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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

There were 3 generations of starships named Enterprise between TOS and TNG. Surely that's the most relevant measure of a generation for Star Trek.

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

Yeah, I can't work up much existential dread at this prospect. Given the immensity of the universe, the odds of this happening anywhere that it will affect the human race anytime soon are pretty damn slim.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

My point is that Ashoka, no longer being a Jedi, was no longer bound by the order's rules. As such, she was free to start a family is she so desired. That said, she could have done so even after order 66. That she apparently didn't do so suggests that she had no such desire.

Master Leem wasn't the only exception to the prohibition against marriage. Jedi Master Ki-Adi-Mundi was also granted an exception due to the low Cerean birthrate. He was allowed by the other Jedi to follow the Cerean custom of polygamous marriage—he had four honor wives and seven daughters.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Ashoka was no longer a Jedi by the time order 66 was issued.

Also, while the Jedi weren't allowed to marry and were discouraged from forming strong attachments, this didn't always stop them. One Jedi master married and had several children with the council's knowledge, and was even allowed to remain a Jedi master, Thracia Cho Leem.

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Thracia_Cho_Leem

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

The Mercury Eight was a runner in its day.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Yeah, that's a new one on me too. Where I'm from, "Merc" is usually gearhead speak for a Mercury not a Mercedes. Then again, I'm old and out of it, so what do I know.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

That's just not so. J.M. Barrie's book popularized Wendy as a girls name, but it predates the book by centuries.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

This is what one of Edmond Dantes alter egos did in the Count of Monte Cristo. “Lord Wilmore” was an eccentric Englishman who understood French perfectly well, but refused to speak it:

… Lord Wilmore appeared….His first remark on entering was, "You know, sir, I do not speak French?"

"I know you do not like to converse in our language," replied the envoy.

"But you may use it," replied Lord Wilmore; "I understand it."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

To keep my family as happy and healthy as possible, as long as possible.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Nice, thanks for digging that up. It’s different than I remembered, but the important part is the same, Chewie got a medal.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I haven’t read it since middle school, more than 40 years ago, but I think I recall the Star Wars novelization (of A New Hope’s screen play) stated that Chewie was getting a medal too, but that he’s have to wait because Leia was to short to present it to him the same as she did for Luke and Han.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (3 children)

NA beer is not basically “beer flavored soda.” The only thing the two have in common is carbonation and even that is produced differently in each. Soda is flavored syrup mixed with water that has been carbonated by forcing CO2 through it. NA beer is brewed the same as regular beer, and carbonation occurs during this process. For some NA beers, fermentation is arrested before significant amounts of alcohol form, while others are subjected to a vacuum to lower the boiling point so that the alcohol can be boiled out with a minimum effect of the flavor.

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