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- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Cast Talks Season 4, Improvising On Set, and Checking All The Boxes 3 days 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 5 days ago:
Not gay enough. We need to go back to this.
- Comment on The best answer to "when did Star Trek get woke?" 2 weeks 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? 3 weeks ago:
Oops, thanks for the fix
- Comment on How to calculate stardate? How is measured? 3 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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. 1 month 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 1 month ago:
God, no. Prosthetics of course.
- Comment on Marriage 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Just seven inches? How common do you think seven inch dicks are?
- Comment on What are your favorite trek scenes? 1 month ago:
Trek V is so underrated. This entire scene in the observation lounge is gold.
- Comment on Im a weekly showerer 2 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 2 months ago:
I don’t brush my teeth after sleeping, either. After breakfast, sure, but first thing in the am? Why?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yeah, this is highly context dependent. If a guy meets a new couple, they chat for half an hour, and then half the couple excuses themselves for five minutes - in that case it’s perfectly normal to take the opportunity to say “hey, you’re pretty lucky.”
But if you meet the couple and immediately congratulate one half of it like the other isn’t there, I’d see that as insulting. Not because I think you want to bang them, but because you aren’t even treating them like a human.
- Comment on What they took from us 2 months ago:
Not tricky. Batman every time.
- Comment on Purge home alone night 2 months ago:
What else are you going to decorate your fancy corner office with? Pictures of the kids you keep forgetting about? Fah.
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 3 months ago:
Nah, he’s a good Canadian.
Okay, he’s rich, out of touch, and a total dick to his coworkers. But I’ve never seen him express any particularly bad political views.
- Comment on MEGA FLAG 3 months ago:
Ouff, Genesis. Some kind of planetary scale replicator that starts working after it’s blown up. Good enough as a McGuffin for one story, but probably better left forgotten given how little sense it makes.
Anyway, it failed to create anything stable and almost everyone who was working on it was killed, right? A literal dead end.
- Comment on MEGA FLAG 3 months ago:
Someone needs to watch Discovery.
- Comment on Karim Diané on playing Star Trek’s first gay Klingon 3 months 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 3 months 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" 3 months 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" 3 months 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.
