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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 (Not OC, mostly) Gowron Jumproping 14 hours ago:
“Generations of warriors from our house have jumped with this jump rope. Use it with honor, my son.”
On a side note, I have no idea if kids these days do jump ropes. Heck, when I was young not too long ago, jump ropes were just those mythical things from the TV - I don’t know if I ever saw one on a school campus (granted, I’m also on the spectrum, so it may have just been I was so bad at physical activities like that that I ignored them).
I’ll just predict there’s a good chance someone’s going to respond something like, “they’re always on them tablets these them days”, to which I say, Yes, that’s a factor in the problem, but I also feel like there’s declining social opportunities for kids in general. If I go on, it’ll turn into a rant that I don’t think fits the tone of Risa.
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- Comment on Who says S31 gets to have all the fun? 2 days ago:
“…And the worst part is I can live with it.”
- Comment on "But when the phone inside her ribcage rings, it's not for me." 3 days ago:
Gul Dukat on Empok Nor: I built a little empire out of some crazy garbage called the blood of the exploited working class, but they’ve overcome their shyness; now they’re calling me your highness, and a world screams, “Kiss me, son of god.”
Any plot involving Joran Dax: Each night I lie awake, completely alone. A voice is speaking, and I tremble, for it’s not my own, my own. I can’t ignore it, although I try. The intrusive whisper fascinates me.
VOY Endgame: Person from today, here is you in
20822404.Weyoun: My evil twin, bad weather friend.
Murf in PRO: Mysteerious whisper. Mysteeeeeeeeeeeerious whisper.
LD Minding the Mind’s Mines: And what they found was just a statue standing where the statue got me high.
ENT finale: Everybody dies frustrated and sad
When Dukat killed Jadzia (or Rick Berman on the floor of his residence tomorrow 😉): Now it’s over; I’m dead and I haven’t done anything that I want, or I’m still alive and there’s nothing I want to do.
- Comment on "But when the phone inside her ribcage rings, it's not for me." 3 days ago:
Let me guess: “Birdhouse in your Soul” and “Istanbul”? (Was Constantinople. Now it’s Istanbul, not Constantinople. Been a long time gone, Constantinople. It’s a Turkish delight on a moonlit night. Every gal in Constantinople lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople, so if you’ve a date in Constantinople, she’ll be waiting in Istanbul. Even old New York, was once New Amsterdam. Why’d they change it? I can’t say; people just liked it better that way.)
TMBG’s back catalog is very chungus, though - lots of stuff about death.
- Comment on "But when the phone inside her ribcage rings, it's not for me." 3 days ago:
Oh my gosh, the next TMBG+Trek meme!
- Comment on "But when the phone inside her ribcage rings, it's not for me." 3 days ago:
They Might Be Giants
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- Comment on Impossible to know what this gesture means, unfortunately 4 days ago:
As much as I think this post is on point, it’s incredibly ironic that it’s on Twitter. 😆
- Comment on The Official Philippa Georgiou backstory from the Star Trek YouTube channel 6 days ago:
To be fair, the mirror universe in general, even in the DS9 era, is kind of Star Wars-y.
In general, though, it sometimes gets annoying when the franchises swap aesthetics, even back to V when they did bargain bin Mos Eisley (the bar in III was hilariously campy, though). Recently, I watched the first episode of a certain Star Wars series on a friend’s recommendation (I wouldn’t have otherwise), and at one point, I was like, “What the heck! This is supposed to be a rough pirate ship, but there’s so little weathering on the set that this could be a Federation starship!”
- Comment on "Section 31" early review round-up 6 days ago:
I agree with your positions about short seasons and brand new big bads.
However, I don’t think TNG, and classic Trek at large, have a future totally devoid of “the pains and pitfalls of present-day life”. For instance, Captain Maxwell blows up a bunch of Cardassian outposts, and there was that whole incident with the Pegasus and the cloaking device. These are clear instances showing in TNG’s world, we haven’t completely grown out of the darker parts of our nature.
I think the ideal of Star Trek is there is a future where we have overcome many of our problems, and when new (or old, sometimes) arise, we can work together to overcome them and improve ourselves.
In some ways, I think that Lower Decks embodies this extremely well. Because it’s supposed to be a comedy, it liberates the show from a lot of modern sci-fi conventions; this allows a largely utopian environment for our Federation characters where they’re free to help each other evolve far beyond the borderline insane sitcom archetypes they started the show as.
- Comment on I finished watching DS9... again. 1 week ago:
Ooh. That’s difficult to say. I feel like the holosuite ones are always great, but that’s nearly every Trek for you.
I can live with “In the Pale Moonlight “.
- Comment on I finished watching DS9... again. 1 week ago:
Yup.
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- Comment on What’s with Sci-Fi and Commemorative Plates? 1 week ago:
Our family actually has a bunch that an aunt sent once.
- Comment on Please advise on this conversation we had over on c/Piracy. Transporters and replicators, basic operating principles? 1 week ago:
Was about to cite TNG Tech Manual as well - although that also said that holodeck characters’ bodies were replicated meat puppets, which I think they didn’t stick with.
- Comment on What’s with Sci-Fi and Commemorative Plates? 1 week ago:
That might me it - when I search older media, say The Andy Griffith show, sure enough there are a crap ton of plates.
It might be a sort of Venn diagram thing - Trek/Wars plates came at the dusk of the commemorative plate era, while the fans were more likely than others to buy collectibles like plates, making them seem unique from other fandoms.
- Comment on Check Out New Preview And Behind-The-Scenes Images From The ‘Star Trek: Section 31’ Streaming Movie 1 week ago:
I just realized another thing about April - assuming humans live 120 years on average in the Trek universe, an elderly April could still be alive in the 2360s or 70s.
- Comment on Check Out New Preview And Behind-The-Scenes Images From The ‘Star Trek: Section 31’ Streaming Movie 1 week ago:
I would love that! Give the lost part of the Monster Maroon era (2290s-2340s) some love.
The weird thing is April from SNW should canonically still be alive due to TAS:”Counter-clockwise Incident”.
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- Comment on Star Trek is like a warm blanket for me. 2 weeks ago:
That’s an interesting relationship with Enterprise - I’ve yet to really watch that series.
Star Trek’s been a family thing for me as well; my mom is a fan - she watched VOY:“Endgame” during its premiere 4 days after she got married. Star Trek was always playing in the house, so me and my siblings gravitated towards it.
Lower Decks was probably 2/3rds of my coping strategy for the death of my grandmother.
- Comment on Change my mind: SNW, SFA should fire their music departments and replace them with Chris Westlake!!! 😉 2 weeks ago:
You’re right. I gotta be going where my heart will take me.
- Comment on Change my mind: SNW, SFA should fire their music departments and replace them with Chris Westlake!!! 😉 2 weeks ago:
I need to give those a harder listen. I do like how the Prodigy theme combines cinematic and TAS vibes. Also, I like how SNW riffs on the TOS theme.
Also, my “call” is indeed a tongue-in-cheek way to say I hope that Westlake can continue in Star Trek. Admittedly, I probably should have communicated that in a more precise, less melodramatic mode.
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- Comment on Colm Meaney to Receive Irish Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award 2 weeks ago:
Oh no! You can’t break the laws of physic; O’Brien MUST suffer! Take it away before the universe suffers a subspace quasar tachyon inversion burst collapse to the hull or something. 😉
- Comment on I just finished watching Voyager... again 3 weeks ago:
TNG: “Shades of Gray”, the really low-budget, terrible finale of season 2 where Riker has a virus that
makes him relive memoriesturns the show into a clipshow. - Comment on I just finished watching Voyager... again 3 weeks ago:
But are you tough enough to watch the clip show?
- Comment on I just finished watching Voyager... again 3 weeks ago:
What! Fairhaven is the best! Computer, delete the
wifeuser! Just kidding. You’re entitled to your opinion.But yeh, I get the hurt of the end of a series.
As for TNG rewatches, at this point I just go back to a favorite episode and start from there; it’s hard to sort good from bad in the early seasons.
- Comment on Bring Home Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5 and Complete Series on March 25 3 weeks ago:
Also, you can rip Blu-rays using a PC Blu-ray drive (which I acknowledge is increasingly hard to find - my PC doesn’t even have a 5.25" bay - I just have SATA cables dangling out for the drive, which I ripped from another machine).
Honestly, it’s a nice path to media ownership, although I don’t use it a lot.
- Comment on Shout out to the USS Thunderchild, the unluckiest and toughest ship in Starfleet 3 weeks ago:
According to Memory Alpha, 10 years because the ship was supposedly obsolete by then.
