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USSBurritoTruck OP , 4 months ago

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I’m sure that you feel like you’re saying something very profound, but for most people that’s just gibberish.

USSBurritoTruck OP , 4 months ago

The truth? He didn’t say anything at all.

USSBurritoTruck OP , 4 months ago

Jeepers, that’s dark, Boss.

USSBurritoTruck OP , 4 months ago

Who said you can’t critique Disco?

This is about a very specific, very silly objection, levelled by people who have found themselves indoctrinated into a mode of thinking that alienates them from the people around them, because of a manufactured fear preying upon alienation many of us experience in our modern world.

I’ve had plenty of objections to aspects of Disco, especially during season two, but scattered throughout the series, and no one has ever called me a bigot for my hot takes. If you’re presenting your critiques in such a way that people are assuming you’re bigoted, perhaps you should reevaluate how you’re constructing your criticism.

USSBurritoTruck OP , 4 months ago

Please explain it to me, then.

USSBurritoTruck OP , 4 months ago

Current trek (anything after enterprise) has horrible story lines, horrible dialogue, is mostly about dump action pew pew and CGI, ignores 50 years of history, is all about fuck this, fuck that and fucking fuck you and honestly: it isn’t woke: it’s only virtue signalling.

To claim that all iterations of modern Trek are a homogenous unit cut from one singular cloth tells me that either you haven’t actually even attempted to watch even half of it, or you’re completely blinded by personal biases. Either way, your opinion would be easy to discard even if it wasn’t a rant only tangentially related to the original post.

USSBurritoTruck OP , 4 months ago

It is top of my list of wanted features.

USSBurritoTruck OP , 4 months ago

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USSBurritoTruck OP , 4 months ago

It should primarily be a science fiction show, not a morality lecture.

What’s the difference?

USSBurritoTruck OP , 4 months ago

Placing the bland Michael Burnham centrepoint isn’t something ST did before.

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USSBurritoTruck , 4 months ago

You also violated Starfleet protocols which require us to not interfere with developing cultures.

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USSBurritoTruck OP , 4 months ago

I’ll speak to the Admin if you’re volunteering to mod.

USSBurritoTruck OP , 4 months ago

AIBI for choosing to post queries about logical decisions to a meme page as opposed to volunteering to moderate a discussion forum that I have stated I want to exist?

USSBurritoTruck , 5 months ago

Probably my favourite VOY episode. I love how much fun the actors seemed to be having when the got to chew scenery.

USSBurritoTruck OP , 5 months ago

Yeah, I agree that it’s not the direction that would have got my vote. I’d like something that makes three and four player games viable without having to purchase a second Battle of Wolf 359 core set. I tried a three player game with my buddies using only the Borg cube map, and while it worked okay, it was certainly a bit claustrophobic. Plus, I need more health pegs.

The idea of TOS theme core set sounds great, but I’m going to guess that ship has sailed. Maybe we’ll get the SNW crew vs. some Gorns.

USSBurritoTruck OP , 4 months ago

100%. I find the sameness of the Borg board a bit difficult to look at, so I’d really like some other set, and I agree incorporating a way to transport between two ships would be optimal.

USSBurritoTruck OP , 5 months ago

“The Title Writer’s Pen Cares Not for the Trekkie’s High Expectations”

USSBurritoTruck OP , 5 months ago

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USSBurritoTruck , 5 months ago

Okay, but is it going to include a copy of the glossary that was given to theatre goers at the original release so they might have some idea of what was going on?

I love this film.

USSBurritoTruck OP , 5 months ago

I wish I was familiar enough with miniatures games to give you an answer regarding playstyle, but my experience is fairly limited. My favourite miniature game would be FFG’s X-Wing game, though I stopped playing when they went to second edition.

If your store has the space for it, have you considered setting up a league night? GF9 has a league kit that includes an exclusive Q figure, and that might be enticing enough to the purchasers to get them coming in, and you could get a good look at the game.

USSBurritoTruck OP , 5 months ago

Yeah, fair. I can certain see how that would limit interest.

USSBurritoTruck , 5 months ago

I find “USS Callister” especially funny because early on in Disco’s run, people would point to it as what new Trek should be, but the episode is all about how someone obsessed with an old sci-fi television show is a loser and a creep, and then it ends with the protagonists getting a Kelvin universe-esque upgrade, lens flares and all.

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Media literacy!

USSBurritoTruck OP , 5 months ago

That one may have been the inspiration for this one, if I’m being perfectly transparent.

USSBurritoTruck OP , 5 months ago

When I first posted this to reddit, a couple t-shirt bots immediately stole it and posted it to some shady webstores. I tried to make an account with a more reputable site, because I figured if anyone was going to make money off my dumb bullshit, it should be me, but for whatever reason they wouldn’t accept it.

So, to answer your question, if you see it online, I would not have any hard feelings about your purchasing it, but I personally wouldn’t trust the seller with my credit card info.

USSBurritoTruck OP , 5 months ago

Well, clearly you’re going to have to start again.

USSBurritoTruck OP , 5 months ago

Now that you mention it, it has been a while for that as well…

USSBurritoTruck OP , 5 months ago

Four times watching the entire series?

Allamaraine, count four more!

USSBurritoTruck OP , 5 months ago

I feel like there’s a difference between a worker robot deciding it doesn’t want to live or die at the command of its humanoid creators, or a collections of nanites establishing an emergent intelligence, and a Federation Starship locking out its crew of 1,014 people and seeking out a white dwarf star like a salmon swimming upstream so it could give birth to an entirely new lifeform.

Even setting aside the ethical implications of using a ship capable of such a thing as transport, and putting into dangerous combat situations, is Starfleet prepared for similar events to happen on all their ships? What happened to the emergent lifeform after it left the Enterprise? Is it still out there? Why did it look like a screen saver from 1992?

But the crew of the Enterprise are fundamentally uncurious about the wider implications of the event.

“Amazing, isn’t it captain? An entirely new lifeform brought into being by the very ship we sail through the stars.”
“Quite so, Number One. Tell me, what’s our next stop?”
“We’re going to rendezvous with the USS Hood to pick up lieutenant Ro; she just finished her advanced tactical training.”
“Excellent! We’ll have to throw her a ‘Welcome Back’ party in Ten Forward.”

USSBurritoTruck OP , 5 months ago

The Ferengi from “The Price” showed up in VOY, as did the Borg Queen, and Tom Riker was pivotal to an episode of DS9.

USSBurritoTruck OP , 5 months ago

Why would Starfleet be so fundamentally uninterested in learning about an enitity literally birthed by one of their Starships?

USSBurritoTruck OP , 5 months ago

Because I’m not willing to pay for upvotes.

USSBurritoTruck , 5 months ago

Every professional funny person, from stand up comedians, to humour columnists, to daily comic strip cartoonists, has to hone their craft. And even once they do, not every thing they produce is going to be a banger.

Figure out what is funny to you, and work at making stuff you think is funny. There’s a good chance that there’s an audience that exists that will share your sense of humour.

USSBurritoTruck , 5 months ago

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USSBurritoTruck OP , 5 months ago

I was responding to your “correction.”

There wasn’t any humour.

USSBurritoTruck OP , 5 months ago

All I’m saying is if someone‘a going to “correct’ my joke, they need to be additive, as opposed to just a worse version of the bit.

And calling me an asshole is hardly banter. If buddy was bantering, he would have clapped back as opposed to whining about what a big meanie I am.