Yeah great suggestion, Wrath of Khan is an excellent entry point.
The enterprise being an underdog the entire time is a great showcase for the best of trek: the crew and the problem solving 👌
Wow, Devils Due is like the second episode I watched (first was Silicon Avatar) and I remember enjoying the ending where Picard mimics all her tricks before telling her to fuck off.
In hindsight easily a notgreat episode, but I remember it fondly.
That was an interesting read.
I wish someone would’ve asked her about Remember Me, one of my favorite episodes and one of the few Dr Crusher episodes.
a season that veered largely in quality from one episode to the next, including a particularly notable nosedive in its back half
I greatly enjoyed this season (no really, the good ones are so good), but I must agree here about the nose dive.
That documentary episode is probably my least favorite Star Trek episode of all time.
And that finale? Too much unwelcome Mass Effect 3 energy in this ending for me to enjoy.
Ley lines. Hey, they’re real!
Absolutely my least favorite treknobabble of all time.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_e
Cognitive dissonance on the more accurate name of “Ignored e”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteronym_(linguistics)
Record a record? Convict a convict? What an annoying concept.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphological_leveling
At least irregular verbs are drifting away, that’s a pleasant surprise.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisyllabic_laxing
fotograffy > fuhtawgruhfee I’ll die on this hill
Somebody show this clown TNG The Most Toys, the one where the emotionless android feels a surge of hate and blasts the space billionaire that enslaved him.
RIKER: Mister O'Brien says the weapon was in a state of discharge.
DATA: Perhaps something occurred during transport, Commander.
And then he gets away with it because Riker hates billionaires too 😎👌
Me when my 13yo daughter shows me how she can draw on her ipad on her mint box because she found, downloaded, and stood up weylus all by herself.
Just attribute the minor differences to the temporal cold war 👌
I swear I remember they cut directly to Obrien and Data with incredulous "did he just say saucer sep" looks on their faces.
One of my absolute favorites and I'm hoping folks want to talk about it.
Hands down my most reread book. Me, an atheist, never imagined a twisty/puzzly novel about the life and times of future space jesus would speak to me so deeply.
The prose is multidimensional and layered with meanings that only come into focus once you know where it's going.
Some of my favorite examples:
Any other trek fans delighted by Group of Seventeen in book four, realizing it was 10 years ahead of the TNG episode "Darmok"?
Been here 5 days and I hate it already, I understand this vacancy now.
My brutal but fair take:
I feel the bigwigs for Star Trek would sacrifice us all, in a heartbeat, for their own Grogu to get the kiddos buying merch.
And after he beans back out:
Lord! It's a miracle! Man up and vanished like a fart in the wind!
“The house I grew up in was built by the Dublin Corporation,” Meaney says.
“How could we build houses then and can’t build them now?... It’s fking Thatcherism, Reaganism, the neoliberals and the trickle-down economy that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael both bought into, [the idea] that the market will sort everything out. B***ocks.”
Our boy doesn’t hold back and I’m here for it!
So ultimately, I feel like what we’re saying is that in order for Starfleet and that beautiful vision that Roddenberry had of this optimistic utopia, in order for that vision to exist, in order for the light to exist, you need people who operate in the shadows. And it’s a yin and yang. You can’t have one without the other.
I don’t like this sort of mother-goosery in my fully automated luxury gay space communism.
I prefer the assimilating power of root beer as the true defender of the federation.
That feeling when someone makes a really good point and makes me wonder if S3 was not as good as I thought it was.