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Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 3h

Watching Star Trek Generations until my meds kick in. It’s about on par with the others. Some good ideas, general good cheer, a good villain, packed together with cheese. I was never much of a TNG person but I like this one more than the other TNG movies.

Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 3h

Rings a bell but I am not sure.

Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 4h

“We haven’t run out of history quite yet.” Tell me about it Captain Kirk.

Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 4h

I was confused as to why General Chang said “don’t wait for the translation” when he’s speaking in English (?) and/or the universal translator is immediate but apparently this is a cold war reference.

Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 4h

I don’t think any “starship” is going to survive being hit by a torpedo. Any damage that happens in space is going to be magnified by the fact that you’re in space.

Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 4h

I don’t normally like a twist that a good guy in a movie was a bad guy all along. Feels like a cheat. It works in Star Trek VI and I think it helps that everyone else is familiar and this is an excited newbie.

Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 4h

A spy in the house of love.

Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 6h

Honestly this Klingon judge is a spectacular Gothic imagining. And the way it’s designed like a pit.

Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 6h

Wait McCoy isn’t vicariously responsible for Gorkon’s assassination. I am beginning to think this Klingon show trial isn’t fair.

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Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 6h

I agree that Captain Kirk Is vicariously liable for the conduct of his crew but I don’t think that legally includes unauthorised assassination attempts. Vicarious liability doesn’t usually extend to acts that far outside the scope of someone’s employment.

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Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 9h

I used to listen to radioplays. I remember one that was like “Then the Devil started to dance”. Maybe it was a version of Faust. I’ll never find it again, it exists only in my memory like Jack to Rose.

Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 9h

Hey, I made a direct political observation.

Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 9h

As much as I dislike the LNP I don’t relish a one party state consisting of the ALP.

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Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 1d

I agree that Dr McCoy was incompetent in Star Trek VI. He knows Vulcan anatomy, why doesn’t he know Klingon?

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Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 1d

Being a Klingon is the one thing Kirk hasn’t done in Star Trek.

Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 1d

I know William Shatner is 94 but I want to see him cameo in Star Trek movie in full Klingon make up. I want him to have to sit there while they apply it.

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Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 1d

Other than that it’s the best one? It’s hard to explain. It’s mostly excellent with a couple of really bad choices. Star Trek V had some high points surrounded by general garbage but not the offensive choices of Star Trek VI.

Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 1d

Star Trek VI has gone down in my esteem over the years for one reason only: Kirk being viciously racist is out of character and it’s there only so that he can see the light later on. He wasn’t like this at the end of the last movie. I also don’t like that they made Brock Peters the hawkish one.

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Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 1d

Assuming good faith can be a sign of privilege; assuming bad faith can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. I have been burned too many times but I am digging deep now to believe in good faith.

Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 1d

At the same time I am conscious that the law is often used as an instrument of repression or injustice.

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Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 1d

The law is inextricably linked with “reason” and although this can disguise a myriad of motives, as someone whose experienced periods of unreason, I have a strong investment in the concept of reason.

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Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 1d

There’s something in the introduction to my copy of the Brothers Karamazov from Dostoyevsky’s notebooks: “So it is not as a boy, then, that I believe in Christ and confess Him, but through the great crucible of doubt has my hosannah passed…” That’s how I feel about the law.

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Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been going through a certain amount of torment with my mental health with a lot of anxiety and rumination (in high enough doses these two things add up to paranoia). Strangely I have found a renewed belief in the law of all things. Not as it exists at any one time but as a concept.

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Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 2d

Spielberg stole the impact tremors from Jurassic Park from Sulu’s teacup in Star Trek VI. It’s bed time what I am saying is not true.

Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 2d

I could do without row row row your boat.