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I wanted so much more from Disenchantment, which is ironic in retrospect. The writing just felt like Mr. Baggins' morning toast with too little butter scraped across it. Each season could be compressed down to a movie with very punchy dialogue and good comedy beats. Instead, it's kind of a drawn out slog where the animation is doing a lot of heavy lifting for most scenes.

Congrats, @Stamets.

I'm almost through my first watch of Discovery and I'm amazed at what I'm seeing. I'm happy to hear that character portrayals like this are getting the thumbs-up from the community.

I'll throw in that, as a sensitive cis-het male myself, seeing emotionally in-touch authority figures like Saru and Pike make me feel seen. Older Trek shows just didn't have that, with men oscillating between horny and angry as their entire emotional range. So it's not just Stamets' composite (and super wholesome) family. IMO, the writers are clearly trying to bring a better portrayal of humanity to the screen.

As bananas as LCARS would be to actually use, that wouldn't surprise me.

I love how smug Dukat looks here.

True. Galactica is built like a bunker that happens to be spaceworthy.

Enterprise has a bridge with a proud vantage point so that they ... :: checks notes :: ... don't run aground in shallow water or plow into things when coming to port. Wait a sec...

Detmer absolutely needed a seatbelt and airbag, and she was piloting the damn ship. Also, Discovery's consoles keep ejecting rocks and flames every time the inertial dampeners fail, and there's literally nothing to hold on to at most workstations.

Universe is a lot like Star Trek Discovery (Season 1): it deviates strongly from the source material by leaning hard into the "everybody kind of hates and/or distrusts everyone else" trope. At the same time, it explains some mysteries and expands the lore, so it's canon despite not being anyone's favorite.

Kinda? "Matter replicators" show up properly in TNG, but then "food synthesizers" got added to the pre-TOS lore by way of Discovery and SNW.

The real enemy in deep space is the ship itself.

Well, if we're looking for characters to fight against Moopsy, I'd like to see how a doopler would stack up.

Then again, nobody has lasted more than a second with the cute little guy. Is a Moopsy weak against *anything * other than outer-space (assuming that it even needs to breathe)?

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Considering how much the EMH likes to talk, I strongly disagree!

To give you an idea how it might go, here's a hard-to-like, obstructive, abrasive, senior starship officer who also happens to be a hologram:

Forget gunpowder though. With tech like tractor beams, inertial dampeners, and gravity plating, you'd think The Federation would have more armaments in the way of mass drivers, rail guns, and other physics based attacks. Heck, even an chaotic orbiting swarm of meteorites would do a lot to disperse phaser fire.

I was so happy to see this thinking in action during the last season of Picard.

Point of order: isn't the whole universe Q's holodeck?

Thank you. This makes a lot of sense. I mean, in-universe it's nuts, but out here in the real world - artistic license for a better show is a-okay in my book. Besides, it's the reason I muscled through season 2 to start with.

For the uninitiated: "The United Federation of Hold my Beer."

Yes, that explains what Humans bring to the table: sheer, ill-informed, unbridled, un-jaded, undistilled, optimism.

It also explains why Voyager sports bio-neural components that can't handle cheese, why 1701-D is comically oversized compared to its crew compliment, why outfitting the entire Federation fleet with recycled Borg tech got the green light, and why bridge workstations have a failure mode that kills the operator with heavy-metal concert pyrotechnics the moment it's shaken too hard. Nobody told them they couldn't do that, so they did.

Every time I see the skant, two things come to mind:

• Lotta leg-shaving going on. That or leggings. I'm not opposed to either as an aesthetic choice, but it kind adds a layer to the impracticality.
• I think the absence of a belt is what keeps these from reading like a kilt or tunic. Either of which would be a fantastic nod to traditional affectation for earthling personnel (as other races do). Instead, the skant sits in this men's apparel uncanny-valley of sorts, where it's neither a dress, dress uniform, gown, or nightshirt.

That gets complicated. There may be time-travel involved. What's worse is that the past bears an uncanny resemblance to present and future, for an endless number of epochs. Best you can do is take note of what kinds of artificial life is kicking around, and ask everyone if they've ever heard of "All along the Watchtower."

I mean, are there "dead heads" for trek conventions? Sounds like that's your ticket to maximizing your space-faring bodysuit/uniform time.

True. But word has it that after 1980, a few Cylons warmed up to humanity and provided their vocal skills to countless electro, rap, and avant-garde music acts.

Edit: Thanks for the warm welcome. I'm happy to be here.