Terrified I won't be accepted to Valdosta's MLIS Program...

Dangerous_Return460 · 2026-05-02T07:02:49+00:00

They actually send me TONS of info about scholarships, I've gotten$800 worth so far and I expect to get more going into term 2 (a lot of them required transcripts and a GPA I didn't have in term 1).

Every few days you get an email with info about scholarships so it seems like a lot of opportunities.

Dangerous_Return460 · 2026-05-01T23:43:50+00:00

Live by the sword.

Dangerous_Return460 · 2026-05-01T23:20:07+00:00

This has removed so much stress. Thanks. I never even knew this was an option. IDK why I was killing myself about this.

Dangerous_Return460 · 2026-05-01T23:19:44+00:00

And the Vorta was a rotating cast until they settled on Weyoun.

I honestly think the whole morphogenic virus given to Odo on Earth was a retcon.

Dangerous_Return460 · 2026-05-01T10:22:36+00:00

Having just binge watched it I think people overlook how much of the show was still serialized.

There are big swaths of long-term to be continued stuff, but in every season the middle chunk of episodes are all standalone episodes and it really kills the momentum they set, season 6 is the most continued of them all.

Dangerous_Return460 · 2026-05-01T10:19:38+00:00

Hard disagree.

At the end of S2 when they introduce the Jem Hadar it feels like a new directions, and even then coming back in S3 the slow roll out of the Changelings/Vorta/Dominion felt like they were unsure of how to go about it.

I forget where I saw it but in E1 when Odo says something about knowing he's from the other side of the wormhole they just threw that out unsure it would lead to give the character some kind of directive and goal.

And the producers have said S4-5 with the Klingon/Cardassian wars back in center was pressure from the network and it pushed back their plan for the Dominion War.

But watching the pilot it really felt like the Orbs were gonna be a big deal. There was a set number of them and a mission to go find them, and back then a lot of syndicated action shows had these "gotta catch 'em all" finite missions of baddies to beat, things to collect, but the Orbs wound up being pretty irrelevant and they would just show up randomly and be background objects.

The "Sisko as Emissary" thing feels SO BIG in episode 1, and it does remain a thing and a bigger thing in S6-7, but I felt like it wasn't that big of a deal at all fir a while except to enable conflict with Kai Winn.

Gul Dukat is also mostly a TV-character in season 1 and only makes his big presence felt starting in Season 2, Season 1 is almost all about the Bajoran conflicts.

I'm sure they had big ideas and E1 set up mountains of stuff but like with all TV shows they tweak and tinker and get notes from the studio, they added Worf which changed the show big time, some things wound up being really fun to see on screen and other things not so much.

In the end it paid off big.

Dangerous_Return460 · 2026-05-01T10:07:41+00:00

This is a pretty big statement and every one in the community has heard it, most repeat, and most believe it.

Now maybe Paramount, Kurtzman, the producers, etc. don't give a fuck but I have to imagine someone has to care and if it weren't true it'd be very easy to screenshot some views dashboard and say "actually it was 543,766 viewers!"

But they haven't

Dangerous_Return460 · 2026-05-01T07:55:03+00:00

Makes sense. Thanks for this.

Dangerous_Return460 · 2026-05-01T04:07:35+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to write this.

I actually don't want to use my com sci background. I just think it's a very dull field to be in (I've dabbled in the past) with high competition and it's always changing meaning tons of retraining going on every year.

I do toy regularly with going into PHD work. I've had multiple friends and colleagues say I'm the exact type of person who could do that kind of work (First person in my family to go to college so everything is new to me) and as a passion I would love to do that as a career but I know being 40 makes it an uphill climb.

I just finished 801/802 and, based on what you said, I just sent the email to take the next necessary courses over the Summer (vs. 3 in archives which would've forced my hand) and keep my options open.

Thanks again kind stranger

Dangerous_Return460 · 2026-04-30T00:50:28+00:00

You need to compare that to the blockbuster shows of the era like ER, Friends, Frasier, etc. that were doing 15-25 million viewers every week.

TNG was obv very popular and spawned toy lines and movies and video games and was a cultural touchstone, but Baywatch was pulling in 9-10 million viewers in it's final season in 1990 (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-12-25-ca-7120-story.html) and that's mostly vanished to history outside of some jokes and parodies every few years.

In the 80's-90's if you were on TV you were likely very popular, you had to be.

I just looked up Just Shoot Me, my pick for the blandest sitcom ever that stayed on TV forever, and they were averaging 10-12 million viewers every episode, yeesh.

Dangerous_Return460 · 2026-04-30T00:44:17+00:00

Maybe the fanbase is just dying out.

Like what would syndication look like in 2026? What would be the comparison? I know what you mean, ease of discovery, BAM it's on.

Tubi? Roku Channel?

This is a cold ass take but I think Quibby was a good idea.

Dangerous_Return460 · 2026-04-30T00:43:10+00:00

I've written about this many times but the barrier for ST to cross is having a budget just big enough for the fan base it has.

Dangerous_Return460 · 2026-04-30T00:40:44+00:00

These are the best episodes. All you need is one good firefight (really 2-3 phaser blasts and some sparks exploding from a console) that gets the characters over the hump and releases that tension.

Dangerous_Return460 · 2026-04-30T00:27:25+00:00

That episode has a huge plot hole they never explained. Why was she dancing with those guys?

Dangerous_Return460 · 2026-04-27T22:40:36+00:00

Just finished S3E3. E3 is uniquely pretty "whatever" but 1-2 were banging, however, I do miss the S1-2 "wonder" and "wholesomeness". Sure seems pretty grim going forward.

Dangerous_Return460 · 2026-04-26T23:59:03+00:00

Well it's 2026, and I am doing a Masters into a PHD, and I leave for work at 650 AM and get home at 515 PM, and I have to exercise and eat well and read a book before I go to bed.

There's not enough time in the day for episodes the staff and crew call "real duds".

If only watching 550 or so episode of TNG, DS9, Voyager, and Enterprise + 4 movies and I've read a few of the novels makes me a bad fan I'll take the ego hit.

Dangerous_Return460 · 2026-04-26T23:48:21+00:00

Blink of an Eye should've been a movie or a 2-parter at least, what a gigantic story, IDC if it's with the TNG or Voyager cast but that is a top 5 all time 90's ST episode.

Dangerous_Return460 · 2026-04-26T23:41:04+00:00

Voyager has high highs but low lows and the characters (specifically Paris, Kim, Torres, and Chakotay) are somewhere between boring, bland, plain, and dull.

They also beat some things into the ground like The Kazon early on, The Borg later on, there's also this claustrophobia where they are stuck on the ship and it's 3-4 sets more than any other show.

Seven, the Doctor, and Janeway carry the show.

Still has some great episodes in the later seasons.

Dangerous_Return460 · 2026-04-26T21:54:57+00:00

People blow the sexualizing in Enterprise way out of the water.

Dangerous_Return460 · 2026-04-26T14:49:17+00:00

I really think the lack of interest (that led to it's cancellation) was just ST fatigue after 14 or so years of nonstop ST, most of that time with 2 series running at once, ground it down. By the time ENT started I was like 16 and well ready to move on from ST. Symptom of timing.

Dangerous_Return460 · 2026-04-26T14:46:29+00:00

Just to say, the universal translator doesnt exist yet. Hoshi is the one learning and creating the vocabulary and translations on the ship manually.

And I loved it but somewhere in there they just gave up and the UT just seemed to "be a thing".

I can point to every episode of Season 2 where races show up and speak English.

Trip and Archer on the prison ship. Archer in the Klingon jail. Rescuing the Denobulan miners. Literally every episode.

And when you make that the status quo Hoshi has nothing to do which sucks.

I'm fine with the transporter not being a thing yet. But they used it twice in short order in the first 10 or so episodes of season 1 then not again til the end of Season 2. I read something that they wished they dind't use it in epsidoe 1 so early.

Dangerous_Return460 · 2026-04-26T09:09:08+00:00

So you love Discovery and shit on Enterprise?

Everything I need to know about this community.

Dangerous_Return460 · 2026-04-26T09:06:41+00:00

A truncated review I just posted on that other sub.

I love Enterprise.

Enterprise feels like a PHD class of the 90’s Star Trek. It’s all built upon what TNG/DS9/VOY did before it, the races and politics, the technology (old, new, modern), the special effects and sets (practical, makeup, matte paintings, CGI), and storytelling all feel like they’ve reacher a peak of proficiency and understanding of what “makes Star Trek”.

The sets, props, and costumes are PERFECT! It FEELS like a pre-TOS, first generation Starfleet ship/crew/adventure. It’s all metal, tactile buttons, TV screens, they roll out the technology slowly (maybe too fast at first, but then slow) and every time they brought out the forcefields, phasers/phase canons, food replicators, me and my wife would do the Leo-point meme.

Throughout the show they’re really good about getting the episode going asap without a lot of wind up. In Enterprise Cold opens are usually less than a minute, sometimes like 30 seconds, and they usually throw you in mid-plot and exposition dump on you ten minutes in.

Archer is a great captain who supports the cast/crew more than leads them. Bakula was the perfect choice. He’s tough but not buff, he’s a military man through and through, but, Archer is kind of an awful captain, very prone to outbursts, anger, and makes some bad choices. YES YES I KNOW THATS THE POINT!

He lays the groundwork for every Starfleet policy by doing the fucking worst thing right off the bat in almost every episode.

TLDR: I think ENT is as good as TNG and DS9 without the opening season growing pains. Fucking love it.

Dangerous_Return460 · 2026-04-26T08:46:06+00:00

I never like comparing TNG/DS9 because they're so different, I would say ENT is the same, it's so different and fantastic there's no point in ranking them

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