dejected_warp_core

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discovery returns to screens April 4th⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And then a man child had a temper tantrum and destroyed galactic civilization single-handedly. Sure. Okay. Have fun with the rest of the show, but that’s where I turn in for the night.

  I felt the same way, at first. Then I realized that we have other things in the Trek canon that asks as much suspension of disbelief:

  • “God” lives at the center of the galaxy and is a right bastard. Also happens to resemble Chuck Heston as Moses.
  • Psychics and psychic abilities are a thing
  • V’ger
  • Q and the continuum
  • Whatever species Guinan is, and their supernatural temporal sensitivity
  • Tachyons and the rest of the fictional subatomic zoo
  • Mirror Universe
  • Time travel, but mostly to whatever year the show was made, and for the occasional Deus Ex Machina device
  • SPACE FUNGUS
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discovery returns to screens April 4th⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not just aliens. Alien, aliens.

  While hardly a first for Star Trek, it’s always a treat when alien-looking, and alien-acting, aliens show up.

  The season had a good pace, but in my heart, I wanted more. I really feel like it would have made a fun (if not nerdy) season if we had a few more episodes decoding mysteries and getting to know this new culture and species.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you been injured? Call Gowron Law.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do I still have a case?

  We actually have a class action suit for that very thing. Let me DM you the details.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you been injured? Call Gowron Law.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Transporter buffer imprisonment

  This is a horrifying concept and you bet I would send a Klingon law team after someone for that.

  Console explosion

  Do they have experience/success with suing The Federation? I heard they recently added Borg parts to all their ships - seems reckless to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you been injured? Call Gowron Law.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  sent to Rura Penthe

  I have good news and bad news for you.

  The good news is: Since you now live at Rura Penthe, Gowron Law can represent you for your new Mesothelioma suit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The origin of starfleet combat training.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s basically that. These have a lot in common with pro-wrestling moves. They all carry some element of risk (like the drop kick), but the physicality isn’t impossible to achieve with some coaching.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What part of this are you not understanding, Beverly?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The dog is the only one that can’t actually consent to space travel, and regardless, couldn’t possibly know the risks.

  Everyone else knows that they signed up to live in a metal box, with an artificial biosphere, which is all that separates them from the cold void of deep space. Also, said deep space is jam-packed full of things trying to actively break that metal box, if the crew doesn’t beat them to it first. And nobody knows that better than Seven.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Somebodies gotta do it I guess.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At the very least, the headrests are wrong and the carpet is the wrong color*. Probably the latter.

  (* maybe it looks “right” on those novelty VHS recordings you get at the end of the experience?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On the seventh day of Trek-mas,⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “O’brien in Agony”

  Is just a picture of Miles with Keiko

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Computer, make art⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For a moment, I though this was a play on how holodecks work versus the current state of AI.

  Then I realized what an utter nightmare it would be to build a full-blown VR environment using nothing but present-day stable diffusion prompts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How it Should Have Ended: Picard Season Three⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh man, that’s really close. And no callback to that episode either. Picard or Worf remarking that “they must have gotten the idea from our own logs” would have been way better foreshadowing for the (b)admiral’s involvement. It would have also changed the tone to be more Trek thematic, as it would say something deeper about unintended consequences through so much cultural contact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Klingon Jazz⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy shit. That is amazing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No, you two return to the ship. That's an order.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m also a fan of Discovery’s take on this trope: Everyone is going to die unless we do something immediately, but let’s monologue and/or argue for five on-screen minutes first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How it Should Have Ended: Picard Season Three⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally everything about the Ba’ku-Son’a conflict falls apart at the slightest scrutiny.

  I know the other Trek movies have this problem, but this goes especially for Insurrection: it felt like a mediocre TNG TV episode stretched out way too long. Much like a Son’a skin treatment. Also, there was just something about it that felt like a re-hash of other, actual TNG episode, but I can’t pin down which one.

  I will contend that Generations takes the cake as the worst TNG movie. Obviously, the goal of this film was to get Kirk and Picard on the screen at the same time. Everything else in this film is a contrivance to make this happen, and it’s not even good science fiction to get us there. To add grevious insult to injury, we get tragically little screen time between Malcom McDowell and Patrick Stewart and their poorly crafted motivations in the film’s “climax”. This casting choice should have surpassed Wrath of Kahn by a light year for scenery chewing awesomeness, but is instead overshadowed by Capt. Kirk barely accomplishing anything instead.

  Also, in a moment of “let’s double-down on fan-service”, Picard Season 3 has a nod to Generations. There’s a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment when the gang is on the Daystrom Institute space station. A sealed room is marked as containing the remains of Capt. Kirk, probably of interest since he went MIA only to turn up decades later in Picard’s logs as having returned from the Nexus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Klingon Jazz⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Acid Jazz or Punk Jazz?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relationship Goals⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, the ledgers.

  Actuarial acrobatics so foul, that they are still talking of it on Feringinar to this day. The Klingons involved thought they had invented a new martial art by way of mathematics, and their deep fiscal wounds would be the stuff of song and wine in Stovokor. Unfortunately, it was a hilariously naked attempt at simple fraud. No double-books, no accumulation of rounding errors, no plausible line-items for non-existent goods, no money laundering, no elaborate fences, no nameless middlemen that aren’t middlemen, no real subterfuge. Just plain, conventional, bad math and bogus prices. No, the legend persists not because of how brilliant a scam this was, but rather how something so simple almost toppled one of the greatest houses on Kronos; a practical bankruptcy for a Klingon! That is, until Quark came along and explained the deed in plain, simple, Federation Common tongue (ugh) so that even a baby could understand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On the second day of Trek-mas,⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Shaxs is a menace.

  …

  But that other warp core totally had it coming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  @Stamets, you’ll be missed.

  I don’t know what condition c/Risa was in before you got here but you clearly helped build the phenomenon it is today. I know that, by your own admission, you’re (re)posting largely out of a hand-built database of old Trek memes, lovingly archived from elsewhere. But I wouldn’t think that a small task - it’s a lot more effort than any of us shitposters ever summoned for a few laughs. So, we’re all standing on your shoulders to an extent. And all of it has been the highlight of my post-Reddit online reading this year, so thanks for everything.

  See you out in the Fediverse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exploring some deep space questions⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  First off: Thanks, I hate it. Now that’s possibly in my head forever.

  Secondly, you’re probably right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relationship Goals⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You forgot:

  • Got Klingon married
  • won survived a duel with a (very angry) Klingon
  • Trounced said Klingon with scathing financial evidence, disgracing him publicly
  • Saved his wife’s house (whole estate with social standing intact)
  • Got Klingon divorced

  No idea if he got to keep those furs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Morn, quit spawn camping!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Morn: :: look of astonishment, throwing hands up in air ::

  Morn: …

  Monr: :: shakes head and keeps playing ::

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please don't let this be Gene's legacy.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno. Those may not be completely airbrushed in, but there’s certainly some contouring going on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨uBlock Enterprise⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All Ferengi coms really should be an ad-encrusted nightmare: trailer before session, banners and popups during, ad breaks, and then a trailer at the end. Oh and a prompt, either manual or automated, to dismiss all ads for a subscription fee or an expensive one-time fee.

  But with that recent paywall joke in LD, maybe that’s on the way?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'd watch it.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jellico: Hot damn, even their jokes are efficient. I like this crew.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Odo flavored.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cheese flavor is the way to go here.

  But given the color, I’m reminded of restaurant soda syrup bags. So is this one Dr. Pepper or Coke?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forever and always⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The quarterback, when he became toast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Department of Temporal Investigations is on the case⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering what goes into the more hard-core outfits, they deserve respect for their dedication. And there are lots of outlets for that too, which is great (e.g. SCA).

  However, if someone gets their tabbard in a bunch because some sci-fi cosplayers ruined their sense of immersion, at what is arguably a pay-to-enter medieval-themed shopping mall, they may deserve what they get.

  A lot of the Faire folk I have met are just happy people are participating and having a good time, and if you put effort into a costume, even better.

  These people are the backbone of every Faire. Huzzah!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sorry I can't help myself.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t know where that comes from, but I think it has to do with the institutionalized authoritative power that comes with the job. Both are positions that can be abused, and can negatively impact people’s lives.

  On the other hand, my past landlords were nowhere near as helpful about noise complaints, as the police. So there’s that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Look, I'm guilty too.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m all for it.

  Janeway: beam Ensign Smartypants back on board. I want to have a little chat about attending staff meetings in uniform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bell Ringer is a noble profession⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This guy gets a gig where he plays an instrument. That only has one note. That you don’t even have to play in time, or with any particular sense of rhythm. For man-period induced deathmatches and Vulcan speed-dating ceremonies.

  OP’s deduction is quite logical.