Five seasons for Disco, SNW, and LD. I’d love more, but I think that’s respectable for streaming series. Doesn’t seem like they’re trying to escape anything.

You’re not suggesting that Star Trek fans might have had a negative overreaction to something just because it wasn’t 110% familiar and comfortable for them, are you? Why, that would be unprecedented.

Other people waiting to ask ADHDers what point they were originally trying to make before they interrupted themselves to ramble for five minutes about a dozen other things…

And knowing they won’t remember.

Ah, that sounds right. It’s been too many years since I revisited B5, but I do remember that we were lucky enough to have Ivanova make one last appearance in the actual finale.

I think the core concept could have worked. Look at Babylon season 4’s finale, which was at the time expected to wrap up the series: they hop through future time periods to see the enduring legacy these characters leave behind. It worked well, and there’s no reason it couldn’t have worked even better if we already had an emotional attachment to the future era we jumped to.

What failed was that the “enduring legacy” was to be consumed like a daytime soap in between shifts. Frakes and Sirtis playing themselves a decade younger sure didn’t help. Maybe if they put them together on the Titan at the appropriate age and crafted a new story that somehow called back to the founding of the Federation in a way that tied both periods together meaningfully they could have had something.

Where is this article getting their demographic numbers, wishful thinking?

Oh don’t worry, it’s very scientific:

If you think I’m underestimating the number of Trek’s female viewers, scroll through the comments on any Star Trek-related content anywhere on the internet. Then count the number of female commenters. You’ll see a lot of guys named Steve, but you won’t see many Jennifers.

Dumbledore wasn’t “famously hetero”. Revealing the sexuality of a character who never had one established isn’t a change, it’s just new information. Getting offended at that is no less bigoted than getting offended at a new gay character being introduced.

Grey text is looking out for their safety, good for them. Blue text is clearly communicating their boundaries, good for them. Neither is phrasing their needs as I would, but that’s small potatoes. I’d rather date either of these people than most of the ones replying in this thread.

Ironically, the deeper it goes the more it upsets me.

Asi seeit yes? Is that an Indian dish? None of my local places seem to have it on their menu.

Wold Newtonry

That’s still not ironic! How deep does this go???

Maybe. On the other hand, Picard season 3 also confirmed that Beverly can make peace with keeping this kind of information to herself…

Neither was Jason Vigo. I’m still harbouring suspicions about Wesley Crusher, though…

Yeah, what you’re saying makes sense. I like “bad personality indicator” as an alternative, since it conveys to me it’s one of many indicators you might process, maybe not even consciously. I’ve just had rather negative experiences being “tested” and hearing that world applied to any kind of casual social interaction gets my hackles all the way up.

You’d fail my test if I learn you have tests for people.

Maybe it’s just a matter of phrasing, but the idea that I could be kind to our server all night, tip well, generally hit it out of the park, but be disproportionately judged for failing to do this one small thing because it’s your personal test? Sets my social anxiety off enough that if I knew that were on your mind I’d probably just say we’re not compatible.

Obviously, keep an eye out for shitty people, and don’t put up with bad behaviour, but also judge people as people, wholistically.

Indeed. The same episode showed the Cerritos transforming into a Galaxy class ship, but no one takes that to mean that the Galaxy class only ever existed in an alternate universe.

I thought the storytelling in that finale was pretty bad in general, but you’re right that the visuals were spectacular. That wormhole sequence that called back to TMP was absolutely beautiful.

I rewatched it a while back, and for the most part it’s a much stronger season than I remembered. The last couple of episodes were frantic and nonsensical enough that it coloured my view of the rest of it.

Still probably agree that it’s the worst season, but it’s not that bad.

They’re also completely absent from Discovery…