observantTrapezium
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- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 4x02 "Griffin Incident" 4 hours ago:
Spooky? Yes. Trek? Maybe the shit kind. 1/10
Added nothing to my life.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 4x01 "Valles Marineris" 1 week ago:
Pretty good start for the season, nice sci-fi concepts, 7/10
Pet peeves: away team knew it had to be ancient Earth after seeing T-Rex, after riding an alien creature that looked exactly like a horse at the beginning of the episode…
I was sure that the Voth were going to show up when they said it was the dinosaurs’ Earth, I think it’s a miss not to explore that, but that ancient Martian civilization concept was also interesting. It’s not scientific however as we know pretty well that Mars was already bone dry 65M years ago.
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- Comment on Fuck you Whatsapp 2 weeks ago:
They might be trying to detect ban evasion in various ways, but at least since Android 10 (released 2019), the OS restricts app access to non-resettable identifiers. That being said, Meta is known for dirty tricks, so simply using another phone number may indeed not be enough.
- Comment on Fuck you Whatsapp 2 weeks ago:
Effectively, they are getting paid by you, landlords factors that fee into the rent. But I get the point that the market favours landlords where you live and you might not have the privilege to ask for accommodations like communicating over SMS. This WhatsApp situation is fucked up, that your basic life functionality depends on a single unaccountable commercial entity.
My practical advice would be to buy an eSIM with a new number, there are very cheap options (like one used for travel) and you would practically need it just one time to get a verification code.
- Comment on How do students who are always involved in mathematics and physics get to know about sex? 4 weeks ago:
Ha! Also, small world, OOP is a friend of a friend.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Age might be a factor though. Recently I found a stash of floppies from around 2002, which were definitely good when they were stored. I think I was eventually able to extract only about 20% of the data.
- Comment on Anon is incompatible 1 month ago:
I’m proud to be incompatible with Apple
- Comment on Sent this to my friends flexing a "top 65%" score. The site didn't make it clear that's not a good thing. 3 months ago:
That’s a shitpost
- Comment on Finally a possible path toward peace in this long war 5 months ago:
It’s worse than both of them being the wing way
- Comment on I've Hit The Perfect Weight 5 months ago:
Same 😜
- Comment on I've Hit The Perfect Weight 5 months ago:
It’s not the perfect weight unless you are between 2.23 and 2.58 metres tall…
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x03 "Vitus Reflux" 5 months ago:
I watched 28 minutes and decided I’m gonna let this show go. I feel like I gave it a shot, the first two episodes weren’t terrible. I wouldn’t even say this episode was terrible (the ½ I watched), I just got very bored.
If like Lower Decks this show turns around to be great, do let me know and I might go back and watch it.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x01 "Kids These Days" & 1x02 "Beta Test" 6 months ago:
Episode 1: with expectations at the bottom of the Mariana Trench (because I watched Discovery), I was not too disappointed by this episode. Was it good? Also no. I think the story is fine in principle, it doesn’t unfold in a believable way, but not the worst we’ve seen in Star Trek. Other than that I was irked by what the captain says at 41:55:
make eh(?) your speed maximum impolt
Really, impolt, you couldn’t do a second take on that?
Episode 2: quite a bit worse, the plot progressed for like 3 minutes in total, and there was a lot of that teen drama that wasn’t interesting or amusing.
Overall felt like these were written by people who know a lot about Star Trek at a very surface level, and have a very TV-idea of what college life is like. I’ll keep watching, for now. Out of franchise loyalty more than actual interest.
- Comment on It's a bit like waking up after too long of a nap 6 months ago:
That’s the 1,704ᵗʰ time I’m seeing this type of meme over the past week.
- Comment on I watch the first Star Trek Discovery episode, I didn't like it. 7 months ago:
It’s only downhill from there for Discovery.
The exact opposite is true for Lower Decks, I hated it in the beginning, but it ended up being my favourite show in 20 years.
- Comment on STAR TREK 4 Has Finally Been Scrapped As Paramount "Moves On" From Chris Pine-Led Franchise 8 months ago:
I don’t like reboots or parallel universes so not disappointed.
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Producers Promise Season 4 Will Be Better 10 months ago:
I didn’t get the music analogy but I agree with you that “dumb shit” can apply to a large part of this season.
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Producers Promise Season 4 Will Be Better 10 months ago:
Hope so! Season 3 wasn’t the worst thing ever but not really good or memorable.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x10 "New Life and New Civilizations" 10 months ago:
You are thinking it over way more than the writers did. This hole-ridden plot is just there to justify the action scenes. But I think it’s implied that Batel left the messages. Why were they vague and in those other languages? Just because!!
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x10 "New Life and New Civilizations" 10 months ago:
2/10
Worse sequel to the season’s so-far worst episode.
Felt like the writers were like “wouldn’t it be cool if we do this… and that… and this again…”
“science so advanced it might as well be magic”: yeah, pretty much, this was more of a D&D campaign (bad one) than a good sci-fi episode. Even the silly Prophets / Pah-wraiths arc of DS9 was preferable to this.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x09 "Terrarium" 10 months 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" 10 months 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" 10 months 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 10 months 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’ 10 months 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’ 10 months ago:
Understatement of the century
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x08 "Four-and-a-Half-Vulcans" 11 months 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?" 11 months 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?" 11 months 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.
