Stephanie Jessop, Space Pirate @Taweret@octodon.social

Me: See, the station is supposed to be ugly. It was built by the Cardassians and literally hung over Bajor during the occupation but that same oppression has left the Bajorans in a position where they can't just build a new station and are forced to work with what they've got. So the ugly legacy of colonialism is the literal backdrop of the show.

Barista: Okay, but did you want whip cream on that?

Me: Yes please.

@Taweret this has been our annual reminder that @envgen bears a strong resemblance to 1980s Ivan Doroschuk and may be doomed to eventually front a Men Without Hats tribute band.

If you’re defending Anna please unfollow me

i think framing all this as "drama" that you wanna "avoid" or you're "happy you happened to be offline tonight" is super dismissive

an insect ship shows up and reed blows it up before archer can get to the bridge
and archer is like you could have told them we were protecting their eggs, then they could've taken over doing that and maybe even they would stop seeing us as monsters that must wiped out
and reed is like 🤷

maybe that's exactly why we SHOULD save their babies, tucker?

my god. if Picard were here he would give you such a lecture

again archer says "these xindi are innocent and if we let them die it will only prove to the other xindi that they're right about us"

any other starfleet captain, any of them, would make this same argument

except here its meant to be proof that something is 'wrong' with archer

i don't know what this show is, but it is not star trek

so archer doesn't wanna let aliens babies die and t'pol knows that means something is up

she's gonna get to the bottom of it

the crew universally agree that not letting the babies of your enemies die is irrational and silly

they are literally unable to empathize with anyone not part of their in group

how is this star trek?

then archer is like the xindi want to kill us because they think we're ruthless and if we save these eggs we can prove them wrong

and like, yeah, that's what picard would do

but no, you're not supposed to think that. you're supposed to argee with tucker here. let's torch eggs with alien babies inside and having empathy for them means there's something wrong with you

so archer is like we shouldn't leave all these baby insects to die
(and archer showing empathy of any kind is our first clue he's been compromised)
and tucker is like, naw let them die
and archer is like what if they were baby humanoids?
and tucker makes a face like what the hell

on enterprise not wanting to let babies die is irrational i guess

so we get a long scene with reed and one of the soldier guys transporting insect bodies and they make a big point that some earth insects hibernate and soldier thinks these might wake up
then they bicker for while

tucker says the insects died trying to save their eggs and this is absolutely one tmnt ep and that is hilarious

(Nog catches the ball as the Vulcan runs past him. We see that the Vulcan's foot does not actually touch home plate. Odo says nothing.) 
NOG: What's wrong? 
O'BRIEN: He didn't touch home, Nog.
NOG: Is that true? What do I do? 
WORF: Find him and kill him! 

@Taweret @starwall horses are clearly more powerful and should be worshipped as the god-monarchs they are.

HAIL HORSE!

the last ep was the one where phlox hallucinated everything

they could have had phlox deal with real problems, maybe a real alien attack while everyone was in comas but that might have been entertaining and this is enterprise so

this one says "The crew begins to question Archer's judgment when he goes to extremes to save an abandoned nest of Xindi-Insectoid eggs."

which sounds like that one tmnt ep but i'm sure will be duller

if all you want is for tucker to get injured so you can tell this awful story you don't need a long sequence of bs to get there

remember on tng when worf gets paralyzed? he walks into a cargo bay and shit falls and breaks his spine. boom. done. set up taken care of and now you can tell your story

economy of story telling, motherfuckers

they do a bunch of technobabbly stiff where they just exchange technobabble with each each other for way too long a time before tucker finally gets hurt

this is the kind of inefficient story telling that really bugs me on this show

i am at once excited and horrified at the prospect of watching this ep

because holy shit this episode description you guys:

"Dr. Phlox clones Trip after he is severely injured in an accident that disables the ship inside a hazardous space cloud; Archer faces an ethical dilemma as the clone gains sentience and does not want to die so his organs may be harvested."

@Taweret

holy shit I was not prepared for how bad this is