Random Star Trek discussion

Ask the meme creator.

When you saw the meme, you must have thought there was something about it that made sense to you.

That’s all I’m asking. I’m not asking you to answer for someone else’s thoughts.

Kes.

And he was hardly the only one. Tom and Neelix were both horny for her and both canonically satisfy Klingon women in the sack.

If you're watching Poor Things for Emma Stone's tits, you're creeping on a character with the brain of a fetus.

I thought it was funny. I don’t endorse or agree with every panel, but overall it’s funny.

Okay. I was specifically asked about the doctor.

YT served up this clip:


Apollo states that 5,000 years ago, he and the other Greek gods knew Earth well. Now, the Trojan War happened ~1194 BCE, so we know that the gods were mucking about here then, if Homer's words are to be believed. We also don't know when Apollo and the others would have abandoned the Earth (though I figure around 400 CE, when Christianity became the official Roman religion). TOS takes place in the mid-2200s, so if Apollo's talking about when he and his pals showed up on Earth and started mucking around, that would have been almost 3000 BCE. (Fun fact: In 2009, folks found evidence of the worship of Zeus dating back to that period of time.)

If, however, Apollo is saying that he and the others abandoned Earth in ~400 CE, then it's impossible for TOS to have taken place in the mid-2200s, it would need to be nearly the 5500s or so. I will say that the mid-5500s would make more sense since we're never going to get warp drive in 2065, and I doubt if we'll have humans headed out of the solar system before 2200.

And if you watch this clip, you'll notice that Carolyn was under the same restrictions that Barbara Eden was in I Dream of Jeannie, in that she couldn't show her belly button.

When did "femdom" become a bad thing, anyway?

If you're going to San Francisco you'll probably want to stay here.



More pics at the link.

With some flowers in your hair?

It was pretty obvious in the first season of Voyager that the writers had that goal and had not yet established the characters or reason for it. As the seasons went on it made more sense, but why was it there in the first place? The writers pout the cart before the horse in the first season or two, and that made it jarring.

Mike from RLM brought up a good point in their recent TNG trivia video, you know how Picard will be talking to someone on the view screen and then cut it off and ask Troi what she thinks and she can tell if they’re lying or something? How exactly does that work, is there a range?
Around the never mind I can’t find it mark.

Does anyone give a shit about Red Letter Media other basement-dwelling CHUDs?

But neither picture with the article is just captains, unless Geordi, Uhura and Mariner got promoted and no one mentioned it.

Now, would I include Kirk over any of those three in any depiction of "These are Star Trek heroes?" Sure. Is the fact that they are included rather than Kirk evidence that Kirk is deliberately being frozen out? Not in my mind. As much as Shat probably does not like it, Spock is as iconic as Kirk and maybe more.

Oh, do you do the hate on RLM thing here as well?

Lame.

"Loser's uniform" - damn straight.

Even if that were the case that there was a quota for white men in the minds of Paramount publicity, they could include Kirk rather than Spock and meet that quota. Or they could have featured any number of characters from SNW instead of Pike.

For me, the more puzzling thing is why Geordi? I get that they don't want to have JLP twice, but Geordi had perhaps the second-lowest sway among TNG characters. It would have made more sense to show Riker, Data or Worf.

I could swear one of the episodes made a vague hand-wavey mention of how there's a network of frinky-frat particles buzzing around space, and telepath brains can pick up on the signal, and pick up on every other brain those particles passed through.

Anyway, (my conjecture now) the telepath lobe must also sift the information down to what the person is aware of and cares about, or they'd be getting the whole universe pouring in like going warp 10.
Therefore, Troi can focus on the person on the viewscreen by looking at them.
It has nothing to do with the video signal passing between ships.

As for range, I'd wager it's like Nightcrawler's teleportation, it has to be a place you know, or in the case of telepathy, a person you know.
If we're talking theoretical upper limit range, I'd say effectively infinite, so long as the telepath had someone to lock onto.
If Riker were in the Delta Quadrant, Troi could probably pick him up.
But, she's not likely to lock in on Neelix, because she doesn't know him.

Just think, if one of the Voyager crew had just had a Betazed girlfriend/boyfriend, they could have gotten a message back to Starfleet on day 1.

There's definitely a range for Betazoids - Troi told Elbrun that telepathic contact over light years was impossible 'even for you'. Though he countered that Tin Man could.

Okay, so brain size and energy level is probably another limit.

Telepathy range is the exact same as transporter range, whatever the writer needs it to be.

https://x.com/howellspace/status/1748057671457026331?s=46&t=iYW3foyqIA6Tn8VWwn3nwQ

Get the transtator out of that sucker!

At that angle, that's the Federation logo from Blake's Seven and we should be running, very fast. Don't look back.

True, they have sexy commanders, but it's not worth it!

Things I am re-learning in a zero skip, completionist rewatch of Voyager during my morning workouts:

1) Robert Picardo and Jeri Ryan can sing.

2) The writers really didn't give a single fuck about shuttles and torpedoes.

3) Brooding, hologram banging, schizo Janeway may just have been an attempt to jazz up a boring maternal character.

4) Robert Duncan McNeil's "gosh golly gee" routine got old REAL fast.

5) Robert Beltran is an utter plank of wood who should seek out roles with script directions like "act bored and disinterested, and for the love of GOD, do not emote."

6) Roxanna Dawson is about as intimidating as a kitten made of cotton candy.

7) Too many Bobs.