darkpanda
@darkpanda@lemmy.ca
- Comment on It's insidious 2 days ago:
It’s difficult for me to answer in an unbiased way because I grew up watching the shows during their original run and I generally watch one or two of the series runs each year. I watched TOS earlier this year and am presently part way through VOY. Did TNG last Christmas, might do DS9 this Christmas. I’ve got history with these here shows.
It might be better to watch TNG first to see what Roddenberry was going for and see how he set the Star Trek “rules” so to speak before you see how they were broken in DS9 as that might have more impact. TNG might seem a little quaint after watching DS9.
As for Voyager… VOY is effectively an alt-TNG and not really distinguishable but also not offensive if you throw out the space salamanders and similarly horrid episodes. VOY started with the premise of being a series about a ship on its own trying to get home and having to deal with limited resources and always scrambling for fuel and water or whatever, but that sense of desperation lasted about 3 episodes before it reverted to TNG Part 2. It could have really been something but they didn’t have the guts to push any boundaries. Battlestar Galactica 2004 feels like that concept done correctly before it kind of went off the rails when they forgot what show they started with, but I digress.
I think you’d appreciate DS9 more by letting TNG set the stage. DS9 also primarily occurs chronologically after TNG for the most part, with some overlap in the early seasons, although that barely makes a difference in the narrative. Watch TNG for the vision, watch DS9 for the vision rearranged, and bear in mind that these are 30 year old shows before CGI was common place. There will be some racism and sexism in the early TNG episodes and the VFX will be spotty, but these are classics for a reason.
- Comment on It's insidious 2 days ago:
DS9 was probably the most interesting of the shows of that time though. It broke several of Roddenberry’s rules:
- plenty of characters had long-running interpersonal gripes and grievances. In TNG everything was returned to status quo after any given episode or two parter. No one really argued with each other, everyone just learned a life lesson and everything was back to normal the next episode. Voyager started with some tension on the ship between the Maquis and the federation crew but that basically stopped after like 5 episodes and it was back to TNG camaraderie.
- it wasn’t on a ship that went travelled about.
- it had long running storylines that lasted several seasons. TNG had a few two parters and that season 1 conspiracy thread with the creepy crawlies taking over the federation but not much beyond that. Voyager had Species 8472 and the Borg and Kazon and whatnot but it was pretty straight adventure of the week stuff most of the time.
- it showed the federation being less than perfect. The federation of DS9 was flawed and made poor decisions at times. Sisko did something so bad once that they dedicated a whole episode to a log entry where he convinces himself he can live with the amoral decision he made to protect the federation, and Section 31 was a whole unit purpose made for dirty work.
- it had Garak. Dude would just straight up murder people, and he was one of the good guys.
- they played baseball. Not blurgball or space-baseball, just straight baseball. It was a shit show of a game, mind you, but they didn’t invent some futuristic sport just because they had to. They just did a baseball.
I think DS9 is the most interesting Trek series of them all.
- Comment on And 299999999 is divisible by 13 2 weeks ago:
There’s also the classic “no three positive integers a, b, and c to satisfy a**n + b**n = c**n for values of n greater than 2“ trick but my proof is to large to fit in this comment.
- Comment on And 299999999 is divisible by 13 2 weeks ago:
If all of the digits summed recursively reduce to a 9, then the number is divisible by 9 and also by 3.
If the difference between the sums of alternating sets digits in a number is divisible by 11, then the number itself is divisible by 11.
That’s all I can remember, but yay for math right?
- Comment on Support local bands 3 weeks ago:
Or “Wagpn Wheel”.
- Comment on Support local bands 3 weeks ago:
DENIED
- Comment on Support local bands 3 weeks ago:
Don’t forget to yell out “Free Bird” you clever bastards.
- Comment on Please don't crash. Please don't crash. Please don't crash. 5 weeks ago:
It truly is the forgotten pandemic.
- Comment on Please don't crash. Please don't crash. Please don't crash. 5 weeks ago:
Correct, the source of the fever was never specified, all we know is that the only prescription was more cowbell. This was a real concern for the CDC and the WHO at the time, but the fever appeared to subside on July 4, 1975, when the single for “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” was released by the Blue Oyster Cult, potentially saving millions of lives.
- Comment on ALIENS 5 weeks ago:
This one’s even faster, in fact.
But forget that, let’s talk about these Nano Cats.
- Comment on Vinegar 1 month ago:
Yeah, basically. You get the same flavour but in a powdered form. Imagine opening a bag of chips and getting a soggy mess of liquid vinegar. It would be chaos. Its probably cheaper too, but I don’t know shit about chip manufacturing.
- Comment on Vinegar 1 month ago:
Unfortunately most chip companies don’t actually use salt and vinegar directly, they use sodium diacetate and sodium acetate which when combined produce the salt and vinegar flavouring we know.
- Comment on A Gamble: What will be the plot of *Lower Decks*'s Finale? 2 months ago:
Riker and Troi learn a life lesson and the exit the holodeck.
- Comment on Balls 2 months ago:
The whole point of the Michelin guides were originally to entice people to drive more to visit hotels and restaurants and such, thus leading to more tire wear which would lead to more tire sales, and eventually more money for Michelin.
- Comment on Hideo 1 2 months ago:
Pretty much.
- Comment on Bravo, Ridley 2 months ago:
They say he’s out standing in his field.
- Comment on Was Elvis Presley a pedo? 2 months ago:
Yeah, I mean it’s in the context of the time,‘I never had a problem with that per se. It’s more that some folks took it out of that context and were not quite as situationally aware I guess you could say.
Then there’s the cases of folks like Jerry Lee Lewis marring his 13 year old cousin, Elvis marrying a 14 year old, etc.
- Comment on Was Elvis Presley a pedo? 2 months ago:
Might you be thinking of “Sweet Little Sixteen” by Chuck Berry? The guy who btw installed cameras in women’s bathrooms?
Also, the most venerated boomer band of all time…
“She was just 17… if you know what I mean “
Love the Beatles, mind you, but uhhhh… all of those boomer bands were like that.
“I used to pull your pigtails And your scrunched up nose But baby you been growing And baby it’s been showing From your head down to your toes”
Another Elvis hit, “Little Sister.”
Again, love the King, but uhhh….
- Comment on To Fix CrowdStrike Blue Screen of Death Simply Reboot 15 Straight Times, Microsoft Says 3 months ago:
macOS has something to this effect where if it detects too many kernel panics in a row on boot it will disable all kernel extensions on the next reboot and it pops up a message explaining this. I’ve had this happen to me when my GPU was slowly dying. It eventually did bite the dust on me, but it did let me get into the system a few times to get what I needed before it was kaput.
- Comment on What are your favourite controllers? 4 months ago:
The contacts inside are too big and sensitive and it results in phantom inputs. The DIY fix is to open up the controller and literally cover parts of the input contacts with tape.
- Comment on Antybooties 6 months ago:
If you woke up with stilts on one day wouldn’t you be confused? Seems self-evident that ants would be too. Like, “I don’t remember going to bed with stilts on, wtf man, what was I on last night?”
- Comment on Getting old sucks 7 months ago:
Holds up spork.
- Comment on I used to be with it, then they changed what "it" is 7 months ago:
- Comment on Gameplay mechanics were also a lot better with more replayability. 7 months ago:
Give Tunic a try. The in-game manual is a central piece of its overall puzzle.
- Comment on Hustle tip 7 months ago:
Including the sleeve wrapping or it doesn’t count. No unwrapping. Eat all.
- Comment on Malaria 8 months ago:
More specifically it was Jonas Salk, and what he said was “There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?” and then laughed at the thought.
Video of him saying it here:
- Comment on brilliant as silver 8 months ago:
Sneaky Simpsons reference here for those who didn’t notice.
- Comment on TrekMovie.com: Patrick Stewart Reveals New Star Trek Movie Script Featuring Jean-Luc Picard Is In The Works 10 months ago:
I prefer to think that Picard is just still stuck in the Nexus and everything that has happened to him since has been a result of magic Nexus fever dreams.
Movie Picard and PIC Picard acted nothing like TNG Picard to the point where they were seemingly completely different people. Movie Picard wanted to make the Borg pay for what they did and literally beat in dead Borg with his fists and snapped the Borg queen’s spine in two with his bare hands while TNG Picard knew things weren’t that cut and dry and even had an opportunity to potentially genocide the works of them and didn’t because ethics and shit. Movie Picard would have drove Hugh up to their doorstep infected with the fractal virus the first chance he had.
PIC Picard… is literally an android I guess? But still old? They kind of ignored that later. So, literally he isn’t the same Picard as TNG Picard.
The Nexus is my head canon.
- Comment on Wal-Mart ad speaking truth 10 months ago:
You need to get in the refrigerator with them and eat them there.
- Comment on Demand to reverse Brexit hits ‘highest ever level’ 1 year ago:
Breturn