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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (4 children)

It's more about the trajectory of nuTrek than the whole of it. Discovery and the first two seasons of Picard did try to do new things and move the franchise in new directions, but now Discovery is cancelled in favour of SNW and Picard season 3 discarded so much the first two seasons had done in order to dive into nostalgia hard - and its success led to a lot of speculation about a "Star Trek Legacy" series that would double down on the fanservice approach even further. So it does feel like there's a trend towards "safer" nostalgic content.

And sometimes even fairly minor things just rub me the wrong way, like the Daniels reveal in Discovery. They just feel so arbitrary, and make the universe feel so mush smaller for no purpose.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago (7 children)

If anyone earned their retirement, it's Miles O'Brien. Maybe he could show up for one scene, where he lets the rest of the team know that, just like Wolverine did in First Class.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Thinks she's Sisko, but she's Kai Winn.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Agreed completely. I consider it to be DS9’s worst episode. Awful case of character assignation against Worf, and against Jadzia for staying with him.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for the info! I'm more of a Trek fan than a Wars fan, so don't know much outside of the films, but I always appreciate a nice set of ship deck plans.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

They definitely were. Kirk/Spock was the origin of the term “ slash fiction”.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

And the front between the “mandibles” is not a loading door. Factory spec has a lifeboat between the mandibles that we saw destroyed in the Solo movie.

Seems reasonable for both to be true. If a life boat is attached, the door leads into it. If not, a ramp can extend and it functions as a loading door.

At any rate, I'm pretty sure I've seen this diagram floating around since before the Solo film came out, so it probably is a matter of canon marching on that it was created without the lifeboat in mind.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

During the pandemic, Bashir and Garak did a video where they exchanged letters, and they made it clear that they romantically involved in that.

I think I somehow missed this! Do you happen to have a link? A quick YouTube search didn’t help me out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Last season’s Charades also supports the genetically encoded notion. Which goes against everything we know about Vulcans, but makes for fun comedic episodes, so they’re probably going to just keep doing it. Psychosomatic is as good an explanation as any.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Galaxy Quest > Orville

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

I just started rewatching This Is Wonderland on Tubi.

Other than that, mostly ones that have already been mentioned plenty, but I'll call out Due South and Murdoch Mysteries as big ones.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I actually have mine set like that right now! False positives are pretty low for me... except for when I watch Star Trek. Then my device chimes in whenever a character calls for it.

I've been rewatching Discovery, and it's made me learn that they talked to the computer a whole lot more in season 1... the interruptions seemed to drop off significantly after that.

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