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So, we all kinda agree that the Strange New Worlds preview sucked, yeah? What with its' doubling down on the bioessentialism stuff from "Charades" and all? I'm mostly sitting here wondering why they chose that as the clip to share to advertise the show and get everyone all excited.
Just gotta say that, although I was initially nervous about where they were going with it, I ended up loving the Rutherford & Tendi storyline in this week's Lower Decks ("Parth Ferengi's Love Place"). The affirmation of the importance of platonic relationships and then using a polycule with Dr. Migleemo as a way out of the situation was just great.
[Transcript: Given the love of Star Trek by scientist-fans, it is unsurprising that many have dedicated elements of their work to characters in the series. Some examples include:
A wasp whose individuals vary greatly in appearance named Phanuromyia odo, inspired by shape-changing character Odo in DS9;
A beetle named Agra dax after the character Jadzia Dax in DS9 and dedicated to the actress who played her
A hermit crab with a wrinkled belly area named Annutidiogenes worfi after the TNG/DS9 character Worf, who bore a wrinkled forehead;
A clam named Ledella spocki named after TOS character Spock and having valves shaped like the pointed ears that Spock possessed in the series;
Two DNA sequences that have the ability to copy themselves to other locations in the genome named Worf and Spock;
A popular software package used for analysis of DNA sequences named Picard, after the captain in TNG.
/end transcript]
It's been a while, but I can't stop thinking abut this NPR review of Picard's third season. Regardless of your thoughts on bringing back more TNG elements and letting the original Picard ones fall to the wayside, it just baffles me to praise a show for "accepting every bit of [its] past" by playing into its TNG roots while simultaneously the same show vehemently denies and pushes back against the show's own past, even taking pot-shots at prior seasons!
Thinking about "Inquisition", and how this:
[Image description: Text from a script that reads 'With that, Sisko turns and walks out. Bashir stares after him with a leaden feeling his stomach. After a beat, he turns and hammers a fist into the cell wall.]
turns into this:
[Image description: A gif of a clip from the show. It shows a containment cell on Deep Space Nine, the force field activated. Julian Bashir stands despondently in the cell, leaning against the back wall. He slides down the wall to sit on the ground and brings his hands to his head.]
and what that says about Bashir's response to the situation and his mindset and feeling of anger (or lack thereof) and how Alexander Siddig (and/or the episode's director) interpreted that.
I might try and put some of those thoughts into words later, but at this moment my brain is not cooperating.
I was thinking about Star Trek movies and this came to me.
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I had to draw M'Benga in his hat. It is a glorious hat.
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I'm not the only one bothered by Strange New Worlds' portrayal of the Gorn, so I come with a proposed solution: we haven't actually seen any Gorn yet in Strange New Worlds.
We see Gorn ships in "Memento Mori", but only any 'Gorn' in "All Those Who Wander". However, I say that, maybe, the 'Gorn' from "All Those Who Wander" actually aren't Gorn, but rather the Gorn equivalent of dogs or targs: nonsapient animal pets.
The aliens in "All Those Who Wander" are quadrupedal, whereas all other portrayals of the Gorn have shown them as bipedal. Now, it isn't impossible that a species would switch from one to the other over the course of its lifecycle, but it's rather unlikely, given the many structural changes that come with bipedalism. The whole parasite method of reproduction also contradicts earlier canon from Into Darkness, according to Memory Alpha, wherein the Gorn give live birth. Additionally, the aliens are hyper-violent and any given 'litter' only has one survivor as they fight for dominance - behavior that would be highly counterproductive to any species coordinated and cooperative enough to achieve space travel.
