buckykat
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- Comment on The Starfleet Gazette Will Not Be Endorsing a Candidate for President of the United Federation of Planets 1 month ago:
The pronouns are right there in his name. And he was obviously referring to Kamala’s promise to keep arming the genocidal zionist entity so it can continue its genocide against the Palestinian people.
- Comment on The Starfleet Gazette Will Not Be Endorsing a Candidate for President of the United Federation of Planets 1 month ago:
That was Sisko, in “For the Cause”
- Comment on Happy Star Trek Day! What was your first contact? 3 months ago:
My mom’s home taped betamaxes of TOS
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Star Trek should absolutely be gatekept from conservatives.
- Comment on Is the Federation "Communist" or Socialist? 4 months ago:
Dictatorship, socialist, communist, liberal, rights, private property
Really pretty much all of the relevant terms here
- Comment on Is the Federation "Communist" or Socialist? 4 months ago:
Well yes, but more broadly because you keep using words without knowing what they mean
- Comment on Is the Federation "Communist" or Socialist? 4 months ago:
You literally just don’t know what you’re talking about
- Comment on Is the Federation "Communist" or Socialist? 4 months ago:
No, the Federation has personal property, not private property.
- Comment on Is the Federation "Communist" or Socialist? 4 months ago:
Yes, obviously. The Federation is a postscarcity socialist society
- Comment on The Official Teaser Trailer for Star Trek: Section 31 Is Here 4 months ago:
The mirror universe section 31 stuff was THE reason I stopped watching Discovery. I disliked it in season 1 but thought it was wrapped up well enough at the end of the season. Then Georgiou showed back up in season 2 and I just completely gave up on the show.
- Comment on Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5 Will Premiere with Two Episodes on October 24 4 months ago:
Hopefully we’ll get more of these characters just not as lower deckers anymore.
- Comment on The Official Teaser Trailer for Star Trek: Section 31 Is Here 4 months ago:
I literally cannot imagine a less appealing Star Trek than this.
- Comment on Star Trek infinite questions 11 months ago:
4X games don’t really work on controllers.
- Comment on Star Trek infinite questions 11 months ago:
It came out in October, it won’t come to consoles.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Prodigy’ Finds New Home At Netflix After Paramount+ Cancellation 1 year ago:
- Comment on Does Star Trek Need Starfleet? 1 year ago:
Absolutely. Star Trek writers are in no way immune to capitalist realism themselves, especially when they’re beholden to studio execs and budgets.
I didn’t make it more than a few episodes into Picard before giving up in disgust, and this only validates my choice there. It’s not just Picard though. Strange New Worlds is generally quite good, but the colony shown in the most recent episode was explicitly modeled on a mid 20th century American small town, a place Federation citizens should know better than to emulate.
Are there any novels or fanfics you’d recommend that do an actual good job of portraying a properly post scarcity Federation culture?
- Comment on Does Star Trek Need Starfleet? 1 year ago:
A Star Trek about civilians would have to be done extremely carefully to not ruin everything with gold plated latinum.
- Comment on Does Star Trek Need Starfleet? 1 year ago:
Those kids aren’t technically Starfleet officers (in season 1) but they’re very Starfleet.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x04 "Something Borrowed, Something Green" 1 year ago:
T’Lyn is fitting in perfectly. The way she deadpanned “losing” her notes and then immediately explained her choice as a straightforward matter of ethics was fantastic.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x03 "In the Cradle of Vexilon” 1 year ago:
I forgot about the black mountain so until I saw the koala I thought Boimler got backed up and restored
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x03 "In the Cradle of Vexilon” 1 year ago:
That’s a Culture Orbital! Except that a Mind needing human maintenance is of course ridiculous.
- Comment on Voyager and Paramount Plus 1 year ago:
There are other ways to watch Voyager
- Comment on Star Trek: Infinite could be the grand strategy game Trekkies need 1 year ago:
We’ve had a Trek version of Stellaris for a while in the New horizons mod
- Comment on Star Trek and The Orville, which is better/worse? 1 year ago:
One thing I really like about the depiction of the Kaylon is that, as far as I remember, nobody ever suggests that they were wrong to kill their builders, only to generalize their hatred of those builders to all organics.
- Comment on Star Trek and The Orville, which is better/worse? 1 year ago:
As early as episode 3 they were trying to do serious storylines, and as early as episode 4 they were succeeding. I think it was always intended to be real Trek with the serial numbers filed off but sold to Fox and consequently advertised as a parody.
- Comment on Star Trek and The Orville, which is better/worse? 1 year ago:
Malloy is a stalker and a rapist in that timeline, it’s good that Mercer went back and prevented it.
- Comment on Star Trek and The Orville, which is better/worse? 1 year ago:
The first season being a bit of a mess is classic Trek behavior to be fair. I think the comedy angle was mostly a way to trick Fox into running it.
- Comment on Star Trek and The Orville, which is better/worse? 1 year ago:
The Orville overall is right up there with the top tier Trek shows.
- Comment on Space.com poses the debate-provoking question whether SNW S2 overdid the gimmicks? 1 year ago:
No. All the episodes were good. There should be more of them though
- Comment on Star Trek: Prodigy’ Banner Flown Over Netflix Offices, Other Streamers in Effort to Save Show 1 year ago:
for whatever reason.
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