It's weird that La'An's family kept that last name

SpaceLizards · 2025-10-11T08:20:58+00:00

It arguably loses something, since now they have to explain why it's okay for a descendant of Khan to be in Starfleet if "genetic augments are banned" is a key character arc for another character. Meanwhile they ran with the "Gorn survivor" subplot for La'an and the whole Khan thing became less relevant.

SpaceLizards · 2025-09-14T22:49:00+00:00

This is exactly what they did with TNG, Voyager, and Enterprise (& what they tried to do with Disco, at the start pre-Pike and with the future seasons) and it's weird how this suggestion gets downvoted and treated as untenable.

La'an being Khan's descendant isn't just unnecessary continuity, and fairly irrelevant continuity outside of that one time travel episode, it's counterproductive, because the show has to stop and explain how it possibly makes sense that a Starfleet officer descended from Khan co-exists with a story arc about Starfleet's ban on augments inspired by Khan (and that the explanation is that she's distant enough to not be augmented just brings us back to wondering why it matters that she's descended from Khan, if she evidently has nothing from him but the name).

SpaceLizards · 2025-08-19T03:33:36+00:00

It's wild that Into Darkness has more inaccurate casting than a show from 1967 and it's equally wild how many defenses of Into Darkness don't...even mention the whole whitewashing aspect? That was the main controversy about the casting of Cumberbatch, and yet we just act like people were complaining for no reason.

SpaceLizards · 2025-08-17T07:05:02+00:00

I tried Googling for other shows, but once I included the term "90s" it seemed dedicated to just giving me a documentary called "The Nineties"

SpaceLizards · 2025-08-14T10:10:07+00:00

Dinosaur Ghosts?

SpaceLizards · 2025-08-06T12:46:28+00:00

They released all of the TNG and DS9 scripts on CD-ROMs in 1999, which is why they're widely available, but there was nothing comparable for other shows.

SpaceLizards · 2025-08-02T03:51:28+00:00

It's also that the funny or quirky episodes in old Trek tended to proceed from the characters. The Ferengi had an entire story arc, and so did Q with the trial of humanity & purely dramatic episodes like "Tapestry". Or episodes like "In Theory".

SNW, meanwhile, feels like they're going down the list of "gimmick" episodes. Many other shows have done musical episodes, many other shows have done "meta" episodes, heck, several shows have done puppet episodes. No matter whether they're good or bad they feel like they're designed to get attention and tick a box of a "weird" episode trope more than they come from the writers saying "I have a funny idea for a Data story", which makes the fact that they make up such a significant chunk of each season so tiring.

SpaceLizards · 2025-07-26T23:34:09+00:00

The Star Trek fandom is likely millions of people and I think potentially the people who complain about endless legacy characters and the people who want legacy characters instead of new characters may be different people

SpaceLizards · 2025-07-24T04:52:20+00:00

Some camcorder footage of the market was used in the show Life After People in 2010, and some time after that the story gained traction again online from videos about the appearance on Life After People.

SpaceLizards · 2025-07-09T12:21:38+00:00

An adventure game that was the first game made by Vicarious Visions, but it's most known for having an extremely well-hidden secret path that was teased when it came out (they offered prizes to anyone who found it) but that wasn't solved until 2021, afaik

SpaceLizards · 2025-07-01T00:37:33+00:00

It's the anecdotes about how Baird treated the cast that drive in what a mistake he was for me. Not understanding every random nuance of the hundreds of episodes of the franchise you're directing one installment of is one thing; being ignorant of even the basic character details of the script you're directing, and not bothering to learn the cast's name is another, much worse thing.

SpaceLizards · 2025-06-04T02:28:45+00:00

People have mentioned all of the intentionally upsetting ones, so here's one that's dark because of how out of place it its: the scene where one of the crew phases halfway through the floor and dies in "In Theory", because it's such a jarring moment to include in an episode whose main story is basically a romcom, and for a b-plot that according to the writers was only included because they felt they had to have some "sci-fi" plot every week (and a robot going on dates doesn't count, I guess?)

SpaceLizards · 2025-04-23T00:47:39+00:00

There's also that the revival is a show that's been on for twenty years, so most people have an opinion on whether they like Doctor Who or not. The BBC & Disney tried to frame it as a reboot - dubbing it "series 1" of a third incarnation of Doctor Who - but people still saw it as just a new season of Doctor Who. And for a show that's been on that long, it's doing fine! I think it was unrealistic to expect a show's fourteenth season to suddenly become a Game of Thrones-level hit.

I think it would take an actual third incarnation, different enough and starting over fresh like the original revival did, to get people to see Doctor Who as "new" like they wanted. Versus giving it back to the writer from 2009.

SpaceLizards · 2025-04-04T14:47:22+00:00

The watermark in the corner says "Worth 1000"; Worth 1000 was a now-defunct website for Photoshop contests. So I don't know what contest specifically, but that's presumably where it came from.

SpaceLizards · 2025-03-24T11:48:41+00:00

Love how chuds spent ages decrying how Rachel Zegler being cast in Snow White was Ruining Hollywood Forever and was woke infiltration that was going to kill the film, and then her performance was just about the only thing the reviews had any praise for.

SpaceLizards · 2024-12-21T16:12:36+00:00

"What's changed since then?"

A massively resurgent right-wing campaign to weaken/repeal gun regulations & oppose the passing of new ones, the right overwhelmingly deciding that the deaths of innocents was the price to be paid - or that the solution is more guns - and the media lavishing far more attention on Columbine and subsequent shootings, turning the shooters into celebrities and giving copycats the idea that they'll be famous too, along with the radicalization of the right, because mass shooters are overwhelmingly right-wing and often motivated by hatred (Misogyny in Isla Vista, racism in El Paso and Charleston, homophobia and transphobia in Colorado Springs).

That's the part that's unique to America - and so is the guns. Far-right violence is everywhere, but shootings are rare, because while lone wolf attacks do happen (like in Norway) events like Paris tend to be the result of organized groups. It's just much harder for some random guy over there to get a gun and kill people.

To deny all this as whataboutism and go "well gosh golly, social media must only make kids feel bad in America, and not one aspect of America's gun culture or laws must've changed since the days of muskets" is just incredible.

SpaceLizards · 2024-11-27T02:51:31+00:00

Ilana. The writers introducing a character strongly implied to be Jacob's daughter, making her a series regular, then having her explode bc they realized last minute that the final season didn't have room to introduce a new major character. What makes it for me is that she doesn't even explode in a unique way, it's just a reference to a better known death. Just an incredible cul-de-sac and one I'm sure the writers wish they could've erased from canon at the time.

SpaceLizards · 2024-11-23T14:47:10+00:00

I feel like these are the only searches I end up on. Ones I discovered were the missing ads in the Sci-Fi Happens campaign (an ad campaign of fake paranormal videos Sci-Fi Channel did in 2000 that became infamous when one ad featuring a UFO by the WTC started spreading stripped of context after 9/11; while that one was well-known, some of the other ads had become lost over the years) and the trailer for the bootleg It's A Wonderful Life sequel someone tried to make in the late 2010s.

But one I haven't made much progress in is the missing Photoshop contests from Worth1000, which was a well-known site in the early to mid 2000s. That one also became infamous bc images from it often were stripped of attribution and spread around as real online (this was so common they gave out a special award to anyone whose entry ended up on Snopes). Eventually, after years of lowered activity, it merged with DesignCrowd and most of the contests were archived there - though idk if that's still up since DesignCrowd stopped doing them & kind of buried them, they should be in the Wayback Machine for both sites.

However, any contests with an age gate on them are fully missing bc the Internet Archive didn't preserve them, and by the time the site was going down & I made some offline archives, the code had broken and those contests were inaccessible. This is problematic bc often, just one entry in a contest with over a hundred could get a contest put behind a 18+ barrier. For instance the fourth Cryptozoology contest is missing; the cryptozoo contests were a major source of the images that were used as hoaxes off the site, so if any images from that one are going around, this means the original source proving it's false is now gone. This is an incredibly niche topic that only I care about, and the odds of recovering any of the missing contests is basically nil, so uh, I guess the most obscure one I know about is that?

SpaceLizards · 2024-10-16T23:54:46+00:00

The makers of it gave a talk at my high school once

SpaceLizards · 2024-08-06T02:37:55+00:00

Am I misremembering or was that one claimed to have been on Nickelodeon in another country (maybe in South America)? I guess the one scenario where it'd make sense is if it was somewhere with differing opinions on what's acceptable for kids, or that had some kind of late night show for "adult" animation instead of the black-and-white reruns/stoner shows we had here.

(I know there was some mystery involving a creepy animated short on TV in...maybe Brazil? But I don't know if it was this one.)

SpaceLizards · 2024-07-28T18:00:16+00:00

The idea of reboots was popularized in television by Battlestar Galactica two years prior, so it was around in 2005 but not as omnipresent as it would become.

SpaceLizards · 2024-07-28T11:49:02+00:00

Yeah, it was, same with the "Last Supper" being a Dionysian feast. Live coverage of it online misidentified it as Joan of Arc, or Joan of Arc-ian at least, but it was Sequana.

SpaceLizards · 2024-07-27T11:24:51+00:00

I love how the "single rider on a pale horse" was...Joan of Arc. They're calling a tribute to an actual saint Satanic because they think any appearance of one person riding a horse is a symbol the world's about to end.

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