Post B22wRwSmA3AdPOb1rk by Obfuskation@poa.st
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(DIR) Post #B22hKS1nQBKFfywlBA by judgedread@poa.st
2026-01-07T13:12:08.672710Z
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I watched one episode of Picard and seeing 80+ year old Patrick Stewart follow an android girlboss around was too depressing for me to endure a second.
(DIR) Post #B22hTnCS4esfwhNwfo by DMA@nicecrew.digital
2026-01-07T13:13:11.539859Z
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They had him as a detective more than a follower. He did look like old cheese.
(DIR) Post #B22hXtARpQCTc2OvoW by judgedread@poa.st
2026-01-07T13:14:35.981369Z
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@DMA Red Letter Media's fake pitch for Star Trek Galaxy was 1000X better than anything shat out by Paramount since Voyager ended.
(DIR) Post #B22hksv43uo2bjP1jk by DMA@nicecrew.digital
2026-01-07T13:15:36.158923Z
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Deep Space 9 was the best series besides original Star Trek series.
(DIR) Post #B22hku7Vb8M2KcETlw by judgedread@poa.st
2026-01-07T13:16:53.332417Z
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@DMA Odo, Garak and Quark for the win.
(DIR) Post #B22iDceLdCGeXvHq5I by Kang_Kong3@poa.st
2026-01-07T13:22:08.476370Z
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@judgedread Apparently that was all in the strings attached to Stewart's return contract. He was given creative input and that's where he wanted to take things
(DIR) Post #B22wRwSmA3AdPOb1rk by Obfuskation@poa.st
2026-01-07T13:30:16.577280Z
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@judgedread @DMA Its too bad they didn't do more with Garak. I think he was the best character in the show.
(DIR) Post #B22wUdW53q2hW0QWhc by judgedread@poa.st
2026-01-07T16:02:05.635696Z
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@Obfuskation In the Pale Moonlight was peak Garak.Federation do-gooders pwned.
(DIR) Post #B22wZl9O6aqAdiFtTs by judgedread@poa.st
2026-01-07T16:03:01.301676Z
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@Kang_Kong3 Yeah, he wanted some kind of dystopian allegory... when the Federation was always intended to be utopian.
(DIR) Post #B22yQIkSXAmfr1DGd6 by Kang_Kong3@poa.st
2026-01-07T16:23:43.364150Z
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@judgedread The romulan refugee* plot thread was what the writer's room thought was incisive real world satire*carrying on the plot point from jj's reboot movie
(DIR) Post #B238YUnebrYl5cFlwm by judgedread@poa.st
2026-01-07T18:17:15.094690Z
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@Kang_Kong3 I was thinking of the android revolt backlash. Of course I get this from RLM reviews, I never watched it.
(DIR) Post #B239DJholJlcYRzLk0 by SilverDeth
2026-01-07T18:24:38.379283Z
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@judgedread @Kang_Kong3 We had nice things once....[Garak's shop](Sisko the Thunder God storms in and hits Garak, sending him flying.)SISKO: Get up. You killed him.GARAK: That's right.SISKO: That's what you planned to do all along, isn't it. You knew the data rod wouldn't hold up to scrutiny. You just wanted to get him on the station so you could plant a bomb on his shuttle.GARAK: It wasn't quite that simple. I did have hopes that the rod would somehow pass inspection, but I suspected that Tolar may not have been up to the task.SISKO: And what about Tolar? Did you kill him too?GARAK: Think of them both as tragic victims of war.(Sisko punches Garak again.)GARAK: If you can allow your anger to subside for a moment, you'll see that they did not die in vain. The Romulans will enter the war.SISKO: There's no guarantee of that.GARAK: Oh, but I think that there is. You see, when the Tal Shiar finishes examining the wreckage of Vreenak's shuttle, they'll find the burnt remnants of a Cardassian optolythic data rod which somehow miraculously survived the explosion. After painstaking forensic examination, they'll discover that the rod contains a recording of a high level Dominion meeting at which the invasion of Romulus was being planned.SISKO: And then they'll discover that it is a fraud!GARAK: No, I don't think they will, because any imperfections in the forgery will appear to be a result of the explosion. So, with a seemingly legitimate rod in one hand and a dead senator in the other, I ask you, Captain, what conclusion would you draw?SISKO: That Vreenak obtained the rod on Soukara and that the Dominion killed him to prevent him from returning to Romulus with it.GARAK: Precisely. And the more the Dominion protests their innocence, the more the Romulans will believe they're guilty because it's exactly what the Romulans would have done in their place. That's why you came to me, isn't it, Captain? Because you knew I could do those things that you weren't capable of doing. Well, it worked. And you'll get what you want, a war between the Romulans and the Dominion. And if your conscience is bothering you, you should soothe it with the knowledge that you may have just saved the entire Alpha Quadrant and all it cost was the life of one Romulan senator, one criminal, and the self-respect of one Starfleet officer. I don't know about you, but I'd call that a bargain.
(DIR) Post #B23ebNcewrKCEPWux6 by Obfuskation@poa.st
2026-01-08T00:03:01.486388Z
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@judgedread Probably the best DS9. I even liked Sisko's narrative log entry as he wrestled with the morality of it all. Well done on his part as well.