I liked this episode, but I thought the opening Lower Decks bit was pretty unfunny. Is the actual show different? It felt like all of the characters were trying way too hard to be quirky and the jokes didn't really land for me.
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Then I think you just want a totally different thing from star trek than me. imo Star Trek has always contradicted itself a lot, and I'm much more interested in the stories and characters, and I'm fine with the world being somewhat vaguely defined. There are so many things that don't really make sense that people just gloss over, like Balance of Terror claiming that Romulans somehow have an empire in the 23rd century without having warp drive. Star Trek has been retconning stuff so much since it started that it's weird to me for people to suddenly start caring about it when Discovery came out.
I would recommend skipping TOS as a show, and reading the James Blish adaptations of it and TAS.
This seems like a crazy suggestion to me. Kirk, Spock and McCoy's onscreen chemistry is half of what makes TOS work.
It doesn’t matter if the Klingons, at the time of TMP, were intended to be a total retcon, because DS9 made lines of dialog that make that impossible
are you talking about Worf's "we don't talk about it with outsiders" line in Trials and Tribble-ations? Because I also think it's ridiculous that people took that line so seriously. It's a little meta joke in a comedic episode that solely exists to celebrate nostalgia for TOS. I don't get how you can take it as serious confirmation that Klingon's appearance changed in universe in that context.
it seems like the kind of thing that's obviously an out of universe design choice. it's like asking for a lore reason why the male Enterprise crew members stopped wearing eyeshadow after Kirk's five year mission.
The augment virus was a really dumb idea and I'm perfectly happy for them to ignore it and never feel the need to write a plot to explain the fact that designs will change over time in a 60 year old sci fi franchise.
He's effective at ruining everything in Florida, where he has Reublican supermajorities in the legislature to back him up. I'm not convinced he's actually an effective politician like McConnell.
what exactly do people who spam VOTE on every article about polls think they're contributing
IT'S MICHIOVER
the Florida state constitution requires a statewide vote to approve an amendment with 60% of the vote. If they couldn't get a governor elected they couldn't amend the constitution either.
Biden's approval rating with democrats is about the same as Obama's was in 2011. All holding a primary would do is weaken their position in the general election. I can't tell if this is a deliberate propaganda campaign or people are actually this clueless and think incumbent presidents regularly compete in primaries.
I love the original animated series. It's really laid back and relaxing and they get to do weirder stories. TOS would never have Kirk learning magic so he can fight in a wizard battle to save Satan.