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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

He would have probably done well writing for the Klingon version of J Peterman honestly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They did that one time on Undiscovered Country. I guess that was a Klingon ship though.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Maybe its a classic situation of failing upwards. They suck too much to keep a ship of people alive but not enough to be kicked out of Starfleet, well they are getting into their sixties, what do we do? Promote them I guess, unless it's Harry Kim.

Meanwhile the ones that are amazing at their jobs like O'Brien are stuck at Chief Petty Officer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Definitely all true. But the implication that she was made into a Romulan love slave, especially after having established her backstory always rubbed me the wrong way.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Funny you should mention that 1000002173

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

That's a tricky question. In some way, an unintentional error being corrected later makes sense. Especially since something like a sound effect doesn't change the plot. It's sort of akin to using digital effects to remove visible wires from model-based space shots.

But where does it end? I don't know if I have a good answer.

Sometimes I like to make up headcanon to justify mistakes for fun. For instance, maybe the paging system on the Defiant blew out on a mission and O'Brien had to wire in a Cardassian chime temporarily while he waited for a new part to get ordered.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

The main guy on this episode seems like a 1980s wrestler. Especially with the shiny outfit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Comcast is currently working on that right now only it pees for you so you can stay and watch the commercials.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I think that's the biggest thing standing in the way personally. There are 6 or 7 Spotify-like services and 10 or 11 Netflix-like services. Some people might lump YouTube in with Netflix but it really isn't since all the content on YouTube is user generated. There's nobody else doing the same thing YouTube is doing at that scale. The closest is Facebook and TikTok but the way they deliver ads seems to be a lot different as well.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Yeah I know. It's definitely a me problem. I'm sure one day I'll come around.

It's been a long time after all...maybe my time is finally here.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

I tend to agree. Especially with midroll ads. And I also see YouTube Red/Premium/Plus as too expensive especially compared to free.

I wonder if it cost $1-$3 per month instead of $14 if they wouldn't get so many more subscribers that they would still end up making more money.

Of course they would still be incentivized to slowly raise prices over time but I could be talked into $2 a lot quicker than $15.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I guess it's harder to do this after 13 years of default "free" content. It's easier for someone like Spotify to do that because there has always been the option to pay for premium.

I remember in the earlier days of Spotify there were a lot of ways to get half priced service just by finding xyz code or paying $5 for a code on eBay that got you a year of half priced Spotify. I don't know where those came from or how those existed but it was definitely what finally convinced me to subscribe.

(I've since cancelled in favor of buying CDs again but I realize I'm the oddball in that scenario)

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