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I like Star Trek because of the hopeful future it depicts, the exploration I would love to experience, and the well developed characters.

Episodes are varied, one episode might focus on a side character’s love life, where another might be a battle against a superior foe that feels like a Das Boot adaptaion.

I recommend Strange New Worlds, it’s a return to episodic storytelling, it’s got great visuals, great actors, and the weakest episode is better than The Next Generation’s average episode.

I recently introduced a friend to Star Trek with SNW without explaining anything and it did a great job of introducing the setting and itself

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Much like Yu-Gi-Oh! And Cartoon Network Batman, “Can’t Kill Anybody” just invites much worse possibilities

Zoboomafoo,
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Remember when he tried to warn one of the future cadets? He nearly had time traveling Klingon monk assassins come after him

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The translator also emits an interference pattern that cancels out the original speech to the listener

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I don’t know if it’s worth the drive space

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I agree, earlier seasons had the right balance

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Just because The Boys is gory and pessimistic doesn’t mean it’s realistic

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If I can’t truly know how I’d behave, then this discussion is pointless.

I claim that you don’t know how you’d truly behave, and that people are generally decent and wouldn’t harm others if there were no consequences

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“Smoother and rounder than a bowling ball” is my usual comparison

Zoboomafoo, (edited )
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What do you mean, from the 90s?

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Nah, it’s fat. That’s why polar animals have blubber

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“The love of her life”

Ron Weasley? Are you sure?

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You’re not optimistic about the next election after seeing the last one?

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I use a VPN because otherwise Warner Bros tells Comcast to send me threatening letters

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My recommendation is to pick one problem and focus on it. Don’t feel like you need to fix everything in the world, just make a small part of the world better. Volunteer at a soup kitchen, clean up litter, canvas for a ballot measure you care about. Doing nothing while agonizing over how much is to be done helps nobody.

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So instead do nothing and circlejerk how miserable you are?

And at no point did I advocate for doing something trivial. I said pick one thing that’s important to you and put your effort into that. Do you think poor people deserve homes? Volunteer your time on weekends to build them through organizations like Habitat for Humanity. Do you think that’s just a bandaid over a societal wound? Find a group of like-minded people and try to fix that deeper wound.

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According to Herodotus, the Achmaeniad Persians would get drunk and deliberate on inportant matters, then review those decisions while sober

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I think that every time I see a leftist talking about how their coworkers are servants of capitalism and their enemy

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That’s me, involuntarily vegetarian, inveg?

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