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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek: Lower Decks Releases Homage Poster for Final Season Celebration⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually contracts have to be negotiated after five seasons. Especially after the strikes last year, studios are committed to never budging an inch on contracts or residuals, even if it means losing money in the short term. To them, it’s worth it to cancel even a successful or popular show if it means keeping their workers in a perpetual state of gig work and at a disadvantage for contracts on new shows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Boimler so pale even though he grew up on a vineyard?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Boims is an indoor kid

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are only two types of Bad Star Trek Episodes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Surprised to see A Night in Sickbay here – that’s one of the few watchable ENT episodes!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Star Trek Action Figure Line Coming From Nacelle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Judging by Nacelle’s website, it looks like once again these will be expensive display figures that kids can’t play with.

  As a parent of young Star Trek fans, the fact that this is the worst-merchandised franchise in the world is incredibly annoying

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fanhome Releases Preorder Info for New Star Trek Model Program, Announces First Starships in Lineup⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, they could not have picked a collection of less interesting ships if they tried

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you skip Star Trek intros when streaming?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I usually skip the intros unless I’m really in the mood, but for LD my daughter and I always skip to the nacelle-eating alien (we named him Yum Yums), yell “YUM YUMS!”, and then skip to the end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SDCC: ‘Starfleet Academy’ Will Be “New Format” For Star Trek With Holly Hunter As “Very Different” Captain⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually this brought up a completely buried memory for me. For a few years I lived in the same neighborhood as him – at the time, cool guy that I was, I had a Starfleet badge on my coat, and one day I was at the grocery store and had an awkward moment with him where our carts got sort of wedged together negotiating the too-narrow checkout lanes. He saw my pin and gave me a Vulcan salute as he moved into his lane. He seemed nice and a bit sheepish. The staff at the coffee shop I used to go to told me he was extremely lovely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cillian O'Sullivan To Play Roger Korby in Strange New Worlds – Trek Central⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, all of the recasts have been spectacular with this one exception; I’m fully stumped by Paul Wesley and his take on the character. I don’t need anyone aping Shatner and I love the idea of highlighting the more bookish actual Kirk than the pop culture image of him, but Ozempic Kirk spends 90% of his time looking bored out of his mind and 10% of his time doing a terrible Han Solo impression. I cannot understand spending so much time on him when literally everyone else on screen sparkles and he has the charisma of wet felt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For the Whovians on C/Doctor Who⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have never seen such cursed content

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Archer new what he was doing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What a bizarre three ships to start with

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek: Day of Blood: Shaxs' Best Day nominated for 2024 Eisner Award⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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"⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reno partying with Hysperians –– now that is a show I want to watch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TAS recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, you have to watch the one with Giant Spock (“The Infinite Vulcan”)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canon Connections: DIS 5x05 - Mirrors⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s okay man, chronophages happen to the best of us

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canon Connections: DIS 5x05 - Mirrors⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh. Wow. Yikes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking - Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2 Is Out Now In France! – Trek Central⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you implying that there’s a joke in a Canon Connections post? Inconceivable.