Skip Navigation

User banner

data1701d (He/Him)

@ data1701d @startrek.website

187
1442
2 yr. ago

"Life forms. You precious little lifeforms. You tiny little lifeforms. Where are you?"

- Lt. Cmdr Data, Star Trek: Generations

  • How Star Trek: Voyager Failed In The Face Of Easy Success

  • I agree on most of those counts, except the Chakotay one is actually very real; if you didn’t fully read the article (and I knew this already before reading it), a “Native American” cultural consultant, only to fond out the dude was a complete phony, so nearly everything that show depicts of Chakotay’s culture is either pulled from stereotypes or made up entirely.

  • 100% free alternative to capcut video editor?

  • I think good, truly easy video editors are a dying breed. I loved Windows Live Movie Maker - rest in peace.

    These days, I think it’s worth it just to learn a video editor. A lot of the skills transfer; I haven’t used DaVinci before, but I’ve used other major proprietary professional video editors like Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Pro - the skills transfer. Just search how to do a thing you want to do a few times, and you’ll find it gets easier.

    As others have said, I think KDEnlive is quite good; I haven’t had a huge amount of stability issues. From what I remember (granted, I may be out of date), OpenShot felt really jank in general; I used Shotcut for a while but had stability issues and UI annoyances. Comparatively, I enjoy KDEnlive.

  • What are the best single episodes to show people new to Trek?

  • I personally love DS9 and think that it has aged better than TNG. I think its S1 is not amazing, but certainly one of the better first seasons. It has plenty of good enough episodes that don’t depend heavily on the upcoming plot and leave your brother in a good place if he wants to start watching for himself.

    A few suggestions would be:

    • In The Hands of the Prophets: Overall an almost prophetic episode, in the most terrifying way possible. A well-done drama episode with great political commentary. A lot of the season built up to it, but it’s such an early period in the show that it’s not TOO much context
    • Dax: A full helping of everything Trek, from alien trials to crew collaboration to space mysteries. It basically explains the Dax thing for you, just leaving an interesting story. Vortex: Odo-focused, but also has some “crew on space mystery” bits. Also makes a mystery of core information in the show, meaning minimal canon dependency and once again leaving your brother in a good place to watch.
    • Duet: Strong Kira episode that’s also a good summary of the Bajoran-Cardassian conflict.
    • Captive Pursuit: I think it’s a solid, typical Trek episode. I think the only impression issues it might give are it’s very O’Brien-centric, and it might register a bit on the “aliens who represent no particular real life ethnicity but are still kind of iffy”-o-meter. But otherwise, it’s a low-canon, medium-quality episode.

  • What are the best single episodes to show people new to Trek?

  • Holes and crap! Measure of a Man might be genius. Intellectually engaging, good acting, but boring (no offense) enough that other parts of the show can impress as well!

  • What are the best single episodes to show people new to Trek?

  • I disagree. I think the Dominion War context is way too important.

  • What are the best single episodes to show people new to Trek?

  • I kind of feel like Prodigy struggles the first half of the first season… as a Prodigy lover, I’ll say it certainly gets there, but even then, let’s say it wasn’t until season 2 that Jankom Pog no longer made me want to find out what Tellarite carnitas taste like…

  • "Shut Up, Wesley" [Remastered in HD]

  • Did you compress with JPEG? Also, did you grab from the Blu-Rays, or just from the P+ web viewer?

    Because Paramount is sadistic and limits those to 360p.

  • Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration

  • You can self-sign and self-enroll secure boot keys. Can’t say it’s an easy process, though - I had a lot of misery with it on my Surface Go 1st Gen. Might be better on my Thinkpad.

  • Annotations for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x02: “Wedding Bell Blues”

  • I believe Trelane is seen an Andorian by most suffering the delusion. I can’t tell if they still see him as such after the illusion is broken, but that may add to the confusion and prevent Spock from recognizing him.

    Also, this moment was awkward and notable for Spock, but not so traumatic that he’d have Trelane’s voice and mannerisms flashbubled in to the extent he could recognize Trelane several years later, especially considering on the Enterprise, you’re encountering an all-powerful being every month or so. It’s probably hard to remember, “this one’s childish” or “this one’s feisty.”

    Now the big question is… why couldn’t Trelane cause a mass delusion to make people play soldiers or something when they come across him in TOS? It’s possible that similar to how the continuum can limit Q or Q2, they limit Trelane.

    Which leads me to a theory… if as implied in Picard, the Q aren’t entirely linear, what if this makes it possible for Trelane and Q2 to be the same person? The father over shoulder for all eternity thing certainly matches up.

    Although, I do think it’s a bit too early for Memory Alpha to go declare Q is Trelane’s father.

  • The more things change, the more they stay the same.

  • Let’s just say my district learned their lesson…

  • The more things change, the more they stay the same.

  • Reminds me of an incident in high school where a student accidentally sent an e-mail to the entire school district, and people started replying, spamming up my inbox.

  • Factory Entertainment's FE Masterworks Announces Four New Studio-Scale Star Trek Models

  • If I’m paying five figures, that Miranda better have explosives in it for true authenticity!

  • Whiplash... IN SPAAACE!

  • Wow, that looks freakishly like Jack Quaid. Reminds me of this resemblance:

  • The best Star Trek Crew. Wrong answers only

  • Not OC, by the way. Just relevant fan art that I know of.

  • Whiplash... IN SPAAACE!

  • The purple-haired one (who apparently is called Tongo Rad) kind of looks like a Boimler.

    Unfortunately, he’s canonically not human, but if he were, it would have been really funny to have a throwaway line about Boimler’s great-great grandfather being “in a weird cult of space hippies searching for Eden or something.”

  • The best Star Trek Crew. Wrong answers only

  • “This is Dan, and that’s Dan, and there’s Marty at the helm to complete the crew. And I’m John and he is also John and all of us are wondering when you’re gonna die.”

  • Been watching TOS. Here's my Sam Kirk cosplay.

  • Or Aurelan Kirk. Or Peter Kirk

  • Comes in black, too

  • Now I just envision Batman saying,”Today is a good day to die!”

  • Permanently Deleted

  • Yeh. Also, Debian tends to hold back packages like that automatically. It’s just a really obnoxious thing to deal with for me, and Flatpak allows me to circumvent that.

    Though truth be told, I’m thinking of just staying on Trixie once it hits stable. While Testing certainly has its uses and I rather love it, there’s simply times where I don’t want to deal with the odd system maintenance ordeals, as comparatively rare as they are relative to other rolling release distros. I’ve been rather enjoying Bookworm on my laptop for a year now, which makes me think I would enjoy it on desktop.

  • Just a silly little GIF(

  • Yeh. I totally could compress this to crap, but I didn't.