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If I abruptly disappear, it isn’t because I don’t love you rather it’s because some jerk used me in his transporter experiment and now I’m stuc… transporter sound
- Comment on [Interview] As a Star Trek Era Ends, Discovery's Mary Wiseman Reveals the Franchise's Greatest Lesson 4 months ago:
Harry Kim, we all want you to be promoted, but it isn’t productive to be upset with other Ensigns for getting promoted more than you.
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- Comment on [Interview] As a Star Trek Era Ends, Discovery's Mary Wiseman Reveals the Franchise's Greatest Lesson 4 months ago:
I love how upset some people get about Tilly serving on a big burly masculine warship that sometimes has the serious job of killing people.
If a crew like this didn’t have people like Tilly on it, it would catastrophically fall apart after the 10th crisis or so.
Especially in this season it so obvious how Tilly’s intelligence manifests in being able to bypass entire complexes of prejudice and social norms whether they be human or alien, and get right to the point with somebody. In an organization that is constantly trying to establish trust with a variety of unknown actors, Tilly is an incredible asset.
- Comment on Canon Connections: DIS 5x01 - Red Directive 5 months ago:
I am loving this seasons so far, does anyone know if I watch the TNG episode that this season connects too if it will spoil anything for later seasons of TNG? I am still in like season 4 or 5 as I am going through TNG, VOY and DS9 all at the same time.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x01 "Red Directive" and 5x02 "Under the Twin Moons" 5 months ago:
Loved the first episode, I think the way they brought Book back made sense and I think the season set up connecting to an underutilized TNG episode is absolutely awesome, I could not be more down for this kind of season of Discovery. On to the second episode!
- Comment on ‘Section 31’ Movie Director Says It’s A “Different” Star Trek + New Character Details Revealed 5 months ago:
I really hope this is good, I am actually really excited to see how this turns out, I don’t necessarily have high expectations but also I don’t think there is any reason it has to suck so long as Georghiu isn’t let of the moral hook for being an awful, murderous leader.
Also Michelle Yeoh is great so I am excited fuck it.
- Comment on Are We All Too Cynical for Star Trek? 7 months ago:
Paramount doesn’t even want to write about the Utopia anymore. All of the Picard series is about corruption, greed, power, and the Federation failing on all accounts. I hate them for it. Star Trek is supposed to be a glimpse into a hopeful future, not a reflection of our current problems but with phasers added.
I think there are many valid criticisms of new trek but I really just don’t see this, old star trek had the same shit
- Comment on When should I start showing someone new to Trek new shows? 8 months ago:
Ok I know people will say this is weird but watch through Star Trek Enterprise with Captain Archer since that was supposed to be a reboot for Star Trek that pulled in new fans. Make sure to make fun of it when it gets too absurd and always have a lighter nearby to hold up during the theme song.
Then go through TNG, Voyager and DS9 jumping between them every episode so you move through all three at the same time. I have been watching Star Trek with my gf this way and it is really fun to compare between the shows and it makes the bad episodes of any one particular series less exhausting because you get to take a break from that show.
Whenever you feel like it watch newer trek and catch up on it, I like all of it and some of it is really good.
Sprinkle in TOS episodes as you go, especially when there are direct callbacks to specific episodes (the SNW episode that echoes a TOS episode is a blast to watch right after watching the associated TOS episode they did such a good job).
- Comment on Happy Irish Unification year🎉 8 months ago:
In fairness, it’s less controversial and more that the line is outright offensive. At the time, people were being murdered by acts of terrorismin in the troubles, so to wontonly say that those attacks are effective and will get results was extremely insensitive. It’s sort of like saying 9/11 was an effective use of terrorism shortly after it happened, or the 2015 Paris attacks.
I mean I get that it is a pretty touchy subject, but honestly at the end of the day the 9/11 attacks were stunningly effective at doing exactly what Bin Laden wanted us to do, get involved in a long drawn out war that undermined the stability of the US and accelerated its collapse.
The letter got popular recently and I am glad because the asshole literally wrote this all out in a letter and then we just took the bait hook line and sinker.
- Comment on My favorite gender 8 months ago:
You’d think after eating all that kale you wouldn’t be so rudee
- Comment on Star Trek infinite questions 8 months ago:
It took me playing the classic masterpiece designs of board gaming like Agricola, Concordia and Dominion to make me realize how bloated most strategy video games are.
It ain’t about how complex the system is, it is about how meaningful and interesting your choices are and honestly some video games are just horrendous at making you do 1000 little tasks that don’t really matter.
I haven’t played stellaris though.
- Comment on Someone has registered www.bellriots.com it's counting down. 8 months ago:
Something I find funny is that a lot of people who don’t know Star Trek that well and have only seen a couple of episodes assume Star Trek is the super optimistic view of humanity that is unrealistically positive about humanities future when if you actually look at the timeline in the 2000s and 2100s Star Trek is actually seriously apocalyptic. Humanity doesn’t turn to a good future out of some inevitable human kindness, it tries violence over and over again until some crazy guy makes a warp engine out of the rubble of destroyed civilization and the Vulcans show up.
- Comment on Someone has registered www.bellriots.com it's counting down. 8 months ago:
I dunno but damn that Bell guy looks exactly like Sisko its weird
- Comment on Nerds of equal standing. 8 months ago:
Literally one of the biggest plot lines in Discovery is struggling with a lovecraftian horror that annihilates entire planets and having the heroes save the day by sticking to a philosophy of diplomacy, logic and understanding even when most people are clamoring to just nuke the shit out of it?
Also, Picard can be silly but nowhere in its DNA does it abandon the heart of Star Trek for the pew pews? At the end of the second season the only thing that saves the day is characters coming to an understanding and trust with one another? Picard doesn’t have a big fist fight on a cliff or something.
…did you actually watch these series?
- Comment on Nerds of equal standing. 8 months ago:
On the flip side a lot of times the only reason characters survive encounters with entities far more powerful than them is a laser like focus on understanding what an unknown entities motivations are.
I love it when a Star Trek captain phones up some evil looking spaceship that is blowing shit the fuck up and is like “what is it precisely that you want?”. The alien picking up inside the ship usually doesn’t want to talk and it takes the captain cutting through several layers of bullshit until they discover why and the why usually drastically changes the situation.
At the same time, this strategy isn’t portrayed in a naive way that encourages aliens to walk all over starfleet, when you understand the motivations of romulans you understand you better blow them the fuck up if they start testing you or they will see it culturally as a weakness and invade…
Further, there are entities that are just an order of magnitude more powerful that can’t be stopped with violent force like Q and the characters just have to deal with it which I like because it keeps Star Trek from becoming a power fantasy about super heroes.
- Comment on Unfortunately, the Goran'Agar Rehabilitation Clinic actually has a very low success rate 8 months ago:
The way I read it is miles o’brien is supposed to be the blue collar everyman character that draws in people who don’t usually like star trek but they just miss the mark on that often and they make it doubly uncomfortable by also making miles o’brien a very flawed, pretty close minded person which causes cognitive dissonance like you said because all the other characters love him.
- Comment on Unfortunately, the Goran'Agar Rehabilitation Clinic actually has a very low success rate 8 months ago:
Maybe hot take: This was the episode that confirmed my feeling that Miles O’Brien isn’t necessarily a good person, there are definitely aspects to him that are good, he does do a lot of good, but he is chock full of a lot of prejudices he just often doesn’t seem interested in overcoming and everyone around him seems ok with just letting him be that way.
- Comment on No more monopolies!! 9 months ago:
False
- Comment on Hageman Bros Confirm Star Trek: Prodigy Can Continue Beyond Season Two on Netflix 9 months ago:
Hell yeah it better continue
- Comment on Charlie Stross on Mastodon: What is Star Trek? Wrong answers only, please! 9 months ago:
It is a Carl Sagan science documentary where he discusses science and astronomy with the viewer while hiking through stunning mountains.
- Comment on It's a good thing Riker is pretty. 9 months ago:
It’s a good thing Riker is pretty.
Imagine an episode where Riker goes around acting like his normal pretty self and charming the shit out of people… but he is the first of the crew to be affected by a virus that subdues the human capacity to be authentically charming and all of a sudden all the normal ridiculous shit he gets away with because he is so charming starts back firing on him. At the worst part of the episode for Riker he would go to sit down with a fellow shipmate who was upset at him because he messed up a delivery of a joke and offended them but when he goes to sit down he just plows the chair over when he tries to pull the Riker maneuver.
- Comment on The Department of Temporal Investigations is on the case 9 months ago:
Yeah but in Star Trek’s future they have headlamps… but for your hands Image
- Comment on Stanley Kubrick is a magician 9 months ago:
Dont tell me you are one of those people who who are so naive they ACTUALLY believe humans came up with that Birds Aren’t Real conspiracy? Lol some people can’t see the truth when it is right there screaming in their face. It is clearly a crow psy-op campaign to distract humanity from uncovering their preparations for crowmeggedon. We are running out of time to raise people’s awareness, we have to speak up before the only ones left to speak have beaks….
- Comment on The Department of Temporal Investigations is on the case 9 months ago:
It would make way more sense for Stargate cosplayers to be at a renfaire since every single planet they went to on that series seemed to have villagers at about the renaissance level of technology (gotta wonder, did they have access to a bunch of medieval/renaissance sets for cheap lol?).
Of course, if you went as Stargate cosplayers you would have to basically dress up as para military wannabe chuds who’s personalities revolve around owning useless guns (like sword person who is obsessed with swords but way less fun) and being a bigot. People might not even recognize you are in costume and just assume you are a bunch of losers who express their freedom by going to renfaires carrying around murder weapons and dressing in tactical gear.
sigh
…better to go as the Star Trek cosplayers lol.
- Comment on Stanley Kubrick is a magician 9 months ago:
Well I haven’t gotten that particular conspiracy theory off the ground yet, still trying to get people in on that one.
I think it is everything you could want from a conspiracy theory though, you just steal all the same talking points from flat earthers but apply the conspiracy in so much more of a petty and meaningless direction that I think it has real potential.
- Comment on Stanley Kubrick is a magician 9 months ago:
Pretty much the lamest conspiracy theory. There are better ones like Rhode Island is actually the third largest state in the US but the other states are trying to keep it down.
- Comment on Star Trek: Discovery | Final Season Exclusive Clip (CCXP 2023) | Paramount+ 9 months ago:
True, I guess at least we can feel good knowing we are all guaranteed conclusions with our own lives, if not with our tv shows.
- Comment on Star Trek: Discovery | Final Season Exclusive Clip (CCXP 2023) | Paramount+ 9 months ago:
Excited but really sad to see this show only getting this one more season.
- Comment on As a lefty it feels extra special when I get that glide finally 9 months ago:
Have you ever tried just using the scissors in a mirror? That should flip them around so that they work
- Comment on As a lefty it feels extra special when I get that glide finally 9 months ago:
It’s called going to warp, impulse is when you have to manually chop.
