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Dude magic crystals are real. Everyone knows that. I'll PM you a URL.

Just for fun, I thought I'd find a comparison shot from 2012. Unfortunately, it's a little small, but...

2012

2023

2012

2023

"Early 2024" is the most specific they've been so far.

Both their New York and Vancouver studios have joined IATSE in the last few years - the Canadian studio was the first animation house in the country to join a union, ever.

Literally how the Constellation class got its name.

The Stargazer was originally a Constitution II-class starship and would have reused the refit USS Enterprise model from the first four Star Trek films. However, it was decided after the episode was filmed to change it from a "Constitution-class" starship to the similar sounding "Constellation-class" cruiser. This was so that when LeVar Burton dubbed over the line, the new dialogue would closely match his lip movements on screen. Wesley Crusher says the ship class when making his announcement on the bridge; his lips also appear to say "Constitution". Data also mentions the ship's class by name when reading from the dedication plaque, but his back is turned to the camera; when he says "Constellation" the closed captions say "Constitution."

Startrek.com videos typically are never geo-blocked, though they refuse to play nice with ad blockers.

I think P+ might be loosening their geo-blocks on YouTube, though.

This has been published as new, but I'm pretty sure I've seen it before...

An A330 seems like a...fine choice. It's fine!

Edit: This CTV article has more information on, and pictures of, the plane.

despite getting your facts wrong

By all means, enlighten me. I admire your dedication to tone policing, but it's starting to feel just a little bit like you're doing everything you possibly can to avoid addressing the topic at hand.

That couldn't possibly be it, though.

If you did this on a regular basis I wouldn’t hang out with you.

Truly tragic.

That's good to hear - I'm more familiar with Eve Harlow, who excels at playing off-kilter characters.

L’ak is a former courier turned outlaw, who is tough, impulsive and fiercely protective of his beloved partner, Moll. So long as he knows she’s safe, he doesn’t care about collateral damage or its consequences – a perspective that makes him very dangerous at times and will put him on the opposite side of Captain Burnham and the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery when they come into conflict.

[Eve Harlow's] Moll is a former courier turned outlaw, who is highly intelligent and dangerous, with an impressive strategic mind and a sharp wit. She goes into every situation with a clear plan and stays focused and clear-headed on her goal, even when things go awry. She’s not intimidated by Captain Burnham or the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery, and will face down anyone who stands in her way in order to get what she wants.

An actual top 5 list is likely to be fluid from moment to moment, but right now I'm going to give some love to the small, functional ships that don't get a lot of attention.

• Danube class runabout
• Nova class
• Raven-type
• Intrepid class (okay this one gets plenty of love)
• Yeager-type (you know you love it)

Damn me and my suggestion that people should fact-check themselves rather than make up a show to be mad at!

I'm just very interested in people who, you know, tell the truth. It shouldn't be that challenging...

There is no spoiler protection here for episode that aired more than a week ago, let alone...

checks notes

nearly four months ago.

I'm personally of the belief that a remaster should be the best possible version of whatever was originally produced, so I suppose that means I'm not in favour of correcting mistakes like those. It's not a hill I'd be willing to die on, but I would prefer it to accurately reflect the work that was done at the time.

I have made up my mind about your factual errors, yeah. You're not going to convince me of things that aren't true.

I'm not sure it's accurate to say that they "think."

The plot revolves around a wargames scenario. There is for some reason an alien race that is really good at war strategies. There is an advisor from that race on the enterprise.

Ah, that would be "Peak Performance", in which Wesley has an experiment that has something to do with high-energy plasma reactions with antimatter, and nothing whatsoever to do with growing dilithium. Swing and a miss.

The Klingons use Trilithium.

Strike two - trilithium is an unstable explosive that is used in the engines of exactly no one. The Klingons do use tritium as an intermix, but as you are aware, that simply replaced the role that deuterium plays in Starfleet designs - it has nothing to do with dilithium.

The Romulans used a contained singularity.

This is the closest you've come to having something. Of course, there's exactly zero information on how those drives operate or are manufactured, along with the pesky fact that the Romulans have enslaved an entire race to mine dilithium for them, which is...not something you typically do to obtain a substance that you don't need. We'll call it a foul ball.

In Voyager we saw a number of potential non-dilithium alternatives. One of them was a glorified slingshot.

What did we learn about how these alternatives are powered, particularly considering that several of them were plugged into Voyager's warp core without too much trouble? You get bonus points if you can identify the one that was specifically described as "not antimatter," which is most likely (but not guaranteed) to exclude dilithium.

So far we've got two strikes and two fouls. You're still at bat.

we saw Wesely grow dilithium as part of a high school science project.

Wow, what a significant development - which episode was that?