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How exactly do you mean "no one is talking about it"? This thread has 5-ish pages of posts just in the last month, and its not even currently releasing new episodes!
most of us loved it, it's just been off the air for a few months now so not a lot to talk about
I also think there's not much to talk about. It's inherently a comedy show, and doesn't try to go philosophic.
That said, I do think it's interesting that it's the comedy shows (and yes, I include The Orville) that seem more willing to embrace and reference the franchise's past, while the Serious Dramas seem intent on doing their own thing (and breaking with the past, constantly raising the stakes, etc etc).
Picard referenced a ton of the past, though!
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
yeah, he quotes Shakespeare all the time!
I keep meaning to ask where these come from, because they are consistently amazing.
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I'm just happy FB finally got the hint and stopped suggesting me alt-right hate-fueled pages.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
"The Drumhead" hit me harder than I was expecting. Just in tears for most of it
And Star Trek VI is still the best Star Trek movie
Also I'm very happy that the version of Star Trek VI we watched (the theatrical version) cut out the bit with the mask at the end. The scene is derisively called the "Scooby Doo reveal", which I think is a big insult...to Scooby Doo. The reveals at the end of Scooby Doo episodes are always carefully set up and follow naturally from the plot and the characters. Meanwhile, the reveal that the random Klingon assassin is actually a random Romulan is pointless and confusing. Why would they send a Romulan disguised as a Klingon when actual Klingons are in on the plot?
because you're misremembering. the assassin is actually Col West, from earlier in the movie, not a rando romulan, and it's because the faction of the federation and the faction of the klingons were working together to try to tank the peace talks so war could keep going on forever because yay war economy
it's actually great and sucks it was cut
Honestly if they'd tossed Neelix out the minute they should have (some time after the "intestinal distress" joke in episode 2 and before the hot tar in Janeway's coffee cup in episode 3 or 4) it would never have been a problem. I'm sure cooking is one of Tom Paris's many skills and interests.
war economy was a dumb simplification. it's military personal who want their jobs to keep on existing, etc etc
Why ask Paris when you can demote Kim to sous-chef and give him the responsibility of a chef ?
Also, airlocking Neelix would be littering. Neelixes should be disposed of properly: through matter-antimatter interaction, followed by flying the ship into a black hole.
They did end up inside a black hole early on. And they had Neelix's ship sitting useless in the repair bay the whole series.
"Captain, what if we send one person out in a small ship, a bit larger than a shuttle, and have them trigger a warp core breach just inside the event horizon?"
"Would that create some sort of resonance cascade and free us from the gravimetric shear?"
"What the what now?"
I doubt it would be a good idea. I have seen what's considered a bagel in most of the US. Calling those things the Neelix of bagels would be an insult to Neelix.
if you do step 2 with Neelix and then flush the older Neelix out of the air lock you can loop the process indefinitely to produce thrust.
I call it the Infinite Justice Drive.
Seems they would have been better served by trading Neelix away for a tanker that could keep pace with them so they didn't have to worry about energy reserves.
https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/239833/star-trek-keep-on-trekkin-lower-decks-stuff-in-spoilers/