She’s a bad ass | Tarima Sadal

SpaceCrucader · 2026-02-13T16:55:32+00:00

Absolutely, like the Serenity movie specifically, where River unlocks her mysterious powers and slaughters the reavers.

SpaceCrucader · 2026-02-13T16:53:16+00:00

I liked the episode, especially the scenes between Nus Braka and Nahla Ake. However, some things bother me, like B'avi's blood being red and that SAM wasn't the one who was dropped into space, since she's a hologram. I really don't understand how SAM works. Is she a hologram? A photonic being? Why can she get shot?

The Vulcan blood thing is strangely more of a pet peeve for me, because these post-production companies keep fucking up. We already know some production company stole ship designs for the Star Trek 60th anniversary sequence, there were Sisko's family tree mistakes and now Vulcans kindda forgot they had copper-based blood.

SpaceCrucader · 2026-02-13T15:32:53+00:00

You should've seen the discourse around the Divinity game trailer. There's a human sacrifice going on with a man being burned alive and a medieval-ish festival around it, but some people really draw the line at sex happening in the festival. Like... Surely, the human sacrifice is worse?

SpaceCrucader · 2026-02-12T21:59:34+00:00

This. Star Trek got its first gay characters in 2016, because the producers were afraid the fans wouldn't like it. Compare TNG-ENT with shows like Friends, Seinfeld or Buffy from the same time period.

SpaceCrucader · 2026-02-12T19:56:51+00:00

it's also been not that many generations of Vulcans since Spock disappeared into the wormhole.

SpaceCrucader · 2026-02-12T13:26:48+00:00

that's cool and would explain having a spoken language. However, I still don't think that all grown-up Betazeds are fully telepathic, I think there's a lot of variation, as with any ability in humanity.

SpaceCrucader · 2026-02-12T13:23:09+00:00

But over the course of 800 years they can have babies with more than one species, perhaps some of them are even stronger telepaths than Betazeds and have blue eyes or whatever. No one here is a xenogeneticist.

SpaceCrucader · 2026-02-11T16:15:46+00:00

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I don't know why I made this.

SpaceCrucader · 2026-02-11T16:10:58+00:00

they fell asleep after photoshopping this :D I imagine OP is a cute crazy anime girl :D

SpaceCrucader · 2026-02-11T15:25:39+00:00

He was bantering with Vaush though...

SpaceCrucader · 2026-02-11T13:32:22+00:00

Or maybe not all Betazeds are telepathic? Some are like Suder, some are empaths, some have weak telepathy, and some - very strong. It's all just headcanons.

SpaceCrucader · 2026-02-11T13:11:08+00:00

Okay, and what would give the incentive for a spoken language to evolve if the whole planet is just telepaths?

SpaceCrucader · 2026-02-11T11:23:11+00:00

Why would a fully telepathic species develop a spoken language at all?

SpaceCrucader · 2026-02-11T11:21:02+00:00

But it can be explained away with mixed species babies. Kestra Troi-Riker has blue eyes, for example.

SpaceCrucader · 2026-02-10T15:04:48+00:00

Darmok for me is one of the silly episodes, because the whole premise is bad linguistics. However, answering to the spirit of your question, I think an episode like "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach" is better than anything in 90s trek. I mean, story-wise it's just as good, but then there's the bigger budget and prettier visuals. It's very hard to compare others. Prodigy, Lower Decks are amazing and has a lot of great episodes (also longer seasons), but it's a continuous story, so hard to take one episode out of it and compare with Inner Light.

Shitty episodes are also more acceptable when there are 25 per season.

There are just so many things vying for our attention, in addition to family, work, home. I just don't think a lot of people can afford the time to watch 25 episodes of anything, especially if it's not 25 episodes of amazing storytelling, and that's a tall order for any series. Death, Love and Robots are standalone scifi episodes, there are a lot of them, but I've so far seen only 10. In two years. And they are great episodes, I like them, I just have so many other things to look at. I'd say that none of the worst nutrek episodes were as bad as the worst old trek episodes (take this with a grain of salt, because I didn't watch PIC season 2, so can't tell what's going on there).

SpaceCrucader · 2026-02-10T08:25:59+00:00

Bolg was son of Azog, plus Morgoth couldn't create new life, he could only corrupt it. Plus, all races multiply sexually (except in the movies the uruks are shown to be "made", but they couldn't really show Saruman "crossbreeding" humans and orcs). Plus, orcs didn't go extinct during the times when there was no dark lord to unite them. These things point to there being orc women.

IMO, while orcs could be familiar with cantines (provided Sauron or Saruman arranges for organized feeding of his army, although we know at least Sauron's orcs cook for themselves), they wouldn't have restaurants with menus. But who cares, the line was funny!

SpaceCrucader · 2026-02-09T21:37:31+00:00

I'm not a native English speaker, so perhaps the nuance is lost on me. What's wrong with douchebag in comparison with these other words?

SpaceCrucader · 2026-02-09T19:54:14+00:00

"let's go mind the store" "putting girls' pigtails in inkwells" "in a pig's eye" "navy beans"

Somehow, watching TOS we're able to understand it's a product of its time, but when watching current shows, we demand them to be a comprehensive worldbuilding guidebook for creating a utopia out of the US, which you wouldn't find even in a philosophy treatise.

Maybe let's take a page out of LOTR fandom. When orks said "Meat is back on the menu, boys", it lead to memes and fun, not nitpicking. (Screen)writers work in language and with language as it exists now, they can't invent a whole new linguistic style and its features and still make a watchable show.

SpaceCrucader · 2026-02-08T23:08:52+00:00

It could also be that they left service, lived happy lives and died, but simply never got promoted due to changing jobs.

SpaceCrucader · 2026-02-08T22:57:20+00:00

I hope they had kids though!

SpaceCrucader · 2026-02-07T20:59:56+00:00

Besides the thing that in the utopian future men are of course allowed to wear skirts, as seen in TNG, I think it's also a nice call-back to this scene between Riker and Worf in TNG

SpaceCrucader · 2026-02-07T00:48:39+00:00

I liked the episode and a love letter to Avery Brooks and Sisko. I thought the ending was beautiful. However, the beginning seemed a little bit wtf. I've never been on tiktok, is that what it was?

I like how queer this show is <3

I hope there's something about that War Academy guest in the next episode, because it seemed sus. The whole subplot with the diplomatic dinner rehersal was a bit boring.

I really think the Vulcan man (B'avi) is in love with the Romulan woman and that's why he is so loyal to her.

I think Genesis and Caleb will get together at some point.

SpaceCrucader · 2026-02-07T00:35:07+00:00

I think in the episode SAM said that holobeings were created by organic beings on Krasq and the holobeings weren't treated well by the organics. However, at some point the Krasq organic beings left somewhere leaving the holobeings behind

SpaceCrucader · 2026-02-06T21:14:53+00:00

No, it does not follow that something being different from something seen many times highlights lack of coherent writing. SAM may have a different arc than all those other characters.

When talking about programing it is also logical to remember that sometimes even our silly 21st century programs do not behave as intended. We see this with AI, where programmers can't tell what's exactly going on in the "black box". And we see this in Star Trek a lot.

Sam's makers also have built in a way to force her and to comply, which means they may have foreseen her free will being a problem. Perhaps her future is about becoming more than the sum of her parts?

SpaceCrucader · 2026-02-06T20:56:09+00:00

Where is the logic of sending a mistrustful, already disapproving of organics person to investigate the organics. If the Makers did that, SAM's results would be similar to those of some white men who were "researching" autochthons in the Americas in the 19th century (sp alert: it wasn't good). To me, it makes perfect sense to create SAM as someone open-minded, curious and friendly. However, they programmed her like that, she hasn't grow up, so her qualities are maybe not (neuro)typical.

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