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- Comment on Preview ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Puppet Episode With 13 New Photos From “Level-Five Transporter Accident” 2 days ago:
Ratings are irrelevant, they’re already cancelled. Not sure exactly when they learned that, but definitely by season 5 we’ll be seeing what happens when they have nothing to lose.
- Comment on Preview ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Puppet Episode With 13 New Photos From “Level-Five Transporter Accident” 2 days ago:
I like muppets, but the musical will be hard to beat. I’ll be happy if it’s as good as the fairy tale episode.
- Comment on Annotations for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 4x04: “A Case of Chiaroscuro” 5 days ago:
Honestly don’t know why they bothered with an “explanation” at all. It’s a filming style that suited their story. No more need to explain it here than there is in Spider Noir.
- Comment on If you want to be successful this is the question you have to ask yourself everyday 1 week ago:
Oh no, we don’t want you dead! You’d better start drinking right away so that doesn’t happen.
- Comment on Supergirl 2026 storyline 1 week ago:
Comic lore need not apply to films. I think it’s fair for Kara to assume that dead is dead.
- Comment on Annotations for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 4x03: “Human Best Friend” 1 week ago:
I feel like Spock’s interest in plants in this episode is both a call back to The Cage (the way Spock grips the office plant before melding with it felt very similar to the way he gripped the signing plants in that episode) and possibly a call forward to TAS The Infinite Vulcan, where we learn that Spock’s ultimate fate is to live among a planet of sentient plants in a giant cloned body.
(It’s interesting to consider that a copy of his consciousness was returned to his original, diminutive body at the end of that episode. I wonder what adventures that small version of Spock might have had? We may never know…)
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 4x02 "Griffin Incident" 2 weeks ago:
I knew I’d have a good time with this one. I’d heard we were getting a horror themed episode directed by someone who worked on The Haunting of Hill House, which is one of my favourite horror projects from the past decade. (Checking Google now, and I see it was actually Bly Manor. Close enough.)
You can certainly see the same approach at play, and I thought it was very fun to see in Trek. I also loved the nods to other sci-fi horror, including that one scene in TNG Night Terrors that really hit hard when I was 7.
I feel like a bit more backstory on the Griffen might have been nice. She was the last ship built in the Pyris shipyards, which mined its ore from an ancient alien graveyard, and all ships built there met a bad end. Or something better than that. But I see those in this thread unhappy that it wasn’t all explained with the sci-fi equivalent of a gas leak, so maybe the simple mystery approach is a good compromise.
Apart from the horror of it all, some nice character work, with Kirk being the stand out. Nice to see his early relationship with Carol. Or lack thereof. I wonder if they’ll ever have occasion to cast her or if she’ll be forever offscreen.
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Strange New Worlds* 4x01: “Valles Marineris” 3 weeks ago:
The Martians have a bit of a Vulcan look to them, and it’s referenced that their genetics can be found in a number of races known to the Federation. Is this a hint that Spock might in fact be descended from Martians, in reference to his original conception as a Martian science officer?
Might be supported by Spock’s mention in TOS Return to Tomorrow that being descended from an alien race is consistent with some Vulcan prehistory.
Or I’m reading too much into a basic makeup choice.
- Comment on Old but gud 4 weeks ago:
Throw a utility belt on top, it’ll still look great.
- Comment on Sounds beautiful 4 weeks ago:
But it’s worth it for the quality of
fishstory. - Comment on ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Cast Talks Season 4, Improvising On Set, and Checking All The Boxes 1 month ago:
Of those, I was only around for Enterprise’s cancellation and, given I had pretty low esteem for it and for Nemesis, that one hurt a lot less. It felt like death by natural causes, the sad result of a gradual decline. This time around it doesn’t feel natural at all, particularly right on the heels of SFA’s very strong first season. Extremely frustrating.
- Comment on Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Returning To [UK] Cinemas For 40th Anniversary – New Poster 1 month ago:
Not gay enough. We need to go back to this.
- Comment on The best answer to "when did Star Trek get woke?" 1 month ago:
Trek is known for allegory, but routinely abandons it for time travel stories. Star Trek IV and Deep Space Nine’s “Past Tense” and “Far Beyond the Stars” all examples that tackle societal issues very directly, and they’re all highly thought of.
To be clear, I think Picard features possibly the worst writing in modern Trek, so I’m not setting out to defend it on all fronts. But the idea that addressing societal issues head on isn’t a valid approach for Star Trek doesn’t add up for me.
- Comment on How to calculate stardate? How is measured? 2 months ago:
Oops, thanks for the fix
- Comment on How to calculate stardate? How is measured? 2 months ago:
I’ve shared this here before. It’s the most extensive analysis of stardates I’ve encountered: atavachron.wikidot.com
- Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' showrunner says his biggest regret is not getting Shatner on the show 2 months ago:
That’s a fair point. And I might be holding on too much to it as a perfect ending when it really was never going to be. Those characters will always be too big not to come back, whether it’s another reboot, a recast, or a terrible AI homunculus.
- Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' showrunner says his biggest regret is not getting Shatner on the show 2 months ago:
Well, it’s a different ship, different crew, 80 years later. It may carry on from TOS thematically in a lot of ways, but they also did a lot narratively to keep them in their own respective sandboxes. And I think that was for the best.
I’ll compare it to the Star Wars sequel trilogy. Those films are very concerned with showing us what happened to Han, Luke, and Leia, and with replicating the backdrop and villains of the original films, and I think it’s largely to the detriment of really establishing the new characters as the stars of their own films. I think the TNG approach, keeping its distance to a much larger extent, was healthier.
- Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' showrunner says his biggest regret is not getting Shatner on the show 2 months ago:
Glad you do! I do actually think it’s decent TNG outing, and the 1701-D never looked better, but as something that supercede’s TUC’s very satisfying farewell to Shatner’s Kirk? It’s barely enough screen time to justify putting him on the poster, and no real new character development – TWoK already hammered home that a quiet life doesn’t suit him. I’d have preferred they let the TNG films stand on their own.
- Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' showrunner says his biggest regret is not getting Shatner on the show 2 months ago:
TIL Anson Mount is a doughy woman. Or are we referring to Rebecca Romijn? She’s not waifish enough for your taste?
- Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' showrunner says his biggest regret is not getting Shatner on the show 2 months ago:
Picard also dropped some French on occasion (memorably, “merde”), so the UT has definitely always had some mechanism to allow some flavour through.
- Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' showrunner says his biggest regret is not getting Shatner on the show 2 months ago:
Goldsman’s biggest regret was not being able to bring William Shatner back to play a version of Kirk who decided to stay in Depression-era New York with Edith Keeler (Joan Collins), a soup kitchen operator he fell in love with in the episode “The City on the Edge of Forever.”
I do think Star Trek needs to be less backwards looking, but giving Shatner one last farewell that isn’t a disappointment like Generations was wouldn’t have been the worst thing in the world.
- Comment on Enterprise being able to terraforming planets. 2 months ago:
I’ve always hated the new effects. Some of the matte painting replacements work pretty well, but the ship exterior stuff sticks out like a sore thumb.
- Comment on Robbed 2 months ago:
God, no. Prosthetics of course.
- Comment on Marriage 2 months ago:
It’s okay when it’s in a three way
It’s not gay when it’s in a three way
When there’s a honey in the middle there’s some leeway
The area is grey in a one, two, three way
- Comment on Ermm Actchually 2 months ago:
Knowledge is knowing the Monster belongs to Frankenstein. Wisdom is knowing he’s already overcaffeinated and needs to be cut off.
- Comment on I only date virgins 2 months ago:
Of course porn selects for enormous dicks. That’s exactly why it shouldn’t be used as a rubric for the general population. You didn’t even mention porn until your second paragraph, so it very much sounded like you thought the average penis size was just below 7 inches. But I’m glad to hear you know better.
- Comment on I only date virgins 3 months ago:
Just seven inches? How common do you think seven inch dicks are?
- Comment on What are your favorite trek scenes? 3 months ago:
Trek V is so underrated. This entire scene in the observation lounge is gold.
- Comment on Im a weekly showerer 3 months ago:
Yeah, I think I was underestimating how many people are habitually skipping breakfast. That seems like a bigger issue to address than whether you shower before or after the least active part of your day, if I’m being honest.
- Comment on Im a weekly showerer 3 months ago:
I don’t brush my teeth after sleeping, either. After breakfast, sure, but first thing in the am? Why?
