Every frog has its thorn

Anthony Montgomery (Travis Mayweather) as Postmaster P in Leprechaun in the Hood

Take your pick lol

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Respect. You’re right. It should be called gas/fuel/energy pedal because you always get more of it when you press it while actual acceleration has more dependencies.

I had no idea they were related, but apparently they were (thanks 😉). But that too was soon retconned:

According to comments by Michael and Denise Okuda, when mentioning of the speed limit was abandoned a few years after “Force of Nature”, it was assumed that newer ships, such as the USS Voyager and USS Defiant, had improved environmentally friendly warp drive systems, that did not cause damage to the spatial continuum.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Variable_geometry_pylon

Warp 10 and salamanders. Great examples 👌

But what about TNG 7x09, the one where we learn that warp travel damages subspace and that a warp speed limit is the solution?

Later, the Federation Council issues a new directive limiting all Federation vessels to a speed of warp five except in extreme emergencies.

Laughs in Janeway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_of_Nature_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)

Starships were meant to fly

My wife (and probably many others) disagrees, but I’m firmly of the opinion that Starships by Nicki Minaj is an uncertified trek banger 🙌

Harbinger is the worst episode of ENT. The captain and the alien of the week are maybe 6 minutes of the episode. The rest is a bunch of bullshit with resolving the conflicts in the crew that had been brewing all season.

Only saving grace is the fight scene, but then the macho American space marine gets schooled by lieutenant mister bean? Lolwut

What the hell do they think this is, Hamlet, Gone With the Wind, Ruggles of Red Gap? It’s a goddamned space western, aliens in rubber masks, you know the drill!

When quark spells out the logic of peace to his vulcan maquis cell mate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdQcGzbpN7s

Absolutely peak quark 👂👌

Not sure if you’re actually wanting animated or not, but Scavenger’s Reign is a good animated sci-fi miniseries of a spaceship crew stranded on a strange planet.

For live action check out the two Callister episodes of Black Mirror.

Odo used harumph. It’s super effective!

Really thoughtful read. I especially appreciated this

The term woke originally meant something quite simple: Being awake to injustice. However, in recent years, it has undergone a remarkable semantic inversion. For some critics, woke has become shorthand for any narrative that asks viewers to empathize with someone outside their tribe.

This is why stories about immigration policy, systemic injustice, or forgiveness trigger such strong reactions. They are perceived not as entertainment but as ideological intrusion. They become “the enemy.”

Edit: also this, meant only as a jest 🖖 :

However, is it only Brakka who is responsible for the con, or is and has Anisha Mir been part of a long con of both Ake and her son from the start?

I like where you’re going. My own hunch is we’ll learn that Anisha (at Nus’ behest after he rediscovered Caleb) agreed to embed malicious code in her encrypted messages to Caleb (and that she only begrudgingly agreed because she lost hope he would read them) and that’s how Nus will snatch victory from the jaws of defeat from Capt. Ake at the very last moment, that he actually won the moment Caleb opened that first message from his Mom.

Probably not exactly that, but something along the lines of discovering that Nus has always been 2 steps ahead.

Nowadays, especially nowadays, I’m just grateful that the optimistic spirit/energy of star trek is having a next next generation of its own. I’m here for it. Mostly (sorry disco).

Which imaginary treknologies strike you as the most scientifically sound?

For me it’s the replicator turning shit into food, but everything may as well be magic.

Not sure how that makes it science based…

Just barely, but isn’t that normal for treknobabble to be ripped from science headlines?

Yes and no.

Instant FTL? No.

Science-based? Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Stamets

My brutal but fair take:

I feel the bigwigs for Star Trek would sacrifice us all, in a heartbeat, for their own Grogu to get the kiddos buying merch.

Is this sorta stuff doable with free software? If so, can you point me in the right direction? I definitely have some scenes with this treatment in mind.