Star Trek movie writers ingeniously retaining viewership by including a Laser Explosion every 30 seconds (the viewers have no idea they’re secretly watching an intelligent story instead)

Star Trek: Voyager’s writers ingeniously retaining viewership by having Dwayne The Rock Johnson show up as an enemy wrestler to fight Seven of Nine in a cage match

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yes that is actually real (CW: cruelty and injustice as well as life-or-death stakes in the plot summary)

here’s a video. this episode’s story is exactly as contrived as you’d think

CW: it’s a fight to the death so scifi violence and cruelty

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