zeal0telite [he/him,they/them]

This is one of those things that’s just unknown and vague enough that it can’t be cringe.

If someone asks you what it is you can just say “oh it’s a cute bear cos I like them” .

“The final solution was 1941” is probably the correct language to use.

I have legitimately always been confused by the bodega thing for the same reason.

We have several chains that do exactly that and they’re just called “corner stores”.

“You can get eggs, toilet paper, and Gatorade”

Damn, that’s called a Spar, or Premier, or Londis.

They’re SocDems, no shit. They also seem to be teenagers too.

They view the world as good vs evil. Putin is doing an evil right now, so NATO is the good. Also when Libya was destroyed NATO was still bad but Libya was even worser so it cancels it out.

The SpecTRe program is so good for storytelling purposes as it gives you a reason to do whatever you want while also giving you a strict mission guideline to do.

But it’s not a great thing to have when you really think about it.

The more the Batarians get genocided the nicer they become lol

It’s heavily implied in 3 that they’ll become good aliens after their entire civilisation was destroyed.

I like Taris a hell of a lot more than Peragus. At least there’s quests and such on Taris, a bit of variety.

The DS9 episode was Badda-Bing Badda-Bang and it was Vic Fontaine’s 1950s Vegas casino.

I always liked that moment as you said because it is someone acknowledging the problem created with historical programs in a world that has moved passed that history.

I like that Yates’ counter-argument is that it might be nice to experience history as it should have been, rather than how it really was.

I don’t really come down on either side but it’s an interesting way to look at it.

Wouldn’t be surprised if it was Avery Brooks who asked for the scene tbh. He was often vocally critical of some choices because he didn’t want to be just another black character they were they often written. It’s why he liked his relationship with Jake Sisko so much.

On a related note, the episode If Wishes Were Horses script was changed from a leprechaun into Rumplestiltskin because Colm Meaney objected to the Irish stereotype.

The thing I like about T&T versus the new TOS-era Trek stuff is that T&T knows that TOS looks like crap, but it plays around with it and it feels very humble when showing its roots. It appreciates the old show while also poking fun at it.

Kurtzman Trek feels like it’s embarrassed by the fact that Star Trek was once a show that had buttons glued to cardboard sets and blinky lights, and the ship was a cute little model that flew past the camera. It’s just like “actually TOS never happened, everything was always cold blue-tinged steel and all displays and consoles were all floating holograms (don’t get me started on how much I hate transparent holograms as a display and touchscreen), and everyone was zipping around at infinite speed and all ships had a shuttle contingent of 10,000 (if that shitty Season 2 finale of DIS is to be taken seriously)”. Oh, and we also just have all this technology that people in the older shows said was brand new but now it’s been around for a century. Riker walking into the holodeck with wonder and awe was because he was an idiot who never saw this 100-year-old technology. What a dipshit.

Even the edgiest the show got in Berman-era with ENT still had a fair amount of care put into it to show that it was still a TOS-prequel. A great deal of attention was paid to the set to make it look both futuristic for the 00s but also like a precursor to sci-fi from the 60s. DIS and PIC just look like every other shitty sci-fi property out there.

There’s no love. They just treat old-Trek like something that you can harvest images, references, and iconography from.

And then that reinforces it further. Non-dudes leave because they’re sick of the environment and then it becomes more and more dude heavy.

It is still pretty dude heavy though lol

Though looking at the gender breakdowns on some of the larger Reddit subs do reinforce why it’s so normal to just assume it’s a dude talking to you.

It’s literally almost all cis white males who’s favourite film is Empire Strikes Back.

Also makes me realise that there really are a lot of women posters. I do genuinely just assume that the poster is dude most of them time unless they mention something very specifically feminine.

Kinda bad but years of doing it on the internet has burned it into my brain. So yeah, just seeing a pronoun breakdown is interesting enough.