Yes it's a movie that's entirely people singing in French. If that's too much for you then maybe stick to Fortnite and zoomer youtube reaction videos.

It's as real as you'll ever get in a movie. Like where the guy is trying to explain to the foid that his leg really hurts bad right now and no I'm not going to tell you details of how this happened.

Non-Francophiles frick you keep yourself safe.

The Measure of a Man is the best episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Yes, Best of Both Worlds and Yesterday's Enterprise are more spectacular but MoaM (as I will now refer to it as) is the best written episode of Star Trek period. Most of it is just people standing around in rooms talking and that is fine.

The episode revolves around a court case which is a pretty common trope in Star Trek as most TV writers have experience writing courtroom drama and also, and perhaps most importantly, courtroom drama is cheap to make. Melinda Snodgrass, who wrote this, actually was a lawyer which is probably why the case-building stuff actually makes sense. Here's a suspiciously attractive lawyer talking about the legal stuff in the episode while wearing the wrong uniform because this episode was from season 2 when Starfleet officers still dressed like a bobsleigh team:

The plot is this: Starfleet Neurodivergent Commander Maddox was to disassemble Data for science...

Here's more of Maddox so you can really get a full feel for the guy...

Data doesn't want that. A court case happens. Data is defended by Picard and the JAG forces Riker to act as prosecution, threatening him with all kinds of shit if he throws the case. This provides extra stakes and saves money on hiring another actor.

Riker decides 'frick it' and gives it 100%...

This sucks and Picard is utterly despondent. He decides to break into the Enterprise bar and get drunk and Guinan finds him there. The two have a heart-to-heart and Picard realises that it is not just his friend who is in danger from this case, but the ethics of the entire Federation...

Hey! Modern TV writers: This is how you tackle social issues in Sci-Fi. See?

Full of the Beans of Social Justice, Picard storms it in court the next day, putting that fricking nerd Maddox in his place...

All this leaves is the awkward question of how Data and Riker move on from this. Fortunately, Data deploys facts and logic (although the writer says she thought that Data could, in fact, understand emotions even if he could not feel them)...

Riker would get the chance to prove himself non-chud in a later season by falling for a totally valid so remember that. Personally, I think Riker would frick a hole in the wall so... meh.

I never watched this because it had horrendous reviews and I've rarely seen people talk positively about it. Then I happened upon Roger Ebert's review of the film where he admits to finding it funny. So I got curious and checked it out. Honestly, wasn't that bad and was a pretty "comfy" movie. Got a few good laughs out of me.

Edit: Films name is Land of the Lost.

For reasons Starfleet reassigns Picard to a super-secret-squirrel mission behind Cardassian lines and gives command of the Enterprise over to Commander Jelico, played by Ronny 'Peepee Jones From Robocop' Cox. There's a whole B-plot about how Jelico and Riker clash and Jelico eventually confines Riker to quarters and (rightfully) gives the Number 1 slot to Data. La Forge also gets along fine with the new order and, when Jelico forces her to wear a proper uniform and act like a fricking officer, Troi is finally given the opportunity to behave like a professional. Riker comes over as completely petty and infantile in this story- Achillies sulking in his tent- until Jelico takes Troi's advice and butters him up to perform a fancy bit of flying that I cannot believe Data couldn't have done better. Jelico is the third best Enterprise captain btw: loads of people think he was great and I bet there are crappy Star Trek novels about him somewhere.

Anyway Picard finds himself captured and, while Jelico is trying to find a way to release him, he gets tortured by Gul Macet- played by veteran Bong actor David Warner. Warner was in two Pekinpah movies- the Balad of Cable Hogue and Cross of Iron- and played three two other roles in Star Trek (some ambassador guy in Star Trek 5: The One Everybody Tries to Forget About and the ruler of the Klingon Empire in Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country). The two actors were old friends and worked really well together creating one of the great thespian masterclasses of 90s TV. In the end Picard seems to win but there is a sting in the tail...

Thanks to @Battleloser for inspiring this post with his comment on my previous installment of Best of Starshit:

https://rdrama.net/h/kino/post/226890/the-best-of-starshit-garak-talks

Is there a !starshit ping group? There should be- there should be a Starshit hole actually as so many people around here love to sneed at it.

The new trailer for the ‘BOB MARLEY’ biopic has been released.

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— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) December 5, 2023

That marvel team up run

King Kong with a infinity gauntlet glove

!fellas !anime

Context: Tain was the Head of Cardassia's Gestapo, the Obsidian Order, and Garak was his best agent. He was also his illegitimate son. Cardassians place incredible store upon their family relationships and Tain decided that Garak was an 'unaffordable weakness' he could no longer tolerate. I suppose he could have had Garak killed but instead he alowed him to be exilled on DS9 when the Cardassian occupation of Bajor ended. Ducat, another multifaceted Cardasdian character, was directly responsible for this but- as was often the case in Dukat's life- he was a pawn of a greater power.

Now Tain and Garak find themselves prisoners of the Dominion, a kind of evil version of the Federation, who tricked Tain into allying the Obsidian Order with the Romulan secret service, the Tal Shiar. Both organisations were crippled (although the Tal Shiar would recover) and Tain was taken prisoner.

Bashir's presence is interesting as his place had been taken for several episodes by a Dominion changeling which got drunk with O'brien every night, took part in high level military briefings and even delivered Kira's baby (Kira actress Nana Visitor was actually pregnant with Bashir actor 'Alexander' Siddig El-Faddil's child).

Stay tuned for more Best of Starshit...

It wasn't bad, it was chud preachy at times, but reminded me of a 2006 comedy.

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