FF bored in Saturday detention

I’m mot having a mental breakdown.

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Hi Mot, sorry to hear about your mental breakdown.

Why don’t you try and answer the question I asked?

Oh, now I get it!

He's still losing his mind over black hair.

Was already answered by admins who actually make those decisions (while mods are usually involved in the discussions we don't pull the trigger unless it's a case of someone spamming the board with porn or similar)

No one believes this lol

Mods, please rename my @The Ghost of Crazy Horse account to Mot.

I have an avatar all lined up.

Okay, back up. I missed this particular meltdown. Clue me in.

He shat up the Discovery thread for several pages because he doesn't understand how black hair works, and he's not about to start learning now.

Dude, you have one about three or four times a year. You slow boil up to becoming an absolute basket case, then apologize to everyone promising to do better, and then the slow boil starts right up again. You're the Old Faithful of emotional instability.

Ah, well. Since I don't watch Discovery, I don't have a dog in this fight.

I recommend it, especially over Picard.

There's a lot of David Tennant-style BIG EMOTIONAL TEARFUL ACTING from the lead that can feel exhausting at times, but it (and Lower Decks) are a lot tighter than the series that preceded them, and it triggers the hell out of people like Dayton and FF, so it's worth it for that alone.

False.

Sorry, for me it stopped being Star Trek and became Star TECH a long time ago. And CBS "All Access" (an oxymoron if ever there was one) should die horribly.

No worries. I'm honestly surprised no one's forced you to at least watch the Pike stuff.

I'm really old school. For me, Trek is three seasons of TOS, and movies II, III, and IV. I'll allow I and VI, but I don't care if I ever see them again. I'll occasionally dip into DS9 for an episode I remember fondly ("In the Pale Moonlight," e.g.), but it's just not my Star Trek anymore.

If I tried to watch the Pike stuff, I'd probably just be .

Season 2 of Discovery has a lot of duds, although there are a couple of great ones (including a Pike heavy prime directive episode).

My brain parses SMG to Sarah Michelle Gellar, so until you explained this, I was confused as hell by that quote. I mean, there was her perm in S4 of Buffy, but ...

Sorry, I just can't. Never got past the pilot of Enterprise (well, except for Trip/T'Pol's wedding, because Jack had a role). I know some of the menfolk spend years yowling about "wrong font" or picking apart the minutiae of what drives which ship. I don't care about that stuff. For me, it's what Nimoy said: The s/f stuff is just trappings. What's important is character, character, character.

And never mind the out-of-sync Klingon running through the cornfield, IMO Scott Bakula has exactly two facial expressions and I don't like either of them.

Scott Bakula has two facial expressions, all right. Sexy and more sexy.

I actually agree with Federal Ghost on most things involving Discovery. You can see it trying to say LOOK WE'RE PRESTIGE and just failing miserably. It needs to embrace some of the inherent silliness of past Trek (and even Lower Decks, to a degree). It definitely eschews character development in favor of technobabble...and by technobabble I mean MICHAEL BURNHAM IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON IN THE UNIVERSE.

I like the technobabble.
Long as it's consistent within itself, but they usually get it right.
I mean, I don't like it to dominate, or be a substitute for plot.
Voyager was most guilty of that.
But at the same time...the ship is a character in the show, so knowing how the warp core (generally) works, and how the transporter (generally) works is no different (to my mind) than knowing Vulcan anatomy and culture.
It's an extra little detail to know to enrich the story.

Okay, one thing I can boil all their tech down to.
Plasma conduits (literally magnetic pipes full of the shit the sun is made of) are an outrageously and insanely dangerous to way to transfer energy around the ship.
They're why exploding consoles melt people's faces off.
BUT....given how energy-hungry things like artificial gravity and forcefields are...I see no other way.
Starships are just fucking dangerous.
They should just send probes.
But then there'd be no show.

Well, there would be a show, but only probes would watch. And advertisers don't know how to tap that audience yet.

I will say, the effects in the last Discovery episode were pretty great. I was worried they were going to abandon the slug caves, but they made them much, much better than they were on DS9.

But having Burnham be the one to travel to Trill with Adira instead of Culber made zero thematic sense and was also stupid.

Because Burham has to do everything.

Very relevant:

Sexy, Bakula? Glad I read this before I ate dinner.

My mom had a crush on him back in the Quantum Leap days.