Star Trek vs. Star Wars (and a collection of memes)

I never seen a meme on this scene before, I'm impressed.

The rootbeer scene is only half that video. That's a lot of dross at the end. Still, the root beer metaphor scene is probably the best two and a half minutes in all of DS9.

I really liked Garak and Quark.

To a lesser extant I liked Neelix, Tess, and 7 of 9 in Voyager
"I've never seen what's in there because I fly around nebulas. This ship is the most amazing thing in 50 light years and you want to investigate everything!"


In Star Trek Enterprise, my favorite character is Dr. Phlox. I guess T'Pol was sort of an outsider too but I think Star Trek overuses Vulcans. But in any event they did have a nice contrast. T'Pol was like "Something new? Gross" And Phlox was like "Something new? Neat!"

I think every Star Trek show should have at least one regular character on the cast who is NOT in Starfleet to provide an outsider's perspective. It's amazing how many nuggets of wisdom are in the Rules of Acquisition.

My favorite three are 109, Dignity and an empty sack are worth the sack.

112, never have sex with the boss' sister.

217, you can't free a fish from water

 

I absoultely agree on both of these.

And while we're at it...

The more Vulcans I see, the more i think that Spock really was an extraordinary exemplar of the race.

 

So Spock is a half-Vulcan, half-human.

There are two ways one can interpret this.

1) Since he is part Vulcan and raised by Vulcans, he over compensates by being the best Vulcan he can be, exercising his Vulcan skills and practicing stoicism above and beyond the average full Vulcan.

2) As a half-human, half Vulcan, Spock is roughly half-way between these two personality types so he is softer and more approachable than most Vulcans.

Originally, Star Trek leaned heavily towards interpretation 1. Even Vulcans sometimes told Spock he could lighten up. Over time, additional writers leaned more toward interpretation 2 so each new Vulcan character was more stoic and unyielding than the last one.

And despite avoiding emotional displays, Vulcans always seem okay displaying annoyance and pride.

 

Kathleen Kennedy's carefully orchestrated Obi Wan show cannot seem to launch new merchandise.



This 9 second video clip is an appropriate response to oh so many things in 2022.