Until he got demoted again and became able to be bossed around by all of the other ensigns.

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If the question is capitalism vs. personal choice, I ask por que no los dos?

I never watched Rings of Power, though get what you mean about Aragorn in Lord of the Rings.

Haven’t children been that way ever since Watergate? Caveat: perhaps to an ever-increasing degree, as the number of such events increases. Who today that does not already own a home ever have a hope to do so? (In most Western nations) Who hopes for social security in the USA to be more than merely yet another tax paid out without expectation of remuneration? Who expects a return on health insurance either? When you have to pay out multiple thousand before even a single dime gets paid out, in that realm of low cost you essentially don’t have health insurance (and then do, briefly, and then if there isn’t a cap on payments, back to again not).

The cynicism is entirely logical. Or at least was prior to this year. In the future, people will merely either be alive vs. not, it would seem, e.g. with some projections saying that over a billion people will die in the next 5-20 years, and possibly half (to all) of the population of Earth a couple decades after that. They know this… they aren’t stupid, and unlike the oldest generations, aren’t sticking their heads in the sand purposefully. Their eyes are wide open as they are being brutalized, by the very same people they call “family”. Whatever adolescence should or should not have been is no longer relevant, as extinction itself is now on the table and potentially imminent in their - and even our - lifetimes (especially with the aid of the specter of the likes of WWIII to help speed it along?).

Or if none of that is true, it at least might be, and either way seems to sum up how they feel.

Baaaaphomet!?

Unless… he wasn’t⁉️

Hence the joke 🤣

I don’t get it but I like it nonetheless! 🤣

This meme made my minute! 😂

We need a meme of this NOW!

Rent. I move cities every 3-5 years chasing my dream job though so… yeah, rent it is. I’m looking to possibly also lose the current job as well, so it’s also rent as far into the future as I can see.

On the bright side, I don’t have to pay for any appliances 🤷‍♂️.

ENT felt like to me that they tried to grab some extra cash by making use of the Star Trek franchise, regardless of the damage they would do to the latter while chasing the former:-P. But perhaps I’m being unfair and simply did not understand the style. Or maybe it’s just art and thus some people will absolutely love it while others hate it. I did not care for it. I really tried to, but it just seemed to drag on forever and leave me unsatisfied, as you are seeing as well.

It gets worse. On the other hand, if there is only four seasons then you’re more than halfway through, so if you keep going then at least you could say that you made it through!?

DS9 is outstanding, if you have time to sit and watch episodes consecutively while you still remember what the previous episode was about. Long form content, made even before that was industry standard as it is now. Story arcs that took multiple episodes to finish (Babylon Five is this way too), so a bit closer to a “movie” than a single episode meant to be consumed in one sitting, like TOS, TNG, and VOY. Both formats are good ofc, just different, with each offering something that the other lacks, by design.

ENT I never really understood. Somewhere in there it starts to get into time shenanigans (season 5 maybe?), which I always loved everywhere else I’d seen it in the Star Trek universe. However, I barely could get through it in ENT. Perhaps I was just too busy irl to really give it justice though.

I hope I don’t unfairly prejudice you against enjoying the rest of the show. My aim was to reassure you that you are not alone: the show really does get difficult to watch, by virtue of not being as you expect, coming from the likes of TOS, TNG, and VOY, and then DS9 for longer-form story arcs. Maybe there’s a trick to enjoying ENT? I would hope so, but don’t know it.

Instead I gravitated to other series - Firefly, Farscape, Andromeda, Babylon Five, Battlestar Galactica, there’s so much good to see that is available, and only so much time to spend watching it! On the other hand, Star Trek really is a special franchise… My solution to get through ENT was to do other activities while having it on and so not devoting my full attention to it. Even that got difficult by the end of the series… :-(

Wasn’t this already true for those regurgitated clickbait SEO optimized pages that stole views away from the true original source?

I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess… is it in the DS9 series, somewhere? (/s, I see it’s answered twice already!:-)

B-b-but I didn’t see one there when I went to look for it…

Uh, I mean I haven’t heard of people talking about such a thing… 😁😳🤗

If you feel that way then beware… it gets much worse, then a bit better, then arguably almost unwatchable by the end of the series. :-(

TNG, VOY, and TOS are really an entirely different genre. DS9 is too, but in an superbly awesome way 😎. ENT is… well, it exists as well.

Surely no… “questionable” decisions were ever made in that series, r-r-right!!!

(By anyone other than Rick Berman ofc)

Be honest - this clip is what drew you in, wasn’t it? :-P