A pedantic & cynical animal who is very concerned for our collective future.
I cut my hair in preparation for what is to come.
I haven’t cut my hair in at least 15 years, and never before in preparation for anything.
We’re all pretty much just waiting for them to kidnap the wrong (or, sadly right) person… and then a charismatic and unpolitically aligned person to step up and lead the rest of us forward against this nonsense.
“Thugs” isn’t the right word.
Terrorists. Fascistic Lackeys. Brutalizers.
I have plenty of synonymous for these faceless fuckfaced assholes.
I’m sure they both own plenty of baby oil. Too bad we are the ones getting dry-fucked.
‘Discovery’… the main contribution from that distraction was giving us Harry “Dwight” Mudd & ‘Strange New Worlds’.
As soon as we got a chance to evacuate that starship, we took it; and joined up with a better crew.
You’re definitely correct about the writing on TOS. To expand upon your point - look at the widescreen monitors and flip phone communicators, the earpiece devices and other things that they use. Those didn’t even exist yet, not really. I’m sure in some ways these things informed the development of the real-life equivalents, however ~ you can’t deny the writers did a lot of things as realistically as possible (given the setting). I can’t remember ever seeing fire in the vacuum of space in TOS. However, on ‘Discovery’ we had plenty of whacky-not-in-a-fun-way scenarios.
Lillian in space. Thanks for the chuckle.
I liked LD okay, but the bleeped cursing bothers me. Either fucking cuss or frickin’ don’t. It happens too much to not be distracting for me. The Orville felt like classic Trek, which is my understanding was on purpose. Seth was a real member of Starfleet, albeit minor.
What happens on Risa stays on Risa.
Once they reach a certain age ~ the Gorn slow W A A A Y down. They begin wearing colorful tunics and can be easily subdued with a primitive blunderbuss.
Hemmer prequel series about a wacky crew featuring the various species of Andorians living together on an accidental starship voyage.
Think “Real World”+“Road Rules” but Trek.
It’s not animated and filmed in the traditional style of previously mentioned shows.
After the pilot episode, the entire premise is dropped. It was a prototype holoprogram. The user?
Harry T. Mudd.
It is now a show about Mudd and his wacky adventures, eventually leading up to his encounters with Pike and Kirk.
If it tells you anything about me, my favorite TOS episode has - and always shall be; “Arena”.
I love the more episodic format of Strange New Worlds. I love Pike. I love the old-school aesthetic of the sets. I love the entire cast (shout out to my homie Hemmer. RIP). I just freakin’ love the entire show. It’s exactly what new Trek should be.
However, I have to admit the new Gorn kind of bummed me out. I prefer the goofy-badass-Gorn over the scary-quick-incubatin’-Gorn.
There’s a kind of person that thrives in the parking lots of Walmarts and stripmalls in shitberg towns, and they thrive on social media, too.
Well put. I’m old school Tripod days (if anyone remembers what that was). I’ve seen social media go from “A/S/L?” to “like & subscribe” and everything in between. It was never that clean, and the lot lizards were always lurking.
Somewhere… far in the future, a distant entity read this marvelously nonsensical opus & decided humanity wasn’t always completely hopeless.
We have here with us, my fellow humans; a truly ‘Hoopy Frood’…if I’m allowed to quote Douglas without seeming rude.
I think it’s another movie about people punching people? Seems to be the big trend these days …