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Every Kitchen needs one (or two just to be safe) in c/startrek@startrek.website
Every Kitchen needs one (or two just to be safe) in c/startrek@startrek.website
Every Kitchen needs one (or two just to be safe) in c/startrek@startrek.website
[–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I balked at Le Creuset for decades due to the price.

Once we got our first Dutch oven, there was no going back. It’s so much less hassle cooking to have pots and braisers that work well. The price is worth it, especially if you shop the online sales and get 30 or 40% off. However, these are full price plus a premium over regular equivalents.

That said, it took my partner less than 2 hours to ask which items we should be ordering…

This is one time the merch will be worth it.

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    How IMDB Users Rate Season 4 of SNW in c/startrek@startrek.website
    [–] 19 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I find it interesting how much attention franchise fans give to crowd-sourced ratings on IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes when we know that they are brigaded. Why give any credence to manipulated data?

    As I have been watching more content from China recently, I have learned that the manipulation of social media and streaming audience data, especially ratings, is a very high profile public discussion outside North America.

    In fact, there have been repeated attempts to develop and patent algorithms in China to detect manipulated ratings and streaming audience data and correct for them. None have successfully proved they can clean up brigading and manipulation to the satisfaction of national authorities.

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    Preview ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Puppet Episode With 13 New Photos From “Level-Five Transporter Accident” in c/startrek@startrek.website
    Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 4x02 "The Griffin Incident" in c/startrek@startrek.website
    STLV/Prodigy discussion in c/startrek@startrek.website
    [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    The continuance of Paramount+ as a standalone streamer is entirely dependent on the delay of the merger. I would take anything the current management says with a certain amount of skepticism as they are having to carry on while the antitrust challenge is ongoing.

    Ellison has been transparent that he is looking to consolidate the WB and Paramount streamers or at minimum restructure and retarget their content and audiences. He’s looking for synergies and in his justifications to investors regarding the merger, he’s specifically cited the intention for Paramount and WB to use Skydance’s animation studios.

    I actually wonder in hindsight to what degree Paramount and Nickelodeon proactively shut down renewals with animation houses in anticipation of a deal with Skydance.

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    • STLV/Prodigy discussion in c/startrek@startrek.website
    [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    It’s interesting that they believe that they have leverage — and that it just might be the case.

    Ellison suffered a setback that should not be underestimated when Taylor Sheridan unequivocally rebuffed Paramount’s offer to renew his first look contract. He has been Paramount+’s biggest content producer but flatly rejected a renewal, despite extensive personal courting by David Ellison and one of his senior people brought over from Skydance.

    So, it’s not obvious that the kind of creatives that Ellison wants to work with will actually be willing to sign on with him. The Hagemans are significant creators in animation and Skydance’s animation studio is a major part of its business. They really are in a position to insist that on Prodigy renewal as part of any deal.

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    • Favorite Trek episode that's not in the usual top 57 lists? in c/startrek@startrek.website
    [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    The choices in this list are an odd mix of ones that almost everyone acknowledges as top ranked and others that are likely not.

    A Mathematically Perfect Redemption as the only standalone Lower Decks episode to make the cut?

    No TAS classics such as Yesteryear, The Slaver Weapon or the Counterclockwise Incident?

    TNG Qpid but not Q Who?

    Nothing at all from Prodigy — the best effort and most successful landing of a serialized season the franchise has achieved?

    Thanks for the thought experiment OP.

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    Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 4x01 "Valles Marineris" in c/startrek@startrek.website
    [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    My spouse and I found this season opener disappointing, if for different reasons.

    My partner couldn’t get past the bad science. More, something made them feel like they were watching low budget mid 20th century scifi.

    I found the performances/acting off across the board. Given the strength of the cast one has to wonder why they were overwrought and unconvincing. The pacing and rhythm of dialogue definitely was part of it. The direction has to be part of it but the episode director has done a lot of better episodes in the this era.

    I’m usually pretty forgiving on science and engineering as long as the process feels right. Without the actors selling it, I just didn’t get into the show in a way that allowed for suspension of disbelief.

    The cast is saying they feel this is their strongest season yet. Based on episode one, I am unconvinced.

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    ‘Star Trek: Khan’ Audio Drama Wins Scribe Award in c/startrek@startrek.website
    Why does Admiral Paris have a picture of Nick Locarno instead of his own son? Is he stupid? in c/risa@startrek.website
    [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    It’s not a fan novel.

    The Full Circle Voyager series is official tie-in fiction published by Pocketbooks and CBS. Official tie-in fiction is beta-canon. That is, canon until overwritten by something onscreen.

    The key thing in this is that the tie-in writer for this series Kirsten Beyer has significant credibility and authority within the franchise. Her research and statements on the legal situation around this are credible and official.

    Kirsten Beyer was in the middle of writing the Voyager books when she joined the television writers as of the first season of Discovery. She’s officially got the mandate as the expert keeper of canon in the writers room — even if she’s not always listened too. More, she was made the liaison for the tie-in writers to the shows as of 2017. She’s now a CoExecutive Producer and cocreator of SNW.

    When that book was published, and she chased down the history on Locarno/Paris, she had the greatest access to past Executive Producers and internal legal advice and archives. She wouldn’t have claimed that without solid evidence.

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    cdrama idol dreamcasting of classic Star Trek roles (europe.pub)
     

    cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/40147491

    While kdramas having been established in global popularity, cdramas are having a bit of a moment with international audiences.

    Pursuit of Jade was recently the first to crack mainland China production to crack the Netflix non-English language top ten, and stayed on it for several weeks.

    Outside China, cdrama fans seem to intersect with Star Trek fans more than one might expect. Perhaps it’s the willingness to watch massive numbers of episodes to enjoy a series? cdramas typically come in with 40 episode series, and in earlier years some had 60 or 70 episodes.

    So, it seems inevitable that Star Trek cdrama fans would want to fancast reboots of classic Star Trek legacy characters with top Chinese Idol drama actors.

    u/universalaxototal created these and posted them on cdramafans subreddit today. Shared with permission.

    More are in the works for some of the women characters.

    From the original post:

    • ⁠Tan Jianci righteously commanding as Xiang-Luc Picard mic drop 🎤

    • ⁠Liu Yuning looking so natural in Starfleet uniform. He definitely plays the saxophone […and towers over everyone at 1.91 metres.]

    • ⁠Hou Minghao as Captain Kirk, absolutely seducing an alien woman on a distant planet while the away team pretends not to notice

    ⁠Deng Wei as Spock/Data 🖖

    • ⁠Deng Wei also somehow managing the wearing of a hair accessory on his face (it is the future, luxury brands have collapsed, so the House of Chanel has had to pivot into quantum optics and interface technology)

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    cdrama idol dreamcasting of classic Star Trek roles (europe.pub)
     

    While kdramas having been established in global popularity, cdramas are having a bit of a moment with international audiences.

    Pursuit of Jade was recently the first to crack mainland China production to crack the Netflix non-English language top ten, and stayed on it for several weeks.

    Outside China, cdrama fans seem to intersect with Star Trek fans more than one might expect. Perhaps it’s the willingness to watch massive numbers of episodes to enjoy a series? cdramas typically come in with 40 episode series, and in earlier years some had 60 or 70 episodes.

    So, it seems inevitable that Star Trek cdrama fans would want to fancast reboots of classic Star Trek legacy characters with top Chinese Idol drama actors.

    u/universalaxototal created these and posted them on cdramafans subreddit today. Shared with permission.

    More are in the works for some of the women characters.

    From the original post:

    • ⁠Tan Jianci righteously commanding as Xiang-Luc Picard mic drop 🎤

    • ⁠Liu Yuning looking so natural in Starfleet uniform. He definitely plays the saxophone […and towers over everyone at 1.91 metres.]

    • ⁠Hou Minghao as Captain Kirk, absolutely seducing an alien woman on a distant planet while the away team pretends not to notice

    ⁠Deng Wei as Spock/Data 🖖

    • ⁠Deng Wei also somehow managing the wearing of a hair accessory on his face (it is the future, luxury brands have collapsed, so the House of Chanel has had to pivot into quantum optics and interface technology)

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    IDW Summer Release | ‘THE HORROR OF GODZILLA’ UNLEASHES JAW-DROPPING TERROR (idwpublishing.com)
     

    “THE HORROR OF GODZILLA is for fans of Godzilla Minus One, Shin Godzilla, and Godzilla ‘54,” added editor Jake Williams. “It's a terrifying look at the Kai-Sei era's first Godzilla attack. It grabs the reader and places them on the ground in the middle of the most petrifying night in human history… the arrival of Godzilla. Through the power of Tristan Jones' visceral art style, this is the first Godzilla comic we've released that goes 100% in on horror. It very well might become the best Godzilla comic ever made… it's certainly the scariest.”

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    IDW Comics | Godzilla vs. America: San Diego Brings the King of the Monsters to Com (godzilla.com)
     

    IDW will be releasing another Godzilla one-shot for San Diego Comic-Con this July.

    Preorders are open until June 15th.

    Weirdly, IDW doesn’t seem to have the announcement on its own site but the Official Godzilla.com and many other genre fandom sites have the announcement and listing.

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    Spoilers The Godzilla TV Show Just Connected Up With the Godzilla Movies in a Big Way (www.ign.com)
     

    IGN provided this helpful piece that places Monarch: Legacy of Monsters within the broader Monsterverse continuity.

    As a timeline refresher: The Monsterverse Godzilla movie that centered on the catastrophic G-Day event happened in 2014. Season 1 of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters followed one year later in 2015 and ended with a two-year time jump to 2017. That was a result of the semi-successful rescue mission executed by older Shaw, Cate Randa (Anna Sawai), and May Olowe-Hewitt (Kiersey Clemons) into Axis Mundi, the pocket realm between Earth and Hollow Earth, to rescue a stuck-in-time Keiko. Season 2 then unfolded over a breakneck eight weeks in 2017, leaving about 18 months of open storytelling time until the Titan awakenings featured in Godzilla: King of the Monsters.

    There’s still a lot of social media debate out there however regarding the appearance of Rodan first in the continuity at the end M:LOM season two. Is it the same Rodan who appears later in Mexico in Godzilla: King of Monsters? Or, are there two distinct Rodan’s?

    Since Rodan is a classic Toho Kaiju licensed to Legendary Entertainment, it’s a major commitment towards a third season narrative either way.

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    Season Finale Discussion | Monarch: Legacy of Monsters | 2 x10 "Where We Belong" (europe.pub)
     

    Kong and Titan X face off in a colossal clash that threatens to reshape Skull Island. Shaw embarks on a dangerous journey.

    Written by: Andrew Colville

    Directed by: Lawrence Trilling

    New photo from closing scene — strongly suggests a third season to come.

    Welcome to the season finale discussion! There is no spoiler protection in episode discussion threads, and spoiler tags are not necessary!

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