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  • I played education games on a Apple II in 1998; I was in the first grade.

  • Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads
  • This type of advertising isn’t new. There is that famous (although the claims from the father have been questioned) New York Times article written by Charles Duhigg in 2012. A father of a teenage girl in Minnesota got upset for receiving coupons from Target for infant care related products. As the story goes, he later learned his daughter was in fact pregnant. It turns out Target was using some predictive algorithm to identify would-be mothers and straight up sending them coupons for infant care products. It seems ever since this article was published that they stopped doing this in such a direct manner. Again, there have people who questioned the validity of the claims for this specific story, but Target did confirm they were doing this.

  • Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony
  • Speaking of… Look at the cover. There is a Wells blurb.

  • "It's normal at your age to be curious about logic, but..."
  • So do Vulcans have books about how to talk to children about emotions?

  • Good God, La Forge!
  • That does sound like something Tracey would say.

  • Oh! THIS is the loop place!
  • You didn’t even include Pill Boy?!

  • Set flavors to stun!
  • Oh god, not the eggs.

  • Good news for all you time loop fans!
  • Hitchcock and Scully probably are distracted with the pyramid game in Ten Forward.

  • Does everybody know what time it is?
  • I thought Vulcans didn’t believe in time travel?

  • Does everybody know what time it is?
  • You’ve not experienced it properly till you’ve seen it in a theater with a few hundred Trekkies.

  • Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony
  • You should read the duology (I’ve only read the first book) Monk and Robot, which is solopunk. The premise is that robots got tired of doing what they were built for, and decided to form a treaty with humans allowing them to wonder into the wild and live without human contact.

  • Iroh's practice cookies
  • Are they Jasmin tea flavored?

  • ICE Invades Wrong home, Steals Their Life Savings, and Then Leaves
  • The video states the names are pseudonymous. So the answer would be, no.

  • I cooked some food cubes.

    The recipe comes from The Star Trek Cookbook by Chelsea Monroe-Cassel. My first time but I’m going to make more. This batch has orange extract. I will need to increase the amount of extract.

    UPDATE: I made blue lemon this time.

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    O'Brien must have implanted a subdermal universal translator when he was born.

    In the screenshot, from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (season 15 episode 6), the character Charlie Kelley is talking to a person speaking Irish, while unaware they understand and are able to speak the language.

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    Update on The Wand Company Tricorder

    This is the full text of the email I received from The Wand Company today. Many of you may have seen the unboxing video Adam Savage uploaded. To sum it up, the only official place to purchase this is currently Amazon.uk. So far a batch of 200 sold out pretty fast (two days) with a fluctuating inventory status on the product page leading to confusion. Doesn’t appear a product page for the Tricorder is active (a search yields no results and Star Trek section of the store page displays no products for sale). Once The Wand Company get a larger inventory sent over to Amazon.uk, sales will resume. As for fans in the U.S., there is no certainty on how tariffs will affect the price.

    Sales are officially being doing through Amazon.uk. The sales have been paused till inventory can be increased as a response to the confusion and sellout of 200 units within two days

    EDIT: I forgot to include legible text to read.

    > | Dear ____,






    Further to our previous email, we’re conscious that you are still waiting for your “invitation to purchase” email with a link to the Tricorder on Amazon UK.






    IMPORTANT: we are making plenty of Tricorders
 

A very small number of Tricorders were sold on Amazon in the last two days.  This didn’t go as smoothly as we’d hoped, though:



    The quantity (200 units) sold out very quickly, but then the Tricorder would occasionally appear to be back “in stock” for brief periods, causing confusion and frustration.


    During some of these brief periods, international shipping wasn’t available.
Some people had their orders automatically cancelled by Amazon for suspected fraud – we believe this is probably why one or two units would then become “available” again.

 



    We’re really sorry for the distress and confusion that this has caused for some of you. We want to reassure you that we are making plenty of Tricorders and we believe that you will each be able to buy one from us if you want to.

 



    We are pausing Tricorder sales for at least a week


    We’ve shipped another batch of 952 units to Amazon this week.  We were hoping that they would already be showing up in the Amazon system by now, and that we’d be sending out a batch of “invitation to purchase” emails today, but that’s not the case.

 



    To avoid a continuation of the confusing situation with the Tricorder appearing to fluctuate in and out of stock, and it only becoming available one or two at a time, we are pausing the sales to allow some time for the incoming stock to build up to a sensible level so that we can create some stability in its availability.

 



    As I write, we are manufacturing Tricorders and airfreighting thousands of them into the UK. However, the process of loading them into stock at Amazon takes a bit of time.

 



    Opening Tricorder sales again


    Once there is sufficient stock in the Amazon UK store to create a more stable and pleasant purchasing experience, we will set the Tricorder listing to “active” once again and start emailing people again to let them know that it is available. We will aim to do this at around 4pm UK time. We will monitor that stock carefully and pause the sale of the Tricorder again when the stock is depleted, in order to allow more stock to fill the sales channel once again and prevent the listing from going in and out of stock due to order cancellations.

 



    A few Tricorders are already appearing on eBay. Whilst everyone can buy their Tricorder however they wish, we strongly urge fans not to buy from third party sellers at the moment. We have plenty of stock arriving and you should wait for that to become available through our official retailers (Amazon UK, the Star Trek Shop or IGN Store).

 



    Shipping to a non-UK address


    Our decision to sell on Amazon UK was not taken lightly and was in response to the evolving tariff situation in the US. When there is sufficient stock available, fans who do not live in the UK will be able to purchase from Amazon UK and we do not know of any restriction that will prevent this for our customers outside the UK. (In case you didn’t already know, we’re based in the UK ourselves.)

 



    The tariff situation


    The US tariffs on bulk shipments of products from China have been changing rapidly over the last few months, starting with 10% announced in February and reaching 145% on April 10th. If those tariffs reduce to a more manageable level we will review the situation regarding importing the product in bulk to the US for sale domestically (such as via Amazon US) and take the appropriate action.

 



    US tariffs on small packages to individual consumers with value under $800 USD (“de minimis” shipments) have also been in flux recently.  At the moment they are scheduled to become 120% on May 2nd, or a flat fee of $100 USD, but it’s unclear which of those fees will be charged.  It’s also possible that the changes due on May 2nd will be amended or postponed.

 



    What will happen next


    We will write to everyone in waves in order of their first registration with an invitation to purchase as the stock becomes available. As mentioned above, we will aim to send those emails out at around 4pm UK time.

 



    LLAP

 



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    Potentially big lore to address in the remainder of Strange New Worlds regarding Klingons.

    How might SNW explain the physiology of the Klingons that have ridged foreheads versus the smooth foreheads that come from the failed augment experiment in ENT? A refresher: during the run of ENT, Klingons attempted to replicate the experiment of Human Augments. It ends up failing, which results in the physiology of the population changing, thus giving a in-universe explanation for why the makeup in TOS varies from how they appear TMP and onward.

    How might SNW address this bit of lore? TOS takes place during 2265-2269. SNW first episode “Strange New Worlds” is 2259, six years prior. We already know Klingons with ridged foreheads exist thanks to DIS. We even see some during “The Broken Circle”. Might one possible way of explaining the change be a shift in the military and/or political factions of the Empire that lead to more of the smooth foreheads Klingons dominating?

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    EVERY Starfleet Uniform Ranked From Worst To Best- TrekCulture

    A warning upfront. They rank every single uniform, even clothing you didn’t realize was a uniform. The video is 1 hour 14 minutes long.

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    Star Trek: Swimsuit Edition

    Chris Fenoglio, artist who worked on the Lower Decks ongoing comic book series, recreated the iconic pin-up of X-Men in swimsuits for the Lower Decks crew. Even some non-crew got featured (to fully recreate every detail of the original).

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    So they wish to adopt exocomps.

    If they actually assimilated exocomps, Peanut Hamper would be the first person to get kicked out of the Collective.

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    Fansets have announced a mobile emitter, named EMH Mobile, coming to STLV 2025.

    Sorry for the screenshot. The announcement was a Facebook Reels post. No individual images. It is the same magnetic style as the badges Fansets are well known for. No information if STLV will be the launch of this product or a limited release just for STLV this year. Hope I can get one.

    UPDATE: According to a comment on the post, this will become available on the website after STLV. So look for it after August 10.

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    A huge question regarding alternate timelines related to Picard.

    If you haven’t watched all of Picard, “All Good Things…” (TNG season 7 episode 25) and “Endgame” (VOY season 7 episode 25), please be advised there are major spoilers.

    This may come down to a personal interpretation: did the events of “All Good Things…” ever exist? There is one reason I ask this: the false positive diagnosis of irumodic syndrome. The way I see it, the events of that episode are rendered non-existent.

    Jean-Luc assumes prior to his death in season 1 of Picard that his illness was irumodic syndrome. However, it is never specified in that season that he has the illness. In season 3 Jack Crusher is diagnosed with it and assumed inherited. However by the end we learn it was a condition related to his time as Locutus of Borg.

    In VOY, the future timeline with Admiral Janeway appears to be connected to the anti-timeline future from “All Good Things…”. The Admiral wearing the same uniform and badge. However the big difference is that the present day Prime Voyager is aided by future technology. We do not see the influence of Admiral Janeway get reversed, only the events of her future.

    So did the events of “All Good Things…” actually occur or did the temporal incursion being fixed rendered it non-existent? After all, Q was testing Jean-Luc. Only Jean-Luc had memory of what happened. Sub-question: did Jean-Luc actually have a correctly diagnosed irumodic syndrome in the anti-timeline future?

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    Trek actors keep trying to kill Dr. Jones!

    For those unaware, Garrett Wang has discussed many times that on his way to his Voyager audition, he almost ran over Harrison Ford at Paramount Studios.

    Dirty Laundry is a game show on Dropout where guest (mainly comedians) drink cocktails and guess each other’s secrets.

    EDIT: Just to be clear, this wasn’t Garrett, and that isn’t a secret. And no one brings that up.

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