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Have you ever considered that the Prime Directive is not only not ethical, but also illogical, and perhaps morally indefensible?
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Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPto Hockey@lemmy.ca•Toews committed to NHL return, Jets among suitorsEnglish4·2 天前Captain or no, I don’t think there’s any evidence that he had any knowledge of what was going on, is there?
Chevy is much more heavily implicated in that mess, even though he was found to have been “not responsible for the improper decisions made by the Chicago Blackhawks”.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteto Hockey@lemmy.ca•Denmark beats Canada in stunning quarterfinals upset at IIHF men's worlds | TSNEnglish1·9 天前shakes fist
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Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Visited Vasquez RocksEnglish7·13 天前Perhaps “urban” is the wrong word, but it ain’t exactly Cestus III, y’know?
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Visited Vasquez RocksEnglish15·13 天前As someone who’s not familiar with the LA area, it blows my mind that those things are basically in the middle of an urban area.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Star Trek: Red Alert at Universal: Fan Fest NightsEnglish3·13 天前Thank you for sharing - we appreciate any and all first-person accounts of events!
I have to admit, when they first announced the Fan Fest Nights, my initial reaction was that it sounded like it would be kind of cheap and disappointing. But it seems like they did a really nice job of the Trek event, along with some of the others that I’ve read about (especially Back to the Future).
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteto Hockey@lemmy.ca•‘Heartbreaking’: Jets season comes to end with gut-wrenching OT lossEnglish6·13 天前Full credit to their fans for starting an initiative to donate $55 to the True North Foundation, though. Very classy, and worthy of mention.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Canon Connections: PRO 2x14 - Cracked MirrorEnglish2·13 天前So is the protowarp merely a more powerful version of the warp drive?
That was my takeaway - it’s got the power to propel the ship (much) higher into the warp 9.9XXXXX range.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Boldly Going Documentary: "a groundbreaking documentary that chronicles Bruce Horak's inspiring journey as the first blind actor to play a blind character in the Star Trek franchise"English2·14 天前In fairness, they brought him back twice in season two - once as a dancing Klingon, no less.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•New Star Trek Series In-DevelopmentEnglish7·15 天前I think of Trek Central as the “scrappy outsider” of Star Trek new sites, but I do consider them to be a reliable source, and that trademark application is certainly authentic.
We’ll see if anything comes of it.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteto Hockey@lemmy.ca•Jets fans chant 'should have kicked it' after goal called back in Game 5English3·15 天前But was it PROPELLED?! This is an important distinction, which is why the rule book spends so much time on it…
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteto Hockey@lemmy.ca•Stars' Jamie Benn fined for roughing Jets' Mark ScheifeleEnglish2·15 天前Hopefully they’ll just let it go - the Jets don’t need any distractions.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteto Hockey@lemmy.ca•Jets fans chant 'should have kicked it' after goal called back in Game 5English5·16 天前I’m not normally one for fan chants, but that was good comedy.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Levi McClain: Klingon Music Theory is WeirdEnglish6·17 天前I was never any good with music theory, but I knew someone would appreciate it.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth”English3·17 天前Clothes very similar to the stereotypical “african clothes”
Could you expand on that, ideally with pictures of what you’re talking about? L’Rell’s outfit, for example, hardly screams “Africa” to me.
they got the actor of Tyler as a way to have an “exotic” accent
“Exotic” meaning what? Which race is he mimicking?
voodoo religious rituals
I know very little about the Voodoo religion, so could you please tell me which of its rituals were incorporated into the show?
they commit terrorist suicide attacks as well
And this is a known racist trope about Africans (since you seem to have settled on African, or at least “Black” stereotypes)? Because otherwise, you seem to be saying it’s a racist depiction of…a bunch of different races, based on the fact that the characters do things that humans also do sometimes.
Or to make it more obvious, they are shown like “exotic brown people who hate the white ones
“Brown”
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth”English5·17 天前That would be a question for Bryan Fuller. He’s recently started to talk about this stuff, so maybe we’ll get an answer some day.
One thing I do think someone said along the line is that they wanted to establish why the Klingons and Starfleet hate each other so much in TOS.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: if they ever do an oral history of the development of that series, it will be a juicy read.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth”English12·18 天前It’s not in the article, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen an “official” answer, but…I do think “because we can” is a valid answer. It was valid when they did it with TMP, and it was valid the subsequent times they tweaked the makeup.
In terms of how it served the story being told…I can see the appeal of having more alien-looking, “scarier” Klingons in a season that was ultimately about the dangers of xenophobia.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth”English63·18 天前I always kind of liked the Kelvin Klingons.
Well, the makeup, anyway. I don’t care for the costumes at all.
The folks at Winnipeg Sports Talk had a somewhat (okay, much) more cynical take, largely based on the fact that Maurice has participated in handshake lines as recently as last year, is known for being good in front of the media, and managed to talk about how this is all about the players for a solid two minutes.
Their take, not mine. I’ve got a lot of affection for PoMo, but admittedly that is precisely because he’s so good in front of a microphone.
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