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Just in case anyone orders from tf-direct.com, they apparently had this posted on their facebook site yesterday...

Optimus Prime figure viewed from above posed like a swastika

I'm always fascinated by interconnected sets. Like on the Enterprise D I believe you could walk from the Senior Officer's quarters down a corrider into a shuttlebay and then sit in a shuttle.

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 12h

It is a fairly subtle callback and the moment still works, but yeah, it's a nice "then vs now" bit.

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 12h

The Infirmary and Quark's are actually part of the set as well, aren't they? So yeah, huge.

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 12h

It's upsetting that that scene is cut out of the two-part version of the pilot, as it ruins the callback in Way of the Warrior

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 13h

Star Trek has basically had three TV eras, and Berman was in charge for inarguably the most successful and long-lasting

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 17h

As a Brit who is far too online, I always find it funny that almost no-one in the UK has any idea what the Rapture is. We just don't really engage with that stuff in the same way.

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

He could have shaved it off for a bet?

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Well, he's proud for about one season, and then spends the rest of the show being extemely British.

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It's interesting that so many of these films want to be TWOK and all of them give the baddie a super ship, even though the Reliant is basically on par with the Enterprise in that movie.

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It's such a weird ommision. Like, I don't expect them to write JUST for the TV audience, but it's SO similar to Lore that not mentioning him just means everyone who remembers him goes "wait, did they forget Data already had a brother?"

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

How the hell did Berman not demand that be written out?

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Is there a reason Lwaxana isn't there? Like, did Majel not want to do a cameo? Whoopi came back!

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I have not seen Nemesis since I originally saw it in the cinema. I... don't think that'll change any time soon.

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

That gap along the back does annoy me a bit. And I wish the toes were a bit more streamlined, but that's a general issue I have with a lot of figures these days. He's still great fun. And he isn't saddled with "tiny breastanimal gun barrel due to parts sharing" like most of the rest.

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

How long are either of these activities taking that they can't do both in one day?

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Hopefully it gets a proper send off in the next one and isn't just heroically sitting in a repair station or something.

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

That's the thing... there are literally two weekly Star Trek shows on TV at this point. If I wanted something that felt more like TV Trek I'd watch them. (Never mind that both DS9 and Voyager had done episodes by this point that felt closer to a movie than this one does)

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Insurrection instead has "remember when Riker was clean shaven?"

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

People point out that ST IV was arguably the most popular TOS movie and was "light and fun", but that film still had two huge hooks... resolving the situation from the end of ST III (Spock back alive, crew on Vulcan with no Enterprise), and putting our heroes in the present day.

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Honestly, everyone talking over Worf explaining why he's here is hilarious.

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I think that at this point the 24th century Alpha Quadrant is very well eatablished, so it's hard to go "oh BTW there's this race with super awesome ships better than our best ones who we've not mentioned before".

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It's one of the few times I've gone through forums and blogposts trying to figure someone out. It was hard to seperate those who wanted her destroyed out of malice from those saying "wait, this doesn't add up". In summary, Jack Monroe is a book of contrasts.

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Didn't one of them detail how to open a tin can with a knife if you're too poor to own a tin opener, which caused a lot of people to scream "for the love of god never do that!"

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Amiga Power. And yeah, same. But I know people who also worked for Future who said that he was always like this.

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Did we ever come to a consensus on whether Jack Monroe was well meaning but naive or a massive grifter?

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

He did love Coyote vs Acme so this might be a winner.

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Oooh, good idea! They on YouTube?

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I'm not sure that "healthy boundaries" should be in there for the man who kept banging his female employees and oh no I've Blueskied a joke thread...

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I'm pretty sure that's the face of a man terrified about what the person he's interviewing is going to say next.

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Me when watching "Genesis".

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Was Moore just giddy at writing the film and not thinking what would happen when he got back to the DS9 office?!

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

(To be fair to him, his score for ST V is also great. It's just... the rest of the film)

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

He's thrilled that at the third attempt he finally gets to be working on a good Star Trek movie! Hopefully that signals a change for the better. Right?

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It's funny that each subsequent brige (Defiant, E, Voyager) looks "cooler" and more techy and like a proper starship bridge, but none of them are as iconic as the one with the big wooden horseshoe.

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

That was the baddie though. This is the goodie doing it, which is a fairly big change.

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It works in the film, but I also don't know if it helps them in the long run. We've gone from the unknowable aliens who don't care about life, just technology, to robot zombies trying to make everyone else a zombie.

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Even before this, we have completely changed how the Borg work with the instant Borgification. Locutus is a lot less special when anyone can become a Borg just by standing near one. It also makes them exponentially more dangerous. 2 or 3 Borg could take over an entire planet now.

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It's easy to miss in amoungst everything else, but the Borg ship is "heavily damaged" even before the Enterprise turns up. Considering what happened 5 years earlier, this is extremely impressive work by Starfleet.

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Which is funny as this was co-written by one of the DS9 guys!

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I was similar at the time, but I think the E has ovetaken the D for me now (if I try and remove nostalgia from the equation). I really like it not being bigger than the D, as I think that's a lazy approach to making a "new version".

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It is also bad on a technical level as well, to be fair. I know multiple people (myself included) who didn't actually realise that Scott was dead for over half the movie.

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I think it gets off on a wrong foot for me by having credits that are a bit similar to First Contact but worse. Like, the theme is just a bit twee and bland, which is extremely disappointing after the all timer of the FC theme.

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

TNG Piller: *solves the absolutely insane writer's room nightmare of the first two seasons. writes the most popular TNG episode ever. VOY Piller: writes a load of new age nonsense about Native Americans. Creates an alien race based on (largely ethnic minority) LA Gangs. Thinks these are good ideas

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

She was desperate for her kids not to have to fuck a ghost candle.

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

She'd already changed names twice by this point. Guess three times is her limit.

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Technically Sinclair isn't widowed, so Sheridan was actually stealing that from Sisko.

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

To be fair, that might be because they look awful.

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LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Trying to work out why I love this but hate the similar moment in First Contact, and I think it's because if anyone can break the forth wall, it's Q on the series finale. Plus the First Contact version is clunky as hell.

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