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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x06 "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
“I was convinced up until the reveal that the “alien” was a sort of scavenging species 0 of the Borg, with the robotic look and the ability to adapt to phaser fire.”

I suspected the Pakled myself. That would have been an even bigger tonal mismatch, so I was glad to find that I was wrong.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robert Picardo Talks Getting “Dramatic” On ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’; ‘Discovery’ Actors Want In Too⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Totally agree about Mitchell. Rong Fu is really good in the role and deserves some love from the writers. Mitchell is a recurring character rather than a regular, so it may not be an apples to apples comparison but still, she’s been there from the begining.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robert Picardo Talks Getting “Dramatic” On ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’; ‘Discovery’ Actors Want In Too⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Bring Detmer in and give some years overdue character development.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's 2025, the year we decided we need a widespread slur for robots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I like that both “toasters” and “clankers” are hard “r” slurs.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x05 "Through the Lens of Time"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That’s a fair caveat.

SNW has been overusing it as a plot device. In TNG it was a one off gimmick to bring back Scotty. Still, I wondered why they didn’t buy Batel time from her Gorn egg infection by putting her in the pattern buffer. It seems like an idea that ought to have at least been discussed, but I don’t recall that it was.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x05 "Through the Lens of Time"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
To be fair, it was used the way in the TNG Episode Relics, when Scotty spent 75 years stuck in the Jenolan’s transport buffer, so quiite a long precedent.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x05 "Through the Lens of Time"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It totally was. It’s no coincidence that it was Scotty who caught the entity and Scotty who is taken over by it years later in Wolf in the Fold.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x05 "Through the Lens of Time"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
My only complaint is that Ensign Gamble got this great episode, while Jenna Mitchell has yet to see an iota of character development and more than a few minutes of screen time away from the helm. Of course Gamble had to die for the privilege, so I guess that’s fair. Still, I think the writers owe Rong Fum some love.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Transgender, nonbinary and disabled people more likely to view AI negatively, study shows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That’s fair, because AI is biased against them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's 2025, the year we decided we need a widespread slur for robots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
We already have “clankers” thanks to Clone Wars. What more do we need?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
In this case there are no competing domestic products though, or few enough as makes little difference. This is just taxation with extra steps.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
“There was a button. I pushed it.” Where’s Holden when you need him?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Showrunners Talk Season 3 Premiere And “Retconning” The Gorn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
My head-canon is that there is no retconm, or at least no need for one.

We’ve seen in ST SNW that where the Gorn are concerned, the younger they are, the faster and dumber they are.

Pike and his crew have only directly encountered hatchlings, adolescents and a very few Gorn of age to serve on starships, perhaps the Gorn equivalent of redshirts.

The logical extension of that idea is that as Gorn mature, they become slower, burlier and more intelligent. The Gorn Kirk encountered in Arena may have a very mature individual, thus his slow, lumbering pace and extreme cunning. Probably overdue for a promotion to admiral.