Have you ever considered that the Prime Directive is not only not ethical, but also illogical, and perhaps morally indefensible?
Good theory - it’s been a long time since I studied brain anatomy, but hyper-specific brain damage might be the only way to truly address Pike’s situation as depicted in “The Menagerie”.
I think it’s a fine idea that requires a certain degree of community and camaraderie that I’m not sure exists in the Lemmyverse yet.
As a group, we’re good at sharing articles - often stuff that makes us mad (and there’s plenty of that to go around) - but less good at just…hanging out and shooting the shit.
I don’t know what the solution is aside from, “be the change you want to see.”
Agreed on all points.
Jellico’s line about not being able to supply new combadges across the fleet was a pretty funny way to acknowledge the badge inconsistency with the “Picard” flashbacks - I’m going to try not to think about that too hard.
I’m disappointed that we’ll never get a chance to see Elnor in one of the sailor suits the cadets wore on this show.
One thing that’s going to bug me for a while is how Solum can progress peacefully without contradicting season one - Ilthuran isn’t exactly on track to become the Diviner at this point.
Those were the Enderprizians from “All the World’s a Stage”, right?
They certainly appeared to be - how that’s possible is an exercise left to the viewer, which is part of the fun of alternate universe stories.
That said, this is the first episode of the season that fell a little flat for me. I know part of the show’s mission is to give a bit of a “grand tour” of Star Trek, but this is the first one that seemed a little contrived to me.
Part of it is probably that I prefer the Mirror Universe to be more scary than silly, and the episode understandably leaned into the silly.
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Best of luck in…all that, I guess.
Wow, Wheaton was really great in this. His manic, impulsive Wesley Crusher is a lot more interesting than the more serene version we’ve gotten since…always, really.
They’re really leaning in to the Doctor Who of it all, not just with Wesley, but also with the Loom, which seem ripped straight out of Father’s Day.
It’s nice of the Starfleet of this era to not only put security officers back into red shirts, but making them brighter than those of the command officers to make them easier targets.
Yeah, it’s probably good to mention that all (I think?) of our DMs are open if someone has a suggestion for us.
“The Breen ship, I believe, is the largest asset we’ve ever built. It was about 10 kilometres of an actual digital environment that were built so we can travel through and also shoot practically in certain areas,” he recalls. “It was a really massive ship both from the exterior but also from the interior. And it’s something that if you look at the details when you’re watching it on screen, there’s just so much depth, Digi doubles and ships – the detail is almost endless.”
Not sure what to say here besides, “wow.”
YOU KILLED LEMMY
YOU BASTARDS
By the way, did Gwyn refer to Zero as a he in the log?
I had the chance to keep an ear out for this as I watched, and I think the line is, “I think Zee’s safe with us until we do.” They’ve used the nickname a handful of times through the season so far, but it’s susceptible to unclear pronounciation.
It was a fun twist - it was good to see something that will carry forward from what was otherwise a fairly standard hijinks episode.
It’s also good to see Maj’el getting involved in said hijinks like a good Vulcan.
Wow, Tarka was a chatty sonofagun.
Honestly? I think that’s probably exactly what they do.
Nostalgia sells, which is why TOS stuff specifically has dominated the merch market for years. And older fans, unfortunately, are probably more likely to have money to burn.
I find merch interesting these days…what do people even want? I feel like action figures are a thing of the past. Are prop and costume replicas where it’s at these days?
I wonder if they’ll tie that directly in to Lower Decks with a Doctor guest appearance.
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Dr. Erin is canon!
Well, canon-er, since she got a brief name drop in a Lower Decks episode.
I was briefly concerned that they were treating time travel and quantum realities as the same thing, but I’m glad they addressed them separately in Chapter 15.
It was just a point of clarification in case you misunderstood.
Firstly, I should point out that it’s completely possible to sing the praises of one show without crapping on another.
With that out of the way, I agree it’s a damn shame Paramount+ cancelled Prodigy. I think it was probably the “right” decision on paper - the Hagemans themselves have said they were shown the numbers, and they weren’t great - but that probably speaks to the inadequacies of their platform. It doesn’t seem to be a good place for children’s programming.
Regardless of whether we get more Prodigy, I hope it was well-loved by its target audience, and I hope that it helped to create a new generation of Trek who can carry on with “Starfleet Academy” and the other series as they grow up.
In fact, if anyone has kids who have been watching it, I’d love to hear what they thought of it.