Star Trek - Space: The Final Frontier

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UnKillShredDur said:
I got some positive stickers for me saying that I am interested in doing some (Dr)UnKillShredDur "reviews" of Trek episodes,
But does anybody have any requests?
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Either the absolute best or absolute worst, like the Deanna Troi has an interspecies rape baby episode.
 
teriyakiburns said:
Based on what they did in The Nth Degree, I always liked the idea that he was a Cytherian criminal of some sort. How many giant, disembodied-head aliens can there be in the galaxy?
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obsdj said:
YES! That episode did take them to the center of the galaxy, how much more obvious could it have been? Why mention "center of the galaxy" while being greeted by a giant disembodied head if it wasn't supposed to be the same alien species?
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I quote Kirk, "Why does God need a starship?"

The Cythereans didn't travel, they just ubered up some human takeout with their probe rewiring Barcley's brain. That's how they explore, from home. But I suppose they'd need a ship if they did want to travel, and they clearly have the technology. But most importantly, while they certainly were near the galactic core, they were not beyond the Barrier. Still, compelling arguments, otherwise.
 
JustSomeDong said:
The Cythereans didn't travel, they just ubered up some human takeout with their probe rewiring Barcley's brain. That's how they explore, from home. But I suppose they'd need a ship if they did want to travel, and they clearly have the technology. But most importantly, while they certainly were near the galactic core, they were not beyond the Barrier.
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The idea is that they imprisoned him behind the barrier. They know how to send objects vast distances in moments and presumably have the technology to protect themselves from unwanted outsiders, so the idea of sending one of their own to a distance place and surrounding it with that same protective technology isn't far fetched at all. It strikes me as more interesting than the old fall-back of "Q did it".
 
teriyakiburns said:
The idea is that they imprisoned him behind the barrier. They know how to send objects vast distances in moments and presumably have the technology to protect themselves from unwanted outsiders, so the idea of sending one of their own to a distance place and surrounding it with that same protective technology isn't far fetched at all. It strikes me as more interesting than the old fall-back of "Q did it".
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I agree, it would make more sense, that way. Buuuuuut.....

The Cytherean floating head was just their comm projection. They aren't even noncorporeal. They are humanoids. They used their technology to rewire ole Reg. Not magic energy being deus ex machina powers, but science-y space probe deus ex machina powers.

Even if they weren't, with the amount of noncorporeal/energy aliens encountered in Trek, I can't default to "both vaguely similar floating heads, thus both cythereans." With no official canon, I fall back to the Apocrypha, even when its dumb (and there is no shortage of dumb to be found there). Hell, he may as well have been Melvar.
 
AnOminous said:
Either the absolute best or absolute worst, like the Deanna Troi has an interspecies rape baby episode.
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Recently saw that episode again after many years (what a way to start season 2). Funnily enough, the episode wasn't nearly as bad as I remembered or as terrible as many online commentators say it is. Hell, if you treat it as a scifi-horror story (a more corny and less gory version of "Alien" set in the TNG universe where the Alien is trying to be friendly), it's actually a solid "meh" episode. That definitely wasn't the intent of the show creators though so I can understand why most people think it's best to pretend it never happened.
 
Never Scored said:
I want to say Strange New Worlds is still ongoing.
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Third season is set to come out next year. I thought the crossover with Lower Decks was fun, but I'm deeply offended that they did a musical episode in season two. A show must earn its right to do a musical episode, you don't just whip it out in your (abbreviated) second season.
 
Tholians are somehow the only alien race in the series that isn't a bipedal humanoid of some kind. They are extremely hot living spooder shaped rocks with really pretty crystalline ships and would literally freeze to death if exposed to room temp as they require extreme amounts of heat to survive and are silicon based lifeforms. At least in klingon academy and TOS.

As shitty as Nu-trek is, at least they didn't fuck up as bad as ENTERPRISE trying to turn tholian ships into nasa satelite looking things. STO also went in this direction for the tholians for some retarded reason. I just pretend Enterprise, anything after Nemesis, and the JJverse don't exist.
 
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Catgirl Fucker said:
Tholians are somehow the only alien race in the series that isn't a bipedal humanoid of some kind. They are extremely hot living spooder shaped rocks with really pretty crystalline ships and would literally freeze to death if exposed to room temp as they require extreme amounts of heat to survive and are silicon based lifeforms. At least in klingon academy and TOS.

As shitty as Nu-trek is, at least they didn't fuck up as bad as ENTERPRISE trying to turn tholian ships into nasa satelite looking things. STO also went in this direction for the tholians for some retarded reason. I just pretend Enterprise, anything after Nemesis, and the JJverse don't exist.
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Species 8472 are technically tripedal humanoids.
Also pretty sure at least one of the races of the Xindi were not bipedal or humanoid, but you said you don't count Enterprise so nevermind.
 
UnKillShredDur said:
Species 8472 are technically tripedal humanoids.
Also pretty sure at least one of the races of the Xindi were not bipedal or humanoid, but you said you don't count Enterprise so nevermind.
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The TNG era has had way too much autism around it over the last decade to really remember much of voyager and the ever more retarded ship designs makes me appreciate that I grew up with the TMP era games.
 
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Catgirl Fucker said:
The TNG era has had way too much autism around it over the last decade to really remember much of voyager and the ever more retarded ship designs makes me appreciate that I grew up with the TMP era games.
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Jeez, is there anything that you actually do consider Trek besides the most boring film?
 
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