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Finally saw the first episode of Lower Decks. It's delightful and I'm probably gonna watch it all this weekend, whee.
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I suppose in the Federation there's no real reason to stick with a job you're not really enjoying or are very dedicated to. You don't need to half-rear end things - you can just quit and go and do something different if you want to. Head back to Earth and work on your painting or whatever.
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Oct 11, 2020 00:48
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plainswalker75 posted:The little stick-figure buddies on the door! Oh my god 
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Oct 11, 2020 23:46
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Holy poo poo this caught me off-guard.
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Jan 10, 2021 03:30
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showbiz_liz posted:Up to DISCO episode 7 (the Mudd time loop) and basically loved it, despite some minor quibbles. It's the first one that really felt fun to watch in the way the best Trek should. I go back and watch that episode all the time. Stamets getting increasingly frayed and tired and irritated is pure entertainment to me.
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Jan 26, 2021 04:01
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A ship gets destroyed in the 10th episode of LDS and it was the most upsetting I think a ship getting wrecked has ever been in Trek for me. I was horrified. The ships and space effects are just gorgeous.
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Jan 29, 2021 11:59
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Just finished Lower Decks. It made me cry which admittedly is not difficult. I loved every minute of it.
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Jan 30, 2021 15:16
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Just finished Discovery season 2, thought it was great, and I hope everyone else gets a Trek they love sometime too. I don't love Disco *quite* as much as DS9 but it's not trailing far behind. That said I am not someone who cares about bad plotting if the character moments work and the character moments in Disco work for me. I can see why others wouldn't like it.
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Feb 6, 2021 04:39
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I only really binge stuff these days. If it's releasing week by week I wait till there's a nice chunk lined up for me. It must be affecting storytelling in TV shows quite a bit, surely, not knowing how people are going to consume it.
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Feb 6, 2021 15:50
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nine-gear crow posted:drat, that's a really cool way to get sound coverage without resorting to boom mics. Hiding mics in the set dressing, I wonder if anyone else has tried that before? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTFCctdiS04
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Feb 16, 2021 01:52
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Typical Pubbie posted:They made space hitler into a girl boss. This is something that really bothers me. It's not cute and funny that Georgiou is a giggling psychopath who enjoys hurting people and murders casually. She's not badass for it. She's awful.
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Feb 19, 2021 21:09
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It's Owo, Airiam, Paul Stamets, Sylvia Tilly, Bryce, Reece, Michael Burnham, Kayla Detmer and Saru. They are all named multiple times in multiple episodes. Some of them are main characters and some of them are side characters, about whom we know less. I wish there were more episodes in a season to give more space to the side characters and a bit more development. e: It's not like TOS was thick with character development for its side characters either and that's a shame too imo.
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Feb 20, 2021 18:32
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Bryce is the communications officer. Admittedly this is all I know about him, maybe he'll get more to do in season 4, I dunno.
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Feb 20, 2021 23:04
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I mean really it doesn't matter because as someone who really likes Discovery a lot, and thinks it's as good as most Trek shows, it's about the *ways* in which something is failing, and whether those bother you or not. Like, nobody's wrong when they say the turbolifts look stupid, I think so too, it just doesn't matter to me. And it's true that the show seems to occasionally think 'oh poo poo, we should make people care about X background character now' and clumsily tries to make you care. That bothers me, but it doesn't bother me a lot. Just a bit. So it doesn't spoil Disco for me. But it might for someone else. It's why I value it so much when people explain why they think something is bad. Disco's clumsy attempts at inclusion, its heavy reliance on Michael, its over-emotionality, its lack of plot cohesion - those things don't really bother me. The thing I hate most in Disco as of early season 3 is that the writers seem to think Georgiou is amusing and badass and fun to have around and I think she's repulsive and awful and is spoiling every scene she's in. Which is quite some feat considering how amazing her actress is. Michelle Yeoh is incredible, please give her better lines. Ugh.
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Feb 21, 2021 15:42
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Great Beer posted:Didn't they have to get Garaks actor to quit doing this with Bashir? Andy Robinson chose to play up the flirtation in their first scene and everyone was on-board with it but some higher up, I'm guessing Berman, told them to drop it. So it retreated to subtext. The way you phrased that made it sound like he went rogue or something.
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Feb 25, 2021 05:30
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Arquinsiel posted:Well I'm Irish, but 'Allo 'Allo is one of my childhood favourites which I only appreciate more as an adult. Yeah I was worried it'd be really terrible, but I watched an episode quite recently and it's dated but certainly not bad. That was a relief.
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Feb 25, 2021 22:37
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Gonz posted:I would also be cool with Jeffrey Combs. If one of these new Trek shows doesn't cast Jeffrey Combs as *something* they are making a huge mistake.
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Mar 9, 2021 02:57
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The thing the spore drive reminds me of most is the slipstream from Andromeda. That was based on navigating a sort of quantum realm which required an organic navigator to collapse probabilities and put the ship where it was meant to be. The ships are true living AIs themselves but they can't navigate slipstream alone. One ship went insane after roaming the slipstream for centuries after its crew died. But there are only so many possible FTL types. You can fold space, you can shortcut space with wormholes, you can use some kind of alternate space (like the spore drive or the slipstream). None of it's real so it's all good.
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Mar 14, 2021 02:07
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I mean it's the Trek universe. If someone's having hallucinations it's at least as likely that they're in contact with a mushroom alien or someone else's soul is in their body or they're receiving distant signals.
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Mar 28, 2021 17:38
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Powered Descent posted:I think so. Back when Adira was first introduced and was still being treated as female by default, I came up with a not-very-clever one-liner: "Leslie Crusher". I think Wesley's original conception when TNG was being put together was that there would be a teenage girl called Lesley Crusher actually. I wish they'd gone with that, not out of any real animosity to Wesley (who could have been a decent character if written better) but at the time, you didn't see much of that, not in scifi.
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Mar 29, 2021 03:01
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Timby posted:The character originated as Wesley (that being Roddenberry's middle name). Bob Justman prevailed upon him and convinced him to change the character to Leslie Crusher, and at least one or two casting call sheets went out to that effect, but eventually the character reverted to being Wesley Crusher, Boy Genius. Haha that certainly fits in better with what I know about Gene Roddenberry.
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Mar 29, 2021 03:54
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If the subject matter isn't a turn-off and you don't mind 'Christianity is literally true' presented very earnestly, then the show that's called 'AD: The Bible Continues' is a dramatisation of the Acts of the Apostles but with a *heavy* sideplot of Roman/Judean politics that gets deep into how complicated the situation was in 1st century Judaea and why things were so volatile. I'd say it's watchable for the politics, if the other stuff doesn't bother you.
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I wish the dog didn't have cropped ears, it really bugs me for some reason.
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