The Defiant is an interesting middle ground, basically a corvette type of thing, and it’s only practical because it has a cloak and it’s (for the ST universe) grotesquely overpowered and overgunned. Well it’s only practical because the writers wanted it to be, but that’s the in-universe explanation.
ST doesn’t have carriers because fighters are uncommon and bombers are unheard of, for a variety of good reasons. There are a few exceptions, like Jem’hadar “fighters” (which are basically equivalent to a smaller Bird of Prey in terms of crew and armament, but actually seem to serve as troop transports?), runabouts, or the Delta Flyer. That size of ship is also roughly equivalent to the Jedi ships, both in terms of travel range and capacity for violence.
I still can’t decide whether or not I like or dislike that design.
I screamed when he appeared on screen. It scared my dog.
This is inaccurate. It did not say “childlike” at the time that Ada complained. After we got defederated, I asked a new mod of that community to update the sidebar because it was very light on rules, purpose, etc. and I thought that maybe our conflict with blahaj could have been avoided if the sidebar was more explicit about what the community was about. As part of his revision, on his first pass he copied and pasted a dictionary definition of “adorable” which included the word “childlike”, then went back and re-edited it to remove that word on a later editing pass. I want to say it was in there for about two hours? During that time, a couple of people spotted it and made some unwarranted assumptions.
The viewer naturally sympathizes with Worf and adopts his view of Klingon culture, but remember that he was raised by humans and most of his knowledge of Klingon culture came from very early childhood and books. Imagine a human child raised by another species whose knowledge of Human culture came from fairy tales and like Arthurian stories. He’d come to earth and be outraged that everyone isn’t following some virtuous code of chivalry. A politician broke his word? DUEL TO THE DEATH! That’s Worf.
TBH I think TNG did this very well with the Klingons (depending on who was writing the episode, of course). Like, some Klingons were Real Klingons™ but many others only gave lip service to those ideals and were actually as sneaky and cowardly as any other race. I think a lot of Worf’s inner conflict came from realizing and processing that fact.
Whyyyy would Vulcan kitchens run cooler than starships? Vulcan is a desert planet and Vulcans as a species are accustomed to high temps – which is even obliquely referenced in the ep when Amanda says that a Vulcan wouldn’t even notice the heat from holding a boiling hot teapot barehanded. I would assume Vulcan kitchens to be higher temperature than even Vulcan living quarters, which should be higher than human-standard room temp. I can’t think of any legitimate reasons why a Vulcan kitchen would be cooler than Pike’s quarters at all, let alone so much cooler that it makes a manifest difference in fermentation rates.
Yeah! I was wondering that too. Either it was a flub that they left in because it was funny, or it was a flub that they left in because they didn’t have another good take, or it’s a breadcrumb for a weird AI-takes-over-the-Enterprise season finale.
Bjo Trimble is turning 90 in a month.
Listen Tuvix was an annoying little goblin person and everyone justifiably hated him, but that doesn’t mean he deserved to be cold-bloodedly murdered by Janeway as he begged desperately for his life. #justice4tuvix
Captain Janeway deserved to spend the rest of her miserable life on a penal colony for murdering Tuvix. Now that’s a show I would watch! Plus, Kate Mulgrew is good at prison shows. #justice4tuvix
IDK about you, but I find that much more effective.
I get what you’re doing with the composition here, but I feel like this would be a much stronger image if you cropped the bottom 15% or so, so like the first two diamond-shaped tiles off of the bottom. If you do that, you make the aisle look much brighter on average, which makes the image look brighter, which keeps you from having to bring up the darks as much.
That said, I do think that you need to be a touch brighter so that the geometry of the pews is visible, because all of those straight lines pushing towards the center will do some work in making the image look more interesting. I think there’s also interesting geometry in the lights in the ceiling coming straight down, too.
Like the other commenters, I think that the sunlight on the grass may be too bright. I don’t think the shadows are too dark, though. In general, besides the whites being too white, this is a nice image and I like your crop and composition. Good eye!
Creative! I agree that the ramen one is the best of the three, though the one with the snow and cream bun (?) is also fairly good. The person in that one with their face cut off adds a mysterious vibe, though I don’t know if that’s what you were going for.
The third one, with the beer, idk exactly what happened but the human fingers look weird, like you messed with the contrast or HSL and something went a bit funny. It’s a nice shot otherwise, though.
Tribbles are an excellent lesson in doing more with less. What an iconic creature that’s nothing more than a fistful of rabbit fur on a string.
The false Balok from The Corombite Maneuver deeply freaked me out as a child, but heart forever belongs to the Horta
It’s not a bad shot at all. Colors are nice, composition is interesting. It might be a touch underexposed, but if you’re trying to sell dusk then that may not be a bad thing. The only time of day the sky looks like that is going to be sunset or sunrise, so I think your colors are mostly OK. A little bit on the cool side maybe, but that’s probably fine.
Now, is it the feeling of a sunset? No, not really. There’s nothing in the picture that conveys that feeling. You do have some interesting things going on – humans dwarfed by massive architecture, antiquity contrasted with people on their cellphones, a couple of interesting little vignettes in each cluster of people – but none of this says “sunset” to me. I think the image would be almost as effective if it was broad daylight, albeit a broad daylight with soft diffuse lighting. In other words, if you took “sunset” out of the image you wouldn’t lose much, except for the very pleasant background gradient.
But even if you didn’t hit what you were aiming at, I think that this is overall a fairly successful image. If I took it, I would be very happy with it.
If there’s one thing that is consistent about the Federation show-to-show and season-to-season is that they pretty much always allow officers to break literally any of the rules as long as the outcome is good. How many times has a ship been stolen for a rescue mission, orders been ignored, senior officers been bamboozled and sidelined, and it’s almost always totally forgiven because it turned out OK in the end. Hell, Janeway straight-up murdered Tuvix as he begged for his life and everyone was like “oh, um, fine?”
I used to think it was lazy writing, but now I think it’s actually just the way the Federation is characterized. The Federation being theoretically utopian and egalitarian but functionally utilitarian makes things like Section 31 make sense, the same way that TNG Klingons claim to be about honor but really they’re treacherous schemers no better than any other species.
I love musicals and I love Trek so I was hoping I would love this episode, but I just didn’t, and I think it was mostly because the music was… bad? It wasn’t catchy, it wasn’t fun, there was not one single legitimate bop during the whole episode. Uhura’s last line about an earworm struck me as a sour note because… no. Not a single earworm to be had in the whole thing. I couldn’t hum a single song from that episode and I watched it less than an hour ago. The only number that had any spark to it at all was Chapel’s number at the lounge, and it was barely a spark.
Even Una’s alleged Gilbert and Sullivan riff was barely, barely recognizable as a take on G&S. It was to G&S as a brick spraypainted orange is to a glass of refreshing orange juice. You’re gonna do G&S in a musical episode and not do patter? Come on, son.
I just can’t get behind this episode, and I was truly prepared to be thrilled. I mean the cast tried hard, but in a musical the music has to be good, and this wasn’t.