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“Life forms. You precious little lifeforms. You tiny little lifeforms. Where are you?”
- Lt. Cmdr Data, Star Trek: Generations
- Comment on Is it confirmed that The Doctor we'll be seeing in Academy is NOT the one from "Living Witness"? 5 days ago:
They did do something with the butt bugs in the IDW comics recently…
- Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season Three Arriving on Digital, DVD, & Blu-ray 5 days ago:
It’s nice that they still put out Trek physical media.
It’s just really weird that SNW stuff seem to be the franchise’s only 4K Blu-Ray releases (besides film remasters and Kelvin timeline, of course) - everything else with a decent resolution has only been released in 1080p. Like, objectively, I can hardly complain about 1080p, and any more than that for LD and PRO is probably pointless, but it’s really weird that PIC and DIS don’t have it for the seasons that were filmed for 4K.
Also, if they’re not going to renew PRO, can they at least give it the dignity of a complete series set, or at the very least a season 1 Blu-Ray so I don’t have to buy episodes 1-10 and 11-20 separately?!
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- Comment on Is it confirmed that The Doctor we'll be seeing in Academy is NOT the one from "Living Witness"? 5 days ago:
Yeh, perhaps it’s one of those things Star Trek should leave unanswered, like they should have done with Breen. The Breen are supposed to be a meme!
- Comment on My son asked to watch a Christmas movie today 6 days ago:
It’s kind of hard for me to watch the HP movies these days with all the Rowling stuff, which is unfortunate because Radcliffe and Watson have stood up to Rowling’s transphobia. There’s also a lot of stuff from reading the books as a kid that is, in retrospect, rather horrible.
Maybe I could see myself one day re-watching them through a means that doesn’t directly fund Rowling (or, in the future, her estate, if its activities are malicious) and enjoy the work of the other people who aren’t involved with the stuff Rowling is doing, but for me, that day is not today; I just feel too conflicted about it.
For now, though, if I want to enjoy Radcliffe, I throw on 2022’s Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.
- Comment on My son asked to watch a Christmas movie today 6 days ago:
I’m very close to finishing my current TNG rewatch and am looking forward to throwing on Generations to commemorate the season.
- Comment on I watch the first Star Trek Discovery episode, I didn't like it. 1 week ago:
“Move Along Home” is a masterpiece; it’s the kind of bad episode that’s really fun to watch.
But yeh, I think it’s really stupid to dismiss a show based on its first season.
- Comment on I watch the first Star Trek Discovery episode, I didn't like it. 1 week ago:
I just dont like any of the characters
Not even Saru? 😢
- Comment on I watch the first Star Trek Discovery episode, I didn't like it. 1 week ago:
To be fair, SNW only gets a 10 episode season, so based on ratio, 1 silly episode of SNW is equal to ~2.5 episodes of TNG; it doesn’t take a lot of silly episodes to make it seem like a huge amount of silly in SNW.
I know we probably can’t go back to 25 episode seasons because those were always very taxing to work on, but I think 15 episodes is a good compromise. I think SNW would have really benefited from a season of about that length; even 12 episodes would be nice.
Heck, as convoluted as Discovery could get, from what I watched of the show (up to a few episodes into S4), it somewhat benefited from a longer season in the sense we had plenty of time for multi-episode plots, which are harder to develop in a 10 episode season balancing episodic and linear storytelling. However, I don’t think they used that time the most effectively, as season 3 often felt like death by subplots - the episode would take on so many subplots that, although each of them individually may have been good ideas, none of them ended up being particularly well-executed. It’s especially weird because they didn’t really need to do that; there was more than enough episodes to, say, have one subplot as an A plot and another as a B plot, then continue the B plot next episode as an A plot and have another B plot.
- Comment on I watch the first Star Trek Discovery episode, I didn't like it. 1 week ago:
Honestly, I think what we have yet to truly see in Star Trek is someone in Starfleet who saves the day but ultimately cannot be absolved of their wrongdoing and cannot avoid the consequences if they’re not going to take the necessary steps for redemption - doing one important thing does not give you the moral license to do whatever you want.
They got close in TNG:”Ethics”, but ultimately the only “discipline” Russell gets is getting yelled at by Dr. Crusher - no investigations or anything.
I’d almost want to have an allegory for how we should deal with sexual harassment in the sciences, basically showing the senior staff handling the situation correctly and doing what should have been done with creeps like Richard Feynman, and maybe examining the negative tropes of past Trek. Then again, TNG has so many clumsy sexual harassment episodes that I’m worried it’d be hard to do the issue justice.
Although I’ve never watched Black Mirror, from what I’ve heard of the episode, maybe USS Callister did better than Star Trek ever could on this matter.
- Comment on I watch the first Star Trek Discovery episode, I didn't like it. 1 week ago:
To be fair, Burnham’s supposed to be a bit immature and make questionable choices, which in itself is really annoying to a lot of people, but a product of the plot, and another episode or two and it might might sense.
Also, like @ValueSubtracted@startrek.website, I am a little confused by the “xenophobic military propaganda” bit. Maybe it’s that you haven’t watched the 2nd episode yet, but without spoiling much, Burnham’s somewhat xenophobic actions go pretty horrifically wrong the next episode and basically cause much of the season’s plot. Also, the Klingons aren’t entirely villains throughout the season and show.
- Comment on I watch the first Star Trek Discovery episode, I didn't like it. 1 week ago:
“MOOOOOOOOVE ALOOOOONG HOOOOOOOOOOOOEEEEEMMMM!”
- Comment on I watch the first Star Trek Discovery episode, I didn't like it. 1 week ago:
I mean, Strange New World’s eponymous first episode was pretty good. Otherwise a true observation, though.
- Comment on Christina Chong Has a Wild Idea for a 'Doctor Who' and 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Crossover 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Master Replicas taking pre-orders for new board game Destination: Star Trek: The Next Generation 2 weeks ago:
No VHS tape with not-quite-Gowron telling you to experience bIj?! That’s a deal-breaker.
- Comment on Remain Klingon! 2 weeks ago:
Funny post, but “his/her” makes me think, “What about non-binary Klingons?”
That poses the interesting question: what is it like to be non-binary, or queer in general, as a Klingon? Sounds like a whole c/Daystrom Institute post I need to make.
- Comment on Remain Klingon! 2 weeks ago:
Also, DuoLingo has lost its honor in general with its AI obsession and heavy layoffs; only a petaQ would use such a coward’s website.
The only way a true warrior can learn Klingon is the old ways - the Okrand books and tapes!
- Comment on Shut up and take my money: A working (bluetooth) TNG Combadge 3 weeks ago:
I wish there was a Lower Decks and VOY/DS9 version of this. However, I would cry a little having to design any PCB for that space, even if it’s as simple as registering a button or blinking an LED with a microcontroller.
Honestly, I’d be tempted to just do analog FM instead of Bluetooth and basically just make walkie-talkies. You could enable greater functionality, perhaps including Bluetooth support and being able to make voice commands, by having a “ship’s computer” that would just be a Raspberry Pi server or something with an FM receiver that could process the voice commands and route signals. You might have to hide it in a probe like a tricorder or a phaser while at cons, but if you’re just handing out Halloween candy or something like that, you shouldn’t have to worry.
- Comment on Shut up and take my money: A working (bluetooth) TNG Combadge 3 weeks ago:
Part of me wonders if you could cheat a bit and put the speaker in say, a tricorder prop.
Looking at the size of the iPhone 15’s speakers, I think it might actually be possible to fit it in. You might have to fudge the dimensions a little bit, but I think that could fit in a roughly combadge-sized space. The big question is getting the rest of the electronics to fit.
Sounds like a fun project for self-torture in KiCad.
- Comment on New ‘Star Trek’ Movie In The Works At Paramount From Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley 4 weeks ago:
I enjoyed the D & D movie, so maybe they can pull off something good. Maybe they could just do something set in, say, 2467.
However, I’m extremely sad that it probably won’t be Crisis Point 3.
- Comment on The Strange New Worlds Season 3 Soundtrack has been released 4 weeks ago:
I just want a Lower Decks Vol 1 vinyl reissue and a Vol 2.
- Comment on LEGO Star Trek Enterprise REVIEW 4 weeks ago:
Heck, if you want the stickers, you can easily print them on a good inkjet.
- Comment on Creation Entertainment have announced ENT cast members for STLV 2026 5 weeks ago:
I think the biggest issue with ENT is probably the sexualization of T’Pol, the culmination of a nasty habit in Berman Trek.
I could tune out 7’s catsuit because she was otherwise well-written and the good plotlines outnumbered the bad, but it feels like at least 75% of all T’Pol stories were of the horny Berman type, to the detriment of her character.
- Comment on STAR TREK 4 Has Finally Been Scrapped As Paramount "Moves On" From Chris Pine-Led Franchise 5 weeks ago:
While we’re at it, let’s just pull in Chris Pine (multiverse crap) and William Shatner (Nexus crap) and have one of those nutty SNW episodes that sounds like a horrible idea but is surprisingly one of the better episodes that season:
- Comment on Fanhome Line Of XL Model Re-Releases Includes 10 Enterprises, K’Tinga, DS9 + More Iconic Star Trek Ships 2 months ago:
I don’t know why, but I feel cheated that we don’t get an Enterprise J model - what else am I going to use as my weirdly-shaped dinner plate?
- Comment on Legendary Star Trek Designer Inspired To Sketch President Archer’s Starship For ‘United’ Pitch 2 months ago:
Actually looking at it, my impression has softened a bit. I think I just was struggling with the perspective.
I like the proportions of the earlier concept better - I like big nacelles.
- Comment on Legendary Star Trek Designer Inspired To Sketch President Archer’s Starship For ‘United’ Pitch 2 months ago:
That… is kind of ugly. It’s unimaginative - feels too much like an airplane or a cheap-as-heck shuttle model. It brings up the worst of late-90s/early 2000s blobject design.
It would definitely feel more at home as background ship, but this is not the design of a hero ship. It doesn’t even have to be the traditional Roddenberry-type design; something looking more like the Dove from Lower Decks would be better than this.
- Comment on [Politics Warning] Make Armus Great Again 2 months ago:
Yeh, I feel that. As much as I try to be hippy here, I can’t disagree with that.
- Comment on [Politics Warning] Make Armus Great Again 2 months ago:
I agree with all your points. I don’t deny or absolve them of their wrong; they should very much be aware they’re hurting people.
My definition of “demon” is Hitler/Stalin/Mao/Pinoche level, and despite the evil they do and the fact that they collectively enable “demons”, I don’t think they themselves rise to that level of evil. There are shades of gray.
- Comment on [Politics Warning] Make Armus Great Again 2 months ago:
When I say, “It is difficult to think of how they could coexist”, I mean if they refuse to be kind and coexist with others, meaning that they’ve truly refused to coexist and thus renounced that right.
I agree there need to be consequences for being horrid, I just think human rights need to be considered in those consequences as not to become horrid.
Also, I sort of view human civilization as a whole through the lens of Kohlberg’s theory of moral development. In many ways, we’re still in the pre-conventional stage where we still behave based on punishment and reward, and for humanity to survive long term (if we can), we need to strive as a society towards the post-conventional stage where we are largely beyond pain and punishment. We will likely never attain the post-conventional stage much like a circle can never be perfectly round, but we must approach it the best we can.
