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They still have that today, though. It's just on streaming alongside the big films.

I don't doubt a portion of the Disney remakes would have ended up being direct-to-VCD sequels you'd only find in a video rental store.

No. Because any advanced civilisation capable of sending a colony ship across light-years to another planet is already so far outside of our current technological ability that it matters precious little.

We would be easy to colonise either way. Doubly so if they have some form of FTL technology to make that trip in reasonable time.

But there's also an argument that anyone who can do so would have a much easier time not dealing with all of that and just colonising an uninhabited planet, or outright using materials to make a thing to colonise instead.

Depending on how they do it, not having to deal with hydrogen infrastructure might be nice, if they keep along with the plan to use refillable cartridges. Hydrogen is a bit more fiddly.

Although this seems much more reliant on humidity compared to a hydrogen fuel cell, which seems like a huge hole if the thing just won't work if it's a dry day/environment.

Only sometimes. Other times, you want to add extra entropy, so you can have a nice hot dinner.

Both, of course.

Cloudflare’s is a corporate solution from the company that man-in-the-middles half the internet and makes me click shit every fucking time. I see it whenever I make the mistake of following a stackoverflow link.

It is also not very useful if you don't use a PC. Every time I look up a Cloudflare-gated site on my iPad, I usually have to jump through a few captchas before it will let me in, if it doesn't decide to be a grump and decide to put you in a sisyphean cycle of captchas, constantly refreshing without end.

Or if you use some software. I have citation software that gets stuck in the loop because Elsevier puts their journals behind a Cloudflare wall, and when it pops up the prompt to prove you're not a bot, just refreshes straight into another prompt.

Spinach tends to be something that you buy with the intention of eating healthier, but use infrequently enough that it might go bad before you use it.

Peas and broccoli are, depending on cuisine, more commonly used.

I think a traditional “shuttle” wouldn’t be up to the task - you’d want a vessel with bunks and space to walk around, at the very least.

They can probably do it in a pinch. In Relics, Scotty is given a shuttle to roam around in, and it's doubtful that the Enterprise would have given him one if it was something that would only be capable of short-range operation.

But normally, I'd imagine that you'd just rendezvous with a starship, who would take you the rest of the way, with or without the shuttle, which would get close enough, and then you'd either have another ship, or use another shuttle to get you the rest of the way.

Sort of like a car using a ferry.

EDIT: Is the Federation even adhering to the warp five speed limit anymore? I know it doesn’t get addressed after “Force of Nature”, but is there anything suggesting that the speed limit has been dropped completely by the 25th century?

Nothing explicit, though there's behind-the-scenes materials. The nacelles on the Intrepid-class were designed to mitigate that for example, but that never made it on-screen.

On-screen, we just know that warp engines didn't significantly change, and that the Enterprise was able to exceed those speeds after a bit, so it was presumably fixed behind the scenes.

Plus the fault with the multitronic computer wasn't really the multitronic mechanism that operated it. It was that Daystrom stuffed his neural engrams into it to try and make it sapient, which caused everything to go wrong, probably because it was loaded with everything in his head, including his desperation to make the multitronic computer work, and paranoia about his peers. A multitronic unit loaded with LCARS might not be that revolutionary, but would not have gone homicidal.

Though we never saw it get advanced into a whole computer system on its own, they did seem to get used for some things that needed mind-like complexity. Holograms use multitronics as part of the matrix, for example. So Daystrom might have been onto something, but was too obsessed in creating something that could supersede duotronics to properly explore the thing.

Plus the computer can figure out who is using it, and lock them out as necessary. "Hero Worship" has Data point out to a child that he couldn't have blown up a starship by leaning on the console, because it can detect that, and not register the controls. And we know that there are ship functions that are keyed behind an authentication code, like the self-destruct system.

But he probably doesn't need to explain that to Ralph, since it'd not be that relevant. What'd be more important in that moment to get him to stop causing trouble.

The censorship only exists on the version they host, which is fair enough. If they're running it themselves in China, they can't just break the law.

If you run it yourself, the censorship isn't there.

Can you? The only people who we've seen use that feature are people who would be the authority to do so anyway, like the Captain/First officer.

It's also much easier to implement.

Not really. Why censor more than you have to? That takes time and effort, and it's almost certainly easier to do it using something else. The law isn't that particular, as long as you follow it.

You also don't risk causing the model to go wrong, like trying to censor bits of the model has a habit of doing.

I really doubt the Vulcans would arm a bronze age civilization on a developing planet with muskets if they thought the Klingons might also do That.

If anything, I think that it might be more likely for the Vulcans to do such a thing. Don't forget that they did interfere with human development a bunch, because they could not readily put them into their existing categories, out of concern for what might happen otherwise.

It does not seem unreasonable that under the same circumstances, they might find it logical to arm a bronze-age civilisation against an alien enemy.

In fairness I think the memetic virus was meant to stimulate individualism and perhaps general revolt in the Borg, and Picard and co didn’t think it would result in the collective simply purging entire cubes remotely just to keep the contagion contained

No, the virus was meant to exploit a fault in their visual programming to kill the Borg drones and wipe them out. The individuality came as an accidental side effect, when Hugh developed a taste of individuality after losing his connection to the Collective, and roamed around the Enterprise.

When they came to collect, the collective re-assimilated Hugh and also got the individuality he gained, which then led them to explode cubes.

Old trek was super "woke" and optimistic, I see new trek as too focused on war and it paints the future as though they never achieved luxury space communism free of scarcity

At least on that front, it seemed to be rather conditional. If you were not an organic humanoid, you had a much more difficult time.

Just look at Measure of a Man, and what Starfleet later tried to pull with Lal, or what happened on the Sutherland. Or the ExoComps. Or what happened to the deprecated EMH Mk. I units, and the Voyager's EMH and his holonovel. Or the UGLY BAGS OF MOSTLY WATER crystal aliens. Or the Horta. Or Hugh.

I cannot imagine that the Federation would have ordered the developing a form of memetic virus that would telepathically spread amongst the Klingon population and wipe them all out when they were at war with the Empire.

But they did order it against the Borg, intending to use Hugh as a vector.

It's completely different than the street drug "meth". The only similarity is the methyl-5 ingredient, which is a molecule that our body naturally synthesizes continuously.

Slightly surprised it hasn't spawned a factoid that claims the body makes meth/is full of it.

Because it's not a small thing to change. You're basically overhauling everything if you wish to transition from a monarchy to a republic, because it's rooted in everything.

The names of the governmental positions, and possibly their responsibilities would need to change, as would official documentation, the money, the flag, the national anthem...

You could hardly call yourself a republic if your passports are still carry the authority of the monarch, and your national anthem prominently features the King.

It only gets more complicated if you're a former colonial power, since they may also be affected, and have to change everything as well. If the UK decides to ditch the Monarchy and become a Republic, Australia and Canada would need to follow suit, since it would be silly for them to have references to a monarch that no longer exists, or a GG who's meant to be representative for a position that no longer exists.

Either that, or there will be a political/legal headache deciding whether they become the new inheritors of the monarchy, since the parent is gone, or would they be also need to make the same changes (see above).