I stand by my head canon that Galaxy class ships are equipped to deposit saucers on planets to establish starter colonies. It's already basically a floating city in space.
I was working with optimizing memory on my pentium III lately for when i want to run more arcane dos games, and actually switched video cards because the BIOS on an nvidia card was so big that it was making it hard to map memory to that area... fun times.
I'm glad somebody else has brought up that TWoK sort of feels at odds with Trek despite being the best of the films. However, I say it is still the best Trek movie because:
It focuses on the characters who know from Star Trek, and their growth, change, loss, and acceptance is critical to the story. While the things that happen to them aren't limited to Trek characters, Kirk, Spock, et al. were the definition of "Star Trek" at the time.
The militaristic aspects aren't totally foreign to Star Trek. While exploration was always at the forefront of their mission, Starfleet was (as Carol Marcus pointed out) still a military organization. What has happened is that the exploration/scientific aspects in the story have been initially shifted to Dr. Marcus.
The sci-fi aspects and story telling are still very strong, it's just that Kirk and Khan shooting each other in a nebula is so great that we forget they're there.
- What are the ramifications of a device like Genesis, which puts a civilization even closer to the ability to "play god?" Is every tool that can create also doomed to be a weapon that can destroy?
- How does a future society balance the often competing goals of scientific exploration with military power, especially given something like Genesis?
- What responsibilities do we have when we decide to "play god" within a much smaller microcosm such as Khan's people. Kirk presumed he was doing the right and just thing by setting them up on a planet but never returned to check on them. Was he responsible for what happened to Khan as a result?
The increased breathing room of a full motion picture that doesn't have to delve into the backgrounds of the characters we already know gives the story room to breath, and unlike TOS we have time to let events that aren't driven strictly by the "gimmick" of the scifi aspect intermingle and impact with the plot device(s).
I still hold that TMP is the most "Trek" of the movies, but TWoK is the best of the movies while still being sufficiently "Trek."
Wondering if you tuned in during synth battle royale…
A plenitude of Pikes
Can I just say how fortunate we are that both of the recent actors for Pike did smash-up jobs? I’m talking about Bruce Greenwood in the Kelvin films and of course Anson Mount in SNW. Each brought something different and was a stand out in their respective appearances.
Been a lot of trolls in COM lately. Probably one of them.
You don’t need to. It might even help you figure out if you’d like Lower Decks.
HE DOES THE WALK
They released earlier to coincide with screening it at SDCC.
The main thing I disliked is that it kinda of removed any chance of us getting a "Spock is split into his human and vulcan halves by a transporter accident and they totally don't get along with each other" episode down the line.
Can you get zmodem file transfers working consistently? I’ve been struggling with my older wimodem232. I need zmodem to download my qwk packets of course.
Easiest: Find an old 4:3 flatscreen vga monitor that also supports composite. There’s a fair number of them out there. Best: retrotink but that’s going to probably cost more than the c64.
Meta is Facebook’s parent company and Threads is their Twitter competitor. It doesn’t yet, but will soon support activitypub which means it can talk to the rest of the Mastodon servers.
The worries range from Meta using this to destroy the fediverse via embrace, extend, extinguish, to moral objections, and more.
Similar to how we refer to TOS episodes as "The Nazi Planet" and "The Gangster Planet" this one will be "The Alzheimer's Planet."
Did Spock forget how to read?
Maybe it's a nod to Discovery establishing he had a learning disability similar to dyslexia.
M'Benga
You mean "Dr. Seen-Some-Shit."
I like that the original away mission failing wasn't some weird magical thing - it was just a mission that went bad in a fairly mundane way.
This episode should have started in media res, with the away team already on planet and having lost their memories. Once we got the explainer as to what was happening, then we could return to the Enterprise to show the growing crisis there, and finally wrap everything up as the episode already did.
If they defederate does that prevent following specific users on threads once activitypub goes live?
So, does a genetic engineering lab now have the corpse of a man from the future with all the future vaccinations, immunities, and whatever else that may provide?
Is this the Kirk that was in the project Phoenix project?
After the first episode of the season and seeing how he handled himself as a sparring partner, M’Benga should henceforth be called Dr. Seen-Some-Shit
Brit Floyd and previous management company reach settlement - BF will continue to tour.
I saw Brit Floyd live once - it’s a fantastic show that really gives it their all. Glad to hear whatever legalese was going on is settled.
Following successful negotiations Chas Cole (for CMP), the long time producer for Brit Floyd, and Damian Darlington, Brit Floyd's Musical director, confirm that they have come to an agreement with regard to the rights in the name Brit Floyd pursuant to a confidential settlement agreement. CMP and Damian Darlington have agreed a long term deal which means that Brit Floyd's current North American tour (and future Brit Floyd tours) will continue unaffected, fronted by Damian Darlington and represented by Palladium Entertainment. Chas Cole and CMP continue to create and produce high quality bespoke rock tribute shows and promote their original artist tours across UK, Europe and North America.
Matrix Server?
Is the SDF Matrix server still active? My password doesn’t work and I can’t find a way to reset it in maint.
Orpheus II: The Best Retro PC Sound Card in 2023? Perhaps!
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Too pricey for me, but damned sexy.
Running Apple 1 software on a breadboard computer (Wozmon)
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Ben Eater has been doing a series where he builds a 6502 breadboard computer from scratch, and it’s at the point where it can run some Apple I software (Wozmon)
Disks and tapes are fallible, so it's back to assembly code and pencil notes.
The PC I’ve been working on…
Wanted to get back into the DOS era of software and games (it’s what I grew up on.) I would have preferred something older, but I ended up with a Slot 1 Pentium III/500. Fortunately it has an ISA slot so all the truly DOS friendly sound cards.
Specs: Gateway 4W4 Something Pentium III/500 384MB Yamaha YMF715 ISA sound card (SoundBlaster Pro and OPL3) S3 Trio 3D/2X AGP mt32-pi (Roland MT-32 and General MIDI) Generic Compact Flash-IDE adapter Gravis Gamepad that still has that little joystick you screw in. 20” Dell Trinitron (forgot the model)
Testing it with Tyrian here, but my plan is to play through Ultima Underworld soon on it.
What’s everybody else’s vintage computer of choice?