Well… He did end up choosing Troi in the end.

When I was invited to be part of the insider program there was a special insider forum and I was given two surveys to do. This was all within the first few months of the invites going out.

Ever since then it’s been dead silent.

I still technically am an insider of Behind Good and Evil 2, but I haven’t heard a single bloody thing for YEARS. 10 by now, I think.

This is the first time I’ve heard anything about the franchise and it’s not even from an insider email… Or even remotely related to the prequel that was supposedly well into its development.

Hmm… One other post said it was rather lacklustre.

It was 100% philosophy, and leading by example, exactly as I said. It spent the entire episode showing the hypocrisy of the two characters and showed the crew of The Enterprise to be better than their millenia old squabble.

It wasn’t 30 seconds of emotional finger pointing in between cheap action sci-fi.

I’ve been paying perfect attention to Star Trek. But it seems like loads of people have simply forgotten how Star Trek got their point across.

Right now it’s the modern entitled version of woke. Not the philosophical exploratory woke.

Modern Trek tells you off for thinking differently while old Trek set an example to aspire to.

And that’s only in the few limited moments NuTrek a actually bothers spending time on making an opinion, as most of it is cheaply written shlock to squeeze as much as possible out of underpaid VFX artists.

Ah… I see some of them must’ve made it to the writing room on NuTrek… Because it’s pretty much nothing more than a VFX showcase these days.

I miss the time when an entire episode was essentially the crew figuring out a moral dillema, or just some really weird space bullshit.

The first two thirds of The Final Frontier is actually a really fun movie… It’s just the final third of the movie that makes it… Well… Lame. It’s just lame.

From the making of videos (I used to own a 2 CD DVD box set), and it seems they ran out of budget and ran out of ideas eventually.

Warhammer LEGO!? That would be awesome!

(And also potentially bring back some of those sought after Bionicle pieces). It would go against LEGO’s “no guns” policy, but they’ve broken that policy so often and in so many ways by now it’s more of a vague suggestion.

LEGO’s plastic is very good quality, can last for literal generations, and isn’t meant to be thrown out after a single use.

You telling me you don’t love LEGO?

That’s… That’s starting to sound a lot like heresy.

That feeling when the 3DS is considered retro… And you still remember the NDSL being shiny hot new stuff.

Difference with every Star Trek that came before and what we have now:

Every first season of Star Trek after TOS was pretty bad. When you have just the first season of a Trek series to go off on then the reaction to something mediocre is pretty normal.

Season 1 TNG had… problems.

Season 1 DS9 is boring as fuck.

But these series got better and earned the respect of the fans with later seasons.

NuTrek has had 17 or so seasons across 5 series and it’s STILL trash! The current executives have chosen quantity over quality and don’t give a damn about improving anything.

There’s really no need to update every instance one pops up.

Atomic updates!? I don’t think my PC has the proper radiation shielding for atomic updates…

Playstation controllers got it right, or at least, their kind of configuration. Doesn’t have to specifically be a controller from PlayStation.

Anything with offset analogue sticks is cancerous to use.

You forgot Dune. The book, not the movie. A lot from Dune inspired the basis of Star Wars.

As a cell stage game Thrive is pretty good. As a realistic successor to SPORE it’s terrible; more than a decade and they’ve never managed to get anywhere beyond the cell stage.

The cell stage is getting better with each update, sure, but it seems like they haven’t even touched any other elements of their game.

Been a long time since I played it myself, but it was my first introduction to space sims.

Development of the game picked up again just a year or so ago, after a long time of hiatus.

Yeah, the game looked nice over 15 years ago, but the graphics haven’t updated at all, so the visuals are incredibly dated. Gameplay is still quite solid, though, and the background simulation aspect of the game is still on-par with Elite Dangerous, so I’d say it’s a pretty good choice if someone is looking for a FOSS space sim.

The space sim lidt seems to be missing Vega Strike.