Because an expansive universe lore is enjoyable if it's coherent and there are stakes at play. If you consider the official canon, voyager as a series is pretty much to throw away, because the Federation would already have the technology to bring them home centuries ago. And yes, many times the writers played around the concept in good ways to not make Discovery a ridicolously overpowered ship, but it still suffers from big "Superman is so strong he can destroy a plenet with his mind" energy.
Can you make the whole series good with deus ex machina superpowers? I guess. Was the writing good enough for it? Absolutely not.
Yes, I am aware of the baby lizards warp 10 episode of Voyager, that should also be thrown away from canon as it makes no sense, but at least it was a whacky episode among many (and the showrunners ackowledged it) not the premise of an entire seriea.
This article seem to point a key difference: old trek = episodic (boring), new trek = serialized (exciting). Yet the two most appreciated series (to my impression) are SNW and LD, both being episodic and highly faithful to the "old" series, while refreshing some themes and presentation, in a positive and modern way.
Discovery is not hated because it's serialized, or "gritty" (DS9 is gritty, with genocide and war crimes, DIS is cringey, with heavy and dark themes carried out as a 12 years old would). DIS is hated because of poor writing, low stakes, monolithic, brainless and spineless characters and a general lack of respect for established canon that can only be resolved by (SPOILER BELOW)
Yeeting them out of our time and literally erasing them from history. And somehow even in the far future their incredible technology is advanced.
That is true, for an adult issue, a serious and adult conversation must happen with this girl, even if it could be okay, the situation itself should be evaluated because it can get very gnarly. We don't know much about OPs way to handle it, but it's also possible this specific situation is fine.
Either way, I agree that just telling your daughter to stop doing something she clearly feels like doing, even if she has a distorted view of that something, is not going to help anyone.
You are not wrong, but age gap should be considered relative to the people age. 20 years difference between 20 and 40? I guess, still not the best thing ever... Between 17 and 38? It's very very different, people mature A LOT between 17 and 20. Then of course it depends on the person, maybe this 17 years old is mature for her age, but maybe she is just being taken advantage of.
Also, the wording of the mother really implies it's an assimetric relationship, not really one between consenting adults, of course we don't know, but still...
If you consider the queen dies multiple times (I count four: end of Voyager, First Contact and Picard season 2 AND season 3), there must be more than one, otherwise it makes no sense.
why did he wait so long?
Copyright laws protect 70 years after the death of the author. If Disney infringed his intellectual property, why should a couple of years matter and his case be dismissed?
I know they are being used to, and are decently good for, extracting a single infornation from a big document (like a datasheet). Considering you can easily confirm the information is correct, it's quite a nice use case
In many countries you can apply to disability pension, the protectios mentioned here are if you have a job / intend to have a job.
That is true for online password managers, you need an offline one
Take off your tinfoil hat man. The entire us healthcare system is the profitable cancer, not the illnesses
Paypal absolutely, but honey does not. Investigation by megalag showed that it purposefully did not give the best experience in terms of coupone codes, if any at all, and experience from users seem to confirm that honey does not try to provide any real service, only scam customers, creators and shops. Paypal as a company should be held responsible
Most tech companies do evil stuff that are technically allowed although immoral, and they still bring some benefit in some way. What honey did was not only immoral, but most likely illegal, and screwed literally everyone. At least amazon and google have horrific monopolies, but they bring useful products (in some way).
Agree. I use NewPipe and csn easily open YouTube linkscin my instance, but cannot if they are posted on random instance. I would have to manually copy the video code, which I definitely won't do.
We had a small animatronic monkey toy, similar to this one below, but in a sitting position snd with deep black eyes. We didn't play with it (try to imagine why) so it was on the top shelf of the room.
When we used the A/C in the hot summer, because it was high in the room, its face was slightly lit, and because in the resting position the head of the monkey looked at his side and below, it would end up looking at me while I was sleeping, barely lit by a status LED.
It actually didn't bother me always, but if I woke up from a nightmare it was the first thing I saw and usually meant not going back to sleep.
Bonus: I also hated mirrors. When going to the bathroom in the night, while cleaning my hands I was terrified of looking down from the mirror and look up back to it, I always imagined some horror creature like a ghost, or the girl from The Ring to happear behind my shoulders.
He was ironicly making a comparison with Trump, convicted of serious crimes but still being elected president
Wouldn't existing transit raiders already be paying for a transit pass anyway?
What a weird episode, I liked the idea but realized that after 20 years that planet would be more advanced than any other civilization in the galaxy, how is that going to fit in the lore of star trek?