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Fire + tornado = Firenado

One of our kids had to do a middle school project on disasters some years back, and picked these. I silently thought ‘not in Canada.’

I was absolutely wrong.

Quark would love the name.

They were ready to start production May 2nd, but postponed due to the imminent strike.

😹😹. Our kids correct me constantly, and is annoyed when I say that it wasn’t called that when I first saw it.

I confess that I stick a point protector/cap on any free end of a DPN.

It means moving caps around and pulling the caps in and out of my little handy zip bag (where stitch markers, yarn needles and my emergency save-the-day crochet hook also live). But it saves a lot of internal swearing. I’m so used to it that by now when I don’t have the right gauge needles for a small project, I’ll just use a pair of DPN with caps stuck on the free ends.

For public transit, I eventually settled on afghan crochet mostly. Little can go wrong. One does get odd looks as few people know what to make of the long hooks or the technique.

We have to accept that Gorn biology has no tolerance at all for subfreezing temperatures. The Gorn young are functioning at an instinctual level, they would learn by lethal experience. Unlike the adult Gorn in 2 x 10, they would not have the protection of environmental suits.

As I would very much love for Hemmer to be somehow still alive, having survived the fall and a period of low temperature semi-hibernation, anything that brings Starfleet back for follow up would be welcome.

I’m going with assumption that the plan to lure the more developed Gorn outside was successful, but could not address any new ‘infections’ in survivors. Hemmer repeated the plan, but as an Aenar, evolved for extreme subzero temperatures, and more physically robust than a human, there’s no reason to believe he died, no matter that he was willing to sacrifice himself for his shipmates. (I’m willing to go with his using his abilities and some kind of sharp tool to stop his fall and find a crevice to hibernate in.)

Watching the original Alien in a theatre with a group of friends, almost none of whom had any idea what was coming, is one of those indelible experiences of my youth.

So is lining up to see the original Star Wars (The Last Hope) after having been impressed by the trailer that was shown before ‘Robin and Marion’ the previous November. I never would have imagined after seeing it that the franchise would eventually evolve to be dystopian.

One great 70s science fiction movie that I only got to see later on television was Silent Running. It deserves more attention.

Appreciate having @ValueSubtracted@startrek.website post this as mod, and confirming the source as usually reliable.

It’s been trending in Trek-related communities for a day or so.

These all sound intriguing, with the usual LDS potential for integrating and sending up any number of franchise tropes.

At first I thought Twovix could involve 2 vixens (in an Orion sense) or somehow some need to do the opposite of Janeway and remerge the 2 Boimlers, especially as the shot of William Boimler is an outstanding issue from last season.

But with LDS it could be anything and that’s one of its amazing qualities.

Already have. Watched half the first season, then noped out of it.

Netflix shows get a lot of high audience ratings because they are dropped all at once or in half-season blocks. They are counting on binge watch behaviour. This can be misleading against weekly releases. Basically, it means Netflix shows will almost always dominate on a weekly count of minutes watched.

Nielsen isn’t giving total minutes watched per show per year stats, but those who buy the full data or have other metrics are looking at that instead.

A few Netflix shows, like Stranger Things, stay on top even after the equivalent time of a weekly release, but most don’t. This means Netflix has to be dropping new content constantly and has driven the content arms-race on streamers.

However, there’s accumulating evidence that weekly drops hold subscribers better. This is why HBO Max, Disney and Paramount stick with that. When their shows can break in a weekly count against the latest Netflix drops, they’re doing incredibly well.

It’s already renewed, preproduction on season three is complete. Production for SNW was supposed to start May 2nd in the Greater Toronto Area, but was postponed due to the imminent strike. Discovery got that week to do some extra shooting to make its 5th season finale into a series finale.

I’m trying to work this through from the angle of what we learned in SNW S2E3 Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow.

Now that it’s reconfirmed that Star Trek doesn’t have an infinitely ever-branching and expanding multiverse (unlike Marvel or DC), we need to consider how a resilient Prime timeline (river of time) would affect how the fractured timeline in this episode healed - and therefore who would remember what.

In the SNW episode, La’an (and presumably Pelia) are exceptions. Others in the 22nd century aren’t aware that key events like the Eugenics War and Khan’s birth have slipped in time.

So, in Voyager, it seems as though anyone in the crew who did not receive the treatment would not have been able to integrate memories from across the fractured timeline and would only have what they knew in the current one.

As for Janeway, it does raise questions about her foreknowledge. It’s also the case that she would know that the major events related to what they experienced was likely, but it could slip by years, and with sufficiently major interventions the timeline might fork. In fact, the future shown in the episode could have represented a fork that would occur if they did not undo the fracturing.

Would you consider this from another perspective — if you accept that people should be able to determine what they are called/named, a corollary is to avoid using descriptors for them, or idiomatic expressions, that they say they are finding contribute to systematic bias against them? Or that they find demeaning and experience as micro aggressions?

If you are open to listening to those most affected, it wouldn’t make sense to ask the hearing, for example, whether expressions like ‘falling on deaf ears’ or ‘dumb’ are harm-free.

The Deaf have let us know that these words are still harmful. As one of the most isolated and marginalized communities North America, should their concern about language not be enough to give hearing people pause?

English doesn’t have a the equivalent of L’Academie Française to arbitrate accepted language and usage. So, it becomes an evolving societal conversation of usage.

Surely then, it’s on all of us to listen to those who are saying how old names and expressions, that have negative connotations, are harming them?

You seem to be making the case, on the other hand that, able people should be exempt from considering how our word-choices impact others as long as we feel an expression has fallen into such common usage that it has become disconnected from its origin, and can only cause harm when used in a context that evokes its original meaning.

Or, your position is that if someone doesn’t don’t see the problem, it isn’t one. Interestingly enough, this is almost exactly one of the generally accepted definitions of privilege - not perceiving something is a problem if it’s not a problem for you personally.

Not on a soapbox, just really quite surprised at the implicit assumptions your response and that of others. The number of downvotes OP has received suggests this community is less civil than I had thought.

This is an excellent point.

Training AIs on quality unbiased data should be looked at as being a pubic good in the classic economic sense.

Governments would find it difficult to justify paying for training an AI for a specific government need or program at that cost. To do it to establish a public resource is something different. Much more akin to why countries have statistical agencies and structured data repositories.

Great to see someone bring some positive She-Hulk energy here. Difficult to choose between the Byrne and Slot run’s for a favourite.

I just know that Mariner and Jen would get on fabulously.

Great spotting! That IS Murf.

Interesting that Prodigy is represented, even if Murf is just photobombing again.

This is interesting.

We’re not quite yet at the ‘blood in the water’ point for the production side, but hiring a premium strategic communications firm is a solid indicator that the major production conglomerates and streamers have realized that they’re well beyond the point of saving some cash while cooling of their destructive arms-race in overproduction.

They’ve realized that they’ve both lost control of the narrative and may be at risk of having their audiences turn to other things. They may have finally realized that they’re not just competing with one another but with other media that they don’t produce.

Long past are the days when people would watch just about anything on linear when there was no new scripted content. The youth audience is increasingly turning to gaming and social media. There’s no guarantee the audience will come back if it’s not well served.

How about watching it and judging it for yourself? YMMV.

It’s not a 90s Trek show, in that it leans more to recapturing a TOS vibe. But it’s its own thing, and that’s where it’s strengths lie.

There are a great variety and range of styles of episodes, which it can do simply because it is episodic. Most of all though, it is driven by character arcs and character development.

I’m still boggled that they pulled it to write it off.

Great to see the event getting amplification in major industry media.

Interesting article. Thanks OP for posting.

It’s notable that even most major government departments or agencies in the OECD would find it difficult to justify the resources, 10s or 100s of millions of dollars, required to train an AI, even if they have sufficient staff with the expertise. That means these not-so-open source AIs aren’t accessible.

I’m feeling ok about a few Thursdays in a row without.

What’s burning me up is the ideas that there will be months of Trekless Thursdays once Lower Decks completes its run.

There’s only 10 episodes of Discovery’s final season ready to go and it seems likely that will be held until 2024, after the strike.

Meanwhile, the first 10 episodes of Prodigy’s second season are sitting, fully finished, without a home.