Great shot! Is it me, or does it have an expression reminiscent of Chicken of Chickenthoughts?

Looks like a wasp pretending to be a fly, really. Might just be the Beedrill shape it kind of has.

deleted by creator

Just giving my opinion, but I did not care for the Orville. I’m a big fan of wonderment and adventure in Star Trek, with a healthy dose of exploration and philosophical consideration. In my experience, Orville spent all of its time on trying to be Star Trek: The Snark Generation and trying to make Seth MacFarlane look like a cool space captain. I think around the third or fourth time MacFarlane had said something incredibly offensive to the person he was meant to be diplomatically engaging with, but since he said it in his quick Family Guy aside voice it was apparently okay, that I got pretty tired of the show. It was way too much of a badly written ego trip for MacFarlane and not nearly enough science fiction fun. I was left feeling like the Orville was what would happen if Brian from Family Guy tried to write Star Trek, that it was more of mockery of science fiction than a positive addition, and I never went back.

In my further opinion, Lower Decks, meanwhile, is knocking it out of the park. I’ve heard a lot of good things about Strange Worlds as well, though I haven’t had opportunity to check it out yet.

EDIT: Yeah, I figured this would happen. Hooray the internet.

For a moment, I thought this was a cryptid instance and briefly wondered what level of crazy believes that Bigfoot will put you in the ground if you don’t believe in him.

Man, I had such high hopes for Anthony Mackie. He’s been great in everything else. Can’t out-act bad writing, though.

I think you make a good point. Some of the humor is pretty low for a Star Trek medium. It does catch its stride as it goes along.

I firmly disagree, but I’m trying to avoid conversations that hold too much negativity, so I’m afraid I won’t engage further. I deleted my comment because honestly, it was a cheap shot.

Or you could skin your knee and go “Ahh! Ahh! Ahh!” for ten minutes, because that’s still funny, isn’t it?

After being gone from it since Star Trek Enterprise, my wife and I got back in with Star Trek Lower Decks (oddly enough). If you can handle it being animated (and goofy), it is actually a very dearly written love-letter to TNG and some of the most important moments in Star Trek lore. We appreciated that it didn’t try to reinvent characters that already exist, and did a good job of bringing on old actors for cameos. They bring on people from TNG, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager all the time to reprise their roles.

There’s a live-action Star Trek currently running that I can’t attest to, but it has a crossover with Lower Decks that means I’m going to give it a try.

Rupert Murdoch, to answer your question.

What I would actually do with a time machine.

Huh. The books were about a really nasty form of fungus, according to Wikipedia.

That was not at all what I got from the movie. There was a meteor crash at the beginning even. I thought it was something like a von Neumann probe that wasn’t compatible with our particular brand of reality, an attempt by an alien entity to reach out and establish a connection with a world it didn’t understand. I loved the idea that all of the horrors were likely just incidental to the process of the entity attempting to learn in an inhuman fashion.

EDIT; I forgot this was the internet when I wrote this comment. Hopefully editing helps remove it more thoroughly.

They did last year as well. I recall there being some racy stuff that was being blocked out by black boxes placed by the admins, and people were able to track admin and mod accounts (like spez) that were placing pixels instantly with no cooldown. People were pissed then already, and the admin/mod response was basically “get wrecked we too smort lulz”

Place even last year was blatantly a ploy to give reddit more free and controllable content.

Which is the point of all of this. They’ve been flexing their ability to control the flow of information on their site to show off for investors since the minute they announced the API changes. They’re going to use Place to further demonstrate the level of control they have over the userbase by “shutting down the protests.” Advertisers and investors are going to be eating this up, especially since so many people are still engaging and giving hate-clicks along the way. Imagine how attractive a completely pliable and obedient userbase of literal millions of progressive swing voters is going to look.

What if reincarnation is real and this is why we have survival instincts, because we learned them from when we were all rats or whatever…

Adult collectible

Not a toy

Oh ObviousPlant. Always good on the details.

Klaatu, baranda, nikto…

I wanna be, the very best…