I’ve been playing D&D for the last few years, but I haven’t played Baldur’s Gate. My current character is a sorcerer, which is fun, but in a previous campaign we had a warlock who (obviously) used a lot of Eldritch Blast. And so when I hit 4th level and was able to take a feat, I picked the Spell Sniper feat, which…

I’ve seen all of TOS, but not until after I had already seen pretty much everything else that came after it; I’ll admit that there’s a chance that I’m not remembering every detail or that what I saw of TOS was tainted through the lens of the later stuff. But from what I do remember, most of when Kirk and company…

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Absolutely - full credit to Gene Roddenberry for creating something so legendary, but it’s also good to acknowledge what he got wrong and what others improved upon after he died. DS9 would have been a snoozefest under Roddenberry.

I’ve seen almost no Stargate (the original movie and like two episodes of SG-1), I’ve meant to remedy that for a while but I haven’t.

Maybe not ALWAYS, but certainly generally. In both TOS and TNG, Roddenberry was simply not interested in conflict among the crew of the Enterprise - everyone worked together for the common good. And this was also true of Starfleet and the Federation at large. Does that mean that EVERYONE was always on the up-and-up?…

For a long time, trying to reconcile everything into one coherent vision was fun, but it eventually became tiresome. It was funny in DS9 when they referenced the different appearance of Klingons because everyone knew it was just a tongue-in-cheek reference to makeup changing. But then Enterprise gave an actual…

To the VAST majority of Star Wars viewers, though, that stuff just doesn’t exist. The books, especially the older books, are EXTREMELY niche. Most people will be seeing Grand Admiral Thrawn (just an example, I know he’s still in this time period) for the first time in Ahsoka and most people who already know him saw…

Yeah that’s what I mean, anyone who has seen any show is going to know that they aren’t going to kill off Pike here. Even when the characters thought Chapel was dead, viewers would have known she was fine just based on story beats that she wasn’t, even if she weren’t already an established character - it’s common…

Sure, but this might allow for the amount of time to pass between now and Gorn weddings (which we actually saw in Lower Decks). Like, SNW figures out how to help the Gorn, but it hasn’t affected all Gorn yet by TOS, but it eventually does.

After they did four seasons of Enterprise inexplicably set in the same timeline as the older shows, even with a Borg episode, and then three movies explicitly set in an alternate timeline (which even gets referenced in Discovery), I don’t think they’re going to try messing with what is and isn’t the “Prime” timeline.…

I think part of this episode is setting up the Gorn’s future - they mention the coronal mass ejection and how the light involved may have triggered some violent, monstrous instinct among them. It’s possible that they’ll figure out some special Gorn sunblock or whatever and after that they all start to act more like…

The thing with Chapel is we don’t even know that, initially, she was the only survivor - she was the only one we saw, but she never checked any of the nearby bodies nor did she explore any of the ship. As soon as she saw Spock, she took the only visible EV suit and went after him. There could have been a dozen or so…

Yeah definitely - back in 2017, The Last Jedi pretty much divided the Star Wars fandom because people who didn’t like it thought it was ruining Star Wars and people who loved it thought it was bringing Star Wars into a glorious new era (that the people who hated it didn’t want to be in). But something like that would…

I enjoyed the episode, but I couldn’t help but keep thinking about how almost none of the characters in peril could die due to existing continuity with TOS. Obviously Chapel was fine, plus on the away mission we knew Pike, M’Benga, and Sam Kirk would live (leaving only Ortegas and La’an, though given their recent…

Sure, but the books of both franchises are only, like, half legitimate - you can have fun reading them but that the shows and movies can retcon or ignore them without a second thought means that they aren’t really on the same level.

The first time I played Chrono Trigger was on an emulator on my PC - the emulator had a frame-skip button and I realized that because the game let you just hold down the A button to do the default physical attack for every character as soon as it came up, I could just frame-skip through battles and essentially…

I never played the older games but yeah, in New Horizons after the island was upgraded it all felt very final. You could still talk to the villagers but it was all stuff you had heard before, so unless you gave yourself a goal to complete or wanted a specific villager or whatever, it didn’t feel like there was much…

One difference between the two that I think is interesting is that Star Wars has existed for 46 years and the stories have taken place over almost 70 years, but the aesthetic has intentionally not changed very much, while Star Trek has existed for 57 years and has significantly depicted four different and very…

What’s interesting is how little Star Trek was interested in grey areas for a long time - until Gene Roddenberry died, the Federation were always the good guys and the bad guys were always bad (until, like the Klingons, they stopped being bad because they started working with the Federation). It wasn’t really until…