Sexual choking normalization is getting out of hand in mainstream entertainment. I just saw it in ”I Love LA” and last night in “Marty Supreme”. Especially weird in the latter since it’s a period piece. Interestingly there‘s no sign of it in ”Heated Rivalry”. Funny that…

These three ghosts visit me every Christmas. I will accept no substitutions.

I love watching old cartoons in high definition. You can see the shadow cast by the cels onto the background by the light shining down during the photo compositing. Sometimes a cel casts a shadow on another cel.

So whoop-dee-do and dickory dock And don't forget to tell Mr. Spock That just exactly at 12 o'clock He'll be coming down the chimney, down!

It seems the entirety of Strange New Worlds takes place in 2259. That’s 7 years before TOS S01. Lets calculate how old the TOS crew should be compared to the actors playing them: Kirk is 26. Paul Wesley is 43 Spock is 28. Ethan Peck is 39 McCoy is 39. Thomas Jane is 56

Goldsman’s view that there’s evil in the universe isn’t bad. There are plenty of irredeemable villains in Trek: Khan (podcast aside), Chang, Kruge, Satie, Harry Mudd, Gul Madred, Damon Bok, Dr Sevrin. But none of them were a race and all of them had ideologies. The Gorn and Vezda had none. 🧵 1/

Three drunk Datas, a bearded Data, and a Lore.

See that? That’s bait.

This week #SNW tisses the season to show us what Pike and Batel‘s happily ever after would have looked like in the finalé “New Life and New Civilizations”. Then we see how the little space station show that could did destiny, prophesy, and ultimate evil right in our Babylon Squared trilogy review.

Did Captain Kirk drink oat milk cappuccinos? Am I doing this wrong?

If you see this, re-post with your model of positive masculinity.

How about a Jellico cat?

This week the Jerks are stranded on a deserted planet as we compare #SNW Terrarium to its progenitor “Enemy Mine”. And then we go back further and compare both to Jon Boorman’s “Hell in the Pacific”. But we won’t touch “None But the Brave” because 2 hours of Sinatra directing himself is not our jam.

Love how Karen Armstrong is the big fan and her husband is nothing but her ride. And he's prepared for the onslaught of nerd minutia he's going to get hit with throughout the film.

Working on a new logo for my scale model parts shop.

On @shipfullofjerks.bsky.social, @mark2000.bsky.social and I retro reviewed #StarTrek TUC. Then, had a great discussion about TUC’s questionable consent issues and others in Trek with the folks over at @trekmarrykpod.bsky.social. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

There is apparently a new Playstation game called "Starfield" and it has completely ruined image searches for star fields.

It looks like both the alien ship and it’s corridors are photos of models. The “hole” in the side of the alien ship is drawn on. I wonder if these were store bought toys or made especially for the comic. That’s a lot of production effort, especially if it’s the latter.

Frieren angle, but Picard.

Where did Joseph Shuster and Jerry Siegel fall in the “Clark vs Superman” argument? To them there was no difference between them beyond the jobs they took on under those names. Hear our whole discussion on the topic here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

I’m actually curious what @profanity.accountant will find. I don’t think I swear too much. At least not in writing…

“Dick Laurent is dead.”

Been in LA for like five minutes before running into one of these fuckers.

I wonder what it would be like to be John Malkovich buying scented candles.

You heard our review of the 2025 movie "Weapons", but what did Madisynn think of it?

Rick Berman was really uncomfortable with a robot that fucks.

#SNW Four and a Half Vulcans polarized fans before it even aired. We compare its views on genetic determinism and multi cultural heritage to that of the Superman franchise. Who does the “torn between two worlds” theme better?

An AI system that’s completely biased and hallucinates enemies because it’s based on the skewed world view of a mentally unhinged tech bro who peaked in his 20s? Sounds about right.

Seems like there’s a lot of Discovery nostalgia going around lately. Its amazing how much the show evolved in five seasons. I made this a few weeks after the premier eight years ago. I miss those opening credits…

Spoiler: he hates that Picard, Riker, and Data didn’t have the same banter as Kirk, Spock and McCoy. But they did. At least in s01, and especially in s02. We‘ve just sort of erased that from our memory. Gene liked playful antagonism and @melindas.bsky.social wrote TNG dialogue better than anyone.

#SNW documentary style episode “What is Starfleet” is less Ken Burns and more Project Veritas. We talk its journalistic merits as well as what side of a conflict should be scrutinize more. Then our discussion of the 2025 film Weapons goes from addiction to school shootings to… the housing crisis?

When the creature started reciting Percy Shelley’s Ozymandias I lolled.

The Enterprise crew as bud vases.

Kirk and Picard need to be switched on the Nerd/Jock axis. Picard won all the runner’s medals, played pool, and started fights in bars. Kirk was a book worm who played chess, was considered grimly serious, and was regularly harassed by a bully.

The Nothing is AI. Every time someone prompts, part of Fantasia dies.

I love these renders of that early TNG bridge concept by Tadeo D'Oria. @rekkert.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy This style of bridge also featured in the “The Word of God” webcomic by @mark2000.bsky.social and @ryanthomasriddle.com These ‘roads not taken’ designs are always so fascinating to me. /2

Here you go!

The Naked Whenever

Our latest episode tries to figure out what “empathy for the enemy“ means for Captain Pike in the best JT Kirk story since TOS in #SNW “The Sehlat Who Ate its Tail”. Then it’s erotic ghost story time as Beverly Crusher explores being an spectrosexual in TNG’s classic bodice ripping romp, Sub Rosa!

TK Bellows wears an interesting and anachronistic pair of glasses in “A Space Adventure Hour”. They’re S9 frames, also known as “birth control frames”. From 1990 to 2012 they were standard military issue to navy and army recruits. Saddam Hussein was given a pair when he was captured in 2003.

The Lorelei Signal is probably based on one of no less than two femdom synopses in Roddenberry’s 1964 pitch document “Star Trek Is…” called “The Venus Planet”. #tossatnight #tassatnight

Here's something I noticed on my rewatch of "Shuttle to Kenfori". The Klingon transmission ↖️ uses and old fan made alphabet created by Geoffrey Mandel for the "U.S.S. Enterprise Officer's Manual" published in 1980 ↗️ instead of "pIqaD"↙️ which has been the official Klingon alphabet since TMP.↘️

Anyone else notice Christina Chong talks into the bottom of her communicator like a smartphone in speaker phone mode? ↖️↗️ Ethan Peck ↙️ and Celia Rose Gooding ↘️ hold it the traditional way.

For some reason #SNW “Through the Lens of Time“ gave us the giggles. Is Roger Korby the worst archeologist ever? Is Ensign Gamble the ultimate rookie cop? After we contain ourselves we talk about Star Trek as a genre leaping format and if Strange New Worlds has been succeeding at that tradition.

Hey! No one told me President Roslin was in Sneakers!

Once again for those who don’t know, but “The WOMEN!” saved STAR TREK from obscurity. Not once, but several times, and started the first conventions. #StarTrek www.womansworld.com/entertainmen...

Curious about that book TK Bellows was chasing in “A Space Adventure Hour”? For real life Gene Roddenberry it was “Pretty Maids All in a Row” which was filmed and released in 1971. You don’t have to watch this stinker because our own @mark2000.bsky.social reviewed it for @trekmovie.bsky.social. 1/

Is #SNW “A Space Adventure Hour” a loving send up or a mean spirited swipe at Star Trek’s roots. We hash that out first between us jerks and then with special guest Gavia Baker-Whitelaw (@gavia.bsky.social) who begs us to ask “Why is Strange New Worlds So Obsessed With Giving Spock a Girlfriend”.

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.