I have an inexplicable fondness for the Excelsior class. Both NX-2000 and NCC-1701-B are fun to watch. I would’ve liked to see more of them.

(I know there’s a bunch in the Dominion War battle scenes, but never for very long.)

Calling all* Trekkies

*who are willing to pay to read an article of unknown length and quality

I block meme communities and AI art. I’ll unblock AI art once the machines figure out how fingers work. I don’t block porn except when it’s outside of my interests (I’m not into men or furries, for example).

You might consider unblocking the meta communities - it can sometimes be illuminating to see how other places are run, and give you ideas to improve your own instance.

We don’t have downvotes on my instance, and it’s an amazing difference. I recommend it!

I generally just upvote everything I like, no real thought process involved.

I’ve been avoiding Amazon since 2010. No regrets. They crave your time, money, and attention, and they deserve none of those. (Same with Meta.)

Thank you! I hadn’t heard of Qanba before - they definitely have some interesting joysticks.

As someone who routinely watches YT through Invidious and NewPipe, I haven’t changed my habits.

The Electoral College.

It’s a great example of a science fiction action movie, with great character work, creative action, and a truly original doomsday device that doubles as a compelling philosophical what-if. It’s got a lot to say about the morality of revenge and about the futile attempt to evade consequences.

And of course it’s exciting and suspenseful, too!

There are two things I actually don’t like about WoK:

1. It’s inspired too many “villain” stories - Shinzon, Vedic, the Borg Queen, and Nero are trying and failing to be like Khan, and it drags down the stories around them. (I don’t actually think Khan in ID is a villain at all - he’s a reflection of Kirk - but that’s a separate discussion.)

2. Uhura was given nothing to do.

But it’s still a great movie that showed what Star Trek can achieve when it tries.

“Spock once again was able to drink the Klingons into not wanting destroy the Enterprise”

This might also explain how Spock convinced General Koord to aid the Enterprise in STV. Koord was definitely a drinker, too!

People need and want various levels of abstraction, type system control, and even just syntaxes. In these cases, it’s easier to switch languages - or make one - than to implement a solution in a language that would fight against your needs.

I have my copy! Only made it through the prologue since work+family limits my gaming time, but I like it so far!

I love Signal, and I have persuaded people to use it a lot. That said, it is definitely not the gold standard for privacy. It’s a good-enough compromise between actual unbreakable encryption and trivial for anyone to use. It’s always been valuable for that reason, and still is.

Don’t worry about Molly - it uses a variation of the same code that Signal does, so they don’t need “help” to get critical fixes that Signal receives. Use it if you like it!

The actual gold standard for privacy would be logging in through TOR and sending GPG-encrypted messages that way. And there’s an app which does this, too - it’s called Briar. (No phone number needed, either!) It’s not as seamless to set up as Signal is, though.

No mod capability, or at least not that I’m aware of. But it does run on Android! https://f-droid.org/packages/me.thanel.dank/

SNW is pure, good Star Trek. Don’t miss it.

I’d also rate Lower Decks and Prodigy pretty well - both have rough starts but hit a good stride in their first seasons.

I use Dawn. It still works!

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Breakups suck, and there’s no shortcut to getting through them.

Time will help you heal. You will go through the morning cycle - look it up, if you need a refresher - and the end of the cycle is “acceptance”. Look forward to it!

Yes, and they were not in season 3 as ChatGPT asserted.

It’s a TV reunion special. I think it accomplished everything it set out to do - reunite the cast, bring back an old bad guy for another thrashing, and show that the TNG crew’s lives and adventures have continuing impact on the Star Trek world. Also heaping some disses on the first two PIC seasons. And the new characters seem cool.

I wish it had set out to tell an original story instead.