🎉 Woo! The geekiness begins!

Today for , I introduce a review series for and general lovers of moral philosophy. is a terrific site for discourse, so I'm going to be reviewing all upcoming episodes on a "happy human" scale, for how well each holds ideas in tension & develops complexity around the problems it presents.

(Not yo' usual reviews, I know! But hopefully a lot more thought-provoking & fun.)

Hope you'll engage! 😅 🌌 onlysky.media/mclark/star-trek

@MLClark SNW is a really refreshing return to form ... less of the grimdark depressive narratives over and over. I am really enjoying it. I'm looking forward to reading your review series.

@thewebrecluse Oooo! I'm so glad we'll be watching this together. Looking forward to all your thoughts! :) I adore Ortegas. Do you have any partialities yet?

@MLClark I don't like to give my opinions on media anymore. I had a popular web show and blog for 6+ years where I shared my thoughts and it was pretty much a horror show of hate mail, death threats, and all kinds of shit from insane people who feel very strongly about their characters. It left me with quite a bad taste regarding most American media so now when I do watch it, it's just as background. I like the show enough to watch it by choice, but I can't say I think that deeply about it.

@thewebrecluse Oh, for sure. I'm glad you left that toxicity behind! I remember similar fanaticism from some anime I followed as a teen. Star Trek definitely gets me grouchy when done poorly, but in the "I'll make my OWN Picard, and call it Jean-Luc, and make it soooo much better than this other series!" sort of way. No death threats to strangers! 🙃 Or friends! Glad you'll be watching, too. :)

@MLClark Yeah I'm heavily an anti-fandom person. I believe that fandom in general is a fanatic state that has ruined a lot of things for a lot of people and is an incredibly unhealthy state of being. I have many friends in the American television industry doing different things and my appreciation of their work, in front of and behind the camera, is the only reason I watch any of it. I have a friend who is a gaffer and sometimes I watch terrible shows just to see his name come up and clap 😂

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@thewebrecluse That is the freaking sweetest thing ever. "Yeah, sure, I'll watch pap just to cheer your name in the credits! Why not?" What a good friend. :)

@MLClark Well I'm someone who, when I have a really powerful experience with media, like ... some epic video game or movie that took me away somewhere ... I will sit and read every single name of every person in the credits so I can thank them in my own way for making that experience possible especially if it's something that I feel changed me in a way that is significant. It doesn't happen often but when it does ... I'm thankful because I'll be a better person from whatever I've learned.

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