FuglyDuck

Was it a good game, though?

I hadn’t heard that before.

DS9 season one may have been inspired by an early show bible for Bab5, though. JMS might have left said bible with the producers when trying to get funding.

You’ll also note the rough first season for DS9, and that they didn’t really screw with things too much. After they got off that and went their own way, it got much better. Dark, sure. But better.

It might be nice to have a live action, but lower decks style, station-based show on the edge of some frontier, ships coming in to turn in maps and stuff.

“Cardassians visited today, they’re assholes.”

“Why is every new species a different flavor of asshole? Can’t we, like, meet some avian space hippies or something interesting?”

“You mean the Arrakoa? Yeah. They’re assholes too.”

The problem with both is that they disregarded established lore/canon/history. It isn’t that they refreshed ships to use more modern cgi /‘d practical effects.

It’s that they ignored what made trek great to tell their own stories. Abram’s turned Kirk into a sniveling, narcissistic brat, literally the worst qualities from TOS and Pike his idiotic enabler.

As much as I rag on TOS Kirk for chasing skirts, he’s not that bad of a person, he has narcissistic tendencies it also moments of selflessness. He’s complicated. Also basically Horatio Hornblower. Abram’s Kirk had no redeeming qualities except that SF admiralty was even dumber than him.

As for Disco, it’s like someone shoehorned a different story into being trek. It’s clear that the show’s authors and producers only slapped Trek branding on the story for marketing.

Writing inside an extremely popular, extremely well-developed universe like trek is hard. You have to be extremely careful, and balance story telling with staying inside the broader universe.

This isn’t to say there can never be changes- and we’ve seen changes as out-of-universe technology and budget changes (tos Klingons tmp Klingons…. They’re constantly getting new looks.) but they have a fairly consistent culture that got more fleshed out in TNG (also destruction of praxis did have some effect, leading to ruling houses being more prominent.)

The Disco Klingons? Are nothing like Klingons. They may as well have been an entirely different species. The writers didn’t care until fan backlash, and even then we mostly got bullshit excuses.

(Though Abram’s needed to lay off the lenses flares. Just saying.)

Looking at your posting history, your recent post… probably violates rules 1, 4 and 5: no politics, shitposting is okay as long as it’s not problem, and no trolling.

the answer to your question is that there are differences between opinions that are unpopular and opinions held by assholes. Believing that ice cream sucks is unpopular. Believing that poor people shouldn’t spend money on ice cream is vile. Do you see the difference?

(Just to be clear… ice cream does not suck.)

It’s going to be abramsverse all over again.

Look. If you wanna tell a new story… tell a new sci-fi story….don’t spackle Trek on it to sell merch.

That’s how you get shows like St:Discotheque, where it makes more sense if the crew is huffing them space spores and tripping balls.

If the advice is unsolicited, it’s u likely that they advice giver has enough context to actually give good advice.

There’s exceptions there (“hey, you shouldn’t lick electrical outlets”, for example. Or a more experienced person at work suggesting something like “hey, try it this way,”)

Let’s say you like to do dorodamgo- Japanese art/hobby/whatever of making mud into polished balls.

Let’s say you make one ball of good clay… and another out of poop.

They look the same, but one is just clay and the other is utter shit.

I was gonna say… that last one is Vazquez Rocks. Uncle took us there when I was a kid, and bro wore a hole on his pants sliding down.

(Right over his but.)

Blatantly incorrect.

Biden didn’t release the files because they were part of an active case that wasn’t resolved until after he left office- specifically the trial of Maxwell.

It was literally illegal for him to release anything or talk about what was in it.

Now that Maxwell has been sentenced, Trump is free to release it at any time.

Also it should be pointed out that someone (we don’t know who,) waived Maxwells sex offender status and moved her to club fed… with a status that allows her to leave for work. (Sound familiar?)

You know that if Biden was, Trump would be blasting it to high heaven right?

Iirc, he was the project manager. The real engineers probably let him fool with interior lighting to keep him happy and away from critical systems….

They weren’t entirely successful.

Works for me.

Great idea for his library. Since you know… he won’t put books in it.

we could probably lift the slab and put it someplace. like his library, maybe. Or one of his golf courses.

Wesley wast the worst of these. (and a total write-in.)

Meh. Could have added rifles.

Or maybe a pistol caliber automatic thingy in the forearms.

Minigun on the shoulder?

That creepy face they used for the Japanese (?)humanoid robot…

Okay. So what inspired And So the Children Shall Lead? (TOS, third season.)

It’s about children getting possessed and murdering everybody.

Oh. And Threshold’s Salamander-Children. (Voyager. Janeway topped Paris and created a new hyper advanced evolution of…humanity…?)

the US hasn’t already?

Every fed I know affected by the shutdown is fucking angry. Snap bullshit aside, we’re all getting fucked on health care. (Even those of us who’re not on the marketplace.)

The reason democrats caved is because the billionaires told them to. With holiday travel coming up, the ATCs threatening to go on massive strike hurts their profits.

They put donations and bribes before voters.

The perfect drinking companion. Doesn’t get smashed and start offering bad life advice. Or pick fights expecting you to back them up, even though you don’t even remember his name from when he introduced himself five minutes ago. Or, mace you for saying “hello”

Six seven.