Not in TOS, they used the same sets and the same lighting for both, they just did a minor redecorate. The primary difference was the uniforms.

“Even the hardcore Trek nerds have come around”... where are you getting that idea from? On the Facebook Trek groups I’m on there are fewer comments bashing it but no positive comments to replace them. Posts about Discovery used to be flooded with negative comments, with a few defenders arguing back, now most of the…

I’m glad I’m not the only one who sees that DS9 was the shark-jump point, in its PG-rated, shallow Rick Berman attempt at grimdark that derailed the Trek train. Hell, even within the constraints of network television it was still beige and soft and hammy, where Babylon 5 worked under the same constraints but hit much…

You’re dead-on except for the line about “SJW crap”. Star Trek has always been progressive to the point of being actively subversive and the values of diversity and tolerance were always core to Trek from day one. The problems of Discovery, and there are many and various and all awful in their own shittastic ways, but…

Ike Perlmutter is well-known to be an ass, have you considered that he might have been the problem? Although I honestly never did figure out why people seemed to hate IM 2 so much. For me it was quite good, unlike the mess that was 3. Hell, 3 pretty much can’t even fit into canon. IM 2 gave us War Machine and Black…

You wrote “nothing incoherent” when you must have meant “nothing coherent”, right? Because I haven’t seen anything in the new trilogy that’s been consistent with any bloody thing at all.

I don’t know what your idea of performance is, but I had an ‘81 Celica with a 22R and a 5-speed and it was amazing. Smooth torque all day long, and it was the kind of car you had to pay attention to the speed because it’d do 90 when you were trying to do 70 and you’d never know it until you glanced down at the…

I had a Corolla in that color, we called it baby shit orange. I got it painted red as soon as I could, I hated that color.

I remember the gull-wing wedge Camaro that flew, and wondering how the guy driving it didn’t fall out. I think I remember the motorcycle that turned into a helicopter mentioned upthread, and I remember a semi-truck that did something stupid and lame and was probably meant to steal some appeal from Optomus Prime. And…

Wow is it ever! Damn, 0.5 is freaking DEAD for the vast majority of people. Fatal alcohol poisoning. That extra zero they missed is the difference between maybe slightly buzzed and a corpse.

That “loophole” was a damned good idea. I was a teen when it was in force, and I can tell you how it affected myself and everyone I knew.

First off, everyone who wanted to drink was damned well going to drink flat period. Most people who drink start at 16 on average, and nothing will stop them. Inconvenience them,…

“The plateauing fatality rates indicate that what has been done to decrease deaths from alcohol-impaired driving has been working but is no longer sufficient to reverse this growing public health problem”

Hank is the one you see as gay? Umm, seriously, people Angel is RIGHT FUCKING THERE! He absolutely screams “nominally bi but prefers men and identifies more gay than straight” to me. Basically, a fundamentally gay man who also likes women, like Freddy Mercury was. This should have been canon decades ago, IMO. The…

Identity politics isn’t enough to sell books, and the reason is simple math. Demographic marketing is the science of figuring out what your target audience is and how to tailor your product to appeal to them, and anyone with any experience in the subject is going to tell you your potential revenue (and thus…

Suicide being a crime is about the most darkly ironic thing imaginable. By committing the crime, you place yourself beyond punishment. It’s an inherently unenforceable law. Basically, it’s a non-binding resolution of condemnation for the purpose of making a moral statement and has no functional purpose.

Maybe I’m a unicorn, but I’m male and write a lot of f/f pairings in fanfic and original fic, and while there’s a strong erotica content it’s not porn without plot or written solely for tittilation. I care about the characters, their personalities, their histories, their motivations, their chemistry and their romance…

One, it was the 70s and there was no such thing as economy cars. Secondly, not “everyone” had big V8 muscle cars, only the strongest predatory gangs did. They fueled them by chasing down weaker normal type people in slower cars and attacking them, stealing their fuel and raping their women and taking anything else…

They can keep fucking all they want, they just need to start using the other hole.

Not bitter, we’ve put it behind us and have good things ahead. It was a bullshit injustice, though, and I will always set the record straight when people repeat the bountygate bullshit because it is exactly that, bullshit. Clearly a lot of people don’t have the full facts, but as Saints fans we were on top of every…

Except that was a witch hunt with no basis in reality, pursued by a commissioner who was doing the bidding of the braying jackasses at ESPN who wanted the Saints punished for having the audacity of 1) ruining their dream of Manning vs Farve in the Super Bowl and 2) beating their man-crush Payton Manning.

It never made…