The main thing I disliked is that it kinda of removed any chance of us getting a “Spock is split into his human and vulcan halves by a transporter accident and they totally don’t get along with each other” episode down the line.
Meta is Facebook’s parent company and Threads is their Twitter competitor. It doesn’t yet, but will soon support activitypub which means it can talk to the rest of the Mastodon servers.
The worries range from Meta using this to destroy the fediverse via embrace, extend, extinguish, to moral objections, and more.
Similar to how we refer to TOS episodes as “The Nazi Planet” and “The Gangster Planet” this one will be “The Alzheimer’s Planet.”
Did Spock forget how to read?
Maybe it’s a nod to Discovery establishing he had a learning disability similar to dyslexia.
M’Benga
You mean “Dr. Seen-Some-Shit.”
I like that the original away mission failing wasn’t some weird magical thing - it was just a mission that went bad in a fairly mundane way.
This episode should have started in media res, with the away team already on planet and having lost their memories. Once we got the explainer as to what was happening, then we could return to the Enterprise to show the growing crisis there, and finally wrap everything up as the episode already did.
If they defederate does that prevent following specific users on threads once activitypub goes live?
So, does a genetic engineering lab now have the corpse of a man from the future with all the future vaccinations, immunities, and whatever else that may provide?
Is this the Kirk that was in the project Phoenix project?
After the first episode of the season and seeing how he handled himself as a sparring partner, M’Benga should henceforth be called Dr. Seen-Some-Shit
I noticed Kirk didn’t have a “thing” in TOS. It’d be funny if he at least thought having a warp catch phrase was stupid and didn’t do it in SNW.
Civilly? I deleted my reddit account but I really don’t feel aggrieved by people who stayed there.
One will be TOS style, one will be TNG, and one will be DSC. Just to mess with us.
Their head shapes still look a bit discovery inspired, which was a nice touch.
I used to have an antenna hooked up just to watch Svengoolie on MeTV and live tweet along (then they changed the schedule.)
Being able to switch to Star Trek and just zone out was nice too. Sure I can pick and choose specific ones on streaming, but there’s episodes I’d otherwise not think to revisit which pop up on broadcast.
I agree with a lot of your concerns. Two medical staff taking drugs and beating a mob of Klingons senseless with little hesitation and no apparent ramifications is horribly, horribly out of tone with what I’ve come to expect from Trek.
Spock is another issue. I’m fine with him undergoing growth and having a full character arc - but I really don’t see this Spock becoming the one in TOS — a Spock who disobeyed direct orders from Starfleet and was reluctantly able to potentially kill two crew members goes on to have the disastrous experience as leader in the Galileo Seven? Best I can see is he actively goes as hard as he can on suppressing his human side in the near future but that wouldn’t make him suddenly forget what emotions, illogic, and all that human baggage feels like when he’s interacting with humans later in his career.
(And for the record - I really enjoy Ethan Peck as Spock and watching his struggles with his emotional control. I just don’t feel like it’s the same character as in TOS and don’t see how he’d get there.)
Read up the season 1 and 2 spoilers and jump to season 3. It’s a total change and a love letter finale to TNG.
It’s a fun place to tinker with UNIX in an actual shared system like it was designed, and everybody seems pretty chill so im fairly active on mastodon, com, and now Lemmy.
None of us know what we’re doing and it’s wonderful
so Twitter was vi then he turned it into edlin and now he wants it to be emacs.