Paramount+ is still the entity that decided to cancel the series and remove it from their platform less than a year after advertising themselves as being the home to "Every Series. Every Episode."
Ransom is less bisexual and more buysexual. You know that dude is dropping the credits for the deluxe horga’hn on his shore leave trips.
This is an entirely over the top interpretation of what is happening in the scene the OP shared where a villainous character is trying to exploit what they perceive to be a weakness in one of the protagonists.
However, if you want to get into it, the biggest factor in any tone shift from TOS to now was DS9. That’s where we see the Federation abandoning humanity to the whims of the Cardassians for the sake of a treaty. That’s where a Starfleet enforces martial law on Earth and an admiral attempts a coup of the Federation government. That’s where we learn it’s illegal to engage in genetic modification, even when it would reverse a person’s intellectual disability. And, of course, DS9 introduced the concept of Section 31.
The seeds were always there, though. Even in TOS we learn that the governor of the colony Kirk grew up on had half the population executed because there was a famine and not enough food for everyone. We see a Federation professor who taught at the Academy introduce fascism to a planet because he believed it to be the most efficient philosophy for advancement. We see a planet that’s heavily implied Starfleet maintains a base there strictly for sex tourism, and we hear Federation delegates debate the issue of whether or not they should allow a planet whose resources they’ve been exploiting to even join the Federation. Kirk and the Klingons fight a proxy war using the native population of a pre-warp world before Kirk gets sad and just abandons his side. It’s even heavily implied that women cannot rise to the rank of captain in Starfleet.
The only Trek that resembles your interpretation is TNG, but even there we learn of human colonies with roving “rape gangs” like the world Tasha Yar grew up on.
There are no jokes in the canon post. Star Trek is serious business.
Yeah, I keep looking at it, and I can’t figure it out.
Interesting. Cardassian starship weapons are most frequently described as phasers arrays. I can't say for certain it's never said in an episode that they also carry disruptors, but I do know that every time I can remember a shipboard armament on a Cardassian vessel being mentioned, it's a phaser.
The DS9 Technical Manual says the Cardassian ships have spiral-wave disruptor arrays and a large aft disruptor cannon -- presumably that's what the pincer like structure on the back is supposed to be -- but the DS9 Tech Manual is also...not up to the standard of quality established by the TNG Technical Manual.
Now I kinda want to check.
Edit: Obviously also not canon, but the Star Trek Adventures Core Rulebook lists the Galor-class as having both phasers and disruptors.
In that case, your opinion has been noted and filed appropriately, and my earlier statement stands.
If algorithmically generated images have been posted here, I’ve missed them. Why don’t you link to them to provide evidence of your claim?
Ah, but if you’re playing Star Trek Adventures, a one on the die counts as two successes.
Buddy, the fact that you removed “algorithmically” when you quoted me does not mean it wasn’t important to my statement. The difference is when an actual human does it, there is time and energy -- even if minimally so -- expended to communicate an idea. It is a transformative work.
An algorithm doesn’t have any ideas to communicate, and neither does the person using it, because if they did they would do so, as opposed to letting a machine spit out some trash and talking about how amazing it is.
You sound so dumb. You really don’t understand and that’s ok
Why don’t you explain it to me?
Nope, there are no official rules here, but that doesn't mean everything is going to fly.
If there's one thing I hate more than low effort content, it's low effort content algorithmically generated by scraping the internet and stealing the work of actual artists.
Nothing says professionalism like McCoy's constant needling of Spock over their racial and cultural differences.