The Klingon forehead design, while a good shape, looks very plastic. SNW Klingons have this thing going on too.
Comfort and other considerations could be the reasoning, but it doesn't look as organic as Berman-era Klingons.
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Comfort and other considerations could be the reasoning, but it doesn't look as organic as Berman-era Klingons.
You know your getting old when one worries a Star Trek Academy show will be like 90210. Might want to update that reference to Riverdale or Glee.
You know your getting old when one worries a Star Trek Academy show will be like 90210. Might want to update that reference to Riverdale or Glee.
I rolled my eyes at the reference to James T Kirk shoved down your throat within seconds. Then it just went down, down, down...
This is exactly the same bullshit that makes me hate most of modern Trek. A snake eating its own tail.
Kirk. Data. Troi. Kim. Sito Jaxa. etc. etc. Sisko! Alien breaking the fourth wall by humming the tune.
All utter bullshit.
And I used to call it fan wank, but what true fan wants this?
This is exactly the same bullshit that makes me hate most of modern Trek. A snake eating its own tail.
Kirk. Data. Troi. Kim. Sito Jaxa. etc. etc. Sisko! Alien breaking the fourth wall by humming the tune.
All utter bullshit.
And I used to call it fan wank, but what true fan wants this?
What's a false fan?
I dunno, but there are at least three kinds of true fans I'm aware of.
Type 1: Annoyed at seeing recognisable names on a wall in the background because Star Trek can't stop reminding people that it's a franchise with multiple series.
Type 2: Annoyed that they're telling us that the talented and ambitious Nog never made captain, even though he did in The Visitor's timeline and he has a ship named after him. Also annoyed that they're implying Sisko never came back, even though it was pretty important to Avery Brooks that he didn't leave his kid without a dad.
Type 3: Actually pretty happy about it all. Hey they used the TOS movie font for the title just like the '90s video game!
Oh please spare us the 'tru fan' bullshit. We've heard all of this nonsense ad nauseum about every series since TNG.
No one says you have to like SFA but you don't have the right to denigrate those who are excited about it.
I've been watching Star Trek for 35 of my 43 years and I can assure you I want this.
Nice Interview with Robert Picardo, Holly Hunter and Sandro Rosta. Holly Hunter sounds so genuinely excited to be involved.
I can quietly reason and retcon some of the ranks on the wall, that is assuming that they are actually listed at the final ranks they reached and not when they achieved a specific accolade.
There is no force stronger than headcanon.
There is no force stronger than headcanon.
For all we know it's just when they were most famous
Which would explain Harriman. Hard to get any more famous than being a sitting Captain on the day James Kirk died. While on your ship. With you calling the shots.
Of course that means Harry either didn't do anything especially noteworthy until he became an admiral, or that when he became an admiral he did something monumental.
Probably final Federation rank.
Is ambassador a rank?
It's even easier than that if you presume her father was a Jem'Hadar, TBH. Even though they were all lab-grown in DS9, we didn't get any idea that they were sterilized. Why bother to sterilize them if you don't hatch out any females?
Diplomatic rank - Wikipedia
The "wall of fame" makes me deeply uncomfortable.
I know it was meant as a nice easter egg, but by including the names of so many well-known characters, it means we know whose careers end up cut short. Though I suppose it's realistic that not everyone can max out at admiral, or even captain,
More troubling, the inclusion of many characters we knew who died (like Red Squad, Sito, Yar) pretty strongly suggests this isn't just a list of famous Starfleet officers, but those who died in the course of duty. So Riker never gets to retire for realsies. Tom Paris, Bashir, Torres, Nog - all of them end up dying in the course of duty at some point offscreen.
I know it was meant as a nice easter egg, but by including the names of so many well-known characters, it means we know whose careers end up cut short. Though I suppose it's realistic that not everyone can max out at admiral, or even captain,
More troubling, the inclusion of many characters we knew who died (like Red Squad, Sito, Yar) pretty strongly suggests this isn't just a list of famous Starfleet officers, but those who died in the course of duty. So Riker never gets to retire for realsies. Tom Paris, Bashir, Torres, Nog - all of them end up dying in the course of duty at some point offscreen.
Someone whose ideology doesn't align with my own.
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