SteleTrovilo
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- Comment on Confirmed: Comic Book From ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Ep. 6 Was NOT Created With AI 16 hours ago:
A real human artist, who can’t draw hands, and who probably has a name. Who actually finds this convincing?
- Comment on Tales from the Frontier - The comic from SFA episode 6 5 days ago:
i.imgur.com/DiRNxEY.png i.imgur.com/ZUxrFfp.png
Don’t let AI draw hands. Or anything.
- Comment on What happend with the the new and old Borg after Picard season 2 and 3? 2 weeks ago:
Jurati/Legion is part of “The Last Starship” comics, if you don’t mind stepping just a bit out of TV canon.
- Comment on GOG now using AI generated images on their store 2 weeks ago:
There is literally one post from a guy canceling his GOG. Keep trying to hurl insults; you’re just proving your own lack of reading comprehension.
- Comment on GOG now using AI generated images on their store 2 weeks ago:
Ctrl-F “cancel”: 2 results, and one is yours. Ctrl-F “boycott”: 1 result, just you.
It’s pretty clear who’s deluding themselves. You’re reacting to a phenomenon that isn’t actually happening.
- Comment on GOG now using AI generated images on their store 2 weeks ago:
What, do you expect someone to list out literally every store that uses AI?
GOG is the topic. We’re allowed to express disappointment that GOG is giving in to an awful trend.
That doesn’t make anyone a “cultist”.
- Comment on Starfleet Academy is Anti-Star Trek [NERD RANT] 2 weeks ago:
I remember when DS9 came out. I thought and said, frequently, “This isn’t Star Trek! Trek is supposed to be about people on a starship, going to new places! This crew isn’t going anywhere, what’s the point?”
It’s a good thing that show runners didn’t listen to “fans” like I used to be. Trek should always be free to try new things.
(No need to get into the specifics of the video. It’s only 5 minutes, if you want to see factual errors and fat-shaming from some internet rando.)
- Comment on Good new sidescrolling beat'em ups of 2025 2 months ago:
You want Absolum. It’s made by the same people who made SoR4, and it is excellent.
- Comment on Metroid Prime 4: Beyond | Review Thread 2 months ago:
It’s very unclear what you’re reacting to - the existence of Metroid Prime 4, the content of the reviews, something else?
- Comment on TrekMovie.com - Rick Berman And Brannon Braga Defend The Controversial ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ Series Finale 3 months ago:
Now I have to rewatch “Spock’s Brain”. Thanks.
- Comment on A single DNS race condition brought AWS to its knees 3 months ago:
Because the “them” in your sentence is a rapidly decreasing number of professionals. lemmy.zip/post/51501102
- Comment on Trekmovie.com: Scott Bakula-Led ‘Star Trek: United’ Pitch Explores Archer’s Family, Romulan War Aftermath 4 months ago:
Starfleet Academy technically has all of this criteria met, depending on how far you’re willing to stretch the definition of “crew”.
- Comment on Trekmovie.com: Scott Bakula-Led ‘Star Trek: United’ Pitch Explores Archer’s Family, Romulan War Aftermath 4 months ago:
Prodigy meets your criteria.
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 4 months ago:
Not Mary Sues:
Kirk: repeatedly impresses god-like beings with his emotional maturity and reasoning. Fought hand-to-hand with Khan and won. Saved the whales.
Picard: passes Q’s trials and makes a case for humanity’s worth, multiple times. Proves Data’s person-hood. Survives Carassian torture by sheer willpower.
Sisko: chosen as the Emissary. Does wrong and suffers no consequences.
Janeway: holds fast to Federation principles even when it prevents her from getting home; gets home anyway.
Archer: so important that Daniels and the Xindi both fight over him. Ends the Temporal Cold War and founds the Federation.
Mary Sue:
Burnham: starts the Klingon war, freed from prison by a Terran who uses her as a pawn. Gets called out for breaking rules.
Is this right, @Akuchimoya@startrek.website ?
- Comment on Michelle Yeoh Admits “We Could Have Done Better” With ‘Star Trek: Section 31’ 5 months ago:
Nah. DS9 made a big point of showing people doing bad things to accomplish good goals, while always questioning if those were actually good. Nothing about Section 31 is worse than what Sisko does in “In the Pale Moonlight” for example. And after so much about the Tal Shiar, the Obsidian Order, and the actual conspiracies within Starfleet (see STVI, the season finale of TNG season 1, The Pegasus, and Insurrection), Section 31 is not a far stretch at all.
“Yeah, way to focus on one part of the comment.”
Yes, people are allowed to do that.
- Comment on Fans (and some Picard cast) won't let the Legacy concept die 5 months ago:
I meant the Crusher who was serving on Enterprise-G. Say what you will about how his character was written or introduced, Speeler is a fine actor.
- Comment on Fans (and some Picard cast) won't let the Legacy concept die 5 months ago:
The best (only good) thing about PIC S3 was the fact that we now have an Enterprise captained by Seven of Nine. I’d love to see a series about this ship and crew (including Raffi and Crusher for continuity’s sake) but they definitely need different writers.
- Comment on What to watch next after ST: Voyager? 6 months ago:
Enterprise season 4 is pretty good. The augment 3-parter, the Vulcan 3-parter, and Terra Prime are all worth watching. The Mirror episodes are a guilty pleasure.
- Comment on Canon Connections: SNW 3x03 - Shuttle to Kenfori 6 months ago:
It’s low-key terrifying that there are now two different ways to become a zombie in Star Trek.
(Three, if you count the Borg as zombies. Four, if you count what Nog did to Keevan in “The Magnificent Ferengi”.)
- Comment on Canon Connections: PRO 2x20 - Ouroboros, Part II 7 months ago:
Only one nitpick: “plague” and “plaque” are two different words. I do find the idea of Dr. Crusher displaying a plague on her desk to be pretty amusing.
- Comment on Captain Kirk Is Back from the Dead in New Star Trek Comic ‘The Last Starship’ 8 months ago:
Yep, William Shatner and the Reeves-Stevenses wrote a whole series of adventures for a resurrected Kirk. It starts with The Ashes of Eden, which mostly takes place between VI and Generations, and kicks into gear with The Return. There’s a bunch more after that. I liked them as a kid.
- Comment on Captain Kirk Is Back from the Dead in New Star Trek Comic ‘The Last Starship’ 8 months ago:
“The Last Arship” “The LA Starship” “Thela’s Tarship”
- Comment on Self insert power fantasy recommendations? 8 months ago:
Code Vein is a Soulslike with an excellent animé-style character creator.
- Comment on Self insert power fantasy recommendations? 8 months ago:
Morrowind has mods that make characters prettier (this is an understatement). I highly recommend them.
- Comment on I hope Lemm.ee is not stored in the US 1 year ago:
Fediverse data is extremely public. Even if Lemm.ee isn’t US hosted (I have no idea either way), it’s certainly federated with instances in the US.
- Comment on Alex Kurtzman Gives Live-Action Comedy Update, Says Star Trek Can “Broaden” 1 year ago:
Overwriting canon is fine, actually. TOS never had an issue with it, and PIC S1E10 gave Data a much better send-off by breaking canon from Nemesis and other Soong episodes. Gene Roddenberry’s assistant officially decanonized TAS, but better writers still acknowledge it.
The idea of “canon” in regard to fictional worlds is dubious anyway, especially ones developed across multiple writers and generations. I’m fine with stuffing Pike’s comment about women on the bridge into the dustbin of history, and not stressing about what decade the Eugenics Wars happened, and assuming PIC S3 doesn’t exist.
- Comment on Interview: Alex Kurtzman on Section 31 and the "evolution" of Star Trek 1 year ago:
Prodigy does start a bit weak, much like TNG and Lower Decks did. The writers find their groove pretty quickly though, and the rest of the series is great!
- Comment on Interview: Alex Kurtzman on Section 31 and the "evolution" of Star Trek 1 year ago:
SNW and Prodigy both fit the bill, in spite of your vague objection to the latter. Add Lower Decks and the better seasons of DIS (2, 4, 5) when the kids are a bit older.
- Comment on "Section 31" early review round-up 1 year ago:
The reason he asked about SNW is because SNW might actually not have the problems you’re describing. You mentioned two tropes of modern Trek - the galactic danger and Section 31 - but SNW doesn’t use those tropes. Did you misread his question?
As for the advancement of society (optimism vs aspiration) - TOS shows us a Federation that has moved beyond money and greed, sure. But war is still possible; Errand of Mercy established that there had recently been a war with the Klingons, decades before DIS and SNW portrayed it. The death penalty is still a possible punishment for Federation officers (maybe citizens too?) in The Menagerie. McCoy makes bigoted comments toward his ship’s first officer regularly. If anything, SNW shows a more advanced society than TOS did. (I can’t imagine SNW Pike expressing TOS Pike’s opinion about women on the bridge!) Surely it makes sense that SNW’s society should resemble TOS’s more than TNG’s.
But the bigger sense of advancement across the entire franchise is still here too. A key point in SNW S1E1 is that society has moved beyond partisan struggles and infighting - the ability to explore space and live in the stars is tied directly to this sense of social harmony which we still lack. This was also true in previous eras of Trek, and is exactly why warp travel is the criteria to be contacted by the Federation. SNW shows that these writers get it, and continue to get it.
- Comment on "Section 31" early review round-up 1 year ago:
He asked you about SNW, and you forgot to talk about SNW.
