watch?v=llvMv5-ydyQ&t=150s&pp=2AGWA…. It definitely looks near done.
Also, season 4 seems to already be in pre-production.
- Comment on "Star Trek is dying." How would you sell it to a younger audience? 1 month ago:
I agree in some senses with the stand-alone part, but not necessarily the animated part. I feel like it would just need to be marketed right. Executives are convinced for the most part that animation is either only for kids or for irreverent adult comedies, when it really should be viewed as a general medium.
I think Infinity Train is the best evidence of my point (look it up if you don’t know); it really transcends the typical bounds assigned to animation. Book 3 especially is truly just a great fantasy/sci-fi drama. However, it was basically killed by executives who wanted a tax write-off and couldn’t see its potential outside a “kids show”. Now some of the series is purchasable on various online storefronts, but the only legal way to watch all of Book 3 is to pirate it.
If executives and people alike would liberate themselves from the stigma of animation, I feel like you could pull off high-quality, TNG-length seasons that allow less rushed charater development for a reasonable budget compared to an expensive live action streaming show. In some ways, Prodigy was an example of this - I felt like I got more time with the characters than almost any other modern Trek (granted SNW is still going on).
I’ve never met a person where I mentioned Star Trek and they went, “Ew, Discovery. I’m never watching any Star Trek ever again”; I think Discovery had its flaws (and strengths), but it made little impact on franchise popularity.
Usually (which you touch on), it’s more like they’re just bamboozled by the cannon. Like, I was watching DS9 once, and my roommate asked if it was the original, which then brought a long and complicated explanation from me. I think you’re right that it’d be very nice to have a Star Trek show that one could show to people where when old lore is brought in, it’s delivered in such a way that people can pick it up as they go.
- Comment on "Star Trek is dying." How would you sell it to a younger audience? 1 month ago:
Un-cancel Lower Decks. 😉
Honestly, though, I feel like most media groups in general forget why the streaming model worked in the first place. They want Office-level hits, but forget that The Office wasn’t immediately successful. Not immediately killing it just because of that gave it time to find a fandom.
Most shows should automatically get 2-3 seasons, and they often aren’t getting that.
As for the whole “none of them knew what Star Trek was” anecdote - I find that a bit exaggerated. I’m a college student, and I wore a Boimler costume for Halloween- most could identify that I was something Star Trek. Around other people my age, they can at least think of Spock or Patrick Stewart.
- Comment on Warp Five: The Lower Decks Cast on the Cerritos' Future 1 month ago:
I really wish we’d gotten more T’Lyn time. She needed at least one more episode focused on her.
- Comment on Warp Five: The Lower Decks Cast on the Cerritos' Future 1 month ago:
Amateurs. (I think I’ve watched almost every episode 3 times at least. The main exceptions are a few random season 1 episodes and “A Mathematically Perfect Redemption”.)
- Comment on Alex Kurtzman Gives Live-Action Comedy Update, Says Star Trek Can “Broaden” 1 month ago:
Also, I feel like an awesome Star Trek series would be a (preferably animated) semi-anthology where you have a few crews a season that then meet up in a finale subplot, sort of like taking LD:”Wej Duj” and focusing on each individual crew and culture more. My ideas are:
- “Cetacean Ops”, which would take place on the USS George and Gracie (or something), a starship (either prototype or refit) built for and staffed by aquatic/cetacean life forms, except a few engineers. Besides exploring what cetacean life style is like in the Federation and Starfleet, as well as how they avoid isolation between aquatic and non-aquatic crew.
- One that’s literally just the Archimedes from the Lower Decks Season 2 finale. I really liked that crew for some reason and want more.
- Several non-Federation species vessels, like a Ferengi starship or a post-Dominion Cardassian vessel.
- Comment on Alex Kurtzman Gives Live-Action Comedy Update, Says Star Trek Can “Broaden” 1 month ago:
I just realized. They say they’re broadcasting to the entire quadrant - but which quadrant?
Chances are they’ll do something normal and boring like the Alpha Quadrant and create a bunch of canon confusion, but it would be kind of awesome if took place in the Gamma Quadrant and looked at life in the Dominion (or post-Dominion planets) after the war.
- Comment on Poll: What's the cross-over between fans of Trek and solarpunk? 1 month ago:
I had no idea what Posadism was until you mentioned it. Looking at it, I think elements of it are coincidentally in there, but I don’t think that’s totally what it’s trying to convey.
For one, Boseman, Montana definitely didn’t look that socialist, and yet Cochrane developed a warp drive; it was the new connections and widened view of the galaxy that facilitated the development of socialism. Sure, the Vulcans helped, but it was humans who had to change.
Also, I feel like “aliens helping in revolution” is sort of antithetical to the concept of the Prime Directive.
Overall, I think Star Trek is less about through ufologic socialism and more about peoples figuring out socialism for themselves; space and aliens are mostly just a plot device to explore.
- Comment on Poll: What's the cross-over between fans of Trek and solarpunk? 1 month ago:
I think it depends. Overall, I think most of Star Trek isn’t solarpunk, but the version of earth depicted in it very much is.
- Comment on The Official Philippa Georgiou backstory from the Star Trek YouTube channel 2 months ago:
To be fair, the mirror universe in general, even in the DS9 era, is kind of Star Wars-y.
In general, though, it sometimes gets annoying when the franchises swap aesthetics, even back to V when they did bargain bin Mos Eisley (the bar in III was hilariously campy, though). Recently, I watched the first episode of a certain Star Wars series on a friend’s recommendation (I wouldn’t have otherwise), and at one point, I was like, “What the heck! This is supposed to be a rough pirate ship, but there’s so little weathering on the set that this could be a Federation starship!”
- Comment on "Section 31" early review round-up 2 months ago:
I agree with your positions about short seasons and brand new big bads.
However, I don’t think TNG, and classic Trek at large, have a future totally devoid of “the pains and pitfalls of present-day life”. For instance, Captain Maxwell blows up a bunch of Cardassian outposts, and there was that whole incident with the Pegasus and the cloaking device. These are clear instances showing in TNG’s world, we haven’t completely grown out of the darker parts of our nature.
I think the ideal of Star Trek is there is a future where we have overcome many of our problems, and when new (or old, sometimes) arise, we can work together to overcome them and improve ourselves.
In some ways, I think that Lower Decks embodies this extremely well. Because it’s supposed to be a comedy, it liberates the show from a lot of modern sci-fi conventions; this allows a largely utopian environment for our Federation characters where they’re free to help each other evolve far beyond the borderline insane sitcom archetypes they started the show as.
- Comment on What’s with Sci-Fi and Commemorative Plates? 2 months ago:
Our family actually has a bunch that an aunt sent once.
- Comment on Please advise on this conversation we had over on c/Piracy. Transporters and replicators, basic operating principles? 2 months ago:
Was about to cite TNG Tech Manual as well - although that also said that holodeck characters’ bodies were replicated meat puppets, which I think they didn’t stick with.
