Stormygeddon
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- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x07 "What Is Starfleet?" 4 days ago:
Bold choice to have an in universe documentary made by an in universe bad/unprofessional documentarian. It makes the episode feel bad.
Also feels like 10 or so minutes were redacted considering the short length.
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- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x06 "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail" 1 week ago:
The first time in a decade where the sci-fi protagonists were wearing visored helmets that weren’t transparent and lighting up their faces – at least until the visor magically folded away.
Minor pet peeve to have, I know. I imagine the choice wasn’t director induced and more something regarding stunt coordination but I wouldn’t rule out thematically mirroring the faceless unempathic enemy.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x05 "Through the Lens of Time" 2 weeks ago:
add +2 to the “some sort/kind of” count
La’an saying “fascinating” makes me wonder if Spock is rubbing off on her.
For some reason I knew Pelia was going to say “heebie jeebies”
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x04 "A Space Adventure Hour" 3 weeks ago:
Same here but my AC is actually broken
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x04 "A Space Adventure Hour" 3 weeks ago:
The TNG references with the chair gag and wearing jeans BTS really got me.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x03 "Shuttle to Kenfori" 4 weeks ago:
Eh, I get a horror episode is something ST does all the time but I just didn’t like this Plant et Zombies episode.
- Comment on What are the best single episodes to show people new to Trek? 5 weeks ago:
Might be a bit off beat to say this, but maybe the first episode of Prodigy?
It’s very much intended as an entry point into Star Trek for those unexposed to Star Trek.
- Comment on Review — Hallmark's 2025 Star Trek: Lower Decks Ornaments 5 weeks ago:
I’m reminded how I basically never bought a Star Trek merch as much as I like the shows.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x01 "Hegemony, Part II" & 3x02 "Wedding Bell Blues" 5 weeks ago:
S3E1 -Strangely flat ground in that one Gorn ship set where it looked like with all those biomechanical growths and wires it should be a little more textured. -In the Climax, They were doing that slow frame thing that was popular in the early 2000s and has gone out of style. Was a bit jarring.
St3E2
-Sexy Spock is so back.
-When that training session was sbeing interrupted, I expected Uhura to flex with speaking some Spanish to the Ortegas, but she didn’t. And then they just proceeded to tell “be careful around Uhura she knows ___ languages” which just made that expected moment stand out even more. Plus the whole Spanish speaking thing kind of took me out of it as I still think of Star Trek as having some universal translation convention, like with that one episode of Discovery.
-The music being whimsical sounding felt so forced, like it was forcing the whimsy on the regular old scenes with the Bar Tender. I suppose that’s half the point, and half an allusion to the original series, but it took me out of it. The LD crossover episode did something similar too.
-Spock punching instead of doing a Vulcan neck pinch felt so wrong, not quite in line with the less-violent TOS Spock, but that was an energy being induced punch so it checks out.
-Feels a bit weird hearing a modern song in Star Trek (even though it’s from the 80s). Usually they refrain from it which helped some other shows like The Orville have more of an identity.
-I’m glad Ortegas is finally getting a subplot. In the previous seasons she’s always felt like she was missing “her” focus episode which other members of the crew like M’Benga got. All she had was “I fly the ship” which was a bit lame. Though feels off, like maybe it’s recycling some discarded script for La’an’s PTSD, or they couldn’t quite figure out what to do with Erica so they’re trying something more generic. I’m interested to see where it goes.
- Comment on Film Discussion | Star Trek: Section 31 6 months ago:
SPOILERS throughout. I thought it was mostly okay, but kind of underwhelming with a middle that just felt like filler. -The mirrored version of the Logo had me half worried I somehow started streaming on a pirated site, but then it switched around and it was cute. -Speaking of which, any particular reason they mirrored the text into the lake establishing shot. I like some movies where they make the text part of the environment but this ain’t that. -I get she’s supposed to be out of breath but the airiness of her words is really tempting me to break a self promise of avoiding subtitles for movies to better my listening skills. -I was beginning to wonder if those were eggs boiling in the stew and then it turned out to be poison. -Was this supposed to mirror the beginning of DSC with the walking on sand and getting picked up? -I loved the one lady in the background casually smiling at the burning hot torture. -That said this ascension trial seems rather peculiar and unusual for the Terran empire. I’d have thought a dash of nepotism would’ve been in order but she’s just some rando. -That briefing was rather cheesy. The mystery McGuffin. “This dog bites back?” -Stardate “1292?” but still using CE year in that earlier briefing without saying it’s CE? I see they continue with the trend of making dates more about vibes than making sense or sticking to a system. -I do like the design of the swirly space station. -Bubble Gum spotted. Now I’m thinking about that scene from DS9. -OMG it’s those half-white and half-black guys from TOS. I never expected to see them again. -That singer in the “bagel hole” shot along with the edible eye prop kind of made me think EEAAO. -Okay, I did wonder why that Vulcan was laughing so hard, but I figured he might’ve been half, or Romulan or something. Glad to see that was a deliberate “what’s wrong with this picture?” in a later reveal. -They’re really hamming it up with these “gathering the team” scenes. It’s a bit goofy. -Is there a Guy Ritchie inspiration to this movie? Wouldn’t surprise me. -I’ll be the one to ask the inevitable “why doesn’t it/she/they phase through the floor” question. -I turned the subtitles on. I just couldn’t make out “Give me the case” and this sound balancing was bothering me. -Did that naked Andorian have no genitals? Perhaps confirmation of that 3rd/4th Gender from the extended stuff? -Ugh, I hate the “breaking a bottle on a head” cliche. -I do think the phase fight was kind of cool, Kitty Pride is among my favorite X-men, but I’ll always have the why phase through walls and people but not the floor question in my mind, and the glitching at the end felt cheap—but it’s always better to be unlucky in getting into more problems than out of them from a writing perspective. -I do think the Emperor’s reflection while San explains “it is all for you” was a nice shot. -I definitely laughed at the “I forbid you to die” line. -It does seem kind of silly that Section 31 has a uniform, even if it’s all black. -The God’s End vs Godsend joke fell flat for me. -it sure became nighttime rather quickly. -It’s a mole subplot. If done wrong I’d probably hate it. I don’t like guessing. RN I’ll guess it’s the leader Alok who’s the mole and see how that sticks. -Are they really going so fast to say it’s the mech-head with no seeming brain. I feel like it’s a fakeout. -Okay, so it was. It feels like the mole revealed plot was over a little too quickly. What was it, 13 minutes? -The tunnel fight felt a little too “shakey cam” for me. -I’m getting flashbacks to Mozart’s laugh in Amadeus. -The callback about the confusing name also fell flat for me. -I think they take the “we’re direct to streaming, we can swear whenever we want” card too far with ST and it continues to be poorly implemented here. -Three parts of “coded transmissions.” ~40 minutes, 25 minutes, 25 minutes, roughly. I can see this having been a miniseries earlier. -The doll’s kind of creepy. I do like the “different region, different safety standard” bit of world building with the battery. It reminds me of power outlets or how British and U.S. eggs are illegal in each others’ countries. Stuff that adds verisimilitude. -I feel that the struggle with the autopilot robot went on too long, considering the mild incompetence it was showing earlier at blending in. -The microbe has a monologue about small things surviving big explosions but then gets defeated by an explosion? Okay. -So San gets cut in the Carotid artery it looks like. Is this a reference to McCoy saying something along the lines of “if you were to kill me cut me here” while in the Sickbay of ToS with a knife on him? -Who was that hologram lady supposed to be at the end? She looks vaguely familiar but I couldn’t place her.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 5x08 "Upper Decks" 8 months ago:
The Bughoons were so cute.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 5x07 "Fully Dilated" 8 months ago:
“We’ll have to lick it off” had me reeling.
I found the lurkey quite funny this episode, even if it was a bit of an embellished and exaggerated character.
And my goodness, I love the guest star in this episode: The Vasquez Rocks.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 5x06 "Of Gods and Angles" 8 months ago:
I like how tall Olly is.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 5x05 "Starbase 80?!" 9 months ago:
Finally, representation for the struggle of being a young Immortal.
- Comment on Preview ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Episode 505 With New Images From “Starbase 80?!” 9 months ago:
I find it peculiar how they’ve hidden the creeping Boimler Beard from the trailers a month ago.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 5x04 "A Farewell To Farms" 9 months ago:
Twisting the usual Star Trek species formula a bit and having an entire culture center around food critic reviews is really funny. Especially with how this has been built up since Season 1 with Migleemo relating everything to food—I thought it was a individual person thing but it turned out to be something cultural.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 5x03 "The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel" 9 months ago:
They show us a canon depiction of the transparent skulled Gallamites and then they bring back that one species from ENT that was offended by public eating in the same second? It’s like they were targeting me specifically.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 5x01 "Dos Cerritos" & 5x02 "Shades of Green" 9 months ago:
OMG they’ve added a green hand to the intro.
- Comment on Official Trailer for Star Trek: Lower Decks Reveals Season 5 Hijinks 10 months ago:
I’m hoping they won’t go too long with the Multiverse stuff / council of
spoiler
Kim
thing. I’m kind of fatigued with multiverses as it is.
