The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

[Wu Wei]

He gave me another 6 picnic baskets to do some exterior remodeling....said you would love it

 

[Thief]

dumb bear got the wrong house

 

[savagewind]

Lines down in Maine all over the place. There are lines down on my street and on the next street but wow, it's coming through anyway.

 

[Revoltingest]

I only watched the premier, but I found this reboot to be almost completely unrelated to the original series or any of the spinoffs, which did reflect pretty well Roddenberry's vision of the future. STD is like the LOTR movies...and frankly, all but the original three star wars movies...everyone is just plain pissed at each other (for no apparent or good reason), and it's all a pretext to have lots of big fights using CG special effects.

What killed STD for me, though, was the apparently main character contacting Sarek, who just happened to be available right at that moment...bad enough of a contrivance...but then Sarek reluctantly telling her that the secret of the Vulcans' dealing with the Klingons was to fire first whenever they were encountered...yep, over hundreds of years, the Vulcans neglected to mention to Starfleet this unimportant little tidbit of intelligence...and of course, no one else in the Federation had ever stumbled on this bit of tactical wisdom...yeah, that works...

The contrivances get even stupider as the series develops.
The special effects & characters are good, but they jumped the shark almost immediately.

Spoiler: How the shark was jumped

The ship can instantly transport anywhere in the galaxy cuz
it's powered by trans-dimensional mushrooms & spores.
A giant tardigrade (water bear) showed them the way.
But it suffered, so an engineer became part tardigrade
with DNA therapy. I kid you not.

And this is supposed to be the prequel to STTOS?

 

[Revoltingest]

Wait a minute...you told be Bear remodeling was the best there was...right after you told me I should go remodel @Thief 's kitchen...you told me this was the best bear remodeling you had ever seen....even paid me 5 picnic baskets for it....

Bear remodeling is indeed the best for Thief's house.
Looks perfect!
Could've left some feces though.

 

[Wu Wei]

The contrivances get even stupider as the series develops.
The special effects & characters are good, but they jumped the shark almost immediately.

Spoiler: How the shark was jumped

The ship can instantly transport anywhere in the galaxy cuz
it's powered by trans-dimensional mushrooms & spores.
A giant tardigrade (water bear) showed them the way.
But it suffered, so an engineer became part tardigrade
with DNA therapy. I kid you not.

And this is supposed to be the prequel to STTOS?

I was going to watch this, but the only reason I was going to watch it was because of Michelle Yeoh.... which had much more to do with looking at Michelle Yeoh and less to do with caring much about this so called prequel. But it simply was not enough to get me to watch it...now I am rather happy I didn't

 

[Wu Wei]

Bear remodeling is indeed the best for Thief's house.
Looks perfect!
Could've left some feces though.

You should have looked in the cabinet in the background

 

[Revoltingest]

I was going to watch this, but the only reason I was going to watch it was because of Michelle Yeoh.... which had much more to do with looking at Michelle Yeoh and less to do with caring much about this so called prequel. But it simply was not enough to get me to watch it...now I am rather happy I didn't

I thought M Yeoh was rather wooden.

Spoiler: Plot development

She dies early on.

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

The contrivances get even stupider as the series develops.
The special effects & characters are good, but they jumped the shark almost immediately.

Spoiler: How the shark was jumped

The ship can instantly transport anywhere in the galaxy cuz
it's powered by trans-dimensional mushrooms & spores.
A giant tardigrade (water bear) showed them the way.
But it suffered, so an engineer became part tardigrade
with DNA therapy. I kid you not.

And this is supposed to be the prequel to STTOS?

I don't think there's a facepalm big enough for this...

 

[Revoltingest]

You should have looked in the cabinet in the background

It stunk too much.
But good for you!
Thief is reacting with appropriate gratitude, no doubt.

 

[sun rise]

I am going to make tea

We need a tea lovers section here on RF

 

[Buddha Dharma]

We need a tea lovers section here on RF

Indeed

 

[Revoltingest]

I don't think there's a facepalm big enough for this...

Other captains were unimpressed.....

But Kirk's facepalm is the best....

 

[sun rise]

Even the new STD Klingonisch?
It sounds like a cat puking up a hairball.

What an unfortunate initialism the new Star Trek has, eh.

I am not a minion of that network and thus put cash and principle (Axanar lawsuit) and cash above contracting STD.

The Orville, on the other hand, is a great Trek show - just think of it as a mega-JJ reboot if you need to.

 

[Wu Wei]

I thought M Yeoh was rather wooden.

Spoiler: Plot development

She dies early on.

Well... then there is no reason to watch it what-so-ever

 

[Wu Wei]

Other captains were unimpressed.....

But Kirk's facepalm is the best....

You forgot

and

But you are right... Kirk's is best

 

[Revoltingest]

I am not a minion of that network and thus put cash and principle (Axanar lawsuit) and cash above contracting STD.

The Orville, on the other hand, is a great Trek show - just think of it as a mega-JJ reboot if you need to.

The Orville has some good jokes among the turds.
But worse yet, it has no soul. To be really funny,
it would be better if it could be taken seriously.

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

Other captains were unimpressed.....

But Kirk's facepalm is the best....

why do I not remember the Kirk one?

 

[sun rise]

The Orville has some good jokes among the turds.
But worse yet, it has no soul. To be really funny,
it would be better if it could be taken seriously.

The last episode was almost 100% joke free. I take it seriously (and ignore the occasional lame humor with only a groan and a wince, quickly forgotten.

 

[Revoltingest]

You forgot

and

But you are right... Kirk's is best

I considered more captains, but I didn't want to overdo it.