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  • Well, Bert? Bert, why aren't you saying anything, Bert?

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  • Committing to any real world dates was a fundamental misstep. They knew it was a bad idea from the start! That's the whole reason stardates were invented! But they couldn't help themselves.

  • Time for a DS9 rewatch

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  • Their "reevaluation" window just hasn't come yet. It's really only been in the past couple of years that I've started seeing Enterprise getting praised as often as not. And obviously it's not that every fan has changed their minds, I'm talking about the general attitude taken as a whole.

  • Time for a DS9 rewatch

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  • Maybe Wednesday should be labelled The Star Trek Fandom, and Enid should be The Newest Star Trek Show. A big chunk of fans always gripe at first, complain about every little thing, but over time the new controversial show becomes accepted and loved as part of the greater Trek family.

  • Dr Douchebag to med bay

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  • Been too long since I saw the episode. Skimming the transcript, this is the quote I remembered:

    It never occurred to me. This is what I am. Did you ever tell me that you are only a single being? Of course not. That was normal to you.

    And since Beverly gives no real pushback to that, I kind of assumed that was a fair justification: that the Trill as they existed in this episode simply hasn’t had enough contact with other humanoids to know they were different.

    But skimming the rest of the transcript, you're right. Odan doesn’t correct anyone who refers to his previous work as that of his father. He clearly understands this difference and purposefully hides it.

    Feel like that makes the episode less interesting. And especially worse retrospectively if we apply the obvious trans metaphor...

  • Dr Douchebag to med bay

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  • It wasn’t a lie, though, because there was no intent to deceive. The trill just views this as normal. They saw no more reason to “reveal” how their biology works than a human might feel the need to disclose that they’ll wrinkle and weaken with age.

    Realistically spacefaring races would probably find ways of sorting these things out before getting involved, but that’s how it was presented in the episode.

  • Dr Douchebag to med bay

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  • They do not discuss it with outsiders.

  • One is illegal, and one is not

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  • While the Federation's laws target genetic manipulation specifically, the motivation behind them was an enduring fear of the one time they created a "superior" type of person who then became tyrants. Data certainly could be seen as superior to a human, so I'd say he (and moreso Lore, obviously) does fall within the spirit of the law.

    Add in the fact that a Soong was involved in both creations, and Picard's augment ban actually makes a bit more sense.

  • Take-off, but at a light hover or you'll hit the...

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  • It really can't be overstated how massive the main shuttlebay was intended to be. Building a set really wouldn't have been an option.

  • Given the number of resurrected characters and "unexpected" twists, Trek might as well be categorized as a soap

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  • Back when it was airing, my dad would refer to it as “As The Station Turns”

  • Your ship is so ugly it should be hauled away as garbage

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  • Yo mama so fat Nus Braka couldn’t find enough Omega Mines to pen her in.

  • Name that episode (hard)

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  • Name that episode (hard)

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  • I must be going crazy -- this is just his manager, right? Al looks nothing like this guy!

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  • Reminds me of the old days when people would tell me that Star Trek was just a soap opera in space like it was supposed to get a rise out of me. At most, you're going to sell me on checking out soap operas.

  • Many haven't seen this niche Star Trek series

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  • Fuck the lore. Half the hardcore fans who know all the lore just use it to bitch about inconsistencies. Dive in wherever you like and everything you need to know will be exposited to you by a convenient captain’s log or an over loquacious android.

  • Saturday morning breakfast cereal Witch

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  • The witch from Hansel and Gretel is the one example that comes to mind.

  • Bearer of bad news

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  • Yeah, TNG already did a better job in less than half the time with Journeys End. And that wasn’t even a particularly great episode.

  • What, like it's hard?

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  • Wow, I did not know that! The TNG crew met Venusians from the centre of the galaxy. That’s wonderful.

  • What, like it's hard?

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  • Reading between the lines of The Nth Degree, one might suppose the entity was a Cytherian, who granted Sybok the knowledge to get the ship, as would later happen with Barclay. And maybe the other Cytherians helped them get back home as well?

    Of course, this all contradicts my preferred theory was that there was no entity. At least, not until Sybok arrived and found his supposed "Eden" to be an empty wasteland. Unable to deal with his whole belief system falling apart, his subconscious leveraged his advanced mental abilities to conjure an appropriate godlike being. But of course, like him, it was a little bit mad...

  • What, like it's hard?

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  • Actually, there was just a lot of downtime between shots of STV. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy spent about 40 years in that brig cell waiting for Scott to break them out. By the time they made it back home they had caught up to the TNG era. That's why Worf was able to serve as as defense attorney in the trial in STVI. It's obvious when you think about it.