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Now now, let’s not be normative about the speed of facial hair growth. Some people take longer filling in their mustache and beards than others, and this could easily be something like 17 days if Boimler has particularly slow and/or sparse facial hair.

I would agree with you, if not for the fact that we've already seen Boimler's facial hair potential in Beardler. Unless that alternate universe iteration of Boimler was using some sort artificial hair growth enhancement, it was naturally quite full, which would indicate to me that prime universe Boimler has that same potential.

October 28 Prompt - Monster of the Week

While I've been enjoying playing around with digital art, my true calling is carving festive gourds. Here's my annual Trek themed jack-o'-lantern.

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Strange. I assume that is not the case for other posts on the board?

“Home Improvement”

You don’t remember Tim the Tool Man Taylor rebuilding the Enterprise D in his garage?

I would argue that even if season two's ambitions exceeded it's execution, at least it was trying to do something. Still not a season of Trek that I think deserves any real regard, but it did add something new and interesting to the fabric of Trek. And maybe at some point some comic book or novel will actually do something interesting with that thing, because I can't imagine we're ever actually going to see it revisited on screen.

Season three was exactly the dark, cynical mess that everyone complained season one was because Admiral Clancy cursed at their space dad. Jack Crusher is the infallible, ultra special badass everyone accuses Michael Burnham of being. Season three is ideas I would expect to find in someone's first attempt at writing fanfic, not the work of seasoned television professionals.

And, to be fair, both seasons two and three were made by the same people, so the fact that neither of them were particularly good should not be shocking to anyone.

Current trek (anything after enterprise) has horrible story lines, horrible dialogue, is mostly about dump action pew pew and CGI, ignores 50 years of history, is all about fuck this, fuck that and fucking fuck you and honestly: it isn’t woke: it’s only virtue signalling.

To claim that all iterations of modern Trek are a homogenous unit cut from one singular cloth tells me that either you haven't actually even attempted to watch even half of it, or you're completely blinded by personal biases. Either way, your opinion would be easy to discard even if it wasn't a rant only tangentially related to the original post.

I would argue that there are some fairly significant differences between SNW's Klingons and TNG's, just as there were differences between TOS's, and differences every time they showed up in a TOS era movie.

Hell, Michael Dorn's prosthetic for Worf changed significantly between seasons.

That sort of thing is not a continuity violation. At least not in my mind.

I’ve been reading the ones that catch my eye for a while now, but the current books involved in this crossover are what really got me from guy who likes both Trek and comics to being interested in actually following Trek comics.

They’re just such blatant fan service in a way that does not feel at all cynical. Big fun.

You're not wrong, but you ever try to argue with an older person who's convinced of some nonsense because they got sucked down a facebook conspiracy theory rabbit hole? Sometimes you have to choose your battles, and I imagine La'an's battle at that moment was trying to ascertain if Pelia actually rightfully owned all of those artifacts, and not whether or not the Federation is putting chemicals in the food slots to turn children into genderless energy beings or whatever.

First off, I think we should dispense with the notion that the biofilters are exclusively jizz. If Janeway's in the middle of one of her period dramas after her third cup of coffee that morning, and she needs to drop a massive deuce, does she pause the program, or hike up her skirts over a chamber pot in the corner like a proper Regency era governess?

And you want them to use the transporters to beam waste material around the ship? The system that created Tuvix?

In "Day of the Dove" Spock claims that intra-ship beaming is dangerous, "Pinpoint accuracy is required. If the transportee should materialise inside a solid object, a deck or wall," and in "Twisted" B'Elanna has to specifically configure a transporter for site-to-site beaming.

(please ignore season one of Disco, where characters just tell the computer to beam them somewhere on the ship, and it does so instantly without issue)

Not to mention that page 108 of the "Technical Manual" cites that site-to-site beaming requires double the amount of power expenditure, because it is essentially two transporter functions combined into one.

When you get right down to it, having the lower decks change out the biofilters just makes good sense. And what else are they doing while bridge crew actually handle all the important jobs? I'm pretty sure ensign Jones will survive if he misses this week's life drawing class or poetry recital.