Being a tastemaker is a heady and often corrupting experience.
RLM partisan accuses critic of being buttblasted, pot calls kettle black. Frankly, Shatner was right to disdain those goons.
TOS novels are a weird rabbit-hole to go down. You end up encountering all sorts of strange things, like the "Vegan Tyranny," which references James Blish's Cities in Flight novels, which inspired the album cover-art for the band Boston.
There's only one fly in the soup: I'm not much of a fan of RLM and I dislike the Plinkett videos, cause "talking like an asshole" isn't something I particularly enjoy. That accusation does go hand in hand with your dislike for RLM, though. In your funny world, RLM somehow managed to brainwash people into hating a good movie, glowing with qualities only you can see. Your first accusation in my direction was that my opinions towards the prequels were taken from Plinkett's review when these opinions predate me even knowing that RLM exists by at least a decade.
TOS had some well-behaved cats. Isis stole the show in "Assignment: Earth."
Well then, perhaps we can have a civil discussion about the relative merits of the Prequel Trilogy vs. the validity (or lack thereof) of RLM's take on the series sometime.
Hey, if there's one thing I've learned over the past year or so, it's to never under-estimate how easily people can be brainwashed by the voices on the talk-box.
Well, not all of the TOS kitties were quite so well-behaved.
Look the prequel trilogy is very poorly executed.
All of the black cats on TOS turned into women.
It's very common to see posts and comments like "thank you for helping me in dark times", implying that fans rely on influencers to maintain their mental health.
Gee it's almost like if you isolate a social animal for long periods of time it will seek out substitutes...
Harry Potter did a better job with rising fascism, which is a huge indictment of Star Wars.
I, too, am guilty of creeping at e-celebs in bars.
Yeah, Bowling Alone was literally published in 2000. That's how long this issue of isolation has been discussed.
She had to do open heart surgery on Picard to save his life after the "experts" couldn't.
A bit like Dr. Bashir, no? They wanted to axe him from the cast, as well.
So way wasn't Andromeda considered a official star trek show again?You know how in "Where No One Has Gone Before", they make a brief stop in Triangulum before going to the magic blue place (where thought gets real)?
I tried to recreate that scene in Triangulum using SpaceEngine (0.9. This could be how it would look IRL.
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(spiral in background is Andromeda)
I'm guessing since they wanted it to have its own mythos. That final season was insane way to reboot things.
Hold up, what's this? Every time I've heard them talk DS9 it's been neutral at best.
I don't recall DS9 coming up in the old TNG movie Plinkett reviews (it's been ages since I watched them last), but Mike's mentioned watching DS9 again in the more recent TNG re:View videos. Seems like the absolute failures of STD and Picard have made him a bit more positive towards it, though I don't think he's ever stated outright hating the show. Maybe in a sense of "this ain't like my TOS," but I never got the sense he actively disliked it.
