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- Comment on Interview: Nana Visitor On Star Trek Putting Actresses In The “Female Box” And Going Backwards In ‘Enterprise’ 2 months ago:
That, and she doesn’t still wear the Bajoran nose ridge prosthetic…
- Comment on Interview: Nana Visitor On Star Trek Putting Actresses In The “Female Box” And Going Backwards In ‘Enterprise’ 2 months ago:
Actually, I think the publisher expected something more along the lines of this vapid waffle… 😆
- Comment on Interview: Nana Visitor On Star Trek Putting Actresses In The “Female Box” And Going Backwards In ‘Enterprise’ 2 months ago:
For sure! That’s why I hope this book opens more conversations with Sirtis and others about their experience, whether it’ll be in a Visitor-penned sequel or elsewhere.
Specifically Sirtis would be interesting, because she so definitely was put in the “female box”, while her real (or convention appearance) persona is much fuller — and outspoken than the often docile role she played.
- Comment on Interview: Nana Visitor On Star Trek Putting Actresses In The “Female Box” And Going Backwards In ‘Enterprise’ 2 months ago:
Sounds like the publisher approached her to do a coffee table fluff book, and then she added her own critical feminist special sauce 🌶️🌶️🌶️
- Comment on Interview: Nana Visitor On Star Trek Putting Actresses In The “Female Box” And Going Backwards In ‘Enterprise’ 2 months ago:
Ooh, now I want to read the stuff that didn’t make it into the book, and the interviews that never got made for different reasons. How many copies do each of us need to buy for a sequel to be commissioned?
- Comment on Mastodon Follow Packs 2 months ago:
Nice idea, will follow how this develops, but — FFS, the pack CSVs are all on Google Docs.
Independent, trustworthy repository, plz.
- Comment on Niche Communities won't be able to reach their true potential until lemmy adds a sort that takes engagement into account. 2 months ago:
Same, I stay away from /all and only follow my subscribed communities by new.
- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 2 months ago:
This is the exact reason email never took off. /s
- Comment on Where to start? 2 months ago:
Even if you’ve watched some or all of the old shows in order, I think it could be fun to do a casual rewatch by LDS references. It gives you reason to watch some deep cuts out of context, and probably not the ones you’d be inclined to pick on your own 🙂
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Lower Decks* 5x06: “Starbase 80?!” (SPOILERS) 2 months ago:
I had a brief spell of panic there. Thought I’d missed an episode!
- Comment on Where to start? 2 months ago:
Since you’re into Lower Decks, I dare you to just follow the episode annotations and canon connection published here and use those as your guide to Star Trek. Every episode of LDS is so full of references to older episodes across different series, that might be a fun way to experience the canon 🙂
- Comment on Where to start? 2 months ago:
Agreed. I watch SNW when new episodes air, but it’s the one Trek show I’m never tempted to rewatch. It’s basically overengineered fan fiction.
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Lower Decks* 5x06: “Starbase 80?!” (SPOILERS) 2 months ago:
…you mean episode 5x05? 😉
- Comment on Preview ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Episode 505 With New Images From “Starbase 80?!” 2 months ago:
Went over my head by several decimetres!
- Comment on Preview ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Episode 505 With New Images From “Starbase 80?!” 2 months ago:
Spotted the Ferengi!
- Comment on “Star Trek Origin” Movie Reportedly Headed To Greenlight For Production Start In Early 2025 2 months ago:
Not assumption, just worst fears when they give us so little to go on after two or three aborted or stalled movies 🙂
- Comment on “Star Trek Origin” Movie Reportedly Headed To Greenlight For Production Start In Early 2025 2 months ago:
Oh great, another recast of the TOS crew, but they’re all preteens hijacking a spaceship and fighting preteen Romulans together? Also, they form this deep and meaningful bond that has to be reset/memory wiped by the end of the movie yet somehow steer them onto a shared future?
- Comment on Preview ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Episode 505 With New Images From “Starbase 80?!” 2 months ago:
Meh, it’s fine. I used it knowing the literal and vernacular meanings, either is valid here 🙂
- Comment on Preview ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Episode 505 With New Images From “Starbase 80?!” 2 months ago:
Oh, want? I think you’re contributing agency to inert goo. 😄 I’m just not certain Boimler’s face hair will be able to deal with the steady scrubbing (also chemicals).
- Comment on Preview ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Episode 505 With New Images From “Starbase 80?!” 2 months ago:
Five Federation credits says that disinfectant is going to decimate Boimlers “beard”.
- Comment on Help us improve our alt text generation model | The Mozilla Blog 2 months ago:
Sure, I’ll help: The best way to achieve this is not sacking 30% of your employees.
You had the workforce,you laid them off. It’s a bit soon to come asking your userbase for voluntary help.
- Comment on Tony Todd Dies: ‘Candyman’ Star Whose Hundreds Of Credits Include ‘Final Destination’ Films & ‘Platoon’ Was 69 2 months ago:
Damn, he was a highlight of anything he appeared in, and his Trek parts were amazing. His memory lives on.
- Comment on Canon Connections: LDS 5x03 -Best Exotic Nanite Hotel 2 months ago:
That’s fair. But we do not know the specifics of that parallel universe Boimler’s face fur:
- How long has it been growing?
- Did he fall into the raisin fertiliser as a teen, prompting an uncanny beard growth?
- Might he even be part Tribble (on his mother’s side)?
- Or is it simply a Captain’s Chair-worthy toupee? I’m betting on the toupee, and so is Shatner.
- Comment on Canon Connections: LDS 5x03 -Best Exotic Nanite Hotel 2 months ago:
Judging by the amount of facial hair growth Boimler’s exhibited over the course of the three episodes this season, we can assume that so far the entire season has taken place over about 17 hours.
Now now, let’s not be normative about the speed of facial hair growth. Some people take longer filling in their mustache and beards than others, and this could easily be something like 17 days if Boimler has particularly slow and/or sparse facial hair.
Characters were artificial body parts include […] Jack Crusher [personality]
Harsh, but true.
- Comment on The Starfleet Gazette Will Not Be Endorsing a Candidate for President of the United Federation of Planets 2 months ago:
So what you’re saying is, vote Borg. Gotcha 👍
- Comment on Matrix 2.0 Is Here! 2 months ago:
That is certainly an improvement over Signal, yeah.
- Comment on Matrix 2.0 Is Here! 2 months ago:
Yeah, “Matrix as IRC” with general interest rooms is an unmonitored cesspool. “Matrix as IM” for staying in touch with mates is doing just fine.
- Comment on Some (Slightly Biased) Thoughts On The State Of Decentralized Social Media - TechDirt 2 months ago:
“Slightly biased”, yeah.
- Comment on Some explicitly single-user ActivityPub software to check out 2 months ago:
There is also MicroBlogPub, although development has wound down in the past year. I spun up a test instance before that, though, and it does what it says on the tin.
- Comment on The Fediverse has empowered me to take back control from Big Tech. Now I want to help others do the same. - Elena Rossini 2 months ago:
Of late I’ve tried out the Translate You Android app. Not necessarily an endorsement of the app itself, but it offers a selection of 9 translator services, a few of which are libre.
Certainly LibreTranslate and Lingva are open source, probably a few more on their list. Give them a try and see which works best for you!