Actually, pessimists tend to outperform optimists when each are presented with accurate descriptions of reality according to Dr. Julie Norem.

No, I don't think I'll be less jaded because to date I have seen exactly no TED talks that are anything more compelling than the perpetual reports in WIRED that OLED paper is JUST AROUND THE CORNER YOU GUYS I MEAN IT THIS TIME. Reports that similar wank is "in use" are about as compelling as when WIRED does it, only…

I don't think TED Talks represent progress. I think they represent novelty and blue sky thinking. TED Talks are for people who see pie in the sky carbon capture projections and think "Oh good, we don't have to lower emissions"

How dumb are you that they're fascinating? It's like Ray Kurzweil: The Series

TED Talks are terrible. They're techno-utopian glurge based on the idea that a single disruptive technology or token effort can revolutionize the world. It's an attempt to export the worst of the Californian ideology to the rest of the world.

The BBC isn't even that good anymore. They lost a lot of good journalists to AJE when they closed up shop in the developing world, and practically every story they put out reeks of trying to crawl up Cameron's bum.

Because the Rule of Two is hella fuckoff stupid.

I dunno, Fry's one of those celebs like David Mitchell that's so overexposed that even his considerable charms are on the wane.

All 11 are useless bullshit because none of them actually get at what is special about Star Trek.

Let me try to lay this down in terms your tiny brain will understand:

I'm not a troll. The fact you dismiss a dissenting opinion as trolling is kinda sad, man. You seem to conflate WAH HE WAS MEAN TO ME with trolling. Which is kinda infantile. but w/e.

Lemme try and put this another way that maybe you can understand: We're both being immature here.

Oh no. I used slightly abrasive language. I guess I'm history's greatest monster?

I am literally not trolling. I don't know how you got trolling from what I said. The fact you're all "unf ungh NEW SPECIES unf ungh NO EARTH BORNS" suggests that you've missed the point of Trek Entirely and should probably go home before you embarrass yourself more.

See this is the exact worst way to approach it. You're busy jacking off about exploring the universe of Star Trek, which is the exact opposite of what Star Trek's about. Star Trek is about trying to understand the now through exploring an overblown hypothetical. It kind of makes me think you're the kind of…

I legitimately would like for it to get back to stagey, slightly surreal morality plays. Those were the best part of TOS and TNG and the way that DS9 abstracted it out over the Dominion plot is part of why it's the best show.

Well, literal adapations are kind of shitty. I have never understood people who want to see something translated exactly from print to screen. The fact that they're changing and iterating on thes tory substantially is a good thing. This is how storytelling has worked for the vast majority of human history. So hooray.

The fact it's a prequel means we'll hopefully avoid the bizarre attempts to compare it to Israel, right?

Isn't it more of a fantasy story? The fact it turns out to be a sort of Fiddler's Green cum Purgatory for coppers rather than actually being back in time, down to including the actual devil as a character in the end?

Oh noooo a dumb comic book movie was slightly less stupid than the comics whatever will we dooooooo