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Chris Farnell

@thebrainofchris.bsky.social

I've written the Crew Handbook for Star Trek Lower Decks, the Prospectus for Life is Strange's Caledon University, the joke book for Doctor Who and the continuing misadventures of the deadly starship Fermi. https://chrisfarnell.com

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If they all live in a farmhouse, it's a Firefly. If they all live in an office, it's a Star Trek.

06.03.2026 10:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly, my real takeway is you mustn't have checked out Final Architecture, Space Sweepers or Revenger yet, coz I'd consider any of those a fair trade.

06.03.2026 09:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ha! None taken!

06.03.2026 09:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If you Google around, Joss Whedon has spoken about what he planned for Inara. It's pretty fucking gross.

06.03.2026 09:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think, Simon, that is possible, maybe likely, that you do not know the things I know about what was planned for Firefly Season 2.
Bullet. Dodged.

06.03.2026 09:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Look, I don't want to start a fight here, but I'm afraid Babylon 5 is a Star Trek.

06.03.2026 09:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A thing we don't acknowledge enough is that the entire 7 (I'm counting Generations) movie run of TOS-cast Trek movies was a meditation on ageing and regret, and being unable to move past a time in your life when all the colours were brighter, but which ultimately left you nothing to show for it.

06.03.2026 08:55 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

See, I am an absolute sucker for One Last Job. But to sell it you've got to sell me they've had a different life in the meantime.

06.03.2026 08:43 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think the most depressing thing about what the post-Last Jedi Backlash did to legacy sequels is that it drove us to strip characters of their ability to grow and change. Why would you want a person to be defined by who they were 20 years ago? Even if 20 years ago things were good! That's a curse!

06.03.2026 08:42 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Hieroglyphics with translation texts below them that reads

I made my body evolve through my own effectiveness.

I am the one who made me. I built myself as I wished, according to my heart.

Hieroglyphics with translation texts below them that reads I made my body evolve through my own effectiveness. I am the one who made me. I built myself as I wished, according to my heart.

Just reminded myself how hard the ending of Coffin Text Spell 714 goes

07.03.2025 10:06 β€” πŸ‘ 6105    πŸ” 2282    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 96

I've excluded Mass Effect from the above list because I mentally file Mass Effect as a Star Trek not a Firefly, but I think we all know that's an arbitrary distinction.

06.03.2026 08:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh also The Hard Switch and whatever this becomes: bsky.app/profile/bana...

06.03.2026 08:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I want to meet the next bunch of messed up people having interpersonal problems while trying to earn rent on their flying co-working space/flatshare, not retread the old ones.

06.03.2026 08:03 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Guardians of the Galaxy, Dark Matter, Killjoys, live action Cowboy Bebop, Vagrant Queen, Star Wars Rebels and Solo, Intergalactic, Outer Worlds, The Expanse, Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, Fermi's Progress, Borderlands 3, Wild Bastards, Final Architecture, Revenger, and Space Sweepers.

To start.

06.03.2026 08:00 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

I honestly believe that if we had got Firefly season 2 we would never have got (deep breath)...

06.03.2026 08:00 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Regarding Firefly, I do not want to see actors playing characters doing the same thing they were doing 20 years ago when those guys would have clearly died or settle down or just changed beyond recognition since then.

What I want to see is the next new thing to rip Firefly off.

06.03.2026 08:00 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4

God, can you IMAGINE how much easier Lockdown would have been if your house had a secret ghost pub?

06.03.2026 06:53 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is the most heroic thing I've ever seen on bsky.

06.03.2026 06:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

THE SHINING is a horror movie because the writer can never leave the part-time job he has to get, and it becomes full time, but also his kid is off school.

06.03.2026 06:40 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Sometimes the faded icon of Turned Off Replies tells a story all by itself.

06.03.2026 06:35 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Gonna net a lot of parent Likes here.

05.03.2026 18:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There were six of them, AndrΓ‘s. Six! Most importantly!

05.03.2026 17:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Genderswapping identical twins are a core part of the human condition, Alex.

05.03.2026 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hamlet, Much Ado, The Tempest

05.03.2026 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Personally, I have sex, drink champagne and watch movies with lots of explosions in to allow my brain to relax. But I guess that's because my brain is super super advanced.

05.03.2026 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He drinks champagne and has sex with a bunch of hos because that is the level of stimulation his advanced brain needs.

05.03.2026 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Quit yapping about your hos and tell me what this pirate is up to on a boat!

05.03.2026 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly the most relatable part of the entire video.

05.03.2026 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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05.03.2026 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

Since the age of about three my daughter has loved the Interrupting Cow joke without in any way getting it. She tells it:
"Knock Knock"
"Who's there?"
"Interrupting Cow."
"Interrupting Cow who?"
...
"MOOOOO!"
(cue daughter rolling around on the floor in absolute paroxysms.)

05.03.2026 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0