Category: Star Trek Musings

The Perils Of Flying A Pizza Cutter

So they made a pizza cutter based on the original U.S.S. Enterprise from the original Star Trek show, which seems like a bit of a gimmick and I’m pretty sure people are buying these things. Is there any reason why they’ve yet to make one for that Discovery show?

For fuck’s sake, the show looks like a fucking pizza cutter. THE SAUCER SPINS!
Two seasons after the fact and more than the drab story, I’m trying to understand how a ship like that works. It is like nothing conceived in the 23rd century at that point in time and quite frankly, looks like it’d fit in more with a show that had transforming robots than a show about starships. I’ve made a point to mention that the ship looks like a pizza cutter. Toss in the whole space jump thing it does where THE FUCKING SAUCER SPINS and I have to figure someone is messing with me here.
You Discovery folks are missing a trick. The U.S.S. Pizza Cutter is practically built for this purpose. If nothing else, it seems less awkward to hold and cut pizza with than the Enterprise cutter.
So that was a random brain fart that just popped up.

So I Guess I Should Talk About The Picard Teaser

It’s the only decent Picard stock photo I can find… and it sort of lines up with my feelings.

It shows us a vineyard, it has a lady narrating about some rescue armada from fifteen years ago before the unimaginable, and then Walter Blunt appears on screen, followed by the title card, followed by the tagline, “The End Is Only The Beginning.”

It tells us little, it tells us something, and it leaves everything to the imagination unless you’ve seen that leaked clip with the geek officer asking for Captain Poo-Card’s name.

I want to say that I’m excited for this thing… but I’m just cautiously optimistic.

That’s all I got, really.
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Random Thoughts On… Short Treks (Part 1)

I’ve seen about the first two of these short Trek things that have been airing these past couple months. I’ve yet to see the recent Saru-focused on and apparently there’s another one coming before Discovery returns for its second season and “ruin canon” or whatever the detractors like to say.

I didn’t like the one with Tilly. It had a good start at the beginning with the invisible alien and all that, but once the alien spoke English and came off as a bit emo, that’s when the short lost me. I don’t know if I want to blame it on the actress or the writers who wrote her character that way, but it’s the cliched case of “I wanted to like this, but I couldn’t due to this and that.” The idea was good, the overall story was familiar fare but still interesting, but the execution was a turn off.

The other one, with the lone pilot and the ship computer taking place a thousand years in the future… that was interesting. I like the idea of setting this way into the future because you don’t have to worry about canon or anything, though I question how Discovery would’ve survived for a millennium and still be in pristine condition. I also liked the concept of one man alone with only the ship’s computer as company and said computer trying to make a relationship with a married fellow. It’s an interesting premise and it made for an entertaining fifteen minutes of television. I liked this one better than the other one.

So if I get to watch the other ones, I’ll probably post some thoughts on it. But for now… meh.