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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

And then a man child had a temper tantrum and destroyed galactic civilization single-handedly. Sure. Okay. Have fun with the rest of the show, but that’s where I turn in for the night.

I felt the same way, at first. Then I realized that we have other things in the Trek canon that asks as much suspension of disbelief:

  • "God" lives at the center of the galaxy and is a right bastard. Also happens to resemble Chuck Heston as Moses.
  • Psychics and psychic abilities are a thing
  • V'ger
  • Q and the continuum
  • Whatever species Guinan is, and their supernatural temporal sensitivity
  • Tachyons and the rest of the fictional subatomic zoo
  • Mirror Universe
  • Time travel, but mostly to whatever year the show was made, and for the occasional Deus Ex Machina device
  • SPACE FUNGUS

Edit: my head-canon for the weirdness of Disco's first season is that they really wanted it to be the start of a Kelvin-verse TV reboot, but were coy about it.

Edit 2: I forgot about the Kardashev Type 3 civilization of robots living just outside our galaxy, that will turn the Milky Way into a lifeless wasteland if anyone so much as prank calls them. But they made their digits really hard, but possible, to find.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Not just aliens. Alien, aliens.

While hardly a first for Star Trek, it's always a treat when alien-looking, and alien-acting, aliens show up.

The season had a good pace, but in my heart, I wanted more. I really feel like it would have made a fun (if not nerdy) season if we had a few more episodes decoding mysteries and getting to know this new culture and species.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Transporter buffer imprisonment

This is a horrifying concept and you bet I would send a Klingon law team after someone for that.

Console explosion

Do they have experience/success with suing The Federation? I heard they recently added Borg parts to all their ships - seems reckless to me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Jellico: Hot damn, even their jokes are efficient. I like this crew.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hardly Yar Tar.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I want to disagree with this but... you're right. Heck, in Raiders, Jones actively makes the entire situation worse before the story kind of fixes itself.

 

So. Much. Velour.