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- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 6 days ago:
IMO “woke” is a red herring when it comes to criticism of newer star trek. Some people hate things for this reason, but it obscues a more interesting discussion.
The real dimensions of value are the writing, the vision, what each series considers “action”, etc. I think it’s a distinction between what you’d expect from a Star Trek movie and a Star Trek TV show. They’re for different audiences, and I think Discovery, STA are going for a much wider market appeal (in varying degrees) and it changes the narrative structure, pacing, etc. I think they’re exploring the audience space with variations on Star Trek themes to grow the francise, and sometimes it’s to the detriment of what some people like about Star Trek - and sometimes it brings in new people.
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 6 days ago:
It’s alright; I think I’m too old to be the target audience but that’s ok. Seems to be directed at teens.
Every scene is so busy and glossy. The robots going around bear an uncanny resemblence to the Star Wars prequels (“it’s so dense; every single frame has so many things going on”). The teen angst and romance doesn’t exactly fit into what star trek means to me, but we did get a bit of that here and there. Like in Discovery, IMO there’s too much focus on exceptional individuals and less on teamwork. To me it seems like it’s trying to be many things at once. Star Wars, Marvel, and Harry Potter mixed up in a Star Trek setting. I’m a bit sad we aren’t pretending Discovery was a bad dream, but I can live with it.
… but, there is some star trek here, and I like those parts.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Opening Title Sequence 5 weeks ago:
I forgot that it was playing about halfway through, it’s quite bland.
- Comment on No Ship, No Adventure, Just Poker. Honestly, I'd watch that. 1 month ago:
Beau. Maybe we could get a story about his targ when he has a good hand.
Dr. Crusher could get everyone a little hot under the collar with a ghost story
- Comment on No Ship, No Adventure, Just Poker. Honestly, I'd watch that. 1 month ago:
It could be a little story anthology series, with each player taking terms sharing an embellished story to distract from the strength of their hands.
- Comment on Superfan Ben Stiller Has A Star Trek Pitch, Says It’s Important For Franchise To Return To Big Screen 4 months ago:
you smashed your little ships
- Comment on Highwave, makers of the Hotjo (as seen on DS9), will be restocking the Deep Space Purple color on Friday, November 15. 8 months ago:
My partner hates this mug with a passion. Maybe I should get one 😅
- Comment on Diplomacy dies on live TV as Trump and Vance gang up to bully Ukraine leader 11 months ago:
somehow this was required to switch me from “buy canadian” to “sell american” and i am ashamed it took so long
- Comment on Sokath, his browser’s eyes wide open 11 months ago:
Exhibit A: arstechnica.com/…/firefox-deletes-promise-to-neve…
Exhibit B: www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/firefox/
When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.
I don’t agree to this as written; and I am not inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt given Exhibit A. I think an argument could be made that selling my data to advertisers would help me “experience” and “interact” with online content. Perhaps it would be a difficult argument, perhaps not. I think skepticism is warranted.
Firefox has struggled to find a profitable business model outside of Google paying to be the default search engine, and it looks like these changes are a pivot to address this. I don’t think it will be good for users.
- Comment on Sokath, his browser’s eyes wide open 11 months ago:
I’ve seen this sentiment, but I don’t think it’s credible. I don’t think we should normalize legalize that explicitly enables bullshit; it’s not like it couldn’t be written any other way. It’s written in English, though it has legal intent, and we have words and phrases to clarify such things.