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- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x09 "Terrarium" 9 hours ago:
- I think this can easily be handwaved away since the scenario is artificial in the first place.
- Odds are it’ll take a few days or possible weeks of travel to rondevu with the Constellation.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x09 "Terrarium" 17 hours ago:
To be fair, if you look at her quarters, she does tinker with things a lot. So it’s not exactly out of left field that she might have the mechanical knowledge to tinker up some jury rigged devices.
- Comment on [Episode] Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express • Ginga Tokkyuu Milky☆Subway - Episode 10 discussion 23 hours ago:
I really enough the english dub. I feel like the 2 robot bro’s voices fit their character better then their Japanese VA’s.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x09 "Terrarium" 1 day ago:
A Darmok and Arena episode is not what I was expacting but I was pleasantly surprised.
I don’t mind retreading old stories, after all recycling plots is a Star Trek tradition.
I’d have been happier without the reveal of the Metrons. I get it, as a callout/foreshadowing of Arena, but I kind of feel that is took away from the emotional beat of the Gorn being killed by the security team. Then to also have it handwaved away with a memory wipe, so that it is only meant for us, the viewers. I don’t know man… I kind of like the deepcut, but it’s also distracting.
I guess it was also a bit necessary for us to understand the Gorn a bit more to have the all seeing eye narrate to us that the Gorn pilot was lonely and is the reason Ortega was spared.
Anyway, I loved this episode. We got a whole episode for Ortega. Addressed her PTSD that had been sitting in the backseat for this entire season. And I love these kind of survival episodes. Like I really enjoyed ENT’s Shuttlepod One for the same reason. Just seeing characters fighting for their lives and also accepting their death in a cold and uncaring Universe. It’s good completing Star Trek.
The only thing I wish is that SNW’s best episodes didn’t feel like the best of TOS.
- Comment on [Episode] CITY THE ANIMATION - Episode 9 discussion 4 days ago:
This show is so wholesome and peak.
Kyoto Animation is doing such an amazing job at animating this series.
Also, who is that girl that rigged the race for Matsuri and Eri? I don’t remember seeing her before this episode, but there are so many characters it’s easy to have missed her.
- Comment on [Episode] Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express • Ginga Tokkyuu Milky☆Subway - Episode 9 discussion 1 week ago:
It’s crazy how funny and how much character development we get in a short 3 to 5 minute episode.
Just last episode we were told Kanata met Akane when he worked on her bike, and so we know he’s technical. And now he’s saving the day (theoretically) by hot wiring the door system to restart.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x08 "Four-and-a-Half-Vulcans" 1 week ago:
Why wouldn’t doctor m’benga challenge their decision to remain Vulcan without checking, testing, verifying their capacity?
I totally thought that too. Clearly, their judgement has been impaired and what they want is irrelevant. But you know…sometimes you just need stuff to happen to get the plot moving.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x08 "Four-and-a-Half-Vulcans" 1 week ago:
Does that imply that Romulans augmented themselves? And that’s what distinguishes them physiologically from Vulcans, and is what makes them kinda evil?
I guess it makes some sense. They never got the teachings of Surak. So to control their emotions maybe they looked in to genetic augmentation, and it turns out, they turned evil. Which to be fair, a very common theme in Star Trek (exect when it’s not).
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x08 "Four-and-a-Half-Vulcans" 1 week ago:
I didn’t appreciate that despite the extra long (and extra long feeling) runtime of this one they had three of the Vulcans return to human off screen.
I feel like Pike and Uhura already had external character growth on screen to explain why it wouldn’t take much convincing for them to go back. I kind of wish they showed what convinced Chapel.
But I think it makes sense to also emphasis La’an because they’re trying ti build up the relationship with Spock, so they do kind of need more screen time.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x08 "Four-and-a-Half-Vulcans" 1 week ago:
Great episode. Extremely cringe but it works for me.
God, the amount of bullying Spock must have put up with as a kid. It’s no wonder he joined Starfleet. We even see it in one of the movies where he kicked the shit out of another Vulcan kid.
And incase someone needs a reminder on how Pike and La’An knew what Romulans are. La’An ran in to one in Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. And Pike runs into them in *A Quality of Mercy *. Both dealing with wacky time displacement nonsense and conanically Romulans aren’t revealed until TOS’s Balance of Terror (which A Quality of Mercy is a remake of).
La’An is a terrible Romulan. She should have kept her plotting closer to the chest. Also funny how Pike saw through her behavior but didn’t do anything about it. Does show Vulcan’s are inherently bias towards other Vulcans. Which we even saw brought up when Batel calls out Pasalk.
This was a very fun episode, and does show off the complete bullshit logical fallacies that make up Vulcan society without having to deal with Vulcan society.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x07 "What Is Starfleet?" 1 week ago:
I agree, the documentary was simply a framing device. I think it was an interesting decision as well. The moral quandaries are not taking a backseat just because the framing device is so front and center.
I think an entire series framed like this could be very interesting with an embedded reporter creating a documentary on the on goings of a Starfleet ship.
Honestly, as an audiance we are a bit spoiled with the all seeing eye, but that’s not necessarily how the average citizen in the Federation sees it.
- Comment on new Star Trek Voyager videogame: Across the Unknown 2 weeks ago:
If this is FTL but Star Trek Voyager, I’m going to be in heaven.
- Comment on Star Trek: Infection VR - Official Release Date Trailer | gamescom 2025 - IGN 2 weeks ago:
You might be right. I just took a look at the sales, and last year did see a 12% drop. Apple’s Vision Pro is over priced and lacks software, and the Meta Quest 3 saw high initial sales but has dropped a lot since then.
It is definitely a very niche product with a high price point that prevents it from making broader market appeal.
But oddly, Meta is reporting increase in VR game revenue, so I guess games are still selling on its platform at the least.
- Comment on Star Trek: Infection VR - Official Release Date Trailer | gamescom 2025 - IGN 2 weeks ago:
Survival horror and Star Trek is not something that instantly seem like it goes together to me. But this does look interesting. Being able to Vulcan death grip and mind meld with people in VR looks interesting and sounds like cool mechanic combined with Star Trek lore.
This looks pretty fun for some reason, and I do own a Valve Index, so happy to see this not locked behind the Meta store, like so many other VR games.
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- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x06 "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail" 3 weeks ago:
I don’t like the implications that there is a device that can absorb phaser fire.
I also find it weird that the “intruders” who I assume know English, are not able to pick up on Federation Standard, I assume it is still not that different from English, considering Starfleet did start in North America. You think when you see on the hall of a ship, “U.S.S. Enterprise” or when you enter and take a look around and see the service panels that, they might think for a second that this ship might have hailed from Earth.
Also a bit weird how they haven’t encountered Federation ships with humans with their couple of hundred year space travels. But I assume maybe they went through the same wormhole as V’ger or something. And who knows what kind of trauma they have to live through.
Despite these logical inconsistencies, I think I still enjoyed this mess of an episode.
The spectacle was over the top. I like seeing the TOS crew interacting with each other. And I enjoyed the Enterprise crew coming up with a solution to save themselves, though their escape and timing with the Farragut’s attack did seem awfully convenient. Would have felt a little less contrived if they had coordinated with each other a bit sooner to match up the plans, but we don’t always have so much screen time to explain things and the plot sometimes needs to get moving, so I can forgive it.
Anyway, I currently like this episode.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x06 "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail" 3 weeks ago:
I literally thought this might be a prequel to that. I was disappointed.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x03 "Shuttle to Kenfori" 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, it is a bit weird to introduce zombies but then to only use it as window dressing instead of dealing with the scientific ramifications of creating the walking dead that are invisible to tricorders. They’re a distraction to M’Benga’s more personal story of him needing to confront the consequences of his actions.
Not to like completely say the episode was bad, it’s just with a bit more thought it could have been better and more impactful to the meta narrative.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x03 "Shuttle to Kenfori" 1 month ago:
Eugenics and genetic engineering is bad, but exotic material to hybrid a human with an alien species might be ok? Seems odd after they gave shit to Stamets for getting tardigrade DNA. I guess Starfleet does play pretty loose with what is and is not consider legal for genetic modification, so I shouldn’t be too worried about that, but I am…