Totally. I would like to see what he would make today, with his more (as he describes it) mature perspective.
I love how he said he wanted the "God" in Star Trek V to be literally God and was talked out of it. But it is interesting hearing his perspective on that process of directing too.
She has a good line around 21 minutes about Enterprise taking a step back when it came to progressive politics, she describes it as "going back to the culture of the original Star Trek [series], and not the concept of the original Star Trek" which I thought was really well said.
This is the first I'm hearing of her book, it looks good and I've always liked Nana's willingness to speak out. I will have to check it out.
Thrall? That way people can use some of the quatloos we've been hoarding.
I'm from Acameria, I only work in outer space.
Boimler's facial hair project continues to get even more gross, the "growing the beard" joke that is for sure coming better be worth it!
If you remember enjoying Datalore I would advise you never watch it again. It definitely is important to watch from a lore (no pun intended) perspective, but it is actually extremely awkward lol
I think Discovery being modern and (mostly) a prequel is a good place to start. It also is a good into to SNW for obvious reasons.
Y'know we see so many old "fans" going out of their way to shit on the post-2005 stuff it's nice to see people who got into it through the new shows!
FYI not to discourage others from commenting (because everyone has their own opinion) but there is a pretty comprehensive guide in the /c/StarTrek sidebar: https://wiki.startrek.website/books/cstartrek/page/the-cstartrek-where-should-i-start-guide
Bluesky takes advantage of self hosters for more distribution and reliability, but still maintains centralized control over content and user management.
This is what I don't understand, why would anyone choose to host when there is zero advantage? I sort of feel is by design so they can claim "decentralized" while still having full control over the data.
is decentralized
It's not.
I assume someone else can just create a server and join the network of BlueSky?
They can't.
in reality at the moment its controlled by only one big company.
...yep.
My hope is that they will one day cooperate with Fediverse.
ActivityPub existed before BlueSky did and they chose to make their own, incompatible thing. So I don't have high hopes for this.
“After the Washington Post announced it would not endorse a presidential candidate in this year’s election or in the future, its billionaire owner ...
"Sure, The Borg have been a bit of a problem. Their tendency toward mass assimilation and the stripping of individuality and personal freedom doesn’t exactly jibe with our idea of what makes a great leader. But let’s be honest. Kathryn Janeway hasn’t been perfect."
It’s going to be a lot harder to pull off massive protests.
I quit as the top mod of /r/StarTrek in 2021 in protest against Reddit's platforming of vaccine disinformation subreddits. Then in 2023 during the API protest, myself and several of the remaining mods (including mods from /r/Risa and /r/DaystromInstitute) started StarTrek.website.
The consensus I've seen on Lemmy has been largely "we don't need to spread the word about our open platforms because Reddit will do something stupid again and there will be another protest and Lemmy will be promoted there". So I hope we can take this as a lesson that we can't rely on platforms being shitty in order to switch society over to open standards. We need to do our best to make Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed good as well as known.
For most of this episode I thought it was a good (if a bit on-the-nose) commentary about our societal distraction sickness and everyone living literally in a bubble. The hero was someone who literally able to walk on his own two legs, etc. But once they went underground everything kind of went loopy?
Where did the slug monsters come from? The idea that they came from "outside the (city's) bubble" kind of reinforced the idea that it's dangerous to hide from what's scary. But then we see the homeworld was also eaten destroyed by the same slug-monsters? If the slugs are controlled or created by the dots, are we meant to understand that the people of the home world are similarly walking around in bubbles? If so, then why does Finetime exist? The whole premise of an off-world "perfect" colony seemed to imply they were providing some service to the home-worlders beyond their 2 hours of "work". Why would a society of people living in bubbles send their youth to a faraway planet?
Then we see that the dots are capable of quickly killing the inhabitants. So where did the slug monsters come from? Why did the dots not just kill zippoty zop? Were the slugs obeying the dots alphabetical order parameters? Were they created by the dots?
At this point I was like "whatever it's Doctor Who, the plots are never as consistent as the vibes!" But then the vibes changed completely when it's revealed everyone is racist?!
My best guess is that this is some bungled way of comparing the people of Finetime to our modern social problem with radicalization on social media, like "look beyond yourself man" but that feels a bit of a stretch. I feel like I'm missing something big here!
Until Disco S3, "Living witness" was the furthest future we had seen in Star Trek. But Academy takes place after Discovery. At the end of "Living Witness" the Doctor is described as heading towards Earth.
Assuming the burn didn't get them, it's entirely possible two EMHs are surviving in Discovery's time. I think it would be a fun twist if it wasn't the EMH we expect!
This was mentioned elsewhere but I thought it was cool enough to deserve it's own post. The artist is Dusty Abell and they are selling copies on their website here: https://www.dustyabell.com/products/star-trek-doctor-who-friendship-is-universal-print
It also voted to lower jail call price caps.
That includes The Verge.
I think this is a good incentive for Journalists to be more active on the fediverse.
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