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- Comment on 1 day ago:
Where is this article getting their demographic numbers, wishful thinking?
Oh don’t worry, it’s very scientific:
If you think I’m underestimating the number of Trek’s female viewers, scroll through the comments on any Star Trek-related content anywhere on the internet. Then count the number of female commenters. You’ll see a lot of guys named Steve, but you won’t see many Jennifers.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Official Trailer | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025) 1 week ago:
I know, I once had someone open a discussion by complaining that Discovery features a black lesbian as the captain.
There are plenty of valid reasons to dislike the show, but it seems the loudest complainers have never actually watched an episode so the best they can do is to fall back on bigoted cliches.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Official Trailer | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025) 2 weeks ago:
Oh I hate that about Discovery. All those preachy episodes like Let That Be Your Last Battlefield, The Outcast, and Far Beyond The Stars…
Oh wait, was TOS, TNG, and DS9. Can you remind me again when Discovery got anywhere near as focused on race or gender issues as any of those episodes?
- Comment on Mary Wiseman’s Tilly Will Be In ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy,’ But Not As Much As Expected 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s my feeling as well. Checking her IMDB, it seems she’s been working on a series called The Residence that I hadn’t heard of until now. Maybe they just had a better offer for her?
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 3 weeks ago:
Grey text is looking out for their safety, good for them. Blue text is clearly communicating their boundaries, good for them. Neither is phrasing their needs as I would, but that’s small potatoes. I’d rather date either of these people than most of the ones replying in this thread.
- Comment on What's your test for people? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, what you’re saying makes sense. I like “bad personality indicator” as an alternative, since it conveys to me it’s one of many indicators you might process, maybe not even consciously. I’ve just had rather negative experiences being “tested” and hearing that world applied to any kind of casual social interaction gets my hackles all the way up.
- Comment on What's your test for people? 3 weeks ago:
You’d fail my test if I learn you have tests for people.
Maybe it’s just a matter of phrasing, but the idea that I could be kind to our server all night, tip well, generally hit it out of the park, but be disproportionately judged for failing to do this one small thing because it’s your personal test? Sets my social anxiety off enough that if I knew that were on your mind I’d probably just say we’re not compatible.
Obviously, keep an eye out for shitty people, and don’t put up with bad behaviour, but also judge people as people, wholistically.
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 4 weeks ago:
They’re also completely absent from Discovery…
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 4 weeks ago:
I love Discovery. Some of the criticisms are valid; every season has a few dumb moments that make me shake my head. But I love the characters, the actors are all great, Doug Jones in particular is a treasure, and the first contact in season 4 feels more like a proper science fiction scenario than any other in Trek.
One thing to keep in mind is that the tone shifts considerably season to season. It starts off quite grim and gritty, but don’t expect it to stay that way.
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Needs to Imagine More for Its Female Characters 5 weeks ago:
There is a trend this season of defining characters by their relationships, and since women are so often defined by their relationship to a man in media, I can see how that would ring alarm bells. But in this case, every character is being defined by their relationship. Spock is shown to have gotten past his relationship with Chapel by hooking up with La’an, and La’an is shown to have gotten past her trauma with the Gorn by hooking up with Spock. Pike and Batel spend the whole season focused on their future together. Chapel is now just Corby’s girlfriend, which sucks, but it’s equally true that Corby is just Chapel’s boyfriend - we learn practically nothing about him outside of that and his profession. In general, this has just been the romantic entanglement season of SNW.
That is, apart from Ortegas, who had the best arc this season. It’s ridiculous to say that her trauma with the Gorn is “not touched on” until Terrarium - I don’t see how you could watch this season and not see it playing into every scene she has up until that point. It feels like that the article writer knew her arc didn’t suit the point they were making, so they just tried to downplay it.
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Producers Promise Season 4 Will Be Better 5 weeks ago:
Rhys Darby saved the Q/Trelane episode by being Rhys Darby. Everything else about it was weak sauce. Which, honestly, can be said about most of John de Lancie’s episodes, so fair play I suppose.
I thought the holodeck episode was better, actually. I could have done without not!Uhura’s self-congratulatory speech, but other than that it was all good fun. But then, I usually think that of holodeck episodes. Who doesn’t like Moriarty, Doctor Noah, or Queen Arachnia?
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x10 "New Life and New Civilizations" 1 month ago:
You know, I disagree. I think this season is genuinely significantly worse than both of the previous ones. No season has been perfect, but the past two had episodes I’d still rank close to some of Trek’s best. Memento Mori, Ad Astra per Aspera, Under the Cloak of War, all really great. I don’t know what happened this season, but none of these episodes come close to those. And a couple, like this finale, are just terrible.
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' & 'Doctor Who' Crossover? Watch Finale Sneak Peek 1 month ago:
I’m only a casual Who fan, catching up on it sporadically every so often… does it actually have a cohesive view of the future? It’s hard to imagine that over decades of stories popping randomly throughout time they’ve maintained a intelligible future chronology. I assume fans have collated every single reference and tried to massage them together, but does it actually hold up at all?
- Comment on best episodes for people who've never seen star trek? 1 month ago:
Beyond Tasha, I’d say there’s a lot of nuance in Yesterday’s Enterprise that calls for more context. You can’t know how wrong the wartime setting feels if you have basically no exposure to the uncorrupted timeline. A new viewer can certainly get by, but it’s a much better episode if you have some experience with the show already.
- Comment on best episodes for people who've never seen star trek? 1 month ago:
Throw in The Trouble With Edward and you’ve got a trilogy spanning the three very roughly defined eras of the franchise.
- Comment on What are your favorite Star Trek books? 2 months ago:
I love the work of the Reeves-Stevenses (even the Shatnerverse), and Diane Duane.
Also, in the realm of non-fiction, I’ve collected almost every volume of The Best Of Trek. It can be really enlightening to see what the fandom was talking about at their times of publication, and the intense analysis of the planet Vulcan given in the article “A World of Time” by Kenneth Reeler was probably pretty influential on me and the particular way I like to deep dive into the minutia of my favourite stories.
- Comment on Interview: ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Director Talks Challenges Of Shooting Kirk’s First Time In The Big Chair 2 months ago:
I like Wesley as a young, uncertain Kirk. I very much do not want to see him as Kirk during the 5YM. When we saw him in that time period at the end of season 1 he didn’t feel right at all.
- Comment on About Star Trek Starfleet Academy blacklash 2 months ago:
I’m bothered by the false equivalency made in the original post, though. The diversity isn’t the cause of bad storytelling. The problem isn’t that they prioritised one thing over another. Casting a white male lead on Discovery wouldn’t have given them more time to work out the plot, or a more talented stable of writers. The two are completely orthogonal to one another.
If someone wants to criticise the storytelling, they can just do that. There’s no reason to bring up diversity unless they have some desire to scapegoat it.
- Comment on About Star Trek Starfleet Academy blacklash 2 months ago:
I doubt that’s what they meant, partly because it really doesn’t seem to apply to either Disco or Picard. Both had their fair share of issues in the writing, but I wouldn’t say tokenism was among them (unless you count Disco’s bury-your-gays moment, but they course corrected on that).
- Comment on About Star Trek Starfleet Academy blacklash 2 months ago:
- Comment on About Star Trek Starfleet Academy blacklash 2 months ago:
It hardly seems fair to compare them to robots.
I agree, but also… you know if battle droids existed in Star Trek there’d be at least one episode where one of them breaks with its programming and comes to Starfleet seeking asylum. Like the exocomps, or Hugh in “I, Borg”, or even Data getting his day in court to prove his free will. Star Trek wants everyone to be free, whatever they’re made out of.
- Comment on About Star Trek Starfleet Academy blacklash 2 months ago:
Just saw jem Hadar in the star fleet in this trailer? What?
Why is that a problem? In TOS, Klingons were the enemy, then TNG brought us Worf. In TNG, the Ferengi were the enemy, then in DS9 Nog joined up. Star Trek is all about coming together and overcoming differences.
I see them prioritizing:
- Diversity and political correctness
I wish. They’ve cancelled all the shows with queer representation. SNW has about a hundred relationships going on, all straight. I miss Disco and Lower Decks.
- Comment on About Star Trek Starfleet Academy blacklash 2 months ago:
I haven’t noticed much backlash, though I’m sure you can find some in the usual discontented corners of the internet. Personally I’m optimistic, but we really don’t have all that much information yet. The trailer mostly sold the tone, but it seemed like the right tone.
- Comment on Scott Bakula Eyeing Star Trek Return In President Archer Series Pitch From ‘Enterprise’ Producer 2 months ago:
I’m one of those people, and really appreciated the little bits of political wrangling we saw in the last half of Discovery. And while I was never a fan of Enterprise, Bakula could kill it as the president of the Federation in its formative years. I love this idea.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x05 "Through the Lens of Time" 2 months ago:
Just fun times.
- Comment on What to watch next after ST: Voyager? 2 months ago:
I couldn’t get through Enterprise when it was first airing, and it remains the only Trek series I haven’t watched in its entirety. Tried to get through it again with my partner a bit ago, and we switched off after that first decon chamber scene. We aren’t prudes, but it’s just so skeevy.
- Comment on Pretty but pointless 2 months ago:
Worrying over internet comments is a sure sign of anxiety, possibly OCD, maybe even PTSD if there’s a particular trigger.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Showunners Talk 32nd Century Setting And How The Ship Is Part Of The School 2 months ago:
Honestly impressed with Discovery’s restraint in not showing it to us for their last three seasons.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Showunners Talk 32nd Century Setting And How The Ship Is Part Of The School 2 months ago:
Ah, so I just missed it. There goes my little theory.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Showunners Talk 32nd Century Setting And How The Ship Is Part Of The School 2 months ago:
We’ve definitely seen cadets serving on ships a few times, and The Wrath of Khan featured a training voyage (though they didn’t seem to be going to anywhere in particular).
So I agree there’s precedent. I was really just stretching for a way to cheekily suggest the name.
