bobo1900

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[–] bobo1900@startrek.website 61 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Have been to Los Angeles for a short time with friends and of course we tried several fast foods. We decided to go to Hooters just for fun, but the food was surprisingly the most decent of those we tried, and also reasonably priced. Of course we could see a lot of creepy around us and it was a little unconfortable seeing some ~~clearly underage~~(apparently >18 yo) girls just being there for their boobs.

The US really is a weird place...

[–] bobo1900@startrek.website 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The main reason why Europe didn't get invaded

[–] bobo1900@startrek.website 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Maybe it's the intense lighting, maybe it's what they used for the "marinating", but that truly looks like rotten flesh. Zombie bites maybe, not steak

[–] bobo1900@startrek.website 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Didn't know about that formula. Is it used behind the scene but never mentioned, or just used retroactively to explain the difference between the different series?

[–] bobo1900@startrek.website 0 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

In Voyager and TNG it has been established that warp 10 is infinite velocity, that means the warp scale is not linear (the differencr between warp 9 and 8 must be higher than the difference between 8 and 7). After all, Voyager's max speed of 9.975 is faster than Enterprise D's 9.6.

Then again, warp speed has always been quite inconsistent, so who knows which scale they are using...

[–] bobo1900@startrek.website 24 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

This is just weird. Why make these changes? Customers don't want it, the company doesn't profit and they actually lost money and reputation by doing this and not backtracking. Who is benefiting from this? It looks like a perfect lose-lose situation

[–] bobo1900@startrek.website 10 points 1 month ago

If you go down that route, the outer borders are of currently existing countries. "Middle east" doesn't have precise borders and the answer of where it is changed based on who you ask to.

[–] bobo1900@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

You can have all the free time in the world, if you spend it all trying to have more, you don't get to enjoy it.

[–] bobo1900@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago

I mean, it's a gigantic million years old fossil, what can some touching do? It probably won't even tip over

[–] bobo1900@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago

Everyone feels emotions. Emotional intelligence means being capable of recognizing your own emotions (or other people's) and not let them rule you, but to let you rule them, so they can help you when necessary and not damage you.

[–] bobo1900@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

About Pike's hair, am I wrong or is vulcanian Pike's hair even more erected than human Pike?

[–] bobo1900@startrek.website 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You are right, with 20+ episodes it's easier to have a common theme while still being episodic enough to have episodes that don't advance the plot but are either funny or explore some unrelated theme. 10 episodes season work for a serialized series (like discovery), but an episodic 10 episodes series is a hybrid of the two and more difficult to pull throught.

However, I still think they did a good job, the season was fun and enjoyable, and I don't really care there's no "big picture plot". After all, this is not telling the voyage of a ship lost in the galaxy or a multi-year war with a foreign dominion, it's a character build-up story that will eventually become the original series, it's a prequel and doesn't try to be anything else. Surely I enjoyed it more than galaxy-destroying-threat-of-the-year discovery.

Also, even if some more "experimental" episodes may be a little failed, I can surely appreciate the attempt and, even if more boring or over the top, at least they are memorable, si they have value.

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