I'm guessing the opening credits to "Star Trek: Insurrection".
Star Trek Lower Decks
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I forgot about this last night! I will have to catch up tonight!
I went to a Star Trek trivia night and wore my Lower Decks shirt. No comm badge tho so I felt shaaaaamed by the three folks who had theirs on, haha. One team had a Bat'Leth!
The questions had no modern Trek shows (Boo!). It was funny when a lady had to cover her face so she couldn't be spoiled on the DS9 questions about who married Jadzia Dax and who killed her (gasp!). Apparently, she was only on season 2. Weird because their team name was Odo's bucket, haha
Why would you go to a Star Trek trivia night if you haven't seen DS9?
I actually liked this week's episode! The taste buds thing was something that I called as soon as they hated the first dish.
It was a two person team. The boyfriend had seen DS9 and the others but his girlfriend had only seen up to season 2. So she covered her eyes at the spoiler questions, hehe.
She's going to be heartbroken when she reaches the end of s6 and Jadzia doesn't survive.
Me too. Made for a very bland secondary plot. I had high hopes of actually liking something Migleemo was involved in, especially since it involved food, but the transparent plot ruined that.
Wait, I just watched the whale movie Voyage Home and I just realized why I kept thinking that the whales were aliens.
In the second holo movie Crisis Point ep where Tendi was heading the fake mission, the Romulons were trying to stop the Federation from welcoming alien Octopuses to Starfleet or something by traveling to the past.
I knew that Voyage Home had whales and assumed that Lower Decks Crisis Point was parodying the movie but replacing alien whales with alien octopuses.
(Can't find a clip with the octopus shown)
So I kinda assumed, before finally watching Voyage Home, that it was going to be about alien whales joining the Federation. Or something.
Haha, I can just laugh at myself, hehe.
Edit - found the octopus clip. Huh, the Crisis Point plot was kidnapping an octopus ancestor. Guess I forgot about that and just remembered octopus stuff.
Another thing but... Tendi realized she wanted to be a Captain in the holo... and she achieved her dream! She was captain of the Orion ship with a crew of three lady pirates. It's not the same as being captain of a Starfleet vessel out to explore new worlds but successfully commanding a ship is a big deal and something to note on her skill set when she's gunning for a promotion.
In the second holo movie Crisis Point ep where Tendi was heading the fake mission, the Romulons were trying to stop the Federation from welcoming alien Octopuses to Starfleet or something by traveling to the past.
I knew that Voyage Home had whales and assumed that Lower Decks Crisis Point was parodying the movie but replacing alien whales with alien octopuses.
(Can't find a clip with the octopus shown)
So I kinda assumed, before finally watching Voyage Home, that it was going to be about alien whales joining the Federation. Or something.
Haha, I can just laugh at myself, hehe.
Edit - found the octopus clip. Huh, the Crisis Point plot was kidnapping an octopus ancestor. Guess I forgot about that and just remembered octopus stuff.
Another thing but... Tendi realized she wanted to be a Captain in the holo... and she achieved her dream! She was captain of the Orion ship with a crew of three lady pirates. It's not the same as being captain of a Starfleet vessel out to explore new worlds but successfully commanding a ship is a big deal and something to note on her skill set when she's gunning for a promotion.
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my imagination animates your avatar when I read your posts. I am sort of disappointed how human you look...
Aaaaaw, sorry for breaking the illusion, hehe. You have an amazing imagination btw, hehe
I'm procrastinating like hex and I read a copy.Okay, got the "Warp Your Way" comic last week and got it read last night. Not North's first foray into "choose your own adventure" stories, and as one might expect this one sort of cheats.It did feel very appropriate for LD, though.
---Dave
I've been watching to make a Choose Your Own Adventure illustrated pocket book but more puzzle than arbitrary choices. And I've seen some tricks to these numbers like secret ways to go to pages.
The Warp Your Way mechanic of Mariner talking to the reader was gosh dang freaky as hex. And what keeps happening over and over and over... it was bloody. The empty eyes over and over. It was kinda traumatic. Because the end is a tragedy either way. Gosh dang disturbing to read because of the cartoony designs. Man, I hope people who read it were all freaked out.
Did writer North write any Lower Deck eps? I want him and his Doctor Who type scary storytelling to stay away. (Though, ugh, Lower Decks is final season).
I'm wondering tho. Boimler would have been great at freaking out as the protagonist of this freaky adventure. I was wondering why the writer didn't chose him? Then I realized it had to be Mariner because of the connection to the key.
Also, I kinda hate that the bad guys weren't saved. One way had them still possible to survive but they were left to die.
A complaint would be the page numbers could have been bigger and more on the edge of the book so easier to see. Love the map that shows the possible paths, in case the reader found the answer without going thru all paths first and missed something somehow.
North also wrote the recent 3 issue miniseries of Lower Decks for IDW, and I believe he writes the ongoing starting this month. Also, this isn't his first foray into CYOA style, he also did To Be And/Or Not To Be, and Romeo And/Or Juliet. (One of the Good Endings to his version of Hamlet involves listening to Ophelia.)
---Dave
---Dave
He wrote the first 3-issue miniseries, writing the ongoing, and also wrote "Day of Blood-Shax's Best Day".
All of which he insists on adding commentary to the bottom of (almost) EVERY page that breaks the flow of reading and contributes NOTHING to the story, and subtracts from my enjoyment of it. It's the comic equivalent of watching something, and you got someone constantly pointing out references or explaining jokes.
I hate it. It was one of two things I was dreading about the Lower Decks ongoing, and my heart sunk once I saw the first page.
All of which he insists on adding commentary to the bottom of (almost) EVERY page that breaks the flow of reading and contributes NOTHING to the story, and subtracts from my enjoyment of it. It's the comic equivalent of watching something, and you got someone constantly pointing out references or explaining jokes.
I hate it. It was one of two things I was dreading about the Lower Decks ongoing, and my heart sunk once I saw the first page.
Don't read it?
I mean the comedic footnote jokes, not the comic. North has done that since Squirrel Girl (if not before) it's just something he does on comedy books. Personally I find it fun. But if I didn't I can't imaging it'd be hard to just read the actual comic and skip them, at least my first time through.
-ZacWilliam, they were always pretty fun when I was reading Squirrel Girl aloud to my son when he was younger.
I mean the comedic footnote jokes, not the comic. North has done that since Squirrel Girl (if not before) it's just something he does on comedy books. Personally I find it fun. But if I didn't I can't imaging it'd be hard to just read the actual comic and skip them, at least my first time through.
-ZacWilliam, they were always pretty fun when I was reading Squirrel Girl aloud to my son when he was younger.
A lot of translated manga has endnotes, but in some cases the originals have marginal notes in the panels or at the side of the page. It's just easier to erase them and put 'em all at the end than to try to fit them horizontally into spaces available when they were written vertically.
---Dave
---Dave
I actually liked this week's episode. Starbase 80 was a great, and seeing Mariner working with the Commander was great.
I read the three issue holo Dracula adventure. I guess he wrote that too because I remember seeing the footnotes.
I actually liked reading those. Made me think about Discworld, with Terry Pratchett doing the lengthy funny footnotes. Kinda shaped my humor, haha
Saw Starbase 80?!? And it was good, yeah! I had to look up the Doctor with the infection but I don't get the corn dog Chad. Where did that reference come from?
I actually thought the culprit was that thing that got Deanna pregnant in s1 of Next Gen. Guess there's a bunch of those type of creatures.
If T'Lyn was in the ep, she would have figured stuff out faster.
Loved this week's episode. Saw the twist coming a mile away though. Still it was great and I love the new girl and her lame powers!