/strek/ - Star Trek

>>31982

They pushed the usual diversity bullshit over producing a good show.

>>30992

>It's a good show but it has the same issues as Game of Thrones:

and It solves this problem the same way Game of Thrones did too: kills them.

>>33518

Yeah, I don't like how they handled Ashford this season.

>>33526

He was my favorite character, but aside from that it was an idiotic choice from a narrative perspective. What will be the internal source of conflict for the Belters still in the Sol System? Probably Drummer vs Inaros.

>>33518

Every season of The Expanse they kill off the best character, it is tradition now.

>>33659

Picard was the TLJ of KurtzmanTrek though.

Well it's out. Has anyone watched it?

>>33666

Not I.

>>33661

>He tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him!

What's worse than one task? One hundred tasks.

pItSa' chab DaSopchugh bIpI'moH.

This doesn't even cover all the shit they already went over in the Re-views of Picard. Those do a pretty good job of tearing it a new asshole all on their own.

>>33642

Reminds me of the early seasons of Diagnosis Murder, before they started saving the world every episode.

Just bumping this to see if the front page will update.

There was a Klingon-themed novel I read once that featured Klingon farmers. They were celebrating a harvest festival called Yobta' yupma', and drove around in what amounted to an APC without suspension. They considered themselves under-appreciated.

>>33456

Klingon NEETs sitcom when?

>>33628

Personally, I would prefer a Kardassian on Romulan romantic series.

>>33500

>Scientists, doctors, and lawyers bullied by muh irrational traditionalist honour culture

>All smrt people need to inherrently be effeminate weaklings like the moderns who are part of the cult of scientism, a scientist could never value honour or valour

Why is it that liberals who have the greatest conceit of being able to "analyze" society are also the ones with a total inability to recognize the contingency of their own culture? To them progressive ideology is a law of the universe, not even literal aliens from outer space could have a social dynamic that differs from their preconceptions.

If we ever made contact with alien races these types of people would immediately be trying to foment a colour revolution on their homeworld while simultaneously starting an inter-species breeding program.

>>33630

There's also that whole thing about " they've moved beyond petty things like greed racism and hate". Not in a "we have learned to better suppress and control these feelings now" but outright "we just don't have them at all anymore" even though those traits are so inate to the human condition that you'd need crazy soul destroying 1984 levels of social engineering to program out of people like that.

>>33631

Maybe there's more to the eugenics wars than we know.

>>33634

It is a interesting line of thought if the augments pretty much started with full bore genetic Supermen like Kahn or if there was slow ramp up in how much mucking with genes they were doing. It's entirely possible Earth society went through a Gattica like stage prior to the eugenics wars and the early low level genetically engineered people (that were subject to all sorts of new modifications intended to make them better members of society) bred with the general populations for a few generations before the shit hit the fan, so the entire current ST human population could have at least a little altered genetic code in them.

>>33635

It certainly makes more sense than a geneticist just waking up one day and deciding to make a genetically engineered overlord or whatever.

>>33568

Careful, Icarus.

>>33568

Ensign, they were already black, as you specifically demanded.

Computer… new program. Interior: ships counselors office. Have commander Riker come to me to talk about his erectile dysfunction. Make him depressed… no… make him devastated. Make him whimper like a little bitch. Then have counselor Troi come in to suck my diamond hard dick. Make Riker say that he wished he was half the man I am.

…

I'm sorry, Lieutenant Barclay, you holo deck privileges have been revoked.

…

Intercom: Lieutenant Barclay, report to my ready room. NOW

Imagine image boards in the 24th century. Anons would make lewd or weird programs and exchange them with each other. What a life that would be. Clearly born too early

>>33629

When you put it that way… Also incels will be able to create artificial girlfriends who can give them a simulacrum of genuine affection to prevent them from feeling the crushing loneliness of the outside world.

Well happiness until there is a fault with the power, software or some insensitive crew-mate decides to make modifications.

>>33614

Before the top military brass of the US military (who have access to /trek/ levels of technology mind you) opened a back channel leading to a covert war that had all other boards caught in the crossfire

I uploaded the banners, but I'm still not seeing them. Is anyone else seeing them?

>>33621

And of course as soon as I post that, they start showing up. fml

>>33622

I'm having trouble viewing them. I get either the same banner or no banner at all.

>>33624

Seems to work better right after I post and solve a captcha, but then it goes back to not serving them up after I load a few more threads. Could be on my end, i guess. Cookies or something.

>>33599

A bit strange that they're going after SPIC with Plinkett despite not doing so for STD and already having a full Re:View series for SPIC. But welcome nonetheless.

>>33599

I honestly can't wait.

>>33602

they only went up to episode 8

>>33602

because ultimately STD felt like a separate (ignorable) thing from the rest of the franchise. Meanwhile Picard is quasi direct sequel to TNG that shits on every about it and the star trek franchise as a whole that you can't just pretend doesn't exist.

>>33606

On top of this, there's the nostalgia factor. STD is almost all new characters and even the ones that are from TOS are played by different actors, so it's easier to treat it as a separate thing. Picard on the other hand, has more returning characters played by the same actors, so when it fucks up, it hurts more because they're fucking up with the same actors who made the characters who they were.

>>33574

Ferenginar

I like the rain, all women are naked, and I want to surround myself with like-minded people who serve corporate greed.

>>33592

assuming OP thought about his answer any longer than 5 seconds,

its got to be whatever planet the wadi came from, there vidya was amazing

>>33539

It would be easy to vamp most of those (and the STO timeline Klingon's are fixed, have someone take the chancellorship by force who has brass balls and the will to use them). Honestly the dominion is just as big a threat as ever (they managed to force the changelings to diversify their planetary holdings). And it would be easy to turn the borg scary again

>captain whoever is intrigued when a borg queen (make this one a dude, borg King) invites star fleet onto a cube. The ship sits three days to reveal that it's an almost empty cube with it's weapons, and nanites intentionally burned out .

>The captain finally goes over as requested. They find the king and his single manservant) sitting at a table (borg table think techblack) and he waves

>The king is gregarious and welcomes everyone making nonchalant small talk and so on until the captain finally frustrated asks

>WHAT DO YOU WANT

>The King stops, his fun obviously ruined "So impatient, well I guess we are here for an important work after all.

>We are the Borg. The king says, we have been beaten, You have made damn fools outs of us across three sectors of space. We still don't know how you really got out to the Delta Quadrant you know that?

>the table seems stunned and the king Continues.

>I surrender, the individuals of the borg surrender. Our culture such as it was , your individuality was adapted to serve us. And it failed miserably. Assimilations are down 37 percent. The collective has finally decided to put the Locutus project to bed.

>The table begins reaching for phasers which they find disabled by growing nanite counts

>So I surrender, myself back to the cube the king says. He begins twitching, trying to smile as parts of his personality are violently overridden in a convulsive manner.

>We Won't be a minute he slurs.

>The team manages to barely beam out as the King shows up iPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>33579

Making the Borg scary again so soon after VOY is basically like saying they should just have had the Empire not be defeated after RotJ. It undermines the achievements of the previous generation of heroes. It could definitely have been done with some competent writing though. I always expected all of these civilisations to rebuild, it just needed to be shown.

>>33579

>borg queen

Ditch the queen concept entirely. It was a bad idea that came about because the writers were too lazy to write a baddie that didn't have a "face" and it ruined the whole fucking point. Say it was a failed experiment in creating a "user interface" for a civilization the borg once encounter that was too strong to be taken by force but was found to be possibly open to voluntary assimilation with a little coaxing. So Borg searched through the minds currently plugged in, found one with a strong diplomatic ability, then upgraded it and allowed a measure of autonomy while still directly connected to the collective in order to properly interact with the species on the Collective's behalf, but this went horribly wrong as once given some level of independence, the personalty was actually able to dominate the rest of the collective through force of will and set itself up as the queen instead of just a spokesperson. You could even establish that was why Huge and his "corrupted" borg were rejected. The queen recognized him as a threat that might do exactly what she did ages ago, so she ditched the whole infection before it could spread further.

And anyway to reintroduce the borg and make it clear that weakness has now been purged in part thanks to the federation's meddling and the collective is now a unified being again and the collective has taken more extreme measures to prevent drones from developing individuality or overriding the collective.

>>33436

Why did they have to make Picard a limp wristed passive shell. If the Federation was the machine of injustice it is portrayed to be, then the Picard of TNG would be the first to challenge this.

>>33512

>It's a STAR empire. Losing their homeworld would have no impact on the Rumulan society since they would have centuries to prepare and find a new home in another system.

It may not affect the people on the fringes of the Star Empire but it would affect the people closer, depending on how centralised the government was.

Not to mention the psychological aspect of losing one's homeworld.

I see them having a fleet based capital similar to the Rock of the Dark Angels with a capital ship being formed around a large, hollowed out vestige of their home planet.

>>33581

>Ditch the queen concept entirely. It was a bad idea that came about because the writers were too lazy to write a baddie that didn't have a "face" and it ruined the whole fucking point.

I second this. I would like the Borg to be like the creatures in the film Virus (1999) where the flesh is seen purely as another machine component and the real enemy is sentient software.

>>33583

We can tell by how the Romulans operate that is a very centralized empire.

It shouldn't be so centralized, but it is, and that's not just a Romulan oversight, it's something that comes up in Star Trek as well as other science fiction a lot. Then again I can understand why the planet on which your people originated would play a central role. As far as TV goes, Andromeda is the only series off the top of my head that featured primarily humans, but cast Earth as a backwater world. The Expanse also does this in later novels, but Earth hasn't been ruined on the show, yet.

>>27326

Rom was tolerable around the middle of the show, when he was the talented but autistic engineer that acted as Quark's hapless accomplice. It was only later that he turned into the writer's mouthpiece for the leftist agenda.

>>27326

MOOOOOOGIE

>>27212

Like the person who created the Linux GUI that looks like TNG computer interface, these are truly great men.

>>27327

Well how would you fix this? I guess the most ferengi way is that there is always a tension between legal activity and illegal activity. So occassionally you get faggot nagus's and everyone basically goes yeah that's great and nothing changes outside of what's in the capital city until the blackmarkets align behind someone dealing in sizable chunks of money who basically makes them the 'darknegus'. Then things conspire (or maybe the darknegus just buys the position?. I kind of like the idea that yeah occasionally ferenginar goes thru periods of 'otherworld mania' until the greed takes over again.

>>33522

I wouldn't. They needed Rom to keep Quark as a pure likable character.

>>33139

>TERRA Prime

>lives on Luna

he's moon cucked

>>33139

Based.

>>33566

>>33139

Is there a meme form of this with the text on screen?

>>33585

It should say "the Sun," not "the Earth." Dyson spheres are built around stars to capture 100% of their output, not around planets.

>>33591

Yeah I just realized that a sphere around the Earth would achieve the opposite effect, you're gonna want to work these details out before building.

>>31545

If the blade weighs the same as the butt the Lirpa is actually a pretty good weapon.

>>31572

joocy