Sertou

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x05 "Through the Lens of Time"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
That’s a fair caveat.

SNW has been overusing it as a plot device. In TNG it was a one off gimmick to bring back Scotty. Still, I wondered why they didn’t buy Batel time from her Gorn egg infection by putting her in the pattern buffer. It seems like an idea that ought to have at least been discussed, but I don’t recall that it was.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x05 "Through the Lens of Time"⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
To be fair, it was used the way in the TNG Episode Relics, when Scotty spent 75 years stuck in the Jenolan’s transport buffer, so quiite a long precedent.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x05 "Through the Lens of Time"⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
It totally was. It’s no coincidence that it was Scotty who caught the entity and Scotty who is taken over by it years later in Wolf in the Fold.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x05 "Through the Lens of Time"⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
My only complaint is that Ensign Gamble got this great episode, while Jenna Mitchell has yet to see an iota of character development and more than a few minutes of screen time away from the helm. Of course Gamble had to die for the privilege, so I guess that’s fair. Still, I think the writers owe Rong Fum some love.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
More importantly, this will be easily undone later, unlike much of the other damage he has done or plans to do. Compared to those things, I can’t get too worked up over this.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
The web isn’t just HTML and server side scripting anymore. A modern website uses Javascript for many key essentials of the site’s operation. I’m not saying that’s always a good thing, but it is a true thing.

It is no longer a reasonable expectation that a website work with JavaScript disabled in the browser. Most of the web is now in content management systems that use JavaScript for browser support, accessibility, navigation, search, analytics and many aspects of page rendering and refreshing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch's largest political streamer, Asmongold, shovels racist and xenophobic messaging to his audience of 52K+ live viewers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Asmondgold is so far past being relevant. He was intolerable when he was simply making World of Warcraft videos.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Showrunners Talk Season 3 Premiere And “Retconning” The Gorn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
My head-canon is that there is no retconm, or at least no need for one.

We’ve seen in ST SNW that where the Gorn are concerned, the younger they are, the faster and dumber they are.

Pike and his crew have only directly encountered hatchlings, adolescents and a very few Gorn of age to serve on starships, perhaps the Gorn equivalent of redshirts.

The logical extension of that idea is that as Gorn mature, they become slower, burlier and more intelligent. The Gorn Kirk encountered in Arena may have a very mature individual, thus his slow, lumbering pace and extreme cunning. Probably overdue for a promotion to admiral.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World of Warcraft: The War Within's pre-patch event has been fixed, removing 90-minute wait times and turning its weekly quests into account-wide dailies⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Good points all. Blizzard never has prioritized communication.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World of Warcraft: The War Within's pre-patch event has been fixed, removing 90-minute wait times and turning its weekly quests into account-wide dailies⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Too late. Someone at Blizzard should have remembered that “You never get a second chance to make amfirst impression.” No amount of FOMO will bring me back to this tedious grind disguised as an event.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek and The Orville, which is better/worse?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
“Aping” is kind of a pejorative way to describe what The Orville does. If they were “aping” TNG, they’d be imitating TNG in a very derivative manner. It’s more of an homage to TNG, but in a comedy format with original ideas and character dynamics.

The Orville’s first season is no worse than TNGs. There were some truly awful first season episodes of TNG. Code of Honor is a good example of an awful episode.

I don’t think better or worse comparisons are very meaningful. They’re both good shows. TNG has many of my favorite Trek stories and characters. I think it says a lot that it inspired so much of what The Orville does.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Braga: ‘I still cringe when I hear it.’ Apparently, it was a long road to the franchise’s most despised title music⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Ah, my mistake.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Braga: ‘I still cringe when I hear it.’ Apparently, it was a long road to the franchise’s most despised title music⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
The lyrics are generally fitting to the theme of the show. The Rod Stewart performance didn’t work for me then, later or now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Braga: ‘I still cringe when I hear it.’ Apparently, it was a long road to the franchise’s most despised title music⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
This article added quite a bit to the discussion. For one, U2’s beautiful day was also considered, as was a semi-operatic song performed by Russell Watson. It’s not simply a rehash of the hate it/love arguments. I encourage you to read it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x10 "Hegemony"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
My head canon is that there’s another stage to the Gorn lifecycle that we haven’t yet seen on SNW. It might be that with full maturity, the Gorn gain significant intelligence and brute strength relative to earlier stages, but lose speed and agility.