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- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 2 weeks ago:
Nah, he’s a good Canadian.
Okay, he’s rich, out of touch, and a total dick to his coworkers. But I’ve never seen him express any particularly bad political views.
- Comment on Star Trek Discovery Kind of Forgot There Were No Replicators in the 23rd Century 2 weeks ago:
Enterprise is the one Trek show I haven’t managed to finish, so I’ll have to take your word for it. I always assumed “food” was getting glossed over with that bashful “you name it”.
- Comment on Star Trek Discovery Kind of Forgot There Were No Replicators in the 23rd Century 2 weeks ago:
Don’t blame Disco for an Enterprise retcon
- Comment on MEGA FLAG 2 weeks ago:
Ouff, Genesis. Some kind of planetary scale replicator that starts working after it’s blown up. Good enough as a McGuffin for one story, but probably better left forgotten given how little sense it makes.
Anyway, it failed to create anything stable and almost everyone who was working on it was killed, right? A literal dead end.
- Comment on MEGA FLAG 2 weeks ago:
Someone needs to watch Discovery.
- Comment on Karim Diané on playing Star Trek’s first gay Klingon 3 weeks ago:
Your opinion on that could only hold any weight if you’d been watching it, which you obviously haven’t, since you just tried to argue that the creators of Jay-Den tried to steal clout from the creators of Lura Thok.
- Comment on Karim Diané on playing Star Trek’s first gay Klingon 3 weeks ago:
You’re the one who’s missing the point, in a way that betrays your ignorance about the subject. There were no outwardly gay Klingons who preceded Jay-Den. Calling him the first is only imprecise because he’s tied for that title with another character introduced in the same episode.
- Comment on That one time when he made cheese and it broke the ship 3 weeks ago:
Look, Lower Decks might have featured another person with the same name as Nick Lacarno, but that guy looked completely different, so it was obviously a new character.
- Comment on That one time when he made cheese and it broke the ship 3 weeks ago:
I know you don’t really mean that, Mr. Vulcan!
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x10 "Rubincon" 3 weeks ago:
I agree, I felt like the trial should have gone harder on the Federation’s inability to handle the burn. I like that backstory of failure. It means the SFA generation has to feel a greater weight of responsibility to be build something better.
Like, okay, humanitarian triage was needed, but why? Surely every planetary system should be minimally self-sufficient, not relying on a disruptable interstellar supply chain. Even if it never intentionally violated its core principles, I’d like it reinforced that the Federation was complacent before the burn, and holds responsibility for that.
I understand the drama of the scene meant it had to circle around Ake’s decisions regarding Caleb, but I thought the balance could have been pulled off slightly better.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x10 "Rubincon" 3 weeks ago:
de-weaponizing the minefield (which one would think has long-term implications, if they’ve truly found a way to permanently stabilize Omega)
I had the impression that it was only an option because of the composition of this synthetic type of Omega. Could be wrong, I’d need to rewatch the scene.
- Comment on Alex Kurtzman On Starting Discussions With Paramount Skydance Over The Future Of Star Trek TV 3 weeks ago:
Well, I have a much rosier view of new Trek than yours, but I feel the need to thank you for listing some genuinely good modern sci-fi as alternatives. So often in these discussions I just see “they should do what The Orville did,” like a TNG Xerox is an interesting or even viable way to propagate the franchise.
Pluribus in particular did a great job interrogating a threat essentially shared with a classic Trek villain from a refreshingly new perspective. Good recommendation.
- Comment on Which faction you expect to be antagonist in some next Star Trek story? 4 weeks ago:
I wish I could say I’d check it out, but my To Be Read pile is a little intimidating… maybe one day.
- Comment on Which faction you expect to be antagonist in some next Star Trek story? 4 weeks ago:
The Conspiracy aliens. We’ve been waiting… so long……
Or the ones from Schisms.
- Comment on "Honestly, this is just like the time Quark was abducted by Grilka!" 4 weeks ago:
Ah, well, I can’t argue with the transporter chief
if I don’t want to be pattern buffered! - Comment on "Honestly, this is just like the time Quark was abducted by Grilka!" 4 weeks ago:
Of course. You think a weapon is just going to discharge by accident in Data’s precision grip?
- Comment on Star Trek has more to offer or it has to end and stop producing more content? 5 weeks ago:
I love the hell out of SNW, but I agree that as a TOS prequel it’s limited in its ability to move the franchise forward.
Thankfully, Starfleet Academy has turned out to be really, really good. I just hope it survives and secures a strong enough following.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy • FlixPatrol 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think I could guess where this is going even if I had expertise in reading numbers like this. No matter how good SFA’s raw numbers are, it may get cancelled anyway simply because the new ownership wants to take the franchise in a different direction. On the other hand, no matter how bad SFA’s raw numbers are, if the numbers it does have are from desirable new demographics it might be a good enough business case for them to keep it around. 🤷♀️
It sounds like we ought to hear if Kurtzman’s contract is renewed or not fairly soon, which seems like it would be a pretty strong indicator one way or the other.
- Comment on Forgive me, Doctor, for I have sinned: I haven't watched anything Trek in almost 2 months 5 weeks ago:
Oh no, not gender nonconformity!!
The best argument I could make for giving Starfleet Academy a chance is the quality of commentary from the people who hate it.
- Comment on Forgive me, Doctor, for I have sinned: I haven't watched anything Trek in almost 2 months 5 weeks ago:
You are, it’s actually an excellent Trek series. The first three episodes are only pretty good, but it gets really great after that.
- Comment on Sixty years on, a Star Trek writer is still creating strange new worlds 5 weeks ago:
Spock’s World and the Rihansu series are must reading.
- Comment on Star Trek: TNG But It Was Released in 2026 1 month ago:
A little long, so I listened to it at 1.5x speed. I think it only enhanced the character.
“I’m so sincerely mad about this right now! EEUR!”
- Comment on What it feels like talking about Star Trek on reddit sometimes 1 month ago:
It’s extremely telling that, for all the nonsense people are finding to condemn Academy for, I haven’t seen anyone leveling “Mary Sue” complaints at Caleb.
He’s been living on the streets since he was a child, but he has a heart of gold. He’s great at hand to hand combat. He’s an expert hacker and can effortlessly penetrate Starfleet computer systems. He’s the best debater in class by a mile. The school chancellor is obsessed with him. The visiting space princess falls instantly in love with him.
But instead of ragging on the objectively OP main character, it’s all about Ake and how she sits wrong. Meanwhile I’ll never stop hearing about how perfect Michael Burnham apparently was, even if her series showed her to be a perennial fuck up. The double standard is legitimately insane.
- Comment on Did you like Star Trek: Nemesis? 1 month ago:
I wont say too much to spoil it, but my feelings on Picard’s first season is that it started out with a huge amount of promise, then moved at a strangely slow pace for long enough that there wasn’t any chance to properly resolve everything at the end. So a mess, but it had ambition and even those messier episodes had some lovely moments.
- Comment on Did you like Star Trek: Nemesis? 1 month ago:
Oh, I hate it. The labourious mind-numbing action, the “we aspire and they don’t” hand-wave resolution to the half-assed philosophical premise, the dozenth mind rape of Troi and Picard’s callous response, it’s all trash.
Don’t get me wrong, it had some OK scenes. You had to learn about them after the fact, though, because they were all cut from the film! Cutting Picard’s discussion with Data from the start, and the crew’s visit to his quarters at the end, is as good as cutting the Kobayashi Maru and funeral sequences from TWoK. They wouldn’t have saved the thing, but they would have given Data’s death at least a little emotional weight.
Left a bad taste in my mouth for twenty years. Thank goodness Picard came along to revisit these characters. It was a mess, but I’ll take any season of Picard as a superior send-off to the TNG era than this movie.
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 1 month ago:
But it just looks unprofessional to me in the captain’s chair.
That’s what I love, though. A boss today might feel the need to cultivate a “professional” work environment to maintain discipline among their underlings, or to appear trustworthy to their clients.
Ake doesn’t doesn’t need to worry about discipline among her officers. They aren’t working for a paycheck, they’re there because they feel a calling and a duty to be there. She trusts them implicitly, and is confident enough in having their respect that she can enjoy her time on her bridge. And her “clients” are university age kids, who generally don’t respond to the pomposity of performative professionalism.
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 1 month ago:
I chill in chairs like that all the time. It’s comfy. Don’t be so self conscious you let schoolgirls have all the fun.
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 1 month ago:
There you go, accusing people of being sexiest and racist just because they have a meltdown every time some piece of media prominently features a woman or person of colour. I’m sure it’s just a highly predictable coincidence.
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 1 month ago:
Riker happily slapped his ass down in the weapons console so he could chat up the prettiest subordinate on duty. Not sure why we’re suddenly supposed to be pretending Trek ever maintained a stern and solemn work environment.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x06 "Come, Let's Away" 1 month ago:
Saved me from having to look up the episodes where that happened, nice.
