triktrek 9mo ago • 100%
This is the same guy who directed the Black Mirror's Star Trek homage episode "USS Callistor"
triktrek 11mo ago • 100%
I honestly think that Lower Decks has the potential to be the longest running Star Trek show.
I assume they are cheaper to produce than the live action shows so less risk for the executives but still decent return on investment.
triktrek 11mo ago • 66%
I would love for them to do a cross over show again but Roger Rabbit style.
triktrek 12mo ago • 100%
I would love for my food metaphors to come back
triktrek 12mo ago • 100%
The title is a play on the TNG episode “The Inner Light”
But why? I don't see a storyline connection/similarly between this episode and "The Inner Light".
I think the episode is just about Mariner's inner fight about being in Starfleet, and the similarity in title is just coincidental.
triktrek 12mo ago • 100%
Lower Decks, the TNG episode was an amazing episode. I almost cried at the end - it was so sad and poetic as well and I agree that reviving her now would undo the beauty and weight of the TNG episode.
triktrek 12mo ago • 100%
Mariner always has the funniest way of being annoyed or angry
triktrek 12mo ago • 100%
Currently weighing up whether to get my partner to watch First Duty and Lower Decks before we watch it together later.
Both. The answer to that is both. Two of the finest TNG episodes.
triktrek 1y ago • 100%
This was actually funny (unlike the previous ones which were quite cringey).
triktrek 1y ago • 100%
T'Lyn's voice always reminds me of the Alexa or Google Home, and it's hilarious.
triktrek 1y ago • 100%
Also relevant: When Kate Mulgrew surprised everyone at an AOC campaign speech before she got elected.
triktrek 1y ago • 100%
So apparently this is from the guy who did the "Too Many Cooks" special, which is kinda awesomely weird. It will be interesting to watch!
triktrek 1y ago • 100%
I have a Volante Next Gen-style Trek jacket. It's awesome, high quality. It's subtle enough that non-Trekkies don't notice other than it being nice-looking, but Trekkies will recognize its homage to TNG. I've been stopped on the street multiple times already by random Trekkies asking me where I got it, lol.
It's really expensive though (315 USD)
triktrek 1y ago • 100%
In between the first watch earlier this week and a rewatch tonight, I've listening to and humming the songs over and over again. I don't know why people say the songs aren't catchy. "Status Report" is sooo catchy, and it even has a little reprise with the "Apologies" at the beginning of the "Private Conversation" which is also very catchy actually.
"How Would That Feel" is beautifully rendered. I've started to listen to other Christina Chong's songs now, and they are pretty good (listen to her "Twin Flames").
Also, in the last seconds of the episode we had Uhura humming a theme. The closed caption says "Uhura humming 'Keep us connected'", which I believe is incorrect. She is humming the opening of Chapel's "I am Ready" and Spock's "I am the X", not Uhura's "Keep us Connected".
triktrek 1y ago • 100%
triktrek 1y ago • 100%
She has written a heart-wrenched, tragic letter about this experience and grief. It was very moving/difficult to read and gained me a lot of respect for her:
triktrek 1y ago • 100%
Can confirm that it's unavailable for me in the US as well, but if you VPN somewhere else, you can play it back.
triktrek 1y ago • 100%
Given that the subspace rhapsody spread to many other ships in the area, they could do a parallel episode from the point of another the ship, say the Farragut but it won't be the same primary cast.
triktrek 1y ago • 100%
Gooding and Chong came from musical theatre though.
triktrek 1y ago • 100%
This is one of the Elle Cordova Technobabble songs being referred to for the uninitiated. It's pretty funny.
For those who watched DS9 during its first airings, did it seem odd to you that Vic Fontaine/James Darren sang entire songs in the later seasons of DS9? I only finished watching DS9 recently and just found it really odd. It seems out of place in the regular TNG/DS9 format, didn't drove the plotline forward, and sometimes felt just like a filler. (I don't mean to be disrespectful, I like the character and the actor can sing well, I am just curious why the producers made that decision).