I DNFd a copy of Hyperion borrowed from a library in the early 90s.
While I had the tolerance to read a lot of dubious science fiction, and gave it a fair shot, it grated.
Reading that review, I’m so glad not to have pushed myself to give Simmons’ books another try.
Who gives a character the N-word for a middle name and writes him with contempt in the name of allegory?
The others in the household weren’t up to watching yesterday so I expect to get a rewatch with them very soon.
I suspect there are more layers in there that will hit during rewatches.
For example, what’s with the black Borg cube-shaped home of the Makers?
The Makers stated that she would retain both sets of memories.
Not sure how that would work but she’s not an organic being. Perhaps her original memories would have been encoded and available for access as she matured.
10/10. No notes.
In my view, perhaps the strongest episode yet.
Just goes to show that YMMV remains a truism.
I wonder why the old TOS fans like me are less impatient with fundamentals of human existence being presented through the growth of young adults?
Sincerely, resilience in the face of trauma is something many 30 and 40 year olds struggle with. I didn’t see this as sophomoric at all.
So, I wonder why episodes like this aren’t landing as well for folks 20 or even 30 years younger than I…
That Protostar looks great.
Really glad that Prodigy is belatedly getting some ship releases.
I’m much more excited about this episode than I had been.
And it helps settle some of the context of the first post-burn Academy class vs the fist at the reopened San Francisco location.
Given how offensive many Star Trek ‘fans’ were towards Mary’s weight, especially in the later seasons of Discovery, I have mixed feelings about seeing her choosing to go so far in her weight loss journey.
The increasing use of what was originally medication for diabetes management for obesity and general weight loss is a reality, especially for women in Hollywood.
On one hand the use of these acknowledges that maintaining healthy weights is not just a matter of self control and that behavioural weight loss approaches are largely unsuccessful and unsustainable for more than small losses.
On the other hand, it seems to be giving in to the stigmatization that Mary and others have been subjected to and that Discovery and Star Trek generally were trying to counter.
The thing is, for Darem, his family and his people, this might be a high stakes situation.
It’s a change in leadership model, with a young new monarch. It should have more weight — especially as we and Jay-Den learn that they have some advanced Ionian-level portal technology. So, they seem the legacy of an advanced species with a highly structured society.
But the feel of the event was more like a resort destination wedding than a constitutional event.
The Khionians clearly a society hiding behind masks, and Darem excels at that.
BUT in the end, Darem’s long time betrothed expresses betrayal that Darem had been wearing a kind of mask with her, never showing his true self.
So, she sees only the ultimatum of an abdication an annulment as a solution.
Being creative and allowing Darem to continue with Starfleet so he could grow and become more comfortable and confident in his own identity, was beyond her ability to imagine.
Those of us who were on the old social media boards of the day recall the outright hostility against a woman as a captain as the principal character of a show.
The number and toxicity of rants about ‘political correctness’ was extreme if less generally known outside fandom.
Personally, I loved the technobabble in Voyager — it conveys the process of engineering and science more authentically than in any other show in the franchise. At a certain level, it’s more important to have a realistic applied science and engineering process in a Star Trek show than to be restricted to what’s currently known in science or that can be extrapolated from limited current knowledge.
Voyager gave us nerds nerding out. What made it exceptional was not only was it two women with STEM expertise, but that they were enthusiastically supporting one another rather than competing.
We saw some of that positivity and STEM process with Geordie and Data in TNG, but Voyager gave us a captain who was an engineer who moved to command track. Janeway’s uncompromising work the problem dammit ethos is all engineer, and it made her the right temperament for the scenario of a ship lost in another quadrant.
Well, you might want to put priority on achieving the Star Trek franchise’s favourite prime number in rewatches before the end of the 60th anniversary year is done.
The Toho Godzilla Monsterverse as the older franchise of the three can be patient in waiting for you to discover its awesomeness.
But if you’re game to give it a try, AppleTV’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is a successful entry point that introduces you to the lore without giving everything away.
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Although Paramount+ now streams all the live action Star Trek shows in Canada, BellMedia’s CTV Sci-fi Channel has continued to provide linear cable programming for many of the Star Trek shows, including Strange New Worlds.
It wasn’t clear whether Starfleet Academy would also be available on CTV in first run. It’s now appearing in the television listings with a double episode premiere starting at 9:00 pm Eastern Time.
Why it didn’t really register that SAM will now be the Doctor’s daughter — formed by an environment where he shared his preferences and 800 years of experiences — I can’t say.
That’s on me. But surely, this will be a wild ride for all.