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- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x01 "Kids These Days" & 1x02 "Beta Test" 1 day ago:
Watched the second episode now, and my opinion has not changed much! The romantic subplot was putting my partner to sleep, but I thought the two had pretty good chemistry — until that very forced argument. I guess I’ve seen young couples get into heated arguments about stupid things in real life too.
Nahla and Caleb’s scenes together were great fun as well.
One of the things I wished Discovery had taken more time to delve into was how society has changed in the burn-era isolationist Earth. Now it seems as though Academy is downplaying how much Earth had changed, but shifting that isolationist role to Betazed. A little disappointing, but I can understand the decision given how insistent so many fans are that Star Trek feel unerringly Optimistic. Maybe we’ll get to spend some more time delving into how Betazoid culture has shifted instead.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x01 "Kids These Days" & 1x02 "Beta Test" 1 day ago:
I was actually kind of disappointed going into this show that SFA seemed to be going back to an Earth centric model for the Federation, so this development is very positive for me.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x01 "Kids These Days" & 1x02 "Beta Test" 1 day ago:
That seems like it’ll be a major issue for future writers to come up with excuses why they can’t just put the characters where they need to be.
Only a little more of an issue than transporters already were. How often have writers had to add in an exotic atmosphere or cave ore or ion storm or just enemy shields to justify not beaming out of a bad situation?
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x01 "Kids These Days" & 1x02 "Beta Test" 1 day ago:
On my list now, thanks!
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x01 "Kids These Days" & 1x02 "Beta Test" 2 days ago:
So far I’ve just watched episode one, but I think we’re off to a great start. I don’t know Holly Hunter from anything except Batman v Superman, so I didn’t know why everyone seemed so happy to have her on board, but I get it now. Nahla isn’t much on paper, but Hunter really makes me love the character. She sells the comfort and confidence without feeling at all silly or non-genuine.
I thought Caleb would be a harder character to like, but he won me over pretty quickly too. His introduction definitely started on the right foot. His mode of escape reminded me of Jason Todd stealing the tires off the Batmobile. Good stuff.
The other cadets are a mixed bag so far. Jay-Den and Sam seem fun, the others seems like boring cliches, but none of them have been given a lot of time yet so it’s still a wait and see situation.
The episode itself was a little messy, especially the action at the end, but I get that it was the first episode and they felt they had to give everyone something to do. Still one of Trek’s better premiers.
- Comment on Zootopia 6 days ago:
Yeah, they play “can you feel the love tonight” over it and fade out shortly after the shot in question. The Zootopia frame may be taken out of context, but Lion King’s is absolutely what it looks like.
- Comment on Scientists discover a treatment that will let you live to be 1000 but it also turns you into a reptile. Do you do it? 1 week ago:
Also confused. The alternative is dying. Most things are preferable to dying.
- Comment on "Starfleet Academy" early review round-up 1 week ago:
Jessie Gender’s very positive review.
- Comment on Tawny Newsome Gives Update On Live-Action Star Trek Comedy – “We’re Ready!” 1 week ago:
I have nothing against a Star Trek comedy show either way, but I’m going to take issue with calling Galaxy Quest a mockery. Yeah, it’s a parody, but I doubt a more loving parody exists. Everything it makes fun of in the first half comes around to be something admirable by the end, from Alan Rickman’s catchphrase to the dweeb with encyclopedic knowledge of the series saving the day. The movie actually embraces us geeks who poured over the Franz Joseph deck plans and says “good for you, maybe your love of this shit will save the world someday.”
- Comment on If I go crazy will you still call me Superman? 1 week ago:
And in some of the stories Lex Luthor loses his hair because of his kryptonite experiments.
In the mainline comics of the ‘80s and ‘90s, wearing a kryptonite ring day after day gave him incurable cancer.
- Comment on Hate it when this happens 1 week ago:
Goggles seem valid, but hair? Should rinse right out.
- Comment on Been Very Recently Watching ‘Star Trek: The Animated Series’; What Do Rest of You, Who have Watched At Least 3-Episodes, Think of The Series? 2 weeks ago:
He adapted all the animated series stories in his Star Trek Log series back in the '70s. Also known for the novelization of the first Star Wars film among others, and credited for the story of The Motion Picture.
- Comment on Been Very Recently Watching ‘Star Trek: The Animated Series’; What Do Rest of You, Who have Watched At Least 3-Episodes, Think of The Series? 2 weeks ago:
Between the very limited animation and run time, and the disengaged voice acting from some of the cast, the series is really best enjoyed in the form of the Alan Dean Foster novelizations.
But it is worth enjoying one way or another. There are some stinkers, but also some very strong concepts in there. Strong enough that future Trek mined from them directly, like The Motion Picture cribbing off One Of Our Planets Is Missing.
- Comment on Subscribing & ‘Star Trek’ Me 3 weeks ago:
The ‘90s were a pretty magical time for sci-fi on TV. I’m not going to pick favourites today, but both SG-1 and Babylon 5 really gave Trek a run for its money.
- Comment on Have YOU ever done this? 4 weeks ago:
Yup, I’ve always externalized my thoughts when alone. Got teased for it occasionally when I was caught, but always seemed weird to me that people don’t. One of the many reasons I’m probably on the spectrum, but it’s not causing any harm.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Exclusive Clip | Paramount+ (CCXP 2025) 1 month ago:
Five seasons for Disco, SNW, and LD. I’d love more, but I think that’s respectable for streaming series. Doesn’t seem looked they’re trying to escape anything.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Exclusive Clip | Paramount+ (CCXP 2025) 1 month ago:
You’re not suggesting that Star Trek fans might have had a negative overreaction to something just because it wasn’t 110% familiar and comfortable for them, are you? Why, that would be unprecedented.
- Comment on I watch the first Star Trek Discovery episode, I didn't like it. 1 month ago:
Granted, it’s a relatively extreme case. But there are also real consequences to Burnham, which persist through the whole season, as opposed to the usual slap on the wrist or less. Most shows will have the protagonist thumb their nose at orders and convey that it’s a good thing. Personally, I like that it blows up in the protagonist’s face for once. But I’m also the sort who kind of resents Trek IV letting everyone off so easy after the whole Enterprise hijacking incident.
- Comment on I watch the first Star Trek Discovery episode, I didn't like it. 1 month ago:
The commander disobeing order to the captain in the first and also attacking her?
Not sure why this would surprise you, disobeying orders is a favourite pastime in Starfleet.
Seriously, season 1 is quite grimdark, but it serves its purpose and the story is allowed to progress past it. The show mellows by the middle and becomes positively saccharine by the end.
- Comment on TrekMovie.com - Rick Berman And Brannon Braga Defend The Controversial ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ Series Finale 2 months ago:
Ah, that sounds right. It’s been too many years since I revisited B5, but I do remember that we were lucky enough to have Ivanova make one last appearance in the actual finale.
- Comment on TrekMovie.com - Rick Berman And Brannon Braga Defend The Controversial ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ Series Finale 2 months ago:
I think the core concept could have worked. Look at Babylon season 4’s finale, which was at the time expected to wrap up the series: they hop through future time periods to see the enduring legacy these characters leave behind. It worked well, and there’s no reason it couldn’t have worked even better if we already had an emotional attachment to the future era we jumped to.
What failed was that the “enduring legacy” was to be consumed like a daytime soap in between shifts. Frakes and Sirtis playing themselves a decade younger sure didn’t help. Maybe if they put them together on the Titan at the appropriate age and crafted a new story that somehow called back to the founding of the Federation in a way that tied both periods together meaningfully they could have had something.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Where is this article getting their demographic numbers, wishful thinking?
Oh don’t worry, it’s very scientific:
If you think I’m underestimating the number of Trek’s female viewers, scroll through the comments on any Star Trek-related content anywhere on the internet. Then count the number of female commenters. You’ll see a lot of guys named Steve, but you won’t see many Jennifers.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Official Trailer | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025) 2 months ago:
I know, I once had someone open a discussion by complaining that Discovery features a black lesbian as the captain.
There are plenty of valid reasons to dislike the show, but it seems the loudest complainers have never actually watched an episode so the best they can do is to fall back on bigoted cliches.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Official Trailer | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025) 2 months ago:
Oh I hate that about Discovery. All those preachy episodes like Let That Be Your Last Battlefield, The Outcast, and Far Beyond The Stars…
Oh wait, was TOS, TNG, and DS9. Can you remind me again when Discovery got anywhere near as focused on race or gender issues as any of those episodes?
- Comment on Mary Wiseman’s Tilly Will Be In ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy,’ But Not As Much As Expected 3 months ago:
Yeah, that’s my feeling as well. Checking her IMDB, it seems she’s been working on a series called The Residence that I hadn’t heard of until now. Maybe they just had a better offer for her?
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 3 months ago:
Grey text is looking out for their safety, good for them. Blue text is clearly communicating their boundaries, good for them. Neither is phrasing their needs as I would, but that’s small potatoes. I’d rather date either of these people than most of the ones replying in this thread.
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 3 months ago:
They’re also completely absent from Discovery…
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 3 months ago:
I love Discovery. Some of the criticisms are valid; every season has a few dumb moments that make me shake my head. But I love the characters, the actors are all great, Doug Jones in particular is a treasure, and the first contact in season 4 feels more like a proper science fiction scenario than any other in Trek.
One thing to keep in mind is that the tone shifts considerably season to season. It starts off quite grim and gritty, but don’t expect it to stay that way.
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Needs to Imagine More for Its Female Characters 3 months ago:
There is a trend this season of defining characters by their relationships, and since women are so often defined by their relationship to a man in media, I can see how that would ring alarm bells. But in this case, every character is being defined by their relationship. Spock is shown to have gotten past his relationship with Chapel by hooking up with La’an, and La’an is shown to have gotten past her trauma with the Gorn by hooking up with Spock. Pike and Batel spend the whole season focused on their future together. Chapel is now just Corby’s girlfriend, which sucks, but it’s equally true that Corby is just Chapel’s boyfriend - we learn practically nothing about him outside of that and his profession. In general, this has just been the romantic entanglement season of SNW.
That is, apart from Ortegas, who had the best arc this season. It’s ridiculous to say that her trauma with the Gorn is “not touched on” until Terrarium - I don’t see how you could watch this season and not see it playing into every scene she has up until that point. It feels like that the article writer knew her arc didn’t suit the point they were making, so they just tried to downplay it.
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Producers Promise Season 4 Will Be Better 3 months ago:
Rhys Darby saved the Q/Trelane episode by being Rhys Darby. Everything else about it was weak sauce. Which, honestly, can be said about most of John de Lancie’s episodes, so fair play I suppose.
I thought the holodeck episode was better, actually. I could have done without not!Uhura’s self-congratulatory speech, but other than that it was all good fun. But then, I usually think that of holodeck episodes. Who doesn’t like Moriarty, Doctor Noah, or Queen Arachnia?