“Star Trek: Discovery” Season 5 Review

Star Trek: Discovery: Created by Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman. With Sonequa Martin-Green, Anthony Rapp, Doug Jones, Mary Wiseman. Ten years before Kirk, Spock, and the Enterprise, the USS Discovery discovers new worlds and lifeforms as one Starfleet officer learns to understand all things alien.

I know I said I wasn’t going to watch this season as it came out, but the seasons are so short and the show is so ephemeral that I stayed with it until the bitter end. The show never changed it’s course and stayed true to concepts of emotional self discovery that so many Trek fans complained so bitterly about, and for that I believe they should be commended and applauded for. Mind you, I’m not happy with the entire direction that the franchise is taking in the larger sense, with Lower Decks being canceled, Prodigy being forgotten about nearly completely, and Strange New Worlds existing in it’s own little pocket of content creation that feels out of step with the next few shows that are coming out. I’ve figured out what brought me to Trek, the quasi space military crew far away from the support of their superiors in what I now know was a clear reference to deep sea boat crews.

Who knows what the future will bring through, especially with the parent company for Trek up for sale. Will we get someone that wants a unified story feel like Star Wars has done or will it continue to have multiple shows that all feel like they have the same touchstones but wildly divergent interpretations of the core elements of the universe?

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Out Today: “Star Trek: Sons of Star Trek #3”

Out today: “Star Trek: Sons of Star Trek #3“, by Morgan Hampton.

In a-SNAP!-turn of events, Q Jr has kidnapped three of Starfleet’s eldest sons and transported them to an alternate reality.By way of a bold maneuver with Lieutenant Jadzia at the helm, the U.S.S. Avery crew finally avoided being turned to shrapnel by the Breen… for now. But the crew now face a new challenge: The infamous Curzon maneuver has left them sitting dead in space, and the Breen have already begun infiltrating the ship. To make matters worse, QJ’s powers have stopped working. It’s do or die for Jake Sisko and the crew of the Avery-for real this time!

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Out Today: “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Scorpius Run TPB”

Out today: “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Scorpius Run TPB“, by Mike Johnson and Ryan Parrott.

Set course with Captain Pike and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise to the Scorpius Constellation as they become the first Federation vessel to explore this uncharted region of space! In this romp across the stars, the Enterprise crew learn what it truly means to explore the strange and unfamiliar when they lose contact with Starfleet and everything outside the region. After entering a crime lord’s starship competition to save an innocent pilot, the Enterprise jets through a gauntlet of dangerous environments in the unexplored Scorpius sector. But cosmic storms and sentient ship-eating asteroids aren’t the only obstacles the crew will have to survive!

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Yoga class with pigs, quite a sight

Yoga class with pigs, quite a sight,
Amidst snorts, they stretch left and right.
With oinks as their song,
They all stretch along,
Finding zen in the piggy delight!

Lily Collins

Santa Barbara by Hisao Kawada [2560×1440]

Worf: any time after TNG

Ever upward (NYC)

Sunset Mountain [3840×2160]

Amsterdam with a thin covering of snow

I can’t believe they got away with this one

Party before country

Choose One

A Sunset to Remember in the Olympic Mountain Range, WA [4672×5840][OC]

Grace Caroline Currey

Grizzly Suit by S. Noba

Sexy brunette was Kim Cattrall’s best look, 1982

“Fleet” by Quentin Soubrouillard

Schwimmwagen

As the storm cleared. Fiordland New Zealand {OC} (1500×1000)

Lily Aldridge

Carla Gugino

Monica Bellucci at Cannes 2002

There Are Dads Way Worse Than You: Unimpeachable Evidence of Your Excellence as a Father

Remind dad that he’s doing a great job (at least compared to the likes of pop culture and historical dads, like Darth Vader and Pharaoh Akhenaten) with this perfect gift for every father from the New York Times bestselling author of There Are Moms Way Worse Than You. Following up on the success of Glenn Boozan’s viral gift book, There Are Moms Way Worse Than You: Irrefutable Proof that You Are Indeed a Fantastic Parent, the dad’s companion book sets out to prove to dads all over the world that, however bad they think they are at parenting, there are dads way worse. While Moms Way Worse highlighted creatures across the animal kingdom who are terrible at parenting, Dads Way Worse showcases fictional dads (and their parenting failures) across history and in popular culture. What dad would think he’s doing poorly when compared to Jack from The Shining, Tywin Lannister from Game of Thrones, or…Walter White from Breaking Bad?:

[OC] open up

“Star Trek: Celebrations #1” Preview

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AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material Is Not a ‘Victimless Crime’

The ability to produce infinite images powered by datasets containing millions of photographs of real people, including children, and real images of real CSAM, perpetuates abuse in a way that was previously impossible.

Wolfs

Wolfs: Directed by Jon Watts. With Brad Pitt, Amy Ryan, George Clooney, Austin Abrams. Follows two lone wolf fixers who are assigned to the same job.

Mr crusher collision course

RIP ICQ: Remembering a classic messaging app that was way ahead of its time

ICQ will cease operations June 26. If you know, you know.

I had an account with them, 5542507 but it was registered before they required email addresses and somewhere along the line they broke something on my account and I found I wasn’t able to log in. It wasn’t as terrible as it could have been, because by that time everyone I talked with online had migrated to AIM. I remember the first few weeks of using ICQ and how amazing it was to have a live conversation with someone via text and the best part of it was that if someone was offline you could send them a message and they’d get it when they signed on.

I miss those days that you could sign off of an account easily.

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The Umbrella Academy Season 4

The Umbrella Academy: Created by Steve Blackman, Jeremy Slater. With Aidan Gallagher, Elliot Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda. A family of former child heroes, now grown apart, must reunite to continue to protect the world.

Moana 2 | Teaser Trailer

*CRACK* [2495×5100]

Star Trek Book Deals For June 2024

This month’s ebook deals have landed with 8 books on sale for $0.99 – $1.99 each, books that have never been on sale are in bold:

Cross-Stitch: Explore Strange New Worlds of Crafting
Star Trek: Day of Honor Omnibus
Star Trek: Discovery: Dead Endless
Star Trek: Enterprise Logs
Star Trek: Picard: The Last Best Hope
Star Trek: The Brave And The Bold Book 1
Star Trek: The Brave And The Bold Book 2
Star Trek: The Klingon Dictionary

Trump: Winning by Losing

A Family Affair

A Family Affair: Directed by Richard LaGravenese. With Joey King, Zac Efron, Nicole Kidman, Kathy Bates. An unexpected romance triggers comic consequences for a young woman, her mother, and her boss, grappling with the complications of love, sex, and identity.

Bucharest, Romania

Alien: Romulus | Official Trailer

Server is going to be super unstable for the next 24 hours

But after that 24 hour period it should be much more stable.

We’re expanding the server cluster.

That’s right, we’re officially a cluster now.

If you’re able to remember to do it, swing by the discord channel when/if you get warning about the ssl cert being broken or if you get a “site misconfigured” error or anything especially tragic like that.  That’s when I’ll swing in and start fixing all the things.

=====UPDATE=====

Things should be smoother and faster around here, what do you think?

Harrower Class Retrofit by Jetfreak-7

Signs of Our Times

Elisha Cuthbert

Sophia Bush

Spiderman ~ Between Skyscrapers (3504×6952)

leave me alone

Cosmic bloom – wild evening primrose under a multi-color sky in eastern WA [OC] [1334×2000]

Paris, France