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I know people sometimes complain about a lack of DS9 references, but I do think the new shows show respect for the world created by that series.

Oh wow, I didn't know that was a thing...

At one point, I recall being able to at least search for a Mastodon user from Lemmy and have them come up in search results (no posts and couldn’t follow).

Hmm, I think that still works provided the Mastodon user has interacted with Lemmy in some way. It will pull up their bio and posts/comments made on Lemmy, but that's it.

I think the difficulty lies in the way the two platforms treat user accounts. On Mastodon, it's pretty straightforward - a user is a user.

On Lemmy, the users are users, and the community federates to Mastodon as a "group" that boosts/retweets every single post and comment that users make to that community. It's not really ideal, but I'm not sure if it can be improved considering the radically different structure of each platform. This is what the Quark's feed looks like on Mastodon:

siiiiiiiiiiiiigh

But yeah, federation between Mastodon and Lemmy is pretty unidirectional. Users on (most) Mastodon instances can use their accounts to post to Lemmy and follow Lemmy users, but it doesn't really work in the other direction.

I spot-checked a couple of them on Mastodon, and I can call up their profiles without an issue.

Justin Ling has published the full audio and transcript of this intervew here.

You know, though. You know.

On the one hand, I see your point.

On the other hand, yes.

The performances here were exceptional all around.

Wilson Cruz's Jinaal immediately put me on edge, but he turned out to be a very interesting character. It's a shame we apparently won't get to see Jinaal inhabit Moll or L'ak.

I also came away really impressed with Ian Alexander. I haven't been overly invested in Adira and Gray's story, but this development of them as "two kids who moved to attend different schools" was well-executed, and fairly low-key.

Captain Commander Rayner continues to delight, and I'm glad they're allowing him to grow gradually, rather than having him learn his lesson all at once.

I guess we won't be seeing Nilsson again - I hope she's having a good time on Voyager.

Looks like we'd better savour it while we can.

If you guessed "painted a director out of a non-vfx shot" was on the list for us today, you were correct. :)

#StarTrek #StarTrekDiscovery #vfx_footage

Saru implies to Burnham that she should consider making Book the new first officer on Discovery. Book is not a part of Starfleet or any other similar hierarchical organization. Presumably Saru makes the suggestion so that his own choice of ensign Tilly as his first officer in “Unification III” is no longer the wildest choice of in the history of Starfleet.

On rewatch, I wonder if he was on the way to suggesting someone like Book when he was interrupted. But then again, he's known for his, uh, original thinking when it comes to XOs, as you noted.

”Diary’s Romulan; Federation’s got no claim to it.” it was established in “Unification III” that the Romulans had reunified with the Vulcans at some point during the in the past, and in “All Is Possible” Ni’Var rejoined the Federation.

Ni'Var may or may not be considered the legal successor to the Romulan Free State, which in turn may or may not be considered the legal successor to the Romulan Star Empire. I think "ownership" of these ancient artifacts could be very murky indeed. And no one even mentioned how salvage rights work in the 32nd Century.

Quick, get Alex Kurtzman on the phone so I can pitch Star Trek: Space Maritime Law.

I don't think so - "The Chase" is pretty standalone.

Kes

No ship - the biggest reward for the Delta Recruitment event is the Photonic Engineering Officer.

The full list of rewards can be found here

I still haven’t gone 100% on my Klingon Recruit.

The good news is all you need to do is create the character and get past the tutorial during the event - the rest can be done whenever!

I don't modify headlines because I have 🖖 in 🖖 teg 🖖 ri 🖖 ty 🖖.

Derp, you are correct. It popped up in my Mastodon feed and I neglected to look at the publication date.

There's coffee in that cash grab.

Mellanoid slime worms, such as Murf.

Intriguing...

Risa? I never even met 'a!

Most of the crew would have no idea who Picard was either which is kinda funny.

Culber had a bit of a moment like that when explaining the Soong mind transfer he was going to perform on Gray last season.

"Soong first used it on a a Starfleet admiral - Picard was his name - but the success rate was so low that eventually people just stopped trying."

Overall, though, the Discovery crew seems remarkably well-educated about the time they skipped over.