Posts by Stephen Duignan
Some people sat down and decided to tell a story about hope, love, optimism, diversity, and how we nurture young people, while the fascists were turning the lights off around them. Fucking miracle.
Bumping cos it matters. “Flawed writing” doesn’t cut it as critique. Fast forward 50 years & be a critic reflecting on how people subject to powerfully antagonistic institutional forces tried to tell truthful stories at the intersections of art/commerce/entertainment. Then come & tell me SFA is shit
at least you can select the original video instead of the AI upscaling
starfleet academy has an ep where a disgruntled gay klingon misses his ibiza vacation because he gets pressganged into a ceremonial role in his classmate's royal alien wedding. this is a glorious embodiment of star trek's creative legacy, but a lot of very angry youtubers do not agree.
Jay-Den and Darem
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it bears repeating
making it a Derry/Londonderry situation is an intriguing 32nd century worldbuilding wrinkle
at the very least can we get a Kirsten Beyer or Una McCormack novel filling in the rest of the school year
the cast of Star Trek Voyager in street clothes awkwardly posing with late-90s computer hardware and consumer electronics
this is what it feels like to post on bluesky
Sam in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
they gotta do something about these 10-episode seasons
I love (and collect) all kinds of non-fiction books about #StarTrek. I would love if this one got made. If this is is something that you also find interesting and can get behind, go for it! :-)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/149...
There was a #StarTrekProdigy Art Book in the works. I was going to co-write it.
It went into limbo when it was removed from Paramount+ with uncertainty if Season Two would find a home. Then more uncertainty when Paramount was merging with Skydance.
If you want it — Trek fans should rally for it!
at least they flipped it
“maybe I need to be handheld” ok we’re getting somewhere
how much off-screen history should the audience be asked to infer based on the characters’ on-screen behaviour? zero apparently
Partial screenshot of a Tweet by @wolfholz_: “in every single fandom there will be a point where i notice im too european for this.”
recurring thought as I listen to this podcast complain about internal beats in a specific film being too subtle/restrained/not signposted by dialogue
11 years between Shatner and Kelley, 13 years between Wesley and Jane. 2 years doesn’t seem like such a huge jump?
Boo. AI slop=unfollow
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an artificial lifeform, a klingon, and a betazoid out of uniform? close enough, welcome back TNG
The rise and fall of queer cartoons
aftermath.site/queer-cartoons...
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spiritual opposites
“Eight years on [from the launch of Discovery, there’s nothing] to be gained in hanging out in the comment section of a show that other Star Trek fans are excited about, and waxing poetic about the franchise returning to its roots.”
my gay moms
vistaprint vs moo
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
breaking into the exhibit and putting this thing on to gain the Power of Free Speech but the first thing that comes out of my mouth is “Barry Lyndon is too long” and the crowd immediately turns on me
spiritual opposites