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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 New Klingon Bird of Prey Tatoo! 2 days ago:
Eh, the Pegasus tattoo doesn’t look great; half of it is missing. Must be embedded in the skin or something…
- Comment on Been Very Recently Watching ‘Star Trek: The Animated Series’; What Do Rest of You, Who have Watched At Least 3-Episodes, Think of The Series? 3 days ago:
Yep. That’s it’s standard abbreviation in fandom. Other common ones you might already know:
- TOS: The Original Series
- TNG: The Next Generation
- DS9: Deep Speace 9
- VOY: Voyager
- ENT: Enterprise
- DIS: Discovery
- PIC: Picard
- LD: Lower Decks
- PRO: Prodigy
- SFA: Starfleet Academy
- Comment on Been Very Recently Watching ‘Star Trek: The Animated Series’; What Do Rest of You, Who have Watched At Least 3-Episodes, Think of The Series? 4 days ago:
Infinity Train is an animated sci-fi/fantasy anthology series with 4 seasons. It’s set on the eponymous vehicle that runs in a barren Mars-like environment; each car has its own self-contained, often-surreal miniature world.
Each season focuses on a different person (or group of people) who has been transported to the train and their efforts to find a way off, but also usually contains some characters from the previous season. Kate Mulgrew of Star Trek: Voyager fame plays a recurring character throughout the entire series.
Seasons 1 is still quite good but the most tween-oriented, while season 2 gets a bit darker but still maintains some of that focus. Season 3 is a beautiful dark tragedy. Season 4 is okay; it’s a prequel to the other seasons. It got rated TV-MA despite being much tamer than season 3; I’m guessing part of that is season 3 was nuts, but it’s also really suspicious that it got this rating when it is the one season where they vaguely hinted the protagonists were gay.
Unfortunately, it got canceled and disappeared from most places for a while as part of the Warner Bros suicide for tax purposes a few years back; now, S1, S2, and S4 can be bought, but piracy is still the only way to watch season 3. Luckily, the whole series has been on Internet Archive for ages, and no copyright claims have been made against it.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek’ Character I Wish I Could More Like, in This My Time of Emotionally Preparing for The Worse Thing We All Known- Putting A Love One Down. 4 days ago:
I feel for you, having had to put down a dog in 2022 and having one who might be getting close.
I feel the need to point something out, however; as the meme says, “Sir, this is a
Wendy’sc/Risa.” In other words, you’re making a lot of serious posts in a community primarily meant for memes and crapposting, where we come to relax. For general Trek-related discussion, c/startrek is probably a better idea.Anyhow, sorry for your pain, and here’s a belated welcome to the fediverse.
- Comment on Been Very Recently Watching ‘Star Trek: The Animated Series’; What Do Rest of You, Who have Watched At Least 3-Episodes, Think of The Series? 4 days ago:
Love it. Pleasurably campy, occasionally actually quite good despite its comically bad animation.
But honestly, what animation have you actually watched? Infinity Train is a solid piece of television, with season 3 being one of the best pieces of media I’ve ever experienced. I find it weird to broadly dismiss animation as a general storytelling medium; there are some things you can do with animation that just doesn’t look good in live action.
- Comment on No contest 5 days ago:
Mutually assured destruction!
- Comment on No contest 5 days ago:
But the Enterprise can probably beam Han and Chewy into the void of space if they so desired.
- Comment on Wait, I know you... 1 week ago:
I hate to say it, but that’s a bit of an unfair insult to Kai Winn.
At least Kai Winn wasn’t cutting public services for Bajorans (granted, she was in a position of religious rather than government power), and telling the Federation to go back to where they come from isn’t almost equivalent to telling Federation citizens to kill themselves. Also, she (probably) doesn’t sell shuttlecraft, and thus there are no stickers that say “I bought this before I knew Kai Winn was crazy”.
Maybe a closer analog is Marjory Taylor Greene - still a fascist idiot who enabled Gul Trump, but certainly a different kind from Elon.
- Comment on "It is the year 2000. But where are the flying cars? I was promised flying cars. I don't see any flying cars. Why? Why?" 1 week ago:
I just realized that this may be better than Frakes asking you questions. That is an epiphany.
- Comment on Wait, I know you... 2 weeks ago:
True. At the same time, if I were forced to invite one to Thanksgiving dinner, I’d have to choose Kai Winn because it’d probably be easier to make her shut up.
- Comment on Wait, I know you... 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know about that.
While Kai Winn is really fun to hate and has a repulsive personality, on an objective level, she’s better than Dukat. All Kai Winn has to her name is 1 murder (maybe 1.5 if we count her making Bareil meaninglessly sacrifice himself), a failed assassination, some back alley political deals, and a school bombing that killed no one, which, while all horrible, is relatively tame compared to killing millions, sexually assaulting dozens, and running a suicide cult.
Also, while I wouldn’t call Kai Winn humble, she’s much less narcissistic than Dukat. She seems to express a genuine sense of insecurity throughout the series that, while not altruistic, is not expressed (though certainly felt internally) by Dukat. Winn is like, “Why am I not enough for power?” while Dukat is like “I deserve power and someone is cheating me of it.”
Also, when she kills Solbor, she seems to feel a genuine remorse, while Dukat tends to justify his murders.
- Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season Three Arriving on Digital, DVD, & Blu-ray 3 weeks ago:
Me waiting for Star Trek Lower Decks Volume 2, or at least a repressing of volume 1:
- Comment on Is it confirmed that The Doctor we'll be seeing in Academy is NOT the one from "Living Witness"? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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"? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks ago:
“MOOOOOOOOVE ALOOOOONG HOOOOOOOOOOOOEEEEEMMMM!”
- Comment on I watch the first Star Trek Discovery episode, I didn't like it. 4 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Master Replicas taking pre-orders for new board game Destination: Star Trek: The Next Generation 5 weeks ago:
No VHS tape with not-quite-Gowron telling you to experience bIj?! That’s a deal-breaker.
- Comment on Remain Klingon! 5 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! 5 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 1 month 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.
