ummmm temporal anomaly (for both questions)?

yes but she felt bad about it

“if i somehow couldnt do murders anymore id probably just fly into a black hole” -Janeway

Maybe you’re the exception that proves the rule

Yes thanks, I forgot all of the Spock and Pike stuff was S2, not S1. Also I apparently forgot Section 31 existed!

I personally think Paramount appeals for nostalgia

Discovery was a big hit, and although it had some nostalgic elements in the first season, it very quickly became it’s own thing and had a unique style.

SNW also seems to be pretty popular and features TOS characters, but even though it’s set in TOS era I wouldn’t say it’s appealing to nostalgia.

SFA is another one that very much it’s own thing and is NOT relying on nostalgia.

Lower Decks and PIC absolutely appeal to nostalgia, but those also seem to be much less popular with general audiences.

Just saying- that if I was a Paramount big wig I think it makes more sense to take the franchise where no star trek show has gone before, rather than backwards. I don’t think you have anything to worry about.

I’ve never really liked YA-coded media, and SFA is an exception in that I find it enjoyable.

I’m certainly with you on this!

teen drama

Can you expand what you mean by this? I have heard this criticism before but nobody has been able to provide me an example from the show of what they mean.

Just so we’re on the same page, I haven’t seen a single example of drama that I would consider functionally different in form or quantity than any other Star Trek show. There is drama yes, and there are also teenagers. But in my opinion every “teenager” on SFA is far less “dramatic” than (for example) Wesley or Jake and I cannot recall anyone criticizing TNG or DS9 for being a “teen drama”.

You are. I had zero desire to watch it myself, put it on because I was bored, and now I’m literally counting the days until each new episode. Episode 4 in particular was everything I love about Star Trek.

I agree with your point, but disagree that the fediverse is too small to block all Tankies or that an instance “dies” when it owner enforces minimum standards of quality.

I think we all would have been better off if instead of burning out, the Lemmings.world admins banned everything except a single post per day if that post was an absolute banger.

If an instance admin wants to attract like-minded users to their instance, that instance needs to show people what their mind is like.

“For a hot minute it was honestly great but eventually all that remained was tankies propaganda and depressing news. And probably a few non-political communities that sadly don’t really offset it for me.”

I’ll never understand why someone would go through the trouble of starting an instance and then tolerate nonsense on the instance that they (again) literally own.

The entire point of the fediverse is decentralizing power. So why are you making it worse for yourself abiding by someone else’s rules? Did it occur to him that maybe his users don’t want tankies and depressing news either?

I get that keeping the engines running is thankless work a lot of the time but damn, don’t make it harder on yourself because someone else (who is not you) wants to use your thing that you pay for and maintain to force their propaganda onto your users.

Thank you Internet for ruining everything I’ve ever enjoyed

I played it on Dolphin emulator with a 60fps patch and some HD textures. It aged really well.

EDIT: Also a widescreen patch!

CupHead is coming up on ten years old and I don’t think it has ever dipped below $10 on Steam.

“ARCHER? SERIOUSLY?”

Yes exactly, you can walk up to anyone in a Star Trek shirt and by simply saying the phrase “favorite captain?” you’ll probably have a new friend two hours later.

Same. It seems almost too good to be true.

I certainly won’t disagree with that

Jay-Den and Darem’s recent scene together illustrates it well, I think. And the negative reaction to it from people online who described it with terms like “woke” and “cringe” illustrates that many people are so uncomfortable and so afraid of the concept of being vulnerable that they dismiss it out of hand.

But to be clear, I actually went out of my way not to describe this as “new or groundbreaking”. If anything the messaging I highlighted in my OP has been the consistent through line for the past decade in DSC, SWW, and SFC (and to a lesser extent Picard). But I do think it’s spot-on for our current cultural climate. I (and many others who thought the new series have been too timid with their politics) have been missing the forest for the trees.

We can laugh now at TOS preaching the “illogicality of racism” to be self-evident, but during the time of scientific racism and Jim Crow laws, stating that self-evidence was considered radical. TOS never had an episode about Uhura earning her right to be on the bridge. She was just there. Discovery never had a plot line about Adira coming out as non-binary, they just did.

“Vulnerability is strength” is the radical idea of our modern era where things like emotional insecurity and ability to tolerate loneliness are held up as examples of strength, and not the reality, which is that they are the beliefs of a fearful person.

Labeling someone’s expression as “cringey” is dismissive in any context. It takes real strength to listen.