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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 Annotations for *Star Trek: Strange New Worlds* 3x02: “Wedding Bell Blues”: 7 hours ago:
As said on the Daystrom crosspost, the bartender is the first live action appearance of an Edosian, dirst introduced in TAS.
- Comment on "Shut Up, Wesley" [Remastered in HD] 1 day ago:
Part of me wants to buy/borrow the Lower Decks DVDs just so I can get better screen rips on Memory Alpha.
Then again, I also kind of want to fork Memory Alpha because at this point, you basically can’t use Fandom without an ad blocked.
But that’s such a huge undertaking because I’d have to find hosting, import the large database dump (getting it, or at least a version from late May, isn’t so hard - just check Special:Statistics), delete what I don’t need, fix/rebuild templates, replace images, check tens of thousands of pages, remove Memory Alpha administrative pages) get the word out, etcetera.
It’d almost be awesome if it were a .website project, but even if it ever got off the ground, I’d worry the traffic might be unsustainable.
- Comment on What are the best single episodes to show people new to Trek? 1 day ago:
I personally love DS9 and think that it has aged better than TNG. I think its S1 is not amazing, but certainly one of the better first seasons. It has plenty of good enough episodes that don’t depend heavily on the upcoming plot and leave your brother in a good place if he wants to start watching for himself.
A few suggestions would be:
- In The Hands of the Prophets: Overall an almost prophetic episode, in the most terrifying way possible. A well-done drama episode with great political commentary. A lot of the season built up to it, but it’s such an early period in the show that it’s not TOO much context
- Dax: A full helping of everything Trek, from alien trials to crew collaboration to space mysteries. It basically explains the Dax thing for you, just leaving an interesting story. Vortex: Odo-focused, but also has some “crew on space mystery” bits. Also makes a mystery of core information in the show, meaning minimal canon dependency and once again leaving your brother in a good place to watch.
- Duet: Strong Kira episode that’s also a good summary of the Bajoran-Cardassian conflict.
- Captive Pursuit: I think it’s a solid, typical Trek episode. I think the only impression issues it might give are it’s very O’Brien-centric, and it might register a bit on the “aliens who represent no particular real life ethnicity but are still kind of iffy”-o-meter. But otherwise, it’s a low-canon, medium-quality episode.
- Comment on What are the best single episodes to show people new to Trek? 1 day ago:
Holes and crap! Measure of a Man might be genius. Intellectually engaging, good acting, but boring (no offense) enough that other parts of the show can impress as well!
- Comment on What are the best single episodes to show people new to Trek? 1 day ago:
I disagree. I think the Dominion War context is way too important.
- Comment on What are the best single episodes to show people new to Trek? 1 day ago:
I kind of feel like Prodigy struggles the first half of the first season… as a Prodigy lover, I’ll say it certainly gets there, but even then, let’s say it wasn’t until season 2 that Jankom Pog no longer made me want to find out what Tellarite carnitas taste like…
- Comment on "Shut Up, Wesley" [Remastered in HD] 1 day ago:
Did you compress with JPEG? Also, did you grab from the Blu-Rays, or just from the P+ web viewer?
Because Paramount is sadistic and limits those to 360p.
- Comment on The more things change, the more they stay the same. 3 days ago:
Let’s just say my district learned their lesson…
- Comment on The more things change, the more they stay the same. 3 days ago:
Reminds me of an incident in high school where a student accidentally sent an e-mail to the entire school district, and people started replying, spamming up my inbox.
- Comment on Factory Entertainment's FE Masterworks Announces Four New Studio-Scale Star Trek Models 3 days ago:
If I’m paying five figures, that Miranda better have explosives in it for true authenticity!
- Comment on Akiva Goldsman On How ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Will End With Kirk In Command 6 days ago:
While certainly a weird idea, a TOS continuation series might not be so bad done right. I might love another episode where Uhura takes command, except it isn’t just because all the men on the ship are under the influence of space sirens.
Overall, the idea kind of reminds me of when they considered reusing the assets of the cancelled Secret of Vulcan Fury to make a CGI TOS continuation, though it didn’t work out for several reasons, I’m guessing in part because of the death of DeForest Kelley.
But honestly, I can see the sentiment of not wanting it - I think we do need a purely new Trek era, something like the mid 25th century or sometime in the 26th century.
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- Comment on Humble Comics Bundle: Star Trek Comics Megabundle 1 week ago:
What the heck! I might have to go for this one!
Some of them aren’t that interesting to me - I own a lot of these, but some of these I’ve wanted really bad.
Sucks there’s not the Who crossover on here, but nuts anyway.
- Comment on Exclusive: Rebecca Romijn On The ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Cast Learning Show Will End With Season 5 1 week ago:
At least they have two whole seasons to wrap stuff up and know about the end ahead of time, unlike Lower Decks, which got the memo in the middle of season development.
- Comment on Improved meme format just dropped (now with the superior franchise) 2 weeks ago:
A good one. I’ve also made an attempt before with this during the Patrick Starship Enterprise fiasco/masterpiece: Mariner reassures Quimp, " Don’t worry! You’ll have another Star Trek performance!" Quimp asks, confidently, “It’ll be reprising Quimp for Lower Decks Season 5, right?” Mariner then proceeds to drink a shot. Quimp then morphs into Spongebob Squarepents and, less self-assured this time, asks, “It’ll be reprising Quimp for Lower Decks Season 5, right?”
I should do one without SpongeQuimp, though.
- Comment on IYKYK 3 weeks ago:
I think is is more a c/Risa thing.
- Comment on Captain Kirk Is Back from the Dead in New Star Trek Comic ‘The Last Starship’ 4 weeks ago:
I got midway through season 4 of Disco, though I plan on finishing eventually. I think season 3 had its ups and downs, but the setting it introduced could have been really interesting. I was just underwhelmed by what they were doing in season 4 instead of the natural plot threads the 32nd century opened.
I agree on SNW, and LD and PRO have earned a special place in my heart.
- Comment on Captain Kirk Is Back from the Dead in New Star Trek Comic ‘The Last Starship’ 4 weeks ago:
You must be quite behind on Trek. They sort of just gave up on Kelvin and returned to the prime timeline with Star Trek: Discovery back in 2017. They eventually canonized that the Kelvin timeline is just an alternate reality existing in parallel to the main timeline.
- Comment on Phrase the Prophets! 1 month ago:
I’ve long wanted to make Shaxs ear rings, although I only have a red Lower Decks uniform right now because I did Boimler last year, and I’ve toyed with the idea of reusing it to do a Vendome this year (probably won’t happen, honestly), so it’ll be a while before I can rationalize getting another Starfleet uniform.
- Comment on One Bad Mother? In Defense of Star Trek's Lwaxana Troi 1 month ago:
I view satirical voice impression and speech synthesis of a real person as two different ethical issues entirely.
I find impressions intended for satire fall within the real of the first amendment, while the latter can be an unwelcome appropriation of identity when done wrong.
- Comment on One Bad Mother? In Defense of Star Trek's Lwaxana Troi 1 month ago:
I haven’t gotten all the way through it yet, but I have very occasionally come back to it as a hobby project over the past year because I have been trying to collect a dataset of Majel’s lines in order to train a text to speech voice.
Usually, I’d find that a bit unethical, but in this case, they literally tried to do that before she died, which I think is as close to consent to such a reproduction as most passed actors could give. Also, it’s mostly for fun for something like HomeAssistant on Raspberry Pi.
- Comment on Visited Vasquez Rocks 2 months ago:
That’s nuts. I was just up in LA a couple of days ago to see They Might Be Giants. Stopped by the TOS cast signatures in the concrete in the walk of fame.
I’ll have to see if I can get that in next time, although it’s a bigger detour than jealously checking out the Micro Center in Tustin, which we have had nothing like back where I live since Fry’s Electronics shuttered (and frankly, Fry’s staff never seemed so nice).
- Comment on New Star Trek Series In-Development 2 months ago:
I feel like the first five episodes will be “I’m crying because I dropped a cookie”, and then suddenly the Breen or something blow up half the Federation and crap gets real.
I feel like the premise would be much more interesting if we substitute a planet for growing up in a starship and what the heck the children do in a red alert.
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Prodigy' Season 3 Passed On By Netflix; Seasons 1-2 To Leave Soon 2 months ago:
On another note, I hope they put out a good Blu Ray box set like they did with Lower Decks. As of right now, you have to buy season 1 in 2 $20 sets, while season 2 is just one set.
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Prodigy' Season 3 Passed On By Netflix; Seasons 1-2 To Leave Soon 2 months ago:
Rest in peace.
You have brought even more dishonor to your house, Paramount.
Although Prodigy got the equivalent of 4 seasons of Lower Decks.
Honestly, I feel like it showed the value of longer seasons - I felt like we had plenty of time to both develop the plot and get episodic.
While those executive geezers don’t give a darn about animation, seeing Prodigy and Lower Decks makes me really think a 50 minute episode TNG/DS9/VOY format animated series with 15-20 episodes a season could be genius, especially if it looked something like Arcane and was somewhat realistic in some aspects but with stylizations to avoid uncanny valley. You could get more time for character development with less labor concerns than an actual shoot, create more interesting aliens while spending less on VFX, and emulate a classic aesthetic without it looking ridiculous.
- Comment on One fine day at the bookstore 2 months ago:
Glory to you and your puns.
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- Comment on I cooked some food cubes. 2 months ago:
I see Kevin Riley. I say the magic wordsP
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