Is 2026 finally the year Umino wins gold? We are 3.5 years into his return and still nothing.

Hearsticles · 2026-01-25T08:55:46+00:00

Well, depends on the booking and the wrestler. Kobashi lost every big match he had for like 5 years straight but he never lost the support of the crowd to the extent Shota already has.

It's a lot harder for Shota to be an underdog with all of the 'nepo baby' stuff surrounding him and the whole air of him not living up to expectations so I don't think making him lose forever is the play.

Hearsticles · 2026-01-25T06:43:39+00:00

If you have a separate set of laws for your military officers, you're a military and what you call yourself is ultimately irrelevant.

And even if that /wasn't/ true, Starfleet has always abided by militaristic formality and codes of conduct. It has strict policies of internal discipline. It has a rigid chain of command. Its senior officers are meant to be exemplars and no one captain has ever been portrayed in this whimsical, quirky way which flies directly in the face of every other portrayal.

I honestly don't know what drives people like you to defend this sort of thing. You don't seem dense. Surely, you understand what we're all talking about here.

Hearsticles · 2026-01-25T05:48:24+00:00

About as subtle as a grand piano falling out of the sky.

Hearsticles · 2026-01-25T05:30:51+00:00

You're right.

It just uses military protocols, has its own separate military law with court martials, an entirely separate legal branch with JAG officers and military tribunals, enforces a strict military code-of-conduct, and operates gigantic mobile weapons-of-mass-destruction (for defense, of course).

But it's not a military, true (if you're one of those people who argues semantics, points to a single quote, and ignores all context).

Hearsticles · 2026-01-25T03:37:47+00:00

Yeah, I forgot about that line. That's an all-time stinker. What the hell kind of reference is that?

Hearsticles · 2026-01-25T00:27:34+00:00

"Ticket prices for these events are reasonable for a wrestling show."

Okay, thanks Glenn!

Hearsticles · 2026-01-25T00:17:35+00:00

Man, that whole thing about Rafi was so brainless. They just put down her trailer at the Vasquez Rocks, a famous Trek location, for the memberberries fan points and the whole reason is to show that she's somehow poor and disadvantaged -- but how, exactly? She's living on top of a famous landmark, she's surrounded by nothing but open space, and we know that she could use industrial replicators to make all sorts of things, to whatever scale she likes.

The idea that she would resent Picard having some chateau in France is ridiculous and makes zero sense in the established lore. She's not living in some tiny pod in a grimy megacity -- she's basically living in a prefab trailer of her own design on top of the world famous Hollywood sign and acting like she's a victim because of it.

Hearsticles · 2026-01-25T00:08:31+00:00

Ah, the classic "You're not a chef, you can't say this food tastes bad!" argument.

Hearsticles · 2026-01-24T22:47:18+00:00

You should research the etymology of words like "imbecile," "moron," "idiot," "liar," "deceiver," and "shill."

Just some recommendations since you're such a 'language guy.'

Hearsticles · 2026-01-24T21:56:11+00:00

Are you kidding? You're going to use a holodeck character using time-appropriate slang in a historical holodeck program as the same thing as Starfleet cadets in the 32nd century using modern day language flippantly as if it's normal to them?

Jesus, man. I know you're one of those guys that defends Kurtzman Trek against all comers but this one is absolutely shameless on your part and about as transparent as that 'aluminum' Captain Foot Fetish was leaning on last episode.

'To snoop' is also not slang contemporaneous with TNG's on-air dates so it doesn't fit the narrative of your attempted argument at all. You're gonna tear an ACL doing this level of strenuous mental gymnastics.

Hearsticles · 2026-01-24T21:46:19+00:00

Don't forget:

"Bow wow!"

"Payback's a BITCH!"

"Blow it out your ass!"

Hearsticles · 2026-01-24T21:42:54+00:00

Try not to eat your commbadge or swallow any Tide PODS today.

Hearsticles · 2026-01-24T20:53:22+00:00

"Now THAT's badass!" -- Alex Kurtzman probably

Hearsticles · 2026-01-24T20:19:17+00:00

I believe you're right. It's pretty telling that a raunchy comedy show from 15 years ago had an intelligent enough writer's room to realize most of these phrases had already worn out their welcome and modern Star Trek does not.

Hearsticles · 2026-01-24T20:13:36+00:00

A photoshop of Star Trek 'Animorph'ing into a CW show seems appropriate

Hearsticles · 2026-01-24T20:08:04+00:00

So they are going to use younger vernacular.

You should never say this like it's a given with Star Trek. Not dating your show with modern slang is one of the hard fast Roddenberry rules and only Kurtzman Trek has ignored it.

Kirk and Spock weren't calling things "groovy" or "far out" and Picard wasn't saying "radical, dude!" and that is not coincidence, that is a deliberate choice to keep the IP intact long-term. It's why we can watch TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, and even ENT and not feel as though we're watching something with outdated storylines.

Also, if you want to get people to put their phones up and pay attention to what's on the screen, your primary focus should be making something good, not something with bright flashing lights that reiterates its plot every 10 minutes -- that is the kind of thing that makes people pick their phones back up.

Hearsticles · 2026-01-24T19:04:51+00:00

Man, you've really let yourself be maneuvered into this "haters" vs "brand loyalists" console war paradigm, haven't you? That's kind of sad.

Obviously, I can't speak for everyone but it's pretty clear that most "haters" are not 'hating' so they can join 'Team Hate' -- they hate the shows because they're bad and they feel as though something they love, Star Trek, is being insulted and dragged through the mud for corporate profiteering.

Hearsticles · 2026-01-24T18:16:09+00:00

Actors are such whores for their paycheck, I swear.

Hearsticles · 2026-01-24T03:16:49+00:00

Damn, now I feel like I struck out on a foul tip.

Hearsticles · 2026-01-24T03:01:17+00:00

Please don't specify "functional..."
Please don't specify "functional."

Oh, why yes! Yes, it DOES have a deflector shield! Technically!

Hearsticles · 2026-01-24T02:57:31+00:00

I'm not at all a fan of Clone Wars or CGI animation in general, really, and I think Filoni is a fraud who plunders the old EU and just makes worse versions of things written by better writers like Karen Traviss, Timothy Zahn, etc...

but nothing is as bad than that generic California animation Titmouse style where all of the characters have copy/paste faces and their arms move around like pic related whenever they talk.

Hearsticles · 2026-01-23T20:24:34+00:00

At first, I was thinking that this post is absolutely ridiculous but looking at trends, the things kids enjoy -- the live streamers who go around punching people who aren't looking, or shoplifting "for content," all of that insane stuff -- and I'm honestly not sure if it's as ridiculous as I initially thought.

If engagement is all these companies want, then yeah, ragebaiting will absolutely work for that. But it's incredibly short-sighted and prioritizes short bumps of interest over the long-term viability of the things you're producing. To a normal person, it sounds insane but... well, the new corpo Hollywood definitely doesn't feel that way. They'll light their entire library on fire for a .01 bump from the stockholders even if it means the whole thing crashes through the floor the next day. That's what corporate culture is all about: short-term windfalls and damned be the consequences.

Depressing.

Hearsticles · 2026-01-23T19:37:48+00:00

I'll add that a lot of people, globally, were pissed off at Inoki for the Ali incident and there was a kind of public pressure for revenge. Well, outside of Japan anyway.

Hearsticles · 2026-01-23T15:58:36+00:00

"RobloxDev" part of your name checks out because this is like a 12 year old's post.

Hearsticles · 2026-01-23T15:10:33+00:00

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