Yeah, I feel like the timeline had been changed for a while, and this episode just put a tidy little bow on it.
I feel like Paramount always saw Voyager as a family show. That’s why they were so irked when they wanted to make it darker.
Did she leave that gun with that little boy?
I thought the Miradorn were interesting. The twin bond that they have seems to suggest they have some kind of mental abilities, some way to connect the two people. They were listed as ‘quarrelsome’, could be an interesting mirror for the Tellarites, coming from a non-Federation species. They sided with the Dominion in the war, too, so they don’t seem to think much of the Federation. Could make for an interesting antagonist.
edit: Thought about this some more. What if the twinned Miradorn didn’t refer to brothers from the same mother? Perhaps their whole society consists of twinned people. Perhaps they have some sort of process where they bond two of their people together, for life, and that’s how they run their world. Think of how dangerous an adversary that would make, there’s always two of them. Even better if they have some sort of 2 person hive mind between them, so that they can work together seamlessly, even at a distance. Like some kind of organic grassroots Borg.
I feel like they would have done so much better if they just played Netflix and Amazon off each other to pay for the content, and never spent a cent on the albatross Plus has become.
They think that whole “home of Star Trek” was marketing fluff, but I took it as a promise.
Must have happened real recently, I was watching DS9 on Netflix in Canada in April.
Sounds good to me, I’ll wait till you guys get it sorted out. Thanks a lot for doing this!
Is it still on Netflix? I lost access when they stopped password sharing but last I checked they had everything before Discovery.
Not unfair. I guess I do dare. Fortune favors the bold. ;)
I’m just saying, I feel like the fact that that visceral reaction even happened is a testament to how talented the people who make Star Trek are. If they weren’t Omega level talented, they wouldn’t have provoked that strong reaction, they might not have provoked a reaction at all.
I dunno about that. I thought The Wolf Inside was a peak episode, and it was in season 1. It doesn’t really require a lot of time, they pulled that together in what, a year from when they first got the team together? These are frigging talented people. The Harry Mudd episode was peak, too. That’s two in the first year, starting from nothing.
She grew against her own will. Not uncommon but very difficult to portray. And it never would have worked if Nana Visitor hadn’t had the chops to pull it off, and the writers had the writing talent to write it. We really lucked out with DS9, they hit it out of the park so many times and in so many different ways, week after week for years.
Then Frank freaking Langella pops up, parts way through the same unbelievable episode, to chew the scenery like a boss. And, in an absolute power move, he drops that shit and goes completely uncredited and unpaid for doing it. He says he did it for his kids, I think he did it because he’s just that talented, and humility can be a boss move when you’re that good.
Episodes like this one are why it is so painful when Star Trek puts out a weaker episode. They are clearly capable of soooooo much, so much so that when they are humans and are imperfect, like every human everywhere is from time to time, it really stings.
First season set in 2164. Episodes include depicting the events I linked. Second season in 2165, same deal, depict all these events plus whatever new stuff the writers dream up. By filling in existing canon, half the seasons stories become really easy to break, saving time and money, and people who respect canon will have nothing to complain about. Ten year time jump explains why the actors look older. The only problem is no Trip, but he can easily cameo in a dream story or an alternate timeline, heck they could even Harry Kim him back to life.
edit: added bonus, there’s an opportunity to retcon and apologize for Code Of Honor.
Any chance for a ShittyDaystrom? I don’t want to mod it (I’m a terrible mod) but I sure would love to shitpost there.
edit: seems like the only active mod on ShittyDaystrom on Reddit has ran a script to edit all their old comments, and Reddit suspended them for it. The sub on Reddit appears to be running fine with no mods. I think it would be a fine candidate for creating a community here, the people in the Reddit sub are happily shitposting Star Trek memes with no active mods at all. If someone who is not a terrible mod, like myself, would like to take it on, I seriously doubt it will be much work.
Gotta ask. I have this same account name on lemmy.world and on startrek.website. Will that be a problem? I’ve just been logging into both, the startrek.website posts seem to take a long time to get to lemmy.world, so I just log in here if I want to read this stuff.