BrooklynMan

here’s the thing— I love the Grand Nagus, but I can’t stand Ferengi episodes. It’s… a conundrum.

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lol and you’re claiming you have no bias?

where did I say that? I’m just not using it to justify ruining the lives of strangers,

It’s not an “interpretation”, it’s the definition of the word:

vengeance

noun

1. Infliction of punishment in return for a wrong committed; retribution.
2. Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an offense.

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Eye for an Eye

That’s against the law in the United States (and pretty much everywhere else) and will land YOU in prison.

For all your posturing, you don’t actually care about the law at all. You just want to hurt people that you don’t like.

the alt-right movement is like an abusive relationship, made up of a bunch of very insecure people constantly seeking approval from an abuser who doles it out with an equal amount of degradation, keeping them confused and isolated enough that they have no choice but to keep coming back because - after having driven everyone else away with their hateful rhetoric - the abusive alt-right is now their only source of “community” at all.

it’s a cult.

More thorough video explanation from The Alt-Right Playbook: Endnote 4: How the Alt-Right is Like an Abusive Relationship (live)

re-establishing the Fair Reporting Act would do a lot to help by stemming the tide of the likes of Fox News, Newsmax and OANN, not to mention a long list of AM and satellite radio stations that blast fascist propaganda 24/7

oh, we’ve got a felon in the family. … hence my opinion.

so, you admit that you’re speaking from a heavy personal bias, not from a place of reason. and, just because you clearly have strong feelings a negative judgement towards this family member, you believe all felons should be treated this way.

and that’s precisely why you shouldn’t be making these decisions for others. in a court of law, a judge would recuse themselves for having such a bias, jurors would be dismissed, and it would be grounds for appeal for a defendant because the law recognizes that such a judgement is fundamentally unfair. so should you.

“Bermaga”-era Trek, as I like to call it, had a lot of warmth, too, but it was certainly more serious. they really tried to formalize Trek much more, especially with the lore and the tech. It did come off as stiff a lot of the time, but it had its own goofy moments, too. It was certainly different in tone, though, especially DS9, which was pretty dark in its portrayal of Trek at the edges of and sometime outside of the Federation. The whole idea, though, was to portray a much more mature Federation and Starfleet, and I think they did a good job of that.

It’s also what PIC S1 and S2 missed— the human connections, the warmth, that were present in the Bermaga-era Trek shows. That, and the good writing, directing, and acting. The characters weren’t believable and Trek was presented as some action series set in a dystopian future that certainly seemed alien to Trek viewers. No wonder everyone hated it. It’s also why S3 was such a hit: it was a return to everything that made 90s-era Trek great: excelled, character-driven storylines with clever tech problems that everyone had to work together to fix using science and cleverness.

I love how SNW has hit its stride this season, has broken out of the DSC formula, and is hitting all the right notes (no pun intended).

do you really think that, with the mountain of shit Putin is wading through, he has the time and resources to deal with Trump? And for what?

not a bad list. Bride of Chaotica! was about as hammy as hammy gets, and it was hilarious, mostly because of how serious Kate Mulgrew’s Janeway was. I love that episode!