jalanhenning

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[–] jalanhenning@startrek.website 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

In an interview with Open Pike Night, the author said he was inspired to use neutrinos by this NPR story and by this What If? XKCD essay.

Thanks, as always! You meant dessert not desert, though I guess strong-force neutrinos can be anything!

I wonder why they brought back Boyce instead of introducing Dr. Piper?

 

While IMDB users are not representative of the wider population, I find it interesting to see that they've soured on Season 4 episodes so far.

[–] jalanhenning@startrek.website 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It feels like the marshmallows in the cereal of season two (Lower Decks crossover, musical episode) were so well received they decided to go with all marshmallows (gimmicky episodes)for the first half of this season.

 
 
[–] jalanhenning@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"Sam says Caleb is 20 years old, but I assume she’s not being precise, since he was separated from his mother nearly 16 years prior, which would make him nearly 22." In the voice messages from his mom, she can be heard wishing him a happy 19th birthday and a happy 20th birthday.

[–] jalanhenning@startrek.website 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Love these! First thing I look for after finishing an episode.

One typo: unfinished sentence in the Kometa fish paragraph.

[–] jalanhenning@startrek.website 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Though I am deeply grateful that there is no cliffhanger.

In a season of genre experimentation they couldn't decide whether to end with a Doctor Who episode or a Doctor Strange episode, so why not both?

As I've written elsewhere: By "time-traveling doctor," Pelia was clearly referring to that time she did drugs with McCoy in the 1930s!

Thanks for doing these so quickly! These are always one of the first things I seek out to read after watching an episode.

What I always wanted was someone to rearrange all the clips into chronological order. I don’t know why but it bothers me that they skip around.

  • The one time I got to see Gene Roddenberry speak, he had brought along a blooper reel, which I think was fairly common to show at Star Trek conventions in the late 1970s, early 1980s?
  • The Greatest Trek podcast mentioned that "TK" in the name TK Bellows is clearly an homage to the publishing term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_come_(publishing)
  • The Greatest Trek also felt that the Uhura assistance to Scotty was a nod to her caregiving of him in Star Trek 5 (bringing him dinner while working, going on shore leave together)
 

Where would you put Galaxy Quest in a chronological rewatch of Star Trek episodes, and why?

 

Does anyone have any details on the old cave set? How many different caverns it had? What its layout was?

 

What do you think are some of the worst examples of Treknobabble in the franchise?

And what series do you think does it poorly the most often?

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