counterfeitsaint posted:

So there's this teenaged boy who showed up in your city a few hours ago. You two know things about him so far, first, he bit someone's hand for saying hello, second, he might be dealing with possible trauma from growing up an an abusive home.

Are you comfortable with boy spending a few hours alone with your very young daughter? Keep in mind one of these answers will make you a bigot, I guess.

Hollismason posted:

I appreciate that Kira when confronted with her actions of blowing up a Gul's home and killing him and his family is like " No gently caress you , you were all legitimate targets" . She never waivers in her stance either. Like even later in the show she stands by her actions in the war against the Cardassan occupation. Its a interesting character choice.

DS9 is good.

TrashMammal posted:

o’brien must suffer is the name of my hardcore band

StrangersInTheNight posted:

they're very clearly trying to pull a 'he still has issues' thing at the beginning of the episode so that they can pull the redemption angle later on with his speech. it's just clunky IMO.

the show admits he's speciesist, it's like a part of his whole character that he struggles with it

Gutcruncher posted:

Hot horny cardassian lady was fun, it’s like when the racist skinhead biker has a black wife, but the real winner is when O’Brien bonds with the cardassian kid over their mutual annoyance of keiko’s bullshit

StrangersInTheNight posted:

they're very clearly trying to pull a 'he still has issues' thing at the beginning of the episode so that they can pull the redemption angle later on with his speech. it's just clunky IMO.

the show admits he's speciesist, it's like a part of his whole character that he struggles with it

TrashMammal posted:

Hollismason posted:

Is this AI or a photoshop?

Hollismason posted:

Is this AI or a photoshop?

John Wick of Dogs posted:

They were referenced in the Strange New Worlds crossover with lower decks

CainFortea posted:

Look at all the letters except the ones in the center. Also duder in the background behind the mic has either the largest mouth or is ai.

Also his combadge is on the wrong side.

Monkey Fracas posted:

I think the acting is as such that you sorta feel like he maybe doesn't really believe it but wants to and is trying to tell the kid the right thing

Felt like deliberately a little forced on the character's part

Hollismason posted:

O'Brien loving loves fixing the station. He even says so multiple times that this is his dream job because he's always doing stuff.

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

I remember being burned out by the end of Voyager. I'm not even sure I kept up on each episode for the last season or two, and Endgame was just ridiculous. There was definitely a sense (from my limited perspective, anyway) that things had gone wrong somewhere along the way, that Trek had gotten way too formulaic and bogged down in bullshit technobabble.

My memory is that the marketing buzz around Enterprise seemed to acknowledge the rut that then-modern Trek had gotten into, that things needed to change, and that this new show was going to really try to break away from all the cruft that had accumulated, in significant part by putting the show way before TOS and make it so they couldn't rely on the same bunch of techno-tricks to get out of pickles and jams. It wasn't even going to be called Star Trek!

I remember watching that first episode and coming away just completely disgusted. To my teenaged brain it seemed like they'd largely written another formulaic script and done a search-and-replace to swap out "shields" for "hull plating", "phasers" for "phase cannons/pistols", and so on. They even beamed a guy with the transporter in the first episode! And the decon gel scene was just the worst kind of pandering fanservice. Yeah, I was a horny teenage boy, but it still just didn't work at all for me. I swore off Enterprise and with the exception of occasionally catching part of an episode on the air by chance, I basically didn't watch the show until several years after it had been canceled. When the cancellation was announced I basically shrugged and figured finally someone had put the show out of everyone's misery.

In retrospect, I acknowledge that in some ways the producers' hands were pretty well tied by Paramount/UPN, who I'm sure had their own expectations for what Trek needed to be both as a property and as a major show on their network. But I don't regret not watching at the time and I still largely regard the show as a failure from a writing standpoint, which is unfortunate because I do think the cast and crew threw their hearts into it.

I kind of wonder what trajectory Trek would have taken if UPN had never gotten off the ground. I don't think it would have been a panacea but maybe Paramount might have been a bit more amenable to more development time for Enterprise if they hadn't been desperate to prop up UPN's programming block.

Nigmaetcetera posted:

I didn’t like enterprise at that time because Archer reminded me of George W. Bush.

TheDeadlyShoe posted:

is telling odo to stay in shape offensive

Hollismason posted:

I just thought it was really loving weird that Archer was really loving into water polo. Like what the gently caress.