MalikMuaddibSoong
@MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Was Denied 2-Hour Finale Movie, Says Sonequa Martin-Green 2 hours ago:
the best series finales are always double-episodes
I think you’re right:
TNG: 2-parter, check
DS9: 2-parter, check
VOY: 2-parter, check
ENT: 1-shot, check
DISCO: 1-shot, check
- 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:
Romulans: Don’t
TreadMintaka On me - Comment on Canon Connections: PRO 2x11 - Last Flight of the Protostar, Part 1 5 days ago:
Dal discovered Adreek’s skeleton, and we learn that Aurelian skulls have spurs of bone projecting from them, presumably covered by the feathers.
Me: Aurelians have…feathers?
Some searching later…
Me: Oh Aurelian not El-Aurian
- Comment on Season 3 Teaser Trailer | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2 weeks ago:
Enterprise getting a second lease on life by virtue of no longer being the worst? I’m here for it 💪
- Comment on What are some lesser-known obscure TV series that went under the radar, that you would recommend? 2 weeks ago:
Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place
Now that’s an obscure gem and suddenly I want to hear that 80s synth song from Matt Berry www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO-ZGP68-3w
- Comment on Top 3 episodes (all shows) for a newbie 3 weeks ago:
As an ENT fan, excellent choices 👌
- Comment on Colm Meaney wanted to play O'Brien as American. “Rick Berman sat me down and said, ‘The whole notion of this show is that it’s multiracial’… I reluctantly started to play him Irish" 4 weeks ago:
“The house I grew up in was built by the Dublin Corporation,” Meaney says.
“How could we build houses then and can’t build them now?.. It’s fking Thatcherism, Reaganism, the neoliberals and the trickle-down economy that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael both bought into, [the idea] that the market will sort everything out. B***ocks.”
Our boy doesn’t hold back and I’m here for it! Wink
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew: Janeway's Star Trek Return is "Being Pursued" | TrekCulture 1 month ago:
Gimme those guest stars from ntsf:SD:SUV:: 🤞
- Comment on Which shows are worth watching? 1 month ago:
Oh, this definitely includes Renegades 👌
- Comment on Is there a way to watch DS9 whole skipping the prophet & pah wraith plotline 1 month ago:
If you do that you miss much of the best Trek villains:
Kai Wynn and Gul Dukat
They are part of reason folks are advising you to hang in there.
But ultimately just enjoy it and skip any episode that is boring you; if you make it halfway you’ll probably want to watch the few relevant ones you skipped.
p.s. Buckle up 🖖
- Comment on Which shows are worth watching? 1 month ago:
Enterprise all the way.
It starts strong with lots human/vulcan conflict and then eases into 2 seasons of TNG-style adventures.
Season 3 is an imperfect masterpiece that ultimately delivers some incredible episodes. This is where Enterprise comes into its own.
Season 4 is more like a collection of 3-parters that sees the crew touch on all the lore they missed in the first 3 seasons. Satisfying but a different vibe.
Highlights include:
- Captain Archer feuding with Duras
- Dr Phlox improving every episode he appears
- Lt Reed vs Major Hayes
- Grapplers!
Low points include:
- Decontamination
- Archer/Tpol tension
- Cogenitor episode
- The finale
- Comment on Surprise: Production Has Wrapped On ‘Star Trek: Khan’ Audio Series With Naveen Andrews In Title Role 1 month ago:
Quick someone animate it
for the masses,for the children, for me! - Comment on William Shatner Confirms Talks for Star Trek Return at 93 Years Old 1 month ago:
It’s a matter of opinion of course, but to me Picard 1/2 suffers the same malady as S31: “all we need is a big star to sell our franchise”
Season 3 felt to me like the owners of the franchise desperately trying to salvage the final season from Patrick Stewart’s meddling.
As for Kirk’s stories you’re right he’s done if not already overdone, at least as a main character. Who knows how he may work as a supporting character 🤷♀️
- Comment on William Shatner Confirms Talks for Star Trek Return at 93 Years Old 1 month ago:
If Kirk is going to come back, it has to mean something. It has to be the show. But I was so impressed by this writer, so I said let’s talk after I’m done in Vancouver.
He had me in the first half, but thankfully this doesn’t sound like another vanity project ala Picard S1/S2 🤞
- Comment on What It Took to Bring Those Viral Star Trek Short Films to Life 1 month ago:
That was an interesting watch. Glad someone is making shorts they think are fun to make, it’s refreshing.
- Comment on ‘Goonies’ Sequel in the Works With Steven Spielberg and Chris Columbus Producing 1 month ago:
Finally! Someone with the courage to adapt the NES classic The Goonies II to the big screen. What a time to be alive!
- Comment on Just Finished Lower Decks 2 months ago:
I have no idea, but I hope so haha
- Comment on Just Finished Lower Decks 2 months ago:
Buffertime episode was the one where I became hooked.
The show consistently delivered until the very end, at least for me.
My only petty gripe is when I recently rewatched an episode: Riker comments about seeing Archer and the gang in the holodeck and now that I’ve seen ENT…I don’t want to be reminded of the finale. I told you it was petty!
5 seasons and a movie, make it so!
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Season 1 Wraps Filming 2 months ago:
…all estimates to date project that the series will debut on Paramount+ sometime in 2026. In the meantime, the show has already been renewed for a second season of production.
Glad they believe in it enough to want a second season.
Now I wait until 2026 to see Parrises squares onscreen at last 🙏
- Comment on "Star Trek is dying." How would you sell it to a younger audience? 2 months ago:
Give them Andor instead of Ahsoka; they need to make more content that speaks to the universal human condition and less about the cool worlds and characters they’ve got. The people want Squid Game and Severance, not another cinematic universe.
- Comment on Warp Five: The Lower Decks Cast on the Cerritos' Future 2 months ago:
Sign me up for more Billups!
- Comment on 9 Years Later, 'Star Trek: Discovery's Co-Creator Just Revealed a Wild Alternate Cast 2 months ago:
“On my last week [working on Discovery], I approved the Starfleet uniforms, which they tossed out, and rejected the Klingons, which they kept.” Notably, both the Discovery uniforms and the Klingons from that era proved to be controversial with fans
That’s the big what-if for me out of this article: what if disco had klingons that didn’t become radioactive to so much of the audience?
The whole klingon war felt like it happened in a single episode or two and I wonder how much of that was them concluding they made an ugly-sonic and tossing it.
Maybe we would have seen more Ash Tyler and less Book, who knows 🤷♀️
- Comment on Star Trek TNG Theme but the theme is coming from the Enterprise-D 🤣 2 months ago:
The ending was perfect!
Thanks for a much appreciated dose of whimsy to start my day 👍
- Comment on Poll: What's the cross-over between fans of Trek and solarpunk? 2 months ago:
Ya I’ll have some of that please.
- Comment on Alex Kurtzman Gives Live-Action Comedy Update, Says Star Trek Can “Broaden” 2 months ago:
Federation outsiders serving a gleaming resort planet find out their day-to-day exploits are being broadcast to the entire quadran
Ok not bad, Acapulco is a funny show about working in a resort so I can sorta imagine it in space. Not as sure about the Punkd angle, but I’m remaining optimistic.
- Comment on Section 31 Is Now the Lowest-Rated Star Trek Project on Rotten Tomatoes 2 months ago:
They left out Enterprise!
Star Trek TV Series Rotten Tomatoes Ratings
Star Trek: 92% critics, N/A audience
Star Trek: The Animated Series: 94% critics, 81% audience
Star Trek: The Next Generation: 92% critics, 90% audience
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: 91% critics, 89% audience
Star Trek: Voyager: 76% critics, 80% audience
Star Trek: Enterprise: Am I a joke to you?
Star Trek: Discovery: 91% critics, 33% audience
Star Trek: Lower Decks: 91% critics, 73% audience
Star Trek: Picard: 89% critics, 57% audience
Star Trek: Prodigy: 97% critics, 88% audience
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: 98% critics, 79% audience
- Comment on Interview: Alex Kurtzman on Section 31 and the "evolution" of Star Trek 2 months ago:
Starfleet going around to other worlds to fix and moralize about other peoples’ problems, but never needing to self-reflect or improve on themselves.
There are a few PTSD episodes that at least try : Picard at the chateau and Archer on shore leave after the Xindi adventure.
I feel these are the best episodes where a character realizes they have changed and not for the better, but I wish there were more.
Maybe trek is sleeping on the post-adventure recontextualization power of a shore leave coda?
- Comment on Which movies are much darker when you rewatch them as an adult? 2 months ago:
You have 2 main characters to follow and it’s absolutely different based on your age.
Very similar experience with Cars 3. Children identify with the new up-and-comer race car while grownups identify with a Lightning McQueen who must accept his glory days are past and embrace the next generation.
Shoutout for the race announcer who drops a microcosm of the whole film in a single line:
McQueen’s fading! Fading fast!
- Comment on Interview: Alex Kurtzman on Section 31 and the "evolution" of Star Trek 2 months ago:
So ultimately, I feel like what we’re saying is that in order for Starfleet and that beautiful vision that Roddenberry had of this optimistic utopia, in order for that vision to exist, in order for the light to exist, you need people who operate in the shadows. And it’s a yin and yang. You can’t have one without the other.
I don’t like this sort of mother-goosery in my fully automated luxury gay space communism.
I prefer the assimilating power of root beer as the true defender of the federation.
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Section 31* (SPOILERS) 2 months ago:
If we’re going to take that last shot literally, Baraam is warp-capable
Wow. Turns out I walked away after “Your Mama IV” and completely missed this final shot of the space station going to warp.
Thanks, I hate it.