This is a fun episode. Also naked now rules.
This is a fun episode. Also naked now rules.
Honestly reddit.com/r/usenet was the best but we know how that’s going. You can web search but basically you pay for a provider, sign up for indexers who are like torrent trackers and provide .nzb files. You use either SABnzbd or NZBGet to download the actual files. Sonarr and Radarr are automation tools. There’s some other concepts like retention and backbones but that’s not as important to get started.
https://frugalusenet.com/ is a good provider to get started. https://www.nzbgeek.info/ and https://nzbplanet.net/ are good indexers for beginners. I recommend SABnzbd over NZBGet as I don’t think get is actively being developed for anymore.
https://trash-guides.info/ is very good for Sonarr/Radarr set up but it can be quite overwhelming for non-technical users or beginners.
I also just remembered cache exists so poke around https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ZU9NxnpPelwJ:https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/faq/&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
I gave up on torrents a while ago and just focus on Usenet. It cost money (~$3/mo for a provider and another ~$2-3/mo for indexers) but it’s encrypted and doesn’t rely on P2P.
Also don’t forget that DVDs exist if you want to go a more legal route.
I think the best thing I can say is it was competent and nothing really had me rolling my eyes like I would if I was watching Picard or Discovery.
My only problem with Carol Kane is it makes me miss Hemmer :(
The episode did some things well and others not sure much. I’ll give a thumbs up to the Klingons and a thumbs down to the quippy Marvel like dialogue scenes (Looking at you Ortegas)
Maybe not as much as you think, take a look at these graphs:
https://www.imdbgraph.org/ratings/tt0092455 https://www.imdbgraph.org/ratings/tt0106145
They definitely skew towards the low end but it’s not that far from the rest of the series. Also I was mistaken Measure of a Man is a S2 episode. That being said outside of Code of Honor and Angel One most of the episodes are decent to good. There is the weird this seems like TOS and it doesn’t quite fit but it’s also fun to see the goofiness on a rewatch aspect.
I think both TNG and DS9 S1 were more uneven than outright sucking. You’ve got some great episodes like Measure of a Man and Duet in there.
I’m not a fan of Discovery or Picard and that “flavor” of new Trek. If you had criticisms or negative comments about anything it could get you banned on r/startrek if you didn’t go above and beyond to justify it.
Go take a look at https://startrek.website/post/225 and see how the admin reacts to comments they don’t agree with.
I can’t trust most reviews after Picard. It’s a symptom of the larger problem with reviews these days that I just don’t trust most names anymore.
I wouldn’t go in order, there’s a lot of TOS to get through which may not drive interest. I just think a random episode from a different series is the way to go. So Monday is TOS, Tuesday is TNG, etc.
That being said there’s only 50 subs here so I don’t know how you grow that.
You also aren’t reliant on someone else running an instance that could go down at any time, either permanently or an outage.
You have to worry about it yourself though.
Eventually is turns into Picard again and has some inexplicable decisions and bad ideas.
I’m gonna be honest, stop now. Picard is not a good show.
I should say that Reddit without RES would probably be much closer to what I’m seeing on Lemmy now.
Why? It’s a less mature platform with less features and not enough content. I get the idea of it being attractive but it’s like Mastadon without the content you’ve got an uphill climb.
It has the most phallic prop I’ve ever seen.