[-] Stormygeddon@startrek.website 4 points 3 days ago

It's been a gas and it's time to pass.

[-] Stormygeddon@startrek.website 6 points 3 days ago

Spoiler throughout:

Is that an angry bullpup version of the unicorn dog from the Original Series? I like the Sense-oars pronunciation I spotted. OMG I should've expected them to address the different Klingon looks but I didn't expect to see a T'kuvma / Discovery era Klingon reappearing. When they said "solidton" particles I imagined it was going to be a metaphor about keeping "canon" stagnant. First time I see a ST character say "those words aren't real" to Treknobabble. I'm glad they're keeping the Star Trek tradition of holding up way too many Pads on the table where one should've done the trick. I never wondered if Klingons had claws for toenails, now I am. I like how Brad tries to convince others that William's the worst. How'd they know they were dropping out of warp if the next shot shows them cloaked? I expected as much with the ship changing. Never really cared much for the different classes of ships though. This Rutherford bitterness feels like it came out of nowhere. Those whales are thirsty again. I thought she was going all Kamehameha. I have a feeling the clam is a reference to something but I'm not sure what. IDK why, but that one shot of Boimler turning his head and us being able to see under his chin particularly stood out as a "bump the lamp" moment. Was there a cut scene, what was (silver?) Badgey doing there? Or was that Goodgey? Have I forgotten about them? I like how Ransom made his own rule for provisional first officers. Engage the core is a perfect Warp catchphrase.

[-] Stormygeddon@startrek.website 18 points 1 week ago

I liked how William Boimler was so done with Multiverse fatigue. Felt topical given the current Hollywood trend.

"Sodium is not a full life" "Maybe it is for me, dammit!" Felt this in my soul.

[-] Stormygeddon@startrek.website 111 points 4 months ago

"There are no bras in space." ~ George Lucas

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The whales Gracie and George were stated to have wandered into San Francisco as calves. Outside of feeding events which can include the famous bubble nets, humpback whale pods usually consist of a lone mother and calf (or calves) pairing with a trailing "escort" male. Humpbacks are one of the few mammals that can be nursing and still get pregnant. So anyway, the implication seems to be that if they were both calves and coming in the same time as a pod, they must have been orphaned from their mother and part of the same family group. Therefore, when its later revealed that Gracie is pregnant this one question comes to mind:

"Was the pregnancy a product of incest?"

No wonder they were originally going to be called Adam and Evie.

[-] Stormygeddon@startrek.website 18 points 8 months ago

It was hard to explain why, but it definitely had a "comic from over a decade ago" feel that I noticed before seeing the 2011 post date.

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[-] Stormygeddon@startrek.website 22 points 9 months ago

Don't social media prevent 13 year olds and under from signing up anyway? They ask for your age but it doesn't seem to keep kids from lying about their age and going on facebook, instagram, twitter, TikTok, etc, regardless. That's disregarding the idea that a child could just use their parent's account. What's the enforcement besides the honor system and a vague threat of being sued? I am failing to see a difference between the state of things now and what that bill wants to introduce.

[-] Stormygeddon@startrek.website 16 points 9 months ago

I've been catching myself calling it the activation rune instead of the power button.

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The show had already established how Tendi has green blood earlier in the series after an injury and it would have been an easy to infer detail compared to humans in the show.

Other animated shows like Steven Universe already show how non-pink blush colors can work in animation.

[-] Stormygeddon@startrek.website 19 points 1 year ago

I like it when the Ferengi stay on brand.

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[-] Stormygeddon@startrek.website 18 points 1 year ago

If you think that's needlessly specific, have you ever seen the Wookiepedia page about "breasts?"

Then again, Memory Alpha also has a page on breasts.

[-] Stormygeddon@startrek.website 19 points 1 year ago

I'll always find it a little weird how pop culture settled on making Dwarves vaguely Scottish when their origin is as Nordic and Germanic mountain spirits.

[-] Stormygeddon@startrek.website 34 points 1 year ago

Pike should have just said one "Beep."

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By that I mean that the basic premise being: that the means of (re)creating new technology is lost, the current technology around is treated as sacred and the function marred in elaborate rituals or prayers because they don't know how to otherwise operate it, and to a lesser extent that new ideas or (often xenophillic) research is met with suspicion or outright rejected because it doesn't fit with the religious dogma.

I keep feeling that a similar group is somewhere in Star Trek, right on the cusp of my memory, but I can't seem to recall any specific examples.

[-] Stormygeddon@startrek.website 26 points 1 year ago

I found it peculiar how the Klingons were saying there was no honor in the singing—considering how into Opera the can be known to be—up until I heard how they got the most egregious of the autotune.

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