eva_sieve
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- Comment on got ds9 on the 15th of december 10 months ago:
“Tacky Cardassian fascist eyesore!”
- Comment on Time Travel 11 months ago:
I seem to recall some of the Romulans saying something very similar to Ni’var Science Directorate vulcans’ faces in the episode Unification III.
- Comment on Philosophical franchises 11 months ago:
- Comment on Now with **extreme** deep-conversation action! 11 months ago:
“So, I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the Ferry cost a nickel, and in those days nickels had pictures of Barclay on 'em. ‘Give me five Barclays for a quarter,’ you’d say. Now, where were we?”
- Comment on Have you assholes never heard of Chain of Command?!?! 11 months ago:
One might even say… context is for kings?
- Comment on Have you assholes never heard of Chain of Command?!?! 11 months ago:
…Is this a meme or a cry for help?
- Comment on Are you REALLY a fan? 11 months ago:
Don’t think they’re including shuttlecraft. It’s a bit hard but I can’t see the Cerritos’ Death Valley scanning through that area of the alphabet. I do note that Discovery is there in both original and -A format, which might be contentious since the ship is its own refit.
- Comment on Lower Decks theme slaps 11 months ago:
For me the Prodigy and Lower Decks theme songs are among the best in the franchise because they’re versatile. You can have a slow, tender violin motif from the LD theme such as when Tendi was telling Mariner that the Beta shifters were her family at the end of season 2. A slightly different part gets a brassy remix as the swelling Crisis Point theme music for the Cerritos.
Not all Trek melodies do this. Voyager’s got a lovely melody that feels appropriate for a grand trip homeward, but they tried using it at some big plot moments and it just felt wrong. Disco and TNG have the opposite problem where their themes are CONSTANT INTENSITY, so you don’t often see them used in softer moments. (The latter is very weird to me considering we have heard softer variations of the theme, maybe I just can’t think of any such uses in the series offhand).
- Comment on Jonathan Frakes Returning To Direct For ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Season 3 11 months ago:
Look, the man also directed First Contact (the movie, not the episode) and Those Old Scientists, which are generally well received. I think we can begrudge him one ghost-fuckin’ episode.
- Comment on Tonight, on Unsolved Mysteries 11 months ago:
Dunno what you’re on about, that’s Captain Sonya Gomez.
Ensign Gomez was indeed not seen again.
(yes, I know this is still inaccurate)
- Comment on Don't know where else to say this ... but I'm enjoying the new shows on my own. 11 months ago:
You might want to see a doctor about that. But have fun!
- Comment on When is season 4 anyway? 11 months ago:
In fairness, Adira does have a weird moment where they seem reticent about switching pronouns. But I’ll defend Disco’s representation because I think it’s just written with a different lens of how to treat queerness. The themes feel more modern, and more willing to explore what queerness is rather than treating it as something to be tolerated.
I’ll never forget my first watchthrough of Season 3 where Stamets refers to Adira as his child. I was floored because I’d mentally joked that Staments shoulda adopted them by now, but here the narrative was coming out and saying it. The writers dove deeper into themes like found family rather than retreading old ground. It’s heavy-handed at times, but it feels like queerness written for queer people.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Creator Breaks Down That Epic Season 4 Finale, Surprise Cameos, and More 11 months ago:
T’Lyn’s story in Season 5 involves her and another character in an interesting way, and you see T’lyn embrace science and Starfleet more than I think people anticipate.
Until proven otherwise I’ll remain on the Sokel-is-T’Lyn’s-father boat and will assume this to be about him.
- Comment on Star Trek pip guide 1 year ago:
If it makes you feel better, Captain Chakotay had normal pips by the time the Protostar was commissioned. Guess Janeway just didn’t want to grant ranks away from Starfleet proper.
- Comment on You can all pry my ketracel white from my cold, dead, spicy and delicious hands. 1 year ago:
It’s pretty impressive since pure capsaicin tops out at 16 million, guess they started putting crazier spice moulecules in. Also makes Boimler’s pain in that episode less of a gag and more of a “how are you legally allowed to have this on your table?”
- Comment on I'm not an Enterprise 1 year ago:
Kate Mulgrew-Janeway: I don’t have such weaknesses
- Comment on Gordi has to deal with this all day. 1 year ago:
Oh, very clever Worf. Eat any good books lately?
- Comment on He tries so hard because he doesn't want to be remembered as "the other Captain Ransom" 1 year ago:
minor bit of pedantry, a minute isn’t that silhouette the Kelvin-verse Enterprise?
- Comment on Twiddles fingers wildly 1 year ago:
As far as I’m aware they never explain the rules of Stratagema. I feel pretty comfortable saying it seems like a terrible esport to spectate. You’ve got
- Incredibly quick games (Data’s first game with Kolrami ends in less than thirty seconds), so there’s little to no time to appreciate whatever finer strategies are going on
- crap graphics-- style is very bland and more importantly user unfriendly–as far as I can tell there are four colors, navy/blank, some sort of territorial highlighting colors (blue and yellow), and a red that appears to be units/agents of both players, which are not visually distinct except for small markers (seriously, why?).
- probably crap controls-- I get you have to move multiple things simultaneously, but you’d think they’d make something more intuitive for whatever 3-D controls this game needs. With the benefit of modern video game hindsight I think something like a mini keyboard in one hand would be a lot more believable for whatever quick selection and movements are needed by this game.
Basically, take a minimalist strategy game like Go and an RTS game and stick them together in a way that uses the strengths of neither. That’s Stratagema. Don’t play this game, it’s dumb.
- Comment on Philomena Cunk on Star Trek 1 year ago:
“You reckon it should just be called a human name, then? Something silly like ‘Carl’?”
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x10 TBA 1 year ago:
Star Trek does this thing where formal rank isn’t actually as important as being in the captain’s in-group. Can you name anything important that provisional Lt. JG Ayala did on the USS Voyager? I sure as hell can’t, but it was less important than Harry “eternal ensign” Kim.
As much as the Lower Decks gang would like to think of themselves as unimportant, they’re very much confidants of the Cerritos’ senior staff so it’s illogical, but consistent for Boimler to be at the top of the list for acting captain when stuff’s going down.
Out of universe it’s obviously a narrative/screen time thing, I’d say you’ve just got to accept it and move on.
- Comment on Don't worry, I actually do like the SNW bridge 1 year ago:
“Orange, really?”
- Comment on There are exactly two types of Star Trek fans 1 year ago:
u/Stamets likes his Star Trek hot folks to be fully clothed, damnit! Like Captain Pike! or Doctor Culber! or Captain Pike!
- Comment on Sneak Peek at Lower Decks’ Finale by IGN 1 year ago:
Man, the years were far kinder to Tom Paris than Locarno. Guess being a Starfleet burnout is a pretty stressful existence.
- Comment on Shots fired 1 year ago:
Don’t sell short the levels of destructive capability Federation has access to if it really cared about such things. Off the top of my head, there are some messed up “off-label” uses for stuff we’ve seen the Federation has access to by the 2380s:
- Red Matter is featured in Star Trek '09, though it originates from the prime timeline. Obvious application for making black holes on demand. Y’know, I’m not actually sure why the Vulcan Science Academy made so much of it, but we see even in small amounts it can be used as a planet killing weapon.
- The Protostar Class from Prodigy is probably the potentially Federation’s most terrifying weapon. The contained protostar at the heart of the ship explodes (canonically, though unrealistically) into a supernova if containment fails, and with full holo-emitter coverage it could be run by a holographic crew. Lock down the ETH’s personality matrix and you’ve got a fully automated transwarp supernova bomb.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x09 "The Inner Fight" 1 year ago:
Rutherford hanging out with Freeman is presumably setup for the finale, giving us three perspectives without compromising the focus on the main gang. He did feel a little tacked on though.
- Comment on 🎵 Buy it, use it, break it, fix it, Trash it, change it, mail – upgrade it, charge it, point it, zoom it, press it, snap it, work it, quick – erase it 🎵 1 year ago:
“Should we put Captain Lorca’s warp phrase on the image?”
“Nah, fuck that mirror universe asshole. Just add another Pike and call it a day.”
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x09 "The Inner Fight" 1 year ago:
Dunno why they didn’t bother promoting this episode, it was great. I was initially skeptical that it was just going to be a “Mariner is angsty” episode without much of a payoff, but they finally revealed everything. And they gave Ma’ah screen time doing it!
The confirmation of how the Dominion War scarred Mariner wasn’t much of a surprise, but the tie back to the Lower Decks of old was. What an absolutely crushing reason to lose the optimism in what Starfleet can be. Props to Tawny Newsome for some good voice acting for an emotionally vulnerable moment.
Minor complaint/discontinuity: in this episode Mariner seemed surprised that T’Lyn was present at the fight against the Pakleds and the Klingon BoP in Wej Duj, although I seem to recall T’Lyn explicitly referencing that incident to her in Empathological Fallacies.
Speculation about next week: I’d hazard a guess that Locarno is a thematic version of what Mariner could become if she isn’t careful. He’s a Starfleet ace gone bad, and also Sito’s former friend, so he’s presumably got a lot to sell her on the troublemaker’s life.
God, I typed a lot and didn’t even get to Freeman’s misdirection this episode. It was good, watch it!
- Comment on How dare he act out so emotionally 1 year ago:
I mean if you look at Burnham and Sarek’s relationship in Discovery he did a pretty dang good job beating the human emotion out of her.
Sure, this kinda fucked her up emotionally in a way the series tragically didn’t look into nearly enough after season 1, but you can’t say that his methods never worked.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x08 "Caves" 1 year ago:
Tendi’s bit was wholesome, but this was a weaker episode overall IMO. I get what they were going for, the jokes just didn’t really land for me.