So at some point the couch potatoe will be unhappy veggin' away in front of the boob tube, i.e. what makes him happy now after 8 hours of "you want fries with that"? He would get up and do something with his life? Great! Mission accomplished!
That's the bit I don't understand. Why avoid hedonism? If there is no reason to toil to satisfy the basic needs of the Maslow pyramid, and if people are happy with that, where is the problem?
The difference is probably that the guest strips very, very rarely become canon. Unless the strip is SO off the rocker that it simply doesn't matter anyway.
I like Star Trek. Not really with a passion or being the guy that knows the first name of some crewman that was visible in the background of an obscure episode that was shown once but never in reruns, but I like it. Pretty much all of them, to varying degree. TOS had its charm, with its foam rocks and rubber mask aliens, it was like some sort of really well made 60s scifi show (watch some other 60s scifi shows and you know why I said "well made"). I liked the writing of TNG, they had some very good episodes with quite thought provoking social commentary. DS9's appeal was in the conflict and resolution thereof, pitting various races that didn't interact too much before into a confined space and pretty much requiring them to work together in some fashion. Voyager offered a chance to see what the values of the Federation are actually worth when there is no Federation to rely on, and we had a chance to see a few new races with new social conflicts to bounce the characters off.
And then came Enterprise. And I didn't like it. Why? Because it blew the timeline apart. Making a prequel in scifi is hard. Usually one of the few things you cannot do is to introduce new races because, well, why don't they exist in what's supposed to be later times? The usual solution is either genocide or some time travel fuckups. Enterprise decided to not decide and just do both. I still think the smart thing to do would have been to rely on established, lesser used races, give them a new back story, make some of those that will later be allies enemies and run with it. It would certainly have been interesting because you already know that they will be allies in the future but how did you get there? How did you turn a bitter enemy into a later ally? That could again have offered some chance for some interesting social aspect, since we, as humans, are pretty much constantly in that problem. Former enemies become allies, former allies become enemies. It would actually have been interesting if the Klingons would have been more inclined to cooperate with the federation at first, only to see some blunder (preferably by T'Pol, just to make things interesting) piss them off to the point that they're still bitter enemies centuries later.
Anyway. Now this. I don't know, it just doesn't click. The characters come across less like a star fleet crew and more like a self-help group. They're busier trying to deal with their own personal problems than actually doing some kind of "space stuff". Don't get me wrong, it's actually refreshing to see characters in Star Trek that are more than cartoony hero cookie-cutter characters, but this is definitely overdoing it.
DS9 was a series of one-offs with an overreaching story arc tying them together, much like Dr. Who, where a season has a general overall theme that gets woven into the stories. You can still watch single episodes and get your entertainment out of them without having seen the whole season.
That worked to some degree for the first seasons of Bab5 too, Not so much at the end where whole shows didn't make any sense if you didn't know the story taking you there.
TNG was great in that aspect, because, while the characters had background stories that surfaced once in a while and older shows were referenced and events unfolded, every show could stand on its own and you could watch it without missing anything crucial or sitting there in "WTF just happened" frustration.
And it will be regarded just like our comments on Net Neutrality, I assume? I.e. if it is "surprisingly" overwhelmingly against whatever Ashit Pile wants, it's gonna be dismissed as fake and fabricated?
What encryption? All I see is a beautiful picture of a flower.
You outlaw encryption, I start using steganography. And what you call encrypted data is just random noise, sorry. Want to see my pictures from the trip to Niagara Falls? I have 500 pictures of the falls alone, a MUST see!
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Over here that's considered granny reading material.
I think I got that wrong, politicians want Amazon to enable people to circumvent censorship and country lockouts?
Did the RIAA check bounce?
That would make Sweden one of the few countries that didn't turn the burden of proof around when it comes to rape.
So at some point the couch potatoe will be unhappy veggin' away in front of the boob tube, i.e. what makes him happy now after 8 hours of "you want fries with that"? He would get up and do something with his life? Great! Mission accomplished!
Why pursue happiness when it cannot be attained? If an endeavour is doomed from the start, it is not very logical to undertake it.
That's the bit I don't understand. Why avoid hedonism? If there is no reason to toil to satisfy the basic needs of the Maslow pyramid, and if people are happy with that, where is the problem?
The difference is probably that the guest strips very, very rarely become canon. Unless the strip is SO off the rocker that it simply doesn't matter anyway.
Don't tell me, tell that to the marketing specialist at CBS that thought it's a bright idea.
Millennials are more interested in their OWN personal problems, not those of someone else. At least if they can't pretend to "help" them.
I like Star Trek. Not really with a passion or being the guy that knows the first name of some crewman that was visible in the background of an obscure episode that was shown once but never in reruns, but I like it. Pretty much all of them, to varying degree. TOS had its charm, with its foam rocks and rubber mask aliens, it was like some sort of really well made 60s scifi show (watch some other 60s scifi shows and you know why I said "well made"). I liked the writing of TNG, they had some very good episodes with quite thought provoking social commentary. DS9's appeal was in the conflict and resolution thereof, pitting various races that didn't interact too much before into a confined space and pretty much requiring them to work together in some fashion. Voyager offered a chance to see what the values of the Federation are actually worth when there is no Federation to rely on, and we had a chance to see a few new races with new social conflicts to bounce the characters off.
And then came Enterprise. And I didn't like it. Why? Because it blew the timeline apart. Making a prequel in scifi is hard. Usually one of the few things you cannot do is to introduce new races because, well, why don't they exist in what's supposed to be later times? The usual solution is either genocide or some time travel fuckups. Enterprise decided to not decide and just do both. I still think the smart thing to do would have been to rely on established, lesser used races, give them a new back story, make some of those that will later be allies enemies and run with it. It would certainly have been interesting because you already know that they will be allies in the future but how did you get there? How did you turn a bitter enemy into a later ally? That could again have offered some chance for some interesting social aspect, since we, as humans, are pretty much constantly in that problem. Former enemies become allies, former allies become enemies. It would actually have been interesting if the Klingons would have been more inclined to cooperate with the federation at first, only to see some blunder (preferably by T'Pol, just to make things interesting) piss them off to the point that they're still bitter enemies centuries later.
Anyway. Now this. I don't know, it just doesn't click. The characters come across less like a star fleet crew and more like a self-help group. They're busier trying to deal with their own personal problems than actually doing some kind of "space stuff". Don't get me wrong, it's actually refreshing to see characters in Star Trek that are more than cartoony hero cookie-cutter characters, but this is definitely overdoing it.
DS9 was a series of one-offs with an overreaching story arc tying them together, much like Dr. Who, where a season has a general overall theme that gets woven into the stories. You can still watch single episodes and get your entertainment out of them without having seen the whole season.
That worked to some degree for the first seasons of Bab5 too, Not so much at the end where whole shows didn't make any sense if you didn't know the story taking you there.
TNG was great in that aspect, because, while the characters had background stories that surfaced once in a while and older shows were referenced and events unfolded, every show could stand on its own and you could watch it without missing anything crucial or sitting there in "WTF just happened" frustration.
Well, you can't spend money to watch the whole show, why waste bandwidth on you watching the trailer?
I'm not really a big Star Trek fan (actually, I hardly watched anything past TNG), but even I knew that his first name was Christopher.
Call her Santa for all I care, it still doesn't make the character interesting.
Maybe you should create your own message board. With blackjack! And hookers!
In fact, forget the message board.
And it will be regarded just like our comments on Net Neutrality, I assume? I.e. if it is "surprisingly" overwhelmingly against whatever Ashit Pile wants, it's gonna be dismissed as fake and fabricated?
To what levels could that possibly rise anymore? We are already at a level that makes the signal to noise ratio of email look favorable.
They're supposed to make you pay attention to what you're told, not to reflect upon it.
Working as designed.
We need more productive hours, not more hours. Instead of dumping more hours on people, how about cutting the bullshit?
Want to bet that we'll see this pop up in some chemtrail conspiracy video within a day?
What tools? Oh, that thumb drive? I wiped that a while ago, right now it's empty.
Even that's no longer true. All it takes is the correct kind of picture that has potentially lots of random noise and you're golden.
You might want to hang on to that 2mpix-potato you used to shoot pics 20 years ago...
What encryption? All I see is a beautiful picture of a flower.
You outlaw encryption, I start using steganography. And what you call encrypted data is just random noise, sorry. Want to see my pictures from the trip to Niagara Falls? I have 500 pictures of the falls alone, a MUST see!
Huh? We don't put goofballs like that in positions of power, where does that hyperbole come from?
You're free to do as we tell you. And if I don't need it, neither do you.