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diff --git a/content-org/blog.org b/content-org/blog.org index 7ecea57..6e448d3 100644 --- a/content-org/blog.org +++ b/content-org/blog.org @@ -64,6 +64,10 @@ Images are made to add additional value to the text, not to make it load slower. Love you, Drew! +** Archive and Wiki +** Timothy Cain on Capitalism + +https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OsWuFo2jp4 ** DONE Modern gaming on FreeBSD, first attempt CLOSED: [2024-10-03 Thu 21:04] :PROPERTIES: diff --git a/content-org/star-trek.org b/content-org/star-trek.org index 0c105fe..befd23c 100644 --- a/content-org/star-trek.org +++ b/content-org/star-trek.org @@ -98,13 +98,14 @@ Jenway, challenged * Voyager reviews :PROPERTIES: :EXPORT_HUGO_SECTION: voy -:EXPORT_HUGO_PAIRED_SHORTCODES: img-c +:EXPORT_HUGO_PAIRED_SHORTCODES: img-c image +:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :image_dir "images" :image_max_width 575 :END: ** Season 5 :PROPERTIES: :EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :hasNavSection st-voy-episodes -:EXPORT_HUGO_MENU: :menu star-trek :parent voy-r-s5 +:EXPORT_HUGO_MENU: :menu star-trek :parent voyA :END: *** DONE Star Trek: Voyager 05x01 - Night CLOSED: [2023-02-12 wed 23:00] @@ -1344,3 +1345,117 @@ Meh. #+begin_img-c Looks like Alien, plays like Man Behind The Sun. #+end_img-c + +** Season 6 +:PROPERTIES: +:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :hasNavSection st-voy-episodes +:EXPORT_HUGO_MENU: :menu star-trek :parent voy +:END: +*** DONE Star Trek: Voyager 06x01 - Equinox (part 2) +CLOSED: [2024-10-04 Fri 20:17] +:PROPERTIES: +:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: 06x01-equinox-part-1 +:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :abstract My mini review +:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :episode_id 6x01 +:END: + +The conclusion to [[/voy/05x26-equinox-part-1/][last season's cliffhanger.]] + +**** Impression + +I truly hated the first part of this two-parter. +It represented everything I don't want on my Trek: humanity being what they are, not what they can be. +/Part II/ starts just as miserable. +Everyone is armed, and there are fights everywhere. +Yep, not a great outlook at that point. + +But with each passing scene we gain more and more of hope. +Jenway is, once again, put in a position no other Trek captain has ever seen. +She is, without a shroud of doubt, the toughest captain of all the Treks I've seen before. +Sisco may have committed a genocide, but it was much less personal. +Jenway is forced to make the hardest decisions about people she knows. +Lucky for her, Checkotay is here as her consciousness. +He may not add much more to the crew, but I'll be damned if this wasn't enough. +If it wasn't for him, Voyager would be as evil as the crew of Equinox. + +On the other side of the war, Doctor is torturing Seven. +I found this plot to be as exciting as the primary one, but much more interesting. +Doctor, who we all grew to love, who developed personality and, dare I say it? Humanity, is still a simulation. +Everything he /is/, can be removed within a blink of an eye by resetting his program. +And this is what we get here - after he is taken aboard Equinox, he is stripped of everything that made him /The/ Doctor. +His relation with Seven of Nine is thrown out the window when he is forced to extract information from her using a scalpel. +It ended well, but can we still treat the Doctor as a person? +I hope authors will revisit this problem. + +Lastly, we've got the redemption of the Equinox crew. +This is what I found the most important, as this is what keeps me watching Star Trek. +No one is /evil/ for the sake of being evil, but the conditions we find ourselves in force us to act, not how we would like. +But, deep inside, we are /good/ creatures. + +As much as I hated /Part 1/, the complete /Equinox/ is nothing short of amazing. +It is saved by the latter half, as without it, we would have some Expanse (which I found to be a disgusting series). +I was afraid that /Voyager/ may have reached the point, where authors would abandon everything they've built since the 1960s. +I am happy to report that this was not the case. + +**** Doctor factor + +Well, I didn't like Doctor in this episode, but it made it so much more interesting. +One of the greatest Doctor factors yet! + +#+attr_shortcode: :file voy6x01a.jpg +#+attr_shortcode: :alt Jewnway looking angrily at an officer +#+attr_shortcode: :class centered +#+attr_shortcode: :source https://voy.trekcore.com/ +#+begin_image +Seconds before a bad decision +#+end_image + +*** DONE Star Trek: Voyager 06x02 Survival Instinct +CLOSED: [2024-10-05 Sat 09:27] +:PROPERTIES: +:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: 06x02-survival-instinct +:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :abstract My mini review +:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :episode_id 6x02 +:END: + +Voyager docks at Markonian Outpost Space Station, a place welcoming everyone and every idea. +Seven finds, among those people, three of her old acquaintances. + +**** Impressions + +At first, I was expecting /Star Trek/ to continue ripping of /Babylon 5/, since they haven't finished the job with /DS9/. +Luckily, the episode quickly went its own way. + +Seven's relation to Borg is one of the main returning plots, but very rarely we hear about the experiences of other ex-drones. +It's even rarer to see it done well. +/TNG/ tried it with Third of Nine, but let's face it - authors were still learning how to handle such subjects. +Their skills had yet to reach the level of their ambition. + +We meet three other ex-drones from Seven's Unimatrix. +Their disconnect from the Collective was done much less effectively than what the Doctor has done to Seven. +They were disconnected from other drones, but not from themselves. +It's an interesting idea. +We've got three individuals who are forced to live like Drones, since all their thoughts are transmitted between them. + +What I didn't like was the other aspect of their story. +We are learning about a mission of this Unimatrix, where most of the drones started developing individuality. +There is a mystery, as all they remember is waking on the Borg Ship after being /individuals/ for a brief moment, but no one knows why. +Finally, we learn it was Seven acting in the best interest of the Collective. +She acted against their Unimatrix, but this is not developed enough. +We learn it, everyone is angry at her, but that's all. +What *is* interesting is the stark contrast with last episode: she forgives Doctor for torturing her, they never forgive her. +They are far more developed as individual persons (despite the link), and this is what allowed them to feel hate. + +All in all, another good episode but it lacks something /extra/, to make it great. +And Naomi is always welcome! + +#+begin_quote +Survival is insufficient + +--- Seven of Nine +#+end_quote + +**** Doctor Factor + +Unsatisfactory. + |