Jaccident
@Jaccident@startrek.website
- Comment on Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist? 1 week ago:
British. Specifically Scottish.
- Comment on Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist? 1 week ago:
As I am not American I grew up with socialism being a positive connotation in day to day culture, so much so it’s wild to me that this needed to be veiled in Trek’s past. Star Trek should be as explicit as possible with this. “Hey, you want Utopia? This is how you earn it!”
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x04 "Face the Strange" 2 months ago:
True, but also it’s the Discovery, not the Discovery A we have now.
Calypso has to be assumed to be canon to a prevented timeline (maybe one where Control won at the end of season 2 etc.)
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x03 "Jinaal" 2 months ago:
I thought it was quite good myself; it reminded me very much of the doctor taking over Seven’s body in Body and Soul, the various crew possessions in Powerplay, and Curzon inhabiting Odo in Facets. I do enjoy getting to see an actor really chew the scenery outside the confines they have worked in before.
- Comment on Totality lasts for about 20 episodes 2 months ago:
Not now Kesley!
- Comment on Star Trek Coffees Launching In May With Several Blends 2 months ago:
“Coffee. Black.” “Make it yourself!”
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x01 "Red Directive" and 5x02 "Under the Twin Moons" 2 months ago:
What the actors knew and what the writers knew are not necessarily the same thing though. The writers could well have had a much better idea this would be the end of the road, and left them selves avenues accordingly.
- Comment on I just rewatched Discovery. Does anyone else think this jump in the timeline is too jarring? 2 months ago:
Yeah, I couldn’t tell if there was some joke I wasn’t getting, but the “naming paradox” comes up a lot (and I too believed it for years) so I thought I’d add some colour anyway.
- Comment on I just rewatched Discovery. Does anyone else think this jump in the timeline is too jarring? 2 months ago:
That’s a half-myth it seems. There was a write in campaign from the fans to rename the then tentatively named Constitution (in recognition of the 200th anniversary of the ratification of the US Declaration of Independence), to Enterprise. At the same time, Gerald Ford had the final say, and he himself served aboard the famous WW2 aircraft carrier, the USS Enterprise (CV-6). It would appear that there is a confluence of two wishes to lead to the test vehicle being finally officially named the Enterprise. Certainly of recent years though, NASA has seemed happy to not dispel that story though.
Some interesting tid-bits here though. The NCC-1701 was early on going to be named the USS Yorktown. Yorktown-class was the ship class of the CV-6 Enterprise. While we all know that the ship class of the NCC-1701 was the Constitution-class.
So, it’s my belief therefore that, in our timeline and Star Trek’s timeline, American men of a certain age seem to be obsessed with the symbolism of three particular names; and no matter what, the Shuttle would have been Enterprise in both.
- Comment on Shatner's "do over" of the Veridian III death scene on Kimmel 3 months ago:
Yeah. Not sure what that poster is on about, Sir Patrick is in terrific form still. The only thing I think maybe differs is the energy, but that’s down to personal tone and timing, Sir Patrick hasn’t aged or changed massively from his prime, he’s always been of less jubilant character, but still very present and engaged.
- Comment on How hard could babysitting be? 4 months ago:
Allamaraine!
- Comment on Mad wormhole 4 months ago:
Their tears are filling up their glasses No Dominion, no Dominion
- Comment on A good tailor knows his limitations 4 months ago:
I think this is a Brooklyn Nine-Nine reference.
- Comment on Pretty cool fan made intro to a non-existent show 5 months ago:
Ah yes that new trek trend from Enterprise…
- Comment on Especially this meme 5 months ago:
And Avelon.
- Comment on What part of this are you not understanding, Beverly? 5 months ago:
Sad point, well put.
- Comment on TrekMovie.com: Patrick Stewart Reveals New Star Trek Movie Script Featuring Jean-Luc Picard Is In The Works 5 months ago:
I don’t know that insistence is the right way to phrase it. Sir Patrick and Brent Spiner are good friends, IIRC Nemesis was written by Spiner’s old flatmate and best friend. As such the wants of the actors started creeping into the scripts, not out of insistence per se, but perhaps more out a natural affect of a close working relationship. Sometimes a healthy distance is most important between a writer’s room, and the cast.
- Comment on What part of this are you not understanding, Beverly? 5 months ago:
Porthos made it to the end of his series, meanwhile Jadzia…
- Comment on If X was a sandwich: Spock 5 months ago:
But Vulcans are vegetarian! Surely this should be something plain and veggie. A hummus pita with a single kebab shop pickled chili.
- Comment on If you begin Star Trek: Voyager episode Spirit Folk at exactly 11:49:35 on New Year's Eve, Ensign Harry Kim will kiss a cow as the clock strikes midnight 5 months ago:
Despicable. I was reliably informed Harry lasted 22 minutes.
- Comment on Star Trek infinite questions 5 months ago:
Bringing a 4x to console is a reasonably large undertaking. It’s not just the work that goes into creating an intuitive controller scheme, and establishing input speeds etc., it’s all the additional UI that it requires (unit selection etc). Then there is getting it past the platform holder. Used to be a complex system, it’s become easier in the last 10 years, but you still have to have a save system that’s compatible with the requirements of the platform, you still have to be able to support suspend and resume in your gameplay, you still have to put in trophies and achievements. It’s months of work for a small team, and ultimately, if it won’t pay the bills, then they can’t justify doing it.
- Comment on Interview with PRO writer and co-producer, Aaron Waltke, on The Greatest Trek 5 months ago:
Feel free to join us on c/greatestgen.
- Comment on I'm so confused right now 🤔 5 months ago:
He’s a good man. A union man.
- Comment on Stream Star Trek Prodigy, Now on Netflix! 5 months ago:
Finally caught all the way up with Prodigy, back to 100% of Trek watched. It was surprising to me how much having unwatched Trek irked me, and how satisfying it made finishing the season!
- Comment on Where to Watch Prodigy on December 25 5 months ago:
UK Netflix has it now
- Comment on Star Trek Resurgence Giveaway 6 months ago:
See I’m sure that’s some of what I’m remembering, but at least when I played Klingon about 2007 it didn’t seem to be the same game.
(Btw, the Acti Zork games are acted DVD graphical adventures, unlike their text based precursors. Worth a go if you can. )
- Comment on Star Trek Resurgence Giveaway 6 months ago:
I was a big fan of the Elite Force games, but the one I enjoyed most was a DVD game from the mid to late 90s that doesn’t seem to exist. It was similar to the activision Zork games of the era, but Gowron was making Gowron eyes at the screen a lot; I’m considering that I’ve merged two games I played together, and made a false memory, but honestly I don’t know what games those would’ve been either.