Comment on Just wanted to thank this community for helping me have the best birthday I've had in years

• Infynis@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As a reference to Malcolm Reed’s birthday episode in Enterprise. He also didn’t seem to have great experiences with birthdays

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  • Stamets@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ll let you in on a secret.

    I’ve never actually finished Enterprise. I’ve read a shitload of episodes on Memory Alpha and I’ve researched certain things in order to prove other points (holograms in Discovery as an example) but I’ve never finished it. I wouldn’t even say that I really properly started it… I’m currently going through Voyager and then I plan to go back to TNG, DS9 and then over to ENT before finally seeing Prodigy.

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    • Infynis@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s good! I understand why people don’t like it, but it’s not as bad as a lot of people say. It’s cool seeing the crew learn the lessons that will become the Prime Directive, and the Xindi story is really cool. And of course, there is the incomparable Jeffery Combs as Commander Shran, one of my all-time favorite characters

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      • Stamets@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Well when I started watching it originally I was pretty young. At the time my love of Star Trek was more a love of TNG. Other Trek had a huge bar to clear for me and I wasn’t appreciating it for what it was. Moreover, it was new and different. Therefore I lowkey hated it at the start which was also wildly unfair. The theme song infuriated me yet now I blast it at top volume and sing along. Like I actually have it on my spotify. So most of my complaints were completely unfounded. It was just me being a whiny teenager.

        However there is one complaint that I believe still holds up, at least kind of. The ‘sex appeal’ of Voyager was fairly bad with ‘Skin Suit of Nine’ but those decontamination showers in Enterprise really put it over the top for me. I get that there’s gonna be sex appeal in stuff, that’s fine, but because I’m gay, the straight stuff doesn’t appeal to me even remotely. Especially when it was so heavily geared towards showing off women. I just felt really uncomfortable watching some of those decontamination scenes. That’s what I mean by it kind of holds up. I think that the sex appeal stuff was a legitimate problem but not enough to not watch the show . There are some people who worked on the show who I have some serious fucking problems with (Rick Berman and Doug Drexler being the main two) but that’s personal stuff. Doesn’t impact the show at all. I’ve just been avoiding Enterprise the entire time with no clear or legit reason. Thus why I’ve got Enterprise ready to go, I just haven’t hit play yet. I’m also just looking forward to Phlox actually. The actor who plays him, John Billingsley, is one of my favorite actors from my all time favorite movie. Also Porthos. He cute.

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