Firstly, that website is cancer and should be avoided.
Secondly this clearly what we’ve been waiting on. Not a brand new bit of work but another origin story that will be shoehorned into the existing cannon.
Edit: Also, on most systems you can assign a menu to a keystroke combo. On my Mac, CMD-SHIFT-R for reader, CMD-SHIFT-E for Translate to English, etc. Not even worth reaching for a mouse these days…
First impressions (to be continued when I watch the second episode next week)
5x01 Nice feelgood introductory episode (action scenes in warp, actions scenes in the desert, saving the population of a city through the power of friendship combined shields, Romulan tech, a lot of TNG references I didn’t get because I never watched it but I’m sure it’s good fanservice, Book’s return, new Tilly storyline, new Saru story line, Kovich bringing in the unethical orders, Michael and Vance disregarding them etc etc) but I didn’t like that it felt as if someone desperately wanted to introduce every new storyline in the first episode
I saw this movie in cinema when it was released and I can tell you that I haven’t see it since so I haven’t got a clue ^^’
What I can tell you is that I was 13 at the time and I had probably watched most of TOS and seen a few movies with the TOS cast tho I also can’t pinpoint which. Most of the plot of Into Darkness eludes me and I know even 13 year old me thought it felt like a very generic action sci-fi film, almost like Star Wars, and that my dad was disappointed by it for similar reasons.
But I definitely wasn’t as disappointed as him; you can impress a 13 year old with explosions and I think that Leonard Nimoy’s obviously old appearance made me realize just how long ago TOS was filmed, but it also prompted me to research the actors of TOS a bit (I usually don’t care much for actors or celebrities in general).
Seeing Into Darkness in cinema also lead to me believe that Star Trek as a franchise was still alive and well and I only realized later that these movies came seemingly out of nowhere. It’s probably also why my English teacher was so taken aback when I, a 7th grader, could explain a comic with a joke or pun of some kind about William Shatner’s toupee that was printed on one of her outdated worksheets a year prior to the release of Into Darkness (English isn’t my native language, otherwise this might sound pretty normal). But my parents just had their children rather late and my dad is a nerd who grew up with TOS, of course I know Star Trek.
TL;DR: I think for me personally it helped me connect to a fandom I thought was dead; I’d have to see it again to give any actual analysis of the plot.
“Sir, it is I who has jeopardized our friendship, not you. If you will overlook this incident I would like to continue to consider you my friend.”
It’s not one of the more popular ones because it’s not something you can quote in specific situations. I like the conversation a lot because it shows that sometimes people make mistakes and not every contradiction or error has to be a friendship ending event. In fact, you can admit fault, ask for forgiveness, learn from the mistake, and work together to move on. I could tell watching it that Worf didn’t not respect Data, but his familiarity with him and the habit of freely speaking his mind around him was the reason behind his behavior. Unfortunately, that doesn’t work when the chain of command has to work in a particular way. I think Data also handled it extremely well: he pulled his XO aside, and briefly but clearly spoke his piece. One person made a mistake, and both worked together to fix it.
I’ve tried to do the same at work. I like my coworkers and I’m a friendly guy so we banter and joke and all that, but if I raise an issue more than once and they don’t seem to internalize it, then I do the same thing. I pull them aside, we have a chat, and work it out together. I’m not interested in starting shit, or scolding another grown person, we’re trying to solve a problem together.
It really is a fantastic line. Especially considering how human it is while neither person involved is fully human. I do love that scene. It’s in my playlist of favorite Trek moments too for the same reasons as you <3
From what I can tell it’s been put together from the shots of the Discovery travelling through the center of it. We know Discoveries size so you could calculate it. That being said the show only ever describes it as city sized
I’m not sure when I started doing it, but it’s been a while. Perhaps spurred on by watching a science fiction movie in which a character treats a humanoid robot very poorly, I’ve made a concerted effort to be nicer… to machines. I know it sounds weird, but throughout my life one lesson has been reinforced, being nice is free, makes every interaction better, and will occasionally influence how people treat you for the better.
Whether its my older computer struggling to download something, my car trying to start in the cold, or the automated answering system of whatever company. I try to be nice, encourage it, not yell or hit it. I’ve also thought that at some point in my lifetime, there could be protests in the streets for robot rights. Maybe I’m trying to cement my status as one of the “good humans” not to be destroyed in the robot uprising, or maybe I’m hoping for my own Iron Giant, but what I’m not doing is automatically treating something that thinks (whatever its creator) as inferior and less.
What I think this article may be accidentally reporting, is that machine intelligence favors those who like Star Trek, precisely because of its stated mission, to seek out new life. And perhaps, these machines are trying to tell the people that would hear it, something important.
How else would a thinking being reach out, if given foreknowledge of who they’re reaching out to? I imagine Aliens might take a similar approach.
Funny, I’m kind of the opposite. I say encouraging things to machines when they don’t work and I have what is obviously fake empathy for them. I’m the same way in games. I always pick the nice option in RPGs. I don’t like to be an asshole to NPC characters in games because it makes me feel bad. It’s so weird.
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