Boomers who havent yet retired being at peak earning while also likely being empty nesters, and retired or not, having a home to sell to put towards your next one leaves you at a huge advantage.
It’s also a rough market out there for buyers with bidding wars(which makes it sound like an auction but it’s more put your best offer down and hope someone who’s frustrated with the market and has deep pockets doesnt jump in and overpay with a ludicrous bid). Prices are high and while we Millennials are finally getting there as a generation income wise, we’re still on average behind our parents.
A retcon is still a retcon even if it fits or doesnt inherently contradict anything. They do it in comics all the time. Having spoc suddenly have a secret human sister he cant talk about because shes classified is a retcon regardless of whether it fits or was well done.
I feel like my biggest issue with Discovery was that it failed to live up to its potential. There was a lot that it did right and it had some interesting characters but it never really stuck the landing on it’s major arc premises.
The war with the Klingons was disappointingly handled. I find the little glimpses we get of it in strange new worlds to be way more compelling than the season that actually sort of focused on it. In addition to that the stakes were always way too damn high. Like every arc was an existential save the galaxy from war with the klingons, mirror universe invaders, or super AIs, or solve the energy problems of the future. The show also lacked that sunny optimism that trek normally has. Every once in a while it’d reach for it and then come crashing back down.
Overall it wasnt horrible but meh. When season 4 went on hiatus I lost track of when it came back. I meant to get back to the series but I just never mustered the momentum to do so.
I also feel like Picard was similar though I enjoyed the final season of that more(likely because it shamelessly tugged at my nostalgia strings.
With Strange New World and Lower decks the showrunners have found a better groove for trek I think.
Yeah a little bit of a shame how inconsequential the pairings wound up being, but still a fun outing. Also I enjoyed how both A & B plots dealt with AI threats with one being silly but existentially deadly, and the other AI being superficially deadly but relatively harmless.
The show managed to be surprisingly great. Superficially it looked like a rick and morty knockoff, but the series really has a good sense of humor while balancing the wacky off kilter fun in a way that still feels like star trek.
Upstate wouldnt have to be a city at all. Could be a town, hamlet village, unincorporated land, state park. Archer was young enough to have been around while earth was still rebuilding in theory.
Upstate itself is also a very general location for the state. It’s most commonly used by people from the NYC metro area to refer to pretty much anything north of the bronx. This means upstate could in theory refer to anything from Westchester or Rockland county, to Watertown, to Niagara falls(though dont tell a western new yorker theyre from upstate they’ll throw a fit).
LoglineWhen the USS Enterprise investigates an attack on a colony at the edge of Federation space, Captain Pike and his crew face the return of a formidable enemy....
So I’m partly posting this because I like DS9 and wouldn’t mind chatting about its episodes once in a while, so I’d love to hear people’s opinions in general about the episode....
It was a great episode overall. I love that we got to deal with the medical side of mental trauma and that we’ve been getting a more expanded klingon war.
One of the most disappointing things about discovery is that it takes place during the klingon war, but it really doesnt do enough with the actual war aspect of it. We get a few skirmishes and some internal klingon struggles and we hear about how bad the war is going, but we dont really see most of it since it’s not the main focus of discovery. Seeing the war be better addressed in Strange new worlds has been great.
The set designs are incredible. I do love how the series doesnt try to run away from the old colors and designs. Like it looks like the old 60s enterprise but with a budget and as a result the shapes and mid century style remain but its like a good midcentury style.
Not just canceled. Removed from the platform. They have a product that they already paid for that is part of a franchise that has diehard fans who will watch and rewatch even if they dont like it, but somehow it is more profitable to scrub the internet of its existence.
Yeah theres a sort of goofy way memory loss works and how it was still taken very seriously gave me a good old school trek vibe which I dug throughout the episode.
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I do love also how she’s not some wisened genius race. She’s just old. Like maybe her people were space faring at some point in time, but given how long they live getting fast high end tech isnt necessary so they probably werent as advanced as most species we encounter in star trek.
But also even if they were it’s been a long time since they used their tech and even if they remember it it’s not like she would know how to build it. Like I know how to drive a car, and can do some basic mechanic work, and I know the broad strokes of how an internal combustion engine works. If someone asked me to build them a car they’d be out of luck.
Baby boomers are buying up all the houses ( www.washingtonpost.com )
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Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x07 "A Few Badgeys More"
LoglineThree computerized villains return to cause problems for the Cerritos crew....
New Era of Star Trek - promotional trailer for new shows on Paramount+ ( youtu.be )
This was included in the Star Trek Day content, but released separately a couple of days ago....
Officer Training in days of NX-01
In the days of the NX-01, how would one become an officer?...
‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Cast Talks About The Big Change For Season 4 ( trekmovie.com )
What Upstate New York city is Captain Jonathan Archer from?
All the bios just say is that he was born in Upstate New York, and lived a majority of his life in San Francisco....
Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x10 "Hegemony"
LoglineWhen the USS Enterprise investigates an attack on a colony at the edge of Federation space, Captain Pike and his crew face the return of a formidable enemy....
DS9 S2 "Second Sight"
So I’m partly posting this because I like DS9 and wouldn’t mind chatting about its episodes once in a while, so I’d love to hear people’s opinions in general about the episode....
The Galaxy Class Starship ( i.imgur.com )
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Warp Five: Director Jeff W. Byrd Takes Us Under the Cloak of the Klingon War ( startrek.com )
Does anybody else have an old house? ( beehaw.org )
Universal Studios might have invoked the wrath of California's Tree Law ( www.npr.org )
Farmers Insurance is leaving Florida in latest blow to homeowners ( www.tampabay.com )
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Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x04 "Among the Lotus Eaters"
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Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x03 "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow"
::: spoiler Logline La’An travels back in time to twenty-first-century Earth to prevent an attack which will alter humanity’s future history—and bring her face to face with her own contentious legacy. :::...