I think a large number of people have gone back to the places they came from… :| :| :|

… hello?

hmmm. i have an old LG smart TV (webOS v1), I wonder if it would be possible to sideload the Paramount app to it, somehow, and see if it would work… I think it’s currently flagged as requiring webOS v3+

the erasure of Prodigy is working apparently :(

/s

Seriously, thanks for your great attention to detail!

No, the message is that if you continue being an asshole, you don’t actually get what you want, and everyone dies in the end.

I don’t think that was supposed to be Kirk, it was credit as just “Captain”.

The message, I think, is “When Spock tells you you’re being an asshole, stop doubling down on being an asshole, or you lose it all”.

Or more generally, “This is an example of being an asshole. Don’t be like this.”

In terms of our current computers, you’re probably looking at something like yottabytes … but they don’t seem to store things in bytes at this point, as others say, quads. Which could mean that they’ve knocked the basic storage unit size from ‘byte’ to ‘4 bytes’ … A current 64-bit system can address 16 exabytes of memory, but if you were to knock that upward by an exponent of 4, you could address 65k exabytes, or 0.06 yottabytes.

That’s if we’re talking about memory capacities. Warm storage capability / use tends to be significantly larger than memory use, so I’d hazard a guess that the total storage capacity of a starship’s computers might be in the area of a few yottabytes.

This is assuming that “quad” is used because more space was required for memory architecture, and rather than upgrade to 128-bit or 256-bit computers, necessitating a huge amount of code refactoring, they just increased the minimum storage length. Of course, that would also realistically require a huge amount of code refactoring, but we’re all just making stuff up here, right? :D

Was Spock Amok broadcast after the Prodigy ep with Janeway and Dal swapping?

I love all Star Trek.

… huh. Releasing a large clip from an episode of a season that doesn’t presently have anyone to broadcast it.

weird.

Some of the UAW’s demands are pretty awful. If they get a lot of that, they’ll be back to threatening to bankrupt the automakers again. Hopefully they’ll hit somewhere inbetween, with good wage increases, but this whole “require an automaker to pay members for volunteer work if it closes the plant in their community” … what in the hell even? and pensions are a stranglehold on a business, that is a practice that has to end.

Will the UAW continue to oppose health care reforms? That’s my big question.

Part of why we are the way we are in this country, is because of the UAW and the Teamsters, and the UFCW, and probably others, opposing critical healthcare reforms, and demanding these pensions… instead of demanding that everyone get healthcare and the ability to survive in their retirement.

But, no, the unions need those benefits to their members, otherwise why would their members want the unions? (that’s their whole way of thinking…)

For the most part, the UAW opposes doing things for the public good, if they think they can force the automakers to do them instead.

the crew was constantly backstabbing, betraying, lying, and being all around bad towards each other

… what???

Millions of people watched it. It brought us the entire rest of everything in Star Trek now.

I love it.

Orville has not been renewed or cancelled, officially, at this time, as far as anyone’s aware?

The first several episodes of Orville I’ve described as “what if Star Trek had dick jokes and occasionally tapped the well of ex-wife jokes”… but yeah, I loved that too.

The first 3 LD episodes are pretty brutal if you’re not tuned into the frenetic pacing of something like Rick and Morty. I would not put Simpsons, Bobs, KOTH in the same zone. HOWEVER, it’s worth getting tuned into. And if you really want some great info, dig up the old site’s posts by /u/USSBurritoTruck (if they are still there) about Canon Connections especially in Lower Decks, because there’s a TON.

or just search “easter eggs in lower decks S1E4” or whatever. But USSBurritoTruck is the best.

… usually. But then they subvert that sometimes.

probably not, i would doubt that anyone actually makes any decisions based on any input from change dot org.

As far as Discovery and forward go, I’d honestly recommend order of release. I’m not going to feed you any “don’t watch this, do watch that”, I just want to say that various bits of lore are introduced in some series, are then referenced in later episodes of other series. All of the series are making references to each other now. So, I think you get the most of the lore references, if you watch them in release order.

That said, it probably doesn’t really matter – Most of the recent series are in distinctly different places and/or times. Discovery and SNW are the closest (to start) in time and space, and Discovery S2 directly feeds to SNW. Prodigy and Lower Decks are in a similar time space, but very far apart in the galaxy, and Picard starts the farthest ahead in the timeline, though Discovery will overtake it, and Picard also has flashbacks that take place probably close to the time of Lower Decks or Prodigy.

Soooooooooo… overall, probably doesn’t matter, but in my opinion, you get the most benefit of lore knowledge in release order.