buckykat [none/use name]

He should on no account be allowed within 500m of a child, ever. If that means beaming him into space without a suit since the Voyager is only 343 meters long, so much the better.

Is this giving Neelix credit for being less creepy after Kes wasn’t there for him to creep on anymore?

My mom’s home taped betamaxes of TOS

Star Trek should absolutely be gatekept from conservatives.

When the whole Cerritos crew was having an orgy in 2x08 (in a holodeck sim, but then you cited holodecks sims first) Billups was sitting there in the nude reading happily on his own.

I took his mother’s choice of who to send to him as more evidence of her trying anything and everything (other than just accepting his asexuality) than knowing his actual interests.

Also, aromantic and asexual are different things and do not necessarily go together, so showing romantic interest does not necessarily disprove asexuality.

Right. The only thing missing from this analysis, I think, is that it’s less about his desire to be a Starfleet engineer than his asexuality. I think if his mom would just stop trying to trick him into doing the weird sex ritual he’d be happy playing with dragonbreath instead of warp plasma.

Hysperia is an elaborate LARP and has no actual power over Billups beyond familial and social pressure.

It had exactly the opposite effect for me. I greatly disliked season 1 of Discovery but thought they wrapped it up well enough at the end of the season that they could move on. Georgiou showing back up in season 2 read to me as them having learned absolutely nothing and doubling down on the disaster rather than backpedaling from it.

It’s very good and only gets better as it goes on. Season 2 was fantastic.

Your wife has watched 3/4 of the good modern Trek series and should watch Prodigy. (and the TNG era Treks)

I like Strange New Worlds. Very much hoping they complicate the Gorn cliffhanger they left the last season off with though.

Discovery bringing Georgiou back in season 2 as a Section 31 agent felt to me like the show was doing this, and is what put me off that show specifically. I really like the majority of modern Trek shows, and even like 2 out of 3 of the Kelvin timeline movies.

Dictatorship, socialist, communist, liberal, rights, private property

Really pretty much all of the relevant terms here

Well yes, but more broadly because you keep using words without knowing what they mean

You literally just don’t know what you’re talking about

No, the Federation has personal property, not private property.

Yes, obviously. The Federation is a postscarcity socialist society

The mirror universe section 31 stuff was THE reason I stopped watching Discovery. I disliked it in season 1 but thought it was wrapped up well enough at the end of the season. Then Georgiou showed back up in season 2 and I just completely gave up on the show.

Hopefully we’ll get more of these characters just not as lower deckers anymore.

I literally cannot imagine a less appealing Star Trek than this.