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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Worst examples of Treknobabble⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “I can’t stop the heterocyclic declination!” (TNG: “Samaritan Snare”)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Space and Time Traveler's Guide to Star Trek⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Move Along Home” would work so much better as a Doctor Who episode. Has the same kind of absurdity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the New Class of Cadets in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, I wonder if this show was greenlit in some way because of Prodigy’s cancellation. They’re trying to draw in a younger audience for the sake of the franchise’s long term prospects, but Prodigy didn’t get as many views on Paramount+ as they hoped (and is now on a different service), so they wanted to make a version of that which is better suited to streaming, without the awkward concessions to Nickelodeon’s release schedule.

  Though, I think the problem is really Paramount+. A streaming service that is best known for Star Trek and a bunch of dramas that old people watch is unlikely to get anyone under 30 into Star Trek.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prodigy Season 2: How do we want to discuss it?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m against a megathread. That would be too busy and I think there will be more than enough to discuss about each episode.

  For entirely selfish reasons, I’d like individual discussion threads for each episode that come out one or two a day, since that’s the pace I expect to be watching it (optimistically).

  Though, I think the best option for everyone might be five-episode blocks. That would allow both bingewatchers and slower viewers to enjoy the conversation without spamming the feed, and will match up well enough with the “parts” it would have been split into if it aired on Nickelodeon that both broad and individual episode discussions will make sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨See New Images from Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to be a mix between Starfleet and Vau N’Akat dress.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anson Mount (‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’): ‘We’re feeling even more emboldened’ to take ‘even bigger swings’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now I’m (tentatively) excited to see how they’ll outdo a season with a novel gimmick in each and every episode, including a musical and a crossover with a parody show, in terms of gimmicky weirdness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2 Beams to Netflix on July 1⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Glad we have a release date now. Although, are they going to drop the entire season at once? Because I much prefer the weekly episodes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some underrated episodes from each series?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like I said I’ve only seen the consensus classics there, and it’s been a while. I’m planning to see the rest of it as the Greatest Generation podcast covers it. But it is also probably my least favorite Star Trek show.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some underrated episodes from each series?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TOS: The Cloud Minders. One of the show’s extremely heavy-handed message episodes, this time about classism and labor rights. It’s quite dramatically compelling in addition to expressing its ideas eloquently.

  TAS: Beyond the Farthest Star. One of the more “normal” episodes of that series, but it really works for me.

  TNG: Contagion. One of the most tense and action-packed TNG episodes, featuring computer malfunctions both amusing and terrifying, but also a great showcase for all the characters, and their ability to combine their talents to solve what seems like an impossible problem, to the point that it’s one of the episodes that got me into Trek in general (alongside Remember Me).

  DS9: Visionary. Pretty good episode of time travel weirdness, and one of my go to examples of what I think is best way to go about explaining time travel: don’t explain it, just do whatever wacky shit you want and laugh off the paradoxes with a recurring joke. “I hate temporal mechanics!”

  VOY: Latent Image. In addition to being yet another fascinating exploration of the rights and sentience of artificial life, with a hint of an ethical dilemma in there, I really relate to how the Doctor’s trauma responses are described.

  DIS: There Is A Tide. I love all of the scenes between Admiral Vance and Osyraa.

  PIC: The Impossible Box. I remember that being one of the more tense and well-made episodes of the show, especially Soji’s existential crisis and Picard’s Borg flashbacks, although I find it hard to think in individual episodes with this one.

  LD: Veritas. The show hadn’t really clicked with me before this episode. I loved the whole theme about the lack of attention the command crew gives to the ensigns, and how this just adds to their problems.

  I’ve only really seen the consensus classics of ENT, and while I have seen SNW and PRO, my favorites are all consensus favorites that get a decent amount of buzz already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some underrated episodes from each series?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember Me was one of the episodes that got me into Star Trek. My parents loved TNG and Voyager, but it was one of the first episodes I actually sat down and watched with them, and the whole premise of everyone disappearing, and how Beverly figured out what was going on, hit my brain in just the right way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why this feels recent?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My guess is that they meant TOS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why this feels recent?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is an interesting comment, actually, because instead of hating on the new shows and comparing them to the old ones, Matt’s hating on the old shows for being politically correct and saying DS9 and Voyager, the then-current shows, are the good ones. Even though DS9 was more diverse and less subtle about its themes, compared to TNG.

  Imagine if Dave Cullen, Doomcock, Midnight’s Edge, Nerdrotic, etc. dedicated their careers to saying that the new Star Trek shows were AWESOME because they were less woke than TNG and DS9.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Preview ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Episode 507 With New Images And Clip From “Erigah”⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t object to more Jett Reno!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Preview ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Episode 504 With New Images And Clip From “Face The Strange”⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope these shots aren’t a good representation of the whole episode, because if they are, it’s a 15 minute scene of L’Ak and Moll on a planet followed by 35 minutes of close-up shots of Rayner

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alright, where do I begin?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You can start anywhere you want! I often recommend starting with Star Trek: The Next Generation, since it’s aged a little better than the original series. You might prefer to jump ahead to season 2 or 3 to get to the really good stuff, but even season 1 is worth watching.

  Up until Enterprise season 3 it’s pretty much all episodic (or in DS9’s case, mostly episodic with a subset of the episodes forming a series-long story arc), so you can pick a random episode with a cool-sounding description and start there if you want. That’s how I got into Trek, just picking random TNG and Voyager episodes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fun episodes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  VOY: “Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy” comes to mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek Prodigy season 2 spoilers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Super glad it’s still in production despite all the bullshit with Paramount+. Though I still wonder where it will be published…