see in the future it's the WFL

lili talks to augur and it's a boring scene but he doesn't sniff her this time at least

then zo'or is a huge prick again and William Boone makes a silly face. it what he's best at

then we go to some bioengineering thing or something and what the fuck is going on with the guy with polka dots on his head? is that supposed to be like Fashion! of the future! or what? what is happening right now?

William Boone and da'an talk (this is a really boring ep btw) and then we cut back to the protesters and no one says anything about the polka dot guy
then this lady brings out a cow and everyone laughs because cows are funny i guess? even though they're there to protest the place and you'd think they'd be mad but no haha cow apparently

also the lady says they've engineered the cow to give ten times as much milk in half the time? which seems physically impossible and also pretty unpleasant for the cow

also i still wanna know what's going on with polka dot guy

this is the most boring ep so far. the last one with the killer robot bees was pretty fun but this is just...
i don't care about doors

butterflies. i meant killer robot butterflies

killer robot bees was an ep of black mirror that was terrible

William Boone and augur hack into some lady's day planner or something while Lwaxanna and sandoval go over the minutiae of doors faking his death
it's as exciting as it sounds

oh good i'm glad we're clearing up the power of attorney issue. i was on the edge of my seat about that

so through various events too tedious to describe William Boone contrives to gets Da'an his job back and somehow there's 8 mins left?

this is the first ep so far where i've been bored through most of it and it's not even over

lwaxanna sneaks William Boone and lili into a secret underground resistance base where doors is and it turns out augur was with the resistance the whole time

and it's still not over somehow

also doors is planning something he calls 'project metal scarecrow' with the butterfly machine from the amish ep

it still looks nothing like a scarecrow

then the aliens talk again and it finally ends

this was really boring. the previous eps were goofy and cheap and cheesy but they weren't boring at least. i hope this isn't going to be a trend

@Taweret The twist ending is that it's all been a holodeck program of Riker's.

@Taweret
That looks like Jamie Foxx before he turns into Electro

@Taweret wait... wait, did he make the butterfly machine that was making Amish people commit suicide? and this is a good thing somehow? what?

@troodon
@Taweret
It is when you have a machine that creates free energy from suicides.

@Taweret was this written by one or more of the Enterprise writers?

@SelfsameSynonym gosh i hope not. i have mostly been having fun with this show. if it becomes as boring as enterprise i will switch to something else

@Taweret I just skimmed the writing credits on imdb for both shows and didn’t notice overlap, so maybe it’s just convergent boringness?

@Taweret I don't think we've talked enough about how bad a title "Earth: Final Conflict" is.

It is *very* bad.

@RexfordGTugwell oh yeah it's awful
without the subtitle it would just be Earth which... yeah...

@Taweret And how is it the final conflict? At the end of the show, is Earth either vaporized or has unchallenged dominion over the universe?

@RexfordGTugwell @Taweret It was a Gene Roddenberry concept. If he came up with the title, maybe it was the "final conflict" before Earth achieved FALGSC? Still a bad title, though.

(Side note: what's with the super low budget, fairly terrible efforts at making posthumous, non-Trek Roddenberry series? Andromeda was another, though it wasn't as terrible as E:FC.)

@Taweret @RexfordGTugwell If Earth was such a bad show, then how come there was an Earth 2 a couple years earlier?

@SelfsameSynonym @Taweret And previously:

@Taweret You notice this show usually ends like an episode of 'Mork and Mindy'?

Just Imagine Da'an is played by Robin Williams in his prime.

@Taweret

they're really sticking with this metal scarecrow bit for a while

@mal when the props department built something that looked nothing like a scarecrow, it they didn't have time or money to build something else, they could've just changed the word?

@Taweret
@mal
They'd already spent all their writing money, and they'd seen that one episode of captain planet about how much paper script changes go through

@Taweret Sounds like...Portnoy's complaint!

(thank you, I'm here all week)

@Taweret That's a weird way to say "twenty times as much milk".

...like, it's not like cows make milk in indivisible batches you have to wait until it finishes a batch.

It doesn't come out in jugs.

@Taweret Head polka-dots are 100% more believable than any civilian fashion that has ever appeared in Star Trek.

@Taweret
See that the professional cereal eating scene has gotten way more violent.

@Taweret This leaves me with the same question as Star Trek's baseball episodes : London England? Or London Ontario?

@apLundell @Taweret Definitely England. The London Monarchs were a real team in the (NFL-backed) World League of American Football.

@Taweret ew... is the entire species made of smug assholes? yeah they're interstellar sex tourists, deffo