ApostleO
@ApostleO@startrek.website
- Comment on A question about Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. [Spoilers] 6 months ago:
That, or she should be named “Mary” instead, I guess.
- Comment on 7 months ago:
As disappointing as it is to see it end, 5 seasons is a decent run, and I’d rather it end before they “jump the shark” or just fizzle out.
- Comment on Who would you rather hang out with: Romulans or Vulcans? 7 months ago:
Vulcans.
As a regularly stoic person (maybe on the autism spectrum), I often struggle to show appropriate emotion. Or, at least, it is exhausting.
Having a conversation with a Vulcan would be a breath of fresh air.
- Comment on queer.af, a Mastodon instance, has been killed by the Taliban 10 months ago:
If the big bang had never occurred, queer.af would never have died.
Ergo: big bang killed queer.af.
QED
- Comment on queer.af, a Mastodon instance, has been killed by the Taliban 10 months ago:
They almost certainly picked it just for the joke.
queer.af = Queer AF = Queer as fuck!
It’s like how popular the TLD of Guernsey (.gg) is with gaming websites.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t even realize what country code the TLD was when they registered it.
- Comment on Tom Morello - A Metalhead's Guide to 'Star Trek' 10 months ago:
I will never understand how someone reconciles conservative politics with being a Star Trek fan. The cognitive dissonance is astounding.
- Comment on Someone has registered www.bellriots.com it's counting down. 10 months ago:
It should have an option to add an event to your calendar.
- Comment on On the end of Discovery 11 months ago:
I personally liked Ruon Tarka. He felt like a good foil for our protagonists. Sympathetic, believable, but still squarely in the wrong. I did not, however, believe Book siding with him for so long.
But I agree the coolest parts of S4 were at the end, trying to actually learn about the 10-C for first contact.
- Comment on On the end of Discovery 11 months ago:
All the more sad.
I honestly would love to see a “Utopia-Realized Level Federation” series, even a limited run, where all the plots are interpersonal or scientific.
- Comment on On the end of Discovery 11 months ago:
Oh, nice. I’m glad we aren’t ending with another stress-fest. End on a more fun note.
- Comment on On the end of Discovery 11 months ago:
That’s fair, and I think Starfleet HQ fits that bill. But I think (at least in my opinion of architecture as an art form, which I think starship design falls under, since people live and work there), I’d be frustrated to work on a Saturn class if that big hole did nothing, and made navigating between any two places on the ship more of a pain. That said, with personal transporters, maybe it’s not an issue (assuming this ship isn’t near any action that could make personal transporters inoperable). Maybe it would work well as a sort of diplomatic vessel, where having all these rooms with windows facing into the ring (like a giant round table) could be artistically conducive to discussion. Maybe they have a bunch of huge holo emitters in the ring, and they use it to project the current speaker, or just cool holo-art when not in session.
- Comment on On the end of Discovery 11 months ago:
I’ve read through two threads recently on DIS, and I have found nobody talking about S4. Did everyone just give up at S3? Did we all forget about “growing the beard” and how long it can take a show to get it’s legs?
S4 is my favorite season of DIS. Species 10-C was some of the coolest new sci-fi for Star Trek in a while. The overarching plot was interesting in that it had high stakes, but it didn’t feel oppressive like other seasons. It still had a sense of hope and optimism. A lot of the characters got to expand their roles and relationships, feeling more like an ensemble.
I know there was some stuff that didn’t hit well in that season, but I can’t recall the details off hand (like I can for S1-S3). In my memory, the good outweighed the bad.
I am hopeful that S5 meets at least that mark, and hopefully glides into a graceful ending for the show. If I had my wish, S5 would make a switch to a more episodic style (rather than a big season-long central plot).
- Comment on On the end of Discovery 11 months ago:
I saw a lot of hate for the Saturn class, and the arguments made sense assuming classic Starfleet designs and concepts.
I, however, love it because it begs the question: why? What is that for? And my mind jumps to all sorts of cool technobabble uses for such a weird ship design.
Some weird portal experiment? Evacuation ship made to maximize shuttle bay access? A specialized science ship designed with tons of inward-facing sensors? The mind boggles with possibilities.
The people who hated in it see wasted space. I see an unopened techno-mystery-box.
- Comment on is Jankom Pog design inspired by Neelix? 1 year ago:
It’s weird, he doesn’t really look like a Tellarite, but he doesn’t really look like a Talaxian, either.
I will concede he looks more like a Talaxian than a Tellarite, but still, very different.
- Comment on He suffered for our sins 1 year ago:
I don’t like the implication. Riker always respected in consent.
- Comment on James McKinnon confirms creatives differences likely a factor in Kelvin 4 failure to start production in 2022 1 year ago:
Yeah, as much as I actually loved those movies (they were the gateway drug that got me back into Star Trek after only watching random episodes on syndication), I think their window of relevance has passed. Making another one would be pointless, unless maybe if it was some crossover with Strange New Worlds. But I imagine that would confuse general audiences horribly.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x10 TBA 1 year ago:
Yeah, in-universe, Starfleet seems to have a real nepotism problem.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x10 TBA 1 year ago:
I asked the same question out loud to myself when I saw Boims in the captain seat. Best guess: since the plan was just to tow the destroyer and throw it, they knew he wouldn’t have to do much, and it’d give him a shot. Plus they might have taken his relationship with Mariner (and his rapport with the rest of the Lower Decks gang) into account. Lastly, it might have been a tactic for if the admiralty went through with court-martials. Whomever answered that hail in the captain’s seat would be in more hot water than the rest of the crew.
- Comment on The Honor of the Cubicle is at Stake! 1 year ago:
Glory to you… and your TPS reports.
- Comment on I am just so tired 1 year ago:
When I did that mission, they never specified the neutral zone was there, so I operated under the assumption we were in Federation space. When the birds of pray appeared, there was no option to hail (or they didn’t respond), so I just beat them. And they attacked one at a time. Felt really cheesy, like they used Kobayashi Maru as a reference without actually replicating the test, because it also served as the tutorial.
Kobayashi Maru should have been the last mission, not the first. And it should be properly impossible.
- Comment on That Voyager is one clean burning starship though, I’ll tell you what. 1 year ago:
I think there was also an episode where Voyager smuggled some people through hostile space by hiding them in the patter buffer.
- Comment on That Voyager is one clean burning starship though, I’ll tell you what. 1 year ago:
Oh, for sure. I’m fine with that. But it seems clear that the writers aren’t, and neither are many Trekkies.
- Comment on That Voyager is one clean burning starship though, I’ll tell you what. 1 year ago:
It’s my head-canon conspiracy theory that the true workings of the transporter are hidden/obfuscated, even from the technicians and engineers, to avoid the existential dread of facing the truth: you die, and then it clones you.
All these systems to make it appear as if it’s a single, consistent matter stream, to leave room for the possibility of a consistent consciousness or even soul. It all falls apart in light of William Riker. You can’t duplicate matter. The only feasible explanation is that they got his scan, and successfully materialized him, but the signal that would have disintegrated the original failed.
Tuvix died because people couldn’t accept how many times they had technically killed their colleagues, or commited suicide.
- Comment on May I interrupt your scrolling for a moment? 1 year ago:
Except when it is very disturbing.
- Comment on Why aren't they using drones and more automation? 1 year ago:
See also: any time an AI has been given command of a vessel (except Data, and even then he caused problems a couple times).
- Comment on Why aren't they using drones and more automation? 1 year ago:
The in-universe answer re: drones would be that people want to explore. Sure, it’s dangerous, but it’s also exciting, fascinating, and fulfilling. That said, I feel like a responsible captain would make much more extensive use of probes than any of the shows.
Re: data streams, I don’t have a good in-universe explanation. I have a similar question of why they don’t have security cameras in all the hallways and public areas.
Also, using the transporter to go down to a planet always runs the risk of some storm or an orbital threat stranding your party. Why not use the shuttle as SOP? It gives your away team more resources, both for their mission and for an emergency.
- Comment on What's your warp slogan? 1 year ago:
I commented in another post that my phrase would be his “Let’s go!”
- Comment on Their combined power would be too great 1 year ago:
I love when Reno calls Stamets “Bobcat”.
- Comment on It makes so much sense... 1 year ago:
I love that, despite not recognizing this as a Simpsons reference until seeing the comments, I still read the last panel to the Meow Mix jingle, because you used the correct number of Meows.
- Comment on Aw sweet! The Cerritos made it into the ships of the line! 1 year ago:
Borg Sphere - best ship.