Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1x08 - "The Elysian Kingdom"
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Not really, though I would still watch some of those episodes. Too many episodes are just cringe-fests.
If only for the terrible high school play-grade sets and production. Has nothing to do with budget or the era it was in, those producers/directors were clearly total idiots! Yup you're right I just kept bringing up the soviet regime in my original post - that's all I talked about, in fact, so made total sense for you to bring it up here - thanks.
So one episode here is a horrible thing?Not really, though I would still watch some of those episodes. Too many episodes are just cringe-fests.
Asking for a friend.
Unlikely in my case for quite some time: I don't do streaming services or premium channels; there is apparently no legitimate DVD release, and the only thing in the house capable of playing a Blu-Ray is so slow, it takes minutes for a volume to finish mounting.
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It is, then I proceeded to explain why.
Each series has its stupid episodes - many, actually. SNW S1 is bad so far and I'm up to no.8 - most episodes are 1/5 or so, on my own rating scale. I happen to know S2 is better though! I guess as per Star Trek usual, S1 is always trash...
Well, one man's trash...etc, etc.It is, then I proceeded to explain why.
Not sure why this one is horrible outside of what Trek has done before but that's I guess the nature of the beast.
Was referring to another poster, but fair enough.
Yes, I knew that. Clarified my original reply. As I recall, the last time I used it, I could power the thing up, and go relieve my bladder while it was booting. Then insert a volume, and go have a snack while it was mounting. So it shouldn't surprise anybody that I have dozens of DVDs, but only one or two Blu-Rays (and that I am very pissed about certain features in "TOS Remastered" [like the "unaired pilot" version of "Where No Man Has Gone Before"] being Blu-Ray-only).
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Here, this will make it easier for everyone:
I'd already looked it up, but this does make it easier.
Lighthearted?????
Nah. You've clearly not watched much SF TV from the 1960s.
Not to be taken too seriously, in any case. Kirk snogging everything female in sight, for instance.
An Urban Myth. Kirk was the lead so he had a fair share of romances., but his "snogging" was perhaps lesser than his contemporaries.
TOS was a drama and for the most part serious.
Kelvin Timeline Kirk is substantially hornier.
He owes more to the Urban Myth than OG Kirk
Kelvin Kirk was undisciplined.
Bigoted nonsense. Religion can be used to be abusive of human rights or autonomy, or to support the emancipation of human beings from unjust hierarchies. Just like atheistic systems of thought can do both as well.
I will point out two things:
1. Atheism is itself a religion: it is a belief system, taken without conclusive evidence, regarding a supreme being. As such, it is worthy of the same religious freedoms as any other religion: no more, and no less.
2. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
I will note that if this discussion were to come up on Fountain Pen Network, this thread would have been locked (or all posts discussing religion pruned off), and those who dragged religion into it would likely be sternly reprimanded by the mods. That board has very strict prohibitions on discussions of religion and politics, and with good reason: such discussions invariably produce a great deal of heat, but no light whatsoever.
1. Atheism is itself a religion: it is a belief system, taken without conclusive evidence, regarding a supreme being. As such, it is worthy of the same religious freedoms as any other religion: no more, and no less.
2. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
I will note that if this discussion were to come up on Fountain Pen Network, this thread would have been locked (or all posts discussing religion pruned off), and those who dragged religion into it would likely be sternly reprimanded by the mods. That board has very strict prohibitions on discussions of religion and politics, and with good reason: such discussions invariably produce a great deal of heat, but no light whatsoever.
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