a close cousin of the recorder is the tin whistle, and listening to a minute of mary bergin’s whistling will quickly shatter any illusion that fipple flutes are toys

i’m suprised no one seems to have point-blank asked him who his parents were in court, or if they did why that wasn’t the beginning and end of the case

perhaps Trip playing “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” whenever T’Pol came to do Vulcan accupressure was in hindsight a bad idea

that’s a shame, i always really liked Pine’s Kirk in particular. but i guess it was also inevitable as soon as Spock showed up in Disco with a new actor

the rest of the article is… harrowing, to say the least. Trek feels like the elephant in the room at Paramount right now- you’d think Ellison would think that “un-woke-ifying” Trek would be an easy way to score points with the White House right now, but so far it’s been business as usual

Rick Berman described the producers’ view that providing an organic-feeling final episode to properly wrap things up would be impossible

honestly i think Terra Firma Part II would have gotten the job done fine, and if they had kept everything as is but called it the finale and left These Are The Voyages as a DVD extra or a TV “movie” people would have been happier. or at least they’d have an easier time detaching their distate for TATV from the rest of Enterprise

that bit about Trinner saying “ok, kill me!” is funny as hell

iirc the series finale was originally filmed to be the S4 finale, which is how they get ivanova even though she left the show in S5. the S4 finale we got was a rush job when they found out they were getting a final season and wanted to keep the finale they filmed as the series finale

i agree with your sentiment though, if it was the series finale i think it would’ve worked well

reminds me of the scots wikipedia, which as of 5 years ago was 50% nonsense written by a kid from the US. except now they’ve found a way to automate it, yay!

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/shock-an-aw-us-teenager-wrote-huge-slice-of-scots-wikipedia

to think all the money and effort we’ve wasted trying to create fusion in a lab when what we really needed was a really, really, really good pitcher

also worth checking out Babylon 5 and Stargate SG-1 if you haven’t already, both have a lot of Trek in their DNA (and in B5’s case there was cross-polination in both directions)

i would watch all of the above. with discovery at the very least the first four seasons, because S2 is a backdoor season 0 of strange new worlds and S4 rocks but needs the context of the first 3. it can be very uneven but i don’t think it gets bad as often as Picard did and doesn’t stay bad for as long as Picard does. Enterprise is similar, a rough-at-times ride that does really pay off in S3

you’re only gonna watch one, though, i’d do strange new worlds. it’s essentially a return to the TOS/TNG format and has a stellar cast. and frankly you don’t need to watch disco S2 to fully know what’s going on, they explain everything- i only watched disco after snw S1 left me hungry for more. SNW is seemingly unique among trek shows in that every season has been less well recieved than the last, partly because the short seasons are increasingly dedicated to gag episodes, but i’d say with the exception of one particular stinker in S3, a weaker SNW episode is still gonna be better than most shows at their best

but also- you’re your own person and may walk away from all of these series feeling someghing different! no harm on trying and if you hate something hey, it only cost you 40 minutes of your life

i can hear it in Dorn’s voice so clearly: “Bubbles is not a traditional name for a targ.”

i mean you’re totally right, the entire premise is a huge stretch. that’s part of what makes it so fic-y, which is certainly not for everyone’s pallette

there’s a series of in-universe biographies that ranges from good to great. The Autobiography of Mr. Spock and The Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko are my favorites, they’re very good looks into those character’s minds and also give you a lot of cool background info on the federation inside and outside of starfleet. i definitely recommend those two and the rest of you’re hungry for more after

if you’re salty about how Enterprise ended, espwcially for one character in particular, The Good That Men Do is worth checking out. it reads like a fixfic because it essentially is but hey. it leads into a few other books but i haven’t had a chance to read them yet

“captain, why does our annual antiharassment training have a chapter on the transwarp barrier this year?”

“they had to rewrite the whole class after the Voyager logs were declassified. this was the biggest overhaul since first contact with the Xyrillians”

for me, the foam rocks and rubber foreheads were part of the fun, like watching a magic show where you know where to look. i would be thrilled if all of SNW looked like the TOS parody from this episode, especially if it brought back 24-episode seasons. probably not a common sentiment though lol

Or the moment where he’s, like, “I choose neither” of the bad decisions, that’s not taking responsibility.

this is really interesting considering in the Kelvin movies, that’s considered a strength and one of Kirk’s defining features. one of my favorite tjings about this current wave of trek is how it takes apart the idea of the idea of the perfect, mythic captain. They feel more human this go around, which makes the times they do shine and embody the classic captain archetype that much more powerful

would you have to turn off the safeties in order for your hair to actually be cut?

tim is short for robertim

the bakula is bakula

this guy topologys