The_Picard_Maneuver

The_Picard_Maneuver , 11 months ago to fediverse in Why are trending posts on Mastodon mostly negatively politically oriented?

A lot of the people who have fled Twitter to Mastodon are the most… online, with strong political opinions.

Even though I usually agree with them, I find it exhausting and the opposite of fun to be bombarded with outrage politics 24/7, so I’m pretty careful about the accounts I follow.

The_Picard_Maneuver OP , 11 months ago to startrek in Fans reacting to the announcement of Star Trek: The Next Generation

Wow, could you imagine the show without Worf? It just wouldn’t feel right.

The_Picard_Maneuver OP , 11 months ago to startrek in Fans reacting to the announcement of Star Trek: The Next Generation

Man, that cereal box really launched Wheaton’s career. Haha

The_Picard_Maneuver OP , 11 months ago to startrek in Fans reacting to the announcement of Star Trek: The Next Generation

Ooh, that’s a spicy take. I like it.

The_Picard_Maneuver OP , 11 months ago to retrogaming in Today in "Things that exist instead of a new Castlevania game"

This is tempting

The_Picard_Maneuver OP , 11 months ago to startrek in Fans reacting to the announcement of Star Trek: The Next Generation

An engineer falling in love with virtual women but being awkward with women in real life? That seems a little farfetched.

The_Picard_Maneuver OP , 11 months ago to startrek in Fans reacting to the announcement of Star Trek: The Next Generation

Surely most, right?

I’m a millennial, and TOS was my first introduction to Trek.

The_Picard_Maneuver OP , 11 months ago to startrek in Fans reacting to the announcement of Star Trek: The Next Generation

It took me a long time to reach this conclusion. I love TOS, and the characters are cultural icons, but when I want to fanboy over the whole “philosophy” of Star Trek, I’m thinking of TNG every single time.

The_Picard_Maneuver OP , 11 months ago to startrek in Fans reacting to the announcement of Star Trek: The Next Generation

Ah, I wondered! They were clearly thinking that the Y makes it more science fictiony.

The_Picard_Maneuver OP , 11 months ago to startrek in Fans reacting to the announcement of Star Trek: The Next Generation

Yeah, you don’t become chief engineer by never reading a book.

The_Picard_Maneuver OP , 11 months ago to startrek in Fans reacting to the announcement of Star Trek: The Next Generation

I mean that I wish I could tell all the people who were worried back then that everything was going to work out great, not that they’re all gone and dead now - lost to the sands of time, from the forgotten age of the 1980s…

The_Picard_Maneuver OP , 11 months ago to startrek in Fans reacting to the announcement of Star Trek: The Next Generation

Whoa, what a weird career path.

The_Picard_Maneuver OP , 11 months ago to startrek in Fans reacting to the announcement of Star Trek: The Next Generation

Especially knowing that they went on to make 6 movies!

The_Picard_Maneuver OP , 11 months ago to startrek in Fans reacting to the announcement of Star Trek: The Next Generation

Counterpoint:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8fa37ea9-cfbb-45ac-a1f8-306ccece3b70.png

The_Picard_Maneuver OP , 11 months ago to startrek in Fans reacting to the announcement of Star Trek: The Next Generation

I think there are still a lot of people out there who watched the original and never gave TNG a chance. Yeah, once it grows the beard, it’s peak trek for me.