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- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 5x10 "The New Next Generation" 3 days ago:
Loved loved loved the Wrath of Khan style shots of the Cerritos’ saucer section, the DIS style Klingons, the ultimate fate of Starbase 80 and Carol along with it. Nice way to wrap it all up with a tribute to the ship’s crew, but I’m still so sad it’s the end at least for now. Time to hunt down the comics…
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 5x09 "Fissure Quest" 1 week ago:
Holy crap, that was amazing. I guess the power of the multiverse is that, to quite 3 the Cole Porter standard, anything goes…
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 5x08 "Upper Decks" 2 weeks ago:
Loved this episode, weirdly my favourite aspect was seeing all the “Other Deck” characters again: Delta shift, Westlake, Barnes, Bingston, Meredith, Stevens and the cadet who needed help studying.
Stevens in particular showed his worth as an organised and thoughtful adjutant to the Captain, was great to see him show his worth as something other than Ransom’s biggest fan or just the butt of jokes.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 5x07 "Fully Dilated" 3 weeks ago:
Heartfelt usually but not always equals The Tendi Effect on LD to me hah. I agree about the subplot being weak - both for Mariner and also Boimler/Rutherford which was pretty much a slapstick sketch.
I would’ve liked to see something like Boims struggling to think of a first book to take to T’Ana’s book club, with Ruthie enthusiastically but haplessly trying to suggest things (usually engineering related)
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 5x05 "Starbase 80?!" 5 weeks ago:
Loved seeing more of the Cetacean Ops crew, plus those ENT unis
- Comment on Tony Todd Dies: ‘Candyman’ Star Whose Hundreds Of Credits Include ‘Final Destination’ Films & ‘Platoon’ Was 69 1 month ago:
The Visitor will always be one of the most beautiful Trek episodes to me, RIP good sir 🫡
- Comment on Star Trek: Voyager Co-Creator Jeri Taylor Dead at 88 1 month ago:
Really nice article of what she did to improve the representation and perception of women on Star Trek, also weird but cool that she worked on Quincy ME previously: womenatwarp.com/jeri-taylor-woman-in-the-writers-…
Thanks for your service and safe journey amongst the stars, Jeri 🫡
- Comment on Actress Dame Maggie Smith dies at 89 2 months ago:
Good innings, Maggie, fly high. 🫡 Think I first saw her in Hook as a child
- Comment on The boomer generation hit the economic jackpot. Young people will inherit their massive debts. 2 months ago:
Couldn’t agree more, though I would say it also distracts from the need to highly regulate capitalism at large, i.e. encourage reinvestment in employees (pay at least in line with inflation, training, etc) over shareholder dividends or CEO bonuses
- Comment on Ticketmaster to be investigated by watchdog over 'dynamic pricing' of Oasis tickets 3 months ago:
Heard a lot about that over in the US, no surprise crappy Ticketmaster brought it over here. Already on my avoid list as they block VPNs, kinda “you can’t fire me, I quit!” vibes but I don’t regret it
- Comment on ‘It’s just a rich man’s playground now’: how St Ives became patient zero of British overtourism | Cornwall 4 months ago:
Prime example of why second homes need to be more heavily taxed, and loopholes like switches to “local businesses” closed
- Comment on Star Trek: Lower Decks Returns in New Ongoing Comic Series 4 months ago:
Or at least 5 15-episode seasons!
- Comment on Extended Clip | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3 4 months ago:
Right?! Is the new Starfleet Academy show at least due sooner than that???
- Comment on E. coli advice issued amid rise in cases 6 months ago:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c722j41jyk1o
Some 113 people have become ill with E. coli in recent weeks and experts believe it is most likely linked to a nationally distributed food item.
The UK Health Security Agency says testing of samples suggests all of the cases since 25 May are “part of a single outbreak”.
- Comment on Ofwat plan to cut sewage fines 'sends dangerous message to water firms' 6 months ago:
Insane, it should go the other way given how much it’s been happening
- Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Wrapping Up Season 3 Production, Work on Season 4 Begins Spring 2025 6 months ago:
If it doesn’t get at least as many as Discovery I’ll be incredibly sad
- Comment on 8 months ago:
Agreed, even as a huge fan of LD I could personally sense it being more difficult to write more stories for our lowly stalwarts of Starfleet in season 4. Better to be able to end still chanting “Lower Decks! Lower Decks! Lower Decks!”
- Comment on ‘Section 31’ Movie Director Says It’s A “Different” Star Trek + New Character Details Revealed 8 months ago:
I’d personally prefer that to the tone Discovery took
- Comment on Smart meter figures: Nearly four million not working properly 8 months ago:
This is why I’m happy sticking with the meters my house was built with (which are “only” 23 years old)
- Comment on Star Trek Bundle 11 months ago:
They do books too, I got most of the Pathfinder 1st edition PDFs from a Humble Bundle deal
- Comment on Strange New Worlds 11 months ago:
The Klingon scene was easily my favourite moment of that episode, reaction was a millisecond of complete surprise followed by splitting of sides
- Comment on didn't come to posting it lately, but these were in my advent calendar (9th-11th december) 1 year ago:
Out of stock now sadly bluebrixx.com/…/Star-Trek-Advent-calendar-BlueBri…
- Comment on 8th december, got the enterprise (the second enterprise so far) 1 year ago:
Love it, also I finally cracked under the weight of your advent calendar posts and ordered the USS Thunderchild. If Blue Brixx release the USS Prometheus that’s another purchase from me (see feddit.uk/comment/4417683)!
- Comment on Your First Look at the Star Trek: Lower Decks - U.S.S. Cerritos Crew Handbook 1 year ago:
Looks like a Christmas pressie from me to me
- Comment on Let's talk starship classes! 1 year ago:
Ah, nice bit of trivia there
- Comment on Let's talk starship classes! 1 year ago:
Oop yup, meant Constellation class?
- Comment on Let's talk starship classes! 1 year ago:
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Akira, a slick updated take on the Miranda imo! In my head canon this took over from that and the Excelsior class as the workhorse of the fleet.
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Species 8472 bio shop, still remember my original reaction of being blown away. Love that the profile reminds me of a missile
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Prometheus, though The Doc/Voyager crew were the heroes it was cool to see an ultra militaristic Starfleet vessel. Multi vector assault mode!
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- Comment on Lower Decks Season 4 - prerelease pro media reviews released - Inverse, SlashFilm 1 year ago:
Honestly I was skimming these not wanting to accidentally spoil anything for myself! If anything just searching for them is building real hype for season 4, LD is easily my favourite NuTrek show though I’m a fan of SNW and Prodigy too
- Comment on What show took you the longest to get into? 1 year ago:
The SNW/LD crossover episode was one of the most anticipated things of 2023 for me and fully delivered, just the perfect loveletter to being a Trekkie whilst also building on a fair number of personal plot developments.
If you’ve not already watched it I’d check out Prodigy too - it’s probably the most underrated Nu Trek series imo being aimed at younger viewers. That said I loved it as an adult (ostensibly) and am praying season 2 gets picked up soon.
As to the topic, I can’t think of anything as even series heavy on world building/low on action at the start like Andor or The Expense drew me in from the beginning.