MalikMuaddibSoong
@MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' creators explain why show was so hard to crack 3 days ago:
It’s hard to come up with a circumstance and a buy-in where you can still have Star Trek adventures with real stakes and real peril, but it’s also a school.
White Squall. In space. 🤞
- Comment on Legendary Star Trek Designer Inspired To Sketch President Archer’s Starship For ‘United’ Pitch 6 days ago:
Fuck yes, sign me up! ENT fans want to get fed!
The show ended right as Archer entered his prime, just after we saw him broken and beaten by a real year of hell. I want to see that prime era Archer (of which we were robbed) in flashbacks as the current one is once again broken and beaten by another year of hell.
I really hope they get this off the ground 🙏
- Comment on Punch Time 6 days ago:
Meanwhile, Final Fantasy Tactics with the translation-so-bad-it’s-might-be-a-masterpiece.
Actually interesting and novel ability names
Japanese: Dance with knives
1997 Localization: Wiznaibus
WotL Localization: Mincing Minuet
Dialog that pulls no punches
Japanese: My bad, but it’s between you and your god
1997 Localization: Tough luck…Don’t blame me. Blame yourself or God.
WoTL Localization: Forgive me. 'Tis your birth and faith that wrong you, not I.
Other gems lost in the improved localization:
- “heavens wish to destroy all minds”
- “the doom of a planet”
- “evanescence, such a sad word”
- “time, save your kindness for the worthy”
All that being said, the final fantasy gang is generally spectacular with English mastery. It’s like you can tell which books they like to read when they choose obscure words like Eidolon.
- Comment on Could you though? 👀 1 week ago:
Hey I’m actually growing a black sapote!
Here’s a blurry pic of the fruit forming Image
- Comment on ‘Star Trek’ is headed to the Rose Parade. Here’s an exclusive first look at the float 2 weeks ago:
the float will feature an homage to Vasquez Rocks, the local landmark where “Star Trek”
Yes 😎
- Comment on TNG: The Debrief 2 weeks ago:
I want to see an animated series of the future federation historians that have to read the copious amount of unhinged reports from 24th c. starfleet captains.
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 2 weeks ago:
ENT 4x23 Archer vs Shran fight 👌
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 2 weeks ago:
Gul Dukat
Maybe you drew too fast shot yourself in the foot?
Gul Dukat is arguably the most wellformed villain in ST canon. He is a delusional maniac pursuing a twisted vision of greatness. He even works alongside our heroes for a time!
Can I offer you an Armus instead?
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 2 weeks ago:
I have 0 desire to ever rewatch a single episode
If there’s one thing I’d like to peek behind the curtain to see, it’s the streaming metrics for each trek.
My gut instinct is that almost nobody wants to rewatch it unless it is their own favorite trek. I know I don’t.
- Comment on oh cool 2 weeks ago:
Watching the two on the left go from hardnosed atheist commandos to saying “Praise Sol” with conviction, what a wild fucking trip of a show.
- Comment on Where do you guys start in a Lower Decks rewatch? 2 weeks ago:
Buffer time! It’s the episode I feel where LD comes into its own.
TIL the episode is actually called Temporal Edict and “Buffer Time” is a lower decks board game they made based on the episode.
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Needs to Imagine More for Its Female Characters 3 weeks ago:
That feeling when someone makes a really good point and makes me wonder if S3 was not as good as I thought it was.
- Comment on But also, the correct answer is Devil's Due 4 weeks ago:
Yeah great suggestion, Wrath of Khan is an excellent entry point.
The enterprise being an underdog the entire time is a great showcase for the best of trek: the crew and the problem solving 👌
- Comment on But also, the correct answer is Devil's Due 4 weeks ago:
Wow, Devils Due is like the second episode I watched (first was Silicon Avatar) and I remember enjoying the ending where Picard mimics all her tricks before telling her to fuck off.
In hindsight easily a notgreat episode, but I remember it fondly.
- Comment on Gates McFadden Talks Ghost Candle Orgasms And Jean-Luc/Beverly Relationship Status After ‘Star Trek: Picard’ 4 weeks ago:
That was an interesting read.
I wish someone would’ve asked her about Remember Me, one of my favorite episodes and one of the few Dr Crusher episodes.
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Producers Promise Season 4 Will Be Better 4 weeks ago:
a season that veered largely in quality from one episode to the next, including a particularly notable nosedive in its back half
I greatly enjoyed this season (no really, the good ones are so good), but I must agree here about the nose dive.
That documentary episode is probably my least favorite Star Trek episode of all time.
And that finale? Too much unwelcome Mass Effect 3 energy in this ending for me to enjoy.
Ley lines. Hey, they’re real!
Absolutely my least favorite treknobabble of all time.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x10 "New Life and New Civilizations" 4 weeks ago:
How does three sets of DNA in her - Gorn, Human and Illyrian - translate to having all the abilities of all races that have faced evil?
That bit right there is like a glob of glue along the seam where this Beholder plot was glued to the gorn cliffhanger.
Is any of this Beholder stuff foreshadowed before Batel fights Gamble the first time? I try to be a careful watcher, but it came outta left field for me.
Wish they would have leaned harder into reimagining Inner Light and less into boring chosen-one-stuff.
- Comment on It's a whole genre! 5 weeks ago:
Also every Ben Stiller romcom (and most his other movies too). Dude’s got a hangup on cute blondes, we get it already.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x09 "Terrarium" 5 weeks ago:
I finally got a chance to watch it and I thought it was great.
An overdue homage to both Enemy Mine and The Arena, feels like they really cooked with this one 🔥
I love the ending with Ortegas’ epiphany that her new reality is that one of her friends killed one of her other friends.
Other than that bizarre found-footage episode, this entire season has been fire. Somehow they’ve managed to give us more of the crew in 3 seasons than disco ever did, and I’m loving it.
I have such high hopes for the new academy show after what I’ve seen in S3, bring on the next trek golden age!
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Cast On Their Characters’ Fates, Nudity, And Not Getting A Musical Episode 5 weeks ago:
Hey it could still work as a high school musical episode of the new academy show
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Cast On Their Characters’ Fates, Nudity, And Not Getting A Musical Episode 5 weeks ago:
Disco was so unhinged that a musical would have been amazing.
Okay, now here’s your big captain number where you sing and dance about shooting stamets out the airlock…and action!
- Comment on "Through the Lens of Time" was one of the silliest episodes yet [Spoilers] 1 month ago:
Hey I’m also behind everyone else too, I’m glad to see a chance to chime in.
I consider this to be the absolute best “red shirt” episode yet. These are my reasons.
Ensign Gamble was introduced in prior episodes; no last-minute-hey-meet-airiam contrivances.
The episode starts with Gamble reading his log, as though he is framing the entire episode and foreshadowing his survival.
The threat was menacing and inscrutable, like an Armos with better presentation. But also sad, Gamble merely picking up that orb shows how fragile life can be even in the space future. He just gets iced for no good reason like Yar, because ultimately space is scary and dangerous.
Dr MBenga suffers more trauma and loss, as he should. Every redshirt was probably somebody’s protege and certainly leaves void we rarely get to see ( eg TNG Lower Decks). Closest runner up is Trip getting all tore up over ENT casualties.
This is how to kill an away team member and have me care about it.
- Comment on Michelle Yeoh Admits “We Could Have Done Better” With ‘Star Trek: Section 31’ 1 month ago:
It’s a good distinction to make that the characters were much more interesting than the story we saw.
I looked at a list of characters and I rank 4/7 of them as interesting, but sadly half of those were killed off :(
Space Hitler: 👎
Space Common: 👎
Quasi: 👍
Zeph 🪦: 👍
Garrett: 👍
Fuzz 🪦: 👎
Melle 🪦: 👍
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- Comment on What is the canonical version of STVI? 3 months ago:
All the scenes which René appears were not included.
I’m sorry Rene, the editor just said fuck you in particular 🤷♀️
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Showrunners Talk Season 3 Premiere And “Retconning” The Gorn 3 months ago:
they’re scary because they’re intelligent, relentless, and remorseless
Gorn Queen in 3…2…
I’m kidding, but also, please no.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 3 months ago:
Amen, I am equally puzzled.
Truly some of the worst FF decisions all in the same game.
Why is the key to the postgame dungeon a piece of undifferentiated loot? Why did the game allow me to accidentally lock myself out of the postgame by selling it?
Why is the story is a low effort clone of Star Wars?
Why set FF12 in the world of FF:Tactics but make no reference to it?
Why, oh why, an all-women-race of playboy bunny girls in lingerie and heels?
That being said, programming your own teams’ AI is peak jrpg wish there was more of that. This baby got thrown out with all that dirty bath water unfortunately
- Comment on Official Season 3 Trailer | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 4 months ago:
My tinfoil: she survives, but is mangled/killed soon after so he has a love interest in place when the Talosians take him from the beep beep chair into his own nexus/matrix.
- Comment on To whom it may concern. 4 months ago:
Ya in his quarters he decries the Klingon bastards that killed his son. But at the dinner with Gorkon he drinks and toasts with klingons. He leaves it in his quarters, which of course backfires.
- Comment on To whom it may concern. 4 months ago:
Woah isn’t that exactly what he himself tries to do in Undiscovered Country?
