Did Somebody Say "Star Trek"?

[Lexicat]

ST:Discovery gave us the Platonic ideal of Klingon.

Come at me.

[CongenitalOptimist]

Oh Jesus. I might belong in this thread…

[crenquis]

#language-fun
via a random tumblr:

I watched a lot of Star Trek as a kid. I remember some time ago I mentioned that I mostly learned English from watching Star Trek every day, with my parents. Someone said they could tell that “by the way I phrase things.” I asked them to elaborate. They did not. I’m still not sure what they meant.

[drpfenderson]

Anyone else been particularly enjoying this season of Lower Decks? Right off the bat they had me tickled with the quantum singularity…

…where the parallel universe is only slightly different than the “prime” one. It’s easy to play with “what if” in those settings where you turn everything on it’s head, but much funnier having to dance around thing being just barely askew.

Don’t get me wrong, I’ll take an Intendant Kira Nerys and roguish Ben Sisko any day of the week. But having a mirror universe where the outfits are exactly the same but with +2% saturation had me cackling. And Boimler doing the Riker Maneuver was a great gag.

[mindysan33]

@Lexicat

ST:Discovery gave us the Platonic ideal of Klingon.

Incorrect

Here is the platonic ideal of a klingon…

[mindysan33]

- YouTube

[sqlrob]

[drpfenderson]

[CongenitalOptimist]

With all the badness and sadness of Elections 2024, I think I deserve a rewatching of Picard Season 3.

TBH I never bothered with seasons 1&2 - mostly scared off by the likes of Red Letter Media’s remorseless evisceration on YT.

I knew enough to get the general plot which left Season 3 as a serendipitous treat.

So if you agree - go get yourself some cookies and enjoy not thinking about the dumpster fire that is American politics.

[ChuckV]

[OhHai]

I just watched Counterpoint (first image) yesterday for the first time. What an episode!

[KathyPartdeux]

If they steered you wrong on season 3 - maybe give 1 & 2 a whirl.

[KathyPartdeux]

Dr. Demento - Streaming

[RAvery]

@CongenitalOptimist

Red Letter Media

Sometimes they’re insightful, other times not so much.

[mindysan33]

ah! Emerald Rose! they’re very nice neo-pagan folk indeed!

[CongenitalOptimist]

I thought Season 3 was great and almost written specifically for me (which of course it wasn’t but still really resonated).

[kxkvi]

Ditto. I really liked 1&2–especially 2.

[RAvery]

From

[ChuckV]

[kxkvi]

“It was [just] people dressing up,” he shrugs. “They don’t really know each other. They didn’t come together and have the kind of energy that would have changed the dynamic. Their concern is purely looking at the camera and being some character that they weren’t.” He nevertheless considers the photograph a success. “It shows the sociological cracks,” he says. “They need to be together, but they’re together apart.”

Just because the photographer doesn’t see it, there is and always has been a strong bond among sf fans. A lot of us are different (neurodivergent) but that sure as heck doesn’t mean it was “just dressing up.”