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- Comment on Interview: Kerrice Brooks And Bella Shephard On Why ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Is Not A YA Show 6 days ago:
I don’t how you can get any vibes out of this interview. I’m getting “they’re happy to be working, but Canada is cold.”
- Comment on Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth” 2 weeks ago:
Clearly, Disco Klingons were a racist caricature of the good people of Remulak. Unforgivable, really.
- Comment on Got a Playmates TOS Tricorder off eBay. 3 weeks ago:
Looked it up - 1995. I’d have been all of eleven at the time.
Apart from the scale, I remember it as being pretty screen accurate. I think the first Starship Exeter fan film used these, with a little modification.
- Comment on Got a Playmates TOS Tricorder off eBay. 3 weeks ago:
My parents bought this for me when it was new, as well as the phaser and communicator! The strap was the perfect length for me at that age…
I loved the little blueprint sheet that came with them.
- Comment on Interview: Tawny Newsome On Finding The Sweet Spot For Her Star Trek Workplace Comedy 3 weeks ago:
You say “dilute,” I say “diversify”. Star Trek has always had a place for comedy. That doesn’t mean anything goes, and I get being trepidatious after the trash fire that was S31, but I think there’s good reason for optimism in this case. If Lower Decks and interviews like this are anything to go by, it looks like Newsome knows that any comedy needs to jibe with the overall Trek ethos.
- Comment on Do you have any “headcanons” (so to speak) about the Star Trek TNG characters? 5 weeks ago:
Nick Locarno was a name Tom Paris went by for a while to distance himself from his father, Admiral Paris. I don’t care what Lower Decks had to say about it.
Q was Trelane all grown up. We’ll see if this holds up after SNW season 3 comes out.
Data always had emotions, he just didn’t understand them. Lore never had emotions, he was desperately faking it.
Spot was a robot who underwent a series of upgrades throughout the series, and Data applied the lessons he learned from that to the development of his daughter.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Was Denied 2-Hour Finale Movie, Says Sonequa Martin-Green 5 weeks ago:
I adore SNW, but honestly, “always trying to 1-up itself and becoming a bizarre comedy because of it” seems like a better description of it than it is of Disco.
- Comment on Hottest Star Trek character? 5 weeks ago:
The Enterprise.
I mean, her or Yvonne Craig.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Series And Graphic Novel Nominated For Hugo Awards 1 month ago:
It’s spelt M’egh.
- Comment on Star trek clothing line 1 month ago:
Us Canucks have been boycotting U.S. products since the first round of tariffs.
- Comment on Brand New Superman Trailer Drop! Krypto is a BAD DOG. 1 month ago:
No, he’s a good boy. My pup would have pulled that boot right off and ran away with it.
- Comment on Another (Negative) ‘Superman' Reaction — World of Reel 1 month ago:
Krypto was adorable in the trailer. Give me all the Krypto.
- Comment on What’s a movie nobody can convince you is good? 2 months ago:
Tom Hanks at his finest.
- Comment on What’s a movie nobody can convince you is good? 2 months ago:
I have to agree, his delivery really doesn’t work for me. It feels like he’s elbowing me in the ribs with every gag.
That said, it’s not enough to spoil Airplane for me. Airplane is a masterpiece.
- Comment on Which shows are worth watching? 2 months ago:
Always striking to me how many Star Trek fans are so dismissive of Star Trek. I know its of it’s time, but TOS didn’t take its place in history by accident. Wonderful storytelling, iconic characters - absolutely a must to watch, at least to try it out.
Voyager, by comparison, is pretty mid. The writing is super inconsistent and it absolutely squanders its own premise. Notable for Janeway, Seven, and the Doctor, but it’s definitely rough going.
But it’s still a good watch. The only ones I don’t think I could enthusiastically recommend are TAS, Enterprise, and Picard.
- Comment on Shrek 5 Cast Announcement 2 months ago:
I’m not seeing it either. I even looked up a comparison. The green looks a touch more muted, and there’s a little more detail as one would expect, but otherwise it looks like the same old Shrek to me.
- Comment on [Discussion] Whats a movie you thought would be terrible but you ended up liking? 2 months ago:
I’m mostly thinking of the dance number and the way the theatrical version cuts the final act split between Erin and Abby, which guts their respective arcs. I’ve only seen the theatrical once, so I couldn’t name what jokes it omitted. But there’s a good chance I’d agree with you, since there are a number of gags I wouldn’t miss. Mostly the “Kevin’s so dumb” bits, which don’t work for me.
- Comment on [Discussion] Whats a movie you thought would be terrible but you ended up liking? 2 months ago:
I’m with you on Ghostbusters 2016. If you’re not expecting an all-time great like the original was, it’s a good time. A decent comedy movie with a good heart. It helps if you’re watching the extended cut, though.
- Comment on [Discussion] Whats a movie you thought would be terrible but you ended up liking? 2 months ago:
Transformers One was worlds better than its advertising campaign would have you believe.
- Comment on Just Finished Lower Decks 3 months ago:
I’m old enough to remember the premiere of DS9, but I did appreciate Discovery’s move to the future. I liked the political aspects of the rebuilding of the Federation. I have always been a little bugged by how Earth centric Trek tends to be, so I especially appreciated the fact that Earth had seceded by the start of season 3. Not sure how much I can expect Academy to pick up on any of that, though.
- Comment on Just Finished Lower Decks 3 months ago:
Yeah, I hate to say it, but it makes sense from a bean-counter’s perspective. Lower Decks seemed to mostly target hardcore fans, and hardcore fans will already be subscribing to watch SNW. If its not gaining them any extra subscriptions, they don’t care about it.
Section 31 and Academy are both trying to court people outside of the existing fandoms. Certainly not very successfully in the case of Section 31, but the reasoning at play is pretty clear.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Season 1 Wraps Filming 3 months ago:
The Daddykins to someone’s Ronny as it were.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Season 1 Wraps Filming 3 months ago:
Nice patch, nice pennant. I hope they’re planning some solid merch for this. Even if the show turns out to be a disappointment, I’d be happy to buy some Starfleet Academy gear.
- Comment on "Star Trek is dying." How would you sell it to a younger audience? 3 months ago:
Season 4 has been confirmed as well. It’s true that there was a longer gap between seasons 2 and 3, but that’s when the Hollywood strikes fell, so it’s not surprising.
- Comment on Alex Kurtzman Gives Live-Action Comedy Update, Says Star Trek Can “Broaden” 3 months ago:
You forget the option of puppetry! The best aliens have always been puppets.
- Comment on Interview: Alex Kurtzman on Section 31 and the "evolution" of Star Trek 3 months ago:
Honestly, I think this has more consistently been Star Trek’s approach. Early TNG was the exception. It really pushed for an “evolved humanity” model for Star Trek, where something has fundamentally shifted in our collected psychology. Examples like Dr. Crusher speaking like its remarkable that people used to fear death, or Picard dismissing religion as childish superstition come to mind as particularly strong hints that we’ve changed a lot.
But later Trek pushes against this: DS9 with it’s murky way arc, Voyager with episodes like Equinox and Scorpion, and even late TNG with Pegasus and Journey’s End. They are all more likely to see the “evolved human” as something to be tested by the story, with the drama coming from the possibility that it might fail that test.
And I think this is for the best. If humanity is too evolved and too perfect, the series can feel a bit heavy on U.S. exceptionalism - with the very American coded Starfleet going around to other worlds to fix and moralize about other peoples’ problems, but never needing to self-reflect or improve on themselves. I think a healthy balance is needed to actually model the qualities that allowed humanity to improve in the first place (and that we really need to see more of in the world now).
- Comment on Tawny Newsome Says Live Action Star Trek Workplace Comedy Will Explore Life Outside The Federation 5 months ago:
The Orville was never funny, and it got much better when it stopped trying to be. Star Trek has a pretty good track record with humour. Especially where Newsome is concerned.
- Comment on Tawny Newsome Says Live Action Star Trek Workplace Comedy Will Explore Life Outside The Federation 5 months ago:
Huh, I thought I’d heard Netflix cancelled it, but according to everything I see on Google they just haven’t announced anything one way or the other. It’s been long enough that I wouldn’t hold my breath, though.
- Comment on Tawny Newsome Says Live Action Star Trek Workplace Comedy Will Explore Life Outside The Federation 5 months ago:
Sure, I’d understand your sentiment more when all those shows were being announced, rather than after they’ve all been canned. Right now we’re looking at ten episodes plus the Section 31 special in the coming year, which doesn’t seem like over doing it to me. But I was raised on seasons of twenty-plus episodes, so maybe I’m spoiled.
- Comment on Tawny Newsome Says Live Action Star Trek Workplace Comedy Will Explore Life Outside The Federation 5 months ago:
They’ve cancelled Discovery, Prodigy, Picard, Lower Decks, and you’re worried they’re going to over-do it? If they do it much less, there wont be any Trek left!