Starship Coyote
The Merchant of Menace
Yes, I read the whole thing. I was referring to the part about the serum.
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Strange New Worlds season 3
- Thread starter Dr Dave
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Yes, I read the whole thing. I was referring to the part about the serum.
CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
Happy birthday:
Babs Olusanmokun (41)!
Christina Chong (42)!
AMAZING THAT THEY WERE BORN ON THE EXACT SAME DAY* WHAT A MASSIVE FUCKING COINCIDENCE, SURELY PROOF OF GOD'S EXISTENCE.
*a year apart
Babs Olusanmokun (41)!
Christina Chong (42)!
AMAZING THAT THEY WERE BORN ON THE EXACT SAME DAY* WHAT A MASSIVE FUCKING COINCIDENCE, SURELY PROOF OF GOD'S EXISTENCE.
*a year apart
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Starship Coyote
The Merchant of Menace
Yeah, I'm a little surprised too. I would have placed her around early 30s.
She is lovely. I hope she dances more. They could do a ST spinoff where she teaches a dance class for genetically modified humans, like Dr Bashir and his weird friends. Hopefully none of her dance class will require a fainting couch to lounge sexily on at all times.
Kyehlar
Grovel And Subscribe!
Okay, 3.9:
Okay, we saw the Ortega-centric SNW take on Balance of Terror, and now it's time for the Ortega-centric SNW take on The Arena, complete with an appearance by The Metrons. Given the end scene of Episode 3.1 where we saw the Gorn in Ortegas' reflection, I was expecting a lot more apprehension on her part with the Gorn, but she seemed to fall into the 'Oh, okay, we're both trying to survive. I guess I won't try to kill you" attitude rather fast. It was all heart-warming and it made for a gut-wrenching ending, but it just felt as though she became willing far too easy for someone with such a deep-seeded hatred. And I can only hope that Uhura also met some sort of consequence, even a formal reprimand in her file, for fudging the results and possibly putting the entire ship at risk. If Ortegas has to meet consequences, so should Uhura for consistency. Overall a good episode, but... it just didn't grab me. Apparently 3.10 will make up for all that with all the feels?
Okay, we saw the Ortega-centric SNW take on Balance of Terror, and now it's time for the Ortega-centric SNW take on The Arena, complete with an appearance by The Metrons. Given the end scene of Episode 3.1 where we saw the Gorn in Ortegas' reflection, I was expecting a lot more apprehension on her part with the Gorn, but she seemed to fall into the 'Oh, okay, we're both trying to survive. I guess I won't try to kill you" attitude rather fast. It was all heart-warming and it made for a gut-wrenching ending, but it just felt as though she became willing far too easy for someone with such a deep-seeded hatred. And I can only hope that Uhura also met some sort of consequence, even a formal reprimand in her file, for fudging the results and possibly putting the entire ship at risk. If Ortegas has to meet consequences, so should Uhura for consistency. Overall a good episode, but... it just didn't grab me. Apparently 3.10 will make up for all that with all the feels?
Starship Coyote
The Merchant of Menace
Uhura's fudging the data is consistent with a theme through all of ST... the human factor will almost always help throw the odds in their favor. Kirk lived by it.
Pike knew she did it, and went with it anyway.
Stuff like this takes ST out of the realm of cold science fiction and places it into Roddenberry's theme of "The Human Adventure."
I really didn't think about this until you brought it up.
CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
Just remembered how they introduced a 3-armed bartender early in the season, in a way which suggested she'd be a recurring charavter, then we never saw her again. That was annoying.
Starship Coyote
The Merchant of Menace
Wow, I forgot about that. Yeah.
On a different note: I was watching some rando on YT do a post-mortem on Disney's Doctor Who, and he brought up something interesting. He claimed that one big reason Disney didn't go for a season 3 (besides the toilet ratings) was that they had wanted to get the classic and Nu-Who episodes too for streaming, but the BBC wouldn't give them up.
So what's this to do with Star Trek? Patience.
He gave Paramount+ as an example. Paramount gets higher ratings for packaging and running old TOS, TNG and other series than they do for STD or SNW. They were using those as a lure to get people to watch the time honored stuff.
If true, that would explain why SNW did weird things with canon... it didn't matter. It was just a gateway drug to get people into the stuff that people have always liked.
Dirk Funk
Evil Penguin
Kyehlar
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Nah, to a lot of so-called "Trek Fans", they think of it as an STD.
Colonel Kira's Left Tit
Bearded Belly of Bajor
It was.
Dirk Funk
Evil Penguin
It's stupid. Regardless of what these people think of the quality of the show, that isn't the abbreviation. It makes them look like fucking casuals. There is no Star Trek series that has a three letter abbreviation that starts with ST. None of them. The official abbreviation given by Paramount is DSC.
Kyehlar
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CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
Jesus fuck there's someone more autistic than me on the internet.
Starship Coyote
The Merchant of Menace
Okay, so... the one single thing you took from my post was that I "used the wrong abbreviation for the show."
Wow. That's some spergy bullshit.
Dirk Funk
Evil Penguin
I'm a diagnosed autistic. I'm not sure what else you would expect.
Starship Coyote
The Merchant of Menace
See, you need an editor. An assistant. A second voice.
Me? Before I post anything heavy, I always run it by Jen first. She always has one of three answers. It's either "yeah, that's cool" or "that's sort of dumb" or "Oh Goddamn! You're not going to post that, are you?"
That last one is the one I always post.
Starship Coyote
The Merchant of Menace
Jon Del Arroz reviews the amazingly shitty ratings for Season 3 while pimping his own books which he claims are more in line with traditional Star Trek.
Phil Collins
Sussudio
I get the distinct impression that many "legacy' brands like Trek are struggling because they've pumped out so much nerd franchise slop over the past decade that whatever creative or artistic integrity or credibility they once had has melted away for many people (a Section 31 movie?! Good god). Combined with the death of cable/broadcast TV and the shared mono-culture of the 70s/80's/90s there's just no opportunity to establish the kind of foothold in people's minds to sustain the kind of franchises there were in the past. That won't stop them from trying since the owners don't know how to do anything but run shit into the ground in pursuit of a buck. See: Disney trying to make Tron a thing again now that they've milked their cash cows of Star Wars and Marvel, only to pin their hopes on a pedo cult leader lmao.
An old trick is producing content aimed at a younger audience in an attempt to get kids hooked into the brand ecosystem at a young age in order to secure a demographic that will keep buying shit well into adulthood; well they literally just announced Star Trek: Babies now, didn't they? Remember DS9's Past Tense two parter? Trek will never go that hard again, probably.
An old trick is producing content aimed at a younger audience in an attempt to get kids hooked into the brand ecosystem at a young age in order to secure a demographic that will keep buying shit well into adulthood; well they literally just announced Star Trek: Babies now, didn't they? Remember DS9's Past Tense two parter? Trek will never go that hard again, probably.