#wonderman

Speaking of #StarfleetAcademy, I think I'm kinda done arguing with it's haters. I mean, I usually enjoy a good critical discussion, but most of the time it's just jerks hung up on bits of humor instead of looking at the whole. "LOOK AT WHAT STAR TREK HAS BECOME: THAT STUPID GIRL ATE HER COM BADGE" or some similar nonsense. I get the impression it goes like this: they've gone into it hating it out of the gate, they saw some cherry-picked moments that seemingly vindicate that expectation. And... that's about it: they're locked in now, and that's about as deep as it gets. Meanwhile the show has been going from strength to strength, this week's pulling out one of the best Klingon-focused episodes in a long time. So yeah, fuck it: these guys aren't arguing against it in good faith. Why should I give energy to them? I don't see it becoming another Picard S2 at this point. Much more likely it'll be like Enterprise and Voyager: heavily criticized at the time, but eventually it will gain recognition. Hopefully it doesn't take two decades to get there. :P #startrek

Bobby Kotick is in the #Epstein files, and it's not The Onion?

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We're discussed it here a bit, and I've seen folks on Reddit talk about it. But, for some bizarre reason I never hear it mentioned in reviews. A quick recap: a chunk of the Judge Satie quote (including a critical word) is omitted from the Doctor's lecture at the start of this week's #StarfleetAcademy. The full quote for context: "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." "...the first freedom denied, chains..." is completely skipped over. I can understand condensing it for time, I guess, but "chains", at the very least, is a load-bearing word in that quote. I'm just repeating what I said last time, of course, but I come bearing receipts in the form of the clip itself. 😅 This doesn't break the episode by any means, but it's a bizarre anomaly in an otherwise beautiful episode. #startrek

Well, sure. Critics. Phht.

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#melania

So we see some Klingon tears in this week's #StarfleetAcademy. And we also get -- god help us -- red blood pouring out of them, when ST6 and Lower Decks have both portrayed it as "Pepto Bismol" pink. First point: I rather enjoy the theory that that this apparently commonly known 'fact' about Klingons not having tear ducts is just a manifestation of the general ignorance of Starfleet about their anatomy. It kind of fits the theme of the film, too. Think about Burke and Samno swapping bigoted Klingon stereotypes with each other before given their orders by Valeris. Second point: who's to say? Maybe pink blood is a racial thing, and Klingons from different regions of Kronos simply have pink vs the usual red blood as part of their genetics. Maybe they're from in north. #startrek