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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.
To be fair, She mostly knows "engineering" because of Geordi and Rutherford.
Harry isn't going to be any help. Who knows what he does?
Well it sure isn't getting promoted.
Well, at some point Starfleet swapped colors. See Kirk and Scotty from TOS.
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.
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.
And that's why I love it. Star Trek has way too many goofy moments to take itself too seriously.
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.
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.
It was worth it just for the Klingon scene.
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
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
Dude gets a heart transplant after a bar fight with naussican pirates, And people still think he's an uptight nerdy philosophy major....
I've seen him in front of academics, and teaching a class.
Yeah, when he's not out desecrsting sacred temples and stealing artifacts from indigenous tribes, he's pretty stiff and awkward. It doesn't help that all the college women in his class were all but throwing themselves at him.
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That is what he becomes...until the movies, when Stewart wanted him to be an action hero.
Patrick Stewart is super jacked in those movies (specifically insurrection), it kinda blew my mind.
After watching the bit in We'll Always Have Tom Paris, I can't read Voy without hearing it in Mariner's voice
I really like how they managed to make the LD characters use TOS.
Thats some grade-A retcon right there, and I'm here for it.
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.
They seem pretty young to me 😉
Kind of a missed opportunity to name the crossover episode "Those Old Scientists," though. Should have been something using SNW.
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