listening to Army of Me while enjoying this meme for the full effect

Read the title first as Vulcans are like Orions, and it made sense because Shrek is green.

when it’s just the two of you in the empty cube, and you end up sharing the same alcove

a bit more Mariner than Tendi, but it’s close and varies according to material conditions

freeware mods continue to be the cradle of game development innovation

Centrist communist. I think MLs and Anarchists have useful ideas about making the world better. I’m leaning more ML lately mostly due to learning about the oppressive history of western capitalist interests, and how pacifist approaches have repeatedly failed to survive.

tacky Cardassian fascist eyesore

this is the way

Going to IV Guys for a Roman meal.

StarFleet is just a well organized polycule that takes consent very seriously.

Also a Hemmer scene is also very similar to an Alien 3 scene iirc.

e: Looks like there’s some folks noticing. https://www.geekgirlauthority.com/star-trek-strange-new-world-alien-franchise/

This whole article is just about the first Gorn episode and has references detailed out pretty well. The conclusion is such wholesome trek though.

Throughout the first three Alien movies, the recurring and omnipresent true antagonist is the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. This corrupt stand-in for capitalism is responsible for repeatedly placing the crews in danger. The motivation? To harness the profit potential in the difficult-to-contain xenomorphs, of course.

This leads to plenty of self-serving behavior. This is embodied by company-programed android Ash (Ian Holm) and company man Carter Burke (Paul Reiser). In both cases, the characters are not motivated by survival. They instead serve only themselves and capitalism. Thus they often prove to be equally or more dangerous than the xenomorphs themselves.

But in Strange New Worlds, capitalism isn’t a problem. In the post-scarcity society of the Federation, it isn’t necessary to turn on one another to solve problems. As a direct result, more members of the Enterprise away team survive than make it through any of the Alien movies.

The tagline for Alien states, “In space, no one can hear you scream.” But that’s only true if you aren’t surrounded by members of your tight-knit, utopian community, as is true for the Enterprise crew. Ripley deserved to have people like this watching her back.

rotating saucer artificial gravity is a cute idea

this would be a cool spin-off/fanfic for The Expanse universe though

We Our Space Comrades

seems like we’re on target for the Irish Unification of 2024 at least