Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 2x07 - "Light and Shadows"

[CommanderRaytas]

I understand the concept of humor, so my response would be to try being funny.

I don't want to argue and I'll just terminally bye, now you right there: saying something like "too difficult?" in a huffy tone is not funny. It looked like an attempt at condescension, which I care for very little. I don't know what you were expecting, but this isn't fun or entertaining from where I'm sitting. Now, let's quit while we're ahead, here, okay? Let's not be Herberts. No-one whats to be a Herbert.

Back on topic (sort of): guys, come on. Bajorans are never interesting.

Sorry, Kira. Love you!

 

[oberth]

Gees... I must really be nerd-weird case I like to do both....

just look at your avatar and think about it - which one are you right now?

 

[DaveyNY]

just look at your avatar and think about it - which one are you right now?

All Three.... split personality.

 

[oberth]

All Three.... split personality.

exactly

 

[DaveyNY]

exactly

I'm also the sober one...

 

[eschaton]

I don't think I'm old enough yet for minions avatars...

 

[oberth]

I don't think I'm old enough yet for minions avatars...

i never saw minions but on avatars

 

[DaveyNY]

I don't think I'm old enough yet for minions avatars...

i never saw minions but on avatars

 

[oberth]

andorian? where are them antennas?

 

[DaveyNY]

andorian? where are them antennas?

It's a little known fifth offshoot of the Andorians...

AVADORIAN

They are actually the more fecundate of the species, since they are too short to pilot a starship they have become the main functionaries of the breeding class.
It takes three Avadorians added to the mix to make an Andorian Baby.

 

[oberth]

fecundate

i had to look thatone up

 

[IMC Headquarters]

What's with that wall of Vulcan emojis in the cave? Logically, Vulcans must have only two to draw from--Stoic and Pon-farr...
.

 

[Vger23]

I don't want to argue and I'll just terminally bye, now you right there: saying something like "too difficult?" in a huffy tone is not funny. It looked like an attempt at condescension, which I care for very little. I don't know what you were expecting, but this isn't fun or entertaining from where I'm sitting. Now, let's quit while we're ahead, here, okay? Let's not be Herberts. No-one whats to be a Herbert.

Back on topic (sort of): guys, come on. Bajorans are never interesting.

Sorry, Kira. Love you!

I feel so weird reading some or the DS9 comments here, it makes me feel like I missed something you all caught!

I actually liked the Bajoran stories....! I thought Kai Wynn was one of the most teeth-clenchingly evil "villians" we've seen in a while, for example.

 

[oberth]

I feel so weird reading some or the DS9 comments here, it makes me feel like I missed something you all caught!

I actually liked the Bajoran stories....! I thought Kai Wynn was one of the most teeth-clenchingly evil "villians" we've seen in a while, for example.

me too, but the bajorians were still rather badly invented

 

[Greg Cox]

That's exactly how it work in a lot pro-fiction. A personal connection between a hero and an antagonist. That's why Kirk's prosecutor in "Court Martial" is his old girlfriend and his alleged victim is his old teacher and friend. It's why the Salt Monster in "The Man Trap" has the form of McCoy's old girlfriend rather than some random woman. It why Kirk's former lover takes over Kirk's body in " Turnabout Intruder". It's why Kirk was at the Tarsus Colony during Kodos' reign of terror. It's why Gary became a god rather than Crewman X.

And why the Genesis Device just happened to have been invented by yet another of Kirk's long-lost loves--and his his hitherto-unmentioned son.

 

[oberth]

And why the Genesis Device just happened to have been invented by yet another of Kirk's long-lost loves--and his his hitherto-unmentioned son.

because he can't keep his trowsers up - that was really established by then

 

[Alan Roi]

I honestly think there are fans who would eat it up. People seem more interested in Star Trek being "real" than it being "entertaining"

IMO, its more a case of "comforting" vs. "challenging."

 

[cultcross]

I actually liked the Bajoran stories....! I thought Kai Wynn was one of the most teeth-clenchingly evil "villians" we've seen in a while, for example

I liked many of the stories we got and I agree about Winn. I do agree that the Bajorans could have been better developed though given that we were with them for seven years. They were quite 'planet of the hats' even after all that, the planet of the fundamentalist freedom fighters. I'd have liked to see some more cracks in the monoculture - perhaps some Bajorans who thought having a religious leader with quite so much political influence was a bad idea?

 

[Greg Cox]

But he seems to always run into people he knows who are in extraordinary situations or he winds up in extraordinary situations. Like his first officer being the son of Vulcan's top diplomat. A diplomat who is in the middle of a thorny negotiation and is accused of murder!!!!!

Well, that's simply the nature of series fiction. Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys are just high school kids and yet somehow they've stumbled into hundreds of mysteries in their teen years alone. Aside from the occasional "Day in the Life" type episode, interesting and exciting things are supposed to happen to the protagonists of a series, and the longer a series, the more interesting and exciting events (often with a personal connection) will happen to them, never mind the odds of one person having so many murdered relatives, long-lost relatives, etc.

I gather that Meredith on GRAY'S ANATOMY is now up to at least three long-lost sisters, which is what happens when a show runs for fifteen years . . .

 

[oberth]

the worst bajorian stuff was ordering everybody 'back to their castes' - made no sense at all