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Re: SNW S1: A Quality of Mercy

To be clear without sarcasm; yea I do have a backbone, and I don’t like it when people sully this comment section with slurs and vulgarities.

Try to remember that this forum is based on a show where the bad guy often was shown to be wrong because Kirk drop kicked him/beat him into submission with a hyperspanner/double fist clubbed him over the head/kicked him off a cliff into lava/got them phasered into non existence with a bit of quick thinking.

It’s hard to resist the urge to punch a bully.

Re: SNW S1: A Quality of Mercy

@Ilsat

>About time you timid souls showed some backbone. You should try it in the real world.

This is as real as your so-called life gets, compadre. We are really talking to each other on real computers on the real internet. And I will take the compliment whatever passive-aggressive toppings of vinegar you wanna put on it, pah’tak.

Re: SNW S1: A Quality of Mercy

@Ilsat

Throwing out insults meant to denigrate the perceived “toughness” of people you disagree with online, in an effort to provoke them into an argument with you, sure proves how “tough” you are

Just love to see people so obsessed with proving how tough they are that they have to go around trying to start fights…

(You don’t sound tough, you sound like a person so afraid of their own shadow that you’re constantly trying to prove to everyone you can get the attention of that you’re tough, so that YOU can think that you’re tough. Grow up. You sound like an infant.)

Re: SNW S1: A Quality of Mercy

@SlackerInc @JSylvester

>@JSylvester: "I do not understand why this show is being made other than to put 'content' on Paramount+."

>How is that different from why any other show is made (substitute "Netflix" or "Hulu" etc. for "Paramount+")?

Indeed, it makes me do a VulcanBrow whenever someone puts a word in quotation marks without saying why they’re doing it. It’s clear that the speaker feels the reason for the quote marks is obvious to everyone, due to the fact that the speaker presumes agreement from everyone about the reason for the quotation marks. In all, I would consider it a questionably thought-out writing choice, likely due to a human emotional outburst of some sort. 🤨🧝🏻‍♂️👽

Re: SNW S1: A Quality of Mercy

Yknow it took a lot of gall to make this episode. It’s got all the worst trappings of Star Trek’s old bag of plot excuse tricks…time travel shenanigans, obstructive arsehole harrying the captain (TOS does this more than any other trek, tbh), nostalgia pandering, unlikely travel speed scenarios (the whole romulan fleet shows up in 2 hours, wut), but…

It just has Star Trek brains and its heart too in the right place to matter. It presumes that I have watched Star Trek, and it respects that I have watched Star Trek. A lot of the implications of this plot have a lot to do with what I know of how Spock, Pike and Kirk’s futures play out.

Add into that, that it’s colorful, actiony but not so action packed as to be grotesque (I don’t miss the jump cut action scenes of NuTrek or Enterprise), and it is paced well; Pike just straight up asking Spock to mind meld with him is a testament to that and a bit of a cheat, but it gets the plot moving away from the Cassandra Truth cliche.

…I dunno. With how much it ties into what comes later in Star Trek…

If feels like finding an old bomber jacket you thought you’d lost years ago and trying it on and seeing that it still fits pretty good and looks great. Sure it’s a bit dingy and smells kinda funny, but its intact.

I’ll give it 3.75 stars. Very not bad.

Re: DSC S4: Kobayashi Maru

>> Hm? An adrenal gland. Quite a troublesome thing. Consider having it removed.

So nice when I get to see my points instantly demonstrated before my eyes.

Here's a sci-fi premise for you. A group of space explorers meet humans for the first time and are shocked at how obsessive and emotional we are...

Oh yeah that's Star Trek

I'm really getting tired of being the only one on any forum about anything with anything nice to say. People whine too much.

Re: PIC S1: Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2

Jammer said:

> "race against the clock to stop a would-be robot apocalypse"

... Or, if you will,"Robocalypse."

And I for one welcome our new robot overlords

Re: LD S2: First First Contact

Y'know... The opening theme is starting to kind of grow on me

This is basically Star Trek taking it's chance to return fire at Galaxy Quest, and I feel like it does some of it's due diligence, but in a lot of ways, the TNG metaphor @Tom is speaking of seems to apply heavily.

There have been some growing pains; that's to be expected with any new series, as the cast and crew acclimate to each other and the material, and in some cases, acclimate the material to them... The first set of TNG costumes were apparently iron maiden-like contraptions that had braces built into the spinal column and legs, so I'm starting to see why everyone's movements were so wooden in S1-S2.

By the same token, Lower Decks is experimenting, trying out things, some of them work, some of them don't. But if "Wej Duj" and "First First Contact" are meant to be a promise of the quality level of things going forward, then I welcome Lower Decks to the pantheon of Star Trek Shows That I Like, because this is getting pretty good!

Re: TNG S6: Chain of Command, Part II

>>"Not even DS9 showed outright torture scenes."

Not unless you count Garak refusing to allow Odo to revert to his gelatinous form, Worf being repeatedly forced to fight the Jem Hadar in death duels in a Prison Camp, every time Rom says "Moogie" or the Allamarane Song from "Move Along Home"

Re: PIC S1: Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2

You all were so busy being pissed off that you didn't see that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has been announced.

A Star Trek Show, about the Enterprise, under Captain Pike!

"Number One, Spock and Pike!
Sounds great, what's not to like?"

... Of course, I'm sure you guys will find things not to like. Maybe besides each other's comments, even.

I get it though, if you weren't pissed off you'd have nothing to type angry screeds about...

Re: Latest 'Picard' trailer reveals familiar faces

@Pm

It'd be hilarious to think that you are Patrick Stewart, posting this.