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Starfield looks way better than I expected

Was in NYC for a few days but the haze had not hit yet when I walked by this billboard

that has kind of the been the way with a lot of AEW PPVs over the last couple of years, mediocre build capped by absolutely banger shows

Actual Ukrainian boots on Russian soil is going to have real psychological effects far beyond any physical or material ones even if they are only their for a few hours. Ukraine invaded(maybe) a city in Russia. Not a cruise missle or a drone but troops

Good to see high budget "original" scifi

Watched it last night, it was great. The main deadite is best horror villain of the last few years.

honest question here, is she even cognitively able enough to resign at this point? Is there a 25th amendment like device for senators?

it is pretty clear at this point that they have found a way to hang a lot of western gear off MiGs over the last year

Saw 20 new posts since this morning and assumed he died, should have known it was an argument about something tangentially related

those staffers essentially get to be an unelected Senator, they are getting an absurd amount of power and influence

The Roddenberry achieve just put a rather meticulous recreation of each Enterprise bridge and you walk around them Enterprise XCV-330 (c2100) - Roddenberry Archive RODDENBERRY.X.IO The Roddenberry Archive: Legacy of the Starships Enterprise

Thoughts on the whole season. Obviously a night and day improvement over the first 2. Characters acted like themselves for the most part and speaking of acting everyone brought their A game this season. I honestly think this is the best work Burton, Frakes and McFadden have done in these roles over the course of the last 35 years. The what is the deal with Jack plot went on too long but that was the only major misstep this season. Things get wrapped up a little to neatly at the end but that is just Trek for you. Like from the look on Sidney's face after she gets deborged she has the full memories and realization of the things she did while she was a borg, a whole lot Starfleet just became meat puppets to murder a whole lot more of Starfleet, Troi is going to be putting in some serious overtime. Don't like the Titan-A getting renamed either, yeah ships in Trek get renamed but not ones that have earned the suffix honor.

calling her space Hitler is putting it lightly, she committed genocide on mass scales and fucking ATE people

some cool behind the scenes on the new old set. they even went to the trouble to recreating the look of a technical flaw/challenge from 80s set building that could have been fixed with modern LEDs but it wouldn't look exactly the same

It is worth noting that the one ship that the bridge crew retook control of and then was destroyed by the rest of the fleet was the Excelsior, as of last season that was the ship that Elnor was assigned to, dude can't catch a break.

Wonder if Majel Roddenberry's lines were cobbled together from old dialogue or if they finally got around to making the AI voice of her, she supposedly recorded piles of phonetic sounds that could be used before her death but with the crazy advances in voice AI over the last couple of years you can probably just feed in all the sound clips of her from the various series and get something really really close.

They said something along the lines of "NCC -1701F leaving Spacedock" but it does a have a similar shape to a lot of new starfleet vessels. I figured the D would be making an appearance since they dropped a line about something being in hanger 12 earlier in the season, it is the cheapest and easiest of fan service but fuck it this is supposed to be the send off for this crew give it to me. It was cool seeing all the bridge consoles light up with modern effects/set building techniques. I was hoping it wouldn't be the Borg because I feel that has been done to death at this point but the Pah-Wraiths just didn't fit into a TNG story and bringing in a totally new big bad in the last 2 hours would have been a bit much so I guess we were kind of stuck with them. some nerdy thoughts now, Starfleet is going to be completely wrecked now personnel-wise, did everyone over the age of 25 just get killed, even after our heroes deborg everyone is there going to be anyone left over the rank of ensign? Like did we just lose the entire cast of DS9 and Voyager?

They can take all the time they need. I don't care if it 4 years between seasons if they can keep up with the quality of the first.

My thought against Armus is that Troi is familiar with him and she didn't mention anything about recognizing "the darkness" that was around Jack

if they don't reveal EVERYTHING about Jack in the first 5 minutes next week I am going to be pissed, this is dragging out way to long. This episode was an improvement over the last couple of weeks, gave all the characters something to do, loved seeing the gang around the conference table again. Stabbing Changelings is very very dumb even if they are mutated Changelings, we saw one get shot in the head last week and pop back up 2 seconds later.

AEW is going to Wembley. That will be their largest show by a huge margin but I don't see how they can possibly get anywhere close to selling it out. It seats 90,000+

not only S31 super clandestine in DS9 it felt like the tiniest thing out there, like if some show runner in the 90s said that S31 was Sloan and 10 other operatives I would have believed it

Those are all extremely astronaut-esque sounding names

The more I think about it the less I like Vadik's origin story. Firstly I just straight up hate there being an evil torturer/scientist in Starfleet. All the main characters seems to know about Daystrom station and there are regular patrols of starfleet vessels so it seems unlikely that it is a Section 31 operation. Even if it was Section 31 it goes against the core theme of Trek in general, the shows aren't supposed to be a be a direct reflection of our currently fucked up world with a futuristic space technology coating they are supposed to be an aspirational look at what we can be as a species and society. Unquestionably a LOT of Trek has been allegories of our own time but it was almost always the villain of the week that took the "bad" role of our current time character in the story. It seems more and more with newer Trek that only our hero characters have the strong moral compass that we should be aspiring too and everyone else are grey at best. Getting past morality issue it is just a straight up dumb plan on Starfleet's part. OK you take these sentient creatures, do horrific experiments on them and change them into the perfect spies that can blend into any culture or situation, the second you drop them off on the planet you want them to spy on they are just going to disappear into crowd never to be seen or heard from again, they are perfect spies you are never going to be able to find them. Did Starfleet just expect the changelings to come running back to the people that tortured and mutilated them for years?

The middle act of this season was no where near as good as the first act. Hopefully the last 3 episodes will just go.