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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 What’s with Sci-Fi and Commemorative Plates? 17 hours 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? 1 day 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.
- Comment on What’s with Sci-Fi and Commemorative Plates? 5 days ago:
That might me it - when I search older media, say The Andy Griffith show, sure enough there are a crap ton of plates.
It might be a sort of Venn diagram thing - Trek/Wars plates came at the dusk of the commemorative plate era, while the fans were more likely than others to buy collectibles like plates, making them seem unique from other fandoms.
- Comment on Check Out New Preview And Behind-The-Scenes Images From The ‘Star Trek: Section 31’ Streaming Movie 5 days ago:
I just realized another thing about April - assuming humans live 120 years on average in the Trek universe, an elderly April could still be alive in the 2360s or 70s.
- Comment on Check Out New Preview And Behind-The-Scenes Images From The ‘Star Trek: Section 31’ Streaming Movie 5 days ago:
I would love that! Give the lost part of the Monster Maroon era (2290s-2340s) some love.
The weird thing is April from SNW should canonically still be alive due to TAS:”Counter-clockwise Incident”.
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- Comment on Star Trek is like a warm blanket for me. 1 week ago:
That’s an interesting relationship with Enterprise - I’ve yet to really watch that series.
Star Trek’s been a family thing for me as well; my mom is a fan - she watched VOY:“Endgame” during its premiere 4 days after she got married. Star Trek was always playing in the house, so me and my siblings gravitated towards it.
Lower Decks was probably 2/3rds of my coping strategy for the death of my grandmother.
- Comment on Change my mind: SNW, SFA should fire their music departments and replace them with Chris Westlake!!! 😉 1 week ago:
You’re right. I gotta be going where my heart will take me.
- Comment on Change my mind: SNW, SFA should fire their music departments and replace them with Chris Westlake!!! 😉 1 week ago:
I need to give those a harder listen. I do like how the Prodigy theme combines cinematic and TAS vibes. Also, I like how SNW riffs on the TOS theme.
Also, my “call” is indeed a tongue-in-cheek way to say I hope that Westlake can continue in Star Trek. Admittedly, I probably should have communicated that in a more precise, less melodramatic mode.
- Change my mind: SNW, SFA should fire their music departments and replace them with Chris Westlake!!! 😉startrek.website ↗Submitted 1 week ago to startrek@startrek.website | 7 comments
- Comment on Colm Meaney to Receive Irish Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award 1 week ago:
Oh no! You can’t break the laws of physic; O’Brien MUST suffer! Take it away before the universe suffers a subspace quasar tachyon inversion burst collapse to the hull or something. 😉
- Comment on I just finished watching Voyager... again 1 week ago:
TNG: “Shades of Gray”, the really low-budget, terrible finale of season 2 where Riker has a virus that
makes him relive memoriesturns the show into a clipshow. - Comment on I just finished watching Voyager... again 1 week ago:
But are you tough enough to watch the clip show?
- Comment on I just finished watching Voyager... again 2 weeks ago:
What! Fairhaven is the best! Computer, delete the
wifeuser! Just kidding. You’re entitled to your opinion.But yeh, I get the hurt of the end of a series.
As for TNG rewatches, at this point I just go back to a favorite episode and start from there; it’s hard to sort good from bad in the early seasons.
- Comment on Bring Home Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5 and Complete Series on March 25 2 weeks ago:
Also, you can rip Blu-rays using a PC Blu-ray drive (which I acknowledge is increasingly hard to find - my PC doesn’t even have a 5.25" bay - I just have SATA cables dangling out for the drive, which I ripped from another machine).
Honestly, it’s a nice path to media ownership, although I don’t use it a lot.
- Comment on Shout out to the USS Thunderchild, the unluckiest and toughest ship in Starfleet 2 weeks ago:
According to Memory Alpha, 10 years because the ship was supposedly obsolete by then.
- Comment on Shout out to the USS Thunderchild, the unluckiest and toughest ship in Starfleet 2 weeks ago:
At least the OG 1701 got a good lifespan - it was no Miranda, but 40 years is great for an Enterprise.
The decommissioning of the A seemed a bit premature, though, considering it was a new ship that was relatively salvageable. Maybe its battle damage was just too much and that’s why it was given to the museum. Alternatively, the A was originally a different Constitution class undergoing a refit was was already quite old by Undiscovered country.
There’s a good chance the B lasted a long time too, though there’s no canon source to its demise, only that it’s not in the fleet museum.
- Comment on If you begin the Voyager episode "Spirit Folk" at exactly 11:49:35 on New Year's eve, Ensign Harry Kim will kiss a cow as the clock strikes midnight. 3 weeks ago:
Or just see if the kiss happens at timestamp 10:25 in the episode.
- Comment on If you begin the Voyager episode "Spirit Folk" at exactly 11:49:35 on New Year's eve, Ensign Harry Kim will kiss a cow as the clock strikes midnight. 3 weeks ago:
Also, little-known fun fact: the cow is a full Lieutenant.
- Comment on If you begin the Voyager episode "Spirit Folk" at exactly 11:49:35 on New Year's eve, Ensign Harry Kim will kiss a cow as the clock strikes midnight. 3 weeks ago:
In which media format? Stupid Paramount+ is going to have its stupid “not commercials” at the beginning of episodes, which might bork the timing.
- Comment on Tawny Newsome Says Live Action Star Trek Workplace Comedy Will Explore Life Outside The Federation 3 weeks ago:
As it’s Tawny Newsome, I’m giving it a chance.
My dream trek show, though, would be a semi-anthology that explores different crews, sort of like if LD:”Wej Duj” was a series. Each crew would have a self-contained 50 minute plot, and then you would have them meet up for a finale (hopefully in two parts) with a meetup of each crew.
The one episode idea I have would be called something like “Cetacean Ops”, featuring a Starfleet vessel commanded and mostly staffed by aquatic (and some amphibious) life forms, except for main engineering. In addition to exploring what the heck whales do in the Federation, we could explore the dynamics of how non-aquatic and aquatic crew interact and try to prevent loneliness.
- Comment on Tawny Newsome Says Live Action Star Trek Workplace Comedy Will Explore Life Outside The Federation 3 weeks ago:
I think The Orville improves over time - I initially hated both Isaac and Gordon, but they do good things with them later.
- Comment on New Star Trek: Lower Decks and The Search For Spock Behind-the-Scenes Books Coming in 2025 4 weeks ago:
I’m excited for the Lower Decks one.
For SFS, though, “classic film” is one euphemism for it. 😆
- Comment on ‘Lower Decks’ Series Finale “The New Next Generation” Review, Plus Mike McMahan Interview 4 weeks ago:
Yay to season 4.
- Comment on Lower Decks Eulogizing 4 weeks ago:
I agree. Experience bij, Paramount!
- Comment on Lower Decks Eulogizing 4 weeks ago:
It’s not a spoiler. It’s from season one.
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Lower Decks* 5x10: “The New Next Generation” (SPOILERS) 4 weeks ago:
One thing that suggests Broken Mirror’s mirror universe is the prime one is the uniforms borrow a lot of conventions from the IDE TNG Mirror comics, which sorts out a way the empire resurges.
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- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Lower Decks* 5x10: “The New Next Generation” (SPOILERS) 4 weeks ago:
I might add we saw a different Terran empire variant of the Cerritos in 2x08 “I, Excretus”, albeit a holodeck one.
- Comment on ‘Lower Decks’ Series Finale “The New Next Generation” Review, Plus Mike McMahan Interview 4 weeks ago:
My joking theory is they did the weird Rutherford implant removal to make his costume easier. 😉
