TBnTB Video: Ensign Ro

Ah man, I just ran out of time. Oh well, I'll get to Worf one day.

The episode in its original podcast form is here.

The Beige and The Bold: Ensign Ro

This week's episode of The Beige and The Bold is "Ensign Ro."

I'm amazed that Picard's stupid jacket didn't immediately torpedo this sensitive diplomatic mission. But I'm glad we got Ro out of all of this.

And Deep Space Nine.

I didn't realize how the Iran/Iraq War and the Soviet/Afghan war ran almost contemporaneously for almost the entirety of the 80's. Lockerbie was in '88 and I was way off with the Beirut barracks bombing happening in '83, almost eight years before this episode. 

Still though, what could this series could have done with its main characters to make them more interesting, even if they were a bit more flawed? And I don't mean flawed as in 'poorly written.' I mean flawed in a way that made them more nuanced characters. Give Doctor Crusher a hat?

The Beige and The Bold: Darmok

This week's episode of The Beige and The Bold is: Darmok

I don't know why Picard has this stupid jacket because it's stupid. 

The Tamarians are pretty cool guys and it's implied that they're comparable in technological ability to The Federation. Are the Children of Tama another large, star-spanning polity which influences and is influenced by its neighbors? My personal model of Star Trek has been that these types of heterogeneous entities are the only type which can achieve a certain level of stellar progress before they collapse. 

 

It was off-camera, but does our chanting for Riker to put Picard into danger because it supports the value Picard puts on peace resemble the principle I often put forward that Picard putting the Enterprise in danger is acceptable because he does so for the moral principles his crew--civilian and Starfleet alike--believe in?

 

The Beige and The Bold is hosted on Anchor and is available on most podcasting platforms. New episodes go live on Sunday nights at 10:00 PM CST.

The Beige and The Bold: Redemption, Pt II

This week's episode of The Beige and The Bold is: Redemption, Pt II

We're getting right back into it. Nonsense Data storylines. Tasha Yar baby mama drama. Worf being a huge nerd. The gang is all here, except for Doctor Pulaski.

We often talk about how this show transcends its limitations and it does not do that here. I'd say that this was as good a galaxy-spanning political drama could get within the confines of Star Trek: The Next Generation except for the fact that they burned four scenes on a Data story instead of doing anything with Worf.

Man, if only Star Trek could do galaxy-spanning politics centered on Worf that would make him a pivotal player who--*clink*

The Beige and The Bold is hosted on Anchor and is available on most podcasting platforms. New episodes go live on Sunday nights at 10:00 PM CST.

Morning Perfect Base #55: The Amazon, Jar-Jar Binks, and You

Brazil
As you may have heard, The Amazon Rainforest is on fire.

The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro ran on a platform of developing the rainforest for ranchers and farmers. As president, he rolled back protections that prevented developing the rainforest. When the head of Brazil’s space reasearch center reported that there was massive deforestation happening because of development, Bolsonaro fired him.

When it was revealed that fires in the Amazon were up 83% over last year and were the worst since we started counting them, Bolsonaro said that it’s just because it’s the “burn season.” Obviously, it’s an explanation which falsely equates all burning as being the same and dodges the question of why there’s so much more of it under his administration.