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- Comment on Sixty years on, a Star Trek writer is still creating strange new worlds 4 hours ago:
Spock’s World and the Rihansu series are must reading.
- Comment on Star Trek: TNG But It Was Released in 2026 4 days 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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" 2 weeks ago:
Saved me from having to look up the episodes where that happened, nice.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x06 "Come, Let's Away" 2 weeks ago:
You’re right, that’s the model they landed on by TMP. I meant to say it resonates with Jeffries’ original concept that the engines were just too dangerous to be near the ship, which I always preferred. And who’s to say 32nd century ships don’t have power plants in the nacelles themselves, like a lot of early fandom assumed in the days of TOS? It would make sense if they’re completely separate now. (I know we saw Discovery with a central warp core after its refit, but Discovery is a bit of a special case).
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x06 "Come, Let's Away" 2 weeks ago:
I like the detached nacelles. It’s nice to have at least a few clear indicators that technology has advanced in the 800 years since TNG. And it seems like a logical extension of the idea that the nacelles are these big dangerous things that needed to be kept separate from the living spaces and easily jettisoned.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x06 "Come, Let's Away" 2 weeks ago:
OK, I’ve seen the images in the other thread now, and I’m seeing much more convincing evidence of AI generation there.
Like, everything about these arms looks wrong: https://imgur.com/DiRNxEY
And these shadows are just nonsense: https://imgur.com/TMZY25V
Honestly, I’m personally not too bothered if a background prop you’re not supposed to get a good look at is made with AI, but I’m also not going to argue with anyone who takes a real hard line on the subject.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x06 "Come, Let's Away" 2 weeks ago:
I’m really not seeing any obvious AI tells. It looks to me like it was drawn and inked traditionally, and then someone dropped in the little flares to up the cheese factor (and maybe give a little reference to JJ). I may be wrong, it’s getting hard to tell these days, but to me it just looks like someone trying to emulate a very typical comic book style.
- Comment on Jess Bush Talks Upcoming “Deep” Chapel Episodes For ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ 2 weeks ago:
Season 3 really did her a disservice. Hopefully the writers got their heads back in the game for the back half of the show.
- Comment on "And you people, you're all astronauts on... some kind of star trek?" James Cromwell announced for STLV to celebrate the 30th anniversary of First Contact. 2 weeks ago:
The fifty-fifth entry in the Star Trek film franchise, in which the Enterprise Y returns to the centre of the galaxy to enlist the God Thing’s aid in defeating the Borg King. He redeems himself and becomes Captain Kirk the Fourth’s new yeoman, a real full circle moment.
- Comment on How I imagine those crying "i tHouGHT StAr Trek WAs suPPosEd tO bE a UtOPia" 2 weeks ago:
That’s very true, and it might be fair to call Earth a kind of paradise before the Dominion war hit. I think we might actually be hitting up against an important distinction between “paradise” and “utopia”. To me, a paradise can be a brief and fragile perfect place that can’t long endure. But a utopia is a kind of political project that would need to be designed to survive threats and maintain itself. If a society becomes so complacent that just the idea of a foe can upend it, I wouldn’t consider it utopian.
- Comment on How I imagine those crying "i tHouGHT StAr Trek WAs suPPosEd tO bE a UtOPia" 2 weeks ago:
DS9 also had martial law declared on Earth. Some characters may refer to Earth as a paradise, but you as a viewer are supposed to realize that’s a comfortable illusion.
- Comment on Interview: Tawny Newsome On “Gargantuan Task” To Give DS9 “Resolution” On ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ 3 weeks ago:
That’s right, I completely forgot about Worf, and also the O’Briens!
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 5x05 "Series Acclimation Mil" 3 weeks ago:
That was my one gripe with the episode. I enjoyed the B-plot, but it felt disconnected to the rest. And with this episode otherwise serving as such a lovely coda to DS9, I wish they’d have kept it a bit more focused on that.
- Comment on Interview: Tawny Newsome On “Gargantuan Task” To Give DS9 “Resolution” On ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ 3 weeks ago:
Keeping in mind DS9 itself opened on a direct TNG tie in, sprinkled TNG villains through the first season, then brought back every Klingon captain from TOS, and finally just went all in and edited everyone into a TOS episode so Dax could swoon over Spock’s eyes and Sisko could sneak Kirk’s autograph…
Every Trek show since the original has referenced the others like this. I think it’s good fun.
- Comment on Too far, man 3 weeks ago:
Oh you’ve gotta give No Man’s Land a read.
- Comment on ‘Starfleet Academy’ Episode 5 Trailer Reveals ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ Connection 3 weeks ago:
You’re talking about the sacred home of The Emissary of The Prophets. I wouldn’t be shocked if they kept the place around just so Bajorans could go there to pray for his return.
- Comment on What happend with the the new and old Borg after Picard season 2 and 3? 3 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure in the second episode of Academy, Caleb tried to distract some guards by pretending there was a Borg behind them.
So active or not, it seems like they’re still at least thought of as threatening.
- Comment on Preview Episode 5 Of ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ With 13 New Images From “Series Acclimation Mil” 3 weeks ago:
I’m happy this show doesn’t try to wedge needless action into every episode, but still amused when the preview images are nothing but the same characters talking.
Last week they were talking behind podiums. This week they’re talking in a cafeteria. Where will they talk next week? We’ll just have to wait to find out!
- Comment on I can be considered Trekkie or just a viewer? 3 weeks ago:
For a time “Trekkie” was seen as derogatory, so “Trekker” was invented by people who didn’t want to be seen as “one of those fans”
The distinction seems to have slowly fallen away, and now I rarely see “Trekker” used at ask.
- Comment on The recent Star Trek series are often criticized for "not being woke enough", but I've come to feel the envelope they are pushing is much more radical, bolder, and important to our specific time... 3 weeks ago:
I’ve definitely maintained that the overarching theme of Discovery was valuing mental health, and so far that seems to be getting carried forward by Academy. I think that aligns with what you’re saying. I’m not sure it applies quite as much across all the other Trek shows. Probably yes, but to a lesser degree.
Most of the discussions of “wokeness” I see break down into a grievance with white men not being the overwhelming majority of characters, so I never really thought of it in those terms, but it makes sense. It’s definitely something the world needs more of but large chunks seem actively opposed to.
- Comment on Preview Episode 4 Of ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ With 12 New Images From “Vox in Excelso” 4 weeks ago:
Awful. Perfect.
- Comment on Preview Episode 4 Of ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ With 12 New Images From “Vox in Excelso” 4 weeks ago:
If they do a tribble episode without a terrible pun in the title I’m done with the franchise! That would be the final nail in Star Trek’s coffin. A slap in the face to all true fans. Etc etc.
- Comment on Preview Episode 4 Of ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ With 12 New Images From “Vox in Excelso” 4 weeks ago:
Well that would make perfect sense. I guess I still need to adjust to school based plots.
