American Starfleet engineers: isolinear fries.

Nope. I asked you, because you brought it up in a discussion. Don't be an impolite, self-disqualifying jerk, please.

The what now?

And that is not an argument I made.

The issue is that "retarded" is considered an ableist slur though, like the n-word is a racist slur.

You just want to have a different discussion. I don't count that as interaction.

It's cards like this I'm complaining about. I recognise the scene where Picard strikes this pose. It's on the Enterprise's bridge, it's bridge lighting, the lighting is different from the background this is set upon, it looks like they took a screenshot of the scene, cut Picard out, laid a filter over him and pasted him onto the background.

Okay, you can just say that you don't want to interact, that's fine.

I mean, some of that bizarre out-of-theme stuff weirdly works. And not everything needs to be tolkienesque. Innistrad, Ravnica, Ixalan, Kaladesh/Avishkar, Amonkhet, etc, all those themes can work together. And some other franchises fit that vibe, too, like Middle Earth, Avatar or even Warhammer 40k (surprisingly, idk how. Shouldn't work but somehow does IMHO), and I could see some others not yet scrammed into MTG that could work (Witcher?). Star Trek, Marvel, TMNT doesn't though. Maybe it's just because those are set in our real world (real places and names do something).

No, that is not my criticism. My criticism is how they try to make money and that they chose a strategy that is not respecting existing customers nor seems to be aimed at sustainably maintaining and growing the community.

Call me a party pooper or a gatekeeper, but as an MTG player and Star Trek enjoyer, I really dislike the Star Trek MTG set.

These two worlds just don't vibe together, the artwork is weird to ugly in many cases and overall it just doesn't feel right to me.

Also I don't like how Universes Beyond has been taking over MTG lately. It was nice when it was an extra commander edition or two per year, but now every other main release is UB and the MTG multiverse has taken a backseat. Plus it doesn't accomplish what it was et out to do, draw fans of other franchises to MTG. While it is true that many non-MTG fans buy something from these sets, they mostly don't stay for other MTG stuff. The people coming to prerelease events are never seen again to play or buy at the LGS.

You should check your internet connection. It took a week for this meme upload.