• IninewCrow
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    115 hours ago

    That kid and the toy General Chang is giving me 80s flashbacks of something I barely remember

      • IninewCrow
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        44 hours ago

        1995!? … that’s also surprising because I really felt like it was the 80s. All I remember was that it was all on fuzzy over the air channels on a 20" CRT, which we were still watching in the 90s.

        Man that feels like a hundred years ago.

        • NegativeNullM
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          33 hours ago

          My thought exactly. There’s no way TOS movies were being made in the 90s. That just feels wrong.

          • IninewCrow
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            33 hours ago

            From this point on … I guess we can just generically say ‘in the last century’ or ‘the previous century’ … fewer people understand 60s, 70s, 80s or 90s and just see it all as ‘the last century’ … which makes it sound and feel like ‘a hundred years ago’.

            God I feel old … I guess I am :(

            • NegativeNullM
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              32 hours ago

              I work with people now who were born in the 21st century. I guess I’m old now too :(

    • teft
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      That’s what makes it tense. One etiquette faux pas and next thing you know you’re bathing the playset in ketchup and pepto bismol.

    • Flying SquidM
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      53 hours ago

      Fun fact, Marc Okrand designed the Klingon language intentionally without the verb “to be” before Star Trek VI came out and it caused him a massive headache.

      • @Pronell
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        44 hours ago

        That line always annoyed the fuck out of me. They couldn’t make up an equally vitally important Klingon author and then compare them?

        Nope, just a throwaway joke.

        • @[email protected]
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          54 hours ago

          I interpreted it as cultural appropriation and how primitive Klingon diplomacy was that they’d make the claim directly to the people they’d appropriated from.

          • @Pronell
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            43 hours ago

            That’s really nice, I like that interpretation a lot! Sort of “This man wrote so well he might as well have been a Klingon.”

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              We also know that the singular great writer in the Federation’s time is Beverly’s grandmother.

  • NegativeNullM
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    65 hours ago

    Some kids want tea parties, some kids want tense diplomatic dinners. To each their own!