CeruleanRuin

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CeruleanRuin,

That’s a great point. They’re certainly at least 3-dimensional, as seen most clearly when someone is on the main viewscreen but their eyeline matches the smaller figures on the bridge, rather than looking more like a zoom window as it would if it was a simple camera-flatscreen configuration.

CeruleanRuin,

All it would take is a Short Trek where someone rediscovers the network and encounters a group of advanced beings living there, who explain that it has been closed to current warp-capable beings because they have proven themselves not ready for the privilege yet.

Discovery was like Alexander the Great stumbling onto warp drive.

CeruleanRuin,

They couldn’t have destroyed the network, because it was strongly implied that it was a fundamental aspect of the universe itself. What would have been better is if some higher-dimensional beings living there said “You abused the privilege, and your rights to use this network have been revoked”.

CeruleanRuin,

The retcon is that the whole spore drive program was actively suppressed, because any knowledge of Discovery and/or Control would lead to cosmic apocalypse. And so part of Section 31’s imprimatur was to work behind the scenes and prevent it and other disruptive tech from seeing the light. And other civilizations did the same, because the same thing happened to them at some point in their history.

It’s pretty sweaty, and requires quite a bit of stretches credulity, but it beats a lazy handwave.

CeruleanRuin,

I’ve headcanoned it that Discovery was covertly part of a Section 31 collaboration with the Department of Temporal Investigations to test technologies and materials acquired or implied through various temporal incursions, the goal being to see which ones could be arrived at and used without causing potential disturbance to the timeline. The updated look of Federation ships is also a result of that, producing a 23rd century which looks quite different but in which events play out functionally the same.

CeruleanRuin,

I always forget The Orville exists and that I’ve been meaning to watch it, so I’ll go and watch an episode and enjoy it, but the handful of episodes I’ve seen are just enjoyable fluff. They don’t stick with me at all, and I feel no compulsion to keep watching. When does it get compelling?

CeruleanRuin,

Settle down there sparky.

CeruleanRuin,

I often feel the same. Actually good homemade stuffing is amazing. But then they go and put big chunks of celery or fucking pickles of all things for some reason in it.

CeruleanRuin, (edited )

Mater would be a Pakled tow-cruiser.

“We look for things to get 'er dun.”

CeruleanRuin,

… Why?

CeruleanRuin,

Have you never had those cheap plastic vampire teeth?

CeruleanRuin, (edited )

In universe, that works. The sad reality is that the goatee-and-shaved-head look (which Avery Brooks sported both in his previous TV roles and in real life) was considered by studio heads at the time to be “too urban” (ie, “too black”). It wasn’t until the show had established its roots that Brooks had enough leverage to change Sisko’s look to what it should have been from the start.

They touch on this in What We Left Behind.

CeruleanRuin, (edited )

I really felt like they missed an opportunity not returning to her later on. The moment that her actual fate got leaked to the public, that planet would have become a place of pilgrimage for Bajorans, and someone would have tried to make it the seat of a schismatic sect. It could have upended the entire Bajoran theocracy.

CeruleanRuin,

I’d rather continue to not.

CeruleanRuin,

I feel like I’m missing something. I don’t understand anything going on in this thread.

CeruleanRuin,

It is kind of nuts how many of them are named after white men or US place names.

CeruleanRuin,

The Discovery shouldn’t be in Tendi’s lost at all, considering its very existence was redacted.

CeruleanRuin,

Pike’a looks natural. Gerald looks like he bleaches.

CeruleanRuin,

That seems likely since that Soong was obsessed with genetic research.

CeruleanRuin,

And you’d think theaters would love it. More concessions visits per screening.

CeruleanRuin,

I felt like Molly and the rest of the tribe were pushed into the background

Having read the book, that was kind of the point. They didn’t have agency, because it was literally robbed from them at every moment. And during the part of the story where Ernest is under scrutiny and forced to own up to his sins, his wife is as passive as it can get, because she’s on death’s door and bed-ridden. It would be artificial to give her a big presence there, because in reality she was in the process of literally disappearing from the world. Molly actually gets more of an emotional presence onscreen, in part because the book is a more journalistic account and first hand sources of who she was are limited. I would like to have seen some scenes of her moving on with her life afterwards at the end in place of that weird epilogue.

CeruleanRuin,

He’s also a highlight of Green Room, which also stars Patrick Stewart.

CeruleanRuin,

You’ve heard of elf on a shelf…

CeruleanRuin,

Where is the bot that posts YouTube links for the Piped submissions, for those of us that like to use a site that actually works properly?

CeruleanRuin,

There were a number of shots that took my breath away. The movie is depressing as hell, but damn does it look good.

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