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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 Are there any Trek episodes where they enforce the Prime Directive to protect a developing world within Federation space from an external influence? 4 days 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’ 6 days 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’ 6 days 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 week 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 week 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks ago:
I think it is in Menageries, but I’ll have to check.
- Comment on Will SNW (or any future Trek) Retcon Mojave, California? 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
“I like the bridge.”
- Comment on Review: Star Trek Adventures 2E Technical Manual – Trek Central 4 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
Yes I did, and now I’ve fixed it.
- Comment on My Attempt at Jellico circa 2381 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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”
