Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 2x04 - "Mugato, Gumato"

[Amaris]

O god no

It goes into detail. I read that book when I was 16. I'm 41 now.
Kirk's loins will never leave my consciousness. I will forever possess their memory.

 

[Danja]

People seem to forget that this is a cartoon. In cartoons, people get beat-up crushed under a rock or a piano and they're fine the next scene.

Kenny dies in just about every episode of South Park (only to come back the very next episode).

 

[donners22]

Well, you've got me for company. Not a single LOL across the first 3 episodes of S2. I haven't watched E4 yet.

I'm at two - Paris's "A Kazon" reaction, and "they insurrected".

I thought the first season was okay, but the second feels like a bit of a step down.

The Doctor is fantasizing about painting Seven naked and we don't see her body at all and we don't see her breasts even in drawings.

Oh we definitely do, at least in outline.

There were a couple of times that I thought Enterprise got extremely juvenile about sexuality, the subplot with T'pol and Phlox from Bounty comes readily to mind, but I've never been prudish about my Star Trek.

Archer fell face-first into T'Pol's breasts, as I recall. The decontamination and massage scenes were wafer-thin attempts to add sexualisation to the show, and were more explicit than this episode - the prominent nipples were inescapable.

 

[oldtrekkie]

Kenny dies in just about every episode of South Park (only to come back the very next episode).

What's funny is they could do that in live-action episodes as well but don't. Perhaps it's because people perceive live-action to be more real than cartoons, even though they're equally fictitious.

 

[StarMan]

I'm at two - Paris's "A Kazon" reaction, and "they insurrected".

I thought the first season was okay, but the second feels like a bit of a step down.

Wait, was that when Paris jumped out of the chair and attacked Boimler? I actually didn't make out what he said - if I'd picked up on that I probably would've got my first laugh in!

I feel the same as you. Season 1 was okay - strong finish. But my sentiment has reset back to where it was early season 1.

 

[Tim Thomason]

Kenny dies in just about every episode of South Park (only to come back the very next episode).

Incorrect. He's died in 90 episodes out of 287. About 31% of the time, overall (and the early seasons greatly inflate the percentage). They really only used the running gag in the first six seasons, and rarely in the eighteen since. Not at all between Season 17 and 21.

 

[Danja]

Incorrect. He's died in 90 episodes out of 287. About 31% of the time, overall (and the early seasons greatly inflate the percentage). They really only used the running gag in the first six seasons, and rarely in the eighteen since. Not at all between Season 17 and 21.

I suppose it had to run its course eventually.

Now you know how long it's been since I've seen it!

What's funny is they could do that in live-action episodes as well but don't. Perhaps it's because people perceive live-action to be more real than cartoons, even though they're equally fictitious.

It would make for some weird TV.

 

[NCC-73515]

Sadly, they skipped the initial part of acoustically finding your opponent first in the anbo-jytsu scene and made it look like it's just about smashing people. Denobulan puffing was great, and that TAS Kzin was nice to see! The Ferengi still use their whips! Tellarite blood is purple, I think that's something we haven't seen before. T'ana jumping through the ship was hilarious, and "the power of math" referenced Tilly XD

 

[KimMH]

It goes into detail. I read that book when I was 16. I'm 41 now.
Kirk's loins will never leave my consciousness. I will forever possess their memory.

*no longer feels badly about letting that book sit unread on the bookshelf for decades*

 

[DEWLine]

Tellarite blood colouration was introduced along with Jett Reno in "DSC: Brother".

 

[seigezunt]

It goes into detail.

Indeed.

“Hello, Jim.” As always, her lips seemed to caress his name as she spoke it.

He could almost catch the scent of her body fragrance, and he could feel the slight pressure of his genitals responding to those memories. She had been perfection—lover, friend, wife, mother, and in every other role and joy she supplied as he slowly recovered from the fatigue and emotional wounds of those five long years out there. They had lived the basic and simple one-year arrangement together—but those months had been memorable ones. He had not been aware, at least not consciously, that during that time she had been something of a surrogate Enterprise to him.

--- GR, TMP Novelization

 

[Turtletrekker]

Tellarite blood colouration was introduced along with Jett Reno in "DSC: Brother".

I'm thinking earlier than that. Enterprise season 4, "United"?

 

[Tim Thomason]

Indeed.



--- GR, TMP Novelization

Oy. Not a good thing to happen in a TMP uniform.

 

[Amaris]

*no longer feels badly about letting that book sit unread on the bookshelf for decades*

It's still pretty good, but yeah, that part stood out more than anything else, which might indicate that the book wasn't as good as I initially claim. I mean, either that, or my imagination is so vivid that it created an indelible mark that cannot be erased.

Yeah, maybe keep that book on the shelf.

Indeed.



--- GR, TMP Novelization

I love that you have now inflicted this upon everyone else.

 

[fireproof78]

Honestly, i don't remember reading that part...must have blocked it out.

 

[Danja]

Indeed.



--- GR, TMP Novelization

It sounds like bad fanfic.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Wow, this episode is getting ripped apart in the Trekmovie talkback…. Mostly due to the Mugato sex scene, which I found absolutely hilarious..! Even the Trekmovie review itself is pretty negative… Are Trekkies really that prudish..??

Yes. It seems that, for many fans, sexual innuendo of any kind is thoroughly offensive, unnecessary and unworthy of the high-minded greatness that is Star Trek.

They also quite conveniently ignore the fact that the show’s founder was an unmitigated and unapologetic adulterous perv.

 

[fireproof78]

unnecessary

It is this.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Nope.

 

[fireproof78]

Nope.

Yup.

How long shall we continue?