This analysis brings to mind the Liaden of Sharon Lee and Steve Miller’s Korval (TM) books.
Liaden society has a profession called quendra that are a mix of accountants, lawyers and commercial adjudicators. It’s also a society based on ‘balance’ counting-coup where everyone, all their lives, is keeping score in everyone else. Even Ferengi might be horrified.
Sorry She-Hulk didn’t work for you.
Won’t ask what put you off but suggest seeing it through to the end.
As someone who read the comics it felt very comic-accurate while adding in the clearly feminist perspective of its creator/showrunner. Basically, it took a female action hero created by men and gave her ownership by women.
All of these platforms skew male, white, heterosexual, older etc.
It’s a major concern when AI’s are using them for training data. Or, when studio executives take them into account in decisions about what to greenlight.
Reddit is actually relatively better balanced at 2/3s male. Review aggregator sites like Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb are more heavily male.
I’m finding the conversation on Lemmy more civil, but unconscious bias is a thing.
For me the feeling happened first when I saw Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley was going to be the survivor in the original Alien.
Now, movies conceived and produced by men starring female action heroes are their own trope and don’t have the same impact.
She-Hulk however gave me that joy. I hope Marvel looks at the actual viewership numbers of She-Hulk and the success of Barbie when making a decision on a second season.
There’s no canon basis to support this, just head canon inference. While this could be the direction SNW is going with this, being posted elsewhere and then returning for a brief period doesn’t imply any demotion.
M’Benga was working, likely shadowing, with McCoy in TOS for just an episode or two before he acted as CMO when McCoy was away. The fact that McCoy had to confirm/remind Kirk that M’Benga had trained on Vulcan strongly suggests he wasn’t posted longterm to the Enterprise. More, M’Benga was supposed to be on his way to head up a medical station, which suggests he was moving towards a position of responsibility.
Asking a former CMO to work alongside for a short period and then act when he’s between postings, especially one with specialized expertise needed for the crew’s complement, is fairly routine.
Pelia says Scotty was one of her best students who received some of her worst grades. I wonder why…
This seems to be a pattern with Pelia. It’s established that Una was an excellent student who got a ‘C’ from Pelia. Pelia even reminded Una of it again, in the finale. Pelia said that if she’d come up with the innovative solution as she did in the finale (hurling the saucer at the distortion generator) when she was her student, Pelia would have given her a better mark.
Una got a ‘C’ because she was too methodical in following algorithms in a maintenance course, and could miss a major problem that her inspections might trigger.
One suspects Scott was the a brilliant student with the reverse problem to Una. He’s the out-of-the-box thinker, miracle worker, rather than the no nonsense by-the-numbers type that Una represents.
I’m wondering if this has been a season long set up not only to have Pelia work with Scotty, but also to have Number One and Scott facing off against one another and balancing each other’s strengths and weaknesses as engineers.
I believe we’ve seen the same analysis.
The old cable model made Comcast the arbiter of an ecosystem, with streamers competing against one another, the model fell apart. It’s interesting that smaller players like Paramount and others are collaborating in some markets (e.g., SkyShowtime).
StarTrek.website is an instance dedicated to the Star Trek franchise.
It is a solid, well functioning medium-sized instance, and the largest one specific to a particular show, movie or franchise. It was created by mods of related subreddits.
It’s communities cover Star Trek television shows and movies as well as tie-in books, comics, games and merchandise. It also has a general discussion (off topic) community.
Unfortunately, there’s increasing evidence that the streamers are saving cash and reducing net streaming losses by not producing new content, while not having to worry that their competitors are out producing them.
For AMPTP, this is a deus ex machina that gets its members out of the trap of dreadnaught-like extraordinarily expensive competition.
Eventually, they won’t be able to buy existing content to fill their schedules and subscribers may find other things to do without new content, but for the moment there are incentives for them to drag out the strike.
Novelverse author Greg Cox’s attempt, to ‘dance between the raindrops’ to explain away a major 1990s war in Trek canon that no one could see in real life, was quite inspired.
There were however still numerous unexplained inconsistencies.
Beyond the ‘how is it really a war if no one knows it’s happening?’ aspect, there has been an inconsistency ever since TNG’s premiere Encounter at Farpoint pushed the timing of World War III back to the latter half of the 21st century.
Given this shift was based in Roddenberry’s own direction, Akiva Goldsman has a strong point that the Great Bird wanted the Trek universe to always stay a possible one for current viewers. As it happens, we can attribute the biggest shift in the Prime timeline to Roddenberry. There seem to have been further tweaks, but moving Khan’s birth to a later time seems a direct corollary of Roddenberry’s fiat in 1987.
TOS is fairly clear that the Eugenics War was the precursor of WW3, but TNG implied they occurred more than a half apart unless the timing of Khan’s rule and the Eugenics War is pushed back. Not to mention the hand waving to explain how none of us noticed Khan ruling a large portion of the global population.
While many don’t remember, this apparent discontinuity was a reason some TOS fans argued in the late 1980s TNG wasn’t in the same continuity as TOS.
Then there are other discrepancies such the later development of the Warp Drive and all the other Berman-era episodes that implied a shifted timeline. Voyager’s findings of temporal interference in 1990s California and the development of computer technology seem to imply that the writers were working off a bible with a revised timeline all along.
Greg Cox himself finds the explanation of accumulating effects of intertemporal interference to be a better solution. You can find his view on this in the comment section under Di Candido’s review of the episode Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow.
Another Trek author, Christopher L Bennett who wrote the Department of Temporal Investigations books, also weighed in positively on the episode. He attempted to figure out when the major perturbations in the Prime Universe’s river of time took place, with Encounter at Farpoint being the first major one.
Thanks for bringing up the Nausicaans.
I tend to agree that the inscription would have been a warning on an object they couldn’t remove or decommission themselves.
It would seem worthwhile to consider how temporal interference from other alien civilizations or from the Temporal War may have changed the development of Nausicaans, as well as other species in the alpha and beta quadrants.
Fans often focus on humanity being a fulcrum in the temporal war, but Discovery and SNW give us a lot to ponder about other species. If honorarium is truly an element that was both significantly present in the Sol System and protective against temporal incursions, that could go a long way to explaining how humanity developed initially as far as it did without significant temporal interference.
What I also find interesting is that the Klingons on Borath had time crystals and developed understanding of how they worked under religious secrecy. We saw that they had some related technology and attempted to prevent its use. The research that was used in Voyager endgame raises questions about why the monastics on Borath were willing to let that go forward when they had prohibitions earlier.
One also has to wonder whether the preservation of the original body of Kahless and the creation of the clone involved some temporal slowing for preservation and/or some temporal interference that are responsible for the prophecy. In fact, temporal interference and use of the time crystals might explain a great deal of not only Klingon prophecy but also some of the Byzantine politics among Klingon houses.
I found that the opinion-piece from Space.com didn’t distinguish classic tropes and use of legacy characters from ‘gimmicks.’
While my personal preference prior to the show’s premiere had been to hold on the introduction of so many TOS legacy characters, to allow the others and original ones to breathe, as long as having Kirk there is bringing new insights to his character (and others’), it’s all to the good. At this point, I’m eager to see more of young Scotty.