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- Comment on Karim Diané on playing Star Trek’s first gay Klingon 5 days ago:
Your opinion on that could only hold any weight if you’d been watching it, which you obviously haven’t, since you just tried to argue that the creators of Jay-Den tried to steal clout from the creators of Lura Thok.
- Comment on Karim Diané on playing Star Trek’s first gay Klingon 6 days ago:
You’re the one who’s missing the point, in a way that betrays your ignorance about the subject. There were no outwardly gay Klingons who preceded Jay-Den. Calling him the first is only imprecise because he’s tied for that title with another character introduced in the same episode.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x10 "Rubincon" 1 week ago:
I agree, I felt like the trial should have gone harder on the Federation’s inability to handle the burn. I like that backstory of failure. It means the SFA generation has to feel a greater weight of responsibility to be build something better.
Like, okay, humanitarian triage was needed, but why? Surely every planetary system should be minimally self-sufficient, not relying on a disruptable interstellar supply chain. Even if it never intentionally violated its core principles, I’d like it reinforced that the Federation was complacent before the burn, and holds responsibility for that.
I understand the drama of the scene meant it had to circle around Ake’s decisions regarding Caleb, but I thought the balance could have been pulled off slightly better.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x10 "Rubincon" 1 week ago:
de-weaponizing the minefield (which one would think has long-term implications, if they’ve truly found a way to permanently stabilize Omega)
I had the impression that it was only an option because of the composition of this synthetic type of Omega. Could be wrong, I’d need to rewatch the scene.
- Comment on Alex Kurtzman On Starting Discussions With Paramount Skydance Over The Future Of Star Trek TV 1 week ago:
Well, I have a much rosier view of new Trek than yours, but I feel the need to thank you for listing some genuinely good modern sci-fi as alternatives. So often in these discussions I just see “they should do what The Orville did,” like a TNG Xerox is an interesting or even viable way to propagate the franchise.
Pluribus in particular did a great job interrogating a threat essentially shared with a classic Trek villain from a refreshingly new perspective. Good recommendation.
- Comment on Which faction you expect to be antagonist in some next Star Trek story? 1 week ago:
I wish I could say I’d check it out, but my To Be Read pile is a little intimidating… maybe one day.
- Comment on Which faction you expect to be antagonist in some next Star Trek story? 1 week ago:
The Conspiracy aliens. We’ve been waiting… so long……
Or the ones from Schisms.
- Comment on Star Trek has more to offer or it has to end and stop producing more content? 2 weeks ago:
I love the hell out of SNW, but I agree that as a TOS prequel it’s limited in its ability to move the franchise forward.
Thankfully, Starfleet Academy has turned out to be really, really good. I just hope it survives and secures a strong enough following.
- Comment on Rude 2 weeks ago:
Such an annoying response. Personality is not on the menu. You get tits or you get ass, make your choice.
It’s like playing a game of fuck/marry/kill with a list of celebrities and someone says “well obviously I’m going to marry my wife Charlene”. That’s not the damn game!
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy • FlixPatrol 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think I could guess where this is going even if I had expertise in reading numbers like this. No matter how good SFA’s raw numbers are, it may get cancelled anyway simply because the new ownership wants to take the franchise in a different direction. On the other hand, no matter how bad SFA’s raw numbers are, if the numbers it does have are from desirable new demographics it might be a good enough business case for them to keep it around. 🤷♀️
It sounds like we ought to hear if Kurtzman’s contract is renewed or not fairly soon, which seems like it would be a pretty strong indicator one way or the other.
- Comment on Sixty years on, a Star Trek writer is still creating strange new worlds 3 weeks ago:
Spock’s World and the Rihansu series are must reading.
- Comment on Star Trek: TNG But It Was Released in 2026 3 weeks ago:
A little long, so I listened to it at 1.5x speed. I think it only enhanced the character.
“I’m so sincerely mad about this right now! EEUR!”
- Comment on Did you like Star Trek: Nemesis? 4 weeks ago:
I wont say too much to spoil it, but my feelings on Picard’s first season is that it started out with a huge amount of promise, then moved at a strangely slow pace for long enough that there wasn’t any chance to properly resolve everything at the end. So a mess, but it had ambition and even those messier episodes had some lovely moments.
- Comment on Did you like Star Trek: Nemesis? 4 weeks ago:
Oh, I hate it. The labourious mind-numbing action, the “we aspire and they don’t” hand-wave resolution to the half-assed philosophical premise, the dozenth mind rape of Troi and Picard’s callous response, it’s all trash.
Don’t get me wrong, it had some OK scenes. You had to learn about them after the fact, though, because they were all cut from the film! Cutting Picard’s discussion with Data from the start, and the crew’s visit to his quarters at the end, is as good as cutting the Kobayashi Maru and funeral sequences from TWoK. They wouldn’t have saved the thing, but they would have given Data’s death at least a little emotional weight.
Left a bad taste in my mouth for twenty years. Thank goodness Picard came along to revisit these characters. It was a mess, but I’ll take any season of Picard as a superior send-off to the TNG era than this movie.
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 4 weeks ago:
But it just looks unprofessional to me in the captain’s chair.
That’s what I love, though. A boss today might feel the need to cultivate a “professional” work environment to maintain discipline among their underlings, or to appear trustworthy to their clients.
Ake doesn’t doesn’t need to worry about discipline among her officers. They aren’t working for a paycheck, they’re there because they feel a calling and a duty to be there. She trusts them implicitly, and is confident enough in having their respect that she can enjoy her time on her bridge. And her “clients” are university age kids, who generally don’t respond to the pomposity of performative professionalism.
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 4 weeks ago:
I chill in chairs like that all the time. It’s comfy. Don’t be so self conscious you let schoolgirls have all the fun.
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 4 weeks ago:
There you go, accusing people of being sexiest and racist just because they have a meltdown every time some piece of media prominently features a woman or person of colour. I’m sure it’s just a highly predictable coincidence.
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 4 weeks ago:
Riker happily slapped his ass down in the weapons console so he could chat up the prettiest subordinate on duty. Not sure why we’re suddenly supposed to be pretending Trek ever maintained a stern and solemn work environment.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x06 "Come, Let's Away" 5 weeks ago:
Saved me from having to look up the episodes where that happened, nice.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x06 "Come, Let's Away" 5 weeks ago:
You’re right, that’s the model they landed on by TMP. I meant to say it resonates with Jeffries’ original concept that the engines were just too dangerous to be near the ship, which I always preferred. And who’s to say 32nd century ships don’t have power plants in the nacelles themselves, like a lot of early fandom assumed in the days of TOS? It would make sense if they’re completely separate now. (I know we saw Discovery with a central warp core after its refit, but Discovery is a bit of a special case).
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x06 "Come, Let's Away" 5 weeks ago:
I like the detached nacelles. It’s nice to have at least a few clear indicators that technology has advanced in the 800 years since TNG. And it seems like a logical extension of the idea that the nacelles are these big dangerous things that needed to be kept separate from the living spaces and easily jettisoned.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x06 "Come, Let's Away" 5 weeks ago:
OK, I’ve seen the images in the other thread now, and I’m seeing much more convincing evidence of AI generation there.
Like, everything about these arms looks wrong: https://imgur.com/DiRNxEY
And these shadows are just nonsense: https://imgur.com/TMZY25V
Honestly, I’m personally not too bothered if a background prop you’re not supposed to get a good look at is made with AI, but I’m also not going to argue with anyone who takes a real hard line on the subject.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x06 "Come, Let's Away" 5 weeks ago:
I’m really not seeing any obvious AI tells. It looks to me like it was drawn and inked traditionally, and then someone dropped in the little flares to up the cheese factor (and maybe give a little reference to JJ). I may be wrong, it’s getting hard to tell these days, but to me it just looks like someone trying to emulate a very typical comic book style.
- Comment on Jess Bush Talks Upcoming “Deep” Chapel Episodes For ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ 5 weeks ago:
Season 3 really did her a disservice. Hopefully the writers got their heads back in the game for the back half of the show.
- Comment on "And you people, you're all astronauts on... some kind of star trek?" James Cromwell announced for STLV to celebrate the 30th anniversary of First Contact. 5 weeks ago:
The fifty-fifth entry in the Star Trek film franchise, in which the Enterprise Y returns to the centre of the galaxy to enlist the God Thing’s aid in defeating the Borg King. He redeems himself and becomes Captain Kirk the Fourth’s new yeoman, a real full circle moment.
- Comment on Interview: Tawny Newsome On “Gargantuan Task” To Give DS9 “Resolution” On ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ 1 month ago:
That’s right, I completely forgot about Worf, and also the O’Briens!
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 5x05 "Series Acclimation Mil" 1 month ago:
That was my one gripe with the episode. I enjoyed the B-plot, but it felt disconnected to the rest. And with this episode otherwise serving as such a lovely coda to DS9, I wish they’d have kept it a bit more focused on that.
- Comment on Interview: Tawny Newsome On “Gargantuan Task” To Give DS9 “Resolution” On ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ 1 month ago:
Keeping in mind DS9 itself opened on a direct TNG tie in, sprinkled TNG villains through the first season, then brought back every Klingon captain from TOS, and finally just went all in and edited everyone into a TOS episode so Dax could swoon over Spock’s eyes and Sisko could sneak Kirk’s autograph…
Every Trek show since the original has referenced the others like this. I think it’s good fun.
- Comment on Too far, man 1 month ago:
Oh you’ve gotta give No Man’s Land a read.
- Comment on ‘Starfleet Academy’ Episode 5 Trailer Reveals ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ Connection 1 month ago:
You’re talking about the sacred home of The Emissary of The Prophets. I wouldn’t be shocked if they kept the place around just so Bajorans could go there to pray for his return.
