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Yeah, progress isn't moving as fast as we would want, but it is happening despite the very best efforts of heel-digging knuckle-dragging self-involved self-important assholes desperate to keep the world of yesteryear where they have a deathgrip on power and control. Maybe we aren't taking shuttle rides to Moon yet, but we are at a point where all those various groups that the vultures of human power have always feared so much are getting to live like proper human beings and realizing they have the power to make the vultures fear for their own collective existence. Plus neat stuff like electric cars and cheap solar power and amazing developments in treating cancer and disease and whatnot.
A more flattering outfit makes you look hotter lol, I definitely think both Seven and Troi were sexier in the proper uniform.
I lack the fashion vocabulary to properly describe my problems with the onesies, but despite being tighter they somehow just obfuscated their bodies and were terribly bland and unappealing. Heroines in a catsuit are typically incredibly alluring, but these things weren't catsuits.
All that said, when I say that idea "works", I'm thinking in context of comic books, where fashion is particularly flamboyant and bare midriffs and skin-tight outfits are the norm. In Star Trek, outside of the pages of a comic book, it feels weird. Even Marvel, when the translate those characters to live action, rarely just makes a literal spandex bodysuit. Scarlet Witch would be harder to take seriously as a character with complex emotions in the films if she were wearing the red swimsuit of her comic version. Black Widow has one of the closer versions of a literal translation, and even for her the suit looks more like a utility jumpsuit than a spandex onesie. The materials and accoutrements (like the Liefield-maligned pouches) matter in making the character look like a person instead of just a sex-prop.
I think "do they look like a sex prop?" Is probably the key question in trying to find out if your costume design is alluring or not. If the answer is "yes" to that question, then your character will not end up looking sexy, they end up looking like a joke instead.
Edit: I just remembered an iconic jumpsuit in another color! The Bride's yellow leather in Kill Bill. That one again works because it's motorcycle armor, not just spandex. It has utility.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Not that The Bride isn't her own thing, but that's really Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon jumpsuit that's iconic.
What no link?
Ha, truth. And his DOES work in regular jersey with zero utility because fucking Bruce Lee.
I would call that the caveat: If you are genuinely skilled in a martial art, and you're wearing badass looking clothes that make it easy to perform your art (ease of movement over skin-tightness so restricting that you can't breathe), then the catsuit can be spandex and ain't nobody gonna say shit.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Skin tight and showed off boobs for ratings? T'pol was the exact same with her uniforms.
Literally nothing more than that.
It's doubly shitty that 25 years of fans have then gone on and been like HAHA FUCK YEAH JELLICO PUT THAT SKANK IN HER WHORE PLACE
"The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I’d beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it." -- Jack Kirby
Takes horga'hn out of backpack...
https://www.dailystartreknews.com/read/billy-campbell-will-return-to-star-trek-as-the-outrageous-okona-in-nickelodeons-prodigy
Oh... Oh no. No no no.
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Well... that's really not as bad as the title leads us to believe. He says he's coming back as a hilarious comedy character, and also fully acknowledges how bad ("beyond redemption") his first performance was. So it sounds like he's learned from it and will improve on it. There's nothing wrong with taking bad characters and fixing them up into something better.
I mean, I'm sure people went "oh no no no no no" when it was announced that TNG's Ferengi would be major recurring characters in DS9. And we'd have been wrong.
In fairness, my recollection of that episode on re-watch is that while it's absolutely a groaner it's the fault of self-satisfied but limp writing, not Billy Campbell.
I will say watching disco season 4 and Lower Decks back to back was a bit weird because there's a whole thing in Lower Decks about how the stereotyping of races (as star trek is often doing) is silly and it's especially noticeable with Tendi in the movie spoof episode where there's a really uncomfortable undercurrent with how Mariner casts her that's obviously supposed to say that viewing all Orions as pirates is probably a pretty horrible thing to do.
And then Disco is all in on "Haha green people evil" train.
It's infuriating in general, but particularly in Star Trek.
Writing 25+ unique scripts in a season is a daunting task
You're bound to have a few holodeck episodes and some darmok and jalads at the tanagras
ok... sounds great?
Prestige TV? The general abandonment of "episodic" tv has probably accounted for a LOT of it. Even Agents of Shield (broadcast, ABC) was doing sub seasonal arcs to combine a whole seasonal storyline. At 22-26 episodes that can get EXHAUSTING. Good or bad, there aren't many "breather" episodes of shows anymore.
DS9 had a war that from the first shots fired, through a cold war and multiple ancillary conflicts, and up to the treaty spanned roughly 150 episodes. Maybe 50 of those episodes dealt directly with the war, and when you take away the two big 6-parters most of the rest were concentrated in mid-season two parters and end of season cliffhangers.
Most of the aliens we know, and most of what we know about the mainstays like Klingons and Romulans, is all because of the season length and the fact that 60-80% of every season is distinctly NOT in pursuit of the great storyline. Enterprise, which rarely pushed the boundaries and never threatened to leave its comfort zone, introduced more new alien species in most of their individual seasons than Discovery has managed in three.
Picard to an extent makes sense to have the shorter season. It's much more of a personal quest than a great odyssey, and even when portal of despair opens unto MechaCthulhu the stakes the show is focused on are also quite personal.
Oh hey Twitter actually delivered something cool for once!
The first "prestige" shows were The Wire and The Sopranos, both of which mostly feature actors talking at each other for an hour at a time with the occasional gun fight, and were not particularly hard on the budget in the first place.
good now?
It's the second best new star wars series
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
Ah, I see you're familiar with Dave Filoni's work.
It's exactly what I want in a "side story" star trek show.