[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

They're related, those incestuous, chinless WASPs. Brother takes sister to a formal dance and stops by the pharmacy to get a malt and let Dad get a whiff of sister's corsage. Keep it in the family!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Do you know where you are commenting? And surely you mean "another Star Trek work place comedy," because we already have DS9.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

It's a comedy, so I hope so too! I imagine the planet, being a vacation/pleasure planet, will have a lot of kinks that are taboo to the Federation and that's where you will find the narrative tension as they apply for membership. The planet will have a constitution at odds with the Fed, full of kinks. They might welcome species that have kinks not outlined in said constitution. They might welcome federation citizens that are exploring their non-Fed kinks on this planet.

We've seen plenty of criticism of the Federation's nanny-state. Lately, that criticism has come from the writers of the shows who seem to have lost the narrative that the Federation is our ideal. Sure, it has issues, but none of us should be ashamed of reaching for utopia. I hope the new show is a continuation of the SNW and Prodigy reboot of a less cynical Trek.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

The Grianán of Aileach is a hillfort atop the 244 metres (801 ft) high Greenan Mountain at Inishowen in County Donegal, Ireland. The main structure is a 19th-century reconstruction of a stone ringfort, thought to have been built by the Northern Uí Néill, in the sixth or seventh century CE. The wall is about 4.5 metres (15 ft) thick and 5 metres (16 ft) high. Inside it has three terraces, which are linked by steps, and two long passages within it. Originally, there would have been buildings inside the ringfort. Just outside it are the remains of a well and a tumulus.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grianan_of_Aileach

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Thank God this dangerous man is off the streets.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Good trailer, they finally released a compelling narrative thread to set up the movie. I like that Bucky is the one who has been a part of a team and is now leading the way in forming another to face The Void. Will I watch it in a theatre? 😬

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

There are a bajillion, but maybe you are looking for a specific genre that nails it on the head.

As someone mentioned, there are thousands of social drama films that could've easily happened. The success of that type of film is selling a "day in the life" plot.

Someone else mentioned Office Space. That film is a satire, but it condenses and delivers refined representations of the banality of cubicle life that we all can easily relate to. The characters truly seem to be facsimiles of people we've known in our working lives.

Someone else mentioned Michael Clayton. It's an excellent thriller with flawed characters with believable motives that yes, it could be real. And maybe something like that has happened?

What genre will help us answer your question?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I have copies of the same bands' albums in four different formats.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

"How is our young doctor?" ..."Young."

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I just started my DS9 rewatch today, having just completed Voyager, Enterprise and SNW in my "COVID then RSV then ENT infection" couch-misery marathon. I saw the Q episode with Vash just hours ago - loved O'Brien's reaction when he recognized Q.

I think they developed Voyager and DS9 to be two halves of the Star Trek whole. Voyager was flung so far that almost every species was new, so right from the start it highlighted the awkward first handshakes the Federation had to endure. DS9 included (mostly) known species and highlighted the increasingly awkward second handshakes, and third, and on and on: the real work of diplomacy beyond first contact. It's a political drama, The West Wing in space. Q has no patience for such intricacies, though that is what he often says he values so much in humanity.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

And you reveal a cloaked ship that is collecting your effluence for fuel. Ew.

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