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I very much enjoyed enterprise at the time, despite the horrible theme song and the flaws in writing that spotted most episodes.

Now, part of that is being a huge Bakula fan. I love the way he throws himself into roles. I think though, had there been another age actor in the role I still would have enjoyed the show.

It wasn’t great Trek. Probably the weakest of the older series, depending on tastes and criteria. Certainly wasn’t up to TNG, TOS, or DS 9. I’d put it on par with Voyager, though it was both bad and good in different ways, with the lack of attention being paid to established Vulcan history in Enterprise tipping the scales to it being lesser than Voyager.

But I really liked that they tried to go back to the whole “wagon train in space” vibe. And the cast was great. Can’t hold the iffy writing against the cast, and there were some great moments where the actors kept things from being worse just by virtue of how they carried their characters.

I don’t rewatch any of the series as a binge though, so my opinion might change when the flaws are showing up in rapid succession compared to the original pace of watching week by week and over time. I know binge watching made me almost hate shows I used to like a good bit (like Bones as an example).

I can’t compare anything to the newer shows since I’ve kinda stopped watching much in the way of “tv” the last few years, so I haven’t caught any of the stuff that has been done in the last decade. Could be that one of the new shows would be worse, in comparison to the earlier shows, I dunno. Doesn’t help that I despise the reboot movies, and the fact e that they happened kinda soured me on new Trek overall. The folks running things don’t seem to be interested in the kind of shows that made me enjoy Trek in the first place, but that’s second hand impression from seeing what people say online

I just splooshed. Never have I seen a sexier lemmy comment than that.

Why do I have the feeling that the salami will be hidden?

This hurts my head

Dammit. Nothing worse than someone giving a better explanation lol.

Well, trans as a root means across from, or on the other side of.

Cis means on this side of. Both are from latin roots.

When using it in gender discussions, it means someone that isn’t trans, aka the gender normative, aka the folks that match in terms of inner and outer gender expression.

Cisgender started out as a term back in the nineties, as a way to be able to refer to the majority that are gender normative with a simpler term when discussing transgender/transexual issues. As you can see, it is incredibly cumbersome to describe the cisgender people of the world without using cis. Pain in the ass when you’re writing or talking about the subject. And the nineties are when that kind of discussion became more prevalent.

There’s also the fact that people have put unnecessary weight to the word “normal”, and tend not to understand the word normative. Because of the way normal has been used for a very long time now, despite it really meaning something that’s typical, any use of it implies that everything else is abnormal in a bad way rather than just not typical. Largely because in most fields, abnormal is a bad thing. Abnormal blood work as an example.

So, we have heteronormative and cisnormative for the straights and non trans people behaving in typical ways for those groups as well as cisgender meaning aligning with one’s nominative gender.

Now, can cis be used to denote “straight” people? Kinda, but not really. It would be a very unusual usage because straight in terms of non normative sexuality being discussed almost always refers to sexual orientation. Using cis to mean straight isn’t unreasonable, particularly since you’ll run into situations where gay people and trans people might just use straight as a shorter word for cis-hetero. But you won’t see that in anything but casual settings because of the very confusion you’re dealing with. Most of my close friends are gay or otherwise under the lgbtq+ heading, and I’ve never actually heard anyone use cis as a synonym for straight, but I have heard “straights” used as a term that includes cis.

Yay for language!

Jean Arp approves

Damn, Spock over there looking like he’s been smoking the local security shrubbery

Ghost Hounds?

Seriously, look them up.

Sorry, but the utter inanity of “faith of the heart” as a lyric kills any possible enjoyment of the song for me. The bland but overwrought vocals don’t help, but if the lyrics were good enough, I could look past that.

I’ve said it before, I didn’t mind a lyrical theme song, I minded that song. It was just so damn empty and cookie cutter. Like, the frakking Dr Pol theme song is better because it’s at least not pretending to be something it isn’t.

I didn’t object to the idea of a lyrical song, it was the shitty lyrics that were the problem for me

That would be such an awesome thing.

Don’t worry, theyll blame it on autocorrect. You cant blame the person not paying attention in basic English classes when autocorrect wont bother to ignore correct usage like get’s

I am strangely aroused by goth data.

Just so you know, I’m stealing this idea, and will use it both during ttrpg play, and in a short story I’ve been looking for a good disease to work around.

If published, I’ll credit you under whatever name you prefer, if you want credit.

I would love an episode of that. They’ve done plenty of fan fiction in holodecks, why not house (other than the legal crap, don’t bring reality into this)?

See, that makes sense why it’s a less than ideal design. We have weird weapons here on earth that have significance, but aren’t ideal designs. The batleth is more of a hungamunga than a longsword :)

Is there any canon on the origin of the batleth?

Like, it’s a fake weapon, badly designed, intended to look cool. But in universe, what’s the history?

There’s multiple ways to give a canon reason a badly designed weapon is such a cultural icon. Maybe it’s based on the horns of a predator, or something like that, as an example.

I’m not a deep delver into such things, but I wonder if there’s an official history behind it.

Pad-thai-toes!

Ah, you forgot to check the “about community”, or “sidebar”, or whatever it shows as in your app of choice.

It’s an easy thing to forget.

If you had, you would note that there are no rules against posts regarding related, and not technical subjects.

This means you don’t have to see the relevance. As long as the mods do, it’s all good.