Corgana

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[–] Corgana@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Did you even watch the movie? I swear half the people on here are bots.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

A "reply guy" (wikipedia) is someone who responds to posts/comments in an annoying (usually smug/condescending) way, like what you think of when you think of a "redditor". Big platforms like Reddit like reply-guys because they generate engagement (often someone telling the reply-guy to f-off) it's also not a behavior that an algorithm can recognize, so human mods/admins are needed to curb it.

Over time, if Reply-guys are not banned they tend to make the overall ecosystem too exhausting to participate in, and (authentic, desireable) engagement declines.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I think it has potential to be better in a way Reddit can never be, but the two biggest instances do so little moderation their userbase might as well be "people banned from too many subredits".

I assumed the killer feature of Lemmy would be "zero reply guys" but instance owners seem willing to tolerate them in the interests of faux-engagement. But the irony is this sort of "engagement" actually scares new users away.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 5 points 4 days ago

IDK how I missed this thread but thank you for compiling it, this is awesome

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

In depth open ended thought provoking questions like should really be in DaystromInstitute

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 3 points 6 days ago

🙋‍♂️!!

Thanks for sharing this I will have to check out the whole thing later!

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It was absolutely presupposed when I saw you you echoing the same tired racist "concerns".

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I have not accused you of being racist, just pointing out that you are repeating the exact same "concerns" that racists frequently do.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website -1 points 1 week ago (5 children)

It's just weird to me that you and so many others frequently direct these same criticisms only at this one specific character? Discovery is bad because it has a main character? It's bad because that character is "special?" Am I meant to understand that you don't like any shows with a main character or "special" characters? If so I apologize for the interrogation, but again, it just seems odd that I have never in my life until this one specific show heard the existence of a "main character" described as a bad thing.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website -2 points 1 week ago (7 children)

If I can produce examples from the show of Burhnam being wrong would it change your opinion? Because while I'm sure you do not mean it this way, it feels icky to single out this particular character for the crime of "being special" when that "criticism" is (in my experience) almost never applied to other characters who's actors have lower amounts of melanin in their skin.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 13 points 1 week ago

I get what you're going for, but any in-universe question that asks "why did the writers choose to..." can be answered the same way: "because the writers chose to do it that way". There is no evidence (as far as I know) that any of the writers were trying to communicate the idea that Federation ideals were not resilient to external forces. in fact, seasons 3 and 4 were explicitly about the Federation's ideals being able to sustain after one cataclysmic event, and be necessary to thwart another.

I thought returning the phaser form factor to a more gun-shaped form was also indicative of the show-runners’ head-space.

With all due respect, I think this is more likely an example of you looking for concepts to support your preconceived notions. Example A:

[–] Corgana@startrek.website -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

“one special person across time and space”

I believe you, but I also remember those exact same words being applied to Sisko and Kirk, and in my experience they were not ever presented as a bad thing when applied to Kirk.

I'm actually not a big Discovery fan, but my reasoning has nothing to do with the average screentime of a particular character.

 

I quit as the top mod of /r/StarTrek in 2021 in protest against Reddit's platforming of vaccine disinformation subreddits. Then in 2023 during the API protest, myself and several of the remaining mods (including mods from /r/Risa and /r/DaystromInstitute) started StarTrek.website.

The consensus I've seen on Lemmy has been largely "we don't need to spread the word about our open platforms because Reddit will do something stupid again and there will be another protest and Lemmy will be promoted there". So I hope we can take this as a lesson that we can't rely on platforms being shitty in order to switch society over to open standards. We need to do our best to make Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed good as well as known.

 
 
 

For most of this episode I thought it was a good (if a bit on-the-nose) commentary about our societal distraction sickness and everyone living literally in a bubble. The hero was someone who literally able to walk on his own two legs, etc. But once they went underground everything kind of went loopy?

Where did the slug monsters come from? The idea that they came from "outside the (city's) bubble" kind of reinforced the idea that it's dangerous to hide from what's scary. But then we see the homeworld was also eaten destroyed by the same slug-monsters? If the slugs are controlled or created by the dots, are we meant to understand that the people of the home world are similarly walking around in bubbles? If so, then why does Finetime exist? The whole premise of an off-world "perfect" colony seemed to imply they were providing some service to the home-worlders beyond their 2 hours of "work". Why would a society of people living in bubbles send their youth to a faraway planet?

Then we see that the dots are capable of quickly killing the inhabitants. So where did the slug monsters come from? Why did the dots not just kill zippoty zop? Were the slugs obeying the dots alphabetical order parameters? Were they created by the dots?

At this point I was like "whatever it's Doctor Who, the plots are never as consistent as the vibes!" But then the vibes changed completely when it's revealed everyone is racist?!

My best guess is that this is some bungled way of comparing the people of Finetime to our modern social problem with radicalization on social media, like "look beyond yourself man" but that feels a bit of a stretch. I feel like I'm missing something big here!

 

Until Disco S3, "Living witness" was the furthest future we had seen in Star Trek. But Academy takes place after Discovery. At the end of "Living Witness" the Doctor is described as heading towards Earth.

Assuming the burn didn't get them, it's entirely possible two EMHs are surviving in Discovery's time. I think it would be a fun twist if it wasn't the EMH we expect!

 
 

This was mentioned elsewhere but I thought it was cool enough to deserve it's own post. The artist is Dusty Abell and they are selling copies on their website here: https://www.dustyabell.com/products/star-trek-doctor-who-friendship-is-universal-print

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