• Xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink
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      1 year ago

      But then they can’t get infected by the secret bioengineered virus left behind by the extinct species!

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        1 year ago

        That would of course be a missed opportunity to tell the millionth variation of a space horror story almost as old as the sci-fi genre itself.

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      Then gatekeeping fans will say it breaks canon, has to be an alternate timeline/universe because they didn’t need those in TOS/TNG.

      Oh, wait, that’s one of the criticisms of the environmental suits in Discovery and SNW…

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        There are a lot of things to criticize about Discovery. How someone could choose to pick the spacesuits evades me.