From the makers of Genital Jousting... Seriously, Free Lives has some RANGE

I feel like this must have been a culture shift between TOS and TNG. The admiralty from ENT Forrest to DISCO Cornwall, SNW April and Kelvin Pike to Kirk’s Voyage Home tribunal are all portrayed as as the kind of leaders who put the Federation first and will go to bat and absorb considerable flak protecting their…

Commodore Oh should count even if she's a Commodore. But really all of Starfleet Command qualifies as "Bad" (at least in terms of, "at their jobs" and "as people") in Picard S01. 

This season was better than last. The highs were higher, and the entire season wasn’t focused on Flanderizing Mariner (seriously?? She got outwitted by Boimler?!). Whitbrook’s lows were also my highs—Peanut Hamper’s return was somehow even better than I’d been hoping for, so take that for what it is.

I hope Ma’ah returns as well, although where we left things he was no longer Lower Decks (given the big reveal by this point he’s probably either on Martok’s council or dead)

Think of it this way: would you rather have your First Contact be with a group of bumbling jerkwads who—by the way—are all technologically inferior compared to the fleet your ancestors built while everyone else was still figuring out how to grow seeds that would grow bigger seeds...

A common thread through all of my favorite shows is absolute “Buy it on iTunes” quality main themes—even if I’m bingeing an entire season in one sitting, I will literally restart the episode if the UI has the gall to auto-skip the intro.

Yeah, you're trolling, but you're also right--The Animated Series really is just that good.

Black and white or monochrome? That is, how does it handle the grays? I’m red-green color deficient anyway—I think doing coding, data analysis, web browsing, and slack on an 60 Hz eInk laptop would be an amazing experience that would almost certainly help me with eyestrain... but if it’s strictly black and white—or if…

If he’d really wanted the full troll experience he should have just made a post with “nuTrek” in the title.

Now there’s an IP that would give Lego claim to rest of my budget as well as floor space—I just hope that if it happens and they do a DS9 it comes with both a Jadzia *and* an Ezri.

Exactly. Aside from the Kelvin films, the Enterprise has never been depicted on screen as a spring chicken—“The Cage” was set long enough into its stint for Pike to have turned jaded; Kirk came after (and may not have even been his direct successor), and even there, either “first” episode makes no implication that…

I have Paramount+ through Prime, and it’s infuriating. The P+ Android app is godawful—no zoom and a nonstandard aspect ratio means I get letterboxing on *all* sides, while Prime Video refuses to play through a desktop web browser at anything beyond 480p, so I end up switching between the two depending on the platform,…

Eh, I’ll hold out for the upgrade to—dang it! Someone beat me to the joke!

We’re talking a console KVM. I know the PS5 and Xbox can do 120 Hz (I checked to see if the Switch could as well and the Google result Wes “lolololol”), but it looks like the number of games for each platform that run *smoothly* at that resolution and refresh rate can be counted on two hands.

> a lot of what is being remembered as “real Trek” was hampered by what was achievable in SFX 30-40 or 60 years ago

Ten years from now? I absolutely stan Lower Decks (and am loving Prodigy so far) but I already consider Discovery to be as peak trek as TNG and DS9 were for their era.

Vertical monitors are awesome for software developers—80 characters is still the canonical line width limit (though I've only once worked on a project that didn't bump it to 100 or 120), so being able to have 2x or 2.5x as many lines on a single monitor is incredibly convenient. At my desk at the office I actually…

I’m on the opposite end: I find the fact that there’s a Nintendo exec named Bowser to be so incredibly wholesome and satisfying that I would honestly be upset if he turned out to be malicious. It’s like learning that your favorite wrestling “heel” is actually a sweet family man who builds houses for charity or that…

I’m definitely disappointed that they went ahead and made the Pakleds pawns in someone else’s game. What made their first appearance in LDS so great was that it was just so fittingly subversive that this throwaway civilization could have their own legitimate and earned moment as an interstellar threat on the level of…