Having watched through all of Star Trek in the past 14 months or so, I can say with certainty that it’s an entirely new thing that Discovery invented. Not only has it never been mentioned, we’ve seen mirror universe characters in our universe not having any issues with the lighting. (I distinctly remember a DS9 mirror…

I just watched through all of Voyager a few months ago, and while Kes isn’t my favorite character, she’s not all that bad. (At least until the episode where they brought her back as wrathful Kes, but I blame that firmly on the writers.) I just don’t get why so many hate her so badly.

That’s ironic coming from someone who apparently hasn’t been reading her reviews. She’s said more than once that she likes Discovery despite her issues with it. That’s not having an axe to grind, it’s a reviewer pointing out the issues they see in the show, ones that keep occurring week after week. You know, the kind…

I see this complaint every week, but the people making it are apparently reading different reviews than I am. Yes, she criticizes a lot of things Discovery does (the writing is the most common one), but she has said, more than once, that she likes the show despite her issues with it.

I met a girl once whose first and middle names were California Sunshine.

Well given that it only gives you a free ticket to 2D showings, and Tuesdays at the Cinemark Tinseltown near me has all 2D tickets at $5 all day long, it’s not a very good deal. Just adjust your theater going to hit on Tuesdays and you’ll save more on ticket prices that the 20% concessions discount could make up for.

I don’t know if this would help or not, but if you still have some of the paperwork on your end, you might want to talk to a lawyer. If nothing else, you might be able to sue Sallie Mae and get some money out of them for the massive failure, which you can use toward the loans. Because it’s pretty damn clear that…

Hell no, not into the sun. She might corrupt the thing with evil, and the rest of us need it to live. Let’s aim her at another star, one that’ll take centuries to reach. We’ll send her off still alive and with enough provisions to last her the rest of natural life. Then she gets to be alone in the void for years, and…

I’d take much of the 60s fashion over the hideous stuff in the 70s.

I’m not you, but I agree on that. I don’t like the dark and depressing stuff either. I’m depressed enough already, I don’t need a TV show or movie making it worse!

I largely gave up after episode 1, but have been reading the recaps. I’ll probably give it a try after the end of the entire season if it sounds like there’s more good ones like the last couple. But even now I’d prefer to wait because my depression is severe enough that I really don’t handle having to wait months to…

That’s fair. However, McCoy showed up in the very first episode of TNG, all shriveled with pure white hair, but very much alive. (Still hated the transporter, too.) So at least by the TNG era, human lifespans could be really long. Now whether that would apply in the TOS/Discovery era, and (more importantly) in the…

Don’t forget live-streaming your last moments for posterity. You know, for when aliens find the glowing ember of our planet centuries in the future and somehow find working storage of our last days on the Internet.

Thanks for mentioning the Prime subs. I have Amazon Prime, but rarely ever use Twitch. Your comment made me realize that I could go use that free monthly subscription and send a bit of money their way. So I did! (^‿^)

I think we have a better chance of every person on the whole planet spontaneously changing gender than most of the US getting over being prudish about sex.

They can be more than managed, they can be stopped for long periods of time with birth control! Continuous birth control is available, there’s a couple of different ones that lead to only 4 “periods” a year (technically it’s withdrawal bleeding, not a period, but close enough), but there’s also generic version of…

Sadly I’m not surprised to hear they went after CKE for daring to call a burger a “monster thickburger”. Monster Cable is a notorious trademark bully. Techdirt has been covering their abusive legal actions for some time. They seem to think their trademark means no one is allowed to use the word monster in any setting…

Nah, that’s never how it works for those types. It’s god’s will when what they wanted to happen happens. But when what they want to happen doesn’t happen, it’s the work of the devil. It’s never god sending them a message to warn them they’re being righteous assholes and should probably change their lives before they…

She could, but people are jumping to the meth connection due to her actions. The way she acted destroying the place seems like something someone high on meth might do. Then you add in the face sores and that’s also something something addicted to meth might have and it makes that possibility seem more likely.

Amusingly, there was a scene of a star destroyer in either The Force Awakens or Rogue One (I think it was TFA, but not completely certain) that in 3D it looked like the star destroyer was coming out of the screen straight at the audience so much that it made me flinch for a second. That one shot pretty much made the…