semisimian

@semisimian@startrek.website

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He knows how to hold a grudge⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I just watched this a few hours ago. Nothing else to add, just neat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Times were different⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re related, those incestuous, chinless WASPs. Brother takes sister to a formal dance and stops by the pharmacy to get a malt and let Dad get a whiff of sister’s corsage. Keep it in the family!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trakt Upcoming VIP Renewal Pricing Changes – Effective May 20, 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They do, and as a Canadian, they should know that fellow Canadian John Hopps invented the 1st pacemaker. He’s even considered the father of biomedical engineering. I dug through trying to find out if he coined the term “heartpacer,” no such luck. It sounds like a Dutch translation to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trakt Upcoming VIP Renewal Pricing Changes – Effective May 20, 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am outside of the loop and I appreciate your break-down. I am all for paying for useful services, but I have such a backlog of media that I need to watch, I don’t benefit from Trakt. I like a paid business model, though

  We should all question a “free” app that lets us spend 1 or 2 or 8 hours a day on their platform. We’ve gotten greedy, thinking that everything should be personal data or advertiser supported. It stinks that Trakt is cutting features while raising prices, all for a pretty simple service, but I think subscription services that protect your privacy are worth funding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does alcohol speed up evolution?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the part of The Hulk we are all just told to ignore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interview: Tawny Newsome On Finding The Sweet Spot For Her Star Trek Workplace Comedy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you know where you are commenting? And surely you mean “another Star Trek work place comedy,” because we already have DS9.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interview: Tawny Newsome On Finding The Sweet Spot For Her Star Trek Workplace Comedy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a comedy, so I hope so too! I imagine the planet, being a vacation/pleasure planet, will have a lot of kinks that are taboo to the Federation and that’s where you will find the narrative tension as they apply for membership. The planet will have a constitution at odds with the Fed, full of kinks. They might welcome species that have kinks not outlined in said constitution. They might welcome federation citizens that are exploring their non-Fed kinks on this planet.

  We’ve seen plenty of criticism of the Federation’s nanny-state. Lately, that criticism has come from the writers of the shows who seem to have lost the narrative that the Federation is our ideal. Sure, it has issues, but none of us should be ashamed of reaching for utopia. I hope the new show is a continuation of the SNW and Prodigy reboot of a less cynical Trek.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a gay man and lesbian woman have sex, is that gay or straight?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sir, this is a Wendy’s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deep Space Nine season 2 appreciation post⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t mind her noises when she’s in the prime universe, but her mirror universe sex-kitten shtick is very off putting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill Gates Bought His Daughter A $16 Million Horse Farm As A Graduation Gift — But Ex-Wife Melinda Says The Kids Were Raised Very 'Middle Class'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, Bill (after the divorce) buys the ranch as a gift, but the headline circles it back to a unsourced Melinda quote ON YAHOO FINANCE! This is another obfuscating hatchet job to whitewash billionaire behaviour by media owned by said billionaires. Please don’t engage. This is non-news. Down vote this to the sewer where it belongs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hottest Star Trek character?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That smile…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hottest Star Trek character?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The underboob reptilian dabo girl! Vedek Bareil! Leeta! DS9 is sex and war; what else is there?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some of the most realistic fictional movies ever made?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a bajillion, but maybe you are looking for a specific genre that nails it on the head.

  As someone mentioned, there are thousands of social drama films that could’ve easily happened. The success of that type of film is selling a “day in the life” plot.

  Someone else mentioned Office Space. That film is a satire, but it condenses and delivers refined representations of the banality of cubicle life that we all can easily relate to. The characters truly seem to be facsimiles of people we’ve known in our working lives.

  Someone else mentioned Michael Clayton. It’s an excellent thriller with flawed characters with believable motives that yes, it could be real. And maybe something like that has happened?

  What genre will help us answer your question?