EnsignRedshirt [he/him]

This is an incredibly embarrassing attempt at trolling. You should post it on Reddit, they’d love it over there.

Elon Musk got me to stop using Twitter.

Oof, this might be the thing that gets me to lose myself in a Paradox game.

The Orville is a deeply sincere homage made by someone who clearly both loves and understands Star Trek. It is, in many ways, more true to form than some of the recent Trek shows and movies, and it deserves to be considered an honorary part of the franchise. I hope we see more of it.

I’m actually two kids in a trenchcoat, but good luck proving it.

Give us full 20+ episode seasons, cowards! I want bottle episodes, slice of life stories, maybe a few two-parters here and there. Star Trek was born as an episodic network tv show meant to run from fall to summer. Let it breathe.

Yeah, it depends on the criteria. The Nazis were only around for a few years, whereas the British did their thing for centuries. The Nazis were a rookie prodigy who retired after a single red-hot season, the British were a multi-season MVP with way more points on the board.

Without flaws, we would all have achieved nirvana, and would be freed from the cycle of birth and rebirth. There would be no people and no society, because we would no longer be chained to the flawed and impermanent material world. Simple as.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not sure you aren’t a Nazi, either.

But yeah, the Hitler and slavery apologia is also really bad and you should probably stop that if you’re not a Nazi.

Some may consider these statements to be (insert trendy prefix, here) phobic, but they are also factual

The first is subjective, the second is a counterfactual. By definition, neither can be factual statements.

Being fired on the spot hardly ever happens. Usually the problem is that employers demand additional work for no increase in pay or better working conditions while maintaining a toxic or outright dangerous work environment because they know most people won’t quit or even complain. That goes double for immigrants who are either undocumented, and have little recourse, or need their job to maintain their visa. Being fired on the spot sounds sort of quaint compared to what we usually see happening in American workplaces.

This is dope. I didn’t realize that there was so much consistency with the annular engines on Vulcan vessels.

I love the idea that Vulcans would choose the most efficient design, foregoing performance, versatility, speed, etc. Very “I’m only driving to and from work, I don’t need anything flashy.” That’s exactly how Vulcans would design their ships.

One thing I like a lot about LotR is that it’s incredibly detailed and thorough, but there are still some things that simply exist regardless. In a world where magic is real, it wouldn’t make sense if everything had an explanation.

I like Bozeman as Zephram Chocoran’s home base because there’s a good chance that Montana might have been spared a direct nuclear strike. Same logic applies to why San Francisco looks so futuristic: it for sure got flattened entirely by a nuke, so they would have had to build it back up from nothing afterwards. I’m guessing the Golden Gate was still partly standing and they rebuilt it for the same reason we keep other historical buildings/monuments around.

No idea if any of that is canon, but if we aren’t overthinking Star Trek then why are we doing any of this?

Rick Berman was the executive producer on Enterprise. Given that he was born-and-raised in New York City, it’s possible that the answer is, like, Westchester.

My apologies, I assumed 1 and 4 were about treatment of other users, rather than more broadly.

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I’m certain there’s a pun to be made here involving “ass” and “galaxy class” but it would be vulgar and I’ll not be the one to make it.