• Stamets@startrek.website
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    1 year ago

    This is such a fucking accurate take. Endearing is definitely the best way to phrase it. Who doesn’t love a good ol’ giant green hand grabbing the ship like a fuckin frisbee?

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      I’d go as far as to say "If Gene Roddenberry wasn’t such a horny bastard, we’d all be talking about Logan’s Run or something.

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        1 year ago

        Completely agree. Imagine if he got his way when designing the Ferengi. Whenever they’re on screen, huge bulge takes up most of the screen.

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    1 year ago

    Similar to how TOS movies have sentences for titles and TNG movies have mostly single words.

    …then the Kelvin movies forced the use of Trek as a verb.

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      1 year ago

      Wait… So it’s Star: Trek Into Darkness and Star: Trek Beyond?? That makes so much sense

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      What are you talking about? They didn’t make any TNG movies. I get how you could get mixed up, though, because it was a tragically wasted opportunity, just like how they only ever made three Indiana Jones movies and then stopped forever.

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        Interesting. I legit thought First Contact was excellent. I’ve gotten multiple people into Star Trek using that film as the gateway.

        There was a family of the most normal people you can imagine and I showed that film to my friend, their eldest son. The next thing I know they have a cat named Tuvok and are dressing up like away teams for Halloween. It was awesome.

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          Hmm, I am going to try to bribe my wife to watch it. After her sitting through 4 Stargate seasons, she doesn’t trust any sci Fi recommendations from me anymore. 🤪

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            Oh man, if you didn’t show her Window of Opportunity, you definitely should. That’s how the show got its hooks in a lot of my friends and family.

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        And some movies are fine the way it is. Like how The Matrix just stands on its own and never had any sequels.

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        1 year ago

        They did do that long episode with a bigger budget about the guys with bad facelifts. It was kinda like a movie.

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        Good thing they ended Back to the Future with a paradox, thus ensuring there could never be any sequels.

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    To be fair, TNG has “the light within” which is a very dramatic title that doesn’t tell you much about the episode. If it followed the formula described here it would be like “flute” or “flash” or “in another life”

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    The Inner Light is about that time Picard caught COVID and got sucked into alternative treatment methods via alt-light holodeck programs.

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    11 months ago

    Meanwhile ds9 episodes are called “Tango” which has nothing to do with the episode, which is about two people beating the shit out each other for 5 years or something and is widely regarded as one of the best episodes in the show.