Scifi writers: the setting is sleek and futuristic

Scifi set designers:

He is on a mission to reach Gazpacho IV

I dunno, haven’t played it in ages. Wizards of the Coast has developed the mierdas touch 🤮

I want more filler episodes the same way Magic The Gathering wants bad cards:

The solution to the aforementioned problem leads to the second reason “bad” cards exist. Different cards have different functions and appeal to different players.

We make some cards for the multi-player crowd. We make cards for the flavor crowd. We make cards for the silly crowd. We make the big creatures and spells for “Timmy.” We make the combo cards for “Johnny.” We take each different group of Magic players and throw some cards their way.

The problem is players tend to define “bad cards” as cards that they personally see no reason to play. But certain cards aren’t meant for them in the first place.

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/making-magic/when-cards-go-bad-2002-01-28

Watching the two on the left go from hardnosed atheist commandos to saying “Praise Sol” with conviction, what a wild fucking trip of a show.

Buffer time! It’s the episode I feel where LD comes into its own.

TIL the episode is actually called Temporal Edict and “Buffer Time” is a lower decks board game they made based on the episode.

And it’s not some “resting bitch font” situation, where a completely innocuous statement was twisted beyond recognition

resting bitch font, I’m dyin 🤣

My reflexive is-ENT-a-joke-to-you response is tempered by realizing you have also forgotten Sisko and Burnhan in addition to Archer.

This is some properly calibrated gourmet ragebait 👌

Pike, after every torpedo, rift, or anomaly:

Yeoman, go pick up all my tchotchkes and bricabrac and restage my quarters.

Ah shit here I go again too 🤣

Every time

This grinds my gears too.

Why does Pike have open flames and a cocktail lounge while Uhura sleeps in a spacecoffin bunk.

Maybe it’s only the plebs; doesn’t La’an have a stufio apartment for her quarters?

If “ish bin ein Berliner” translates as “I am a jelly donut” (favorite anecdote of mein lehrer)

Then does “ich bin ein amerikaner” translate as “I am a loaf of sliced bread”?

Edit: thanks fam 🤙

Amerikaner is a cookie but not a chocolate chip cookie, never ever would have guessed 🤣

The writers: I have an idea…

The fans: What do you think this is? HAMLET? GONE WITH THE WIND? RUGGLES OF RED GAP? It’s a goddamn B picture! Big men in tights! You know the drill

That feeling when someone makes a really good point and makes me wonder if S3 was not as good as I thought it was.

Yeah great suggestion, Wrath of Khan is an excellent entry point.

The enterprise being an underdog the entire time is a great showcase for the best of trek: the crew and the problem solving 👌

Wow, Devils Due is like the second episode I watched (first was Silicon Avatar) and I remember enjoying the ending where Picard mimics all her tricks before telling her to fuck off.

In hindsight easily a notgreat episode, but I remember it fondly.

That was an interesting read.

I wish someone would’ve asked her about Remember Me, one of my favorite episodes and one of the few Dr Crusher episodes.

a season that veered largely in quality from one episode to the next, including a particularly notable nosedive in its back half

I greatly enjoyed this season (no really, the good ones are so good), but I must agree here about the nose dive.

That documentary episode is probably my least favorite Star Trek episode of all time.

And that finale? Too much unwelcome Mass Effect 3 energy in this ending for me to enjoy.

Ley lines. Hey, they’re real!

Absolutely my least favorite treknobabble of all time.

When we fix the irregular verb sing we will create a new heteronym between singed-as-past-of-sing and singed-as-past-of-singe 🫠