Oh hell. So I'm a little bit tipsy, but I just saw the words "Roxanne Dawson (B'Elanna) passed" and got damn scared for a second
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I'm sober and did the same.
Woke up, no coffee yet, and saw "Roxann Dawson (B’Elanna) passed ... " Startled the heck out of me.
Baked af and I freaked the mother fuck out (while remaining partially calm).
I am not tipsy and the title got me too. I was running a magic event in my game shop and let out an audible gasp causing several players to ask what was wrong.
The title got me as well. My heart dropped and then I reread and let a sigh of relief...
I had the same panic. That's not even the title of the article ('Voyager's Roxann Dawson Had A Chance To Direct Star Trek But Dropped It For Another Show') so, unless the website changed it, you have to wonder what OP was doing writing it that way.
OP isn’t American. It’s not a universal euphemism.
Even having lived in the US at one point it’s not an automatic connection.
Canadians (at least in my experience) use the expression ‘passed away’ if at all to avoid saying ‘died.’
But also being Canadian, I’ve given my regrets elsewhere on this thread. And* I’m sorry* for the unintended shock to any and all who don’t share my dialect.
I'm not sure what you're talking about. I'm Canadian as well and we use the term 'passed', 'passed on' and 'passed away' pretty regularly. I also had the same reaction as everyone else while reading the title.
It might be your part of Canada that doesn't use it terribly often but it is a pretty common turn of phrase in the country.
I’ve lived everywhere but Atlantic Canada actually. I also work with colleagues from coast to coast.
One hears it, (as in, ‘she moved into town once her husband had passed on’) but it’s not the kind of automatic euphemism that would make it the first interpretation. ‘She passed on that opportunity’ is really common.
When someone dies, we usually just say that.
The little blurb shown on this post is wrong:
Roxann Dawson was an actor on Star Trek: Voyager before she became a TV director, although she's never actually directed a Star Trek episode.
She directed about 10% of all Enterprise episodes.
I thought she’d directed episodes of Voyager too.
Memory Alpha credits her with Voyager episodes ‘Riddles’ and ‘Workforce Part II’.
hit those fools with the knowledge
Wikipedia says she also directed 2 Voyager episodes.
"With directing efforts on shows like "Voyager," "Enterprise," "Lost," "The Americans," and many more under her belt, she was most recently put in charge of two pivotal episodes of "Foundation" season 2, the Apple TV+ sci-fi series based on Isaac Asimov's novels."
I think they fixed the line and added the correct info now. That quote was from the article. Since the title says "new trek" I'm guessing they meant discovery/SNW/Picard as the trek the picked Foundation over to direct.
It even mentions directing enterprise in the article. Bad editing.
And it's a quite nice little episode. Foundation really got good in its second season.
Second season is so boring I barely got through first two episodes over a week because I kept falling asleep watching them. I really hope it picks up in E3.
I think I have never disagreed with anyone more in my life then you and your post.
I'm actually a little jealous. That must be an awesome life :-)
The entire show is a crazy mess IMHO. But then I didn’t really enjoy the books either, so I must be a subhuman. Commence the downvotes! I’ll show myself out.
The first 2 episodes are unwatchable but it gets better.
But those first 2, I do not blame you 1 bit, ep3 isn't much better but by ep4 it starts not being garbage.
So much better Sci-fi out there that would be amazing for a TV series or three.
Personally I work love to have a go at the Greg Mandel series or if I had all the money the Honor Harrington series.
the Honor Harrington series.
These books are fun, but they're not good. Bad prose, ridiculous characters, childish storylines. It would almost have to be approached like Starship Troopers and treated as a parody of the genre.
They get worse as they go on, like most Weber series. A few books in and they seem to always devolve to coredumps of exposition and backstory marginally dressed up as meetings. Even the tactics and action diminishes to the point where I’ve read more compelling write ups of tabletop war games.
(And I’m someone who both war games and has read every single book in the Safehold series.)
I don't know which volumes you read in the series or which side series you've read but that's not an accurate description of the series.
Also Starship Troopers isn't a parody of SciFi is a parody of fascism.
I’d like to see CJ Cherryh’s Alliance-Union universe brought to the screen.
Downbelow station seems made to become a streaming series.