Oh hell. So I'm a little bit tipsy, but I just saw the words "Roxanne Dawson (B'Elanna) passed" and got damn scared for a second
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I'm sober and did the same.
Woke up, no coffee yet, and saw "Roxann Dawson (B’Elanna) passed ... " Startled the heck out of me.
Baked af and I freaked the mother fuck out (while remaining partially calm).
I am not tipsy and the title got me too. I was running a magic event in my game shop and let out an audible gasp causing several players to ask what was wrong.
I had the same panic. That's not even the title of the article ('Voyager's Roxann Dawson Had A Chance To Direct Star Trek But Dropped It For Another Show') so, unless the website changed it, you have to wonder what OP was doing writing it that way.
OP isn’t American. It’s not a universal euphemism.
Even having lived in the US at one point it’s not an automatic connection.
Canadians (at least in my experience) use the expression ‘passed away’ if at all to avoid saying ‘died.’
But also being Canadian, I’ve given my regrets elsewhere on this thread. And I’m sorry for the unintended shock to any and all who don’t share my dialect.
No worries. You regularly comment and post on a variety of topics, always with a steady and non-antagonistic viewpoint. This situation is very, "it's not you, it's me." I have relatives from the southern U.S., and they shorten "passed away" to just "passed." It's just what I'm used to hearing.
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The title got me as well, and I was sober. My heart dropped and then I reread and let a sigh of relief...
The little blurb shown on this post is wrong:
Roxann Dawson was an actor on Star Trek: Voyager before she became a TV director, although she's never actually directed a Star Trek episode.
She directed about 10% of all Enterprise episodes.
I thought she’d directed episodes of Voyager too.
Memory Alpha credits her with Voyager episodes ‘Riddles’ and ‘Workforce Part II’.
hit those fools with the knowledge
"With directing efforts on shows like "Voyager," "Enterprise," "Lost," "The Americans," and many more under her belt, she was most recently put in charge of two pivotal episodes of "Foundation" season 2, the Apple TV+ sci-fi series based on Isaac Asimov's novels."
I think they fixed the line and added the correct info now. That quote was from the article. Since the title says "new trek" I'm guessing they meant discovery/SNW/Picard as the trek the picked Foundation over to direct.
Wikipedia says she also directed 2 Voyager episodes.
Enterprise isn't Star Trek, confirmed! (I kid, I kid.)
She directed episodes of both "Enterprise" and Star Trek: Enterprise", which each lasted two seasons. The stealth name change was surprising back then.
Enterprise is just a Quantum Leap episode.
I was gonna say, I just finished Enterprise and she directed at least two that I recall.
It even mentions directing enterprise in the article. Bad editing.
And it's a quite nice little episode. Foundation really got good in its second season.
Second season is so boring I barely got through first two episodes over a week because I kept falling asleep watching them. I really hope it picks up in E3.
I think I have never disagreed with anyone more in my life then you and your post.
I'm actually a little jealous. That must be an awesome life :-)
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So much better Sci-fi out there that would be amazing for a TV series or three.
Personally I work love to have a go at the Greg Mandel series or if I had all the money the Honor Harrington series.
the Honor Harrington series.
These books are fun, but they're not good. Bad prose, ridiculous characters, childish storylines. It would almost have to be approached like Starship Troopers and treated as a parody of the genre.
They get worse as they go on, like most Weber series. A few books in and they seem to always devolve to coredumps of exposition and backstory marginally dressed up as meetings. Even the tactics and action diminishes to the point where I’ve read more compelling write ups of tabletop war games.
(And I’m someone who both war games and has read every single book in the Safehold series.)
@cygnus The earlier books have fantastic, well-thought out space combat scenes, fairly well informed by physics and orbital mechanics.
Everything around those scenes is cringeworthy, and gets much worse as the series goes on. (Honor may be the most Mary Sue character ever.)
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I’d like to see CJ Cherryh’s Alliance-Union universe brought to the screen.
Downbelow Station seems made to become a streaming series.
I just started listening through the series and all I can think about is how epic the TV show would be.
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