kieron115
@kieron115@startrek.website
- Comment on Season 3 Teaser Trailer | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 6 days ago:
This is a very good point. We’re supposed to be seeing how he becomes the Kirk we know.
- Comment on ghibli posting 1 week ago:
Bears, beets, battlestar galactica
- Comment on ghibli posting 1 week ago:
It’s been a bit since I saw the original behind the scenes vid or whatever it was, what was the context?
- Comment on Is Baldurs Gate 3's voice acting so great that it ruined other games for me? 1 week ago:
I think the silent protagonist choice is valid in more of “sandbox” story like BG3. Speaking for myself, voiced protagonists tend to “lock” me into a specific character. I absolutely love the voice acting for Geralt of Rivia but when I play a witcher game I’m not inserting myself into the game, I’m becoming Geralt and making choices based on how I believe Geralt would make them.
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 1 week ago:
“The bypass uses a CXH (cloud experience host) URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) string during the OOBE to invoke the hidden local account setup screen.” this had to be data mined or something yeah.
- Comment on Split Keyboards Are Superior And The Reason I’m The Writer I Am Today. 1 week ago:
the one with the biiig built in “leather” wrist rest? loved that thing!
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 2 weeks ago:
oh okay, interesting. well, you could always use the web browser on your phone/ipad i guess. not a great experience but i know for a fact that plex works on ios in chrome at the very least.
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 2 weeks ago:
Plex has pretty bad DV “support” as an example. AFAIK it will only play back dolby vision profiles that have the HDR10 compatibility mode or whatever. Any time I get an older DV file I have to play it through some Android TV app.
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 2 weeks ago:
Ease of setup was how I just got one techie friend and two non-techie gamer friends to set up Plex servers and we had libraries shared to each other within 15-30 minutes. I don’t want to think about explaining VPNs and SSL to them for the alternatives.
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 2 weeks ago:
i’m not sure why it would do this, i’ve never had any issues with watching plex while the internet is down (in fact that was one of my original uses for it, to have movies and tv in a building without internet). I don’t have it turned on but I do know you can go into server settings -> network and set a list of IPs/subnets that can access without any authorization at all. That lets you use plex without even having a plex account afaik.
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 2 weeks ago:
As a techie I hate this answer but it’s hard to beat a Roku with Plex from an ease of use standpoint. My 70+ year old parents have no problem navigating it.
- Comment on Star Trek TNG Theme but the theme is coming from the Enterprise-D 🤣 2 months ago:
Broadcasting your own theme song while jetting around the galaxy in the flagship of the Federation is possibly the biggest Riker move I’ve ever seen hahahaha.
- Comment on Change my mind: SNW, SFA should fire their music departments and replace them with Chris Westlake!!! 😉 2 months ago:
lol I was gonna try and continue the joke but i went to look up the lyrics and this amused the shit out of me. It’s apparently more popularly known as “that song from star trek enterprise” than as a rod stewart song! at least that’s what it indicates to me. Image
- Comment on Watching Enterprise for the very first time 2 months ago:
Oh, right, the Orions. For sure Gene put quite a bit of his prejudices into the races, which then got amplified by early Trek writers’ tendency towards mono-cultures, and I think all of Star Trek has had trouble trying to figure out how to fix it. Enterprise decided to just lean into the stereotypes hard though for some reason. The Ferengi were an anti-semetic caricature in TNG until the DS9 writers worked to expand their culture on screen and move away from some of Gene’s more troubling stereotypes. Hell, they had an entire arc where Rom and Leela worked to literally dismantle the existing Ferengi culture into something more aligned with Starfleet ideals. It took until Lower Decks, a 30-some odd minute cartoon, for them to do something similar with the Orions. So I guess my point of this ramble is that, while nothing is gonna change these old episodes, if you wanna see some positive progress for the Orions I would highly recommend watching LD.
- Comment on Watching Enterprise for the very first time 2 months ago:
I can’t tell if you’re joking or if you’re literally referring to Storm Front and Impulse lol. I don’t know too many Storm Front fans but I thought Impulse was generally considered a good episode by the fan base.
- Comment on Watching Enterprise for the very first time 2 months ago:
- Comment on Watching Enterprise for the very first time 2 months ago:
I drew the line at them dragging Porthos of all beings into it. Like they thought that would legitimize it.
- Comment on I wasn't ready for a 28 episode sustained descent into darkness 2 months ago:
Also it might be the only Trek show with 3-parters? I haven’t seen DISCO so someone feel free to correct if I’m wrong.
- Comment on I wasn't ready for a 28 episode sustained descent into darkness 2 months ago:
Look on the bright side, you didn’t have to watch the writers hand-wave away the entire series when it got cancelled.
- Comment on I wasn't ready for a 28 episode sustained descent into darkness 2 months ago:
I really enjoy season 4 (except These Are The Voyages… lets not talk about that.) but I think it’s definitely fair to say that the sheer adrenaline ride that was season 3 slows down a bit after the Xindi threat is resolved. You end up with a lot of these standalone arcs that, like you said, are focused on building connections with existing Trek (the augment trilogy leading into Affliction/Divergence is a good example) or arcs designed to set up the founding of the UFP. It’s clear that if they were also leading into the Romulan war which was only ever mentioned in passing in TOS. In that context I think the slightly slower tempo season 4 would have made an excellent breather between the two.
- Comment on Death is a social construct 2 months ago:
She just hadn’t had her coffee yet okay! On a serious note though I have to agree with @Corgana@startrek.website. The evolving definition of “medical death” as more of a logistical necessity than anything is something that I never really thought about before.
- Comment on Death is a social construct 2 months ago:
Janeway apologist!
- Comment on 25 Years Ago, A One-of-a-Kind Movie Captured the Hearts of Star Trek Fans Everywhere 3 months ago:
Unironically this movie is in my top 5 favorite trek movies. It counts.
- Comment on NBC created the perfect template for Star Trek to follow with future comedies 3 months ago:
The Orville got MUCH less satirical in season 2 and even more so in season 3. I assume Seth or someone let the writers off their leashes when they didn’t get sued by Paramount in Season 1.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 5x01 "Dos Cerritos" & 5x02 "Shades of Green" 5 months ago:
The green hand? That’s the hand of Apollo. The actual Greek god Apollo.
- Comment on Star Trek: Lower Decks cast call for more seasons: "Until we're dust in the ground" 5 months ago:
I went in to this show expecting not to like it, that it was just going to make fun of something I loved for mass market appeal. I’ve never been so happy to be so wrong. This whole show is a love letter to Trek.
