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In regards to unmasking the Breen and removing the mystery, I think back to the words of Spock: "After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting."

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I’m pretty sure the darkest ST episode was Enterprise’s Rogue Planet.

You can’t see a thing!

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the finest moment in an already immaculate piece of television is all about the ways to enact violence without lifting a single finger

Rude. Garek worked really hard on that plan.

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My first instinct is to remove the existing screws and staples and add two L brackets to each side.

setsneedtofeed ,
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Wrestle the staples out with needle nose pliers. If that doesn’t work, cutting them flush using snips would be plan B. Really you just need to get them out of the way so you can put the front of the drawer back where it needs to be.

Yes, I would think to put the brackets on the inside front and secure them with fairly short screws. One bracket on each side would probably be enough, but I don’t see the harm in using two on each side.

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New ‘Star Trek’ In The Works With ‘Andor’ Director Toby Haynes On Board

https://deadline.com/2024/01/andor-toby-haynes-star-trek-movie-seth-grahame-smith-writing-1235712646/

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Kelvin broke the seal on recasting, as it were.

If Discovery or SNW had been the first to recast Kirk, there would have been a revolt, but since Kelvin got us used to the idea people just kind of accept it.

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Another change is Enterprise being built on earth instead of in orbit.

I’m almost entirely sure that choice was because JJ Abrams wanted that visual in his movie. Justifications to Trek nerds were an afterthought.

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What I liked most about Andor was how it felt perfectly at home in the Star Wars universe while also having its own distinct flavor.

A lot of modern Star Wars media just keeps leaning on references and recycling of old content. To quote RLM, “I saw things I know!” Andor stayed light on direct references and instead tried to have its own new ideas and visual designs that would fit in the universe.

If Hayes can do that with Trek, it will be very welcome.

Please bear with me while I geek out about Edith Keeler in "The City on the Edge of Forever" for a moment.

It almost feels unnecessary to rave about “The City on the Edge of Forever” (S1E28) again, since it has been praised as one of the all-time best episodes of Star Trek for like 50+ years now, but I just rewatched it and want to specifically talk about how much I love the character Edith Keeler....

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So we’re all going to get hit by a streetcar?

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Star Trek 6 is really good.

Two exchanges I always liked not from ST6:

DS9, It’s Only A Paper Moon:

“When the war began… I wasn’t happy or anything, but I was eager. I wanted to test myself. I wanted to prove I had what it took to be a soldier and I saw a lot of combat. I saw a lot of people get hurt. I saw a lot of people die. But I didn’t think anything was going to happen to me. And then, suddenly Dr. Bashir is telling me he has to cut my leg off. I couldn’t believe it. I still can’t believe it. If I could get shot, if I could lose my leg, anything can happen to me, Vic. I could die tomorrow. I don’t know if I’m ready to face that. If I stay here, at least I know what the future is going to be like.”

“You stay here, you’re going to die. Not all at once, but little by little.Eventually, you’ll become as hollow as I am.”

-Nog and Vic Fontaine

Voyager, Living Witness:

“ When diplomacy fails, there’s only one alternative: violence. Force must be applied, without apology. It’s the Starfleet way.”

-Janeway

Obviously very different reasons that I like each.

James McKinnon confirms creative differences likely a factor in Kelvin 4 failure to start production in 2022 ( trekmovie.com )

As much as most of us have long had any remaining interest in a fourth Kelvin movie long exhausted by the endless repetition of hype and failure, there does seem to be more confirmation of significant creative differences on the script that was in development in 2022....

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There just seems to be no momentum behind the Kelvin movies. Especially now that SNW has re-recast Kirk, Spock, Uhura, and Scotty it seems to be tentatively setting up a TOS reboot show and might actually have some hype. A kelvin movie would needlessly split the fanbase.

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All the post-TOS shows expanded and deepened main cast, leading to episodes being able to be centered on various characters. TOS had a smaller and more focused cast. It was a rarity to even have a Spock or McCoy centered episode, and I can’t think of an episode where at least one of the main trio wasn’t the most prominent character.

I think it’s just a difference in writing styles of the different times between the 1960s and the 1980s. Even look at something like STIV: The Voyage Home. Same characters as TOS, but written in the 1980s and a lot more comfortable giving various non-trio characters their own individual adventures.

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There is a sharp divide between TNG and the TNG movies, in terms of quality and writing style.

In TNG, Data is most heavily paired with Geordi. However, he is paired with other characters or has his own isolated adventures. Pretty much all the main cast characters get the same. The movies are more, let’s politely say “streamlined” in how they treat characterization.

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The TOS movies seemed like labors of love. The TNG movies seemed like cashing in on a brand name.

I don’t have specific examples on hand, but I do believe Patrick Stewart had a lot more clout and creative control in the TNG movies. Stewart seems like he’s got an ego, and doesn’t care about the integrity or legacy of Picard as a character beyond being a vehicle for Stewart to either do the acting he wants, regardless of its appropriateness to TNG, or as an excuse to drive dune buggies around for fun.

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SNW is leagues better than other nuTrek, but I still find myself wishing that it would dial back the quirky millennial dialog.

When somebody in Star Trek says “cool” they’d better be talking about a temperature.

I found it really weird in the Lower Decks crossover episode how the LD characters lampshaded how slowly everyone in the SNW era talks, because the SNW characters don’t have that slower stage acting delivery that’s been throughout the rest of Trek.

Otherwise, I do appreciate mostly SNW’s design choices. I like M’Benga being an actual character (even if I think the details are sometimes mishandled) and I like the complete re-imagining of Nurse Chapel.

Number Two openly being an augment in Starfleet so early in the timeline feels really weird. I know it was supposed to be uplifting, but it makes Bashir’s problems in DS9 so strange.

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