I wasn’t sure they got the meme or thought this was an accident and I didn’t want to be too in the nose, so I wanted to drag this out a little to be sure.

Nah, don’t remove it. It’s a joke that didn’t land, that happens and it’s fine. I’m happy you got an additional laugh out of this.

What’s biblical about gay lovers/couples from the fourth century BCE, four hundred years before the christianisation of Greece even began?

Yes I know. I put that meme in there on purpose.

Yeah, I know. I put those words there.

Dang, missed that.

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Yes, the Sacred Band of Thebes was a military unit.

Bro took Vader’s other hand.

We wish it was unnecessary.

It’s from a Southpark epidode called “Member Berries” where they are sentient, talking berries constantly reminding people of glory past by asking “Member? Member X?”
Usually, they are remembering pop culture icons (mostly the OT Star Wars) but also political/societal things like Ronald Reagan, when “marriage was only between men and women” or “when there were no mexicans.”
By their behaviour they are constantly evoking nostalgia and because of that they’ve kinda become their own pop culture icon as a meme to describe nostalgia bait in pop culture media

It’s a good Southpark episode, I recommend giving it a watch.

Also: Memberberries supercut

I mean, you enjoy what you enjoy. As long as it’s not Star Wars Movies outside the OT + Rogue One, I won’t judge.
I also realize that I probably watch movies and shows much more critically than others and I am quickly annoyed by repetitiveness and overused patterns and tropes.

I didn’t say it added nothing. I explicitely said there is good stuff. What I do say though is that there is too much memberberries and too little new stuff.

and manages to be good Trek on its own.

No, I don’t actually think that. While there are some gags that work on their own (like the play on prejudice with the Ferengi), there are so many more “remember that thing from TOS, TNG, TAS, etc? Here, have it again!” (like that giant spock skeleton or the Landru-episode or when Rutherford builds a Delta Flyer). And I don’t quite like that.

Contrast that with Prodigy (why does that one get to be forgotten so often though? It is really good). Janeway returns as an Emergency Command Hologram, which is a callback both to Janeway and Voyager in general and to the episode about The Doctor, when he wanted to exoand his role and als become an ECH. But they told new stories with the Janeway ECH and made her a new character of her own. Same with Chakotay, who appears later as himself (not a hologramnor some other form of copy). The same character, but new story and developement (both Janeway and Chakotay get more character developement here then in all of Voyager). Then they got Wesley Crusher back, but instead of just rehashing the annoying teenager they explore his Traveler role.
Instead of pointing at things from past shows saying “See, you liked that, didn’t you? We got that here, too!”, Prodigy expanded these characters and explored new stories. And it did that well.
Lower Decks did that, too, sometimes. Sometimes LD did make fun of older trek, saying how dumb something was, ok. But mostly the references were mere easter eggs that were there for nostalgia bait.

Lower Decks relies a little too much on nostalgia and the supposed parody of older shows, and the parody often comes off as memberberries.

Ye,s it was. Maybe you should talk to your parents and/or grandparents about this. Mine lived and grew up in what then was West Germany. When my parents talk about the nuclear drills at school, the fear still returns to their eyes and they gaze into nothingness. When my grandparents talk about the air raid siren tests the trembling in their voices is heartbreaking.
That shit was real and terrifying. And I personally think this constant, everoresent fear was what made stories about an optimistic future such a success.

Maybe it’s just all you look for in new trek?

I’m sure Windows works great with Wayland.

Usually, alphas only emerge in captivity. Alpha males subconsciously are feeling trapped and incarcerated I believe, which would explain a lot.

So the whole War of the Ring story was just Eowyn’s and the Witch King’s Halloween Coup in season 9 or 10?