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I definitely don't think it's weird that she's never casually mentioned the thing she refuses to talk about and her arc the whole season was setting her up to reveal. But you do have a "small world" effect when too many of the reveals link back to things we viewers already know about. LD drops a...

Arguably still kind of a big coincidence that the unrelated milk run in nearby space that they take Mariner on turns out to be extremely related to the main mission. It wouldn't be the first time they've used deceptive editing with the exploits of the egg ship, but they do transition from the...

Yeah, but if that pressure comes in any form more pointed than the pressure to wear whatever jean cut is in style this year, the scarf itself is probably among the least of your problems. 😣

I don't think it's just that. Like, it is also that, TNG made an attempt to idealize its characters and society according to a particular mold and every subsequent Trek show has made some attempt to draw its characters back toward something relatable to the present day. That's a real thing...

I think as a hair thing it might be exempt regardless. T'Lyn's got that headband carried over from her Vulcan attire and Nog had the little drape behind his ears. Religious things have been explicit exemptions like the Bajoran earrings, but there's also Worf with his discomfort sash and family...

And at the beetle dinner, the Vendorian tells him that his insight is pleasantly peppered with nonsense (I don't remember the exact phrasing but something to that effect.) So yeah, the show's expecting us to be on board with "conspiracy theories dumb" and feeling like Boimler that the universe...

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Bah, curse my luck defaulting to the generic standard for the generic name. I guess there's an interesting theory there re: Badgey's ascension. Another angle you could take is that mythical paths to enlightenment tend to require detachment from or renouncement of things that act as like...

Well, neither of them knew that the other was secretly okay with not being evil masterminds anymore, there's almost literally a prisoner's dilemma thing happening there. So Peanut Hamper ghosted him, and then was shocked to see him, all because she expected him to react badly to that reveal...

I figured that much was coming, but I assumed they were being zapped into an alien TRON computer or something, not just being incapacitated and tractored away with some colorful debris left behind. After all, the first couple weren't even mentioned in dialogue anywhere else, so it wasn't someone...

Yeah, I think that's probably the best read. The little moments of romantic attraction slipping out weren't so much signs that they "should" be a romantic couple, but that it's not that they couldn't be, they're just happier with what they've got. And yet it's not quite the same "better as...

Yeah, I think I'm okay with it either way and I just appreciate that they explored it, and without being entirely cliché. Occurs to me that @Axaday has to be right about money in the Federation, it seemed like it was standard operating procedure for Ferenginar to be admitted with a completely...

They could certainly have rolled her in, but there's already an A, B, and C plot. I love what she's bringing as a member of the main cast, but it's probably best if they don't expect us to be asking where she is whenever she's not on screen. Admittedly they could have swapped her in with her own...

Stupidly good ep.

I'm not really sure that Transformers without genders are completely sensical. I think if you want to convince human readers and viewers not to anthropomorphize and read the robots as having genders, you have to do an awful lot of very deliberate work to resist the magnetic pull of those labels...

Yes, although Weaver's character Gwen was a composite of Troi, Uhuru, and a touch of Crusher, and the "repeating the computer" thing was mostly in reference to Uhuru as communications officer. No, and it is kinda sad. I mean more power to John de Lancie for owning the character so completely...

The two genders of exporting human experience onto robots. I lean toward LordGigaIce's strategy myself. It's a slightly different dichotomy, but I'd definitely rather have one big in-fiction explanation for why they have these human-like qualities, or just accept that they do without...

Makes sense to me. I guess if you get too "realistic" about something you call a "war", then if you want to go to the source and tell the story of what's really making stuff happen, it's all politics and economics, and stops being about any of the things that made the concept appealing in the...

For me it wasn't a stand-out best kind of episode but it was above average. I've seen Jessie Gender's review of it, and she makes a good case for Tendi's story having some real meat as trans allegory. My personal high points were the Orion sex dungeon and seeing another Raven-type ship...

Oh, I think you're right on the money for datatrax and core consciousness in Beast Wars. It would be far from the first thing Beast Machines unwittingly retconned.