iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 7h

No. This is bad but fun, while Nemesis is just insultingly bad. As we will no doubt discuss tomorrow....

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 8h

It's a weird one. The bit I can never quite make work is when it is revealed that the Son'a, who have ships way bigger than the Enterprise and conquered two entire races and made them servants, were basically a few stroppy teenagers from the Ba'ku planet. How did they do all this?!

120

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 8h

Another TNG moment that stuck in my memory from its original showing on BBC2. #StarTrek60 #TrekMoments

010

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

When I saw it in the cinema it was scary but had genuine laugh out loud moments. I loved it then and love it now.

010

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

And no, Worf’s line about the Moon obscuring their warp signature doesn’t explain how they missed a 700 meter long, 26 or 24 deck starship in the system!

110

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

So, somehow, despite years of detecting ships in orbit of planets from some distance away, the Vulcans failed to spot a Sovereign class ship or the firing of four quantum torpedoes which were all *right next to* the thing that generated the warp signature that prompted their visit to Earth?!

120

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is sure to be fun, informative, entertaining and fascinating. And I’m in it! Raging impostor syndrome but looking forward to it nonetheless! Hope to see many of you there.

041

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I love that this high budget sci-fi action adventure movie has a climax involving Patrick Stewart climbing and hanging from very recognisable Dyson vacuum cleaner hoses! In the cinema I laughed because they didn’t even disguise the attachment end!

010

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Another bit that annoys scientist Jason: ‘organic’ is not synonymous with ‘living’. Clothing and carpet fibres are organic material that should also have been dissolved. (And yes, years of seeing ‘organic food’ labels in supermarkets also annoys the crap out of me!)

020

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Ok, maybe the missiles of tje future had more power but if that was so they are a) grossly overpowered for a warhead delivery system and b) would have needed stronger tankage than the Titan had.

020

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It reflects the genuine historical irony that the first manned peaceful exploration of space did indeed use repurposed nuke launchers, but they were at the limit of their payload getting a tiny spacecraft into orbit. Something like the Phoenix would have needed a launcher more like a Saturn V.

110

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

As a space nut it always bothered me that they used what is recognisably a Titan missile, because I know that thing didn’t have the capacity to get the Phoenix into orbit. Not are the spark throwers under the engines used on a rocket of that type.

110

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It’s so clumsy and contrived that he has to pick up the phaser and swing it around to smash something that’s behind him! Why not have him stay where he was and hurl it on his first ‘no’? It doesn’t help that the model of the D that Lily picks up very visibly was not broken in the smash either.

010

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This scene is the one part where I think the writing and direction just fail. Picard’s stuff about the Brog invading and assimilating entire worlds while Starfleet falls back bears no resemblance to any Borg storyline we’ve seen, and his big ‘NOOOOO’ and smashing the display cabinet is pure narm.

120

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I wasn’t keen on the E when I saw the first pictures of it in the publicity and tie-in stuff but seeing it properly on screen I loved it.

020

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Oh lord, yes! Even with the shields compromised (ignoring the obvious fix they'd used so often before), a galaxy class ship with multiple phaser banks with direct line of sight in any orientation should have been able to rain fire down on one Bird of Prey and take it out easily!

010

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Contrast with every first appearance of the Enterprise E in the next three movies being a gorgeous 'sweeping across the screen' shot accompanied by the main theme....

010

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

They had a thing for meaningless deaths in that era. Yar and Jadzia seems to be a misogynistic reaction to an actress pushing back on some shoddy treatment, but that they tried it with Kirk really does beggar belief. Dying in a dangerous effort to get a vital thing to save the world is way better.

020

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

One thing that always jumps out at me when I watch this movie: the instant tanning effect of Veridian III! Stewart especially but noticeably Shatner and McDowell too are much more bronzed than in any of the studio sequences.

140

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

One thing I do rather like is that the core breach sequence is very similar to the one from Yesterday's Enterprise, with the same big opening panel, Geordi in the foreground as it explodes behind him, coolant leak, etc. A nice bit of continuity.

010

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"They'll have two seconds of vulnerability..." "Prepare a spread of photon torpedoes, we have to hit them the instant they begin to cloak." "We are cloaking! Our shields are down!" ... "Fire" (ONE torpedo gets fired) ... ... ... (Around 20 seconds later) BANG!

020

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Seven years of remodulating shields to deal with space phenomena, Borg attacks, and more besides, and not one bloody person this time says, 'hey, maybe if we remodulate our shields they'll stop those Klingon weapons like they're supposed to'?!

020

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's not even the planet they go to! I mean, the planet's population was given as 230 million. That's easily plenty sparse enough that everything could have taken place without ever encountering a single inhabitant.

010

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Or that putting cheap hologram sticky tape around the edges of the photos in the album was a perfect was to say 'look, we're in the future guys'? Does Picard really seem like a guy who would stick photos into albums that way?!

010

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Such a dull cliche. There were so many options for having Picard directly confronted with his mortality and they fell back on the old 'ooh, everyone regrets not having children' crap.

130

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's a real mess, caught between 'introduce this to new viewers' and 'most will have been watching TNG the whole time anyway'.

020

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The secondary hull crew compliment wasn't due until Tuesday.... I'll get me coat.

020

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Absolutely! The tiger reacted as one should expect when confronted with someone unexpectedly in its enclosure. It should reflect the tiger defending itself. It shouldn’t be a few lines in before we find it was the man putting himself at risk.

070

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Also, the 'it grows backwards through time but the future Enterprise can still go back and see it forming later than when they first fired the beam that supposedly made it form', so when did it start going backwards?

030

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Didn’t we talk about this on Robots In Your Eyes? Such a bizarre episode…

010

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We've only ever encountered a single Borg vessel at a time before, and that has been enough to almost wipe the floor with Starfleet each time, so when Harry's reporting on the number of vessels detected approaching the lone USS Voyager keeps rising, well.... #StarTrek60 #TrekMoments

020

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Something about the way she says, "decks thirteen, fourteen... and fifteen," always gets me. #StarTrek60 #TrekMoments

290

Reposted by Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry

Georgia Cook @georgiacooked.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

As we slip into the middle of September and Halloween Eve, please consider picking up one of my horror books for your evening read! Or listening to one of my many horror-adjacent audios available online.

12014

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Picard's efforts to prove that this is just another Borg drone instead push Hugh to fully embrace his individuality. #StarTrek60 #TrekMoments

040

Reposted by Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry

Joe Ford @docoho44.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Throwback to 2021, 1400 episodes ago, when I didn’t know Mark (my partner in crime) or Nathan (my podcast husband). How things have changed!

5383

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What a journey! So glad to be a small part of it. 🥳

010

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Star Trek’s usual allegorical storytelling breaks down here. A forced relocation storyline with all subtlety stripped away by making the colonists actual native Americans from Earth.

010

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yes, you'd think this question would have been addressed when Data first entered the academy, but Picard's dismantling of Maddox's argument about sentience is superb. one of the episodes that stayed with me after first viewing. #StarTrek60 #TrekMoments

060

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I can't believe it only recently occurred to me what else made this one so impactful: there was no guarantee there would be any more Star Trek. The idea of an Enterprise A wasn't a thing. While now we expect the destruction to be followed by a new ship, this really could have been the end.

280

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s one of my pet peeves when writers forget a sequence is supposed to be all from one person’s perspective, or in a faked environment, and still include other character interactions when they’re not there, or show exterior shots, or do it deliberately as a cheat.

021

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Indeed, Starfleet’s abysmal health and safety strikes again. I can understand workstations in there to a point (maintenance and testing in a starbase, for instance) but surely there should be some kind of interlock that absolutely prevents anyone going in when the warp drive is active?!

040

Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Kirk made a mistake that undoubtedly cost lives and gave Khan a chance for a near-crippling first strike, but then he shows why he's such a respected officer in Starfleet, immediately finding his window and striking back. #StarTrek60 #TrekMoments

130