Love the logo… 😹

Thanks sincerely for asking. I have checked in with this community’s other mod ValueSubtracted@startrek.website on this response.

Memes are fine in principle. We would genuinely welcome a broader scope of posts here, from a broader range of subscribers.

Overall, we seek to avoid building another franchise ‘old boys club’ community, full of gatekeepers or escalating toxic culture. It is important that everyone from newbies to OG Toho fans of Godzilla (1954) and Showa-era films feel welcome no matter their gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, or race.

Scope-wise, anything Godzilla, even anything Kaiju generally is fine.

We’re not restricting this community to the Legendary Entertainment Monsterverse continuity or even to licensed Toho or Toho creations. The community name was chosen as Monsterverse is the major continuity currently in production and drawing in new fans, rather than to exclude other Toho-licensed media.

Regarding NSFW content, tagging is required so that those who wish to use the filter to avoid NSFW content can do so.

Generally, memes and NSFW content can be more likely to take risks in terms of potentially making marginalized persons feel unwelcome. So, we’ll be modding closely and listening attentively to those who raise concerns about posts or comments that are taken as unwelcoming or inciting/escalating drama for its own sake.

/Film is more generous here to Godzilla (1998) than I could ever be.

The TLDR observation that the threat to the ecosystem and humanity of an egg-laying Kaiju on our Earth hasn’t been fully explored by the franchise is an interesting one though.

It was great to see Godzilla, and it was a high quality daylight scene. I was feeling Co-Cai’s pain as well and hoped that Godzilla would cut her some slack when he saw she was defending her young. So, that was a sad fight to witness.

Kentaro has been such a stalwart character so it’s been difficult to see him appear to go off the rails and get sucked in by Isabel. I was feeling Cate’s fury at him.

On the other hand, this isn’t the first time he’s followed his inner voice — his insistence that he’d seen something in Alaska saves them all. So, perhaps what he said to Cate about not falling for the Simmons but that he’s doing what needed to happen is correct. Would the egg have survived without AET?

Lots of action that serves mainly to unveil another layer of corporate skullduggery.

I’m intrigued that Hammond chose to use her window of opportunity to impart the message to May/Corah that her biggest error was not understanding what AET really. Clearly signaling where to dig further despite the recording status light on the surveillance camera in the corner of the room.

And then we see that Jason Trissop, who ran off with the computer with May’s code, is not just working with Isabel Simmons, he’s running her op to grab what they can on the beach in northeast Australia.

I’m feeling this episode is laying pipe for a potential third season alongside the Titan excitement.

That makes sense!

Definitely there was local control over availability. I recall shopping for gifts and seeing walls of SW toys but no Trek in Ottawa.

Even in Canada, I don’t recall that they had wide distribution. They were also marked up quite a bit from the US price (well beyond the exchange rate). I saw them mainly in specialty stores, not Toys R US and department stores.

That was a very time limited counter example, and were largely unavailable outside the US.

And it may be a really important factor in explaining the loyalty of millennial guys in the US to the franchise vs other demographics and countries.

Class sizes are up and supports are down.

Now attendance requirements for grades are being instituted.

It doesn’t occur to the government to enquire about why students are avoiding or refusing school attendance.

It looks like a 1970s toy. . . Which makes sense given who their target market is.

I would take it as another sign that the franchise has aged out were it not for the fact that it’s always had awful merchandising and licensing.

And this is why Starfleet Academy ranked 1st or 2nd on Amazon Channels but “didn’t find its audience” on Paramount+.

We’re dropping Paramount+ now. Neither the GenZs in our household nor my partner nor I can find anything to watch on that streamer other than Star Trek. No new Trek means it’s easy to align our values with our choice to spend our dollars elsewhere.

Let’s be frank that it was a male-gaze titillation to sell the show much like the frequency of ripped tunics and visible muscles were intended for women viewers. Both were introduced after the ‘more cerebral’ pilot of ‘The Cage.’

In any case, mini skirts were a fashion trend that constrained women and girls as much as ‘liberated’ them — Especially, as garters and stockings rather than pantyhose were the norm at the time. Looking at TOS now, I wonder if the show had to order specially made pantyhose or ultra fine tights.

While it was good for women and girls to be out of the 1950s tight-waisted skirts with crinolines so profound that they had to increase the spacing between lab benches and cooking class units (as was explained to me when I hit junior high), mini skirts meant that women and girls were constantly monitoring their exposure.

It’s no surprise that ‘pantsuits’ became an acceptable fashion option by 1970 and pantyhose rapidly replaced stockings.

There are industrial/cargo transporter platforms as well as industrial fabricator/replicators.

Perhaps only the ones in humanoid transport pads are set with the highest level defaults?

The averaging is the difference between a replicator and the absolute precision of a transporter.

The transporter has the level of precision and memory capacity to perfectly replicate real food.

The replicator is just a close approximation. It’s controlled for food safety and nutrition but the sense of smell and taste may be able to distinguish the food from a precise duplication.

Sadness is definitely why I’m feeling too.

Roddenberry had a vision of an international show in TOS, and his creation of an ethnically French captain for TNG.

Unfortunately, the franchise owners have never appreciated that and their focus on marketing first to the US market has kept the show and the movies from the global success they should have had.

With the Ellisons in charge, the franchise is likely to be all the more focused on the US without even the double-edged (often alienating) transparent American exceptionalism that has dogged the franchise.

I had wondered how Shaw had failed to see traces of Keiko in Axis Mundi during the Hourglass mission. That’s explained in the most heart wrenching way. Not quite Jim Kirk’s choice in TOS ‘City on the Edge of Forever’ but definitely as personally difficult.

Now, I have to wonder how much of those conversations and events in Axis Mundi Shaw recalled when he returned. He doesn’t seem to remember them consciously in 2017.

I’m also trying to figure out how Isabelle knew that Hiroshi spent time in Axis Mundi and that let Kentaro know.

Nice to see representation, if belatedly, of the newer shows.

That reworking of the 1968 model has a definite TAS vibe even if it was intended to be for the original series. I might be persuaded…

I think I need to digest this one a bit.

Manifold time and space, with the possibility of a multiverse on the side. Ambitious.

Monarch is definitely putting in the heavy lifting for practical applications of weird physics to make sense of the Monsterverse.

What are others thinking about the timey wimey reveals?

Now I am really confused about the relationship of the recent Suzuki caller experiment to Shaw’s failed 1962 mission and Titan X.

The episode is titled ‘String Theory’. With that name I am now wondering who is the show’s science consultant. Monarch seems to be endeavouring to be grounded, so I am thinking they have someone with a strong physics background on contact.

Best guess, the show is taking place in a universe of higher order folded manifold space. Likely, our classic 4 dimensional space (3 dimensional plus linear time) will turn out to be just a typically observable reduced form, with the intersection of other dimensions in the manifold occurring at the points mapped by Billy and Hiro.

All that bigger on the inside stuff from Billy Randa in the first season seems to be about to be teased out further.

Appreciate having the review.

There are a lot of games out there. We used to buy games after trying them out at gaming conventions but we only get to the local ones now.