12 Monkeys s2e5 “Bodies of Water”
After finishing Fringe, decided to watch 12 Monkeys, since writer/director Terry Matalas wrote season 3 of Picard. Not to mention cramming the 3 male leads into various parts. Most notably Todd Stashwick (Deacon) as Captain Shaw. Unsurprisingly, Matalas is doing similar with his work on VisionQuest. Better than expected so far.
where the fuck is stargate
amazon cancelled it because the execs wanted it to be more “broad with inclusivity”, it was never going to survive anyways on 10episodes, plus sgu soured peoples taste.
They were literally worried they’d attract stargate fans. Fucking insane
Haven’t seen Lexx. Heard it was more dirty jokes than honest-to-goodness sci-fi.
I’d like to add Mass Effect to the list. It’s not a series of shows/films though, it’s a game series. The trick is to get the remastered trilogy. The first one sucked, and the remastered version fixes everything wrong with it. People love the first one in spite of all its problems. The second and fourth ones are the best, though the fourth one is its own thing. All the online is gone, the remastered third one gets rid of it, but the fourth one still sells online crap that don’t work.
If you’re unfamiliar with the story, here’s a crash course: humanity discovers an artefact on Mars that allows them to slingshot to a faraway galaxy. They send an expedition and find a friendly group, kind of like the Federation but more loosely knit. One of the main races sponsors humanity, takes them under their wing, and some species think humanity got elevated too quickly. You play the first human SPECTRE, which is kind of an interstellar free agent who investigates things and carries out the will of the council (which is mostly worthless as we soon learn). Another SPECTRE murders one of your guys, and the council doesn’t believe you, but they rush your promotion so you can investigate independently. Turns out it’s more than that, he’s trying to resurrect an ancient race that wants to destroy everything.
The game was made after developer BioWare lost the Star Wars license, so there’s a bit of Star Wars in Mass Effect in that you can get psionic powers. They’re optional, you can roll a soldier class, but they can still be used against you, and some of them are pretty cool. But it’s also like Star Trek in that you can explore solar systems and land on planets and explore. It really is its own thing, and if you buy the remastered trilogy, you have something like 150 hours of gaming, and it goes on sale for less than ten bucks (I got it for $6) all the time. I paid $4 for a deluxe edition of the fourth one that came with some online crap I can’t use. I’m not even mad. Woulda been $3 without it. I think I got 20-30 hours out of that game.
Starfield is probably the most Star Trek-like game out there, but Starfield sucks. I say this as a Starfield player. Paid $30 for it on sale last month, but I previously played it on GamePass, and I have over 800 hours in it. It’s not a great game by any stretch and I’m kinda mad that it’s worse than Mass Effect in almost every way, despite being about two decades newer. That said… you can build a ship from parts, then walk around it, then board it and walk around in it (they can be quite big!), then take off, then while in space, get up again and walk around, take the stick, and dogfight in it. The game itself sucks for a lot of reasons, but there’s something to be said for building and operating and upgrading your own ship. And Constellation is like a shitty Starfleet, with the morals and all that… You can do some dastardly deeds, but all your allies will turn against you in a heartbeat for some things (not all). Still, if you want TOS, do the Vanguard and Ranger quest lines, if you want TNG, do the main quest, and if you like DS9 (and Section 31), do the Ryujin quest. Or the pirate quest and side with the Vanguard — you’ll still get the best gun in the game. But I like the pirates
Then of course there’s Cyberpunk 2077, but that’s more “sci-fi/body horror” and “Cyberpunk” and not really Trekker stuff. But, it does feature Keanu Reeves, Idris Elba, and Cherami Leigh. So there’s that.
You can sit and watch… or you can be part of the story. I think that’s the future. Sadly there hasn’t really been a good Star Trek (or Star Wars, for that matter) game… but Mass Effect is a great game made for Trekkers. Starfield is a kinda-bad game also made for Trekkers. But it’s better than most Star Trek games.
I’m halfway through Lexx, that is the weirdest show I’ve seen in a very long time.
Embrace it. I’m an old fuck who first saw it when it aired in the 90’s, by s4 they’re straight up unhinged and its G L O R I O U S.
(Fun fact: i met my husband at a lan bash because he browsed my shares and went HOLY FUCK THIS PERSON HAS ALL OF LEXX i must meet them immediately)
Star Trek died with Enterprise.
I still can’t believe they cancelled it just before the Romulan War. If nothing else I’m sure that would have driven up ratings.
that definitely was more interesting, plus they were going to have shran be part of entperise at some point too.
Well, Enterprise had a lot more “meh” and bad episodes than good. The problems where nearly every episode ended up in an action set piece started there, and it seemed like the writers and showrunners only started to care in the final season, which was a little too late.
Also, Enterprise was… Uncomfortably horny at times.
Right, I’m not sure they would have done it well but you can’t argue that television audiences at the time would have loved a good war arc. And yeah… let’s not talk about the decon chamber lol. Remember when they tried to put the doctor in there to make it seem more legitimate? Those toenails will forever haunt my nightmares.
Wasn’t the Xindi arc basically a war arc already?
Really, Enterprise should’ve focused on the challenges of exploring space with limited resources, instead of trying to make each season about some sort of war (temporal cold war too), or finding new enemies to shoot at.
If the writers and runners knew what they were doing they would’ve given us a few seasons of environmental problem solving, and cultural frictions, and showing more of the politics between what would later become the founding members of The Federation, and THEN start a war. The Romulan war.
We’d suddenly see a good reason why ships of exploration are so well armed since then.
I refer to it as “Sex Trek” for a reason.
Haven’t heard of Lexx before, adding it to my watch list. But it makes me wonder what other sci-fi I’ve missed. Gather, Nerds, and enlighten me, please.
Lexx is insane. Highly recommend. Assuming of course black mirror and b5 are your acquaintances…
Sarah connor chronicles and Dollhouse are both oldies but goodies. The latter has some batshit twists as it tries to work out what it is.
Avenue 5 is a must watch, but more farce than scifi.
Foundation is wonderful, but learn to separate from the books.
Cannot rank the Orville highly enough.
Westworld: stop at the end of s1.
Also, The Orville season 4 is a confirmed thing,. But the actual release date is still up in the air.
There’s also additional rumors of a handful of TV movies that seems to be separate from the upcoming season, but those are unconfirmed.
They’re certainly dragging their heels on it.
I believe the Digital Dean speaks for us all.
Every time i’m just about to give up new news comes out from a solid, verifiable source. Longest edge session ever
