Stormygeddon

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[–] Stormygeddon@startrek.website 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It tries to be fun, but some of the jokes didn't land. That said, I'm not going to fault them for trying "The Hangover" in Space as it feels like at least it's something different and not so much by committee, and I still enjoyed most of the episodes. This is probably the best of the very rare "Ortegas Episodes" and I particularly liked seeing an "It's green" scene yet again.

I think the only ones who wouldn't inherently trust a Star Trek fan over a Star Wars fan are the Child Exploitation Section of the Toronto Sex Crimes Unit circa 2005.

[–] Stormygeddon@startrek.website 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ah, yes. We've all asked for this.

That awkward moment when you lock eyes and see the driver slowly back up out of the crossing.

[–] Stormygeddon@startrek.website 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Considering her half Lanthanite heritage with a long lifespan, I was left wondering why Ake also didn't stay to raise Sam in the time dilated planet. They never address it, but I suppose it's just unspokenly weird to suggest to co-parent a child with your subordinate coworker.

The Deus Ex Transportia near the end felt like a copout, like they couldn't really figure a proper ending for the incident's culmination before showing some aftermath.

[–] Stormygeddon@startrek.website 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It doesn't matter that I love Doctor Who so much that it's been inspiring my username for a decade and a half, that reference in this episode felt too out of pocket.

I didn't like the time loop with such big stakes, but overall I liked this episode and the diplomatic A-plot. The scene regarding Translator mishaps was my favorite.

Also, I know feathers on Dinos is a bit of a hot button issue, but was it even the case for therapods?

Yeah, the T-Rex thing could've just been convergent evolution, like with cough cough all the humanoids. Plus, how'd they know about the Martians after the Enterprise was tethered?

[–] Stormygeddon@startrek.website 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Usually Star Trek takes a little more than the first season to get good but this did it somewhat early.

[–] Stormygeddon@startrek.website 12 points 6 months ago (3 children)

The B-plot with the ambassadorial dinner thing felt a bit incomplete, and too comic-relief without quite landing. I guess it might keep going with the next episode, but overall this one was a decent exploration about the expectations of life and bearing being thrust into a role.

[–] Stormygeddon@startrek.website 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thok moving of the piece of clothing to the side had me really chuckling.

I see they decided to address the more foul Language in this show compared to other Star Treks. I would have liked if it was addressed as a cultural shift regarding the evolution of language over centuries but instead they "Effed it up."

I never really took debate in school, but is that really how it goes? One student winner debating everyone for practice until they "lose?" Constant citations of things like they were called out anime punches? It seemed more like it school debate as written by someone who never did a debate club/class, but I never took one neither so I felt I should ask.

[–] Stormygeddon@startrek.website 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I think I might have liked this series more if it came out like 15 years ago. Right now it just comes off as immature and overly quirky/comedic.

 

Warning: I'm probably the only one to find this joke about outdated abbreviations funny.

 

The whales Gracie and George were stated to have wandered into San Francisco as calves. Outside of feeding events which can include the famous bubble nets, humpback whale pods usually consist of a lone mother and calf (or calves) pairing with a trailing "escort" male. Humpbacks are one of the few mammals that can be nursing and still get pregnant. So anyway, the implication seems to be that if they were both calves and coming in the same time as a pod, they must have been orphaned from their mother and part of the same family group. Therefore, when its later revealed that Gracie is pregnant this one question comes to mind:

"Was the pregnancy a product of incest?"

No wonder they were originally going to be called Adam and Evie.

 
 
 
 

The show had already established how Tendi has green blood earlier in the series after an injury and it would have been an easy to infer detail compared to humans in the show.

Other animated shows like Steven Universe already show how non-pink blush colors can work in animation.

 
 

By that I mean that the basic premise being: that the means of (re)creating new technology is lost, the current technology around is treated as sacred and the function marred in elaborate rituals or prayers because they don't know how to otherwise operate it, and to a lesser extent that new ideas or (often xenophillic) research is met with suspicion or outright rejected because it doesn't fit with the religious dogma.

I keep feeling that a similar group is somewhere in Star Trek, right on the cusp of my memory, but I can't seem to recall any specific examples.

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