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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I've often envisioned what a Lower Decks film might entail. I think one of the side plots would be Rutherford suddenly realizes he forgot his entire family existed and tries to get reacquainted with them. He quickly finds out that with his implant, he has become everything they ever wanted him to be, and that scares him as he realizes they don't accept who he used to be and don't have enough grief for the Rutherford that was.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Sorry to be pedantic, but how much latinum are you betting?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

All the posters are pretty good except season 1's was kind of underwhelming and not as good a pastiche of the TMP poster. I think it was also how the noses were shaded.

Like pretty much everyone here, I'll miss Lower Decks as well. During my various watches, I realized that Bradward Boimler is probably the most relatable Star Trek character for me. I think to be a Boimler, you have to want to be another character, then realize you are trying way too hard to be that character. For instance, I thought Data was the ST character I was most like (and Rutherford the LD character), and then I slowly realized I was more so a Boimler.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Trying to get out of doing homework, me and my siblings would join my mom to watch her Star Trek - she didn't object. Most times, it was TNG, with the occasional bit of DS9 or VOY.

She had actually gotten into TNG as a teenager - she'd read a few novels from her local library and kind of liked it. She then found Wil Wheaton hot enough to actually watch the show. (She may have watched a bit before that, but that's my recollection, at least).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I checked and it already exists in the Fastfatch codebase. Apparently, they event already has a Windows 95 logo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Such a reference of three oddly specific sci-fi shows. I knew Koenig was in Babylon 5, but I've never watched the show. It's sort of on my mental classic/90s/early 2000s sci-fi watchlist, along with:

  • The various Stargates
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Classic Who (I've only watched the reboot, and only up to partway through 12 at that. I'm working on it.)
  • Perhaps the various Roddenberry concepts developed in the 2000s (I've watched part of Earth: Final Conflict, so I know they kind of suck but are just interesting enough to pull you through. Yes, I will probably watch them anyway.)
  • Maybe Farscapes?
  • I actually need to watch Enterprise at some point - it's the only non-modern Trek I haven't watched. Yes, I know it goes to a bit of a dumpster fire, especially near the end, but some of it is fun I guess.
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I agree with you. However, playing devil’s advocate, it could be argued that the law was applied because Bashir is a citizen of United Earth within the Federation, meaning that per the Prime Directive, Earth can enforce its own law within the bounds of the Federation constitution (perhaps with some limits on enforcing certain parts on non-United Earth citizens, especially in a zone like San Francisco).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That then begs the question: Why did they have a problem with Una, a non-human augment, joining Starfleet? In PRO, it is also implied that Dal would not have been let in if not for Janeway’s push.

Also, perhaps Darwin Station required a longer investigation to check which researchers were involved, so the arrest does not happen on screen and is left for another ship (after all, the D needs to keep boldly going, so I can imagine a Miranda swopping by later to do the arrest for the Enterprise).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Actually, I think Neelix doesn’t count as a natural disaster - I think he was a genetic experiment - a manmade disaster.

I’ll admit though that after Kes, Neelix is a somewhat enjoyable character.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

While some of this can be a problem, I feel like using podman automatically disqualifies you as a regular user.

I think the more accurate title is “Linux is harder for medium power users who are already used to an operating system.”

I honestly feel I am unqualified to say how easy Linux distros are, as I often think to do things that a normal user wouldn’t, thus breaking my system in a way that doesn’t mirror what a regular user would experience.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

True. Industry entrenchment would be a big issue. I can think of two ways to try to fight it. The less viable option would be trying for PSD support, which would be a lot of work. The other option would be to write a Photoshop plugin to allow working with the new file format in Photoshop. This might be annoying to end users having to deal with the format, but also easier developer-wise because you could make sure Photoshop handles rendering right; you'd just need a way to warn about operations in Photoshop that can't be converted to the new FOSS program's native format.

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