Ahhhh the GOAT. Seriously, as a smart kid everything else about me was ignored. Something wrong at school? You CAN do it, so just do it. D&D breaks up mental stats, but there’s even more out there. Int, Wis, Cha to start. Then there’s motivation, happiness, and empathy, and more. The mind is super complex and an int score of 18 being all that matters is like the saying “this hammer solves my nail problem, it will surely solve my window problem.”

They are not responding

Code of honor is some of the worst tv in history, not just in Trek. Hats of to Michael Dorn for objecting to it, but as much as he’d like to claim he wasn’t in the episode he definitely played the transporter chief albeit just over the comms

Then you’d have two Tuvixes that both don’t want to die. Actually I had an entire day of one philosophy class to discuss this, however it was very specific that “teletransportation” absolutely kills you and replicates you. My professor specifically said that having an understanding of star trek was necessary that day.

You attacked someone, only the guards are allowed to do that.

Big Mouth. Season 4 redoes and then it just gets awful

Enterprise should have ended before the intro, then picked up in season 4

Videogames, no they’re not a waste of time they’re a huge cultural entity with a grand future.

I’ve been dipping between contact and no contact and low contact for The last 5 years with my parents. My mom and I had a fight that made me realize that she doesn’t and never has cared about who I am and though it’s simplifying things, she’s only really cared about my economic success.

Both parents gave me a variety of complete and total emotional incompetence. I look back on everything I’ve done and I can see the stupid actions I’ve taken as direct memory of my parents and it makes me feel really bad. They were incredibly authoritarian to me and unforgiving while at the same time totally down to entertain my sisters bs.

I’m definitely happier when I don’t talk to them and much more unhappy when I do talk to them the biggest issue is that every time I remember something from my childhood it upsets me. And I remember a lot. And I don’t know how to forgive anybody and I think it’s because I’ve never processed the thousand cuts of disappointment of my childhood. So I don’t talk to them and I don’t know if that’s going to change but telling myself that it won’t change reduces my anxiety.

Everyone else is boring af - syndrome

His name was Stan and it was documented in the movie Volcano

QUAAAAARK!!!

Not in Mass Effect!

Fab Data

6, rha rha rha rha rha

I don’t know I think the motion picture is exactly what an episode of Voyager feels like. A strange anomaly shows up they can’t do anything about it and all over it and figure it out the end.

I think that saying insurrection is not ambitious enough sort of is exactly my point about appreciating it more now that I’ve gotten older. It wasn’t a phasers first story it wasn’t a horror story it was a story of personal reflection and juxtaposition of one’s own values. And you cannot discount the ‘how many people’ exchange. Peak Picard just like line drawn here. And I think the biggest thing for me is that until the Trek resurgence I always assumed that Picard would retire and go live with the Baku.

Insurrection is like Final Fantasy 8. It had two issues: it was a more nuanced personal adult story and it came directly after First Contact or FF7. In my childhood I was less impressed by insurrection, but as I grew up it became much more something that I appreciate it. Not sure what it is maybe achieving some kind of emotional maturity or epiphany and looking forward and looking backward, because that’s what insurrection seems to be about.

While I don’t agree with your general assessment I don’t think that there is any reason to really argue or go over the top on the particulars. I do think that first Contact is probably the best Star Trek we have and they always be so. There’s definitely a strong separation between the two subsets.

I’m currently watching '90s Trek with my SO, and weaving the movies in has been an absolute delight. Watching first Contact after starting season 3 of deep space nine, watching the undiscovered country part of the way into watching Voyager, watching insurrection towards the beginning of the Dominion war, it really just feels so natural.

Picard: Starfleet is not a military organization

Dominion: Bonjour

Sisko: jk the Klingons are our besties

Ultimate Marvel’s Gregory Stark was supposed to be a caricature. He’s spot on though.

I can’t imagine why first contact would be hated, it had everything: a good fight scene, the Defiant, and a special effects budget