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  • I feel like super hero comic fans have a bad rep, but are more easy going about this than one may think. Things kind of drift in and out of continuity all the time. Especially if we’re talking about a big creator. Grant Morrison misremembers Batman’s son’s origin? Okay, that’s the new origin! He wants to bring back the second Robin’s red hair, which was written out twenty years ago? Okay, that’s a thing again.

  • Burger of the Day: The Fry-nal Frontier (burger topped with fries)

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  • This seems very on-brand for Shatner.

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  • I’m with you. Of all the things they could have done after turning our guys into outlaws, they go with a trip to 1980s Earth? I mean, it’s budget friendly, but a bit of a let down…

  • What genre is next? ( Slight spoilers for star trek strange New worlds)

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  • They've gotta do a superhero episode, right? They get powers, everyone capes up, they drop some jokes bits about Una and shapeshifting...

  • mad satire

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  • Kind of ironic that the art here is so much better than the joke. Really well done caricatures.

  • Henry knows what's up

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  • There’s a similar fun fact about the ‘60s Addams Family house interior being mostly pink. It worked perfectly well for a show filmed in black and white, but obviously no one would argue that that’s how Gomez and Morticia actually decorated their home.

    But for the purposes of a meme, it’s fine.

  • When people tell me AI will eventually replace everyone

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  • Oh, the wastes! The magnificent wastes! When I was a lad I knew a man who visited the wastes and brought back such beautiful things! Real salt from the dry riverbeds, pieces of rubber that would burn for hours and give us such marvellous dreams! One day I'll earn enough to take you to the wastes myself, young one. One day.

  • Logically, it really do be like that sometimes

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  • Perfect choice of director..

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  • Possibly. Most people's first thought when they heard "Batman" at the time was probably still the '60s series, but Dark Knight Returns had gotten a bit of press already pushing back on that. But really, Burton's sensibilities just work with the character. Maybe it's whoever convinced him to give the job a chance we have to thank.

  • Perfect choice of director..

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  • Eeh. Most of the complaints I see in this thread about Trek 2009 would apply as well to TWoK if people were being even handed. It's a pew pew action film. There are no deep philosophical questions being tackled. It's not utopian -- Starfleet is portrayed as a straight forward space navy that works with real scientists only begrudgingly.

    There's kick ass high drama and a decent character study of an ageing Kirk, but the character work on Kirk and Spock in 2009 wasn't all that bad, either.

  • Perfect choice of director..

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  • Burton's Batman films are top tier, though. If I get a great director with a solid vision for the character/story, I don't care at all if they were a fan before hand or not.

  • Perfect choice of director..

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  • Indeed. Nicolas Meyer was the same, and most fans seem to love his contributions to the franchise. Being a newcomer isn’t a bad thing. Sometimes a fresh perspective can be a great thing.

    Not to say I love Abrams’ work, but in the end he did more harm to Star Wars than to Trek, and by all accounts he’s a life long Star Wars fan.

  • "Tell me, do they still sing songs of the Great Tribble Hunt?" - Odo to Worf

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  • First time I ever saw that put forward was in this fun follow up to Trials and Tribble-Ations:

  • "You know she spoke 86 languages? I wrote three papers on her at the Academy." - Uhura

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  • Well, they do…

  • Best Star Trek Captain (wrong answers only)

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  • Gotta make sure those torpedoes are are armed with C-4 warheads, though.

  • Loving this new meme template

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  • Mid visor at best; doesn’t even shoot laser beams.

  • Know the signs

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  • Evil

    <insert any female character name>

    : aggressively bisexual

  • Also works with Worf vs Ezri

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  • Don't listen to the naysayers. I've been a trekkie since the '90s, and I very much enjoy Disco. It's not perfect (season 2 was especially messy), but most of the criticisms I hear against it make no sense to me and/or could easily apply to other beloved instalments in the franchise.

  • Star Trek didn't "become woke", you just grew up to be a bad person.

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  • I would not say TNG was particularly more subtle. A gendered alien from a genderless race being put through conversion therapy is about as subtle as Let That Be Your Last Battlefield was. A planet of literal Native Americans in space being forcibly moved by Picard, who finds out he is the actual descendent of a 17th century coloniser, is somehow even less subtle. The Measure of a Man would have worked without explicitly bringing up slavery, but they made sure that it was brought up, and that it was a black woman who did it. Star Trek has pretty much always shouted its message for the people in the back row.

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