Kit Stølen

Looking at history, I fear that could be decades, or centuries from now…

Something about watching them is like a slap in the face, that society at large seems to have broken all the morals and promises that we aspired to, that the shows represented…

Trying to watch HBO’s “Back to the Frontier” and so far, my takeaway is, PBS was way better at this type of show decades ago…

Yeah, I feel that.

Eh it’s long dead, would have been a B movie, probably not good. But I did get to investigate and learn about a lot of deep sea life. It had a bio luminescent based language.

I worked on a deep sea sci-fi horror film, that never got made, but the idea was intelligent life based on deep sea vent life.

So much interesting potential...

I agree that it’s the ideal direction. It’s the how and the what of it in terms of storytelling, that will captivate a wide audience…

Or one might equate it to the Shire. Characters have to leave The Shire for the adventure, but it persists as the quant notion of home that’s under threat.
Something about that seems very 20th century, though…

Solarpunk is a tricky one, because when it’s often depicted in sci-fi, it’s usually as the too-good-to-be-true utopias or would-be 3rd party victims of some antagonistic force.
Earth in Trek seems very solarpunk adjacent, but they’re also rarely there in the show, because the drama is elsewhere.

What is the point of sci-fi now?

Assuming we’re not talking about escapist fantasy entertainment.

We’ve blown past # of milestones & warnings depicted in 20th c. Fiction. We’re awash w/nostalgic sci-fi from the past. But I find myself struggling with the idea of what does it need to be for now?

Is there some sort of Bluesky drama that I’m oblivious to?

Even if we entertained that scenario, it would be like handing a mobile phone to a caveman & expecting something Flinstones-esque to occur.

Ok hear me out…

A fully functional and permitted pop-up friendly ultra-upscale-bougie-looking farmer’s market that just conveniently forms around or near gestapo raids. Can’t break character or seem threatening in any way, though.

That one hurts deep somehow…

Why do conspiracy theorists always think we have Star Trek levels of technology right now?

Instead of Subnautica 2, I’d rather just have original Subnautica with weather, more biomes to explore and realistic water, displacement, buoyancy, currents…

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Watching deep sea life… far less stressful than the news.

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With all this obsession over expelling “foreigners”, it never seems to get pointed out that majority of people being targeted are of indigenous ancestry to the Americas.

I wish writers would ditch the notion of “Evil” as some sort if force onto itself. It really makes an antagonist boring.
Even in fantasy… person turns into a vampire & they’re mwahah evviiil…

…dull

Would be easy to 3d print it and metal plate it, probably.

Alas I have no video of Unk.

I’m still waiting for one of those Xenomorphs to sing “Hello My Baby”. Will the show deliver?!

Same shit over and over again.

Why do those mobile games have so much money for Ads and who even wants to play those awful looking things?

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Although a tabletop old battleship style Balance of Terror game could be cool (can’t imagine that doesn’t already exist somewhere).

Yes the fight club thing is what’s not sitting right with me. Starfleet that refused to build a warship before the Defiant, seems out of character, but I get that it’s harder to design a game engine where you moral quandary your way out of dilemmas.

MMO seems like a hard format for Trek, unless it can cleverly define non-combat goals and narratives for PCs.

I wonder if that format would look more a Bethesda game… but with better dialogue and plot writing.

So far 2 votes for Resurgence, will have to check it out.