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.
Do I still have a case?
We actually have a class action suit for that very thing. Let me DM you the details.
Transporter buffer imprisonment
This is a horrifying concept and you bet I would send a Klingon law team after someone for that.
Console explosion
Do they have experience/success with suing The Federation? I heard they recently added Borg parts to all their ships - seems reckless to me.
sent to Rura Penthe
I have good news and bad news for you.
The good news is: Since you now live at Rura Penthe, Gowron Law can represent you for your new Mesothelioma suit.
Jellico: Hot damn, even their jokes are efficient. I like this crew.
Uh, where’s craft services?
What, food? Naw, this cast eats the scenery. But there’s a grill in the back alley if you wanna cook something.
One of the consequences of a wisely used but small budget. Simple sets and costumes, plus a LOT of creative lighting. All that’s left are actors to fill that otherwise empty-feeling space on the stage.
Also, color TV was in its infancy, so networks used the medium to compete for viewer attention. It really looks like NBC made sure that every scene was as vibrant as possible. But now that I think about it, it also had to “read” well in B/W too.
Edit: @StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website corrected me here. TOS was indeed an expensive show, which upon rewatching (as I am today), becomes more evident the longer you look at it.
McCoy is a stray that wandered in from outside, but seems to be friendly most of the time.
Dr. T’Ana?
In that case, Lower Decks is definitely Uncle Fester.
I feel like, no matter how that plays out, everyone loses.
I like this list but we really need to stop with the senseless violence against warp cores.
Red Dwarf is good, but I find it leans on the laugh-track a little too hard sometimes. It does a good job of poking fun at sci-fi of the day, and is a great counter-point to BBC sci-fi like Trek and Dr. Who. They may have even shared some of the same sets and props with the latter.
Hyperdrive is in the same vein and has some really great moments. It sits in my head as the midway point between Red Dwarf and The Office. You could even say it was the much lower-budget BBC predecessor to The Orville.
I have the same problem. Sorry to hear that.
BTW, for anyone following this thread, go watch Cells at Work.
It’s a part of a long-standing internet tradition. I first knew the format as the Conversatron (1999). Posting in-character like this might go back as far as early IRC or Usenet.
Real question is: is there anywhere on Mastadon for this kind of stuff?
I’ll help out. Here you go: https://www.askamathematician.com/2012/07/q-how-does-instantaneous-communication-violate-causality/
I love it when sci-fi teaches us about real stuff. The problem is that when you mix instant and classical (non-instant) communication channels, you get situations where information time-travels, and the receiver gets information from the future. This breaks causality (present based on future events), and so nature rightfully abhors it.
The closest we’ve come to instant communication is the use of entangled particles, but we can’t make practical use of the phenomenon. Touch one such particle, and it’s pair instantly changes to the opposite state. The catch is that you can’t know when to observe the particle, nor can you know what the original state was, via the same mechanism. So you still need to use normal photons moving at slow-ass light-speed to communicate that meta-information, thereby undoing any attempt to exploit it.
As someone whose cells don’t always do the right thing, I feel this comment.
genetically modified himself to gain superpowers,
To be fair, said superpowers weren’t the kind of thing that would make him a viable supersoldier or unstoppable terrorist like Kahn.
Admiral: About this Stamets guy, can we review the footage of his illegal genetic modification powers?
:: watches video log of Stamets taking Discovery through shroom-space ::
Admiral: Ow, fuck, that looks incredibly painful. These mods are only good for this one task? And he can only do it with that machine, from that room, on that specific ship? And he’s okay with doing this to himself every time?! Yeah, we’re good.
This is the kind of low-effort humor that I’m here for. Nicely done.
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:
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.