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buckykat ,

It came out in October, it won’t come to consoles.

buckykat ,

4X games don’t really work on controllers.

EDIT: apparently Stellaris did eventually come to consoles three years after its initial release so it’s not totally impossible but I sure wouldn’t want to play Stellaris without a mouse or without mods

buckykat ,

The Federation’s position on genetic engineering is not well considered

buckykat ,

The meat Federation citizens eat isn’t really an animal product. In the Orville, it’s actually made explicit that killing an animal for food is regarded as tantamount to murder in the Union.

buckykat ,

astronaut-2 astronaut-1

buckykat ,

Those kids aren’t technically Starfleet officers (in season 1) but they’re very Starfleet.

buckykat ,

A Star Trek about civilians would have to be done extremely carefully to not ruin everything with gold plated latinum.

buckykat ,

Absolutely. Star Trek writers are in no way immune to capitalist realism themselves, especially when they’re beholden to studio execs and budgets.

I didn’t make it more than a few episodes into Picard before giving up in disgust, and this only validates my choice there. It’s not just Picard though. Strange New Worlds is generally quite good, but the colony shown in the most recent episode was explicitly modeled on a mid 20th century American small town, a place Federation citizens should know better than to emulate.

Are there any novels or fanfics you’d recommend that do an actual good job of portraying a properly post scarcity Federation culture?

buckykat ,

T’Lyn is fitting in perfectly. The way she deadpanned “losing” her notes and then immediately explained her choice as a straightforward matter of ethics was fantastic.

buckykat ,

That’s a Culture Orbital! Except that a Mind needing human maintenance is of course ridiculous.

buckykat ,

I forgot about the black mountain so until I saw the koala I thought Boimler got backed up and restored

Have watched TOS - Enterprise. Will watching Discovery-SNW increase my enjoyment of Lower Decks?

My partner and I have just binged TOS-Enterprise last year and we are starting Discovery today. I was just wondering if we can also start LD or will there still be jokes from Discovery (and the later shows) that we might miss out on? I have really bad FOMO anxiety and am worried there will be references in LD that we will miss...

buckykat ,

There is a crossover of lower decks characters in strange new worlds, but you’ll get more out of that from seeing lower decks first

Child poverty in the United States just more than doubled. You can thank Joe Manchin. ( www.motherjones.com )

The United States’ poverty rate experienced its largest one-year jump on record last year, with the rate among children more than doubling from 2021’s historic low of 5.2 percent to 12.4 percent according to new numbers from the US Census Bureau out today. They’re the latest data to reflect the devastating effects...

buckykat ,

Everyone on the entire internet is part of one of the two major right wing parties in the USA

Voyager and Paramount Plus

I just started watching Voyager on Paramount Plus today, and noticed that the first two episodes, which are shown together, are presented as the appropriate 4:3 aspect ratio, but Episode 3 “Parallax” is presented in a distorted 16:9 or 16:10 format. I see no option to change this in Paramount Plus settings, and my Vizio TV...

buckykat ,

There are other ways to watch Voyager

buckykat ,

We’ve had a Trek version of Stellaris for a while in the New horizons mod

Star Trek and The Orville, which is better/worse?

I asked this question sometime ago on The Orville’s subreddit, and surprisingly got mixed responses. I assume most here however, are going to prefer Star Trek, specifically TNG that its aping from. For the record I do prefer TNG as well, but rewatching The Orville, after you get past its kinda sucky first season, I really...

buckykat ,

The Orville overall is right up there with the top tier Trek shows.

buckykat ,

The first season being a bit of a mess is classic Trek behavior to be fair. I think the comedy angle was mostly a way to trick Fox into running it.

buckykat ,

Malloy is a stalker and a rapist in that timeline, it’s good that Mercer went back and prevented it.

buckykat ,

As early as episode 3 they were trying to do serious storylines, and as early as episode 4 they were succeeding. I think it was always intended to be real Trek with the serial numbers filed off but sold to Fox and consequently advertised as a parody.

buckykat ,

One thing I really like about the depiction of the Kaylon is that, as far as I remember, nobody ever suggests that they were wrong to kill their builders, only to generalize their hatred of those builders to all organics.

buckykat ,

No. All the episodes were good. There should be more of them though

buckykat ,

for whatever reason.

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