hopefully washed out to sea

that’s a shame, i always really liked Pine’s Kirk in particular. but i guess it was also inevitable as soon as Spock showed up in Disco with a new actor

the rest of the article is… harrowing, to say the least. Trek feels like the elephant in the room at Paramount right now- you’d think Ellison would think that “un-woke-ifying” Trek would be an easy way to score points with the White House right now, but so far it’s been business as usual

Rick Berman described the producers’ view that providing an organic-feeling final episode to properly wrap things up would be impossible

honestly i think Terra Firma Part II would have gotten the job done fine, and if they had kept everything as is but called it the finale and left These Are The Voyages as a DVD extra or a TV “movie” people would have been happier. or at least they’d have an easier time detaching their distate for TATV from the rest of Enterprise

that bit about Trinner saying “ok, kill me!” is funny as hell

iirc the series finale was originally filmed to be the S4 finale, which is how they get ivanova even though she left the show in S5. the S4 finale we got was a rush job when they found out they were getting a final season and wanted to keep the finale they filmed as the series finale

i agree with your sentiment though, if it was the series finale i think it would’ve worked well

reminds me of the scots wikipedia, which as of 5 years ago was 50% nonsense written by a kid from the US. except now they’ve found a way to automate it, yay!

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/shock-an-aw-us-teenager-wrote-huge-slice-of-scots-wikipedia

this guy hates

look at the comic again. the orphan being launched has their arms raised and is going “aaaaaaahhhh” like on a rollercoaster. clearly having fun!/profits have nothing to do with it, this is the most ethical way to handle the situation

i heard the giorgio moroder version of nights in white satin, one of my all time favorite songs, for the first time the other day but all of the youtube comments were about aeeing it in a raunchy scene from the sopranos so i guess i can never watch the sopranos

and yet i went to the store today and they had no gamecube games???

aw hell! K&T are great, that’s a real shame

to think all the money and effort we’ve wasted trying to create fusion in a lab when what we really needed was a really, really, really good pitcher

it’s both ironic and cruel that throrough SG-1 and early Atlantis they made the season endings so ambigious so often just in case there would be no next season, and then they do a left-field ending like this that would have been fine enough if the next season had them flying back to pegasus episode 1, so naturally this finale ends up being the finale finale. of course!

i’d love to see an animated movie pick up from there and wrap everything up- that way some of the original cast can come back but not all of them are needed and they can continue the story without needing to explain why atlantis was on earth for 20 years

But these so-called “dungeons”? No captives. Not even any cells. That’s not a dungeon. that’s a glorified cave.

I’ve always wondered how the term “dungeon” as it’s used in RPGs came to be. a lot of appendix N literature had locations we would now consider dungeons, but were they called that at the time? and then the first RPG dungeon was the literal dungeon under Blackmoor Castle, but very early on we had dungeons that stopped being literal dungeons- didn’t B1 and B2 exclusively have cave “dungeons?” and the Ruined Tower of Zenopus in the first Basic book had underground portions but I think those were caves too!

turns out commodore really is keeping up with you

jim morrison predicted that some day a single person will be able to produce a full song with machines but never lived to see it happen, so i’m not sure exactly what but i’d definitely show him something entirely arranged and rendered on a computer

the artist, keith stack, uses to do daily comics leading up to major releases, hiding a countdown in each comic

also worth checking out Babylon 5 and Stargate SG-1 if you haven’t already, both have a lot of Trek in their DNA (and in B5’s case there was cross-polination in both directions)

i think about this every time i open outlook on my phone and have to wait a full minute for it to load and hopefully not crash, versus how it worked more or less instantly on my phone ten years ago. gajillions of dollars spent on improved hardware and improved network speed and capacity, ans for what? machines that do the same thing in twice the amount of time if you’re lucky

no racquet? i think you were playing hand ball

i would watch all of the above. with discovery at the very least the first four seasons, because S2 is a backdoor season 0 of strange new worlds and S4 rocks but needs the context of the first 3. it can be very uneven but i don’t think it gets bad as often as Picard did and doesn’t stay bad for as long as Picard does. Enterprise is similar, a rough-at-times ride that does really pay off in S3

you’re only gonna watch one, though, i’d do strange new worlds. it’s essentially a return to the TOS/TNG format and has a stellar cast. and frankly you don’t need to watch disco S2 to fully know what’s going on, they explain everything- i only watched disco after snw S1 left me hungry for more. SNW is seemingly unique among trek shows in that every season has been less well recieved than the last, partly because the short seasons are increasingly dedicated to gag episodes, but i’d say with the exception of one particular stinker in S3, a weaker SNW episode is still gonna be better than most shows at their best

but also- you’re your own person and may walk away from all of these series feeling someghing different! no harm on trying and if you hate something hey, it only cost you 40 minutes of your life