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- Comment on 35 Years Ago, Star Trek Retroactively Created New Canon, And No One Noticed 1 day ago:
I would say that a war like that suddenly coming up isn’t that insane. In the real world I think about Desert Storm.
Short armed conflict, lots of Americans and Iraqis died. Did it to fight a dictatorship. But 10 years later by it wasn’t a thing that just came up every day on the news. (Iraq 2 notwithstanding that suddenly made it all the more relevant). But my point is that there was a war in the 90s that affected a ton of people but after a while, it wasn’t constantly in everyone’s mind.
Is it a big change, absolutely. But so were the Klingons makeup in The Motion Picture, and the Klingons being good guys.
But if suddenly no women were allowed in starfleet or slavery was cool as long as its XYZ race, that would be a continuity change that affects the world not in a retconny way but in a way that fundamentally changes the kind of show that it is.
If you want to make a sci fi show where Earth has been taken over by sexist slavers to tell a very compelling and gritty story about human nature, maybe dont make a Star Trek show.
- Comment on 35 Years Ago, Star Trek Retroactively Created New Canon, And No One Noticed 1 day ago:
I guess I’m not sure what the title is getting at.
The article is about the first episode featuring the Cardassians and how they mention the Cardassian war that took place directly before the series currently in progress.
Honestly the point of the article seems to be that changing canon is secondary to telling a really compelling sci-fi allegory story.
A great way to not have to worry a lot about canon is to move far into the future or to go farther into the past.
I don’t really care if they introduce a new thing that wasn’t mentioned before, I get more grouchy about them introducing stuff that directly contradicts really important stuff established in the show. Like “turns out the paradise on earth was bullshit all along” for instance.
- Comment on Credit to u/donner1701 on Reddit 3 days ago:
That’s what I think makes Star Trek unique. There are tons of other space laser shows, and lots of other moralistic scifi. What I like about Trek is that unless they are possessed by aliens, the crew of XYZ Starship are all incredibly competent at their jobs. And when they start acting stupid, 6 other crew members are immediately on it to pick up the slack.
The dream of Star Trek is working at a job where everyone you work with is ultra-qualified and hardworking. At least to me.
- Comment on earth, fire, water, wind - it's not hard 1 month ago:
Ah! I’ll come in again.
- Comment on The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing" 2 months ago:
Measles, theocratic government, phrenology: everything old is new again.
- Comment on I hate it when people use pictures showing the condiments only on top of a hot dog. 2 months ago:
Use a napkin or suffer a minor finger burn. Worth it for the outcome.
- Comment on I hate it when people use pictures showing the condiments only on top of a hot dog. 2 months ago:
You put mustard on top and then spin the hotdog do the mustard is applied 360° and doesnt get all over you while you eat it.
- Comment on Meet Mico, Microsoft’s AI version of Clippy 3 months ago:
Dont forget Microsoft Bob
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 3 months ago:
I would say most of the customers of Framework are the kinds of people who espouse the kind of antifascist ideology that that guy that started the thread does.
I don’t think that the fascist sympathizer circle and the “willing to pay more money for an ethical laptop that isn’t beholden to a big corporation for repair” circles have much overlap.
This is easy, “Framework doesn’t support fascism or racism in any form. We support open source software and right to repair. Due to concerns with ideology in some of the projects we sponsor we are reviewing the projects we sponsor to make sure that they align with our values as a company.”
The fact that they aren’t willing to say so says plenty.
- Comment on Enthusiasts bond twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up broadband records — a dozen screeching boxes achieve record 668 kbps download speeds 3 months ago:
- Comment on Which Core XY printer? 4 months ago:
www.sovol3d.com/products/sovol-sv08-3d-printer
This one is awesome. Open source everything. Based on the Boron and a pretty good price too.
- Comment on Always so loud 😒 4 months ago:
This is so often true that I would love to read a sociological study on why it is.
- Comment on Bambu Lab announces the Vortek H2C, an automatic nozzle-changing version of the H2D 5 months ago:
Who do you like instead?
- Comment on Not all Orions are pirates! 5 months ago:
Is that Oh-rye-un or oh-ree-yon?
- Comment on 'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises 10 months ago:
Relevant video about the problems with high capacity ssds.
- Comment on Why the Left needs to watch Star Trek: It has lessons for today's techno-optimists 1 year ago:
Theres a whole alien race, The Ferengi, that are obsessed with something called latinum and getting as much as possible because it can’t be replicated. Other than that, it has no other useful purpose. You could replicate anything you want for free or ypu could get some platinum and go to a Ferengi bar and pay someone else to replicate it for you.
So basically yeah, Ferengi are also post-scarcity but since they are the capitalist caricatures of the show they have random substance xyz so they can still have a reason for rich and poor to exist.
- Comment on How Star Trek: Lower Decks Managed To Get Enterprise’s Jolene Blalock To Appear, And Why She’s Only Credited By Her First Name 1 year ago:
I think we should do a letter writing campaign. It worked for TOS.
- Comment on You'll have to use pto time to drown, but make sure it's approved first 1 year ago:
113 Years after the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire and not enough has changed for the better.