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| Topic | Anagram ranks anything Star Trek-related with a short writeup (spoilers) |
| Anagram 09/13/20 6:06:02 PM #36: | Tribbles Tribbles are a great insight to the mind of a troubled idiot. Edward, a minor Starfleet biologist, is reassigned to climatology by the new captain on her first day. He files an anyou know what I can't even do this, I hate Discovery, it's well-established, let's move on. Tribbles are great. They're a really clever and simple take on the 'alien rodent' concept. It's completely believable that everyone would think they're cut right up until they become a giant problem, and it's believable that the Klingons would view them as some kind of scourge. 10/10, flawless execution. Geordie's Epic Maneuver I hope LeVar Burton realized how silly this looks when he made it. What really sells this is that Geordie does this roll maneuver to get through the slowly descending door, but he has enough time left to look back and see that he could have made it through if he'd started after he finished. I get that with the budget they had, they couldn't make the door descend faster without endangering the actor, but this is just peak funny-bad. God Aliens Not Respecting Consent I probably shouldn't even title this with this, since Q actually does respect Janeway's no (points for Q, I guess), but I'm going with it because there's another god alien that doesn't respect Zefram Cochrane's refusal. It's true that the show does not give even the slightest thought to the implications of this revelation. Whenever I rewatch DS9, I always forget this part until it happens, it's so, so uncomfortable. Of note: Sisko himself doesn't seem to care at all. Data x Borg Queen [robo][tf][buzzsaw] See, the idea of tempting Data to the dark side is interesting because Data normally doesn't feel emotions, so he has no experience with bribery or temptation (there's an episode of TNG where a Klingon tries to bribe him, and Data is so unused to the idea that when he realizes what's happening and the Klingon sees that the bribe won't work, he pretends to be offended at Data 'misunderstanding' him to avoid it getting reported to Picard). So on the one hand, this is a really clever idea. But I hate the Borg Queen. I hate her in concept as well as execution, but even if we accept that there needs to be a queen "to bring order to chaos" (barf), why does she need to be sexually attracted to mortal beings? She should be aroused by turning planets into space zombies, not by a slightly doughy Brent Spiner. Technobabble Honestly, I don't mind it when they put effort into it. The TNG writers are better about this than anyone else (including DS9), where the extent of it is usually Geordi saying "We can get the transporter to work again if we use a transphasic inversion coil," but VOY really goes all-out. I don't want to turn every writeup into a DIS rant, so I'll just say that DIS also abuses technobabble. ---------------- The Beginning of Wisdom The Rules of Acquisition Data & Picard Geordie's Epic Maneuver Assimilate This Galaxy Quest Q Tribbles TNG Warp Core Sound Where No Fan Has Gone Before Timescape Duet Wolf in the Fold Make It So Technobabble RedLetterMedia's Picard Re:Views Mike and Rich's Top 5 TNG episodes Anagram Highly Illogical For the Uniform The Rock's Appearance on Voyager It's a Faaaaaaaaake! Naomi Wildman DS9/Babylon 5 Similarities Get the Cheese to Sickbay Night Terrors Flaunting Danger Clip This is the Power of Math, People Warp 10 God Aliens Not Respecting Consent The Rape Gangs of Turkana IV Find Him and Kill Him Data x Borg Queen [robo][tf][buzzsaw] --- Not changing this sig until I decide to change this sig. Started: July 6, 2005 ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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