jerakor

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any Trek episodes where they enforce the Prime Directive to protect a developing world within Federation space from an external influence?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  SNW S1E2 - Children of the Comet. This is a tricky one because of potential predestination and the end result being an accidental major break of the prime directive. A warp capable civilization is certain that a comet must destroy a pre warp civilization and refuse to let that change. The issue is that the ship/comet wants the Federation to interfere and does not intend to hit the planet. This is all in Federation space.

  Another in Federation space that is also a loose fit is LD S5E7 - Fully Dialated where the crew must recover Data’s head from an alternate reality that has fallen on a pre warp world. The loose fit here is that the only reason they count as external is that it is Purple Data who is not technically a a member of this realities Federation and thus an outsider.

  Lastly a decent fit but outside Federation space is Prodigy S1E7 - First Con-Tact. The crew first breaks the prime directive by making first contact with a pre warp civilization but then defends it by stopping a Ferengi from influence the civilization negatively. This is outside Federation space though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨can't beat the classics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get it, but we should as a community try to be better than that.

  AI won’t fail. It already is past the point where failing or being a fad was an option. Even if we wanted to go backwards, the steps that were taken to get us to where we are with AI have burned the bridges. We won’t get 2014 quality search engines back. We can’t unshitify the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨can't beat the classics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That AI is the one you make or at least host. No one is going to host an online AI for you that is 100% ethical because that isnt profitable and it is very expensive.

  When you vilianize AI you normalize AI use as being bad. The end result is not people stopping use of AI it is people being more okay with using less ethical AI. You can see this with folks driving SUVs and big trucks. They intentionally pick awful choices because the fatigue of being wrong for driving a car makes them just accept that it doesn’t matter.

  It feels dumb, it is dumb, but is what happens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨can't beat the classics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nestle bottling water is bad, so my solution will be to never drink any water and make fun of people who do. This is how it always comes off to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I should wash my hair.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use far far less if I use a very small amount twice rather than a lot once. The shampoo bonds with oils in your hair and when you wash once you just keep rubbing the oil and detergent mix back onto yourself. Using a small amount and rinsing it off will make it function far better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top 3 episodes (all shows) for a newbie⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Specifically for a new viewer who wants 3 shows that would be different and enjoyable:

  TNG:

  The Inner Light Cause and Effect Lower Decks

  DS9:

  Duet The Visitor Trials and Tribbleations

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Advice⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who in the world eats hard shell tacos?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We all deserve better than this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is your hobby more important than their hobby?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't all rooms holodecks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Prodigy has holoemitters on every deck and is able to reconfigure the bridge using them. It is possible but they just need a reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Season 1 Wraps Filming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We have like three entirely reasonable shows all setup that they keep not even touching. All of them episodic, all of them able to both speak to new generations and old.

  Upper Decks: Live action show with the characters from Lower Decks. Primary focus is the main characters coming to terms with the fact that they are good enough to be senior members of a crew. Continue the idea that they are the little ship that could and their missions focus around support rather than flagship or the biggest of the bads.

  Prodigy 2.0: Again live action, with Ella Purnell as a captain who is super in demand and capable and would be fantastic in the role. Focus here is again episodic, when the rest of the Federation has abandoned exploration due to all the BS at the start of Picard, they are the only crew left with the charter to seek out new life and new civilizations. You have an incredibly young but capable cast and easily could bring in some heavy hitters to support them.

  Legacy: This idea has floated around a ton since Picard S3, honestly its the least developed of the ideas and I’d rather see a way to roll it into one of the much better and more fleshed out ideas above. I feel like the final scene in Picard was an afterthought while both Lower Decks and Progidy it was a true capstone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alex Kurtzman Gives Live-Action Comedy Update, Says Star Trek Can “Broaden”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The new 20 episode season is a 10 episode season with 5 webisodes and a cheaper side project like a cartoon or anthology.

  Honestly this is better to me because it enables the good plots of the smaller episodes to get all the focus without forcing some awful secondary plot to fill run time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wasn't ready for a 28 episode sustained descent into darkness⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see this a lot which is wild to me because I feel like S4 felt like it finally was real Star Trek but just rushed and some of the damage to some characters couldn’t be fixed. All the major plot points that make Enterprise relevant to Star Trek happen in S4.

  I’m curious where you put Discovery? That is the one I struggle the most with. My primary issue there is that for me I have to actually like and want to be invested in a character but as far as I’m concerned 10 episodes in to Discovery if the ship blew up all hands lost the Federation I can’t think of anyone I’d feel sad for. Enterprise though has Trip and Phlox who are S tier, a few fantastic guest stars, and no character that is bottom bin material to me no matter how much fanfic quality writing they tried to force on T’Pol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lower Decks Eulogizing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No Star Trek show loved Star Trek more than Lower Decks.

  I hope this is not the last time we see these characters. Between losing Prodigy and Lower Decks it has been sad for Star Trek as of late.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Name a game game: "...and then it ends with you fighting A GOD."⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You are in a theater group and steal a magical princess. Yada Yada Yada, you find out your twin brother is using magic life mist to build an army of dolls… Yada Yada yada, the princess turns a castle into a giant robot to fight the doll army… Yada Yada yada, you go to your alien space ship to find all of your other clones, yada yada yada your clone brother kills you and the only way to realive is to kill Necron the god of death and then the game ends.

  Final Fantasy 9, the pinnacle of FF games doing this.

  Another favorite for me though would be Breath of Fire.

  You are a man, you become a dragon man, you find out you were always a dragon, find the goddess and have to chose between killing her or becoming a dragon god and killing your friends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best (or least terrible) Flag Officer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Admiral April and Admiral Forrest are both solid options.

  I think April did a really solid job of showing what a great but imperfect leader looks like in Ad Astra per Aspera.

  Forrest was supportive and helpful. Willing to bend the rules to support his people rather than vice versa.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where to start?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Syndication is also called reruns, when the show is rerun out of order on TV at a standard Timeslot. Like for me TNG was on every night at 7pm M-F. It was shown in random order as far as I know with I believe them skipping less popular episodes, I honestly never noticed if they did hits for a bit then did a rerun through it or what.

  The first season of TNG is considered weak as a heads up, similar for DS9 though DS9 has some bangers in S1, TNG is mostly weak. That said if you like it, you’ll LOVE the rest.

  SNW is fantastic and I really recommend it, it is certainly New Trek but it’s a MUCH better successor to the legacy than Discovery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where to start?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Start with the best episodic episodes of TNG and DS9. Most of us were introduced to Star Trek out of order, it isnt like modern TV. 90s TV and prior was focused on syndication.

  My recommendations would be, TNG: Darmok, Tapestry, The Wounded, Inner Light, Cause and Effect, Lower Decks (The episode that inspired the show). For DS9: In The Pale Moonlight, Duet, Trials and Tribbleations, The Visitor (Rest in peace Tony Todd)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fuckery⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The oldest profession traded in it so they are arguably the original currency.