@stuck Terrific performance, and a great re-imagining of a character that was woefully underserved in TOS.
Toronto. Geek. Space. TTRPGs. Injury prevention. IT. Italian greyhounds. He/him.
@stuck Terrific performance, and a great re-imagining of a character that was woefully underserved in TOS.
@Continuumguy @startrek But in its serious mode, without the wacky anti-authoritarian hijinks.
@darth_helmet @47_alpha_tango I like Ortegas a lot, but I think it is kinda silly that a huge starship would need (or could use) a hotshot pilot. The ship is like an aircraft carrier, which generally don’t make fancy moves.
@RootBeerGuy @startrek The transporter is essentially magic. If you think too long about it, you’ll wonder why, for example, *everyone* doesn’t “store their pattern”, and thus become effectively immortal. Or why a pattern can’t be materialized multiple times, to generate an army of clones.
I love Trek, but it’s much more space opera than hard sci-fi, and often the “sciencey” bits are purely for narrative convenience (see also “holodeck”).
@GaiusGornicusCaesar @startrek It really is terrific. And having Joan Collins doesn’t hurt.
In his TOS Star Trek role-playing game, the writer Ken Hite listed a number of principles that the show embodied, and one of them was “good will often require sacrifice”. This episode really embodies that.
@doleo TOS had a gangsters comedic episode, and a cutesy animals comedic episode.
@akhenaten0 @startrek I’m old enough to be a TOS fan *prior* to the movies, much less TNG, so a time when there are *multiple* Trek shows on at the same time is mind-blowing. I really don’t think it likely that there’d be no Trek anywhere, at least for long.
@USSBurritoTruck Although none of the other characters in that scene disputed her description of the Federation.
@USSBurritoTruck @startrek And of course Pelia did explicitly describe the Federation as having a “no money, socialist utopia thing”.
@rob_t_firefly I’m not sure why a diplomatic vessel wouldn’t need to be fast. I would think the opposite — diplomacy can be needed in rapidly-developing crisis situations, and you’d want people there as soon as possible.