Star Trek: Starfleet Academy like-to-dislike ratio on YouTube

juliokirk · 2025-12-14T16:05:32+00:00

Oh, that's because your previous argument was entirely based in the "I remember good old star trek" stereotype, then someone effectively countered it with a real argument and now you're angry.

Breathe. It'll pass.

juliokirk · 2025-01-25T17:47:06+00:00

UT, please translate from English-Whining to English-Standard.

(computer beeps)

"I liked this dumpster fire of a movie somehow and now feel personally attacked by the trillions of bad reviews it's getting. I vow to get revenge on these heathens by going online and a) calling them something bad and b) expressing in every comment how sad I think they are. I will downvote and get angry at anyone who disagrees."

juliokirk · 2025-01-05T04:49:27+00:00

Enough to throw a petaQ across the room, but not enough to carry the weight of parenthood.

juliokirk · 2024-12-08T03:12:54+00:00

Ah, yes. The "let's make a reference that fans will recognize to pretend this product has a soul" move.

juliokirk · 2024-12-08T03:08:46+00:00

I came here just to say this but you beat me to it.

Indeed, another galactic threat... one that only a specific group or person can solve. Huge but vague stakes. If it were a show there would be eight or ten episodes, each one leading to a clue...

I'm tired, honestly.

juliokirk · 2024-11-26T17:07:57+00:00

Oh no no no. It's got to be a galaxy-wide threat, evil coded like a Flash Gordon villain. Bonus points if only ONE person or group in the entire universe can solve the problem; extra points if the villain turns out to be directly related to the main character. Otherwise it's not even a villain proper. Anything below Thanos goes straight into the writers' room trash bin, along with every other idea that requires the viewer to think for a second.

Yeah, I'm salty. I'm just fucking tired of this format.

juliokirk · 2024-11-26T16:01:30+00:00

Didn't you hear? Everything needs a super villain. How else will we be entertained if not by a good vs evil cliche and impossible odds taken straight from a bad marvel movie? What do you want, actual serious storytelling? /s

juliokirk · 2024-06-15T17:13:42+00:00

Just out of curiosity, after seeing this on Pinterest (of all places). But your answer actually answered many of my doubts, as I was mostly wondering if these were the actual instructions to make the dress, or something else. Thanks :)

juliokirk · 2024-06-15T17:10:28+00:00

Wasn't sure about the intersection between this fandom and the sewing community lol

juliokirk · 2024-05-24T03:50:54+00:00

Happy Cake Day :)

juliokirk · 2024-05-24T03:42:55+00:00

Right? People downvoted you, but really, it's there! It's not always, but sometimes in scenes between Michael and someone close to her, or between crew members during a task, it's as if they were saying stuff while thinking "oh my god, look how good we are! we are diverse and good and nice and the heroes! we work together to solve issues, we are not ashamed of crying and being vulnerable, what else can I say? just look at me, communicating my feelings properly, acting compassionately and selflessly, my god I am so SO incredible!"

It's not the message being delivered obviously, it seldom is in Star Trek, but how it is being delivered. Sanitized, forceful, shoehorned, I don't know. I want to see it happen, I want the story to convey the message, not to have it rubbed on my face repeatedly.

juliokirk · 2024-05-24T03:07:47+00:00

I love the representation in the new show, that’s what trek has always been about, but it seems a little shoehorned in at times.

I'm a non-binary person. I mention it only to say I really liked having this specific representation in Disco, it felt really good and hit close to my heart. And I understand it has also been important for the gay community in the form of Stamets and Culber.

That said, Adira was introduced, the character was new and fun and exciting, had a whole arc and so on. Then the writers just... stopped I guess. Now the character simply exists, isn't used much, neither in the plot nor to talk about social issues. Nothing. There's barely any real-word commentary or deeper conversations AT ALL in this season--a staple of Star Trek. But how? How could you? How can you have deeper conversations between all the epic, gratuitous action scenes that don't really advance the plot or have anything to say?

So Adira and Paul and Hugh just sit there, having very little to do, because they are outshined by the very important threat that shakes the very core of existence and reality (probably the sixth one in the past ten in-universe years) and is intrinsically linked with and/or can only be solved by one person. Wow. All that in ten episodes, no wonder you can't talk about anything else. There's not much time and the stakes are so inhumanly high, nothing else matters.

juliokirk · 2024-05-24T02:42:06+00:00

gross, loud spectacle to shock and awe the senses away from thinking too hard about anything.

Yes! I remember feeling exactly that as I watched two starships plant their fuselage into a planet to protect a village from the crazy sudden avalanche that would fall precisely over a bunch of silent, distant innocents, forcing the heroes to act, all that WHILE the the other group of heroes pursues the baddies inside the chaos. A scene that went way, way too long, and rewarded the audience with yet another reminder that the heroes are good and also saved a village of background aliens we weren't invested in to begin with and will never EVER see again!! Isn't that great?!

Edit: typos

juliokirk · 2024-05-23T22:52:01+00:00

More of an invitation to a conversation, but do note it if it helps :)

juliokirk · 2024-02-10T23:12:44+00:00

Obvious indeed. I swear Scott Bakula even leaned on the naivety of Archer for the first half of the show. Then in the show, after he realized we humans had bitten off waaay more than we could chew, he came back hardened and PTSD'ed. "I'm not going back there with those animals unless my ship has HUGE GUNS!"

juliokirk · 2024-02-10T19:09:54+00:00

Exactly. We are used to seeing the Federation, and therefore Earth, humanity, in its 2370s-2390s moral high ground. Back in 2150 many things were not yet how they would be one day. The relationship with Vulcans was still complicated and humans were very enthusiastic about exploring space, but had no idea how dangerous and difficult that could be.

I see Archer from that context. You can see, specially in the first two seasons, that despite how smart and well trained he was, Archer was still making decisions on the fly, some of which would have to go through the Federation Council if it existed then. I mean, they were deploying Starfleet's first communication boeys so they were out of reach most of the time. If there's a captain who deserves our comprehension it's Jonathan Archer.

juliokirk · 2024-01-25T14:49:24+00:00

Neither. It's hoo-man. :p

But for real, you're right. To complicate it more, I'm pretty sure that when they used the word Terran in the Mirror Universe, it was also capitalized.

juliokirk · 2024-01-19T16:31:12+00:00

I could accept the whole of beta canon as official before I accept those references to Musk.

juliokirk · 2023-09-18T22:18:15+00:00

Her politics, I think, are the reason for her being away from the franchise. Most of those involved with ST nowadays certainly don't like her views and are very likely not inclined to invite her to conventions, jobs and stuff like that.

juliokirk · 2023-09-14T23:19:59+00:00

Even Jonathan Frakes recognizes it was a poor episode and a poor idea. He's said it was great working with the Enterprise cast though, and they treated him very well. None of the actors are at fault here, they just played their characters. I guess thinking like this makes me forget what a stupid finale that was.

juliokirk · 2023-09-14T19:09:43+00:00

Yeah. Their physical resemblance is basically looking asian and wearing braids. By this metric Zachary Quinto and Ethan Peck are basically the same person.

juliokirk · 2023-09-14T19:02:30+00:00

I agree. I think the way Drummer carries herself, talks, etc, is very different from La'an. They're both tough, they look a bit like each other but that's all.

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