Star Trek: Lower Decks

Fuck, can't watch it. Amazon Prime have it, but only "with a free trial of Paramount Plus".

S1-3 are also showing as unavailable in my region.

Cunts.

VPN that bitch?

Not a criminal, thanks.

But you’d piss Steve off to no end by doing it.

Well, if they have a crossover with voyager where Naomi Wildman makes a contract to go magical girl with the creature let me know because that can only end in a bloody dark comedy mess.

If you meet something that cute in space, surround it with red shirts and run.

Makes sense they'd have an episode dedicated to Voyager on what is essentially a comedy/parody Trek series.

I'm not interested in Peanut Hamper or Badgey but I could see more of Moopsey.

Aren't both your kids under ten?

Loved the E-flat clarinet impaling the macrovirus

8 and 10.

I love that you knew what type of clarinet it was, I assumed it was a standard B-flat

I'm certain they intended it to be the standard Bb, but what they show vs what they intend don't always match

Is the one they showed the appropriate one to be playing that Mozart concerto?

No -- too small.
Even the standard Bb and A clarinets are too small as they lack the bottom few notes Mozart calls for, though they're commonly used and those few notes just played up an octave. (The Bb is what everyone has, and the A is used for orchestral settings when a piece is in a key that would be difficult to play on a Bb)
The major clarinet builders (Selmer, Buffet, and a couple German ones) do build clarinets in A with the extended lower range specifically for the Mozart and the Mendelssohn pieces that call for it.

That said, an alto clarinet could pull off the Mozart, range wise, though it's in Eb and on the opposite side of the Circle of Fifths from the A clarinet and theoretically in the worst possible key to pull this off. ...I kinda want to do this now
A good bass clarinet could also do it (probably using a Bb clarinet edition of the piece), though the upper range would be difficult to pull off if matching pitch one to one.

Eh, this one felt mid. Not bad, but not especially great.

I will say T'Lyn works great as a straight man I didn't even realize this show needed and Gabriella Ruiz has a wide range of talent cuz I would not it was the same actress from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend who did stuff like this

Ah, the director of the episode is new:

https://twitter.com/Stupidartpunk/status/1702372545163608378?t=DYrpMxMP8qjHQ-Hkq_X1Nw&s=19

I just checked, and Paramount created Mork & Mindy, so this is completely doable (aside from the fact that Robin Williams is dead, of course).

https://bsky.app/profile/philplait.bsky.social/post/3k7i7tf6hhf2d

So, is no one going to point out that the ringworld is unstable?

HA!!

it recently got placed onto a "premium service" instead of the basic TV in my internet bundle.

If I'm no longer getting what I paid for, then fuck'em.

Honestly, with residuals being what they are currently, the only money you'd be "stealing" from by using other means is the CEO and probably Drew Barrymore's estate.

In which case using a VPN would be like Moopsey drinking an alpha predator's bones.

Be like Moopsey

I can't believe it took them this long to make fun of "Move Along Home."

Probably was way too easy

Feel like there's kind of a central meta-joke here that someone is a mega fan of the events in that episode that literally no one likes.

Finally, an actual great episode this season.

The Orion wedding girls trip lived up to the hype, and easily my favorite episode this season.

Embrace the stink.

"brutherford"

I really liked the knife stabbing Mariner I was wondering how the third one would work out.