data1701d (He/Him) @startrek.website "Life forms. You precious little lifeforms. You tiny little lifeforms. Where are you?"
\- Lt. Cmdr Data, Star Trek: Generations
Now the epic one is Gargoyles, where many Trek actors are in it (including Mulgrew, Spiner, Dorn, and Brooks).
Two of the main villains are played by (and they work together sometimes), weirdly enough, Frakes and Sirtis.
There’s an episode where Frakes’ character is out of jail and threatens revenge upon the main characters, and one responds, “With you and what Starfleet?”
It depends. Prodigy, Lower Decks, and Strange New Worlds are all great (the former two take a moment to get into their element, though).
Probably watch 10 episodes of Prodigy before making your verdict, and probably through the first few episodes of season 2 for Lower Decks.
For Discovery, I've found it make many mistakes, but also been, it's been fun at times. I've only watched through part of season 4.
Gul Donal Wants a Statue
cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/19850319
> If life's going to be this crappy, at least cast Jeffrey Combs as Elon Musk, Mr. Universe.
Gul Donal Wants a Statue
If life's going to be this crappy, at least cast Jeffrey Combs as Elon Musk, Mr. Universe.
Spock has occasionally made jokes, and at least in the presence of a certain Richard Milhous Nixon, is a smoker.
My high school history teacher had that as a poster on her wall.
Honestly, I’m tempted to move This Might Be Lemmy from lemmy.sorld, considering federation issues, if it would be allowed.
The Argo is probably one of the few things I enjoyed about Nemesis. I like how they brought back the dune buggy for Prodigy..
I've had a very good experience with a similarly-speced AMD E16 gen 1.
The only issue I'd warn you about is the Wi-Fi modem might be a Realtek on some models. Mine came with one, and while on recent kernels, it mostly worked well out of the box, it had one issue: something went weird with ACPI when I switched between certain networks, which caused the card to crash and completely disconnect to the system unless I rebooted. I was able to find a fix by changing some options with modprobe.d, which I detail here: https://startrek.website/post/14342770 . Since that, it's been an extremely smooth experience.
Same. I love my E16 Gen 1.
Don't Worry, guys! I've Gone Trek in a They Might Be Giants board as well!
cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/19819038
> I'm ParticleMan. This is the #concert-chat channel on the tmbw (This Might Be a Wiki, the main fan wiki for They Might Be Giants) Discord.
Don't Worry, guys! I've Gone Trek in a They Might Be Giants board as well!
I'm ParticleMan. This is the #concert-chat channel on the tmbw (This Might Be a Wiki, the main fan wiki for They Might Be Giants) Discord.
He promoted Harry Kim to Lieutenant Commander after he transferred from Voyager A. (According to an okudagram, he hit full Lt in PRO)
I mean, he did pretend to be a stereotype of his species as a favor to a friend, so….
Actually, Mirror Chakotay was depicted in Prodigy (along with mirror Janeway). He likes to torture people like any good Terrain boi.
What are you going to do unless they are? (Edit: I see someone already put that. Sorry. Federating from lemmy.world to my instance is very slow.)
Probably very dead, considering that Tuvixing is a biological process and Data isn't biological.
If we're just thinking personality combination, I'd think he would just be a milder, hyper-intelligent version of Worf in many ways, as I think Worf's thoughts would fill in a lot of Data's questions. I think this combined being would probably be a much better father to Alexander, though.
By Beta canon or otherwise, it's heavily implied he doesn't live that long in most timelines.
Excuse me. “Boss of Me” is early 2000’s music, thank you very much. 😑😂
Las Vegas, Nevada in the 24th Century?
What is Las Vegas, Nevada like in the 24th century?
It seems to be implied that Vegas still exists (not just some legendary destination of the past like Vics) and is still associated with gambling - Chakotay's hallucination of Tom Paris in VOY:"The Fight" mentions Vegas along with Mars and Orion III when mentioning the odds in a fight.
I think the fact that this is a hallucination of Tom in Chakotay's mind, combined with the fact that it was mentioned with contemporarily active places, heavily suggests that Vegas is alive and still has some form of active gambling.
However, I would imagine that a lot would still change for Vegas. Modern-day Vegas has Nellis AFB in it and Creech nearby, so it would have probably been a major target during World War III and as a result been heavily damaged. For urban planning, this probably gave a largely blank slate during redevelopment, so in many ways, Earth probably ended up becoming a typical 24th century city or town with vastly improved public transportation.
It's also important to consider the potential impact of drought - has Vegas significantly downscaled as a result of its water issues, or did they get that sorted out in time and Vegas is still a moderately large Earth city in the 24th century?
Also, what does gambling look like in a post-scarcity society? What are the laws on the books for United Earth? I'm imagining people mostly do it for the thrill, like how Jadzia plays Tongo.
Make a Little Birdhouse in Your Warp Core
cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/19747430
> A sequel to https://startrek.website/post/14985611
Make a Little Birdhouse in Your Warp Core
cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/19747430
> A sequel to https://startrek.website/post/14985611
You're not the boss of me now!
cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/14985611
> "Boss of Me" might be my favorite Flans song... besides "Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head"... and "Music Jail"... and "Let Me Tell You About My Operation"... and "If Day for Winnipeg". Nevermind. Please don't make me choose a favorite Flans song.
You're not the boss of me now!
cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/14985611
> "Boss of Me" might be my favorite Flans song... besides "Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head"... and "Music Jail"... and "Let Me Tell You About My Operation"... and "If Day for Winnipeg". Nevermind. Please don't make me choose a favorite Flans song.
Chief O’Brien visited the ship, so the universe did its thing.
He’s completely normal in the IDW comics. 😉
I'm finally going to the 🪩DISCO🪩
cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/19356345
> I finally got around to watching some Discovery (though I'm only through the first few episodes of season 4). My thoughts: > - First three are a moderately enjoyable sci-fi drama > - I have to admit, season 3 just presented enough interesting ideas and mystery I was able to ignore most of its flaws > - I've really started to notice death by subplots, though. It feels like they try to do 4 different plots in an episode, 2 which they do okay and 2 which are way weaker than they should be. I would have rather they done 2 subplots really well. > - I felt season 4's conflict was really contrived. The plot could have almost written itself with what happened in season 3. Osyra died and we don't even talk about the aftermath in the Chain - the slavery isn't just going to magically disappear, and there's sure to be a power struggle. Also, killing Book's family was kind of idiotic - talking about grief and obsession again is like beating a dead horse. Heck, if you'd let his family live but still destroyed the planet, we could have had an interesting story on diasporas instead. > - Also, background character development feels a bit weak. I spent half the first couple seasons wondering who the heck Ariam was, and just when I did, they killed her before the audience could develop much of an attachment. They could have at least thrown in a few more crew barbecue scenes. > - I am now more impressed at what Lower Decks did with fewer, shorter episodes a season than Discovery. They really managed to create a sense that we'd been with these characters a long time and that they were growing despite the entire show being shorter than 1 TNG season. I do have a few gripes about season 5 (my main one being how does Ma'ah go from "Beckett is honorable" like, a few hours after meeting her to immediately distrusting her in the finale), but my respect for LD has only grown.
I'm finally going to the 🪩DISCO🪩
I finally got around to watching some Discovery (though I'm only through the first few episodes of season 4). My thoughts:
- First three are a moderately enjoyable sci-fi drama
- I have to admit, season 3 just presented enough interesting ideas and mystery I was able to ignore most of its flaws
- I've really started to notice death by subplots, though. It feels like they try to do 4 different plots in an episode, 2 which they do okay and 2 which are way weaker than they should be. I would have rather they done 2 subplots really well.
- I felt season 4's conflict was really contrived. The plot could have almost written itself with what happened in season 3. Osyra died and we don't even talk about the aftermath in the Chain - the slavery isn't just going to magically disappear, and there's sure to be a power struggle. Also, killing Book's family was kind of idiotic - talking about grief and obsession again is like beating a dead horse. Heck, if you'd let his family live but still destroyed the planet, we could have had an interesting story on diasporas instead.
- Also, background character development feels a bit weak. I spent half the first couple seasons wondering who the heck Ariam was, and just when I did, they killed her before the audience could develop much of an attachment. They could have at least thrown in a few more crew barbecue scenes.
- I am now more impressed at what Lower Decks did with fewer, shorter episodes a season than Discovery. They really managed to create a sense that we'd been with these characters a long time and that they were growing despite the entire show being shorter than 1 TNG season. I do have a few gripes about season 5 (my main one being how does Ma'ah go from "Beckett is honorable" like, a few hours after meeting her to immediately distrusting her in the finale), but my respect for LD has only grown.
Here's Some Parliament Class Love
cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/19150268
> The Parliament just feels like a more beautiful version of the Nebula - it is rather elegant while keeping that Galaxy-class kitbash feel, combined with a bit of Miranda in the square edges of the saucer and a smidge of Sovereign in the nacelles. > Nebula just looks derpy by comparison > > True, Nebula and Parliament have a bit different purposes. However, other than nacelles, they actually seem to be about the same size interior-wise (based on some very Memory Beta info).
Here's Some Parliament Class Love
The Parliament just feels like a more beautiful version of the Nebula - it is rather elegant while keeping that Galaxy-class kitbash feel, combined with a bit of Miranda in the square edges of the saucer and a smidge of Sovereign in the nacelles. Nebula just looks derpy by comparison
True, Nebula and Parliament have a bit different purposes. However, other than nacelles, they actually seem to be about the same size interior-wise (based on some very Memory Beta info).
Has anyone else been receiving scam messages lately?
Over the past few days, I have received 2 identical scam direct messages from freshly created accounts on different instances (I immediately blocked user and messaged instance admins, with no response yet), namely aggregatet.org and feddit.rocks. I was wondering if others had experienced this issue, so I could see if it was an escalating issue.
How Many Kims on the Anaximander / Is the Anaximander sufficiently staffed?
I went through LD 5x09 "Fissure Quest" to try and count/estimate the amount of Kims on the Anaximander.
The most we see on screen together not including Lieutenant Kim is 8 Kims on the Beagle Bridge (6 First Contact Uniforms, 1 Voyager uniform, 1 Delta Flyer uniform): !
In the scene immediately after the opening credit, we see two non-Lieutenant Kims with the Voyager uniform:
Combining the 8 Kims seen on the Beagle with the extra Voy Kim on the Anaximander, I estimate there to be at least 9 Kims (besides Lt).
However, there are some inconsistencies.
We only see 6 (non-Lieutenant) Kims in the prison, despite it being somewhat implied the Anaximander is mostly empty besides Garak and Bashir:
In one count the mess hall scene, I counted what was at least 6 and at most 11 Kims.
Overall, I'm sticking with my initial estimate of 9 for now.
I wonder what could account for variations in Kims. Were some actually locked up somewhere on the ship? Did Lieutenant Kim forget one?
Also, assuming there are 9-11 Kims, is 14-16 crew (adding Boimler, T'Pol, Curzon, Garak, and the LMH) enough to run a Defiant-class, which usually has compliment more in the 40s? It could be possible that since it's a Section 31 ship that it's outfitted to run with less agents.
P.S I find it a nice bit of canonical accuracy that most Kims are wearing First Contact uniforms (and likely made it home), as since most timelines are close to Prime, uniform designs shouldn't be that different.
(Not OC, mostly) Gowron Jumproping
cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/18851336
> I usually don't post non-OCs, but this one seems relatively rare. The GIF quality was terrible, so I took the MP4 and encoded it into a high-quality animated WEBP. APNG was tempting, but when I tried that for my Prodigy meme, I ran into all sorts of issues. WEBP seems better supported. > > Source: https://tenor.com/view/klingon-jump-rope-gif-7629146
(Not OC, mostly) Gowron Jumproping
I usually don't post non-OCs, but this one seems relatively rare. The GIF quality was terrible, so I took the MP4 and encoded it into a high-quality animated WEBP. APNG was tempting, but when I tried that for my Prodigy meme, I ran into all sorts of issues. WEBP seems better supported.
Source: https://tenor.com/view/klingon-jump-rope-gif-7629146
Looks like federation times are back up with Lemmy.world again.
I've once again noticed a delay of 10-12 hours with Lemmy.world. I just wanted to make sure someone's aware.
Glory to your houses, admins, and thanks for maintaining this instance.