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Then the question comes: is it really Culber, or Stamets interpretation of him?

He was brought back physically using a transport pod meant for May/Tilly. Its possible what Culber is now is far more messed up than we can possibly imagine.
 
I'm sure after the first 100 or so years Vulcans got used to the smell. After awhile no one mentioned it again. Or maybe T'Pol was messing with their heads.

I don't see an issue with this. It's just saying that Vulcans have a superior sense of smell and perhaps, being from a desert planet, release less bodily odors on average.

Humans naturally smell bad to Vulcans. Klingons naturally smell bad to Humans (and probably Vulcans). They're all aliens dealing with completely different physiologies. It's basic diplomacy to just not mention heavy, natural odors or else where something to mask the smell.

Vulcans hide their emotions, and for the most part are the pinnacles of politeness. So maybe most aliens smell terrible to them, but they just don't bring it up as a rule.
 
I don't know why I have to get shit on just because I don't particularly care for modern television aimed at my demographic where it has to move at breakneck speed otherwise we might not look up from our phones.
 
I don't know why I have to get shit on just because I don't particularly care for modern television aimed at my demographic where it has to move at breakneck speed otherwise we might not look up from our phones.

I know right? Berman/Braga era Trek was so slow end empty of content most of the time that we only have to look up from our phones a few seconds every minute or so without missing anything. Having to pay attention for a whole 45 minutes straight is a real pain in the ass.
 
Why even pay attention when it's just a roller coaster of different plots and twists? Each one gets dropped anyway. What was the last episode about? Forget that, we've got fucking Talosians now!!!
 
Well, I don't know about anybody else, but I have always gone back and watched Trek Episodes/Movies at lest three or four times in the first year that they become available on DVD/Blu-ray.
I even did it way back when, in the VHS days.
(wore out my first TMP video tape from repeated plays over about a year and a half)

I also recorded every single Trek Episode on VHS from the start of TNG to the end of ENTERPRISE and watched those multiple times each.

SO just because today's TV shows are faster paced doesn't mean that I don't eventually get the gist of what they are conveying after a few run throughs.
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Why even pay attention when it's just a roller coaster of different plots and twists? Each one gets dropped anyway. What was the last episode about? Forget that, we've got fucking Talosians now!!!

For someone not staring at their phone the entire time, every plot went properly from A-Z and moved the plot and characterization along. I wasn't disappointed and was able to follow it all. But then, I wasn't distracted.
 
Well, I don't know about anybody else, but I have always gone back and watched Trek Episodes/Movies at lest three or four times in the first year that they become available on DVD/Blu-ray.
I even did it way back when, in the VHS days.
(wore out my first TMP video tape from repeated plays over about a year and a half)

I also recorded every single Trek Episode on VHS from the start of TNG to the end of ENTERPRISE and watched those multiple times each.

SO just because today's TV shows are faster paced doesn't mean that I don't eventually get the gist of what they are conveying after a few run throughs.
:cool:

The only Disco ep I've had to watch over again to get everything was Magic... from season 1. That one was a bit of a head spinner.
 
I did not say life is automatically better due to tech, but using a remote control is better than fiddling with buttons, and a having a mobile phone is better than using a stinky phone box.

We didn't get our first color tv until 1977. A lot of the old stuff was b/w anyway, such as Monster Movie Matinee on Sunday afternoons at 1pm, so it didn't really matter. It was like watching TOS in nothing but the 'dailies'. :techman:

Never minded getting up to change channels.

As for the old phones, I have a soft spot for old rotary phones from the 60s and 70s in avocado green....actually, anything from that era in that color. :lol:

But, it's very true: Limited aspects that hold charm subjectively for an individual does not mean that any era was 'the good old days' in general.
 
We didn't get our first color tv until 1977. A lot of the old stuff was b/w anyway, such as Monster Movie Matinee on Sunday afternoons at 1pm, so it didn't really matter. It was like watching TOS in nothing but the 'dailies'. :techman:

Never minded getting up to change channels.

As for the old phones, I have a soft spot for old rotary phones from the 60s and 70s in avocado green....actually, anything from that era in that color. :lol:

But, it's very true: Limited aspects that hold charm subjectively for an individual does not mean that any era was 'the good old days' in general.
Fun fact: I still have a rotary phone (it's military brown from a military base :D) and my daughters have a fair idea of how to use it. I also have a VCR, several (like a 100 or so) VHS tapes, cassette tapes, and a couple of floppy disks. My wife still uses a flip phone and refuses to get a smart phone. What technology improves the lives of some is detrimental to others. It is all in how you use it.
 
I have a rotary phone. It's one of those banana shaped ones modeled after the similarly shaped touch-dial ones that you hang on the wall. (I'm guessing it was sold as 'a new phone' to people still more comfortable with a rotary dial. ) It's avocado green.
 
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