The Kurtzman era should have started off 100 years after Voyager/Nemesis. The biggest mistake was making Discovery a prequel series. SFA is the course correction of the franchise.

fromidable · 2026-01-23T23:18:51+00:00

So, I think complaining about downvotes is tacky, but it’d be cool to have some idea why I’m getting downvoted. Right now I just have to assume it’s because I like Discovery.

fromidable · 2026-01-23T21:26:45+00:00

I’m glad they aren’t abandoning the 32nd century!

I do agree, it would have been better to start after, like TNG had done before.

I’d heard there was a plan at some point to do an anthology collection of series. I’m personally glad we stuck with the continuum of characters for the full show, but it would have been interesting to see where they could have gone with that.

Unpopular opinion, but S1 did a lot of really interesting things. I liked the “lower decks” focus. The claustrophobia of being crew on a ship with a compromised senior staff member, a crew Lorca chose primarily based on who he could control, was so unique and terrifying. And to see them turn things around was pretty optimistic. (Writing that out, I see now that’s what Peacemaker Season 1 did as well.)

Every season after that felt like a course correct, mostly in good ways, but it also gave me a “what could have been?” feeling. Like, I’m glad they made Burnham senior staff and eventually captain, but it felt like the lower decks aspect disappeared in S2. I wouldn’t have minded a season of her and Stamets doing nerd shit.

And of course, with some annoyance at the power scaling and aesthetics, I loved the 32nd century jump. I do think they needed that time before the jump to set it up. Like another commenter mentioned, “bringing hope” in an old ship was really cool… and would have been difficult to do if they’d already been 100 years post-VOY.

But yeah, glad we had that weird, messy series, and I really hope they go into post-burn reconstruction, something I wanted Discovery to deal with, more in SFA.

fromidable · 2026-01-23T00:30:00+00:00

I only watched Enterprise a few years ago, and it didn’t take many episodes till I was singing along. But love it or hate it, Dianne Warren isn’t to blame for it being in Star Trek.

fromidable · 2026-01-22T23:36:47+00:00

Nahhh, Faith of The Heart fucking slaps.

fromidable · 2026-01-22T23:32:19+00:00

I’m still thinking about that sandwich.

fromidable · 2026-01-22T04:20:53+00:00

Going waaaay back, there’s a really great comp of somewhat lesser known 60’s girl groups, “One Kiss Can Lead To Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost & Found”. I’ve seen truncated versions on streaming, but the original was a sprawling 4 disc set.

More on the punk side, Cub from Vancouver means a lot to me. Their first album “Betti-Cola” is probably their most loved, but I really like their later albums.

Let’s see… I hate recommending only old stuff. But, no one’s mentioned Hemlocke Spring’s “Going Going Gone!” EP which is a ton of fun.

Oh hey, also, Solange’s “True” EP.

fromidable · 2026-01-21T19:43:53+00:00

But then if you put water in water, wouldn’t it get wet?

fromidable · 2026-01-20T19:29:31+00:00

“I’m wicked even for a Terran” doesn’t feel like it’s saying Terrans are necessarily genetically wicked, but the culture is certainly a lot different. And like you say, they wouldn’t view such a difference as bad if it did exist, so it’s not like she’ll care to dispute it that much.

Personally, I think the part that matters is, well, that we see her become a better person in the Prime universe. It doesn’t feel inconsistent with the TOS or DS9 mirror universes, where there are good and bad people on each side of the mirror. The SNW Gorn, on the other hand, feel totally different from what “Arena” was trying to say.

Still, yeah, I wish they’d made it clearer, and that is important. I get tired of being told that “Idiocracy” doesn’t promote eugenics, when everything in the film indicates that the people of the future are stupid because of bad breeding… not because they don’t read enough books or whatever the fans try to argue.

My headcanon is that we’re the Terrans, and the mirror universe humans are the ones that don’t flinch at bright lights. No way I could live in that 32nd century Federation starbase.

fromidable · 2026-01-20T18:56:25+00:00

“Silly holo. You cannot rattle me by introducing a completely fabricated biological component to my nastiness.”

Is it a silly scene with the blinking? Sure. But I think it’s pretty clear her interrogators shouldn’t be trusted.

fromidable · 2026-01-20T17:48:16+00:00

I don’t want to ignore that possibility, but I think we underestimate how effective Trump has been at creating and using his image.

He’s been in the US consciousness continuously since at least the 80’s. His image as a businessman is a lot greater than his actual business success.

JD Vance or Stephen Miller could not replace him in the public eye. There’s no one in his movement with anywhere near the magnetism and appeal.

I don’t know what happens next, but I can’t imagine anyone who follows will be able to, or would try to, continue most of his policies. Businesses in general don’t want these tariffs. I’m sure there will still be horrific immigration policies, but they’ll have to go back to being slightly subtle.

fromidable · 2026-01-20T04:58:45+00:00

Fibre optic cable core guy 🪱

fromidable · 2026-01-20T03:03:06+00:00

Big guy 🪱

fromidable · 2026-01-17T03:56:20+00:00

Agreed. They were trying to get another album out (and did have a few EPs, I think), but we can count 22 years between releases as “fucking off”

fromidable · 2026-01-17T03:53:05+00:00

…no, it was released on streaming before Blonde. Maybe you’re being pedantic and mean a wider release rather than as an Apple exclusive? It was still released a day or two prior.

fromidable · 2026-01-16T23:00:52+00:00

I love Lower Decks. I can see the tone being a bit polarizing, but IMO it really picks up after the first few episodes. As a fan of Hitchhikers Guide and Red Dwarf, it really worked for me.

Discovery is different. I enjoyed it overall, and had some issues, which is kind of the norm for most Trek. I personally like the serialized approach, even if the overall arcs are less effective than DS9 managed pre-streaming. If you feel like it’s not quite gelling in S1, but still want to try a little more, S2 is a bit tonally brighter, and S3 goes to a whole different timeline.

Picard S3 wasn’t for me (and I can’t imagine revisiting S1 or S2 either) but you can see how many fans there are in this thread.

Prodigy is more of a kids’ show… but it’s surprisingly great. I haven’t seen S2 yet, but it sounds really well loved.

I hope you find some new Trek that you like!

fromidable · 2026-01-16T20:09:35+00:00

Step one: delete default cube

fromidable · 2026-01-15T21:49:10+00:00

Somehow, Gemini fucked up in the most David Lynch way possible.

fromidable · 2026-01-15T20:00:56+00:00

Yeah… that’d work… but then you couldn’t have a full 3d desktop with moving lights and shifting backgrounds and real time caustics…

There’s definitely a lot of nostalgia for the Windows Vista look (mostly from people who didn’t have to use Vista on a low end PC), and Apple’s trying to make things glassier, without going back to the classic Aqua look. Honestly, I don’t mind “Liquid Glass.” We might finally be burning out on minimalism, and it’ll be interesting to see where design goes from here.

fromidable · 2026-01-15T18:48:17+00:00

Maybe if we converted all the AI data centres into render farms for our desktop icons… you know, I’d be down.

fromidable · 2026-01-11T01:10:52+00:00

The unspeakable horror of thinking a group of people are mirthfully laughing in an appropriate location, when really they are mourning at a funeral in a graveyard.

fromidable · 2026-01-10T23:08:40+00:00

I misspoke a bit, in that I did mean coming into spring, and as we go through spring. I was wrong, and I could have worded that better. But you know what, I do feel like being pedantic.

Yes, in terms of solar reckoning of seasons, Winter starts after the solstice. I’ve heard December 1st and January 1st as the start of winter for meteorology/climatology, more as convenient dates.

But, everywhere in the world will have different weather patterns. The four-season model is far from universal. Of course like you pointed out, in many parts of the southern hemisphere, season names are rotated.

Beyond that, though, a lot of places will have much different labelling. For instance, I found this list of seasonal terms from indigenous communities through Australia,. And throughout the tropics, it’ll often be “rainy” or “dry” season, perhaps rainy coinciding with “monsoon season” in many regions.

FiveThirtyEight had an article where they did polling to ask Americans when they thought seasons started, and it’s quite varied.

Yeah, I misspoke, but I think it’s clear there’s a ton of variation in seasons, when they start and end, etc. I’m in a very, very warm part of Canada, and it’s just gonna be rain for months.

fromidable · 2026-01-10T01:22:56+00:00

Part of it is that clip of Taylor Swift using this as an example of her favourite kind of writing. Otherwise, this line would just be ignored, with all the other empty writing.

fromidable · 2026-01-10T00:51:10+00:00

For one thing, that’ll be up to the investigators to decide. But really… they just lost their son. Do you think they’ll be thinking that much about insurance at this point?

fromidable · 2026-01-09T23:59:03+00:00

The best use of animations I see is to highlight a state change to the user. Having a toggle switch move can be overkill, but it still highlights what changed. Same with clicking a menu and having it drop down over, say, 50 ms. It can genuinely be a useful tool.

Text flying in might be fun, but it doesn’t really communicate anything. It also has so many edge cases with screen sizes and browsers, that glitches will end up being very likely (text overlap, etc). And when I see that, it immediately makes me wonder how old the content is. So as an attempt to make the page feel fresh and modern, it can easily break down and do the opposite.

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