[-] bgainor 9 points 14 hours ago

I would not have released Patel into Pike's custody after how she lost control when confronted with "Gamble". Like, clearly the being inhabiting his body was malevolent, but "the enemy of my enemy" doesn't make it ok that she basically got taken over by a consciousness besides her own. Leaving her alone with the captain of the ship feels especially dangerous (and letting her captain her own ship again, for that matter).

[-] bgainor 4 points 1 month ago

I don't know what you're talking about. He's just a simple tailor.

[-] bgainor 11 points 3 months ago

Someone asked Patrick Stewart about this once, and he said that in the 24th century, no one would care about baldness anymore

[-] bgainor 5 points 4 months ago

It would be cool if we get to hear from the version of the Doctor that was in "Living Witness." I think the timeframe would be about right.

[-] bgainor 42 points 4 months ago

Wish the Onion wasn't out here giving them ideas…

[-] bgainor 13 points 4 months ago

Sensationalist headline-writer: "These researchers are neutrally investigating language change? Let's throw 'fear' in there to get up the prescriptivists' hackles!"

[-] bgainor 4 points 4 months ago

You do gain hunger slower in a garden, so if you have to sleep to heal, it's a better place than just out in the dungeon. Other than that, I find it useful for the assassin to build up turns of preparation without spending cloak charges or potions/scrolls; just remember to turn on your cloak before you leave or it all goes to waste.

[-] bgainor 6 points 5 months ago

A few minutes ago out of nowhere, it suddenly clicked in my brain that I had called "Strange New Worlds" "Brave New World" on here, so I had to come and see people making fun of me. Thank you all for not disappointing 😆

[-] bgainor 21 points 6 months ago

I don't know how, but I would love to see more of these characters in live action. Tawny Newsome and Jack Quaid were fantastic in BNW.

[-] bgainor 14 points 6 months ago

Tawny Newsome is awesome, so I'm sure this will be good, but there seems to be a fundamental tension between Kurtzman saying Trek can broaden, while Paramount seems to be trying to contract it.

[-] bgainor 4 points 6 months ago

This is fair. Usually when I hear "prescriptive" I have a knee-jerk reaction to it as something bad because it's usually used to refer to people using made-up rules to enforce systems of oppression rather than fight against them like inclusive language does, but I hadn't thought about it as "prescriptivism for good."

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