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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 Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 5x06 "Of Gods and Angles" 11 hours ago:
Yeh. I think part of it is it’s just hard to match season 4. I think the series’ single funniest dialogue comes from “Trusted Sources”.
Ransom: “How much do bench?”
Magistrate: “We don’t do it for the numbers. We do it to quiet the voices in our heads!”
Ransom: “Cool. I bench 25.”
- Comment on Best (or least terrible) Flag Officer 1 day ago:
Phasers or Bat’leths (Mek’leths are fine as well).
We could also do a round of Chula, a solar sail race, ambo-jitsu, springball, darts, etcetera.
- Comment on Best (or least terrible) Flag Officer 1 day ago:
Burnham falls afoul of the “no promoted mains” rule, unfortunately.
- Comment on Best (or least terrible) Flag Officer 2 days ago:
I find it kind of sad they haven’t done anything in the 2290s-2350s era. I think it would be fun to have a series with April in monster maroon coming up on his second retirement in the late 2310s or early 2320s.
The IDW miniseries Picard’s Academy was set in this era (aligning with previous canon of when Picard went to the Academy). I enjoyed it (checked it out from my local library), though probably half just because of Spock’s outfit, honestly.
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- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 5x05 "Starbase 80?!" 6 days ago:
My only theory is they were kind of as prolific as the TOS film uniforms and lasted into the 2240s and were getting rare but still seen occasionally in the 2260s.
- Comment on Where to start? 6 days ago:
After watching other Star Trek shows, you’ll find the true beauty is the vast majority of Lower Decks completely fits into canon, as “the true Star Trek lore” contains some ridiculous stuff.
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Lower Decks* 5x06: “Starbase 80?!” (SPOILERS) 1 week ago:
I just realized something else - I think this episode might contain the first mention of Cetacean ops going on an away mission, which reveals a lot about how their Starfleet lives might work.
I still wonder about several things, which I’ve been wanting to make my own post about anyway and probably will soon.
- Comment on Where to start? 1 week ago:
You dare defile Lower Decks by calling other stuff “More cannon”! Experience bij, petaQ! 😉
In all seriousness, though, I would say DS9. The first season is much better than TNG season 1 in my opinion - not perfect, but livable. It mostly gets better from there, though like VOY, be prepared for sudden urges for Rick Berman to “accidentally fall out an airlock”, if you know what I mean.
This might be tinted by DS9 being my favorite Trek series, although Lower Decks is putting up fierce competition for DS9’s top spot in my heart.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: The Motion Picture — The Director’s Edition’ Score Reissued on Deluxe Vinyl 1 week ago:
Still waiting for word on LD soundtrack vol 2. I want more of those good Westlake tunes!
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Lower Decks* 5x06: “Starbase 80?!” (SPOILERS) 1 week ago:
I have a few questions on uniforms.
For one, I just find it a bit strange some of them are wearing ENT-era uniforms, especially considering the base was updated in the 2260s. Although the uniforms look slick, chronologically, it almost feels like a run down American naval wessel in the 1970s wearing revolutionary war uniforms. I wonder if this points to the ENT uniforms being used for a really long time (no, my time is not finally here) much like the TOS film uniforms, if at least as a starbase uniform. Thus, it was still perfectly normal to see an ENT uniform in the 2230s and 40s, and not all that uncommon in the early 2260s.
Now what really confuses me, though, is how the base says they don’t have combadges, which conflicts with the previous depictions of base officers in LD:“Trusted Sources”:
I at first thought that maybe they were just embroidered like TOS uniforms. However, someone on Memory Alpha also caught this frame of one of these same personnel in 5x05:
The badge is gone, which suggests they are removable. This implies two possibilities: they were aesthetic, non-functioning badges, or they were real combadges.
I wonder why they disappeared. One theory might be the station used to be able to support a few, but the system broke and the few combadges in circulation were retired.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 5x04 "A Farewell To Farms" 1 week ago:
This beings up an intriguing question of when Kahless being a clone became common knowledge.
- Comment on Preview ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Episode 505 With New Images From “Starbase 80?!” 1 week ago:
We only deal in gold pressed Latinum here.
- Comment on Preview ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Episode 505 With New Images From “Starbase 80?!” 1 week ago:
There’s plenty of other crappy Starbases in the Federation… certain of that.
- Comment on “Star Trek Origin” Movie Reportedly Headed To Greenlight For Production Start In Early 2025 1 week ago:
It’s going to be about the Post-Atomic Horror… Or else! Give me my campy Kangaroo court.
- Comment on “Star Trek Origin” Movie Reportedly Headed To Greenlight For Production Start In Early 2025 1 week ago:
To be fair, I wouldn’t exactly call original Khan good representation either, in the sense that he draws on some negative ethnic stereotypes.
Still a fun villain, though.
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Lower Decks* 5x03: “The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel” (SPOILERS) 2 weeks ago:
After more research, there’s different frames than the one Memory Alpha has for Captain Tersal that confirm that at least the upper part of the uniform is a normal TNG uniform and the highlights were just lightning. The cuffs are different, but that could be personal choice - she is the captain after all.
Actually kind of disappointing - they could have thrown in the abandoned uniforms for Generations as sort of a nod to the inspiration for the LD uniforms.
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Lower Decks* 5x04: “A Farewell to Farms” (SPOILERS) 2 weeks ago:
I might also add that Ma’ah’s family career is very similar to Boimler’s in some aspects, staying in line with how in Wej Duj he was supposed to be a Klingon analog of Boimler.
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Lower Decks* 5x03: “The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel” (SPOILERS) 2 weeks ago:
I think those highlights might just be shading. It feels like a bit of a stretch to say the captain is just Mariner-ing her cuffs, though.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 5x04 "A Farewell To Farms" 2 weeks ago:
I love that Ma’ah is Klingon Boimler down to the sun hat and rhe something.
- Comment on Canon Connections: LDS 5x03 -Best Exotic Nanite Hotel 2 weeks ago:
Besides, we all know that beards cannot grow in space.
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Lower Decks* 5x03: “The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel” (SPOILERS) 2 weeks ago:
I just noticed that Captain Tersal has a classic TNG uniform. I wonder what that means for her timeline. Did Tersal also come from 2382 (just her timeline kept the TNG uniforms), has the ship been in service a long time without a uniform change, or is the Endeavour from a few years in the past?
- Comment on Canon Connections: LDS 5x01 - Dos Cerritos 3 weeks ago:
I just realized that alternate Boimler is dying his beard as well.
- Comment on Confusion on Trek Eras 3 weeks ago:
I think I meant to put TWOK, for Wrath of Khan. TOK was an IB class I took in high school, so my brain defaulted to that.
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- Comment on Anyone know anything about this particular Okudagram? 3 weeks ago:
An update: According to S2 E10 Sanctuary, the guy below the Ferengi (not shown in this screenshot) is stated to be Plix Tixiplik, who had previously shown up in TNG, further affirming them being previous Trek actors.
- Comment on [USA] Watch ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Season 5 Premiere For Free 3 weeks ago:
It only gets better (Except for A Mathematically Perfect Redemption). I will warn you the early part of season 1 is probably carried by reference humor, whereas the rest of the series begins to hold up on its own in addition to the quality reference humor.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 5x01 "Dos Cerritos" & 5x02 "Shades of Green" 3 weeks ago:
Remarkable.
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