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I'll take "Dyson sphere-level douchebags for 300"

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Stamets@startrek.website⁩ to ⁨risa@startrek.website⁩

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross’ oral history book The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, From The Next Generation to J.J. Abrams by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman, Farrell explained why she left DS9. “The problems with my leaving were with Rick Berman,” Farrell explained. “In my opinion, he’s just very misogynistic. He’d comment on your bra size not being voluptuous… That stuff was so intense, especially the first couple of years.” The actors signed six-year contracts, so leading into the seventh and final season, Farrell asked for her role to be recurring, telling Gross and Altman she would’ve appeared in 13 out of the 26 episodes.

    “Rick Berman said I was hardballing him,” she said, but characterized her own desire to “just have a conversation.” The negotiations got nasty, however. Farrell said a junior producer told her without Deep Space Nine she would “be working at K-Mart.” She also said the producer would call her right before shooting scenes to ask if she’d made the decision to sign a new contract. “Basically,” she said, “he was trying to bully me into saying ‘yes.’” Behr, the showrunner by this point, said he was completely in the dark about Farrell’s trouble with Berman. He implied that he would’ve stopped her firing from happening at all or, possibly, have left with her.

    cbr.com/star-trek-why-terry-farrell-jadzia-dax-le…

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    • Damage@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      She’s like one of the most beautiful women to ever grace the screen, great in the role, and somehow that still wasn’t enough?

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Not when you’re a sexist piece of shit who doesn’t see women beyond tits and ass.

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  • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Jadzia was a wonderful character, and it sucks the conditions that made her leave. I didn’t mind her next iteration, though. She was… okay.

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    • Stamets@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I have a book (thanks Paisley) that I’ve started to read thats about Ezri Dax and she’s growing on me.

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      • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I didn’t hate Ezri, and it was good that they made her intentionally different from Jadzia.

        That said, it was sad to see Jadzia go.

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      • trolololol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Oh and I finished destiny yesterday!

        There’s a lot more ezri books from the ds9 themed ones, they start just a bit after the last tv series.

        thetrekcollective.com/…/trek-lit-reading-order.ht…

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  • CallMeButtLove@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What is it about Ricks?

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    • KnightontheSun@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They can be Dicks.

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And also dicks.

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    • Blackout@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A Rick is just a bizarro world Rich and they should never be trusted. Or it's the other way around, I can't remember. Avoid Brians too

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      • UndecidedYellow@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        How do you feel about Bryants?

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  • Thisfox@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Riddle me this; Why do Americans frame their answers like questions? Is it some weird meme or something?

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    • aeronmelon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      C’mon, Trekkies, don’t downvote someone for asking a question. Not everyone knows what Jeopardy is.

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    • Cagi@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s the rules of the gameshow Jeopardy. The gimmick is the game will give you an answer, you have to guess the question, so all responses must be in the form of a question to count.

      So for the prompt:

      “This Actor portrayed the captain of the Enterprise in all but the pilot episode of the original Star Trek series.”

      You would answer:

      “Who is William Shatner?”

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      • Thisfox@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        How bizarre.

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    • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s the game itself; you get the answer and must give the question. I actually came in here to be a nerd and mention that Alex would not say “answer” but “response.”

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  • aeronmelon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think this video is essential viewing for any Trek fan.

    m.youtube.com/watch?v=NeSz2gW8IsE

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    • Stamets@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So I’ve never seen it and just watched it. I knew a good amount of that but not all of it. However a major takeaway from this video, for me, is that a lot of the people who claim to hate NuTrek don’t seem to like Star Trek so much as Trek that was constrained by Berman. A huge amount of people complain about it being serialized and not episodic, having more conflict and darker tones, consequences, and ‘forced’ LGBTQ+ representation. I’m not saying everyone who doesn’t like NuTrek is like that but holy shit do a large number of people fit that bill…

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      • BossDj@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        All this politics is brand new to me! Having grown up with the Berman shows, I’m so, so disappointed knowing what it could have been had the actual creators (writers, designers, actors, etc) been allowed to fully express themselves.

        I was not a fan of Discovery because the first season felt like a generic sci Fi series with a star trek coat. It felt way less fun, too. I enjoyed how it started to tie things together, and so creatively. It felt like it Enterprise season 4 correction to what the show was supposed to be. But Discovery just remained so dark and serious (much like every Fuller episode of past series I guess!)

        Strange New Worlds is pure gold to me. But now I can’t help but wonder if there are hidden fights and people being held back from potential. Shout out to Lower Decks as well!

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      • Sir_Fridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I think star trek still does best when it’s somewhere halfway between episodic and serialised. Like ds9 is.

        But I’m all here for every other thing you’ve mentioned, including LGBTQ+ representation. And I’m thoroughly enjoying NuTrek.

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    • magnetosphere@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Berman’s early comment, “I don’t believe the 24th Century is going to be like Gene Roddenberry believed it to be,” really struck me. Frankly, I don’t have a whole lot of faith in humanity, either.

      If I had his job, instead of using my influence on Star Trek to try and tone down the progressiveness, I’d welcome the opportunity to be optimistic. I’d tell that nagging voice in my head to shut up, and I’d encourage the writers to come up with thoughtful, creative, insightful, socially aware stories.

      Maybe the lack of Bermanesque influences is why I like Strange New Worlds so much!

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  • Steve@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wouldn’t he say “The question we were looking for”?

    Been a long time since I watched Jeopardy.

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    • Stamets@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nah, it’s always referred to as the answer because it’s an answer to the question the host asks. While it is phrased in a question, it’s more an inquisitive response than a true question itself. Thus answer.

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      • theforkofdamocles@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I just watched an episode of, and in that Final Jeopardy, Alex called them responses.

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