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Re: Star Trek
« Reply #125 on: May 18, 2020, 02:33:44 AM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfQdf93e63I&t=616s

19:15 - 20:15

Rich Evans nailed as always. I actual tear up a little. "Stop shitting on Star Trek man".

Youtube automatic transcribe so it's a bit off:

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analogies let's talk about that but they

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have done it in a way

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they did it in a way where you still had

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your optimistic future I always I always

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loved that optimistic future about Star

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Trek I always have my favorite fucking

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moment in Star Trek I don't I've told

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we've done like five of these Star Trek

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reviews stop me if I've talked about

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this before but this the Abraham Lincoln

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space episode as corny as that is but

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you have Abraham Lincoln other bridge

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the enterprise and he uses an outdated

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offensive term a charming negress to her

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horror to her and and Lincoln even even

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faked space Lincoln being a kind man

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looks to her and apologizes Oh forgive

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me my dear I know that in my time some

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use that term as a description of

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property and a hora is utterly confused

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by this for a moment and then she

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realizes what happened and she laughs

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and it's a beautiful fucking moment

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because starts the Federation humanity

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is so good in the future racism is so

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dead she doesn't even know to be

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offended by that the foolishness of my

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century had me apologizing where no

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offense was given we've each learned to

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be delighted with what we are and it's

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it's such a thing of the past that it's

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forgotten it's completely it's

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completely forgotten about it's this

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wonderful bright vision of a humanity

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that that made it it's something we can

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look forward to it since fucking it's

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inspiring to me and now we're coming

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along and they're a bunch of fuckin

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fuckin xenophobes and racist and ****

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bad **** that stop **** that Star Trek
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Re: Star Trek
« Reply #126 on: May 18, 2020, 03:15:05 AM »
Star Trek at its core is optimistic but that doesn't mean every little bit of it has to be. Some of the best and most memorable moments of Trek are very dark and cynical. If you were to ask fans to name their favorite Star Trek episodes one of the highest vote getters would be In The Pale Moonlight, which doesn't paint Starfleet or the Federation in a much better light than Picard did.
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Re: Star Trek
« Reply #127 on: May 18, 2020, 04:19:02 AM »
You... you haven't watched Picard or actually know anything about it do you.. There is no excuse to what they did in Picard.

Pale Moonlight is good as it is a extremely well written powerful character driven episode exploring that moral space rather than the whole Federation becoming this crapsack world where FOX news somehow exists. There is this massive lead up, it isn't there for shock value. The Federation is losing and I have to sell my soul to save it not just materially but it's soul as well. I consume this sin, drink freely from this poisoned chalice so the Federation ideals can continue.

Every time someone throws out DS9 to justify Kurtzman, everything post 2009, I only see someone who never understood why DS9 worked. Rich actually addresses part of this straight afterwards. To add to that, despite the grittiness, the hope of that future is still there. I think it's something of a mistake to call it gritty, more a sense of adventure, being on the edge of known space where your ideals are tested against others. The crew continues to carry those ideals in this dirty environment, that hope. They get called out on it by Quark among many other characters with their ideals, ideals that are valid from their perspective. Nog and Rom, polar opposites embraces and sacrifices for them in the face of the strongest protests.

It's not that the Federation is false. DS9 acknowledges that it's not something that is achieved, it is a continued work, requiring maintenance and protection. Much like the rights we enjoy today we have to be vigilant to those who seek to tear them down whether they be worker, race, health or sexual rights.

Picard doesn't even pay lip service to that. Every little thing it brings up is twisted, misconstrue, exploits, then abandoned to fake progressive credentials. It undermines itself at every turn and it is sickening to think Picard somehow represents the Trek ideals or progressiveness when it doesn't. The same goes for STD and no doubt Pike.

That is not even touching on to how god awfully written it is even if you were to excuse the whole "Trek" thing. Look at this, how is this level of writing acceptable:


If that is not written by a hack I don't know what is. Something as basic as blowing something up.
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Re: Star Trek
« Reply #128 on: May 18, 2020, 04:28:31 AM »
I disagree with your interpretation, so obviously I don't know anything about it. This is really the core of the problem we've had with this thread, where you act like your opinion is objective truth, and anyone who sees things differently is stupid and doesn't understand what it really is.
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Re: Star Trek
« Reply #129 on: May 18, 2020, 04:57:28 AM »
Feel free to make an actual counter argument.
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« Reply #130 on: May 18, 2020, 05:30:07 AM »
What's the point? We clearly just fundamentally disagree about this, nothing's going to change that. I never should have posted about this, I should have known this would be the result.
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Re: Star Trek
« Reply #131 on: May 18, 2020, 09:37:39 AM »
I haven't watched Picard yet, but Anson Mount was great as Pike. He came off as capable, warm and approachable.

Curious to see how this turns out.

Also, this just makes me sad for the Stargate franchise.

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« Reply #132 on: May 18, 2020, 04:49:33 PM »
Was what was in Picard the Federation or just something with it's name? You make the claim of this core optimism but it has none. Despite being in a existential galactic war I would chose to live in DS9 that rather than Picard. In DS9 there is a Federation to fight for and I wouldn't have to put up with Fox News.

I miss Stargate. Lots of fun. Even SGU was starting to lighten up. That web/mini series was pretty good.
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Re: Star Trek
« Reply #133 on: May 18, 2020, 06:19:45 PM »
On a side note, I never did get around to watching my TNG BluRays. Recently picked up the TOS BluRays on sale. I hope to get around to watching them soon. I've only ever seen a handful of episodes of TOS (namely Trouble With Tribbles, The Menagerie, A Piece of the Action, & The City on the Edge of Forever), mainly because I find TOS really hard to watch with its unintentionally cheesy acting & laughable special effects. My appreciation for TOS has always come from the movies.

The BluRays fix one of those issues, so I'm willing to give that show a shot again sometime.
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Re: Star Trek
« Reply #134 on: May 18, 2020, 09:44:25 PM »
Timely: the long-awaited Plinkett review of Star Trek Picard.


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Re: Star Trek
« Reply #135 on: May 19, 2020, 06:32:43 PM »
Last year, around spring time or so, I started watching Star Trek Discovery Season 2. Got about 6 episodes before I stopped. There were just so many things about it that irked me from the direction, the writing and the characters. Started watching Homeland Season 6 (which is not great. Worst season of that show but better than Discovery.) Watched Homeland Season 7. Watched all of Barry. Actually went back and watched all Veep. I stopped watching Veep after the third episode back when it first aired but always kind of followed along some of the story line from reviews and it seemed to get more interesting as it went on. Watched the 3rd season of True Detective. Watched half the series of The Goldbergs. Kept up with watching Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Survivor, The Amazing Race, Tosh.0, Brooklyn Nine Nine, The Good Place, Rick & Morty, Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy. Started watching the Goldbergs spin-off Schooled and have seen its first two seasons now. Watched Season 4 of Mr. Robot (absolutely inspired. Probably the best show I watched in this time frame.). Watched the 5th season Better Call Saul. Watched all episodes of the British series Prime Suspect. Saw the first (and possibly only) season of HBO's Watchmen. Finally watched the last couple episodes of season 6 and then all of Season 7 for Voyager. Finally completed that series last month during the Good Friday long weekend. There's probably a bit more I'm forgetting in that not to mention movies I've watched and games I've played.

But since I completed Voyager, I figured why not go and finish Discovery Season 2? There were only 8 episodes to go and then I'd have basically seen all of Trek now aside from a large chunk of the original series and the latest Picard series that has started. (I guess there is an Animated Trek based on the original but no one seems to care or count that as any important Trek.)

What. A. Mistake.

Even though I had moved on to all that better programming (and yes, everything I listed above is better than STD), I was still mildly curious about the mystery it had started building of the red angel and the seven signals. But, as the saying goes, curiosity killed the cat and I should have known better instead of giving this show the benefit of the doubt which I only gave it because of Lorca from Season 1. That mystery unfolded terribly and, by the end, it has basically killed any interest I have in this new era of Trek. I had thought about checking out Picard but forget it. Star Trek is clearly done.

I had thought about starting a thread on Discovery just to start bagging on it but I figured there wasn't much point as oohhboy's pretty much got that on lockdown. I suppose I'd sum it up as this. When watching Voyager, you could see how TV still struggled with incorporating early CGI. It got better by Enterprise's time. CGI was used sparingly so the shows had to rely more on keeping people entertained by the dialogue and ideas. Now the graphics have gotten to movie blockbuster quality and have taken over so that everything can be whiz-bang AMAZING action and the dialogue between characters has decreased in quality to move things all in a perfunctory manner while any deep issues or questions raised during the series are barely explored or are treated like that is a homage to past Trek series. Like the people behind are saying to the fans, remember in past shows how the crew would go to a foreign planet and get in a tricky situation? Look we did that quickly in an episode as well. We're still the same Trek as before because we paid that thing lip service. Sure, the old series would explore the issues or conundrums they faced on those missions but who's got time to think when we can show spaceships go BOOOM!? The effects have now taken over and it is a hollow shell of what the series was meant to be and the direction it had followed for decades through multiple series up until now.
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Re: Star Trek
« Reply #136 on: May 20, 2020, 01:35:03 AM »
A Treky friend of mine Swears that the Animated Star Trek may be the best TOS Trek there is.  It is lean and cuts the stories down to essentials, and I think it is voiced by the original cast.

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« Reply #137 on: May 20, 2020, 04:05:51 AM »
I haven't watched that much of the animated series, but it had some neat ideas. They really embraced the format, doing some things with alien crewmembers that would have been tough to pull off even with the effects budget of something like Discovery.
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« Reply #138 on: May 20, 2020, 12:16:50 PM »
I had thought about starting a thread on Discovery just to start bagging on it but I figured there wasn't much point as oohhboy's pretty much got that on lockdown. I suppose I'd sum it up as this. When watching Voyager, you could see how TV still struggled with incorporating early CGI. It got better by Enterprise's time. CGI was used sparingly so the shows had to rely more on keeping people entertained by the dialogue and ideas. Now the graphics have gotten to movie blockbuster quality and have taken over so that everything can be whiz-bang AMAZING action and the dialogue between characters has decreased in quality to move things all in a perfunctory manner while any deep issues or questions raised during the series are barely explored or are treated like that is a homage to past Trek series. Like the people behind are saying to the fans, remember in past shows how the crew would go to a foreign planet and get in a tricky situation? Look we did that quickly in an episode as well. We're still the same Trek as before because we paid that thing lip service. Sure, the old series would explore the issues or conundrums they faced on those missions but who's got time to think when we can show spaceships go BOOOM!? The effects have now taken over and it is a hollow shell of what the series was meant to be and the direction it had followed for decades through multiple series up until now.

This is something i coined for Stargate Atlantis (more than 10 years ago?!) as "blow stuff up wowzy". The show would use this tactic almost like a setpiece in the Uncharted series, most notably accidentally blowing up an entire solar system, instead of the character growth underpinning things like SG1 did. It was still fun to watch but the wowzy was very much a well it went back to repeatedly.

Compare to say, Doctor Who's Listen or Heaven Sent which was solely Capaldi's doctor (and Steven Moffat reminding that he is actually a good writer).

Also, DS9's visuals and sets has aged far better than Voyager's did.

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Re: Star Trek
« Reply #139 on: May 22, 2020, 08:31:15 AM »
I didn't mind Picard. No real desire to watch it again but I didn't hate it. And the stunning Jeri Ryan didn't hurt either. I'll watch season 2.

Watching through Discovery S2 now. I got a little bored through S1 and dropped off after episode three I think, but I heard good things about season two so I figured I'd start there. I'm quite enjoying it. Really liking Pike. Looks beautiful. Definitely finishing this season off and unless something terrible knocks it down between now and the finale I'll be looking forward to S3 and this new show that got announced a few days ago.

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Re: Star Trek
« Reply #140 on: October 24, 2020, 04:10:18 AM »
So where's the best place to start if I am interested in possibly getting into Star Trek?

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« Reply #141 on: October 24, 2020, 04:22:32 AM »
You'd probably be best off looking for some curated lists of the best episodes of the original series and The Next Generation. Both those series have some great high points but can be pretty hit or miss.
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« Reply #142 on: October 24, 2020, 06:11:17 AM »
You'd probably be best off looking for some curated lists of the best episodes of the original series and The Next Generation. Both those series have some great high points but can be pretty hit or miss.

Alternatively, I'd recommend watching a few of the movies, most notably the Genesis Saga (Star Treks 2-4); Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country; or Star Trek: First Contact. The movies are better if you're familiar with the TV series and previous events, but you don't have to have seen them 1st (no, not even Khan, given that the writer hadn't, either).
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Re: Star Trek
« Reply #143 on: January 30, 2021, 09:48:20 PM »
After recently completing a gauntlet of really long games over the last 4 months, I thought I'd take a break from gaming for a while and finally get to something I've always meant to do but never got around to: actually watching Star Trek: TOS.

I've seen the occasional episode on TV re-runs before (namely City on the Edge of Forever, Trouble With Tribbles, and A Piece of the Action), so it's not like I'm complete unfamiliar with TOS, but I came into Trek with TNG. Most of my experience with Kirk and the gang is with the (far superior) movies. Incidentally, I am watching these via the BluRays with the new effects.

The ordering on the BluRays is...weird. I know that CBS will often place Star Trek episodes on the disc in production order, but I have a really hard time believing that "The Man Trap" and "Charlie X" predated "Where No Man Has Gone Before", which was the show's (2nd) pilot. It's especially weird because WNMHGB doesn't have McCoy or Scotty; all the characters wear these absolutely ridiculous sweaters; and the terminology is all weird (everyone talks about "Earth bases"; "Earth ships"; etc. instead of "Federation ships"; "Starbases"; etc.). There's also an analogy made with money that is just absolutely bizarre considering the Federation doesn't HAVE money.

So far, I've made it up to partway through "Mudd's Women", and the show's been pretty mixed-to-bad so far. I was prepared for goofy stuff. I was prepared for hammy acting. What I wasn't prepared for was all the padding. Later Treks would get criticized for not being able to squeeze their stories into the shorter 40-44 minute run times, but it's hard to argue that TOS was any better at 50 minute episodes when there's just so much WASTED time. I understand that this was the era of variety shows & whatnot, but the stories in these episodes will often just STOP for random musical numbers; random conversation; or long panning shots of NOTHING GOING ON.

I know that the best this show has to offer is before me and every Trek show has taken a while to get rolling, but this has been a hard sit so far and not for the reasons I was expecting. I was kinda expecting compelling sci-fi wrapped in sheer goofiness, and instead it's just been kinda...boring.

I will say this, though: the BluRay restoration is quite lovely, and while the CG Enterprise & planets look hilariously fake...it's TOS. Everything looks hilariously fake. It works nicely. I also really appreciate the re-recorded music and updates to a lot of the matte paintings. I do want to strangle the people who designed the BluRays, though, for not providing a "Play All" feature, which has been an issue with EVERY Star Trek home video release.
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« Reply #144 on: January 30, 2021, 10:26:10 PM »
Where No Man Has Gone Before was the second pilot, but The Man Trap was the first episode actually aired, so they must be in that order. And yeah, a lot of the world building happened on the fly, so there's plenty of seemingly contradictory stuff being thrown around especially early on.
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« Reply #145 on: January 30, 2021, 10:54:59 PM »
Where No Man Has Gone Before was the second pilot, but The Man Trap was the first episode actually aired, so they must be in that order. And yeah, a lot of the world building happened on the fly, so there's plenty of seemingly contradictory stuff being thrown around especially early on.

Indeed. I just finished Mudd's Women and Kirk enters negotiation with the miners advising that he'd been "authorized to pay a suitable price" (or some such language) for the "Lithium crystals". Harry Mudd also referred to jewels and gold as things currently having value, so that's weird. I know this is before replicators, so rarity is still a thing that can happen. It's just weird since later Trek will make it abundantly clear that money hasn't existed in human society since the Eugenics Wars.

Something that I forgot to mention before is how strange the Captain's Logs are in this show. It's tradition in Star Trek for the show to use these as short-hand exposition to the audience and to cover events between scenes. TOS uses them to recap things currently going on to the audience that the audience watching would be aware of...but not the characters giving the log at the time of the narration. For instance, in the Naked Time, Kirk talks about the infection spreading onboard the ship before they even know there IS an infection. Again, it's just weird.
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« Reply #146 on: February 01, 2021, 09:54:55 PM »
Just finished The Menagerie - Parts 1 & 2 and The Corbomite Maneuver, which are probably the first quality episodes of TOS Season 1. Compelling concept, good writing, smooth pacing, competent execution.

"Miri" is quite possibly one of the worst episodes of Star Trek I've ever seen, from its nonsensical setup to its idiotic premise. It's certainly up there with the most annoying episodes of the franchise.

I know the purpose of The Menagerie was to salvage a scrapped pilot, but TBH I kinda like Pike's crew better than Kirk's as of this point in TOS. His Navigator kinda reminded me of Tucker from Enterprise. I would have liked to see more "flashback episodes" feature their antics. They could certainly pull off those silly sweaters better than Kirk could.  I know that Discovery & the new Pike series is going to do stuff with this era of Star Trek, but the response to Discovery & Picard doesn't make me hopeful about that.
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Re: Star Trek
« Reply #147 on: February 02, 2021, 04:54:01 AM »
My friend has a podcast that discusses Star Trek and faith.  If you guys are interested, he started the series with Lower Decks and went through Discovery Season 3...now he is in free wheeling through Star Trek.  He is kinda an original crew scholar of sorts.  The podcast is called The Gospel According to Star Trek.  And I know it sounds stuff, but it is really just two guys geeking out about Star Trek.

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« Reply #148 on: November 11, 2022, 07:01:54 PM »
So yeah, reviving this old thread.

Haven't been in much of a gaming mood lately, so I started watching Star Trek: Voyager on Paramount +, a show I originally abandoned back when it was airing at the conclusion of Season 2. And boy have I heard plenty about it courtesy of SF Debris.

Granted, I'm very early in Season 1 (Episode 5: "The Cloud"), but is it weird to say this show is better than I remembered? In a lot of ways, it reminds me of Enterprise's 1st season: people like to hate on it, but it's actually pretty decent when taken on its own merits. It probably helps that I'm entering this show again with very low expectations, helped a great deal by what passes for Star Trek now.

It certainly helps that in these early episodes, there's at least an attempt to give characters like Chakotay and Paris a slight edge and humor to them. Janeway at least seems to have something approximating a character arc with her starting off rather distant from the crew. Harry Kim has nothing to do, and that will never change. Robert Picardo steals every scene he's in as The Doctor (no, not THAT one).

It is very concerning, though, that the 1st 2 episodes after the Pilot involve time travel and spacial anomalies, something I've heard Voyager is particularly bad about abusing.
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« Reply #149 on: November 11, 2022, 10:11:51 PM »
I'm currently finishing up a rewatch of Deep Space 9, and I'm not sure whether I want to go to Voyager or Enterprise next.

I also want to say I recently started Lower Decks and I'm really liking that.
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