I love Lower Decks a lot. You can spot the exact moment the exec who was demanding “make one of them Rick and Morties with this old sci-fi shit we have” left the room and the writers all went “okay so we’re gonna do a very targeted Star Trek comedy now, yeah?”
The DS9 episode was wonderful.
I feel like rsync may genuinely be one of the best, most slept on tools out there. It even works over ssh.
It’s the broad brush that gets me. Going dark has to be a principled choice. DS9 nailed it with the “it’s easy to be a saint in paradise” mentality. The hope in most Trek writing comes from a worldview that most people are inherently good unless their environment forces them to act otherwise (which I would very much say is how the world actually works). When shows go dark using something closer to a “people are inherently evil unless they really fight back against their nature” mentality, it feels bad and rings hollow.
“Staring Jeffrey Combs as Brunt”: HELL YEAH!
“Staring Jeffrey Combs as Weyun”: HELL YEAH!
“Staring Jeffrey Combs as Brunt and Weyun”: LET’S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOO!
And you may find yourself living in a starship bunk
And you may find yourself in another part of the galaxy
And you may find yourself behind the helm of a large delta flyer
And you may find yourself in a beautiful holodeck, with a beautiful holo-wife
And you may ask yourself, “Well, how did I get here?”
And the answer is pretty simple, it was the caretaker.