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Are you sure that's what they are? Once you look closely, they appears to be mundane items deliberately selected because they resemble X-rated objects. I think it's their marketing strategy?

I hate bad marketing on the internet. It's like all those emails I get. "Mogh, would you like a penis enlargement?", "Mr Mogh, get a bigger penis here". It's just poor data and bad targeting of your market. If they could get it right and send "Mogh, maybe take a few inches off?" I might be a...

You can always find an angry corner of the Internet somewhere. Critic ratings, written reviews, IMDb ratings, the petition and Kurtzman's response to it, the Nielsen chart entries... Whilst there's no such thing as a unanimous viewpoint, it's fair to say that it has received a level of...

I'm sorry, I didn't understand your point (I'm probably reading it wrong!) - could you give me an example to illustrate it?

Back on! Issue 21 on its way... High time!

This is a really important point. And that's why, to your point earlier, allegory is a powerful tool: it's subtle and often examines a topic without feeding the answer, and generates thought. It isn't there to scream "YOU'RE WRONG!" - as though anybody previously opposed would suddenly change...

Yeah, this. It reminds me a bit of when you hear a song and you're sure you know what the lyrics mean as you decode them, and then you read an interview with the writer and it turns out to be something completely different. You can make anything seem like a narrative you want to see or hear. I...

(Who is RMB, for those of us not in the know...?)

Bang on. There's more than one way to care about and address these things, and yelling and being angry generally solves nothing; it's an act of self-pleasure that makes the perpetrator feel good and usually emboldens and hardens the behaviour you're mad about. That people move into such binary...

I mean, it certainly couldn't make it worse :D

TOS had the good sense to wrap it in sci-fi metaphors - i.e. true allegory. The sort of messaging that acts like a mind worm and gets people thinking. PIC season 2 went for direct commentary, which is the storytelling equivalent of bashing your viewer over the head. And one would hope after the...

'Mindless' is rather harsh. I'd say very little social commentary, but plenty on the ideas of personal growth, how age changes people, the dynamics of family, etc. I don't think it has to focus on macro issues to be judged mindful.

It was an allegory for how, in modern office design, actually lighting workspaces produces great results.

In what would it be more cinematic? Short of showing it in the cinema? For my money, it was very cinematic in scale, scope, quality.

Could Fleet Formation mode be an allegory about the dangers of AI, taking human decisions out of their hands? Much as the Borg have always been; save that this shows the dangers of playing voluntarily into it? It could also be a social commentary on an increasingly youth-obsessed culture in the...

Cutting Season 3 would be like chopping limbs off Michelangelo so you can have a desk-based version.

Anybody else watching their email box with bated breath today...?

Thank the Prophets. I can't wait to get stuck back in! And particularly to see yours, Tim - it's quite the decent job!

I don't know how a thread on Picard and The Quickening got into a self-pleasuring argument on T'Pring, but... Other than agreeing with the poster above that it looks like Vecna (:lol:) this looks less like The Quickening, but we've also crossed off the "telepathic nebula" theory...

I stand corrected :D