[-] Tired8281@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago

Where can I get Moopsy as a ringtone for my phone?

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I kept thinking all day, isn't there something I should be doing today?

[-] Tired8281@startrek.website 36 points 1 year ago

Holy smokes, I can't believe how awesome that thing was that I just watched. I'm awestruck at the talent it must have taken to pull it off so perfectly.

[-] Tired8281@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I feel like the timeline had been changed for a while, and this episode just put a tidy little bow on it.

[-] Tired8281@startrek.website 31 points 1 year ago

Did she leave that gun with that little boy?

[-] Tired8281@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I thought the Miradorn were interesting. The twin bond that they have seems to suggest they have some kind of mental abilities, some way to connect the two people. They were listed as 'quarrelsome', could be an interesting mirror for the Tellarites, coming from a non-Federation species. They sided with the Dominion in the war, too, so they don't seem to think much of the Federation. Could make for an interesting antagonist.

edit: Thought about this some more. What if the twinned Miradorn didn't refer to brothers from the same mother? Perhaps their whole society consists of twinned people. Perhaps they have some sort of process where they bond two of their people together, for life, and that's how they run their world. Think of how dangerous an adversary that would make, there's always two of them. Even better if they have some sort of 2 person hive mind between them, so that they can work together seamlessly, even at a distance. Like some kind of organic grassroots Borg.

[-] Tired8281@startrek.website 17 points 1 year ago

I feel like they would have done so much better if they just played Netflix and Amazon off each other to pay for the content, and never spent a cent on the albatross Plus has become.

[-] Tired8281@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago

They think that whole "home of Star Trek" was marketing fluff, but I took it as a promise.

[-] Tired8281@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

That's the one!

[-] Tired8281@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

Sounds good to me, I'll wait till you guys get it sorted out. Thanks a lot for doing this!

[-] Tired8281@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago

She grew against her own will. Not uncommon but very difficult to portray. And it never would have worked if Nana Visitor hadn't had the chops to pull it off, and the writers had the writing talent to write it. We really lucked out with DS9, they hit it out of the park so many times and in so many different ways, week after week for years.

[-] Tired8281@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

Then Frank freaking Langella pops up, parts way through the same unbelievable episode, to chew the scenery like a boss. And, in an absolute power move, he drops that shit and goes completely uncredited and unpaid for doing it. He says he did it for his kids, I think he did it because he's just that talented, and humility can be a boss move when you're that good.

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I'm rewatching it now, it's so well written that it almost stands out from the rest of the episode. It comes off like something from David Mamet or The West Wing. It's not Far Beyond The Stars or In The Pale Moonlight, the stakes of the episode are too low. But the material it gave all the actors to work with, the incredibly realistic way it weaves together different conversations going on between a large group, that the (really really good) acting abilities of the cast just get pushed over the top. It's all in one room, no effects, no cost except for the appearance of Bareil, but it's riveting, you can't stop paying attention. It's kind of a master class in writing. And it's buried after the opening credits in the second episode of season 2.

[-] Tired8281@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Any chance for a ShittyDaystrom? I don't want to mod it (I'm a terrible mod) but I sure would love to shitpost there.

edit: seems like the only active mod on ShittyDaystrom on Reddit has ran a script to edit all their old comments, and Reddit suspended them for it. The sub on Reddit appears to be running fine with no mods. I think it would be a fine candidate for creating a community here, the people in the Reddit sub are happily shitposting Star Trek memes with no active mods at all. If someone who is not a terrible mod, like myself, would like to take it on, I seriously doubt it will be much work.

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