SFDebris Science Fiction Reviews and More (SFDebris discussion thread)

[Captain X]

I forget what episode it was SF Debris was reviewing of DS9, but I like the fact that he took the shit out of it because using money would have solved the main plot-driver of the episode, which involved Nog doing a bunch of barter-trading and favor-doing.

 

[Bear Ribs]

I forget what episode it was SF Debris was reviewing of DS9, but I like the fact that he took the shit out of it because using money would have solved the main plot-driver of the episode, which involved Nog doing a bunch of barter-trading and favor-doing.

Yeah, that episode was basically what I was thinking of when I came up with that chain-of-favors-economy, but with the idea that rather than needing Nog to handle each transaction individually, there's an app that auto-pairs your favors owed to somebody else's request, so if you're owed a favor by Grandpa Sisko and somebody else wants restaurant reservations fast their app pairs with yours and exchanges the favor automatically.

Not really Star Trek though I think an interesting story could be made of it.

 

[Captain X]

If I was put in charge of the franchise tomorrow, I'd basically pretend they were all just being pretentious about their "credits" that are mentioned from time to time and pretending they don't use money because no one outside the Federation will accept their credits.

 

[Captain X]

Watching his reviews of STP, and I can't help but be reminded of how much was retconned and twisted to create it, how much the writers hate men, how stupid the writers are, and how much it just blatantly rips off Mass Effect.

 

[Robovski]

Watching his reviews of STP, and I can't help but be reminded of how much was retconned and twisted to create it, how much the writers hate men, how stupid the writers are, and how much it just blatantly rips off Mass Effect.

Everything I have seen makes me just NOPE the whole nu-trek of STD and STP and if I'm missing out on Lower Decks and Brave New World then so be it, I'm out and they can go die in a trash fire of their own creation.

 

[Bassoe]

there's an app that auto-pairs your favors owed to somebody else's request, so if you're owed a favor by Grandpa Sisko and somebody else wants restaurant reservations fast their app pairs with yours and exchanges the favor automatically.

Not really Star Trek though I think an interesting story could be made of it.

Jay Lake's deconstruction-of-solarpunk novella Rock of Ages had something like this as a trap. The admins of the system could see every transaction and who was involved in making them and by those means, spy upon the locations of everyone using their system.

 

[Captain X]

Given how much he hates The Lost World movie, I kind of wonder what he thought of the book. It's a shame he didn't do a review of both versions like he did for the first book/movie.

 

[Typhonis]

Has he reviewed Lower Decks yet?

 

[stephen the barbarian]

Has he reviewed Lower Decks yet?

yes, 7 eps so far.