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  • Did you like Star Trek: Nemesis?

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  • I wont say too much to spoil it, but my feelings on Picard's first season is that it started out with a huge amount of promise, then moved at a strangely slow pace for long enough that there wasn't any chance to properly resolve everything at the end. So a mess, but it had ambition and even those messier episodes had some lovely moments.

  • Did you like Star Trek: Nemesis?

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  • Oh, I hate it. The labourious mind-numbing action, the "we aspire and they don't" hand-wave resolution to the half-assed philosophical premise, the dozenth mind rape of Troi and Picard's callous response, it's all trash.

    Don't get me wrong, it had some OK scenes. You had to learn about them after the fact, though, because they were all cut from the film! Cutting Picard's discussion with Data from the start, and the crew's visit to his quarters at the end, is as good as cutting the Kobayashi Maru and funeral sequences from TWoK. They wouldn't have saved the thing, but they would have given Data's death at least a little emotional weight.

    Left a bad taste in my mouth for twenty years. Thank goodness Picard came along to revisit these characters. It was a mess, but I'll take any season of Picard as a superior send-off to the TNG era than this movie.

  • Marina Sirtis' memories of Troi's non-standard uniform

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  • I can believe it if they stopped early enough. Season 1 is pretty rough.

  • Ready for anything

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  • I learned about those prints sometime in the '90s, and eventually tracked down a set for myself in the early days of ebay. Possibly my first online purchase, I was very excited. You can find your missing page and most of the accompanying technical manual here: https://cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints-main2.php

  • I'm the Beta Quadrant's reckoning.

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  • Because it had already been done, of course! When Nemesis killed the franchise.

  • Who is your favourite star trek character?

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  • The real competency porn in Darmok is in the writing. Picard doesn't just learn the alien's strange way of communicating, the audience learns it along with him. It has the same ending as The Big Goodbye, with Picard striding onto the bridge and saying the exact right thing as no one else could, but this time we clearly understand the entire nonsense exchange. It's just perfectly done.

    Saru actually has a similar moment of linguistic badassery in Discovery, not the episode's climax or anything, but it contributes to how much I appreciate his character as well.

  • Who is your favourite star trek character?

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  • Well, Kirk did slap Trelane.

  • Who is your favourite star trek character?

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  • The Enterprise (1701)

  • Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks

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  • But it just looks unprofessional to me in the captain’s chair.

    That's what I love, though. A boss today might feel the need to cultivate a "professional" work environment to maintain discipline among their underlings, or to appear trustworthy to their clients.

    Ake doesn't doesn't need to worry about discipline among her officers. They aren't working for a paycheck, they're there because they feel a calling and a duty to be there. She trusts them implicitly, and is confident enough in having their respect that she can enjoy her time on her bridge. And her "clients" are university age kids, who generally don't respond to the pomposity of performative professionalism.

  • Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks

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  • I chill in chairs like that all the time. It’s comfy. Don’t be so self conscious you let schoolgirls have all the fun.

  • Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks

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  • There you go, accusing people of being sexiest and racist just because they have a meltdown every time some piece of media prominently features a woman or person of colour. I’m sure it’s just a highly predictable coincidence.

  • Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks

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  • Riker happily slapped his ass down in the weapons console so he could chat up the prettiest subordinate on duty. Not sure why we’re suddenly supposed to be pretending Trek ever maintained a stern and solemn work environment.

  • What's a piece of Media that is so underrated you must mention it?

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  • Movie: Ghostbusters Answer the Call.

    If anyone's giving it a chance for the first time, I do recommend the extended edition. For some reason the theatrical cut out the low point of the relationship arc between the two main characters.

    I don't think all the humour lands, but enough of it does, and the movie has a good heart. At the very least it remembered that Ghostbusters is a comedy. The new movies have the same flavour as every Marvel superhero outing.

  • Underrated take from Kirk

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  • Yeah, the effects are definitely not great. Over the years I’ve seen a couple fan attempts to redo them, it’s kind of nice to watch those from time to time.

  • Underrated take from Kirk

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  • I love every TOS movie, though of course none of them are perfect. I find a lot less to love by the second half of the TNG films. But my own bias has always been towards the original series.

  • Underrated take from Kirk

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  • I love TFF. In fact, I call it a big step up from TVH. My mind will not be changed.

  • Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x06 "Come, Let's Away"

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  • Saved me from having to look up the episodes where that happened, nice.

  • Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x06 "Come, Let's Away"

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  • You’re right, that’s the model they landed on by TMP. I meant to say it resonates with Jeffries’ original concept that the engines were just too dangerous to be near the ship, which I always preferred. And who’s to say 32nd century ships don’t have power plants in the nacelles themselves, like a lot of early fandom assumed in the days of TOS? It would make sense if they’re completely separate now. (I know we saw Discovery with a central warp core after its refit, but Discovery is a bit of a special case).

  • Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x06 "Come, Let's Away"

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  • I like the detached nacelles. It's nice to have at least a few clear indicators that technology has advanced in the 800 years since TNG. And it seems like a logical extension of the idea that the nacelles are these big dangerous things that needed to be kept separate from the living spaces and easily jettisoned.

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