kieron115

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[–] kieron115@startrek.website 26 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure that's corporate speak for "we need to drive plex pass subscriptions more so we need to lock more feature behind it."

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh wow, that sounds highly inconvenient. I wish it was as easy to re-flash android TVs as it is to re-flash android phones. Best of luck, and keep us updated if you find a solution!

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I've never used the tuner/TV part of my sony x900f, only HDMI inputs and apps. Is google pushing ads to live tv now?

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 15 points 1 month ago

Broadcasting your own theme song while jetting around the galaxy in the flagship of the Federation is possibly the biggest Riker move I've ever seen hahahaha.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

lol I was gonna try and continue the joke but i went to look up the lyrics and this amused the shit out of me. It's apparently more popularly known as "that song from star trek enterprise" than as a rod stewart song!

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Oh, right, the Orions. For sure Gene put quite a bit of his prejudices into the races, which then got amplified by early Trek writers' tendency towards mono-cultures, and I think all of Star Trek has had trouble trying to figure out how to fix it. Enterprise decided to just lean into the stereotypes hard though for some reason. The Ferengi were an anti-semetic caricature in TNG until the DS9 writers worked to expand their culture on screen and move away from some of Gene's more troubling stereotypes. Hell, they had an entire arc where Rom and Leela worked to literally dismantle the existing Ferengi culture into something more aligned with Starfleet ideals. It took until Lower Decks, a 30-some odd minute cartoon, for them to do something similar with the Orions. So I guess the point of this ramble is that, while nothing is gonna change these old episodes, if you wanna see some positive progress for the Orions I would highly recommend watching LD if you haven't already!

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I can't tell if you're joking or if you're literally referring to Storm Front and Impulse lol. I don't know too many Storm Front fans but I thought Impulse was generally considered a good episode by the fan base.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago

I drew the line at them dragging Porthos of all beings into it. Like they thought that would legitimize it.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

Also it might be the only Trek show with 3-parters? I haven't seen DISCO so someone feel free to correct if I'm wrong.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 6 points 2 months ago

Look on the bright side, you didn't have to watch the writers hand-wave away the entire series when it got cancelled.

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