It’s basically that. These have a lot in common with pro-wrestling moves. They all carry some element of risk (like the drop kick), but the physicality isn’t impossible to achieve with some coaching.
Oh man, that’s really close. And no callback to that episode either. Picard or Worf remarking that “they must have gotten the idea from our own logs” would have been way better foreshadowing for the (b)admiral’s involvement. It would have also changed the tone to be more Trek thematic, as it would say something deeper about unintended consequences through so much cultural contact.
This is most evident in the TOS episode “The Galileo Seven”. It’s a horrible scenario: Spock is in command of a marooned crew on a hostile planet. He fails to take both a scared crew and an aggressive native species of spear throwing giants, into consideration. He makes one logical survival choice after another, failing to address everyone’s irrationality at every turn, which ultimately costs two lives. Nothing more than the crew’s faith in the chain of command (and perhaps faith in Scotty’s engineering skills) holds this disasterpiece together.
And Vulcans in Trek kind of just get worse from there. You’d think they’d eventually learn to take “irrational actors” into account with assessing situations, but they don’t. While that seems far-fetched, our economists here in 21st century Earth don’t either.
Not necessarily the level of the nacelles falling off the ship
I feel like “catastrophic” would be at least that, or maybe at the level of a warp core breach; basically losing chunks of the ship that are required for crew survival. Other categories should just work backwards from there.
While I know this is done for humor’s sake, I really love this critique.
Similar to the Bechdel Test, this comesvery close to perfectly illustrating the Mako Mori Test:
The requirements of the Mako Mori test are that a film or television show has at least one female character and that this character has an independent plot arc and that the character or her arc does not simply exist to support a male character’s plot arc.[2]
To help contribute, here’s the only meme I’ve ever done, which I did in response to news that Abrams was working on a new ST movie. And after seeing how well the franchise is going with SNW and LD, I feel it’s even more appropriate.
Basically, writing movies like running a 100% improvised DnD campaign. Which is to say it’s great, as long as your audience signed up for repeated intellectual kicks to the groin.
I’ll add that this didn’t start with the SW prequel movies either. The various essays on the topic typically focus on The Phantom Menace to make this case (see: Red Letter Media); we do love to hate on that movie. But if you look to early drafts of the very first Star Wars movie script, it’s clear that it took a village to make it more than B-movie material. Also, the making-of stories are complete with every kind of move-making person improving and adding to our producer’s vision, right down to salvaging the whole mess in the editing room. It’s been a problem the entire time.
Now I wonder if THX-1138 and American Graffiti have similar war-stories behind them.
I know I’m reading too much into this, but Badgey’s ascension kind of says something very thought provoking.
I can’t let go of the fact that Badgey had his personality stripped down to little more than pure vengance. Yet when he achieves omniscience, this is immediately put aside by a feeling of being something greater, then ascends to points beyond. Is this a deliberate story point to suggest the possibility of asension being a process outside of morals, inner peace, and logic, or is that an accident? Or did Badgey somehow summon new facets to his psyche out of this experience? Or is the door left open for a malevolent presence to come crashing down on everyone later?
Then again, we already had one gag where ascending was a “wait, it’s that easy?!” moment, so maybe that’s all there is to it.
The origin of starfleet combat training. (startrek.website)
Have you been injured? Call Gowron Law. (lemmy.world)
On the second day of Trek-mas, (lemmy.world)
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Klingon Jazz (lemmy.world)
Two of everything
How it Should Have Ended: Picard Season Three (i.imgur.com)
Would have been genius (startrek.website)
Odo flavored. (lemmy.world)
That's what I thought (startrek.website)
A surprisingly common incident even in the 24th century. (startrek.website)
Execute while it's still hot (startrek.website)
Data: It is... it is groovy. (startrek.website)
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The finest organic suspension ever devised FTW! (pxscdn.com)
Kirk the diplomat. (startrek.website)
One thing the fandoms can agree on. (lemmy.world)
To help contribute, here’s the only meme I’ve ever done, which I did in response to news that Abrams was working on a new ST movie. And after seeing how well the franchise is going with SNW and LD, I feel it’s even more appropriate.
You can all pry my ketracel white from my cold, dead, spicy and delicious hands. (startrek.website)
Captain Malcolm Reynolds of Starfleet- Real! (files.catbox.moe)
Mod removed my first post because “AI ‘art’ is for Borgs”. So here is a real life version!
Do you prefer... part 2 (i.imgflip.com)
Lieutenant Yar won't be joining us for the rest of her life (startrek.website)
Episode Analysis | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x07 "A Few Badgeys More"
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