Corgana
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- Comment on Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand 2 hours ago:
- Comment on Canon Connections: DIS 5x07 - Erigah 2 days ago:
Star Trek (derogatory)
I can feel what this means in my gut
- Comment on Solve a puzzle for me 3 days ago:
Asking an llm to do things it’s particularly bad at
and being surprised that it isn’t good at itthat the company that makes it says it’s really, really, good at it.This image isn’t making fun of GPT, it’s making fun of the people who pretend GPT is something it’s not.
- Comment on Canon Connections: DIS 5x07 - Erigah 3 days ago:
This is the second time Book’s extrasensory abilities have been the key to solving one of the clues, the first being in “Jinaal”.
Yeah he’s gonna die in the finale isn’t he
- Comment on [Interview] As a Star Trek Era Ends, Discovery's Mary Wiseman Reveals the Franchise's Greatest Lesson 5 days ago:
Especially in this season it so obvious how Tilly’s intelligence manifests in being able to bypass entire complexes of prejudice and social norms (perceived and unconscious, spoken and unspoken) whether they be human or alien, and get right to the point with somebody. In an organization that is constantly trying to establish trust with a variety of unknown actors, Tilly is an incredible asset.
Very well said!
- Comment on Searching for the "most representative" Star Trek episode 6 days ago:
I picked “Doomsday Machine” but Corbomite Maneuver is also really good. Classic in multiple senses of the word.
- Comment on Searching for the "most representative" Star Trek episode 6 days ago:
Good point! I forgot that it was mostly the two of them on the planet. It is also somewhat unusual in that there is no distinct B-plot. The events that take place in orbit are directly related.
- Comment on Searching for the "most representative" Star Trek episode 6 days ago:
Ironically, being a comedy episode it’s not very representative!
- Comment on Searching for the "most representative" Star Trek episode 6 days ago:
Sometimes I think Star Trek did Sub Rosa just to prove they didn’t need to include their usual copius amounts of nudity in order to create something extremely erotic.
It’s like the story about how Hitchcock didn’t give “The Birds” a soundtrack after someone said his movies were only scary because of the music.
- Comment on Searching for the "most representative" Star Trek episode 6 days ago:
This is a great question. I like to recommend Data’s Day for newbies because he sort of goes around and introduces every character, but it’s a pretty unconventional episode.
I think I would go with “Doomsday Machine”!
That said, I also think Darmok would be a good fit too, the concept itself is unique in that as far as I know it’s the first it was used in scoence fiction, but the manner in which the concept is presented “Enterprise crew encounters a problem that can’t be solved with guns or technology” is pretty darn representative.
- Comment on Canon Connections: DIS 5x06 - Whistlespeak 1 week ago:
it is stated that Starfleet officers swear
- Comment on Preview ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Episode 507 With New Images And Clip From “Erigah” 1 week ago:
- Comment on Were the [REDACTED] also a result of the Progenitors? DIS s5 spoilers 1 week ago:
I had a similar thought. So far Disco (unlike in “The Chase”) has implied that the progenitors seeded all life. I have a feeling it’s meant to throw us off the trail a bit.
- Comment on Preview ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Episode 507 With New Images And Clip From “Erigah” 1 week ago:
I remember when new uniform variants meant it was a new series (or at least a new admiral).
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x06 "Whistlespeak" 1 week ago:
Yeah totally. I think the glibness is coming from a place of experience. Like he knows Culber will get there eventually, but there are no words that will help. Like the whole trying to tell a queer teenager “it gets better” thing.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x06 "Whistlespeak" 1 week ago:
I liked that at no point Burhnam spoke down to the town leader dude by going “actually yes we are gods now open the door I’ll explain later” even though in the short-term it would have been faster.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x06 "Whistlespeak" 1 week ago:
idk Stamets seemed pretty receptive and understanding, I think Culber was moreso unsure because he sees himself as a “man with all the answers” and didn’t like the vulnerability that came with showing his partner a side that’s unsure and not confident. That’s how it seemed to me at least.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x06 "Whistlespeak" 2 weeks ago:
Culber’s newfound spirituality arc felt kinda shoehorned in as an odd piece of character development in a show that’s about to end. I actually initially really enjoyed that he felt weird about hosting a Trill spirit (Trek has a habit of stuff getting right back to normal after a traumatic experience) but it’s dragged on without a clear direction as to what it means.
The whole idea of a humanoid habitat built around a semi-functioning weather control network was cool. Though I would have loved to have seen the dead civilization around the tower they eventually go to!
- Comment on The Flight of the Phoenix illustrated in the style of a NASA infographic. 2 weeks ago:
I tried to find out more about the guy who made it but he hasn’t posted to BBS since 2020, has a suspended reddit account, and a deleted Twitter.
I have to imagine someone that trekkish is at least familiar with Our Website so fingers crossed someone might know him because I would totally get one of these too.
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- Comment on Canon Connections: DIS 5x05 - Mirrors 2 weeks ago:
But Kirk told the pretty lady they don’t
- Comment on Canon Connections: DIS 5x05 - Mirrors 2 weeks ago:
I WANT A REFUND
(And don’t’ tell me they don’t use money in the 23rd century)
- Comment on Finally, fans are getting what they've been demanding for years, a crossover event between the Kelvinverse and... World of Tanks 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Twitter co-founder Biz Stone joins board of Mastodon's new US nonprofit | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
How so?
- Comment on Interview: ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Writer Carlos Cisco On Unmasking The Breen And Revisiting The ISS Enterprise 2 weeks ago:
Again with the Tzenkethi!
- Comment on Interview: ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Writer Carlos Cisco On Unmasking The Breen And Revisiting The ISS Enterprise 2 weeks ago:
I enjoyed the Breen being a mysterious weird thing, and they mostly still are. But the “reveal” inasmuch as it was, I thought was pretty cool and while it took away some mystery, it added some too.
- Comment on Canon Connections: DIS 5x04 - Face the Strange 3 weeks ago:
The arms merchant whom we see Moll and L’ak dealing with appears to be an Annari
Wow, good eye. And very interesting!
Burnham convinces Airiam she’s genuine by telling Airiam she sacrifices her life to save everyone else in “Project Daedalus”, an act that none of the rest of the crew believe Airiam would perform.
This made laugh. The entire crew is all “Nah not Ariam she sucks! She would 100% take the money and run leaving us all to die” and then when she’s like “No actually I would die for you jerks” they get all pikachuface.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x04 "Face the Strange" 3 weeks ago:
Especially because of the Book scene!
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x04 "Face the Strange" 4 weeks ago:
Ash Tyler would have been pretty special.
Funny way of spelling Voq!