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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

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[–] data1701d@startrek.website 4 points 3 hours ago

Mostly - I find a lot of these quite funny, but I think LD is the least accurate one. TOS also is one of the less spot-on ones, but I think late TOS and especially the TOS films, it becomes very applicable.

I think the LD one really only applies to the early show, and mostly just Mariner and Boimler. Later on, it's often less they lack brain cells but often use them at the wrong time, but then their brain cells are good enough they actually make it out of the situation. I'd say none of the main characters are actually particularly mediocre except Boimler (not to hate on Bradward), as we slowly find out. Maybe some of the bridge crew stay within the box of mediocrity, but we still learn to love them as characters. I might put something for Lower Decks like "Pick one from each, and make it more dysfunctional".

Considering both the description of LD and there being no SNW, this was clearly written some time 2020 or 2021.

[–] usernamefactory@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago

I don’t love the TOS one. The “everyone met as cadets at the academy” is Abrams, not TOS. Only McCoy and Kirk go way back like that.

But the DS9 one captures the vibe perfectly.

[–] slingstone@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Is there a reason there's no BNW?

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I assume it’s several years old.

[–] slingstone@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Ah. That makes sense. LD may be relatively new, but they do have, what, five seasons now? I'm getting old, I guess.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Yep. They missed that one. And Picard.

Yes, all of these at once.

[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 21 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

No way. Everybody in LD is highly intelligent and competent... and has no professionalism at all.

[–] mriswith@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Yeah, Lower Decks is full of competent people, they're just literal cartoon characters and everything is played up for jokes. But as seen in the crossover, their real selves are a bit more toned down.

Not to mention that they did what none of the other shows even got close to: They proved that artificial intelligence can have a consciousness beyond just hardware and software.

spoilerThey created an AI that ascended to a higher plane of existence.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 38 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Nah, DS9 is much better described as a polycule.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 12 points 17 hours ago

All in unison: He's Black Jesus

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The creepy guy that Kira's mom referred to as "Uncle Duke."

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago

Make Cardassia Great Again!

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago

Accurate except for the LD one.

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 15 points 19 hours ago

"An unholy bastion of mediocrity." Man, I want that on my tombstone.

[–] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 16 points 21 hours ago

It gets more accurate the more recent the series.

Though I would argue the LD cast has one standard-issue braincell and they all have to share

[–] palebluethought@lemmy.world 23 points 22 hours ago

It's definitely very Tumblr, that's for sure

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 9 points 19 hours ago

It needs to go deeper, and ask the tough questions!

omg

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 13 points 21 hours ago

Laughed, don’t care about accuracy

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 8 points 20 hours ago

VOY fucking got me

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Negative, captain

[–] CM400@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

Sure, an argument like that could be made. I guess…