VindictiveJudge

I’m going to be honest - the first season of PIC was so bad I tried to forget about pretty much everything but Laris. I am pleased to report that I successfully forgot everything about the imagination repair tool and still no longer recall it.

Wait, does C read like valley girl speech in Greek?

Star Wars ships being faster is dependent on them following pre-charted hyperspace lanes. If something isn’t on a hyperspace lane, they have to travel at sub-light speeds. The Enterprise could warp to the other side of the star system in an instant and then wait hours for a Star Destroyer to catch up. Or go to the neighboring system that isn’t on a hyperspace lane and wait years for them. On the other hand, the ISD could cross the galaxy in a few days, provided there’s a charted path there.

Yeah, it’s easy to have a prequel character that doesn’t show up in the original and have that make sense, but technology is much harder to explain away. You generally need some form of major societal collapse to explain why tech in a prequel isn’t around anymore. So long as anyone knows how to make the tech, it will come back. Even someone just being aware that the tech existed can result in someone reinventing it.

This isn’t too difficult to accomplish if the setting is before the information age to begin with, but it’s much harder to justify if the internet or an equivalent is around. We lost the secret of how to make concrete for about a thousand years following the collapse of Rome. On the other hand, David Hahn built a nuclear reactor in his home with just books from the library. Those books are now available any time you want on that neat rectangle you keep in your pocket, and we know from experience that you can’t really scrub anything from the internet, so they’ll always be there so long as the internet still exists.

Somewhere out there on the Klingon portion (and probably the Romulan portion) of Trek’s internet equivalent are detailed accounts of the USS Discovery, her crew, and her spore drive. The ship was operating completely in the open, after all. And since the Klingons never classified that info, it would be easily and readily available to anyone who can read Klingon or has access to a universal translator.

Damn French and its nonsense spelling!

Gundam: The Witch From Mercury, too.

Given that typical gestation time is less than one year, that involves some planning and determination.

As in a mine or as in a sword?

Carrie Fisher said she had no memory of making that due to being high off her ass.

E.g.: the illogical irrational hyper-emoting vulcans.

Uh, Vulcans have always been illogical and irrational. This is partially because the writers tend to be bad at basic logic, but Trek has a looong history of Vulcans being pompous, racist assholes that are irrationally obsessed with tradition to the point they made it a de facto religion.

They are usually stone faced while they do it, though.

They made up an excuse about how there was ‘no room’ for promotions, except they demoted Paris for a while which would have freed up a spot for Kim. Also, Kim being an ensign when he’s in charge of all of Ops doesn’t make any sense; he has lieutenants and possibly lieutenant commanders under him.

Out of universe, Berman said that someone absolutely had to be the rookie, even after seven years in deep space, so Kim couldn’t get promoted or meaningfully grow. He also tried to fire Wang a few times for nebulous reasons, only backing off when Wang got a ‘sexiest man on TV’ award. Wang was also the only Star Trek cast member to ever be denied the opportunity to direct an episode, courtesy of Berman. Wang also once said of Berman, “if there is a hell in this existence that we have that people can go to, he’s first on the list.”

So, short answer is that Berman is scum.

Guy on the left looks less like Qui-Gon and more like Obi-Wan in Attack of the Clones.

They also lie and claim they can’t lie.

I had the opposite reaction to the Lorca reveal. He was the only interesting character at that point and they just threw it away.

Where do I find this setting?

The first and third for sure, don’t think the second will be a significant factor.

Worse. The network went under and they finished up the show with the remaining budget, cramming the front half of what was supposed to be season 5 into season 4. They didn’t get picked up by TNT until after they filmed the series finale. After unexpectedly getting renewed, they filmed a new season 4 finale and pushed the already filmed finale back to the end of season 5. And JMS had to scramble to fill content now that half of it had already been used.

Going to be completely honest, Dexter isn’t worth finishing. The first few seasons are fun, but the show struggles to actually go anywhere until the final season, at which point it goes straight into a ditch. I think I lost any lingering respect for the show around season 6 and kept watching due to sunk cost fallacy and nostalgia for the first couple seasons. I haven’t watched the spinoffs, but the only one that’s finished so far apparently followed the same trajectory over much fewer episodes.

The first Klingon BoP in the movie was originally a stolen Romulan prototype in an earlier draft.

Babylon 5 is literally the only show I can think of with full length seasons and seasons that don’t have episodes wasted on filler, and that really only applies to seasons 3 and 4, when the showrunner personally wrote every single script. He also wrote all of season 5, but there were production issues that messed with the pacing of the front half. The stress of writing 22 cohesive and relevant episodes every year was also getting to him. Somewhere in the 10-14 per year range feels like the sweet spot to me.

That said, a season needs to come out each year, not every other year. When there’s too much time between seasons, the audience and the writers start losing track of how little time has passed in-universe and then characters start getting over things oddly fast.