I dreaded the musical episode and I was wrong, it was fantastic. I dreaded the Lower Decks crossover episode and I was wrong, it was fantastic. I dreaded this episode and unfortunately, this time it was even worse than I feared.

I’ll admit, it was well made, the technical and performance sides of the puppets were outstanding and I genuinely laughed out loud on several occasions, but holy hell was it cringe from start to finish. Is this what anyone wants from ST??

I was so relieved that

but ffs, did we really need to waste what precious time is left with this series on… this??

The biggest weakness of Kurtzman’s era was that he granted way too much freedom to people’s ideas. Exploration and growth are of course necessary if Star Trek is going to survive (Even the 90’s shows got flak: DS9 stayed in one place and didn’t explore like the Enterprise, Voyager was going the “wrong direction” by coming home instead of going outward), but any artist will tell you that self-imposed restraint is what makes any work really spark. Some ideas should be rejected because they just don’t fit somehow and I’m shocked that no one realized it enough to put their foot down in this instance.

I realize that this was this season’s obligatory hijinks episode (the previous entries of which I generally liked and in the case of Spock Amok loved), but for me this one didn’t just cross the line, it jumped the shark.

Anyway, thanks for coming to my TED talk. 😅

That kitty nuzzle tho… ❤️

He’s gonna get a gob full of ketracel white, I’ll tell you what!

That was great! I thought I knew where it was going but it totally surprised both me and my wife and we were like, “Damn, that was pretty good!”

Very hyped for shore leave episode now, the crew has earned it!

Yeah it’s not terrible, I just wish you could send from them as well.

I have spent an embarrassing amount of time playing Syd Meier’s Pirates in my day, and I regret nothing!

I joined lemmy just a week or two before you started this I think, so your posts have been a foundational part of my experience almost since day one. I’ll always upvote even if I don’t have time to read em all. Thanks for doing it, it’s fun and part of what gives this place character! ❤️

You hush your mouth, Event Horizon is awesome!!

I’ve been using an app called Coax (Apple only, which will disappoint some) to do this with my Plex library and it’s glorious. Beautiful retro styled schedule grid, automated channel/schedule creation, even has a weather channel with Jazz playing. I’m rediscovering stuff that’s been sitting idle on my server for years because it’s just fun to see what’s “on” and be like, ‘Oh yeah, let’s check that out for a few minutes’ and then I end up watching the whole thing.

Oh ffs 😂

I like this kitty very much and would like to give her pets.

Sitting here on lemmy scrolling doom after doom and thinking, “Why am I doing this to myself?” And then this comes along and makes me giggle uncontrollably for 5 minutes and it’s clear that this is the gold I was sifting for.

In this list, I’ve only heard of Devs and Our Flag Means Death, but those two alone are so goddamn good that you have my complete trust on the rest! Definitely going to check them out.

Oh yeah, played the crap out of stray too! Just can’t go wrong with a decent cat game.

That’s fantastic to hear! ❤️

I think I’m gonna pick up Little Kitty Big City and I don’t care who judges me for it!

Edit: I bought it. Finally sat down with it this rainy weekend and played for 4 hours straight and had a blast. It’s so good. 😻

And not just punching, but full-on wind up and let it rip homerun swings with a shovel to the face (which goes CLANG!! and breaks the shovel) just never got old. Highly recommend!

That’s true. Why is that?

I don’t have one but my friend does and he says the touchpads make it the only option he’s willing to put up with for pc gaming any more.