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  • Good to see a release date for PIC season 3 on DVD. Not sure what I'm going to due with the time freed up from me doing searches for "Picard Season 3 DVD." I'll figure something.

  • Thanks for the response!

  • That is fascinating. I'm going to rewatch those episodes to take closer look at the background. Thanks for this information.

  • @ValueSubtracted@startrek.website

    I've used Firefox for startrek.website since I signed up for it. Images for startrek.website showed up fine before. This morning, I'm not getting any startrek.website images either. No banner, Lemmy logo, image thingy on the tab (whose name eludes me) -- anything startrek.website specific. I checked on Chrome, and there were no startrek.website images there, either. When I clicked "open image in a new tab" on the broken image link next to Star Trek on the List of Communities page, I get the same error message on both browsers:

    Request error: error sending request for url (http://pictrs:8080/image/process.webp?src=3b51f06d-2714-4fac-8a90-79f5f1397c7d.png&thumbnail=96): error trying to connect: dns error: failed to lookup address information: Try again

    Images web address:

    https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/3b51f06d-2714-4fac-8a90-79f5f1397c7d.png?format=webp&thumbnail=96

    How it looks this morning for me on Firefox:

    https://i.imgur.com/Dw4MBYP.jpg

    How it looks this morning for me on Chrome:

    https://i.imgur.com/G31xdft.jpg

    edited to add: Avatars no longer show for me, either. I can see images linked from somewhere outside of startrek.website to here, but none that originate from startrek.website. I always clear the cache every time I close a web browser, so I'm not sure if that's it. I haven't changed or updated either browsers or their settings since yesterday.

  • No worries. I don't even know what Mlem is, heh.

    " “The cancel this to give us that because all true fans want what I want!” demands in less well moderated social media have been accelerating."

    I've noticed that, too. It saddens me. Star Trek is diverse, in many ways. And, there's a lot of different Star Trek shows and movies around. Civil conversing seemed to be becoming a lost art. Hopefully, genuine conversating makes a return, without hyperbole ridden shout downs.

  • When r/startrek went dark, thought at the time to be forever, I came here. I wasn't looking for a new reddit. I was looking for a new home to talk with other Star Trek fans. And, that is here. Now that r/startrek is back open, I'm still staying here. I like it here. I don't see a need for an us versus them showdown. How many r/startrek accounts there are isn't important to me. How active is c/startrek is important to me. And, I think c/startrek is doing well. With more Star Trek fans finding their way here.

    Do I think c/startrek is sustainable and will continue to grow? Yes. Because Star Trek fans tend to love interacting with other Star Trek fans, and with those new to Star Trek. I have my doubts about there being an all out rush back to r/startrek because the initial reason for leaving wasn't a temporary oopsie, like a technical issue. It was, for me and likely others, because of Huffman's actions and reactions. That was an eye-opener.

    I think on some level many people know that they are just commodities to for profit social medias. The end goal is to gather valuable data, and concentrate eyes on certain spots to sell ads. Monetization. There's a facade in place. I think problems arise when that facade is frayed and torn. For me, Reddit's facade is shredded.

    I like that here the main goal isn't to target me with ads. And, I'm thoroughly enjoying the interactions here. Yes, there's a lot to Lemmy I haven't learned. Truth be told, I may never learn all or even most about it. However, it only took me a few minutes to figure out the most important things to me on c/startrek -- how to read and make comments.

    Reddit is gonna Reddit. LLAP, c/startrek.

  • Ya'll are awesome. Thank you! Now I'm humming some TOS fight music. Excellent.

  • I've only seen SNW season one. I will begin watching season two in the future.

    I think SNW has a very TOS vibe. With its greatest strength being the main cast. I enjoy the performances of all of those actors. Some of the stories in the episodes, while not weak, are the weakest part of SNW for me. I don't think they always stick the landing (ending). "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach" s1e6 stands out as an example of this. I think the story starts strong, very much a strange, new, world. But the, "what you're doing it is wrong, we don't like you anymore" ending left me cold.

    What I'd like to see is more "why" in such situations. Less, "because we are the Federation" as a catchall explanation. I think TOS was good, not perfect but good, at having and expressing the meaning behind their episodes. In season one, it was hit and miss for SNW. "Ghosts of Illyria" s1e3 is a great example of a well written story. Both the main story, and the two secondary stories, delivered. "The Serene Squall" s1e7 has a very emotional story at its core.

    I absolutely enjoy SNW, and recommend others view it. For a first season of ten episodes, I think it did well. The production staff -- hair, costumes, sets, and more -- did a wonderful job.

  • " ... a group of people statistically more likely to be both nerdy and optimistic about the future."

    I have not felt so seen in ages, lmao. Thank you!

  • lwaxana_katana, great point. I agree with you. It's something I hadn't thought about until you mentioned it. I'd rather see time and energy go to making startrek.website more and more awesome, rather than have something that differentiates the can donate from the can't donate. Sometimes I have spare quatloos; sometimes I'm searching the couch cushion for quatloos. Startrek.website knows who donates. I think that's good enough.

    Sorry for not doing your name correctly. I'm still learning and not yet at the how to direct a comment at a particular person part of my learning curve.

  • Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist. The supernatural monsters in the novel are rank amateurs at being horrific compared to some of the human characters. While well written and a smooth read, I could not finish it.

  • "If people want to stay on Reddit despite everything, that’s up to them in the end. Reddit won’t be the same, and some subs will be a shadow of their former selves when they lose the mods, but people are allowed to stay if they want."

    This is my belief, too. Only you took about 900 fewer words than me to state it, heh.

    This here is my new Star Trek home, and I'm liking it. I think wanting new mods, especially those that toe the reddit company line, is a "be careful what you wish for" situation. I don't even want to know what sort of things I never had to see because of moderation. I think moderating is hard work and a labor of love. I've quit r/startrek, and I don't wish them ill. Their future is their own. My Star Trek community future is here. LLAP.

  • PIC season 2 has a lot of moments I enjoy. Ito Aghayere's Guinan not being just a 100% copy/paste younger version of Whoopi Goldberg's Guinan, but still being believable as the character. Seven's enjoyment at not being treated and feared like a Borg for the first time in her adult life (life threatening situation from the alternate future aside). Raffi being confused at a mugger wanting "her wallet," and then Raffi mugging the mugger, lol. Really, all of Seven and Raffi's scenes in L. A. after they leave the La Sirena to search for the Watcher.

    DSC season 2 finale, "Such Sweet Sorrow." The desperate battle. Admiral Cornwell. The goodbyes, that beautiful scene of Discovery following Burnham, with that magnificent music score. That episode always touches my heart.

    DS9's "Little Green Men" s4e8 and "Trials and Tribble-lations" s5e6 are well done fun.

    TNG's "Yesterday's Enterprise" s3e15 is great. Whoa, that battle at the end, the Enterprise-D against those Klingon Birds of Prey. I know how it won't end -- meaning an end to TNG, but in the moment it's hard to believe how it won't end.

    TAS' "Yesteryear" s1e2. I think it's an episode well worth watching. And, it reaffirms that Sarek and Amanda seriously know how to keep secrets (Sybok, Micheal Burnham), because they must have had some suspicions about how much cousin Selek was like adult Spock.

    While those are my favorites, the good thing is that I enjoy the time travel episodes that I didn't list here, too.

  • The Star Trek logs are on Instagram. Main Star Trek Logs Instagram account:

    https://www.instagram.com/startreklogs/

    Oh, never mind. I just saw that the Logs you are looking for are for Discovery. My bad.

  • I have learned new things today. Thank you all for taking time to answer!

  • Thank you for the response. One more question. For today. I don't want to be exhausting.

    From your explanation, I get why Risa in the screenshot below shows in the lower left corner as startrek.website/c/risa because Risa is hosted by startrek.website. edited Star Trek to startrek.website where applicable because I had an "a-ha!" moment of getting it.

    https://i.imgur.com/VqLtssM.jpeg

    In this next screenshot I took, does technology@beehaw.org, as an example, show (in the lower left corner of the image) as startrek.website/c/technology@beehaw.org because beehaw.org or technology@beehaw.org is an instance of startrek.website? edit -- hmm. The links in this paragraph show as clickable hyperlinks. The Risa link in the previous paragraph did not.

    https://i.imgur.com/WmyADsP.jpeg

    I took both screenshots while logged in to my Lemmy Star Trek account. I'm currently only subscribed to Star Trek.

  • Thanks. I just hit the wrong button and lost my reply to you. Shaka, when the walls fell. Giving it another go.

    I'm deciphering an image whose original post I've lost in a sea of Lemmy links I've been reading and bookmarking. Image link is below. So, Lemmy is an umbrella for instances (servers), which in turn can host (I'm not sure if host is the right term) other instances? Is Star Trek an instance like a mini-reddit, or an, I don't know what to call them, an instance like a subreddit within the mini-reddit?

    The image I mentioned:

    https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0006c2db-13c6-406e-97e7-6e274fddf355.png

  • Thanks for the link. I'll check that out.