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U.S.S. Making Shit Up by Voltaire, definitely my favorite.

I also once wrote a version of Short Skirt, Long Jacket about being in love with a Klingon woman.

I want a girl with a forehead like a washboard.

I want a girl who knows what's right.

I want a girl with blades that cut who's... not afraid to start a fight.

I want a girl with a strong sense of honor, who's fast and brave and hard as a rock.

She's playing with her cutlery, she's putting on her armor, she's got a Bird of Prey down in number 4 dock...

I want a girl with a short temper and a loooong memory.

Nah nah nah, nah nah nah nah nah Qapla'
Nah nah nah, nah nah nah nah nah nah,
Nah nah nah, nah nah nah nah nah nah Qapla'
Nah nah nah, nah nah nah nah nah nah naaah.

I want a girl who fights with bravery.

I want a girl who bites my cheek.

I want a girl with unbridled ferocity, who uses a Bat'leth with stunning technique.

Disruptor pistols that that burn out justice, and a voice that is harsh like a good blood wine.

She's fast, and brave and hard as rock and she tosses Gem'hadar right out the air lock...

I want a girl with a short temper and a loooooong... long memory.

thebardingreen ,
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I think I'd rather hang out with Romulans, but if I'm seeking some kind of professional service, Vulcans every time.

thebardingreen ,
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And then HR blames IT.

thebardingreen OP ,
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Thanks for this suggestion. We’re going to test it and see how it performs.

thebardingreen OP ,
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Thanks for this suggestion, we’re going to test it and see how it performs.

In a way, Tasha Yar's fate actually worked out really well for the series

I don’t know whether this is an unpopular opinion or not but I actually think that the way Tasha Yar died gave the show much higher stakes throughout it’s entire run. Here is the chief security officer, main bridge crew, tragic back story, potential love interest for the robot character just slapped down by the monster of...

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This is a Lower Decks episode that badly wants to get made.

thebardingreen ,
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The ONLY reason we have Paramount+ is because my wife wanted to watch some soaps on it (IDK even which ones, I couldn’t be less interested). But I WAS like “Now I can watch Lower Decks! Sweet.”

The horrible morals of a show supposed to teach them

I’ve been watching the various Star Trek shows for a while now, and while not finished I saw most of them, I believe. And I cannot shake off the feeling that the messages given by these shows, especially (and almost exclusively) recent ones are pushing horrible morals that most people seem to not care about....

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I don’t think the message of Section 31 has EVER been that it was “good / necessary.” It’s always been cautionary. Like: Even in a Utopia, this thing can exist, people will support it, people will argue it’s necessary. I’ve always thought the message was “Why do we tolerate this shit and you assholes who insist it’s necessary?? Why do we let you get away with it? Why do we pull the wool over our own eyes and look the other way?” It continues to be a good story to make Americans talk about.

In DS9, Section 31’s machinations badly backfired and stealing the cure from them and giving it freely to the Changlings is what ended the war.

In Picard, Section 31’s bullshit literally created a terrorist who brought the Borg back and set them loose on Starfleet, again.

In Disco… IDK. I don’t like Disco and I only half watched that season. They made um… an AI that tried to take over?? I guess, it was bad and Star Fleet was complicit.

One of the most important parts of the story, I think is how even in the Utopia of the Federation, we never see anyone being held accountable for Section 31’s actions. My takeaway from this is “a call to action that perpetually goes unheeded and is never heard in numbers great enough to make a real difference” which is a VERY true and tragic lens for the modern world.

I don’t think I’ve ever thought of S31 as being pushed as a GOOD thing. More like shown to us in the spirit of “Stop, children, what’s that sound, everybody look what’s goin’ down.”

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They were always shown as the sort of cool, James Bond/Batman-like agents that everyone admires for getting their hands dirty for the sake of everyone else.

I don’t think I’ve ever encountered anyone but you with this take. I’ve certainly never heard anyone say “Oooh, Section 31 is cool, I admire them,” but I’ve had LOTS of conversations about how uncool they are. The main characters don’t like them, they’re ALWAYS an antagonist / obstacle. I understand that’s what you see, but I don’t think the experience you’re having is very universal.

The lack of accountability for me shows that starfleet does not mind a group above the law, which immediately removes the idea of starfleet/the federation working on democratic principles.

Star Fleet DOESN’T work on democratic principles, it’s absolutely a military organization, with a military hierarchy and agenda, that has a STRONG scientific and exploration mandate.

The FEDERATION works on democratic principals, but Section 31 has ALWAYS been portrayed as an illegal, unsanctioned organization working within Star Fleet, that, simply lots of factions and elements with Star Fleet support or align with (Fascists gonna fasc, even in the Utopian future, and people with that mind set are going to be drawn to the closest thing to a military organization around).

It WOULD be nice to see a story where the assholes behind Section 31 are revealed as assholes and held accountable though. I would get behind that.

Yes, it echoes with a lot of modern things. But what is the point of making science fiction if all you show is a world that didn’t evolve in over 300 years?

Um… there’s a LOT wrong with this, as there are all kinds of points to making Science Fiction, and showing all sorts of things. And one of them is VERY MUCH showing the kinds of things that are wrong with our world, starting conversations and raising awareness. There are lots of points to making Science Fiction. You don’t have to like all of them. You don’t have to like Chuck Tingle or Space Raptor Butt Invasion, but it has a point (and it’s actually a really positive one, if you look past all the pounding and dinosaur love).

thebardingreen ,
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Which is too bad. A movie would be the perfect way to wrap up the Ben Sisko story.

thebardingreen ,
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I did not ship Rutherford and Tendi until this episode, though I assume they’ll drag out a will they / won’t they scenario for at least a few more seasons.

thebardingreen ,
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This was actually possibly my favourite episode this season.

  • I loved T’Lyn loosening up and allowing herself to be real friends with Tendi and Mariner.
  • I loved the modern extrapolation of the Orion world building from Enterprise. The nightclub and the BDSM pheromone dungeon were both hilarious and believably what Orions would be doing a couple hundred years later.
  • I loved the Syndicate crime lords being like "also, we want you to get your shit out of the garage."
  • While I thought the girl’s story line was way more fun than the boy’s story line, that was because the boy’s story line was par for the course good Lower Decks content, while the girl’s story line was top shelf. Boimler and Rutherford both playing Mark Twain was hilarious.
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I’d like to see T’Lyn go more and more renegade through association with the LD crew just eroding her Vulcan discipline. Then have her parents show up and accuse her of acting like a Romulan or something.

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Awesome.

If you get inspired to keep going after Wolf 359, I’d love to see the Battle of Chin’toka get this treatment.

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...

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I love LD and I mostly like SNW. Discovery lost me near the end of season 2 (and almost lost me several times before). As others have said, the good characters went to SNW (except for Saru).

If you want an actually good show that has similar energy to what Disco was going for, while being majorly disloyal to it’s source material (also like Disco) watch Foundation.

What's a faction/group/alien race in Star Trek most similar to the Tech Priests / Mechanicus in Warhammer 40,000?

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)...

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Red alarm. Red alarm.

thebardingreen ,
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My missus would be VERY put out if I yelled that in the car…

thebardingreen ,
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There are some things I’ve done in my life, some choices I’ve made, maybe even some bridges I’ve burned where when the dust settles and I’m thinking about it I have said out loud:

“I can live with it. I CAN live with it.”

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I generally love musical episodes (OMWF is my favorite Buffy episode and the musical episodes of the Magicians are always the best episodes of that show), but there are some stinkers (Fringe did it? Why?) and I'm really not at all sure that SNW is the right platform for this (It would work better on Lower Decks).

But I've been disappointed with SNW season 2 relative to season 1. I'm not sure SNW is going to keep me as a viewer

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