dejected_warp_core

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[–] dejected_warp_core@startrek.website 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

And then a man child had a temper tantrum and destroyed galactic civilization single-handedly. Sure. Okay. Have fun with the rest of the show, but that’s where I turn in for the night.

I felt the same way, at first. Then I realized that we have other things in the Trek canon that asks as much suspension of disbelief:

  • "God" lives at the center of the galaxy and is a right bastard. Also happens to resemble Chuck Heston as Moses.
  • Psychics and psychic abilities are a thing
  • V'ger
  • Q and the continuum
  • Whatever species Guinan is, and their supernatural temporal sensitivity
  • Tachyons and the rest of the fictional subatomic zoo
  • Mirror Universe
  • Time travel, but mostly to whatever year the show was made, and for the occasional Deus Ex Machina device
  • SPACE FUNGUS

Edit: my head-canon for the weirdness of Disco's first season is that they really wanted it to be the start of a Kelvin-verse TV reboot, but were coy about it.

Edit 2: I forgot about the Kardashev Type 3 civilization of robots living just outside our galaxy, that will turn the Milky Way into a lifeless wasteland if anyone so much as prank calls them. But they made their digits really hard, but possible, to find.

[–] dejected_warp_core@startrek.website 12 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Not just aliens. Alien, aliens.

While hardly a first for Star Trek, it's always a treat when alien-looking, and alien-acting, aliens show up.

The season had a good pace, but in my heart, I wanted more. I really feel like it would have made a fun (if not nerdy) season if we had a few more episodes decoding mysteries and getting to know this new culture and species.

Indeed. "StarTrek+" is rapidly becoming my favorite streaming service.

Agreed. We don't need any more computer bad guys. Besides, Daystrom appears to be tight on evil supercomputer AI storage as it is.

[–] dejected_warp_core@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh no.

It's another menagerie, isn't it?

Edit: that or the Pakleds started hiring subcontractors.

I want to disagree with this but... you're right. Heck, in Raiders, Jones actively makes the entire situation worse before the story kind of fixes itself.