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USSBurritoTruck, to risa in Rule of Acquisition #10: Greed is eternal
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Clown behaviour. Have a week off, champ.

USSBurritoTruck, to risa in TIL that TNG comics exist
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Q exists outside of time, so the iteration that visits DS9 could have been prior to the scene in the comic.

USSBurritoTruck, to risa in SunDAY! sunDAY! sunDAY!. A one time appearance at the La Barre Metrooooodoooooomeeee
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We don’t really know how much of Airiam’s internal organs remained. Unfortunately we barely learned anything about the character before she was killed to try and provoke a reaction in the audience because they showed us some flashbacks that same episode.

USSBurritoTruck, to risa in Riker had some double-standard problems, man...
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One of the Bajorans serving on Voyager wore an earring. Gerron, the young former Maquis that was part of Tuvok’s boot camp in “Learning Curve” had to give up his.

There’s also Tabor from “Nothing Human”, and Tal Celes from “The Good Shepard”, neither of whom wore the earring on screen in the four total episodes they appeared in. Tal also had her given name before her family name, which is not the Bajoran tradition.

Even Seska didn’t wear the earring when she was still undercover as a Bajoran, and likely could have gotten away with it thanks to her closeness to Chakotay.

USSBurritoTruck, to risa in ゲーイ エネルギー 味 スーパー パワー 風と幽霊の土地に 怠惰な態度を追放する。 (All New penis flavored energy drink!)
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JFC this is terrible.

USSBurritoTruck, to risa in It's all in the trim
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Sounds like a post hoc justification.

USSBurritoTruck, to risa in It's all in the trim
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Tossing around terms like “pansy” and “milf,” implying somehow that someone shouldn’t be taken seriously as a woman because of their haircut. Nah, this sucks.

USSBurritoTruck, to risa in Crystals good, fungus bad
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In Discovery, instead of honorable warriors, the klingons are a bunch of sneaky backstabbing and coward warriors.

Like they are in TOS?

They also don’t look like klingons at all

Are you similarly upset by the change in appearance the occurred between TOS and TMP?

and architecture

Architecture? I don’t know, the House Mo’Kai fortress we see in season two doesn’t seem all that out of place. The rounded towers of the capital city seen in ENT is a greater divergence than anything we see in Disco. But that’s also fine, because architectural styles change over time.

the speak like their mouth is full of potatoes

And apparently, according to experts in the language, that’s the best Klingon has ever sounded on screen. Not really sure how that qualifies as a lore thing, though.

they make ships out of coffins.

One ship. The home of a cult leader.

USSBurritoTruck, to risa in Crystals good, fungus bad
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Fuckin’ jeepers, this is grasping at straws.

There’s no “lore” regarding the spore drive or the uniforms, so nothing to disregard.

What specific lore about the Klingons was abandoned by Disco. Just one specific thing. Any single, specific thing.

USSBurritoTruck, to startrek in This guy is building a 1/25 scale model of the TOS Enterprise
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USSBurritoTruck, to risa in Crystals good, fungus bad
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Yeah, I like Disco because I think they’re at least trying to do something, and that’s interesting to me. They don’t always succeed, but I respect the attempt. However, I fully get why people don’t like it.

My issue is with the silly complaints, not what amounts to a matter of taste.

USSBurritoTruck, to risa in Crystals good, fungus bad
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What specific lore has been disregarded?

USSBurritoTruck, to risa in Crystals good, fungus bad
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Lorca’s not the only one who uses it in Disco, though. It actually happens relatively frequently in the first two season. Obviously for seasons three and four things have changed and it’s no longer an issue.

Hell, in SNW while Kirk is on the Enterprise in “Subspace Rhapsody” he prepares some samples collected outside the ship to be beamed to engineering and thinks nothing of that instance of intra-ship beaming. I guess he forgot that whole event where people broke out into song by the time he was mid-way through his own five year mission.

USSBurritoTruck, to risa in Crystals good, fungus bad
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But it’s not a trail of spores going through space, and nothing in the show would lead someone who’d been paying the slightest amount of attention to think that’s the case.

The mycelial network is a layer of subspace, which the spore drive allows them to access because the specific fungus they cultivate exists partially in subspace. Stamets makes that clear in “Choose Your Pain”.

Subspace is entirely made up facilitate the stories that Trek tells. It was first mentioned in “Mudd’s Women”, the fourth episode of TOS to be produced. It has since served as a means of instantaneous communication across lightyears, as well as long range imaging vis subspace telescope, such as in “The Nth Degree”. The sensors aboard the ships also operate via subspace, allowing them to detect things lightyears away, and detect things ahead of them while travelling faster than light.

And we learned in the TNG episode “Schisms” that subspace can support life, and even has beings living there. Or at least some aspects of subspace do.

The spore drive in based on the real science of mycology, and extrapolated through a Trek lens. Nothing about it requires any sort of special property that has not already been established as existing within older episodes of Trek.

The only one insulting your intelligence is yourself by believing you’re not creative enough to figure out how the spore drive fits into the larger world of Trek.

USSBurritoTruck, to risa in Crystals good, fungus bad
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The big one – relatively speaking, of course – in my mind is the site to site transporting.

In “Day of the Dove”, Kirk asks Spock, ”Intra-ship beaming, is it possible?” and Spock rattled off a litany of reasons why it was considered too dangerous in all but the most necessary circumstances.

However, we see in Disco, starting with “Context is for Kings”, that they can just order the computer to transport them from one room of the ship to another without hesitation.

It’s a minor quibble all things considered. And clearly something most of the Disco detractors aren’t even aware of.

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