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Old 02-05-2026, 09:45 PM   #5421
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Martok would absolutely murder that Klingon clown. His blood pressure would be like one of those Carnival Games where you use the hammer and try and hit the bell...
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Another one in stealing this morning, posted under the heading "is sta a social conservative psy op"
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Old 02-06-2026, 10:45 AM   #5423
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Yeah, I just watched it and thought it was pretty poor


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Dude, why are you watching it?!?! It obviously ain't for you and that's okay.

If you must continue to watch "because it's Trek", just go into it without any biases or expectations and enjoy it for what it's intended to be: a fun expression of 2026 college life, and relatable stories for today's generation...that happens to be set in the Trek universe.

I, for one, and my friends, have been enjoying it all (besides some awkward stuff in the first ep) because we are just appreciating the characters and stories.

But to voluntarily subject yourself to weekly torture, just so you can raise your blood pressure and then rant, is highly illogical.
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Old 02-06-2026, 10:50 AM   #5424
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Dude, why are you watching it?!?! It obviously ain't for you and that's okay.

If you must continue to watch "because it's Trek", just go into it without any biases or expectations and enjoy it for what it's intended to be: a fun expression of 2026 college life, and relatable stories for today's generation...that happens to be set in the Trek universe.

I, for one, and my friends, have been enjoying it all (besides some awkward stuff in the first ep) because we are just appreciating the characters and stories.

But to voluntarily subject yourself to weekly torture, just so you can raise your blood pressure and then rant, is highly illogical.
I see where you're going but even according to your very, very loose criteria its still not very good.
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Old 02-06-2026, 02:16 PM   #5425
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Dude, why are you watching it?!?! It obviously ain't for you and that's okay.

If you must continue to watch "because it's Trek", just go into it without any biases or expectations and enjoy it for what it's intended to be: a fun expression of 2026 college life, and relatable stories for today's generation...that happens to be set in the Trek universe.

I, for one, and my friends, have been enjoying it all (besides some awkward stuff in the first ep) because we are just appreciating the characters and stories.

But to voluntarily subject yourself to weekly torture, just so you can raise your blood pressure and then rant, is highly illogical.
What drugs are you taking before you start viewing?
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For the record the average life span of a Trill symbiote is 300-500 years. There are some that live past this. We have never been told the age of the oldest living Trill.

It's still shoe horning a "cameo" into the show with the bonus of also being a second cameo because of who is playing her. It's bad writing in hopes of appealing to old Trek fans since what they're writing cannot attract any new ones.
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Old 02-09-2026, 08:51 AM   #5427
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Why show runners allow actors to have creative input into plot I'll never understand.

They're not writers. They're puppets for more creative people.

Tawney Newsome (and Patrick Stewart) should have stayed in their lanes.
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Old 02-12-2026, 02:38 AM   #5428
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What in the actual f### was that??

Hurrah for being sick and an insomniac...

That episode was tonally all over the goddamned place, Giamatti was doing all of the heavy lifting there.

I still cannot stand Holly Hunter.

Nor can I stand the new ships that have disconnected nacelles and main bodies from their saucer sections, that is so, so stupid.

Speaking of stupid...
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If the writer of Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, Pulp Fiction, and Beowulf wants to work on your project for nothing, that would seem like a win. There was one problem, though: Roger Avary isn’t just an acclaimed writer; he’s also a huge Star Trek fan.

How big a fan is he? Avary claims his family watches two or three Star Trek episodes nearly every day. He loves Star Trek so much that he offered to work on it, basically for free, when current Trek overlord Alex Kurtzman began launching new Star Trek television shows in the 2010s.

“I went in and met with the guy, I was like, I will write for scale. I will write on your new show. I just want to be part of it.”

Kurtzman’s response was a hard no, and as Avary explains it, “He didn’t want anybody who had any kind of fondness for the original show. He wanted to do something new and create something new.”

Or as Avary put it: “This dweeb Alex Kurtzman just comes along and s**ts all over everything… Starfleet Academy is an abomination. I could not get through three episodes of Discovery. It’s just awful, awful storytelling… Picard was terrible.”
It's all intentional. The Dweeb literally set out to destroy Trek on purpose.
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Because there's just not much on TV at the moment that's great, I've changed my mindset on this to the theory, that its either a actual parody of Star Trek, or the writing room is a daycare for not very smart children. I mean at the end of the day, the damage to the Star Trek IP that Kurtzman has done is astronomical, which is sad. With really low viewership (not even top 10 streaming on their own platform, and the show getting savaged, the smart move would be to refilm the last episode of season 1 where Holly Hunter causes the destruction of the known universe and they don't bother putting up season two, then finish up SNW, and just put Trek on the back burner for a decade.


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What in the actual f### was that??

Hurrah for being sick and an insomniac...

That episode was tonally all over the goddamned place, Giamatti was doing all of the heavy lifting there.

I still cannot stand Holly Hunter.

Nor can I stand the new ships that have disconnected nacelles and main bodies from their saucer sections, that is so, so stupid.

Speaking of stupid...
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It's all intentional. The Dweeb literally set out to destroy Trek on purpose.

Again, not on purpose. He just thought he knew what we wanted more than we did and he could give us something bigger.


He couldn't and it was a colossal #### up that has sunk the franchise by alienating old fans and making almost zero new ones. But it wasn't on purpose. He's not that good at anything he does to be that successful on purpose.
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Here's hoping none of those writers on Academy ever get another job.


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https://screenrant.com/star-trek-sta...rima-betazoid/

Ahhhh there it is. The uncanny feeling is because its just a ####ty reskin of xmen.
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Old 02-14-2026, 04:18 PM   #5434
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Ahhhh there it is. The uncanny feeling is because its just a ####ty reskin of xmen.
Oh good...kill me now.
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Ahhhh there it is. The uncanny feeling is because its just a ####ty reskin of xmen.

Why are you surprised, Kurtzman is famous for stealing other peoples ideas and concepts.
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So, uh, here's Gates Mcfadden riding a unicycle.

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Gates McFadden is incredibly talented.
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"How to become a unicycle" entered my google search history today.
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