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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The holovids always skip over Voyager's many, many detours to extract resources and manufacture replacement torpedoes. Between this, negotiating with the Borg, and massively altering the timeline, Captain Janeway is as much a popular topic of conversation outside the federation as she is within.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

It was organized over twitter, "big players" were not involved. Hell, Trump himself was only interested in showing up because he likes being on stage in front of people. There was no plan, no goal. It was the political equivalent of an angry sports riot.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I wanna see Curzon Dax in SNW. Pretty sure the timetables match up there, given he negotiates the Khitomer accords.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, if anything the TOS ships are more realistic in regard to their interfaces. In an emergency, when you may not have lights or gravity or whatever, buttons and knobs come with certainty. Flat, featureless touchscreens? Not so much.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

isn't political violence our main export?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

i feel like the answer to what is and isn't canon can be summed up with;

Why do the klingons look different?

They always looked like that, you just didn't notice before.

Canon has always been squishy. The Eugenics Wars takes place in the nineteen-nineties... oh but didn't Voyager's crew visit our nineties? Plus, DISCO had that Elon Musk name drop.

...so the timeline floats up as the present day does. Canon is just a vague sense of the things everyone agrees on.

Personally,


I really dislike the fungus engine. You expect me to believe the Federation developed instant, consequence free warp but gave up on using it on literally any other ship? Silly. Very silly. Oh, but the precursor civilization doing a galaxy wide Genesis project is somehow an unimaginable technological feat.

And yes, I know STE covers the klingon flu. I just think They always looked like that was more elegant.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If i were gonna write the Borg going forward, I'd have the queens be a failed experiment to elevate one drone to the role of tactician specifically to deal with the Federation. It didn't work, so they don't do it anymore.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (5 children)

huh, reminds me of Hillary's campaign aiding Trump during the republican primaries

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

Yeah, Trump himself has no policy commitments. He'll say whatever he thinks is popular biased on the last thing he's seen on television. In office, he delivers bog-standard republican policy because that's who his cabinet gets filled with.

I don't see Biden changing his stance on arming Israel. Trump could, but the question is whether would it last long enough to actually affect policy.

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

Season 5, Episode 13 For The Uniform

He does this to a Maquis settlement after they had similarly poisoned two Cardassian planets.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

the special effects are really impressive, it's worth checking out

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

We’ve never built nuclear. We not only need a reactor, buy need to buy all the relevant skills and build all the supports to create an industry.

Oh, that does change the calculation quite a bit. I wonder if this push has more to do with those submarines than any energy considerations.

excited to see how the thorium rock-salt reactors progress

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