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- Comment on Archer new what he was doing 2 days ago:
Probably because he sucks
Oops you just explained all of Enterprise
- Comment on The Official Trailer and Key Art for Season 2 of Animated Series Star Trek: Prodigy Is Here 1 week ago:
I love this show, but I do not understand how they cannot create a uniform that doesn’t look like pajamas (the Cerritos-style uniforms Janeway and her crew wear look great though). The weird gray they seem to be enamored with looks so silly.
- Comment on Fanhome to Return with New Starships This Fall with the Titan, Stargazer, and Farragut 1 week ago:
What a bizarre three ships to start with
- Comment on Star Trek: Day of Blood: Shaxs' Best Day nominated for 2024 Eisner Award 1 month ago:
I loved this issue. If they ever decide to canonize anything in the comics, I hope it’s this one.
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Discovery* 5x08: “Labyrinths” (SPOILERS) 1 month ago:
The shape of Hy’Rell’s head bumps resemble those of Xindi-Primates, first appearing in ENT: “The Xindi”, one of six intelligent Xindi species that were native to Xindus.
I believe it was mentioned in an interview that she’s an Efrosian, which would be the first time we’ve seen one since TUC!
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x08 "Labyrinths" 1 month ago:
Reno partying with Hysperians –– now that is a show I want to watch
- Comment on TAS recommendations 1 month ago:
Man, you have to watch the one with Giant Spock (“The Infinite Vulcan”)
- Comment on Canon Connections: DIS 5x05 - Mirrors 1 month ago:
Enterprise’s mirror universe episodes also have that Dr. Mengele version of Phlox. Of course, I’m always happy for an excuse to pretend that Enterprise didn’t happen.
- Comment on Canon Connections: DIS 5x05 - Mirrors 1 month ago:
It’s okay man, chronophages happen to the best of us
- Comment on Canon Connections: DIS 5x05 - Mirrors 1 month ago:
evolved to be more sensitive to light, resulting in everyone tending more towards malevolence, and barbarism, and queer coded villainy.
You know, I spent the whole episode sort of wondering if they were going to try and speculate that all the species of the Mirror Universe are campy jerks because in that universe the Progenitors were campy jerks. But I suppose I’m glad they didn’t try and explain it, and it’s still just a little pastureland for the actors to go chew scenery.
- Comment on Star Trek Writer Deep Dives Into Discovery Season 5’s Villains 2 months ago:
I still don’t get it. It doesn’t really make sense to me. If it takes a lot of focus and concentration to maintain the solid form, why is one considered weak for doing so?
They seem to be saying that the solid form is a sort of defense mechanism, like a snail shell or an opossum playing dead (or maybe an environmental one, like that it prevents the jelly form from losing too much moisture in a warm environment). It’s difficult to maintain, and implies you’re in a position of retreat or weakness. Now that the Breen presumably have no predators and no environmental necessity for the solid form, it’s seen as a cultural taboo.
While I’m a little bummed the Breen aren’t the space-arctic-wolves I imagined them as during DS9, I think it’s an interesting idea. I do always like when they describe how cultural practices in a particular species comes from how they exist in the ecosystem of their home planet, like the Kelpiens (Saru and the Kelpiens being for me, Disco’s most successful addition to Trek canon).
- Comment on Canon Connections: DIS 5x02 - Under the Twin Moons 2 months ago:
”The last recorded exploration was over a century before Doctor Vellek was even born.” That does potentially raise the question of how Burnham would have been so familiar with Lyrek in the previous episode, though of course she and most of the rest of the Discovery crew might have been alive before Doctor Vellek’s birth.
We’ve seen that in her one year as a courier, Burnham learned everything about every planet because of secret criminal space knowledge. Even if the last recorded exploration was that old, presumably space pirates with their gritty streetsmart know-how have some sort of Mos Eisley medieval market nearby.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek’ Fan Leaves Behind a Collection Like No One Has Done Before 2 months ago:
Oh. Wow. Yikes.
- Comment on Breaking - Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2 Is Out Now In France! – Trek Central 3 months ago:
Major spoilers in the summaries attached to the titles here. I couldn’t help myself from reading them - holy shit. I was excited for this before, but wow.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
But what about all the interesting ideas they’ve pitched for Legacy? Like…the ideas that were come up with. That involved things. You know the ones.
- Comment on Discovery returns to screens April 4th 4 months ago:
Totally, thank you. Star Trek is goofy as hell sometimes. I think if the Kelpian kid had been a plot device isolated to a single episode, no one would have batted an eye if it were on TNG or VOY. But as the reveal of a season long mystery, it was a big woof for a season and a concept that I was really into.
That said, season 4 really picked up that briefly dropped ball. I think the last two episodes of S4, plus the one with the debate at Federation HQ, will go down as Trek classics once Disco ages a bit.
- Comment on When is season 4 anyway? 7 months ago:
Frankly, the scene that introduced Stamets and Culber together I think was intended to surprise the audience in a different way –– Stamets is a huge jerk the previous few episodes and set up as a semi-antagonist, and that bit shows him in a very different light, as the audience/Burnham starts to thaw on the Discovery crew.
- Comment on Canon Connections: Lower Decks 4x10 - Old Friends, New Planets 7 months ago:
The Orion ship that arrives to collect Tendi is inspired by the one introduced in “The Pirates of Orion”, but appears to be a more modern iteration of that craft, as well as being significantly larger.
There have been a number of references to that episode this season, but STILL no one has said “Oreeeeon” or worn a silly green jumpsuit/helmet combo. Like what are they even doing?
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x10 TBA 7 months ago:
If Locarno had kidnapped like Harry Kim or Geordi or some shit and put them on that viewscreen like he did Mariner, we would have had a full episode’s worth of them interminably trying to find a way to play along and send a secret message out and agonizing over the situation, when just yelling “this guy’s an idiot and his plan is stupid” is genuinely a vastly better plan.
- Comment on Canon Connections: Lower Decks 4x09 - The Inner Fight 7 months ago:
The information broker has had cosmetic surgery to resemble the puppet Balok used to appear intimidating in “The Corbomite Maneuver”
I don’t think it specifies in the episode that the information broker had cosmetic surgery, does it? I wondered if this episode was trying to semi-canonize the Dassik. I don’t really care either way because that bit was hilarious.
- Comment on Canon Connections: LDS 4x07 - A Few Badgeys More 8 months ago:
Are you implying that there’s a joke in a Canon Connections post? Inconceivable.
- Comment on New Comics Discussion September 27 | Star Trek #12 | Star Trek: Day of Blood - Shaxs' Best Day | Star Trek: Picard's Academy #1 8 months ago:
I loved this one. I’d read a Ryan North comic about Shaxs doing pretty much anything, but nice to see him in action fighting fascists.
- Comment on Canon Connections: Lower Decks 4x04 - Something Borrowed, Something Green 8 months ago:
With all the “Pirates of Orion” references in this one, they really missed the boat not having at least someone pronounce Orion the insane way they do in that episode.
- Comment on Star Trek: very Short Treks | "Worst Contact" 9 months ago:
The Bill thing at least is a joke about TNG season 1 - they had Troi call him Bill and it was in the early series bible that Picard would call him William and he would be called Bill by “close female friends.” I hate these shorts (although I’m glad they exist for the animation, at least), but that was a pretty funny callback.
- Comment on WOW - Prodigy Second Season Sneak Peek! 10 months ago:
My 8-year-old daughter loves Prodigy, and we’ve started dipping into Voyager (after 50,000 rewatches of every Lower Decks episode except the Billups one), and she loves it, but every time Harry Kim is on screen she lets out this teenagery exaggerated groan of annoyance (I’ve never connected more with another human being). I’m so hoping he shows up on Prodigy because it would be hilarious how angry she’d be.
- Comment on Star Trek Confirms an Underrated TNG Crew Member Is Destined for Command 10 months ago:
Barclay’s actor has become a truly odious person in real life –– I don’t think the TNG cast (Stewart in particular) would have agreed to have him on the show.
- Comment on WOW - Prodigy Second Season Sneak Peek! 10 months ago:
Knowing a few people who have worked on series that ended up looking for new networks, I feel pretty confident that for zillions of reasons (both legal and promotional) they would never have shown this footage if it wasn’t basically a done deal –– this is just marketing to see us go bananas over the Doctor before they reveal the streaming deal. Which –– I could not believe it when I woke up this morning because I was totally sure all the “new home” stuff was entirely wishful thinking and that Prodigy was fully dead.