Took a break from Trek to watch *Dark Matter* and realized...I was still watching Trek.
Honorable Mentions:
- Inertial dampeners fail in both
- DM calls it "FTL drive" but it's warp drive in all but name
- Subspace communications
- Both have mirror universes
- Discovery's experimental spore drive is Dark Matter's experimental "Blink" drive in all but name
Edit: Had one I meant to include but forgot: Killer Barrels
Bonus: Has Detmer and Sam Kirk too.
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"Wil Wheaton"
I scared the dog laughing.
That got me too
I welcome any future Dark Matter memes in my Trek shitposting community thank you very much. 🤞
And who's the murderous android? Don't remember her.
She's the, uh, pleasure model they find in storage and re-assemble (very much like how Lore was found).
:::spoiler Spoiler One of their enemies programmed her to go homicidal after she was...utilized. :::
That's wild I do NOT remember that all. 💀
Honestly don't know how you could forget dunking the cosmic doughnut but I guess we're all just hanging on to pieces of what we've truly experienced.
She's also in one of the John Wick movies.
There's a community for Dark Matter now, BTW: ![email protected]
Solid show, did enjoy.
The androids of both shows feel the most human chars of the lot (to me personally).
I loved that show, it had a great universe, and would’ve been awesome if it hadn’t got cancelled.
So jipped about the abrupt end of dark matter. Canceling shows without wrapping things up sucks.
Jipped is gyped. As in ripped off by gypsies. It's not a nice thing to say. Many people don't know about the racist origin of the term. If you hate me for saying this I can tell you the nastiest joke I know involving a gypsy. They prefer to be called Roma though.
So did Leeta
5 people downvoted you for politely pointing out that a commonly used phrase is actually a racial slur.
Yeah they really went buck wild 😜
Is that one too?!
Yep. Buck wild. Buck naked. Slaveowners called young strong black men bucks. I'm just mad nobody wanted to hear the nasty gypsy joke.
I think you’re reaching on that one. Buck is a term used for a male animal. For example, calling a kid “young buck” isn’t to do with anything racial or to do with slaves. It simply means young man.
Buck naked is just saying your as naked as a wild animal. Buck wild is to say someone is acting free and crazy like a wild animal, similar to “wilding out”.
Buck definition
Snopes fact check
Edited typo: Snipes to Snopes.
I'm willing to grant that it's possible these slang terms were more animal related than slave related. I do have to point out that your snopes link, although it mentions a false etymology related to slavery, is about the term bucks to mean dollars. Which of course comes from deer hides. I think buck referring to money and buck referring to young slave men are different etymologies.
What I wrote was how I heard it, and I don't remember when or where. Like I said, it's possible I'm wrong, but I do not concede that you have refuted my argument.
Heads up, snopes had kind of a hostile takeover situation. They were being transparent about their funding and expenditures until the past four years. I have no doubt what you linked is correct, but snopes is no longer the final word on the internet that it once was.
Yes, I support the addition of Dork Matter and Killjoys references to our database.
Is that officer Chen?
It is indeed
Who's that girl augment? Asking for a friend
That’s Melissa O'Neil. She also plays officer Lucy Chen in The Rookie. IIRC, she actually started as a singer and then transitioned into acting.
I knew I'd seen her before so I looked it up. She's also in the criminally underrated iZombie
I thought you meant the recent ‘Dark Matter’ on AppleTV and got really confused for a minute. Although apparently they share an actor.
I just came to say the same thing. I have not seen this show from 2015, but did watch the Apple show recently. I was very confused!
For a second, I got excited that the Apple Dark Matter actually was a continuation of this one.
This looks cool. Is it just one season?
There's 3, but it ended on a cliffhanger right as a bunch of plot points from each season were converging into a bigger threat. 😠
Thanks! I was a little confused because Wikipedia just has one season listed.
I searched for it uhh… somewhere and noticed that there are two different shows called “Dark Matter” that was kind of confusing. The one that is referenced here did not show up on google or the Wikipedia page when I did a casual search.
I’ll still check this show out. The girl who is an enhanced person is in “The Rookie” and I like her character.
I enjoyed the first season so much I bought it, but don't remember much about the other two.
Book is the source material, though haven't read it yet.
Season 4 exists if you're willing to read it like we used to. https://josephmallozzi.com/2018/05/17/may-17-2018-dark-matter-episode-401-act-1/
Totally willing to read. Thanks!