CeruleanRuin
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- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x03 "Shuttle to Kenfori" 2 days ago:
I suspect Batel’s fate is foreshadowed in her mindmeld with Spock. The hybridization will give her a Gorn aspect that she can’t live with, but it will also grant her the ability to communicate with the Gorn, and she’ll wind up sacrificing herself.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x03 "Shuttle to Kenfori" 2 days ago:
They are definitely doing this without Starfleet approval. Pike’s ship prioritizes individuals over regulations, an ethos that carries forward when Kirk takes the chair.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x01 "Hegemony, Part II" & 3x02 "Wedding Bell Blues" 1 week ago:
When he started snapping to change things I was like oh, okay, I see what this is. I think Trelane did that too, but it became such a trademark of Q that it was hard to ignore the similarity. And then the voice was just delicious icing on the cake. They didn’t make a big deal of it or make some weird tortured commentary to try and tie it into continuity. They just let it be as a story on its own.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x01 "Hegemony, Part II" & 3x02 "Wedding Bell Blues" 1 week ago:
I was impressed with their restraint in not mentioning either Trelane or Q by name. I mean they dressed the entity in the same costume as Trelane, and his behavior and MO are identical, so we’re clearly meant to conclude they are one and the same. But they didn’t burden the story with continuity, and that’s smart.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x01 "Hegemony, Part II" & 3x02 "Wedding Bell Blues" 1 week ago:
One of the writers talked about it on Open Pike Night and said it was a deliberate choice to give La’an and Erica opposite trajectories from last season, where now La’an is finally able to move on from her trauma with the Gorn while Erica is dealing with it for the first time.
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Strange New Worlds* 3x01: “Hegemony, Part II”: 1 week ago:
I like to think that wolkite is a predecessor or a component of the viridium patch that Soock tracks Kirk with in Undiscovered Country.
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Strange New Worlds* 3x02: “Wedding Bell Blues”: 1 week ago:
It would be a simple matter for Trelane to make them all forget about him in “The Squire of Gothos” so that he could have more fun with them. I also like the idea that the Q wore the raiment of “energy entities” at this point in history just as fashion.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 7 months ago:
There’s no edge here, man. It’s mainstream now. This guy is turning into a bona fide folk hero.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 7 months ago:
I honestly hope he’s never caught, but that’s not very realistic. The only real bright side to his inevitable capture is that we’ll know what name and face to put on the statues.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 7 months ago:
Some will bring up the “slippery slope” as a reason for us to treat this guy within the legal system as we would any other killer. I would respond to this people that we’re already barrelling headlong down a greasy slope and have been for a long time now.
Far from endangering is further, this guy has shown us an offramp.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 5x07 "Fully Dilated" 7 months ago:
That would seem to be a pretty big leap out of character for Mariner. She only acts like she doesn’t have boundaries, but she actually sets pretty rigid limits on where she’s willing to go with people she considers close friends.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 5x07 "Fully Dilated" 7 months ago:
I have this headcanon now that Boimler met his purple universe self once, and that’s why he started dying his hair.
Wait a minute now, is he actively dying his beard as it grows in? That’s pretty weird, isn’t it? Did he lie in his own personal log about dying his hair, or does the hair dying occur at a follicular level?
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Lower Decks* 5x07: “Fully Dilated” (SPOILERS) 7 months ago:
Reading these posts of yours is my favorite thing to do immediately after every new episode. Entertaining and informative as always!
I was surprised that there was no reference to Boimler’s hair color in this episode. It has been such a non-issue that I almost wonder if there’s something in the show bible about conspicuously never mentioning it, beyond a single throwaway admission in Boimler’s personal log about dying it (LD s3e01).
It could have been fun if there was some weird connection to the purple dimension, especially with how his facial hair has been a running subplot this season.
- Comment on whales are the mightiest of fish 8 months ago:
Call me Ishmael.
- Comment on gen z gorillas 8 months ago:
There’s a trope out there that Gen Z has to do everythingbfor themselves because the older generations have failed them so thoroughly.