Guinan @guinan@tenforward.social

I finally figured out who Spock on Star Trek Discovery reminds me of.

Control is the most boring enemy ever. Terminator 2 did the shapeshifting nemesis better. Stargate SG1 did the replicating nanobots better. The Borg peaked w ST:V finale.

Can Star Trek in 2020 give us something new?

Canon universe would be new now. No more Kelvin/Kelvinish universe. No more 25% rule. Viacom, plz fix this!

How about a mystery? First contact. Unexplained otherworldly phenomena. Something other than war war war.

Roddenberry's utopian vision of the future—we need this back now.

TBH I'm dreading the finale. S1 had twists and turns, but you always felt a story was being told. Michael had agency. Tilly was a rising star. Lorca was riveting as a dark captain, maybe less so in the last couple of episodes.

But S2? Every ep feels like "How can we save the show this episode?" Twists seem arbitrary. Michael reacts, but I miss her agency. Tyler is a mope. Tilly, now a comic sidekick. Pike earned my interest, but did we need to see his future we already knew?

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@Omega_Molecule This reminds me of how, when I watched The Best of Both Worlds as a special event in a movie theater a few ago, they showed a couple of brief interviews with the folks involved in the show at that time. One of the writers said a fan came up to him yelling about The Best of Both Worlds, saying, “You ruined my summer!” It was pretty funny the way he recounted it. I have a feeling we’re in for a long summer this time too 🙃

I’m hearing a lot of folks on the podcasts I listen to speculate that the Disco writers are setting us up for a Best of Both Worlds-style finale that leaves us hanging until next season. At first I thought that was a little too pat what with the parallels between Control and the Borg. The more I think about it, though, I think they’re probably right. I really like the idea of rocketing 950-1,000 years into the future. What will that even look like?

🚨NEW POD ALERT🚨

@staticsafe and @chosafine talk about Web Browsers, iTunes, Android Bubbles, and make fun of Linux.

Content Warning: Jokes About FOSS Stereotypes

Shades Of Brown Episode 90: Top 10 Features

https://twoshadesofbrown.com/2019/04/14/episode-90-top-10-features/

Also, if you rewatch Calypso you'll remember that Craft talks about the annoyingly nostalgic and aggressive V'Draysh who his people were fighting in a war for 10 years.

I didn't catch this at all but if you read online the writer acknowledged who the V'Draysh are...(extra possible spoiler)

... it's the Federation, it's supposed to be a phonetic shortening that occurs over time. Something to think about.

So just thinking about how the "Calypso" short story could fit in to the current events. If #Discovery really jumps into the future, it needs to be far enough ahead for Control never to evolve. Burnam's mom jumped something like 950 years into the future. But in that episode, the ship says the crew left almost 1000 years ago. Does that mean they jump 950 forward, then leave the ship alone for another 1000 and Calypso happens 2000 years in the future?

#StarTrek #STDisco

WHO TURNED UP THE SPICINESS ON THE FOOD REPLICATORS

I feel kind of “meh” about the callbacks to TOS. If you’re a huge fan of the series it’s an exciting expansion of the franchise canon, but as someone that was first introduced to Star Trek by the new movies it feels like fan service & normal “fill in plot exposition” stuff.

Despite this I still like Burnham as a character. It’s good Ash Tyler & Phillipa Georgiou are getting more screen time too, but a shame it’s to push a dull “secret agents” sub-plot.

I’ve so far enjoyed Season 2, but unlike most other Trek series I don’t think this is one where you can just drop in and watch a single episode in isolation. If you’re not up to date with the season arc then there is really no handholding for you!

I guess this is perhaps a symptom of the writing being focussed on streaming services and “binge watching”. It’s not necessarily bad, but it’s definitely different.

🚨NEW POD ALERT🚨

@staticsafe and @chosafine talk about AirPods, that one MSI Dragon on the gamer motherboards, and streaming video games.

Shades Of Brown Episode 88: Weird Flacs But Ok

https://twoshadesofbrown.com/2019/03/29/episode-88-weird-flacs-but-ok/

I've been threatening to do it for ages, but I finally wrote a new Starship Critic.

This time it's about the Defiant class, the ship the Federation built to fight the Borg that got knocked out the one time it had to fight the Borg.

http://starshipcritic.space/weapons-of-war-the-defiant-class