I dunno, I always thought it was meant to mimic organics.

“Cable management” inside the human body is horrendous. So it felt like in the mixing of machine and biology, the machines had to become more biological in the way they worked to function properly in tandem with the Borg biology.

All of Brian Doyle Murray’s work with Chris Elliott is legendary.

Sees OPs username:

libel intensifies

Print, it’s text being “published” by the website you’re posting it to.

Also, in the context of the meme, he isn’t saying it, he has a printed sign alleging it so. Thus, libel.

I wonder if all the pro pumpkin spice stuff is a backlash against all the anti pumpkin spice stuff that was going around a while back.

Oh yeah, it definitely is. A lot of it is because a lot of weirdos like pumpkin spice, too. It got labeled as a “basic” thing as though being boring and enjoying simple pleasures isn’t what’s available to most people living in poverty, which when 60% of the US lives paycheck to paycheck… is the majority of people. Most people are boring because it’s what we have access to and time for, and a lot of folks are done being vilified for it as though your choice in coffee speaks to some larger issue about you. It doesn’t.

It’s really in many ways an unintentionally classist dig on people who like sweets or just simple things.

Indeed, there’s not as many passionate Nogg Hogs.

I just wish eggnog’s flavor was as celebrated as pumpkin spice.

put that shit in everything.

Guys you CAN’T keep sending me down these kind of Wikipedia rabbit holes…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TekWar#Adult_animated_adaptation

An adult animated adaptation/reboot of TekWar was announced in September 2021. The project will be developed and written by Matt Michnovetz and produced by Pure Imagination Studios with Shatner’s Shatner Universe.

Thanks, I hate it.

That’s really well done! Love the photos.

We’re all glad you’re still here with us for another revolution around the ol’ sun.

Reminds me of that Melvins music video…

I can understand that perspective, especially with an episodic show that lasted many seasons. It had ample opportunity to make some build-up.

However, I would say that also, with all new properties, even spin-offs of old ones, there is inherent risk and worry that there won’t be more than one season. Often, you have writers trying to hamfist everything into that first season because they want their story actually resolved, even if it gets canceled. That feeling, on top of the difficulties of getting the series off the ground in season one, including a string of writers quitting because they couldn’t get along with Roddenberry, and the cutting of a gay couple meant to be in the series, definitely speaks to the idea that the first season wasn’t “in the bag” as it were, and there was risk if they waited, the show could get canceled.

This was also during a period where episodic television where one episode is completely self contained from all the rest was the norm and long branching stories between episodes really hadn’t become the norm yet. X-Files would end up pioneering the coupling of a “monster of the week” format along with a larger story woven in.

Anyway, it’s easy to speculate from here in the future, where we all revere the series as something amazing we grew up with. It had a troubled start, there were no guarantees, and it’s hard to pin down why they chose to do things the way they did, especially with all the early infighting over writing.

Tomato tomahto.

I felt like it was a plot device to show how humans are capable of great things, not that they always are the best. Picard was always supposed to be the philosophical pinnacle we should desire to reach. I mean it’s already a post-scarcity society where pursuit of wealth is viewed as a negative. I saw it as that humans and the Federation still had a long way to go, despite their successes, much like the USA in the 90s.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OpeningBossBattle

Then there are other games that drop you into a Boss Battle right from the very beginning.

While not always, this boss will more than likely be the game’s Big Bad, and usually also the Final Boss. If it can be beaten, either then the boss will be in its weakest form, or the player is in the A Taste of Power segment and soon will be depowered. Otherwise, it will be a Hopeless Boss Fight. If it’s not the Big Bad, then it will likely be a Starter Villain.

Starting in medias res is really common, actually. Not just in games, I’ve seen plenty of media where it opens with a confrontation with the Big Bad who is going to be the Final Boss.

I think a big part of the reason this was a theme in TNG was because it was supposed to get people in the '90’s to reflect on whether the USA was actually the hero of the story that our history, politicians, and media tells us we are, or whether the idea that we’re “more civilized” than other countries was a lie we spoon-fed ourselves.

I mean, it’s an idea that sat with me most of my whole life. We are not the heroes of our stories, and a lot of the stories we tell ourselves are kind of a self-deception propaganda to justify why we have a higher quality of life at the expense of the rest of the world.

USA was at the time a country that promoted itself as one of the least violent and most civilized nations in the world. The US government was hiding behind “We don’t cut criminals heads and hands off” as though we don’t use psychological torture much more often on our own populace.

They can’t really hide behind “our police aren’t violent” so much anymore, because it was clearly always a lie.

This is definitely how I always saw it.

Q isn’t arguing in good faith because he wants to see humans “rise above it” as it were. It isn’t fair, but it is a quick way to reveal if their most base impulses will take over when under pressure.

Q sees human society in TNG as on the path to becoming better than they already are, but thinks they need some prodding to make it there.

It’s almost Nietzchian in a way. He wants humanity to leave the worst aspects of our culture which are holding humanity behind, and that takes effort and self-reflection and consideration. Q is trying to kickstart that self-reflection, consideration, and effort. He knows Picard is a good man and can do it. He definitely has a “thing” for Picard and I think it is close to love. It is why he chooses him.

He wants Picard to no longer simply be a real mensch, but a real ubermensch.

Sisko doesn’t realize its a test to make humanity better, and just sees a Nazi arguing in bad faith.

So he punched Q.

…but do they call the wind Mariah?

True, but he could also suddenly be real useful to Geordi in getting to difficult to access tight spaces for engineering purposes.

Dear GOD I want this to be real and canon. The “Compressed Data” Season.

Someone sneaking in prequelmemes again I see.