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  • May as well just consider each series to be its own universe

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  • I think it's the episode By Any Other Name where the Enterprise explicitly covers something like 1000 light years in 8 hours. Plus there's the trip to the edge of the galaxy in TOS, then to the galactic centre in TAS and again in the films. Pretty hard to square any of it with Voyager's 75 year trip home.

  • May as well just consider each series to be its own universe

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  • Oh, I don't know. At the end of the day the core story of James R. Kirk and his Vulcanian first officer exploring thousands of light years a day on behalf of the United Earth Space Probe Agency has remained wonderfully consistent over the years.

  • It was gay all along

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  • Yeah, gene knew exactly what he was saying.

  • "Woke"

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  • The Orville is painfully derivative. It’s not the Star Trek show we never got, it’s reheated leftovers of the Star Trek show we already had thirty years ago.

    NuTrek has certainly had its writing failures (looking in Picard’s direction), but at least it generally tried to let the franchise evolve.

    And none of those failures had anything to do with “virtue signalling”. They’ve mostly been the result of committing to a season long arc with no meaningful plan and fumbling the ball halfway to the finish line.

  • Don't ever put someone down

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  • Just mirror Kirk?

  • Chaotic-Evil Neutral-Evil reporting in

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  • Lawful evil. If I'm just reading through a book and can't remember where I left off, it's probably not a book worth coming back to. Bookmarks are exclusively for passages I want to come back to after I've finished the book - in those cases it's usually just a scrap of paper.

  • Say it with me now...

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  • In an early episode on TNG, Riker describes time warp as exceeding warp 10. Which makes sense - at warp 10 you arrive at your destination at the same moment that you left your origin, so at warp 10+ you arrive earlier than you left.

  • Data tries out his new "prank" subroutine

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  • That’s all very true, but it doesn’t stop me from feeling like Data would have a better time learning about humour from any other crew. Another great instance is his conversation with Guinan during the series, when she tries to explain jokes to him with “you’re a droid and I’m a noid”. I wasn’t laughing, either, and I don’t believe it’s because I have an odd sense of humour.

    Then she gives up and sends him to the holodeck to learn from a computer generated stand up comic. Which is like telling ChatGPT to learn psychotherapeutic techniques from Eliza.

    The poor man never stood a chance.

  • Data tries out his new "prank" subroutine

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  • Reminds me of the scene in Generations where Riker dunked Worf in the water, data joined in the fun by dunking Crusher, and everyone responded like that was totally out of pocket.

    Doesn’t make sense to me either, Data.

  • Your Best in Warp Speed analogy

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  • Ah, but consider: Space and time and thought are not the separate things we imagine they are, and sometimes a Galaxy class starship can cross the entire universe on the power of belief.

    So brew another coffee and keep on burning out, I suppose?

  • The Trek Place

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  • He must have been walking on eggshells all through Star Trek IV, just waiting for a riot to break out.

  • The Trek Place

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  • The one I always feel like I need to warn people about is the treatment of Rand in The Enemy Within. Particularly since that happens so early in the series.

  • The "Joy" of chess

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  • Is it any better if it’s poker?

  • The "Joy" of chess

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  • Technically it would have to, wouldn’t it? But the typical experience is more like LARPing.

    What about someone using the holodeck to play chess?

  • MRW I finally watch Lower Decks and realize that "adult animation" doesn't mean "boring to children", and just means "violence, profanity, and sophomoric humor"

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  • No one misinterpreted your original post. It was sarcastic and dismissive, so people responded with that same energy.

    As to the edit, I think it’s good that the new Trek shows each have such distinct personalities. They won’t all appeal to everyone, but the overall diversity is a strength. Part of what killed Star Trek in the 2000s was that TNG, Voyager, and Enterprise had all stuck to a very consistent approach. After close to twenty years, it was inevitably feeling a bit stale.

  • MRW I finally watch Lower Decks and realize that "adult animation" doesn't mean "boring to children", and just means "violence, profanity, and sophomoric humor"

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  • You wanted Lower Decks to be more boring? I like a good conference room scene as much as the next Trekkie, but they only had 22 minutes to work with!

  • moOOOmmm

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  • Looks like good Star Trek to me. I love the Franz Joseph stuff. Pored over it for hours when I was a kid.

  • Engage

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  • Is Beverly carrying a twentieth century clipboard?

  • The Blue Hair

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  • I didn't confuse Beast with Sonic, but I updated because it's hilarious that someone else did.