Eh. ~~Discord~~ Q is just as aware of all four walls as Pinkie Pie.
this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2025
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PIC s2e2 "Penance"
I don't like the idea that Q is aware he's in a show. That implies that the show isn't real internally, not just externally to us. We know that it's a show, but I prefer it to pretend that it isn't.
It's either that or he randomly speaks in episode titles :)
You also know somebody is running on empty when a show or movie franchise set in the future or a fantastic world transports their characters to "the present" for any extended period. Now, whether that's the writers, the cast, or the accountants, no one can say.
It's the accountants, it's always the accountants.
That's the trope I hate about fantasy movies, where they just kinda are magically transported to our planet/universe.
Masters of the Universe, Smurfs, Beastmaster...
"So you people, you're all...astronauts, on some kind of...Star Trek?"
In the original script he says they're on "some kind of... Star Trek... the Next Generation?" but the movie was running a little long in the edit bay.
Wow, it's a good thing the plans to make it a TAS movie fell through, then. That wouldn't have made any sense at all.
“He said the thing!!! HE SAID THE THING!!!!”
“This feels like Encounter at Farpoint , all over again.”
“More like The Price . We knew after The First Duty things would change.”
“Maybe. But The Game has gotten out of control.”
“Then we need A Matter of Time . After that, we’ll have New Ground .”
“Unless Disaster strikes.”
“Come on—have a little faith. This won’t be Chain of Command , it’s just The Next Phase .”
Encounter at Farpoint — S1E1–2
The Price — S3E8
The First Duty — S5E19
The Game — S5E6
A Matter of Time — S5E9
New Ground — S5E10
Disaster — S5E5
Chain of Command — S6E10–11
The Next Phase — S5E24
Isn't this like, just the first evolutionary step of future english becoming Tamarian?
Tapestry, stabbed Picard laughing.
Captain America, his finger pointed
DiCaprio and a beer, gesturing frantically.
Steve Carell, raising a beer and nodding and winking approvingly.
Hey man there is no shame in not getting it.
I don't watch NuTrek (other than lower decks). People tell me Strange New Worlds is good, but I was never that into TOS and I'll be damned if I'm going through a singing episode.
I'll be damned if I’m going through a singing episode.
You simply cannot see the wisdom of Mahanit.
I usually don't like most singing episodes, but I liked the SNW one.
I was also never into TOS but SNW is great.
Lower Decks has become a comfort show.
So far discovery has held my interest, but there are so so many problems I have while watching it... My head cannon is that it's an alternate time line that diverged thousands of years ago.
I don't see myself watching Picard. I feel like Star Trek TNG left it at a good point with Insurrection (apologies to people who hated it, but it was my introduction to star trek and has a special nostalgia that I get to laugh about the terrible and/or poorly written parts)
Also I pretend nemesis doesn't exist.
DISCO is confirmed as an alternate universe per LD.
Edit: Insurrection is a great 2 part episode with a bigger budget.
Damn, I totally forgot about that bit!
Honestly I have only seen the final episode twice. I've seen all of season one about 10-13 times.
That is a perfect description of Insurrection.
I fast-forwarded through the singing episode, but the others were good. ESPECIALLY the lower decks crossover episode.
the what
Yeah I'll be honest, I didn't even give lower decks a chance until I saw that episode. Then I binge watched LD over the next couple days.
The singing episode was great, personally was the second highest point SNW got to for me, behind the lower decks one.
Just skip that one. The rest is ... better than Discovery and Picard at least.
I had a flashback of a Discovery episode that ends with a party with loud music, and the final shot is of the entire ship, and the music could be heard muffled, from outside, Discovery playing disco music traveling in the vacuum.
I swear they did shit like that just to piss off trekkies, they were too consistent to be random.
The first one is odd, but 'through a mirror darkly' is itself a reference to a poetic use of language from the bible. It was around long before trek.
Of course. It's references on top of references, but these 2 back to back inside of 1 minute is clearly on purpose.
Did you know that the space ship from Star Trek wasn't actually called the "Star Trek"?
SME Patrick Stewart revealed that on a thing I watched earlier.
That was his whole opening monologue when he did SNL.
It's time to pass things on to the Next Generation.