CeruleanRuin
@CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world
- Comment on [Interview] As a Star Trek Era Ends, Discovery's Mary Wiseman Reveals the Franchise's Greatest Lesson 1 week ago:
This is an excellent distillation of what makes Tilly great. Imho she’s the best written character across the board in any Trek of the past two decades. I missed her sorely in season 4.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x07 "Erigah" 1 week ago:
It’s definitely a a nice nod to the character. If bar patrons 600 years later still get the reference, that speaks well of her lasting influence on the Federation.
- Comment on Mandala effect 1 week ago:
I don’t really see it with Paris, but I’ve often thought Anthony Rapp and Alan Tudyk should play brothers in something.
- Comment on Preview ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Episode 507 With New Images And Clip From “Erigah” 1 week ago:
I wonder if they ginned these up for Section 31 or Starfleet Academy (if that’s still a thing?) and figured they could use them here, similar to the First Contact uniforms being ported over to DS9.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x07 "Erigah" 1 week ago:
I really think they just overplayed their hand, and he really did overdose by accident - or because he thought it was the only way for Moll to get away. I don’t believe either of them are basing a strategem on the Progenitor tech actually being able to resurrect him, but Moll is desperate now, so she’s willing to believe it might work because it’s the only hope she has left.
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Discovery* 5x07: “Erigah” (SPOILERS) 1 week ago:
I don’t think Reno was referencing The Littles, as she referred to the treasure hunt as sounding like something out of a holonovel “for the littles”. Unless there’s something specific in Peterson’s stories relating directly to this, I’m pretty sure it was just a cutesy way of saying “for little kids”.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x04 "Face the Strange" 4 weeks ago:
In that episode.more time had passed, and Zora never mentions the crew by name, so the crew she was waiting for to return might have been replacements who never arrived.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x04 "Face the Strange" 4 weeks ago:
Would have been funny to bring fellow Cylon Landry back and have Rayner say “wait do I know you?”
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x04 "Face the Strange" 4 weeks ago:
Also, what is dragging him along with Burnham and Rayner, while the consciousnesses of everyone else are presumably unaware of the jumps? Come to think of it what’s the point of the Time Bug if nobody involved is usually aware of it? Is the jumping just a side effect of the ship being “frozen” in time?
- Comment on Why don't we hear more about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting? It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, we never found a motive, and it seems no one ever mentions it. 1 month ago:
When the discourse goes in circles and gets nowhere, it becomes a perceived waste to continue it. The people who profit from gun sales – including the politicians who reap campaign contributions from exploiting misconceptions about it – like it this way.
- Comment on Why don't we hear more about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting? It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, we never found a motive, and it seems no one ever mentions it. 1 month ago:
He didn’t exactly need accuracy when there was a sea of targets in front of him, especially if his objective was to hit as many of them as possible before they could disperse.
- Comment on Why don't we hear more about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting? It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, we never found a motive, and it seems no one ever mentions it. 1 month ago:
But it also does raise the question: why did the shooter think he needed a lot of guns?
- Comment on Why don't we hear more about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting? It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, we never found a motive, and it seems no one ever mentions it. 1 month ago:
Be as detailed as possible in your report, and focus especially on any specific threats against individuals or groups that he has mentioned.
- Comment on Why don't we hear more about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting? It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, we never found a motive, and it seems no one ever mentions it. 1 month ago:
People have been studying the psychology of mass killers since the 70s. Without an actual living subject at hand in this case, it’s hard to do anything more than speculate. I tend to agree that it would be useful to know more about what pushed him to such an act, but how do you suggest going about this? Should we round up and interrogate everyone he knew in his life? Would that even be productive?
Motive isn’t as mysterious as we like to pretend it is. All it really required was a loss of fundamental empathy for his fellow humans. We see that everywhere these days. He’s not unique in that respect. What’s unique is the lengths he went to to commit this act. He seemed to want the spectacle of it. Like many serial killers, perhaps the idea of murder gave him a rush of feeling he couldn’t find anywhere else in his life, and so he figured why not get as much of that as he could?
Again, it’s all speculation. And it’s also not hard to trace it back to a sickness eating at the roots of our society. What do you do with that knowledge? What can any of us do but try a little harder in our own lives to be kind to others and generous to those who might be quietly slipping down into the lake of poison seething under the world?
- Comment on Why don't we hear more about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting? It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, we never found a motive, and it seems no one ever mentions it. 1 month ago:
I mean you can discuss it to death, but without facts – which don’t exist, because he didn’t tell anyone the intimate workings of his fucked up mind – the best you can do is speculate. By all means, go ahead.
- Comment on Why don't we hear more about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting? It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, we never found a motive, and it seems no one ever mentions it. 1 month ago:
But but but why did he spray bullets at a crowd with intent to murder hundreds? Why, man, why? We need his manifesto, his tax records, the political affiliations of his associates and family! How else am I supposed to fit him into my narrative if I can’t prove why he thought to do the unthinkable?
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- Comment on Why don't we hear more about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting? It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, we never found a motive, and it seems no one ever mentions it. 1 month ago:
Even if they could, I don’t know why you would jump to that idea when the guy fucking shot 800 people. He clearly wasn’t right in the head. He also had a history of heavy gambling and drinking. I don’t smell conspiracy on this one. This was just a mentally unwell guy who made a decision to murder; it is, unfortunately, a quintessential American story that keeps repeating.
- Comment on Why don't we hear more about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting? It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, we never found a motive, and it seems no one ever mentions it. 1 month ago:
Those gun bans weren’t passed until 2022, which really puts the lie to the assertion that we stopped talking about it.
Maybe it’s more accurate to say we ran out of new things to say about it, and that’s why it’s not front and center in the news at this current moment. It’s also a hugely divisive issue and nobody seems to have a solution to the problem that doesn’t just piss off a bunch of other people, so in an election year it’s the last thing policy makers want to bring up.
- Comment on Star Trek: Discovery final season will premiere at SXSW; logline released 4 months ago:
Okay, but what do you like about it?
Why do so many people go online and think it’s suddenly normal human behavior to walk into a room griping about something?
- Comment on Star Trek: Discovery final season will premiere at SXSW; logline released 4 months ago:
Temper your expectations and it’s perfectly enjoyable.
- Comment on Star Trek: The Deep Space Nine episode that predicted a US crisis [bbc.com] 4 months ago:
Oh look, another post in 2024 about that one episode that takes place in 2024. What an original think piece.
- Comment on Quentin Tarantino's 'Star Trek' Movie Would Have Been a "Balls-Out Hard R" Movie 4 months ago:
Quentin’s pitch: “So there’s an entire species where they’re all feet. And Kirk says the n-word. Like, a lot.”
- Comment on Let's remember some Star Trek games 4 months ago:
At the very least, the music is great and the writing is full of great jokes and also some pretty compelling sci-fi scenarios that would have fit perfectly in the series. If point and click adventure games aren’t your speed, find a walkthrough (theynarent hard to find online) and refer to it whenever you’re stuck.
- Comment on Let's remember some Star Trek games 4 months ago:
I had that one! There was a Borg game in the same vein, but it wasn’t nearly as entertaining.
- Comment on Star Trek: Discovery | Final Season Exclusive Clip (CCXP 2023) | Paramount+ 5 months ago:
You don’t actually have to watch it. You also don’t have to complain about it in literally every thread about it.
- Comment on This episode contains: sex, fear 5 months ago:
Rated TV-PG
violence, sex, nudity, fear, substances, language, gore
- Comment on father jokes 5 months ago:
Like an engineer doing turbo lift maintenance, this works on multiple levels.
- Comment on Just get a bigger fence 5 months ago:
And this right here is why I don’t do Xitter or Tumblr. Getting this worked up over esoteric personal details of D-list podcast hosts is just not worth my time or mental energy. I’m glad there are people like you to keep things straight like you did here, but my god, these keyboard warriors have way too much time on their hands.
Litigating a steanger’s legal troubles isn’t their job. There’s literally a system for that already.
- Comment on Just get a bigger fence 5 months ago:
Its definitely a case of “um, yeah, your application to join the Federation has been denied, pending you not having incredibly stupid laws”.
- Comment on Forget it. Daystrom Station is impenetrable. 5 months ago:
I wish they would bring back Lorca. Jason Isaacs was the best thing about that season.
He’s also gobsmackingly good in that new Cary Grant miniseries.