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Please don’t give me flashbacks to that horse crap.

by ggfgg 5y ago

tomrod 5y ago
Horse crap grows the best mushrooms, I hear. And modern Star Trek rocks. Definitely a different groove but a fun one regardless.
- mpalmer 5y ago
  The first season was fun. The second and third seasons were a fantasy soap opera almost totally divorced from what makes Star Trek great.
  - p2t2p 5y ago
    The third season was where we saw the TNG level of writing for the first time since TNG. The admiral speeches and negotiations with the chain are magnificent. edit: my poor spelling.
    - pezezin 5y ago
      The admiral was great; Michael and other characters crying/shouting almost constantly were not. They are supposed to be the best of the best, yet they behaved like whiny teenagers.
      - p2t2p 5y ago
        I believe that they were interns fresh out of the academy so they _are_ teenagers that were thrown into war. No excuse for Michael though, she really put me off. To their credit they did joke about get behaviour in season 3.
        pezezin 5y ago
        Maybe you are right, but god was she annoying. On the other hand, I really loved Saru. Getting him replaced as captain... I don't know if I want to watch season 4 :/
      - ggfgg 5y ago
        Yes I didn’t see any mops installed in Discovery. I bet the constantly wet floors were a safety hazard. Also the “lift scene” was objectionable from the “I’m not brain damaged” perspective.
    - tomrod 5y ago
      Hear hear!
- p2t2p 5y ago
  > And modern Star Trek rocks. +1 on that. Those snobs are tiresome. Firs they shitted ST: Enterprise out of existence (which now they keep on whining how underrated it was), now they are pooping all over the place on all modern stuff.
  - marginalia_nu 5y ago
    Modern Star Trek is basically just Space: 1999 with better special effects. I don't understand why they insist on calling it Star Trek when it's nothing like the show.
    - tomrod 5y ago
      > I don't understand why they insist on calling it Star Trek when it's nothing like the show. Here are some of the elements off the top of my head 1. Takes place in the same universe 2. The characters belong to Starfleet 3. Spock 4. Based on Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry 5. *spoiler* Cardassian Federation President in Season 4 6. Trills 7. Warp drives 8. Replicators 9. Romulans merging with Vulcans to reunify 10. Synthetic humanoid modeled after Data, Lore, etc. 11. New stuff like Tardigrades 12. Mirror universe 13. Unified earth 14. Klingons 15. Ferengi I mean, I get it, original Star Trek is super campy, but like all the ST since ST:TOS, ST:D is inclusive, prioritizes working together to solve monumental challenges, and breaks cultural barriers many people don't even realize exist unless they are marginalized. And damn, they got amazing Tardigrades. Such a cool run at the concept. I really enjoy the show for what it is, not to satisfy some deep longing for legacy Star Trek. Picard satisfies the legacy urges nicely.
      - johnhowardstein 5y ago
        Some things are too stupid to enjoy
      - marginalia_nu 5y ago
        Since they retconned basically everything in the old universe out of existence, ... no. It's not the same universe. The old show was about professional people working together to do their job, the new show is about a team of people acting like a bunch of immature teenagers, completely driven by whatever emotion happens to come over them this episode, always acting short sighted and having arguments and panic attacks. It's exactly the sort of junk psychology that made Space: 1999 such an awful show. Like, how are these people allowed aboard a space ship. Wouldn't calm-under-pressure be the first thing you look in when you recruit someone for a position like that?
- swayvil 5y ago
  No, STD is the opposite of "rocks".
  - tomrod 5y ago
    Weird flex that I wouldn't have reached for, but rolls works fine. Thanks for letting me know that floats your boat. /peace out
- 0xdeadb00f 5y ago
  No no, that's Cow crap you're thinking of.
  - tomrod 5y ago
    Not according to my psychonaut brother-in-law ;-). Apparently Disneyland + shroomwater in a camelpak make you really think its a small world after all.
    - 0xdeadb00f 5y ago
      Huh, never heard of horse crap shrooms. Only heard of the cow crap ones. Maybe cow crap makes for regular 'ol shrooms, but horse crap makes for great shrooms?
      - tomrod 5y ago
        As a second-hand hearer of a story, perhaps we should find out together!* * I am not advocating for the use of drugs.
        0xdeadb00f 5y ago
        > * I am not advocating for the use of drugs. I am! :P

Please don’t give me flashbacks to that horse crap.

by ggfgg 5y ago

Please don’t give me flashbacks to that horse crap.

Horse crap grows the best mushrooms, I hear. And modern Star Trek rocks. Definitely a different groove but a fun one regardless.

mpalmer 5y ago
The first season was fun. The second and third seasons were a fantasy soap opera almost totally divorced from what makes Star Trek great.
- p2t2p 5y ago
  The third season was where we saw the TNG level of writing for the first time since TNG. The admiral speeches and negotiations with the chain are magnificent. edit: my poor spelling.
  - pezezin 5y ago
    The admiral was great; Michael and other characters crying/shouting almost constantly were not. They are supposed to be the best of the best, yet they behaved like whiny teenagers.
    - p2t2p 5y ago
      I believe that they were interns fresh out of the academy so they _are_ teenagers that were thrown into war. No excuse for Michael though, she really put me off. To their credit they did joke about get behaviour in season 3.
      - pezezin 5y ago
        Maybe you are right, but god was she annoying. On the other hand, I really loved Saru. Getting him replaced as captain... I don't know if I want to watch season 4 :/
    - ggfgg 5y ago
      Yes I didn’t see any mops installed in Discovery. I bet the constantly wet floors were a safety hazard. Also the “lift scene” was objectionable from the “I’m not brain damaged” perspective.
  - tomrod 5y ago
    Hear hear!
p2t2p 5y ago
> And modern Star Trek rocks. +1 on that. Those snobs are tiresome. Firs they shitted ST: Enterprise out of existence (which now they keep on whining how underrated it was), now they are pooping all over the place on all modern stuff.
- marginalia_nu 5y ago
  Modern Star Trek is basically just Space: 1999 with better special effects. I don't understand why they insist on calling it Star Trek when it's nothing like the show.
  - tomrod 5y ago
    > I don't understand why they insist on calling it Star Trek when it's nothing like the show. Here are some of the elements off the top of my head 1. Takes place in the same universe 2. The characters belong to Starfleet 3. Spock 4. Based on Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry 5. *spoiler* Cardassian Federation President in Season 4 6. Trills 7. Warp drives 8. Replicators 9. Romulans merging with Vulcans to reunify 10. Synthetic humanoid modeled after Data, Lore, etc. 11. New stuff like Tardigrades 12. Mirror universe 13. Unified earth 14. Klingons 15. Ferengi I mean, I get it, original Star Trek is super campy, but like all the ST since ST:TOS, ST:D is inclusive, prioritizes working together to solve monumental challenges, and breaks cultural barriers many people don't even realize exist unless they are marginalized. And damn, they got amazing Tardigrades. Such a cool run at the concept. I really enjoy the show for what it is, not to satisfy some deep longing for legacy Star Trek. Picard satisfies the legacy urges nicely.
    - johnhowardstein 5y ago
      Some things are too stupid to enjoy
    - marginalia_nu 5y ago
      Since they retconned basically everything in the old universe out of existence, ... no. It's not the same universe. The old show was about professional people working together to do their job, the new show is about a team of people acting like a bunch of immature teenagers, completely driven by whatever emotion happens to come over them this episode, always acting short sighted and having arguments and panic attacks. It's exactly the sort of junk psychology that made Space: 1999 such an awful show. Like, how are these people allowed aboard a space ship. Wouldn't calm-under-pressure be the first thing you look in when you recruit someone for a position like that?
swayvil 5y ago
No, STD is the opposite of "rocks".
- tomrod 5y ago
  Weird flex that I wouldn't have reached for, but rolls works fine. Thanks for letting me know that floats your boat. /peace out
0xdeadb00f 5y ago
No no, that's Cow crap you're thinking of.
- tomrod 5y ago
  Not according to my psychonaut brother-in-law ;-). Apparently Disneyland + shroomwater in a camelpak make you really think its a small world after all.
  - 0xdeadb00f 5y ago
    Huh, never heard of horse crap shrooms. Only heard of the cow crap ones. Maybe cow crap makes for regular 'ol shrooms, but horse crap makes for great shrooms?
    - tomrod 5y ago
      As a second-hand hearer of a story, perhaps we should find out together!* * I am not advocating for the use of drugs.
      - 0xdeadb00f 5y ago
        > * I am not advocating for the use of drugs. I am! :P