u/TonyMitty

started watching last week, and I gotta say, 7 episodes in and LOVING It. I have not found a show with such perfect tone in ages. Tense battle scenes, a mature level of gore without body horror, enough comic relief to keep things light without relying on goofy character design.and it's that last point that's helping me use this to get off doom scrolling. For ages how I've avoided watching anime because I feel like I have to give full undivided attention but also because anything really worth watching is too intense to pop on and off. But this lets me watch a good half an episode, cut at a funny joke, and walk away. Instead of getting on tiktok for an hour of numbing, I can just pop in on an episode. It incentivized me to swap Crunchy roll for tiktok on that muscle memory spot on my homescreen, and it's helping me rebuild my attention span. Wierd take I know, but art affects us all in different ways

If you want to eat or do anything outside of the basic replicator, everyone else takes Issiks, Latinum, Gold, etc. So assuming a bottle of root beer is about 4 bucks, what do you think Star Fleet pays it's people?

Edit: Clarifiers, yes I meant outside the Federation, I know Sisko's creole restaurant is for the love of the game. Secondly, I assume on most Federation worlds, it's sort of a Universal Basic Income deal. You apply and get government housing, probably a decent apartment, which has a basic food and water replicator hooked up to limitless planetary fusion power. But as others are specifying, getting a nice job means you can live in Star Fleet housing (like base housing) probably nicer, and if you participate in trade with those outside of Federation/UBC worlds (Bolius has a bank), that extra money can go towards luxuries like books, trips, holosuites, and unreplicatable things like a ship or latinum watches.

This kid was 10 years old, yes Klingons grow up fast, but 10. He then decides, after a lifetime away from the culture of his father, to enlist on a ship of bloodthirsty Klingons to fight an interstellar war. He had the guts to stand up to Klingons twice his size, including Martok and his father. During his first mission, he's willing to run towards an exploding warp core to save said ship of Klingons. This kid is the bravest character ever.

I just picked it up again. Watched the prologue big hour long thing. This review will contain no spoilers except for the fact that this show makes me want to cry every . Damn... Episode. I love it, and I'm sick of it. I cried at the soda, I cried at the melon, I cried at the ... Storage solution. Come on.

I watched a YouTube (maybe it was ripped but idk) documentary following modern bakers work through different historical conditions. From a country bakehouse to a Victorian sweatshop to a luxury pastry store at the turn of the century. And it really makes you appreciate the luxuries and absolute necessities modern science gives us. I know it's cliche, but this show has that every episode.

I just don't understand how people can fit 夢, 鮮, 僕 or similar in one standard ruled line on a notebook. Even if you have a very fine tipped pen, Ican barely fit them into one lline, and even then they look super malformed and squished. I mean, three boxes stacked on top of each other in one Kanji is like 1.5 mm a box. What am I doing wrong?

I don't know how this idea got into my head, but a few years ago, I decided that I was vehemently opposed to isekai-style stories that were MMORPG style, typically the "I got reincarned as..." "... in another world" "reborn as ..." or other things with a paragraph written on the spine. Wouldn't even consider them.

But now I'm seeing these huge titles pulling huge crowds of fans, and I'm wondering if I'm robbing myself of a good genre. Suggested series to start with? Because I see titles like "The World's Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat " and reflexively cringe?

No Federation means no Q putting the Federation on the Borg's radar? (or back on the radar given the events of First Contact and Archer's Enterprise). Since the Borg have assimilated Star Fleet higher level officers and admirals, they should be aware of the mirror universe?

The Borg clearly have no qualms about risky business like time travel or dimensional/realm hopping. Do you think the Borg of our universe thought the possibility of a competing hive mind was too great a risk, even at the opportunity to assimilate an entire alternate-history's worth of information and technology?

Do you think that the Mirror universe was too barbaric to allow a force like the Borg to gain a foothold? Are the Mirror Borg good guys like a hippie commune?

Other than her for sure being, gone. I mean, was she really a plant that just looked really like Kira and was actually in the Obsidian Order? Do you think that the reporter and cell mate were plants? When do you think the Order lost track of her, if she really was posing as a Kira dupe? And how lucky would that have been to have a guy's daughter look close enough to a known resistance fighter? I'm not trying to poke holes in the plot, I'm just curious as to where she really ended up? Obviously she couldn't have been running around as Kira alive, since the actual Kira ended up being pretty high profile. Do you think she croaked? Or she realized what or who she was and just dipped?

This is a woman with an advanced degrees in exobotany and exobiology, who got a civilian posting on the flagship of the Federation, married a man with some serious issues both past and accruing, raised two kids on a hostile frontier star base, while maintaining her career, surviving clones and possessions and who knows what else, and doing it with more composure and poise than even seasoned high ranking officers, maintaining her relationships and ambitions with compassion and strength.

Edit: Based on some of these comments, new post subtitle: hunting for and blocking misogynists in r/ startrek

I've tried having them on while charging, off while charging, the light will blink then turn off, and even when I have them plugged in and working and can get it to actually say "charging" it still won't take a charge?

So I have paper disks, like aeropress coffee filters, and need a way to cut them into four even pie slices, or at least emboss their surface so I have a guide for scissors or other things. What do I have to google to get this tool to come up in search?

I'm going to be intentionally vague here, but it seems like Klingons have this uncanny yet often overlooked ability to time travel. We see it in TNG, Voyager, Discovery. Klingons and time, just a weird coincidence. Yeah the Bajorans have their orbs, and the Federation's time division in the 29th century, but it always comes back to Klingons.

Come on, it was right there. 2 hours of filming at most. Maybe Grammer couldn't do the accent.

Special facial cleansers for Klingon head ridges. You gotta think there's some sort of vanity after you wash the blood of your enemies off, and I imagine Klingon skin oils with all those nooks and crannies require something stronger than Dove bodybar.

Hair regenerators. If your barber can cut your hair, and a doctor can regrow the skin of a cut, your barber should be able to wave a wand and have you go from buzzcut to mullet like a video game character creator.

micro-replicators programmed exclusively for one food or drink. Like, this is my water bottle that's programmed to be perpetually full of Dr. Pepper.

phones are probably still a thing. The ubiquity of phones has proven that, entertainment aside, having a constant access to information when not onboard a ship with a voice activated computer, probably has some necessity and advantages. Yeah they're probably like the 31st century com-badges, with a holo interface, but still.

I always have it on for background noise, and a lot of the writing is immaculate of course. But whether it's bad writing or bad delivery, there's always that one line that just makes ya go.. eeew....

Immediate thought and impetus for this post,

"He's my number one Dad!"

"*hmph* Adults..."

"Eternity never looked so beautiful" I mean, come on Riker

Diana's rants in "The Loss". I don't want to write all of it out, but it was all kind of tasteless.

We all know that there are a lot of continuity changes through the series, some better, some worse. Some were OBVIOUS improvements. List yours below, I'll start us off.

Trill: "The Host" was a good starting point, the idea of a sentient symbiotic species is super cool, along with the transfer of generational knowledge. But apart from the obvious character design changes, what the Trill became and the culture around Joining was so much more well thought out.

Ferengi: We can thank Armin Shimerman, Max G. and Aron Eisenberg for their amazing work. They went from a thin and ugly stereotype to a comedic yet still cautionary tale with a lot of heart.

WW3 and the Eugenics Wars: I've got a few old posts about how the visual language of the "post atomic horror" court was kind of terrible, the fact that it was kind of shifted (along with the constraints of having to match with our actual timeline, as is the sin of all sci-fi) from a singular apocalypse to the arguably more realistic drawn out series of bad decisions and decline as explained by Pike (granted I'm going off the clip, I am still trying to find a good time to sit down and really watch SNW) was a good way to square something obviously fantastical to something a bit more grounded.

I liked the filling of those. Reddit don't fail me now.

I understand that reports must be filed at a certain point, but the "Temporal Prime Directive" also restricts discussion of time travel events to those who were directly involved and maybe Temporal Affairs. In other words, if I'm an ensign, and momentarily get sucked into a time rift, Other than a low detail report to my captain, I'm just not allowed to talk about it? And how do people know that when such ensign asks to speak to Temporal Affairs to report their experience, that they aren't just making something up to get out of work or worse? This happens often enough that we need Temporal Affairs.

I rewatch the many 90s series as background noise, but those few lines stick out. My favorite and inspiration for this post

"His name now means "fool" in our language!.... just as yours will in Andorian!!!" -Soval

Absolutely bone chillingly awesome. Add yours to the comments.

Edit: I forgot "In any event, we now know of your race, and we know how to imprison you. Bear that in mind. Now, get off my ship!" - Picard