Spoilers Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 1x09 – “300th Night”
At this rate it feels like we could have Noga Landau on here telling you that you're wrong and you'd still claim you're right.
Amazing what someone can do in their backyard with popsicle sticks and tinfoil.
Worked for Doctor Who for decades.
Good point. I look forward to seeing if you're right.
I've been thinking about that too. Makes a lot of sense.
Yes! I was really pleased to see that Sam feels more grounded now. I also loved her brief interactions with the Doctor. He's become very protective.
I see I'm not the only person who doesn't trust Caleb's mother.
I enjoyed watching Ake and Kelrec putting their heads together. I also think Braka's plan (however unfeasible it might really be) is quite clever. Why destroy your enemy when you can completely block them off?
Loved the reactions to going through the transwarp conduit too.
For the record, my inner 10 year old thinks it's hysterical that Darem vomits glitter.
Caleb might be the only one.I see I'm not the only person who doesn't trust Caleb's mother.
"And here's a market on Ukeck we made earlier ..."
Hey, that's Tracy Island!
Yeah, its from a UK kids show that used to do regular crafts, the show has been running for almost 70 years. The presenter is Anthea Turner.
Nope, her name is Tracy Island. Like CorporalCaptain said.
While it’s fun and very informative to point out the actual truths in response to the continual stream of baseless claims, it’s futile in the end. Their goalposts will continue to move at warp speed.
Quite right . Much of Kurtzman Treks arc based stories all seem to be huge galaxy wide threats. The thing is we already had the burn and several other huge threats now. Whatever happened to exploring strange new worlds and seeking out new life and new civilizations? Even snw rarely explores deep space anymore.
Why explore space when you can torment Spock?
They're cadets, the most they should be doing is third contacts.
*Blinks in Plato's Stepchildren, among others*
Appreciate the honesty at least. I don't know why people insist upon watching things they declare as "bad." That is something I cannot grasp. If Something is bad it is not something I will watch. Period. Time is too short.
And I get that. But there is a desire for certain aspects, and then the prejudgement that I have see across quarters of Trek fandom. That's the cynical view: it isn't going in desiring to be entertained but going in demanding that they convince them to be entertained before the actual entertainment begins. It feels like this:
This is why I call it cynical: it isn't approaching any genuine manner to be entertained but setting up a check list for failure and then pointing and laughing when it fails. It feels very unloving, uncompassionate and strange.
I just don't see newer Trek lacking diversity, optimism or humanism. In fact, I see way more of it with regards to people who experience trauma and are accepted anyway. I see greater acceptance of people actually being honest with emotions, rather than demanding conformity.
But, more than that, I like Kirk and Academy because it doesn't show me broken in people; it shows me people who are still learning, growing and developing. To borrow a quote from a much better show than Star Trek:
Father Mulcahy: You seem to think Klinger leaves a little something to be desired as a company clerk.
Potter: I think Klinger leaves everything to be desired as a company clerk.
Father Mulcahy: Well, we had a fellow here a while back before you arrived, who was much worse.
Potter: Worse than Klinger? Father, you wouldn't lie to a Presbyterian, would you?
Mulcahy: No. Believe me, this lad was quite a bozo. He couldn't do anything right. Drove everybody crazy with questions. You should have seen him try to patch through a call. Looked like hand-to-hand combat. Folks here were convinced that the enemy had sent him to sabotage the unit.
Potter: Yeah? So whatever happened to this rube?
Mulcahy: Well, as time went by, he got a little better. Your late predecessor, Colonel Blake, rest his soul, took him under his wing and sort of helped him grow into the job.
Potter: You suckered me, Padre. You're talkin' about Radar. The very same bozo.
You see, when you arrived, you got the broken-in model. But my, my. His first few
months were harrowing indeed.
People like their broken in models. They like the comfort and familiarity. But growth doesn't come from familiarity.
If I don't like something after a couple of attempts I walk away. Let others have their fun, but I'm not wasting my time with something that's not a fit for my tastes.
There is such a thing as amusingly bad, it is a balance and requires it to be bad in a certain way depending on individual tastes as well. "The room" for example was mostly giggle watched I doubt many people suffered through it, and no it isnt something I have a desire to watch.
As for the lack of empathy part it is more about when it gets witheld while it should be given, a glaring example is gleefully blowing up the ship in the first episode.(A longer discussion of this could go offtopic for a bit longer so lets not
at least not here)
As for the cynical watchers there will always be those and you can't change that, some of them might also come from the fact that they just miss "their star trek" and stick around because there is "nothing else" and rewatches get boring after a while, it isnt always inherently unloving.
Eh I might have also just rewrote what you said a bit differntly, which I now see that I am a bit more awake.
There are quite a few things I miss that are probably gone for a while due to the way things are made today and I will sometimes rant about it to vent. And finding "replacements" can be frustrating, while finding something totaly new is often better it is also often a miss.
As for the lack of empathy part it is more about when it gets witheld while it should be given, a glaring example is gleefully blowing up the ship in the first episode.(A longer discussion of this could go offtopic for a bit longer so lets not
at least not here)As for the cynical watchers there will always be those and you can't change that, some of them might also come from the fact that they just miss "their star trek" and stick around because there is "nothing else" and rewatches get boring after a while, it isnt always inherently unloving.
Eh I might have also just rewrote what you said a bit differntly, which I now see that I am a bit more awake.
There are quite a few things I miss that are probably gone for a while due to the way things are made today and I will sometimes rant about it to vent. And finding "replacements" can be frustrating, while finding something totaly new is often better it is also often a miss.
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