My two favorite companions in the modern era!

I’ve heard that mentioned in reference to the show, I’ll keep that in mind. Someday I’ll get to it! Life keeps me busy.

Found some links:

Bans in March 2023

More bans Aug. 2023

Some bans reversed

If I remember right, about a year ago they were banning a lot of Linux players. It might be happening again.

I’ve never seen a lot of that show, but it seemed interesting. I even own the series set, I just haven’t had the time to watch. It doesn’t help that my spouse and I normally watch a lot of things together, and she wasn’t a big fan of the episodes we had seen!

Some Lower Decks! I’ll admit I wasn’t a big fan of the first season, but I thought season 2 and onward was better. I’m not always a fan of the style of humor, but I do get some laughs here and there! I would certainly watch a Star Trek animated drama series if they made it.

I appreciate the information! I may have to give at least some of the episodes a try. I’ll admit I’m not super thrilled about the interviews I’ve seen where RTD mentions leaning even harder into fantasy than before, but we’ll see!

Ah, that makes sense! It’s more something to kind of distract you instead.

In your opinion, are the stories in the new season anywhere near the quality level of the 10th and 11th Doctors? I started noticing I was enjoying them less part way into Smith’s run, and it felt like it was an overall downward trend until I stopped watching after Series 9. I thought both Smith and Capaldi did really well with their portrayal, but overall I didn’t think the stories and writing had the same spark that the earlier ones had. It might just be the fact that they were more serialized though.

I can’t say I’ve ever tried that to fall asleep, but I will put something on in the background as I’m working on projects. I’ve never been able to do it with DS9 though, because I always end up watching it instead of working!

I can appreciate a website making a list like this rather than putting five games to a page to garner more clicks! I definitely have different tastes than the reviewers though, which is fine.

Yeah, I would put V in there as well! I still don’t like VI nearly as much, even though I’ve played it quite a few times.

I don’t play games to get in the mood for a season, but I’ve noticed the last couple of years that I’m likely to play some games a lot more in certain seasons!

• Spring: Stardew Valley
• Summer: I don’t have anything specific here.
• Fall: Farming Simulator
• Winter: XCOM/XCOM 2

With the anniversary of the first episode happening in the last week, I decided to watch the 30th anniversary episodes.

• DS9 5x06 Trials and Tribble-ations - I always enjoy this episode, and I have a lot of admiration for the production crew being able to pull it off! It’s definitely a light and humorous episode, but I don’t need or want every episode to be high stakes!
• VOY 3x02 Flashback - Definitely not as light as the DS9 episode, but it was a good way of bringing in some of the TOS characters and showing some alternative angles of Star Trek VI. Definitely an interesting watch.
• SNW 2x05 Charades
• SNW 2x06 Lost in Translation

Nothing wrong with that! I’m kind of the same way, I watch the shows a good bit and have Star Trek stuff around the house year round. I like doing something special on Star Trek Day and First Contact Day for some reason though!

I tend to skip around on most of the shows too, mostly due to limited time. The main exception is DS9, which is the favorite of both my spouse and I. We tend to rewatch the whole thing fairly frequently.

I missed a word there! 😂 I changed it to be the first four movies. I’ve never liked V and VI for some reason, I end up being bored and wanting to do other things by the end. Which I’ll admit is strange considering I like The Motion Picture!

Wow, that’s a lot of Star Trek in a week! I definitely prefer the series, but I enjoyed the first four TOS movies. The refit Enterprise and the A are great looking ships.

I’ve never heard of this show, but from what you’ve said and the quick research I’ve done it sounds like something I would be interested in. Thanks for the mention of it!

They were definitely some shaky episodes in the first season! I still find most of it interesting though, especially all the groundwork for the later seasons.

I never watched Breaking Bad, but doing some quick research brings up Battle Lines. They had some pretty good character development in that episode.