Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
Yes! I’m in the middle of rewatching the series and just watched an episode where Odo and Quark are stranded on an uninhabited planet with nothing edible and have to climb a mountain for days to get a distress signal through the atmosphere. Heavy premise. But their constant bickering is hilarious!
TNG I think was always trying too hard to prove itself as Serious Television Despite Being Sci Fi. Their comedy episodes never rose to the level of DS9 or even TOS’ funny episodes. #
There are some loose similarities at the beginning and some oddly specific but otherwise superficial similarities later on. Plus the usual weird moments when both shows came up with similar ideas at the same time & found out about it when the other show’s episode aired. #
I eventually concluded I believe the people doing the show when they said it wasn’t a deliberate knockoff.
But I’m still not convinced there wasn’t someone in corporate who saw JMS’ pitch, decided they needed to get out in front of it, and suggested a station-based spinoff to the Trek people. #
#DS9 rewatch is up to Past Tense, Part I, in which Sisko, Bashir and Dax are stranded in the year 2024, when the US is dealing with a major homelessness crisis mostly by ignoring it and blaming people for being homeless, stretching social workers to their limits and turning a blind eye toward police brutality, while wealthy San Francisco tech execs act vaguely uncomfortable about it.
It's sort of eerie…but then it's also not like it was that hard to extrapolate from the 1990s.
#StarTrek
Time for another episode of Admiral Grouchy vs the Slime Creatures From Outer Space.
Apparently there’s a known issue where some games will trip Sophos’ “HollowProcess” detection rule.
Including, as I discovered, StarTrek Online via Steam.
Workaround here if anyone needs it
#DS9 rewatch continues. O’Brien problems: The episode where Keiko thinks it’s strange that Miles is drinking coffee while helping with the resolution to a civil war is followed *immediately* by the episode where Miles is drinking extra coffee while helping with the resolution to a civil war because he thinks Keiko is acting strange.
Spoiler alert
And it turns out that Miles isn’t actually drinking coffee under the circumstances shown in either episode, but for very different reasons!
TIL there is a #StarTrek #LowerDecks character creator.
https://www.startrek.com/replicateyourself/constructor
Note: In Firefox, the save feature was broken and only saved the background. (It worked fine on my wife’s phone.) I took a screenshot rather than starting over in another browser.
Why doesn't anyone in the #StarTrek universe just *go around* the Great Barrier at the Edge of the Galaxy?
This pattern indicates two-dimensional thinking.
It’s too bad they already used the “Nemesis” title.
The stand-alone episodes are good, and the Burnham/Spock family dynamics, but the main arc gets really frustrating in the second half.
I’ve been finally catching up on recent #StarTrek series. I have…mixed feelings about Picard Season One.
Yep. Whenever someone complains about newer #StarTrek being “ruined” by social justice or progressive issues, unlike the older series…I have to wonder whether they ever actually *watched* the show they claim to remember so fondly.
I still find it amazing that the alt-right thinks Star Trek Discovery is all SJW n shit, but TNG had an episode about a transgender woman falling in love with Riker and then being lobotomized for it.
— Apple Mackintosh Phone (@dineenporter) December 14, 2018
Standing in theater lobby listening to competing CLANKing from Star Trek & Terminator
comment on the post “Trekkies Petition To Remove Pegg as Scotty”:
Scotty, misanthrope with a core of rage? I don’t think so.
Now, on first viewing, I’ll admit, Scotty in the film seemed a bit off from what I remembered. Oddly enough, though I rewatched an episode of the original series a few days later (I forget which one), and I was struck by how similar James Doohan’s performance was to Simon Pegg’s (or, rather, the other way around).
They don’t look particularly alike, but the acting matched, down to facial expressions. Especially if you take into account that in TOS, you see Scotty after he’s been the respected chief engineer for however-many years, and in the new movie, you see him as a young officer who’s spent the last 6 months in an isolated station with only one person for company, with whom he doesn’t get along.
