i'm sure other people have many complaints, and there were some things that slightly detracted from my enjoyment, but compared to what i enjoyed and appreciated about the season, they were minor. everybody's got their own balance lol

and like. we've always had those ruminations about "what if the universal translator doesn't work, how do you bridge the gap with deeply alien life" and here we are chewing on that. BUNCH OF NERDS (affectionate)

(okay no villains is somewhat loosely stated, in the sense of "sympathetic and humanly comprehensible but deeply selfish and deluded motives" we got one, but nobody who's, like, here primarily to deliberately harm the protags or the federation)

at least in the EVERYTHING MUST BE THE HIGHEST STAKES DRAMA AT ALL TIIIIIIIIIIIMES, IF IT IS NOT TURNED UP TO ELEVEN IT DOESN'T COUNT modern tv space

like look. it's really easy to tell a story about blowing up enemies in the name of diplomacy and group science projects, because it's really easy to tell stories about solving things with violence. it's actually really hard to tell stories about solving things WITH diplomacy and science projects

what folktails nonsense is this! no dancing on shift!

there is SO much love in that woman. there is dizzying infinite amounts of love. and it’s all platonic.

today she eats bonito flakes and raw chicken in celebration in front of my dorky dvd shelf

still not happy with the paint job on the deflector dish, but idk if i can do better or want to commit to wiping it and starting over

i need to finish my starship first but aaaaaaa, the POTENTIAL! i look forward to figuring out where the heck i can put little plastic robots 😁

(i drifted into some gunpla videos and that shit is on a WHOLE NEW LEVEL, like i don't even go here and now i kinda daydream of building one because little pieces go together mecha move brain go brrrrr)

(tho lbr the people capable of making the transforming version with the third nacelle might be bandai and only bandai, and trek isn't lucky enough to be licensed to them)

(these masterful armchair opinions brought to you by spending WAY too much time watching modeling videos on youtube 🤡)

and by "my sanity" i mean "my painting skills"

the cerritos is PROGRESSING goddamn it, i'm just moving so slow and gingerly with the electronics bc i'm terrified of fucking up

also, as a belated addition, the moment of "ok now we're gonna get a chase sequence with a bunch of Generically Brown aliens on technicals in a desert with puke-yellow light balance for no conceivable reason other than it's 2002" bodied me

some of the space battle maneuvering was downright cool. commander donatra can stay. look, i gotta look for things to like, because that was otherwise nonsense

well, i did this to myself with open eyes, so now i bitch about it on bluesky as my allotment of two-handed typing for the day 🙃

i knew it was bad, i even knew some details, but i didn't fully comprehend how dumb it would be

like the only storytelling decisions in that ENTIRE movie which made sense were a) deanna's princess dress and b) maneuvering the ship to balance out which parts of the shields were faltering