well… that depends on what you didn’t like about it then. I can the tell you what changed and you can decide for yourself?

I’d say that it’s different now, but I still kinda don’t like it.

apparently? I stopped watching a while ago

Just trying to figure out how much they can get away with

then immediately walk them back when they’re called out for it

this is how bullies operate. bold and loud but, ultimately, cowards with no conviction.

He’s also going to show us Hunter Biden’s laptop and Hillary’s buttery males

Well, we sure did get a lot of damning proof that day… 

Someone bet him he couldn’t get to 100 indictments by Wednesday, and he said, “hold my diet Coke!”

what’s the difference between a British and and American shorthair? Do the British ones drink tea instead of milk? Sleep on the left side of the couch? Meow with a superfluous “u” or an extra syllable? Do they have some strange slang term for catnip that is hilarious, offensive, or somehow both at the same time?

I thought someone might. I just happened to be watching it last night, so I remembered the power rating of the laser.

Great Scott!

for those wondering, the (fictional) laser in the 1985 film Real Genius that could vaporize a human target from space was 9.4 megawatts.

they had to write it, cut out time for it, and work it into the existing plot. basically rewriting

the incident happened in 2017. the episode came out years later. there was no “existing plot” to rewrite, lmao. and the blood and gore and horror was far beyond the rest of what happened that episode or even season.

you’re twisting yourself in knots to explain away something very obvious.

it didn’t seem too ridiculous considering what he said, and they didn’t have to rewrite anything. they just had to write it. the scene was pretty over-the-top in its brutality. it didn’t take much “interpretation” to see the hostility there.

I don’t think he got blacklisted, I think Brooks just didn’t have any further interest in Trek and moved on. It’s discussed a bit in the DS9 documentary What We Left Behind. He’s kinda… eccentric. If you’ve ever seen any interviews with him (which he tends to avoid), he’s sorta off in his own world. IIRC, he’s a jazz professor at a University someplace in California and happy doing that.

he’s not the only Trek (or even the only VOY) actor to run afoul of fans because said Bad Things™ on Twitter.

In 2017, Manu Intiraymi, who played Icheb on VOY, tweeted some nasty comments in defense of Kevin Spacey who was accused of sexually assaulting DIS actor Anthony Rapp when he was 14. Not only did Trek fans collectively have an aneurysm (and rightly so), Paramount cut ties with him over the incident. Not long after, his character, Icheb, was killed especially brutally in an episode of PIC— while also portrayed by a different actor. Many interpreted that as those working on Trek telling Intiraymi exactly how they felt about his comments— while also closing the door on his ever returning.

I have to admit, I wish they’d just leave the past the past. although… when we saw what their ideas was for what’s going on post-VOY/TNG, that was terrible, too! PIC only ended well because they brought Terry Matalas in to save S3 which, thank goodness, was actually pretty great, but, still. It’s going to take a lot of heavy lifting to clean up the mess they made of the Federation in the first two seasons.

Still, though, I agree that it’s time to leave the past in the past and move on from Kirk, Spock, and all the rest. someone in another post mentioned possibly exploring the early-24th century? there’s a lot of time between TUC and TNG that’s unexplored. Seems like there could be something there?

“He’s tuning the other cheek!”

“Stop resisting!"

If Jesus came along today, they’d cast him out as a socialist and probably kill him in a botched police raid.

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My point was that Star Wars has been tied to the same characters for personal and business reasons, not inherently creative ones defined by the setting. The difference IMO is mostly down to who the creators and executives involved in the process of each IP have been, not the actual merits of the respective IP’s worlds.

oh, well, I’m sure that’s true. and I wasn’t arguing that (at least the current) creators/creatives were sticking to it for lack of imagination, just that one of the problems is that they are for whatever reason and that stepping away from it to focus on another period would greatly benefit everyone. I think we agree on this, it’s just that I was, perhaps, unclear in my criticism or what or even who, precisely, I was criticizing.

I also realize that the decision is not that of the creatives alone, but can be stifled by the stubbornness of the studios. but I don’t really think the likes of Filoni and Favraeu et al are so limited any more, having earned a lot of creative freedoms with their repeated successes. sure, there may be issues related to getting the rights to some of the stories, but I believe there’s genuine interest in developing the previous eras. I thin it was at the SW Con in March where Filoni laid out his new planned timeline, and there was Old Republic and High Republic eras noted on it that he planned to start writing stories for. So, I’m hopeful.