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"The arm left by the previous T-800 caused this mess and I noticed he's missing an arm. Should I find it and toss that in, too? Nah, I'm sure it will be fine."

And that's why the shitty sequels happened.

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My wife likes TNG and Lower Decks, I'm still easing her in to DS9 and Voy.

The other day I showed her a picture of Picard wearing a yellow uniform, and she said "he's wearing the wrong uniform. He's command, not engineering." before I could even ask her what was wrong with the Pic.

I immediately yelled "YOU'RE FINALLY A NERD!" And shot a text to the family text group and our friend group to share the good news, everyone had a good chuckle, and she just goes "YOU MADE ME THIS WAY! Not that I'm complaining...."

I have successfully made a convert. And yesterday she actually asked to watch more Voy before she even got home from work.

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lemm.ee

when she corrects you and says the uniform is "gold" and the division is "operations," you'll know she's a super nerd!

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lemmy.world

Well, at some point Starfleet swapped colors. See Kirk and Scotty from TOS.

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samus12345reply
lemmy.world

I like how most Star Trek characters are clueless about the past, but the Lower Decks characters have encyclopedic knowledge about the most minute details.

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lemmy.myserv.one

That's what makes Lower Decks cringeworthy for some people (not me): they lean on the fourth wall all the time, they act more as fans than as people in universe.

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lemmy.world

And that's why I love it. Star Trek has way too many goofy moments to take itself too seriously.

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midwest.social

For real. The musical episode in SNW is around the seventh or eighth goofiest premise for an episode, and I'm not even counting Lower Decks.

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That episode crossed the line to "unwatchable" for me. "We'd love to sing" should not be a reason to have such an episode. I like Christina Chong, but knowing she pushed for this episode soured her character for me.

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or the DS9 episode Trials and Tribble-ations where they actually comment on this.

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She hasn't seen TOS, but does know the "red shirt" meme.

Personally I think TNG has the best color scheme, but I'm biased since it's my favorite

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mander.xyz

He also wears blue during the episode where Q makes him not a captain when he prevents his younger self from getting in the bar fight with the Naussicans

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Dude gets a heart transplant after a bar fight with naussican pirates, And people still think he's an uptight nerdy philosophy major....

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lemm.ee

Ahem… archeology major.

Was Indiana Jones uptight and stuffy? Yeah, kinda…

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lemmy.world

That is what he becomes...until the movies, when Stewart wanted him to be an action hero.

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Patrick Stewart is super jacked in those movies (specifically insurrection), it kinda blew my mind.

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midwest.social

After watching the bit in We'll Always Have Tom Paris, I can't read Voy without hearing it in Mariner's voice

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lemmy.world

I really like how they managed to make the LD characters use TOS.

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Ransom calls them "Those Old Scientists" and it catches on.

Honestly when I heard that line I cracked up, but my wife was lost since she hasn't seen it.

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Kind of a missed opportunity to name the crossover episode "Those Old Scientists," though. Should have been something using SNW.

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lemmy.world

This is the best one of these I've seen. Maybe just because T2JD is a fantastic film

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It holds up really well, considering how old it is. You'd think the effects would look dated, but they're still as cool as the day they came out.

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Sarah: "The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first time with a sense of hope, because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too."

Narrator: "We couldn't."

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lemmy.mindoki.com

I don't have the faintest about what that means, but I feel this is a really good meme format!

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I the Star Trek The Next Generation episode "Darmok and Jalad" we encounter the Tamarians, and they speak in metaphors.

This is one metaphor that appears a couple times in the episode.

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lemm.ee

Misunderstanding a cultural reference that refers to a culture that speaks only in cultural references that cause misunderstandings is delightful either way.

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The T-1000 in panel 3 can assume anyone’s form but does not gain their memories so Arnold asks it a question that the real mom would know about star trek 🤡

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