buckykat
@buckykat@hexbear.net
- Comment on I just rewatched Discovery. Does anyone else think this jump in the timeline is too jarring? 2 months ago:
Not if you’ve got faith of the heart
- Comment on Star Trek infinite questions 5 months ago:
4X games don’t really work on controllers.
- Comment on Star Trek infinite questions 5 months ago:
It came out in October, it won’t come to consoles.
- Comment on Rule of Acquisition #10: Greed is eternal 6 months ago:
He likes naming stuff after Culture ships but he’s really Joiler Veppers
- Comment on historical materialism moment 7 months ago:
- Comment on "We have to find a way to end this peacefully! We're Star Fleet, Damn it!" 8 months ago:
I love the way Mariner uses Starfleet as an adjective
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Prodigy’ Finds New Home At Netflix After Paramount+ Cancellation 8 months ago:
- Comment on Go home and be a family man! 8 months ago:
Murf also doesn’t have any bones to drink
- Comment on Does Star Trek Need Starfleet? 8 months ago:
Absolutely. Star Trek writers are in no way immune to capitalist realism themselves, especially when they’re beholden to studio execs and budgets.
I didn’t make it more than a few episodes into Picard before giving up in disgust, and this only validates my choice there. It’s not just Picard though. Strange New Worlds is generally quite good, but the colony shown in the most recent episode was explicitly modeled on a mid 20th century American small town, a place Federation citizens should know better than to emulate.
Are there any novels or fanfics you’d recommend that do an actual good job of portraying a properly post scarcity Federation culture?
- Comment on Does Star Trek Need Starfleet? 8 months ago:
A Star Trek about civilians would have to be done extremely carefully to not ruin everything with gold plated latinum.
- Comment on Does Star Trek Need Starfleet? 8 months ago:
Those kids aren’t technically Starfleet officers (in season 1) but they’re very Starfleet.
- Comment on The Renaissance man 9 months ago:
Honorary Tamarian
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x04 "Something Borrowed, Something Green" 9 months ago:
T’Lyn is fitting in perfectly. The way she deadpanned “losing” her notes and then immediately explained her choice as a straightforward matter of ethics was fantastic.
- Comment on Tensions are escalating 9 months ago:
And the UFP flag is giving globe emoji on first glance
- Comment on Did you know our boy Miles was in Die Hard 2? 9 months ago:
Sloane is the one who threw Sean Aloysius O’Brien in the river
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x03 "In the Cradle of Vexilon” 9 months ago:
I forgot about the black mountain so until I saw the koala I thought Boimler got backed up and restored
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x03 "In the Cradle of Vexilon” 9 months ago:
That’s a Culture Orbital! Except that a Mind needing human maintenance is of course ridiculous.
- Comment on Voyager and Paramount Plus 9 months ago:
There are other ways to watch Voyager
- Comment on Star Trek: Infinite could be the grand strategy game Trekkies need 9 months ago:
We’ve had a Trek version of Stellaris for a while in the New horizons mod
- Comment on Star Trek and The Orville, which is better/worse? 9 months ago:
One thing I really like about the depiction of the Kaylon is that, as far as I remember, nobody ever suggests that they were wrong to kill their builders, only to generalize their hatred of those builders to all organics.
- Comment on Star Trek and The Orville, which is better/worse? 9 months ago:
As early as episode 3 they were trying to do serious storylines, and as early as episode 4 they were succeeding. I think it was always intended to be real Trek with the serial numbers filed off but sold to Fox and consequently advertised as a parody.
- Comment on Star Trek and The Orville, which is better/worse? 9 months ago:
Malloy is a stalker and a rapist in that timeline, it’s good that Mercer went back and prevented it.
- Comment on Star Trek and The Orville, which is better/worse? 9 months ago:
The first season being a bit of a mess is classic Trek behavior to be fair. I think the comedy angle was mostly a way to trick Fox into running it.
- Comment on Star Trek and The Orville, which is better/worse? 9 months ago:
The Orville overall is right up there with the top tier Trek shows.
- Comment on Sisko was kind of crazy... 9 months ago:
maquis did nothing wrong cardassians deserved it
- Comment on Space.com poses the debate-provoking question whether SNW S2 overdid the gimmicks? 9 months ago:
No. All the episodes were good. There should be more of them though
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Beaming up random workers and teaching them theory
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
The idea of Warboss Janeway is doing psychic damage to me but it’s also entirely correct
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Attack and dethrone. There will be no peaceful transfer of godly power.