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I really need to get BritBox again.

I’m here all week; try the veal. And tip the waitstaff generously.

:angel: Not everyone can be a Trekkie AND a British lit nerd. Speaking of, I can’t believe we don’t have a ‘nerd’ emoji in here. It would be so apropos.

Oh, I think we can safely assume he was doing a little trolling, knowing it would be easy bait for unwitting Americans.

Yeeeees?

I’m glad they have him in a place of acceptance and other, generally more positive things are being focused on; it’s bad enough to know it’s going to happen without it sucking all the air out of the room.

You mean the strike, specifically? I don’t know enough about the particulars to discuss it, anyway. I always presumed all these people get handsomely compensated, considering how much money gets thrown around in production.

Capitalism is the reason all these things we love were created. Roddenberry was looking to make money. All the people working on these shows are doing it to make money. Communist/socialist countries didn’t produce any awesome shows/movies/musical theater enjoyed for decades. Capitalism produced...

Because then the writers would have had to come up with a different justification for La’an to meet alternate Kirk, go back in time with him, and get her heart broken.

Mal. Every time that man was on screen I just…. If anyone needs me, I’ll be in my bunk. Which is why I said something, because no one else had and I didn’t want anyone else swallowing the bait.

And he’s gone now, yes? That’s what the strikethough his name means?

Taking offense at something for meaning something it doesn’t, when you know better…is just feeding the troll.

In all fairness, “queer the pitch/deal” is 19th century British slang, in common use over 100 years before “queer” came to take on the meaning people are going to infer now. I’ve been familiar with that usage since early adolescence, when I read a lot of British literature. To “queer the ______...

:wtf: What is it about SNW that makes you think that?

My reasoning on the petering is that if there’s never any lasting consequences there won’t be any dramatic tension because nothing really matters. And if nothing matters people get bored and find something new to watch. TOS paired the episodic adventure format with the warmth of close...

I love those. It’s a lot easier to be emotionally invested in one person’s fate than that of millions/billions. That many is too impersonal. I just described what an ‘edge’ is to me; I didn’t subscribe to the idea that there always needs to be one in Trek. Trying to be edgy all the time is a...

To me, an ‘edge’ means relatively high stakes (not the fate of the galaxy, but the fate of the ship or a planet in the balance) and the kind of consequences to decisions/actions that you’d get in real life. In essence, if they fuck around, they should find out.

If only the transporters were as reliable as the inertial dampeners, which are consistently far more reliable than anything else, including life support systems.

Nice.

Can I interest you in a lovely bridge in a picturesque location?