StillPaisleyCat
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- Comment on Watch: Anson Mount’s Audition Tape For Captain Lorca On ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ 4 weeks ago:
He didn’t necessarily know that Pike would be an option. He likely didn’t know that Lorca would be an MU character.
- Comment on Interview: Mary Chieffo On Returning To Star Trek For A New Flavor Of Klingon In ‘Lower Decks’ 1 month ago:
She brought such positive energy to fans during her time on Discover.
Her Twitter was full of enthusiasm. CBS was so much less limiting of the actors’ social media engagement. Paramount really hasn’t done well by limiting engagement to the EPs.
It’s unfortunate there hasn’t been opportunity for her appear in Strange New Worlds.
- Comment on I'm a reasonably well educated human living on Earth. What's to stop me from replicating starship parts until I can make my own Starfleet? 2 months ago:
Controlled technology and not easily built from scratch even by Starfleet engineers.
The Relaunch novelverse expanded the concept and importance of industrial replicators. When Voyager returned to the Delta Quadrant, she led an small ‘Full Circle’ fleet that included a large engineering ship that did have industrial replicators large enough to reconstruct ships when severely damaged.
Lowere Decks and Prodigy have brought industrial replicators into onscreen canon.
Prodigy gave the Protostar prototype ship an industrial replicator large enough to construct shuttles. Lower Decks has shown the Cerritos and other ships tasked with delivering and bringing online very large industrial replicators on planets seeking Federation support.
- Comment on Nacelle Reveals First Eight Star Trek Action Figures at NYCC... With Plenty of Character Surprises! 2 months ago:
It feels like the chose them to fill in the gaps in the collections of fans across every show and the movies - but also to profile legacy characters featured in new productions.
Rachel Garrett is surely there because of S31 and Jellico is more popular than ever after Prodigy.
- Comment on I'm a reasonably well educated human living on Earth. What's to stop me from replicating starship parts until I can make my own Starfleet? 2 months ago:
Most structural starship components would require large industrial replicators.
These seem to always be centrally located and powered.
What someone can do with a small home model would be quite different.
- Comment on Interview: Jonathan Del Arco Talks “Borg Spin-Off” That Became ‘Star Trek: Picard’ And Hugh’s Surprise Death 2 months ago:
Here’s another take.
We know that everything was reshaped to flatter and entice Patrick Stewart to come back and play Picard.
He kept refusing and keep on insisting on Picard’s life should be a reflection of his own.
But the suits at ViacomCBS (and later Paramount) put priority on greenlighting anything they could get with Picard as a character.
So, whatever initial concepts with and without Picard were all sacrificed in the end in order to indulge Stewart enough to play the role.
- Comment on New Star Trek Action Figure Line Coming From Nacelle 2 months ago:
It’s absurd. Our kids end up playing Star Trek with Playmobil’s space and planetary exploration lines.
When the Star Trek line finally arrived it was only TOS.
- Comment on Last day for Star Trek Day sale on Steam (Sept 8-15) 3 months ago:
We’ve tried most of them over time.
Star Trek Resurgence has consistently excellent reviews. It’s about a 25 hour role play where the player makes choices for two different crew - a senior bridge officer and an NCO in engineering. It’s well done and one of our teens and I are enjoying it a lot. Great value for the sale price. My patience on this one was reinforced by its initial release being exclusive to Epic - but on Steam and on sale it’s worth it.
Bridge Crew is an older game. I have had it for a couple of years, and took advantage of the sale to pick up copies for each of our kids Steam accounts. One of them got really into it right away.
Timelines is also older. It held their interest for a bit in middle school but doesn’t seem to be one of the better tie-ins.
Star Trek Online is a long running massively multiplayer game that starts out free but then can cost a lot for in-game purchases. One of our teens is into it, and got fairly far without purchasing much, but the Steam sale is a good opportunity for them to buy things they’ve had on their wish list.
As a parent, I find these better than the endless number of Star Wars mods on Roblox that one of ours got into for a while.
- Comment on Last day for Star Trek Day sale on Steam (Sept 8-15) 3 months ago:
We’ve tried most of them over time.
Star Trek Resurgence has consistently excellent reviews. It’s about a 25 hour role play where the player makes choices for two different crew - a senior bridge officer and an NCO in engineering. It’s well done and one of our teens and I are enjoying it a lot. Great value for the sale price. My patience on this one was reinforced by its initial release being exclusive to Epic - but on Steam and on sale it’s worth it.
Bridge Crew is an older game. I have had it for a couple of years, and took advantage of the sale to pick up copies for each of our kids Steam accounts. One of them got really into it right away.
Timelines is also older. It held their interest for a bit in middle school but doesn’t seem to be one of the better tie-ins.
Star Trek Online is a long running massively multiplayer game that starts out free but then can cost a lot for in-game purchases. One of our teens is into it, and got fairly far without purchasing much, but the Steam sale is a good opportunity for them to buy things they’ve had on their wish list.
As a parent, I find these better than the endless number of Star Wars mods on Roblox that one of ours got into for a while.
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- Comment on Worst examples of Treknobabble 3 months ago:
The thing is that while the technobabble is just that, the process represents how engineering gets done better than most other ‘serious’ SF, albeit at compressed speed.
Voyager did a better job than any at showing how the thinking and problem-solving work gets done - which to me is more the point.
All this criticism seems to come from folks who’ve never seen nerds working in teams being nerds. They seem to want science FICTION to be locked down to concepts that someone with a mid 20th bachelor’s degree in science would know.
Whereas the real life scientists and engineers in my circle react more like Erin Macdonald did when she was working on her physics PhD and saw Voyager. She recognized the process and thought it was cool that some of the newer concepts in gravimetrics were referenced but didn’t sweat the small stuff.
- Comment on An Exclusive Look and Poster for Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5 Debuts on Star Trek Day 3 months ago:
Glad to have you mention that here.
So many fans of the older shows assume that Lower Decks isn’t accessible to new viewers who don’t get the references, but it’s quite the opposite. Gen Z and younger viewers are into animated comedies and it’s a successful entry point. And with the number of middle schoolers who got into manga and anime during the pandemic, the portion of the audience that prefers animation as a medium is only going to grow.
Our teens were fans of the Voyager when they were in middle school, and sampled the rest of the classic shows. Despite that they seem to be split on the animated vs live action new shows, and none of them would watch Picard.
It’s a real shame that there won’t be any new animated Star Trek after this season of Lower Decks.
- Comment on I just finish to see all TNG movies. 3 months ago:
Star Trek Prodigy is the true sequel to Voyager. It’s all ages / family rather than the ‘kids show’ many fans take it for. I would watch that with your GF next.
Because Prodigy is designed to be an entry point for new viewers, it introduces many of the key legacy characters and much of the lore. It has a Star Wars vibe in the pilot, mainly to draw in viewers from other franchises, but it settles into being some of the Trekiest content ever by the 6th short episode of season one.
- Comment on New info on Universal Fan Fest Night at Universal Studios Hollywood. 3 months ago:
Dave Blass said much of it was packed up in crates and shipped.
To where is the question.
- Comment on A Gamble: What will be the plot of *Lower Decks*'s Finale? 3 months ago:
Tawny is already in the writers room for Starfleet Academy as well as working as a cocreator of a new live action Star Trek comedy series in development.
It seems that she’s another alum who will be mostly behind the camera but will show up as a legacy character in other shows.
- Comment on Happy Star Trek Day! What was your first contact? 3 months ago:
TOS ‘The Devil in the Dark’ in first run.
I was barely in school, but my slightly older neighbour who’d hooked me on Time Tunnel and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, convinced me that Star Trek must be seen.
I quickly caught up during the hiatus reruns, and have seen absolutely all of it in first run since.
- Comment on James Darren, Teen Idol Actor in ‘Gidget,’ Singer and Director, Dies at 88 3 months ago:
I hadn’t been aware that he’d also been a director for television. Truly a wide-ranging career.
- Comment on Interview: Doug Jones On His Surprise Star Trek: Discovery’ Evolution And Ideas For Saru On ‘Academy’ 3 months ago:
McCoy was in Encounter at Farpoint with one meta purpose - to counter the TOS fans that were campaigning hard to say that it ‘wasn’t the same universe.’
McCoy’s presence was a nice Easter Egg, but not much more. But he did the job of saying that it was the new Enterprise in continuity with the legendary ship on which he served.
Fans argued that because Roddenberry insisted on moving WW3 back to the mid 21st century as of Encounter at Farpoint, TNG had to be a different timeline.
TOS fans understood the Eugenics Wars to be the precursor to WW3, so they just didn’t accept WW3 was going to be another half-century away. Roddenberry’s directive was to always keep the Star Trek future in our future so WW3 had to be shifted to later in time and any specific mention of the date of the Eugenics Wars was avoided.
They also hated the carpet and many other things about the ‘luxury hotel in space’ Enterprise.
Yup, that happened and continued to happen until well into TNG season 3. The brigading Berman-era fans who rail unrelentingly against ‘Nu-Trek’ don’t sound any different, they’re just more visible than the 1980s fans that relied on mimeoed fanzines and Usenet. Fans that liked TNG kept quiet at cons until at least 1990, and vendors didn’t bring TNG merchandise.
- Comment on My favorite holiday 3 months ago:
No need to fuss about calendars. Just need to revisit Dr. Macdonald’s Temporal Mechanics 101.
There have been several temporal incursions since the DS9 crew did theirs - Voyager, Picard, SNW and Prodigy, not to mention the rippling effects of the Temporal Wars established in Enterprise and Discovery.
Dates and details can slip as long as the major events stay more or less the same.
- Comment on August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget. 3 months ago:
From what I can tell Americans used to use scales for dry measures (in ounces) but somewhere along the line, they switched to volume measures for everything.
As a Canadian, it’s really frustrating because often will get the American versions of UK cookbooks here which are both not metric and not weights.
I enjoy my Australian cookbooks with metric weights.
- Comment on August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget. 3 months ago:
Cook in metric and use a scale!
- Comment on Thoughts on TAS Theme 3 months ago:
If anything, Lower Decks has intentionally lifted some 7-note sequences from the TAS title theme.
The title theme for Lower Decks almost does a bait and switch riff of the TAS one.
- Comment on Thoughts on TAS Theme 3 months ago:
Yea that was TOS.
- Comment on Star Trek Joins Universal Studios Hollywood's Universal Fan Fest Nights 4 months ago:
It’s pretty odd that an NBCUniversal event is bringing two Paramount Global fandoms (D&D, Star Trek).
- Comment on What are the biggest red flags when talking with a Trek "fan"? 4 months ago:
What about the option of the original black and white recording of ‘The Cage’ with the colour portions from ‘The Menagerie’ spliced in, as released to videotape in thr 80s?
That was the real Star Trek. Roddenberry even took it to cons in the 70s and 80s to let fans know what he really wanted to put on the air.
- Comment on Interview: Doug Jones On His Surprise Star Trek: Discovery’ Evolution And Ideas For Saru On ‘Academy’ 4 months ago:
I’m not unhappy that Starfleet Academy has been holding back on callbacks of Discovery legacy characters.
As we saw with DS9, sometimes it’s better to let the new characters have some time to establish themselves and settle down before confronting them with former main cast legacies. Otherwise, what’s intended to help a new show get established can sometimes do the opposite.
Can anyone really cite a first season major legacy character appearance that boosted a new show and is considered a strong entry in hindsight?
The only one that comes to mind for me is Riker and Troi’s appearance in ‘Nepenthe’ in season one of Picard.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
I bought season two of Prodigy in Canada from AppleTV, but am super frustrated.
Season one continues to be available in the CTV app for CTV Sci-fi subscribers, but I am really wondering about what the value of that subscription is.
There still are a few new shows (SurrealEstate, The Ark, SNW) that I watch, but they remove some new shows from the app super quickly. We have to record them in the PVR or by physical media as soon as it’s out.
- Comment on Starfleet Academy Showrunners Explain Inspiration for Bringing Voyager's EMH Back to Star Trek 4 months ago:
I found it interesting that in recent articles quoting Kate Mulgrew on her conditions for Janeway to return in live action, the thing she most stressed was that she had told Alex Kurtzman that the quality of the writing would have to be meticulous.
She’s very happy with the writing for Janeway in Prodigy but sounds like she needs to be convinced that it would be the same in live action.
- Comment on A Space and Time Traveler's Guide to Star Trek 4 months ago:
I have thought ‘Move Along Home’ was great since first broadcast.
DS9 hadn’t yet locked into its eventual tone, but I hold to my view that it’s an episode that wouldn’t have raised the ire of the ‘Dignity of Trek’ on just about any of the other shows in the franchise.
- Comment on Star Trek: Prodigy - Season 2 Coming to Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital 4 months ago:
It’s here in Canada on digital via AppleTV.
