observantTrapezium
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- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x09 "Terrarium" 2 days ago:
Yet the floating boulders are so scientifically accurate 😜 (these aren’t other moons, we are told there are 396 moons, to be exact)
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x09 "Terrarium" 2 days ago:
the episode did not even need the aliens running things behind the scenes, it would have been perfectly fine to just have the spatial anomaly and a crash landing as the setup.
I think having the Metron running things behind the scenes helped a bit. I did a huge eye roll when there just happened to be a recently-occupied tent within walking distance from the crash site on a desolate moon, given the vastness of space this is so ridiculous (not that it stopped Star Trek or other sci-fi before).
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x09 "Terrarium" 3 days ago:
That was pretty good sci-fi! A solid 7/10.
I loved it that for the first time in SNW the gorn are a bit more than just space orks. Uhura was especially annoying this episode, and got off way too easy with fudging the numbers. Seeing the Metron was fine, I don’t know if most people who watch this watched Arena or are going to, so it gives them a taste. My favourite human-gorn interaction has to be this though: youtu.be/4hnBp7x2QAE?t=10
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Cast On Their Characters’ Fates, Nudity, And Not Getting A Musical Episode 4 days ago:
About Culber:
he’s gonna come back, we just haven’t figured out how, and we don’t know how we’re doing it because it’s gonna happen in season 2.
So they didn’t know what they were doing? Shocker.
Reading this article I wonder if the actors realize how bad the writing was for that show.
- Comment on Michelle Yeoh Admits “We Could Have Done Better” With ‘Star Trek: Section 31’ 6 days ago:
Thanks for clarifying. I responded to the title only as I didn’t actually care what Michelle Yeoh thinks and just want to put this sad story into the dustbin of Trekstory. Georgiou was the only mildly interesting character in Discovery and season 2 was the only mildly not-awful one, so I had moderate hopes for that movie.
- Comment on Michelle Yeoh Admits “We Could Have Done Better” With ‘Star Trek: Section 31’ 1 week ago:
Understatement of the century
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x08 "Four-and-a-Half-Vulcans" 1 week ago:
I think they are not very good at doing funny by themselves, but can do it with outside help. For example, the crossover with Lower Decks was good. In this episode, the only saving grace was Patton Oswalt (Doug), he was just hilarious!
4/10. It was 30-35 minutes too long.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x07 "What Is Starfleet?" 2 weeks ago:
I think exploring the idea of the Federation as an imperialist power is interesting, but done very poorly here. Thinking back to DS9 and how it dealt with moral questions. Beto is such a random character, exploring this from his perspective feels so meaningless.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x07 "What Is Starfleet?" 2 weeks ago:
The plot was interesting, the format was bad, I’ll go with 5/10 for this one, so just an OK episode…
I get that they are doing a lot of “experiments” with this show, I don’t think it was a successful one. Too much focus on nonsense.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x06 "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail" 3 weeks ago:
It was good! 7/10
Overall quite a good balance of sci-fi and action, and a bit of funny with the phone shtick.
I kinda had a hunch they were human. I don’t really appreciate how our guys were mourning them at the end, these people must have killed billions, now they’re stopped. It’s not super convincing that they have planet-destroying abilities, but just one ship that’s mostly known from ghost stories. But we’ve had worse plots.
Loved seeing Paloma Nuñez (as Alvarez) known from the hilarious Baroness Von Sketch Show.
- Comment on Star Trek: Lower Decks Wins Two Hugo Awards, Celebrating Series Finale and 'Warp Your Own Way' Graphic Novel 3 weeks ago:
While the Star Trek franchise has been nominated for many Hugo Awards over the decades, the last win came all the way back in 1994, for the Star Trek: The Next Generation series finale episode, “All Good Things.”
(it was actually 1995, the episode was aired the year prior)
Well deserved Lower Decks!! There was definitely some good Star Trek over the past 30 years, but I think the fact that LD is the first winner in so long is really telling. In my opinion it really was the best show since TNG. I think the other modern animated series, Prodigy, is not too far behind, shame it didn’t get more love.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x05 "Through the Lens of Time" 4 weeks ago:
3/10: well directed horror flick, not particularly good Trek.
- Comment on Chickenslap 2 months ago:
I confirm this as a physics PhD. I also understand exactly this thinking of assuming a system is in thermal equilibrium where it is far from it (like a chicken in am oven).
- Comment on Chickenslap 2 months ago:
205°C 😂😂😂
- Comment on W H Y 2 months ago:
It’s actually really easy to remember when considering the Proto-West Germanic etymology, one comes from *hwār, the othe from *hwaʀ. Just apply regular sound changes to find the modern form!
- Comment on ‘The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie’ Sets HBO Max Premiere Date - 27th June 3 months ago:
I watched it, was mid. I was hoping for something more adult oriented.
- Comment on Weekend Update: Colin Jost and Michael Che Swap Jokes for Season 50 Finale - SNL 3 months ago:
I don’t like when they do it. More generally I don’t like their chemistry.
- Comment on Which shows are worth watching? 6 months ago:
I wouldn’t say pale in comparison. Enterprise was really good in my opinion. Lower Decks and Prodigy too, these are a bit different, but have the same spirit I think.
I also rewatch The Original Series episodes every once in a while. The show as a whole is not really good by modern standards, but it has gems and it’s interesting to see where it all began.
Every show except Discovery has a balance of great episodes, filler episodes, and bad episodes. Discovery was bad from A to Z.
- Comment on Just Finished Lower Decks 6 months ago:
I think Prodigy really improved in the second half of the first season and more so in the second season. I thoroughly enjoyed it as an adult watching by myself, no shame in that 😁
- Comment on Just Finished Lower Decks 6 months ago:
I watch 929 episodes (out of 930 to date), the 10 shorts, and the 14 movies. Out of devotion. Section 31 was indeed awful, what can I say. But it’s only 90 minutes and you lose nothing if you multitask while watching.
IMO Lower Decks and Prodigy, the two animated shows, were the best by far of New Trek. Strange New Worlds is quite OK (and I have a soft spot for it since the Toronto episode). I hope it continues on the right path.
- Comment on Just Finished Lower Decks 6 months ago:
Yep, I think that’s how it’s commonly understood.
- Comment on Just Finished Lower Decks 6 months ago:
It was absolutely the best of New Trek!
- Comment on Threats 7 months ago:
No, it’s not normal getting a fax in 2025.
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- Comment on How Star Trek: Lower Decks Managed To Get Enterprise’s Jolene Blalock To Appear, And Why She’s Only Credited By Her First Name 8 months ago:
Why she’s only credited by her first name: because she asked and Mike McMahan agreed even though he didn’t know why.
- Comment on Everyone look! I got a picture of the Rosetta Stone 8 months ago:
That’s actually interesting!
- Comment on Lower Decks Eulogizing 8 months ago:
It was a masterpiece. Definitely an outlier in its craziness, but there’s room for that in such a big franchise, and it will be missed!
At first, I really hated this show, and really just hate-watched the first season. But it grew on me and I think I thought of it as not-so-bad by the end of the season. But it kept improving, and I think it stands out as probably the best of certainly modern Trek.
This show was a rare combination of being funny and actually good sci-fi at the same time. It contrasted so much with another Star Trek show that ended this year where characters took themselves way too seriously, and every single day the fate of the whole universe depended on their one ship.
- Comment on Nobody will question you 8 months ago:
Just saw the scatter plot and line and my mind immediately screamed “bullshit” without knowing what this was about at all. Only then I read the text.
- Comment on The Mighty Hummingbird 10 months ago:
Not sure this statement is true if “more closely related” is understood as shorter combined time between the two species from their most recent common ancestor. Hummingbirds and brachiosaurs had a more recent common ancestor than brachiosaurs and triceratopses (albeit probably still quite close to the dawn of dinosaurs in the Late Triassic ), but the latter pair lived closer in time to the common ancestor of all dinosaurs (while hummingbirds are from the Oligocene).
- Comment on Still Plenty of Strange New Worlds for Star Trek to Explore: Interview with Bob Picardo 10 months ago:
Yeah, Paikin is a great interviewer!