[-] LibraryLass@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

You know, as a big FF8 booster, this makes me reconsider some stuff.

[-] LibraryLass@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

1 and 3 are both great, and I'll go against the grain and say that 4 is pretty mediocre.

[-] LibraryLass@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

None of these “very special message” episodes either

I mean, barring the single best episode of the show.

[-] LibraryLass@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

James Bond, for instance, is a different person from each actor to have played him

That's not canonical, merely a popular theory.

[-] LibraryLass@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

The idea of being able to essentially species change a Klingon into a Human with TOS-era Klingon medical tech sounds impossibly advanced for what the Klingons are known for.

It's also something that literally happened in a TOS episode that almost everyone saw and liked.

[-] LibraryLass@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

It's one thing to do as a one-off gag or a nostalgia bit. It would not have been possible to take seriously for an ongoing series in 2017, except for hardcore fans that don't need to be sold on it.

[-] LibraryLass@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

...That's literally what happens in the Dune books.

[-] LibraryLass@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

I mean... not that much. Daleks have gone through three redesigns just since the show went back. Sontarans went from the world's most unconvincing rubber masks to makeup. And how many eyes do Silurians have-- two, or three?

[-] LibraryLass@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

because apparently Star Trek, unlike every other fantasy and science fiction thing I like, is Forbidden from being treated like a secondary world that should have its own internal consistency.

Nonsense-- other long-running universes encounter retcons and visual redesigns all the time. Quick, how old was Dick Grayson when he first became Robin? What color is Superman's S? How old was Magneto during the Holocaust? What happened to Luke's father? Did James Bond fight in World War 2, or participate the Cold War?

[-] LibraryLass@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

I dug 'em. It was a good experiment in pushing Trek's aliens beyond a forehead and an accent.

[-] LibraryLass@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

>Is there anyone still holding out for a “refit” of the beautiful SNW Enterprise so that it “really” looks like a set from the late 1960s?

Sadly, I can confirm there are.

[-] LibraryLass@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago

Another key takeaway from this that I hadn't considered before:

Augments aren't just banned from Starfleet. They can't become doctors either. Speaking as a Jew my people know firsthand that one of the best ways to create an underclass is to restrict the occupations available to them. Are augments systematically kept out of skilled professions, denied the chance to better themselves and their fellow sapients? Very disturbing possiblity.

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