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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 Captain, masking is highly illogical 2 days ago:
Because he unmasked after “The Cage”…
- Comment on Preview Episode 3 Of ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ With 16 New Images From “Vitus Reflux” 2 days ago:
I can get it being back by the 32nd century, but I still wonder why Nova Squadron (or any elite academy group beyond a simple honors society) came back in Prodigy relatively shortly after:
- The Locarno incidents
- That time Red Squad tried to take over THE ENTIRE FREAKIN’ FEDERATION.
- Comment on Captain, masking is highly illogical 2 days ago:
It’s not saying to be a jerk to people.
“Masking” is when a person with autism hides associated mannerisms in order to blend in with neurotypical people (make themselves “more palatable”), such as avoiding hand stims or atypical (but still healthy) reactions of enthusiasm.
“Unmasking” doesn’t mean giving up anything you do to be considerate of others (such as not giving unsolicited 15 minute rants about my hyper fixations); it just means not trying to pretend to be a neurotypical person, consciously or subconsciously, and to just be your authentic self, autistic self.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x01 "Kids These Days" & 1x02 "Beta Test" 4 days ago:
I felt better once they got out the prisons; the ship aesthetics have some generic sci-fi aesthetic to them, but having the reds in them makes it feel overall much brighter and Trek-y. Honestly, even though it’s not as bright as TNG, just being able to actually see scenes was nice.
- Comment on San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) | Rufus Wainwright Orchestral Recording 4 days ago:
Late gen Z, generally modern indie centric tastes; there might be a deeper genre name than that, but that’s what I can think of off the top of my head. Also has some 70s-90s stuff, including picking up a few of my favorite They Might Be Giants songs, mostly Lincoln-era stuff.
- Comment on San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) | Rufus Wainwright Orchestral Recording 5 days ago:
I don’t know.
If anything, me and my younger sibling were actively annoyed by a lot of the show’s music choices, and modern show music in general. In both this show and recent Stranger Things seasons, they put music in every single moment, even moments that should be silent.
- Comment on Lakeshore Records Announces Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Season 1 Soundtrack, Available Now 6 days ago:
But what about Lower Decks volume 2?
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- Comment on [USA] ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Series Premiere To Stream For Free On YouTube 1 week ago:
Or yt-dlp.
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- Comment on Is there desire for Capt. Una spin-off? 1 week ago:
I don’t think they’re doing so much of a TOS reboot as a TOS continuation with some retconning and reusing some SNW sets and cast.
I’ve heard it floated around that it would depict the start of Kirk’s mission, which TOS didn’t depict, showing the crew already relatively comfortable with the ship. Personally, I’d like them to something of a year 4/5 that takes place either during or after TAS. As I mention elsewhere in this thread, I think “Yesteryear” would be an awesome remake; it could be pulled off in one 50 minute episode (already double TAS length), but I think it would be awesome to extend it to a two parter.
- Comment on Is there desire for Capt. Una spin-off? 1 week ago:
Not sure I’d want a full TOS reboot, but I think a few more retcons wouldn’t hurt so long as they’re in the overall spirit of Trek.
What I’ve mentioned before that I think would be interesting to see is a remake of the TAS episode Yesteryear. Most TAS stories are probably best left as such, or else they would lose their campy charm, but I think Yesteryear could benefit, especially from the dramatic storytelling recent live action Trek has focused on. We could get so much good Vulcan lore out of it, and I’d hope they could do awesome set and costume design.
In my ideal episode, it’s still weeks to months until Sarek takes in Burnham; I feel like otherwise, Spock wouldn’t have to be going back in time to save himself.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
To be fair, 5 seasons has become a miracle for any scripted television to attain, period. Heck, even 3 is lucky these days.
Also, I have a feeling they’ve known 5 seasons was the length for a while and have written the ending in a way that allows them to end the show largely on their own terms.
- Comment on "Starfleet Academy" early review round-up 2 weeks ago:
I wish Lemmy had a way to distinguish between disliking the news and shooting the messenger.
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- Comment on New Klingon Bird of Prey Tatoo! 3 weeks 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 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Mutually assured destruction!
- Comment on No contest 3 weeks 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... 4 weeks 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?" 4 weeks ago:
I just realized that this may be better than Frakes asking you questions. That is an epiphany.
- Comment on Wait, I know you... 5 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... 5 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 1 month 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"? 1 month 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 1 month 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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