It was so good for its time. I loved it so much as a kid. I especially loved the portable pattern buffer being a great in-universe solution to explain how a game character can carry many different weapons. It fits so well into the universe that I half expected to see such a thing on the shows someday. It would have been too disruptive to plot development for the characters always to have what they need with them, though.
Thanks for the giveaway, amazing to see you in the fediverse!
Am I missing out on some fantastic space shows and movies? I watched the expanse as it came out, the same with Orville. What else is there that suggests market saturation? I need some good stuff this winter š
I say this one is canon and itās proof that Trip didnāt die in enterprise. The hologram just got super inaccurate and twisted as it got passed around with lossy compression in a game of telephone like an old meme.
If this was a different franchise I would see this as hyper commercial pandering and useless plastic junk.
But every year my good friends and I have an ornament exchange party where we are supposed to bring an ornament that embodies ourselves in some way or another. This would be perfect, as obviously me being here I love star trek, animals and Data is one of my favorites. Alas on the website I donāt see a direct way to buy this in Canada.
The US centricity is actually an interesting topic in-universe. Especially because the federation should try and work hard to make member worlds feel equal. Having so much Americentrism would alienate the aliens. The federation has done a bad job of this š
Of course the real answer is that the people that make it are American and itās probably largely for American audiences and therefore producers and writers feel like they need to show people things they are comfortable with. And when they do show other cultures they are seen through an American lens. Which is why the Irish were so cliche that OāBrien even teleported the straw around their feet when they beamed into Picardās enterprise. šØāš¾
Which Lemmy am I in? Which way to the daystrom institute?
Iām taking it at face value that old earth figures of speech and idioms would be problematic on a TAS bridge with the nomaly going on, they addressed that by the cat person responding that āthere is more than one way to disembowel a humanā, we wouldnāt like people casually throwing that around. Itās also tongue in cheek as illustrated by the knickerstonians and the ship blowing up. Itās meant to be silly.
The tapestry of star trek (and science fiction) has always included silly and over the top alongside the serious, thought provoking and intelligent.
Cornering the star trek parody and comedy market with their own product is genius btw. Like how Elvisās manager sold āI hate Elvisā shirts.
My thought was, how bad would it be without autotune? š¬
I just enjoyed it for what it was at surface level, though. First, the Orville, then lower decks and now this showed that star trek is big enough to be funny and thought-provoking.
I donāt like musicals either. But I was impressed that the reason everyone was singing was thoroughly encountered, explained and responded to in a classic star trek science fiction way. It was completely at home with how phenomena are explored in TNG and classic series. They didnāt shoehorn it in just to try and make a musical for no reason, and didnāt drop developing the characters and story while doing it either.
I had a lot of fun, and laughed harder than watching any lower decks episodes.
I thought FTL communication is just a fun typical science fiction understanding of quantum entanglement.
I thought we would still have to know what is going on at the probe via another means to know or decode the message sent by the entangled particles to their counterparts on Earth.
Kind of like putting two letters in two envelopes but we donāt know what colour they are, just that they will always be opposite colours. Even the person arranging them doesnāt know which colour they are. We donāt know if a red letter is sent to London or a green one is sent to LA or what colour theyāll be at all. But when we open the letter in London and see that itās the red one we know the other one in LA is green.
So no matter where or when the person with the red letter is, theyāll always know the other person has the green one once they open the letter. But no information has been mysteriously transported across space and time, just the correlation between the two has been discovered.