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Oracle is horrible and deserves to lose Java.

So my Klingon warrior name is Nosyt Ekim. Got it.

He is political for heterosexual reasons.

Discovery is a Twitter debate between leftwing edge lords, and I’m not afraid to say it.

Ooo baby when you walk like that

Make me want to bomb the office of Dukat

Nothing at all

Next trend? Sexy pictures of Neelix.

Well yes, it can, but it requires power. Vast amounts of energy. It’s still about the energy, even in the distant future, because I swear to the prophets, it never ends. It just doesn’t stop not stopping.

“Contrived” is a better word I guess. I don’t feel like many of the arcs have been fleshed out, leading to conclusions that are ill deserved Burnham as a character arc is a perfect example of this. I think she gets everything served to her on a silver platter, that the action setpieces are not enough to justify the order of things. This might be an issue with cutting for time, but still.

I blame Discovery and Picard. I tried watching Discovery the other day. I desperately tried, you guys. I quit - and I won’t be watching Picard. I reject the callous and hamfisted writing, so I’ve personally rejected it as cannon at this point.

Star Trek Shorts was kind of okay, and Brave New World was definitely a step in the right direction. I’ll watch that soon because I’m rewatching most of the shows in chronological order (based on this IMDB list). Also, Prodigy is actually pretty great. I’m glad it didn’t get cancelled. It’s a kids show, but the Prodigy writers show they actually care.

But my god. The writers for Discovery and Picard really screwed the pooch. I won’t even blame direction or acting, like at all. What I blame is the paint by numbers forced progressivism, which pisses me off, because it shouldn’t feel forced. It’s Star Trek FFS. It used to be the platform for progressive subjects.

Star Trek has been a playground for masters of the powerplay, for subtext, allusion and theme. It was a progressive platform already, but did so through writing methods which has been employed by writers for thousands of years to convey stories and characters, tried and true methods that yield good quality story telling. All of that went out the window with Discovery and Picard. The writing in those shows is the storytelling equivalent of smashing the square through the circle shape.

When it comes to the Orville? It shows that McFarlane really has a love for Star Trek and that he could have helped to modernize it, in a much better way than what the production team did with Discovery and Picard. But much like with the Flintstone’s reboot, he got shafted. But at least he got bawled out by Tucker in Enterprise while playing the role of an enson. So he’s apart of cannon in some way?

TNG, season 3, episode 3… “The Survivors”.

Like my god. The gravity of that conclusion. It’s quite the Shakespearian tragedy. John Anderson just raids that role.

What do you call a replicant of the chief engineer from the first enterprise?

I can’t believe it’s not Tucker.

Lavar Burton is a goddamn treasure of a man. When you yanks rip down another one of those confederate statues, do me a solid and put up one of Lavar Burton in its place.

Not once… not even for a founder.

Low effort means homespun memes, the way grandma uses to make.

There’s no photo evidence of it I can find, and I’ve been given a good reason to search for “start trek data nipples”. You all saw it. This was justified.

But seeing as some people are super insistent, I’ll have to conclude that it’s A CONSPIRACY!!!

Birds aren’t real, the earth is hollow and Data has no nipples!

Cheese it!

Naw, all I got is Wentlian condor snake.

Disgraceful… wearing clothes in public. How dare she?

Ever since I saw DS9 all those years ago Sisko has been my captain, my captain…