…Justice for Tuvix?

The argument is exhausting…and wrong.

Same here. I didn’t understand that people with power tend to find ways to make the voices they like louder, even when we all had a vote in what was popular they found a way.

And then the other thing. People tend to believe what they want to believe and outrage is often just a form of entertainment.

See, this is why I love Lemmy. The good parts are like everyone’s grey beard uncles got together and are all trying to tell the best goofball jokes.

I didn’t build it, but I was raised by it. I was so hopeful when I was younger.

True, I was fresh off a showing and a little sour about it but in RE terms it ended pretty well.

That’s fair. My definition of lady’s man may not be as derogatory as it is generally perceived. I meant only that he was popular with the ladies in the show and with audiences of the time. Not that he chased women. Though that interpretation does seem to be how SNW leans at times. Less in a sexist way and more like he just needs to be in a relationship for some reason.

Something modern audiences and the hate mongers on youtube refuse to acknowledge. Most Star Trek doesn’t actually get great until the 3rd or 4th season.

I often think about Sisko and the episode In the Pale Moonlight.

And I wish that the series didn’t have him ascend to godhood because it would have been really cool to see him as an admiral and have his war crime come out. I’m not anti-sisko or anything. I just think it would have been an interesting story for the new up-and-coming commander/captain. Like what we have seen with Riker and others.

Imagine Nog finding out what Sisko did and having his own moment of figuring out what it means to be a leader.

If only…

There are at least three episodes where a female character either shows interest in Spock romantically or discusses a romantic history. The episode with the sky city and the episode with the farm spores come to mind. I can’t do a deep dive at the moment. I suppose you could include Chapel. It was never outright said mind you, but there was enough implied to draw conclusions, which SNW has done.

I think “gimmick” has become the colloquialism that is used to describe this season. It may not be the most accurate. To me, a gimmick episode is like “Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang,” the heist episode of DS9, or “Qpid,” the Robin Hood episode of TNG. They happen, they’re fun. They’re episodes where the series steps away from its normal tone and genre voice to have a little laugh. They aren’t every episode.

Time travel, MU episodes, and reality warping don’t make it a gimmick episode. It’s when you can tell it’s writing to be reminiscent of something else entirely for the whole episode. The problem is that the gimmick episodes don’t usually have as much substance. I really liked the soap opera episode because, at the end, we got to see Pike go to therapy and mourn his daughter. How much heavier could that have been if it was just a situation where thoughts were being manifested into reality with everyone on the ship being ‘haunted’ by the emotions that they’re ignoring? To be fair though, DS9 did that with “If Wishes Were Horses.”

This did happened in the horror episode that was trying to be Event Horizon and it didn’t resolve anything. So maybe the issue isn’t the gimmicks, Maybe it’s just that they’re laying the gimmicks on too thick and more often than not using them to try to hide some writing issues.

Stepping out of the show’s genre is fun, but it weakens the message (or it hides the fact that there isn’t one).

I’m frustrated that for a moment it seemed like Spock couldn’t stand to be single. La’an ends their casual thing and he soon after calls his ex. It’s a bit of a bad look. Like he got with La’an to forget Chapel, then called T’Pring to help forget La’an.

It just hit me the wrong way.

Though I rationalized it by remembering that Spock was hinted to have been a ladies man in ToS before he became all about the science and logic.

I can’t say. I watched Enterprise well after it’s air date and only because I try to be a completionist. I like to think it gives me some level of clarity in my critiques of the show. I’m not as biased by nostalgia for it’s predecessors. Though there’s a fine line between a gimmick and a show’s stated premise. The show’s premise was a prequel. It ventured into gimmicks when it started doing three part episodes to try to speed run the premise that it ran away from with the temporal cold war. A few novelty episodes a season isn’t a bad thing but when it becomes 70% of your show I think you have a problem.

To add to your point about VOY I think they missed the other side of the coin too. Not just wear and tear on the ship but the upgrades. We’re told many times that they added borg tech though out the ship. With a digital ship they missed a real opportunity to have it slowly change over time like a Vidiian. Yes show us the scars of battle but also show us how the ship has changed. It could have been as simple as a splash of green in the lighting. Unfortunately they always reset to zero.

They’re def not all bad. “Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass” and “Off-Hour” were great. Though I did just flat out skip “Once La’An a Time.”

The best way to enjoy ENT is to remember that they aren’t federation. They’re just astronauts. It makes the show way better. The unfortunate thing is that they didn’t know how to write that and the show suffered from all that post 9/11 drag that had to make everything darker.

It’s a fun movie. I actually found myself saying exactly what the protagonist was saying at certain points. He’s so perfectly just ‘Mr. Everyman’ and in over his head that you can’t help but laugh.

I think anyone that has played a RE game and spoken to their screen at certain moments will enjoy this movie. It’s a GOOD video game movie.

Didn’t like the ending.

‘Flockroaches’

If they’re doing it, I hope they’re doing it quietly. That’s all I have to say.

I’m glad someone gets it. It won’t be ‘civil war’ it will be ‘civil unrest’ with any true attempts to organize or enact violence quickly being neutralized by the complicit surveillance state. It doesn’t matter what the majority believe or want. It matters what you can enact in defense of your principles and your right to exist. This is how the fascist mind works. If they can’t be stopped then they won’t stop.

Frankly, it’s already too late. We already know how this works because we’ve seen it. In Russia, Hong Kong, Tiananmen Square, Iran, and a smattering of other places. It won’t be civil war. You need a military force for civil war. a cohesive engine with infrastructure and capital and weaponry. It will be protests and varying degree of ‘riots’ with maybe a peppering individual actors carrying out actual terrorist violence. None of that amounts to a civil war. At best you’re talking about a handful of dumb kids that got guns and went to a protest and then got everyone at the protest killed when they tried to defend themselves.

Hell, the war for independence was more or less a civil war but it only succeeded because the French came in and whipped the colonies into an actual fighting force. There is no equivalent outside force today that is going to come in and train the American populace, and even if there were you would be talking about some funding of terrorist cells kinda CIA style. The only place that could even remotely, (and I mean a snowflakes chance in hell) work is in the less populated middle of the country but there’s no force out there that agrees with left wing ideology and there’s no way to get supplies to them.

I’m sorry folks. I wish it weren’t so, but the moral high ground is useless if you can’t defend it.

Wipe your digital footprint, learn to obfuscate yourself and stfu until you can figure out how to leave if you’re a vulnerable demographic because shit’s going to hit the fan hard and you might find yourself dying in an ‘accidental’ prison fire or something the next time you go to a big protest and get arrested.