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Re: ORV S1: Majority Rule

So, why didn’t the statue thing come up later when LaMarr is up for promotion to engineering? ::balldrop::

Re: ORV S1: Majority Rule

It was nice to see Major Hayes from Enterprise show up as the PR guy for John.

Prior to this episode, I was concerned that the Union is really a Terran Empire. Think about it: the ship has already been involved in a dispute that disrespected one crew member's cultural convictions and also invading a ship/world in which the crew overthrew the government and its religious system. This is imperialism of the worst sort, invading and ruining cultures as it goes.

But this episode demonstrates that the Union has some sort of code or doctrine such as the prime directive that deals with non-interference. But where was this code in the previous episodes? The multiculturalism of TNG is dead as a doornail in Orville.

But at least this episode offers the hope of infusion by good episodes of Sliders and the neat scifi elements from that show.

Re: TNG S6: Aquiel

Since the rise of YouTube came, it is more realistic to think someone would fall for another by watching video blogs. This episodes works better now because of this.

Re: VOY S2: Non Sequitur

Neely,

It’s a prototype ship with a technical problem. But it’s a partially functioning vessel.

This episode is symptomatic of Voyager’s pathology: too quickly hitting the reset button, and little risk in characters evolving over the course of an episode or the series. Arcs are stalled.

Re: TNG S6: Relics

There’s a low key Star Wars reference early in the episode. The Dyson Sphere looks like a Death Star, and the dialogue talks about something being “impacted on the surface,” a callback to the assault by X-wings by the rebels.

Re: DSC S1: Context Is for Kings

They got the Governor from Walking Dead to be the captain now? Heh? Parallel actions, keeping a minster in his quarters...

Re: DSC S1: The Vulcan Hello / Battle at the Binary Stars

Man—who taught her how to Vulcan nerve pinch? It was not super effective. Maybe MB missed that day at Vulcan school. Somebody, quick, page Admiral Archer! We need a Vulcan nerve pinch here—stat!

Re: DS9 S7: Tacking into the Wind

Love the episode. But one small flaw: how did Odo know exactly how the female changeling looked while she was decomposing on stage? Having him appear as her in somewhat good health would have been more expected. But, it's a small point.

Re: DS9 S7: Penumbra

Here it is: Kasidy Yates' family practices Christianity. Not only that, but Kasidy never converts to the Bajoran faith. If you're surprised that religion exists in DS9 after watching to the final season, you haven't been paying attention. There are references to relgion--respectful references--throughout all the Trek series, including TOS. Besides, the greatest Trek film, Star Trek V, was all about religion. :-D

Re: DS9 S7: Afterimage

The writers gave Sisko a blank check to make bad choices to win the war: the plot of Pale Moon Light, Worf killing Gowron, and here sending Ezri to Fix Garak so he'll break codes. It's a plot contrivance hushed so as to demonstrate desperation. But it's about Sisko here too.

Re: DS9 S5: Rapture

So, this episode follows the pattern of the book of Joel in the Old Testament. Here is a citation of the locusts metaphor (which represents a prophecy of an invading nation in both cases): Joel 1:1-7: 1 The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.

2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?

3 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

4 That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.

5 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.

7 He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.

Re: DS9 S4: Bar Association

So, the title on Netflix is Bar Associate instead of Bar Association. The real title always reminds me if the Garth Brooks song America pun Honky Tonk Bar Aasociation.

Re: DS9 S4: For the Cause

Jammer, I think you're being too hard in the writers. If they had left breadcrumbs to point to the subterfuge of Kassidy and Eddington, it would have defeated the surprise element. It's not far fetched, as was Lee and the black market on BSG since all the pieces were already in the DS nine Lore.

Re: DS9 S4: Hard Time

...all of this said, how would Miles be starving yet have the strength to kill another person?

Re: TNG S5: The Game

The aliens aren't nameless--they're kitary (rimes with atari, get it?).

Re: DS9 S3: The Die Is Cast

Why didn't the R&C fleet just cloak when they were ambushed? The could have snuck away.

Re: ENT S3: Damage

So, this is the episode I hope gets a back-reference in Star Trek: Discovery. I especially hope the race Archer maroons returns for vendetta, and the chickens come home to roost a century later.

Re: TNG S5: Imaginary Friend

This one is at first boring and dives in to unwatchable territory by the end of the first act. This episode is not hated enough by TNG fans in my opinion. It's not "so bad it's good" it doesn't suffer from plotholes or even relian idiotic deus ex machinas. It took me two hours to stream this on Netflix. I just had to pause every five minutes to take break from the toxic mix of boring, bad acting, and ironically unimaginative plot. This is easily my most hated episode.

Re: TNG S3: The Most Toys

@Lore comments: Lore is dead. He is floating out in space and assumed by all to be dead.

Re: DS9 S3: Civil Defense

Actually, not entirely wiping the computer makes good sense. They establish on the show repeatedly that the computers are a hodge-podge of federation, bajoran, and cardassian tech. Again, it's like saying why don't I wipe my office Mac and put Windows 10 on it. Different systems behave differently. Why not just replace all the doors with starship doors while they are at it? The point is that they and we are always at risk because of the constraints of technology. Totally believable in hindsight!

Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Reviewers up talked even the prequels. Is there nothing so terrible that marketing and a little nostalgia won't retread as a Midas touch? The prequels were significantly better an this, more experimental and less hackneyed. Jammer, how could you prop up this mess and yet give PM 2 stars? Not to be trolling this page, but this is clearly an inferior feature, critics and popular press notwithstanding.

Re: BSG S3: Collaborators

Jammer, sorry you had to go out the airlock! But thanks for setting up this site! >:-)

Re: BSG S2: Resurrection Ship, Part 2

Actually Adama's character is morally ruined in a later episode when he threatens to kill a certain character during a worker problem. The character never recovers from that and is basically worthless there on.

Re: TNG S6: A Fistful of Datas

Jammer, I'm confused: how does this episode compare with The Walking Dead, as you claim? Are you saying this because of the episode's pacing?

Re: TNG S7: Force of Nature

Nick P is mr Plinkett.