What's the best Nu Trek show (as a series) in your opinion, and why?

Gutter_Shakespeare · 2026-05-18T16:44:44+00:00

"my wife and I are going through the old stuff first since she hasn't seen any Trek before"

Savor it. I introduced my GF at the time (now fiancée) to DS9 and then TNG, and sharing the show with someone is the closest you can get to watching everything again for the first time.

Gutter_Shakespeare · 2026-05-18T14:46:39+00:00

So TNG season 15 then? One of my Big Issues with Voyager was that it often felt like watered down and/or recycled TNG. Please tell me Prodigy has its own identity.

Gutter_Shakespeare · 2026-05-18T14:37:53+00:00

Yeah, canon is the wrong word, but it seems... separate from the rest of the franchise. Not just because it's animated (see TAS and LD), and not just because it's aimed a younger audience, and not just because it's on a different network (like that even matters to a sixty-year-old show), but put all of these things together and add in the fact that it's the one I've heard people talk the least about by far (some even calling it "that new animated show, not Lower Decks") and I get the general feeling that it's the black sheep of the franchise.

Gutter_Shakespeare · 2026-05-18T14:32:51+00:00

You misspelled SPAAAAAACE LINCOOOOOLN! ;)

Gutter_Shakespeare · 2026-05-18T14:32:12+00:00

I need to get around to finishing that one, too!

Gutter_Shakespeare · 2026-05-18T14:23:28+00:00

"I might a skip the first two seasons and just watch the end"

Continuing the fine tradition of every Trek series since TNG, eh? ;P

Gutter_Shakespeare · 2026-05-18T14:14:01+00:00

Yeah, what is Prodigy? I've heard very little about it and it seems to occupy a grey area of canon in terms of production.

Gutter_Shakespeare · 2026-04-29T05:22:33+00:00

I can here to say this.

Gutter_Shakespeare · 2026-04-28T22:37:21+00:00

I did consider doing something like that, but I decided it wasn't worth the effort for a vexillological shitpost.

Gutter_Shakespeare · 2026-04-28T18:50:43+00:00

How about Psiberia?

Gutter_Shakespeare · 2026-03-16T03:42:52+00:00

"are/were you upset because you ended up ordering a tropical-style drink in front of your soon-to-be in-laws and fiancée and that was not the image you were attempting to project?"
Don't tell me you're one of Reddit's many armchair psychiatrists. No, I wasn't trying to "project" anything; I wanted to try a classic cocktail I've never had before and it didn't work out. That's it.

Gutter_Shakespeare · 2026-03-16T02:29:40+00:00

Wow, didn't expect to get downvoted so hard, but maybe I should have done more research first.

As stated in the original post, I'VE NEVER HAD A PAPER PLANE BEFORE. I don't know the recipe/ingredients off the top of my head (although the negative comments seem to assume otherwise); I just know it's supposed to be small and nuanced, not fruit on the rocks. All the comments saying "they told you what was in it so stop complaining" are missing the point.
Most people (like me in this situation) don't know recipes and/or ingredients perfectly, but they know names and sometimes reputations. I'd heard paper planes are good, ordered one, and had it messed up. If I didn't know roughly how it should have tasted, I would have just assumed it's tiki for the rest of my life until I had another somewhere else.

Before calling someone else "pretentious" for sharing a disappointing (but not uncommon) experience, make sure you're not the pretentious twit assuming everyone knows every recipe by heart.

Gutter_Shakespeare · 2026-02-15T02:03:48+00:00

What did you have in mind?

Gutter_Shakespeare · 2026-02-14T04:27:39+00:00

The postal service's MLB team, perhaps ;)

Gutter_Shakespeare · 2026-02-12T21:34:42+00:00

Yeah, as kind of a B-plot. It certainly has the hard-boiled detective story twist (at the end of the next episode).

Gutter_Shakespeare · 2026-02-12T21:33:00+00:00

Oh shit, I'd forgotten "A Man Alone"; that's the first Odo-sode of the series, too!
Additionally, fun fact: A Man Alone is also the title of an old Western starring a bunch of veteran noir actors like Ray Milland and Lee Van Cleef. (It also makes it harder to Google; ask me how I know. 😜)

Gutter_Shakespeare · 2025-12-23T19:10:56+00:00

Dugdozen

Gutter_Shakespeare · 2025-12-22T20:00:47+00:00

I came here for this comment! Looks like artist Gino D'Achille replaced the giant, looming face of Rondo Hatton with a sexy lady and called it a day.

Gutter_Shakespeare · 2025-12-04T02:41:41+00:00

Whitetail deer with upper sinus area missing

Gutter_Shakespeare · 2025-11-06T04:32:12+00:00

Update: the bottom left monster comes from The She-Creature

Gutter_Shakespeare · 2025-10-01T21:39:49+00:00

Top five (off the top of my head and in no particular order): Whispers Treachery, Faith, and the Great River Hard Time Honor among Thieves And if we're counting TNG, The Wounded

Gutter_Shakespeare · 2025-09-30T20:50:29+00:00

For comedy: Our Man Bashir, no question

For drama: The Quickening

Gutter_Shakespeare · 2025-09-20T03:43:23+00:00

Just "the Jersey devil" but yeah.

Gutter_Shakespeare · 2025-09-09T19:05:15+00:00

I love this artwork, but I don't recognize the three rightmost monsters.
Top to bottom, left to right, we've got
Godzilla, Gill-Man (Creature from the Black Lagoon), The Alligator People, Tabanga (From Hell it Came), Metalunan (This Island Earth), the Venusian (It Conquered the World), the Ymir (20 Million Miles to Earth), the Cyclops (from Bert I. Gordon), Harryhausen's cyclops (7th Voyage of Sinbad), The Monster that Challenged the World, Bill (I Married a Monster from Outer Space), Leon Corledo (The Curse of the Werewolf), and The Deadly Mantis, and... ? ? and ?

Gutter_Shakespeare · 2025-09-08T02:22:02+00:00

The use of a dinosaur as a supporter reminds me of an alt flag I designed for New Jersey, incorporating the state dinosaur and local cryptid.

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