[-] USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website 4 points 5 months ago

Ah, well that question has been answered by others and myself elsewhere in this thread. Sorry for assuming that you might have checked to see if your question was already answered before asking it.

But hey, just for you, I'll repost what I've already said:

Because the police enforce the laws of the state, often with violence. If the law dictates that a person being open about their identity is illegal regardless of the fact their identity harms no one, and everyone involved in their actions consents, than it is the responsibility of the cops to oppress them. One year the cops might march alongside people at pride, and then the laws might change and they’ll be there to bust heads of anyone who shows up the next year. 
 
And yeah, there no doubt exist LGBTQ+ cops, or cops whose friends and/or family whom they love are LGBTQ+, but so long as they wear the uniform they represent an organization used to oppress marginalized and minority communities. 
 
Fundamentally, pride is not just a party, it is a protest.

[-] USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website 4 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I never thought it was anything deeper than that they're working Canadian actors who probably had other projects. I looked both of them up because someone in another group I frequent was chirping about it, and Emily Coutts recently wrote and directed her own short film, and Oyin Oladejo got to play the lead in an indie thriller.

[-] USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website 4 points 6 months ago

Writer Carlos Cisco has indicated that they conceptualized the Breen’s solid form as an adaptation that they developed over time

Interesting.

It's completely unrelated to the current Disco story arc, but that does make me wonder if the Vorta and other Dominion species would have been aware of the Breen's goo form. The Changelings evolved the ability to shapeshift over time, but were originally solids. having the Breen start out as the soundtrack producers for the "Spider-Man & Venom: Maximum Carnage" video game, and later develop a solid form might seem anathema to the Founders and their worshipers.

[-] USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website 4 points 7 months ago

I mean, if he was, he certainly isn't now....

[-] USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago

I wish I was familiar enough with miniatures games to give you an answer regarding playstyle, but my experience is fairly limited. My favourite miniature game would be FFG's X-Wing game, though I stopped playing when they went to second edition.

If your store has the space for it, have you considered setting up a league night? GF9 has a league kit that includes an exclusive Q figure, and that might be enticing enough to the purchasers to get them coming in, and you could get a good look at the game.

Yeah, I like Disco because I think they're at least trying to do something, and that's interesting to me. They don't always succeed, but I respect the attempt. However, I fully get why people don't like it.

My issue is with the silly complaints, not what amounts to a matter of taste.

What does a Koala need with a space ship?

To travel through the quadrant and obliterate other ships, but leave no bodies behind, clearly.

Though LDS already leaned pretty heavily into “Star Trek: The Final Frontier” in “Crisis Point 2: Paradoxous”.

It’s bullshit that Tom didn’t immediately get promoted to lieutenant commander; Will got his rank bump for that mission; Tom deserved it just as much, if not more.

While I do think spoiler tags for anything in an episode less than a week old is probably just good manners, I have no intention of putting in place any sort of official policy requiring them. Rules are for Cardassians, and here on Risa we have little pictograms on our foreheads, not spoons.

In my opinion, anyone seeing a spoiler tag should assume it's for something recent. Nobody is going to use the tag for a 23 year old episode of VOY.

I don't think the character was supposed to be Kirk. The credits on the youtube video's page just has Holmes credited as "The Captain".

Obviously no good is going to come of overanalysing the joke, but maybe it was a Jellico situation?

I'm sure everyone there would be super cool and normal with ensign Balzac and lieutenant Philips.

It's right after Troi quotes Data's speech from "Family". That line always gets me.

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