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    [Series] What's your evil scheming music?

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  • ♬ It's better to burn out than phase away ♬

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  • iirc when beaming, you can momuntarily feel yourself in both places at once, which implies that your brain activity is at least contigious even if you're made of new atoms. i guess it comes down to what you consider "you"

  • What's your Star Trek hot take?

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  • oh boy. here we go.

    Faith of the Heart is great. the arrangement is a little weak but the tune itself rules and the words capture Archer so well i was shocked to learn it was a cover and not purpose-written for that

    The Wrath of Kahn is just ok. it's less Star Trek and more an action movie celebrating the characters that we love, which makes it just the same as the later movies everyone hates. the only ones that are really feature-length Trek are Motion Picture and The Undiscovered Country. Into Darkness would be listed there too if the plot didn't keep getting hijacked by Wrath of Khan nostalgia baiting, ironically

    the soap opera vibes in Discovery make sense in universe. they never really got a chance to be a peacetime exploration vessel and then it turned out their captain was secretly a space Nazi. compare and contrast how Pike treats them and the Enterprise crew- he seems to be aware of this and treats them with kid gloves. whether or not that was intentional and/or if it makes for good TV is left as an exercise to the reader

    Dear Doctor was a good episode. they didn't condemn those people to die, they offered them a multigeneration treatment that just kicked the can down the road. it's not about the decision so much as the decision to not make a decision (which granted, Rush tells us is still a choice). it's messy but that's the point. Cogenitor is the episode that deserves the hate. it may very well be the single worst episode in all of Trek

  • why so much Star Trek?

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  • i've been watching LD as it comes out but only recently finished ENT and there have already been a few jokes i would have missed otherwise this season. i'm honestly glad because once i finish VOY i'll have an excuse to tear through LD again

  • Oof

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  • no the cling-ons are the ones with the forehead ridges

  • Are the Jedi assholes?

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  • i don't think it's so much that they're actually the baddies as it is that they became too dogmatic and process-oriented to be able to do the good that they were trying to do. on the micro scale they were too inflexible with their rules to always do the right thing, and on the macro scale they could bend the rules however they wanted in the name of The Greater Good. protecting the Jedi order so that they could hypothetically do good later was more important than admitting to mistakes and exposing themselves to criticism to do tangible good in the moment. in less words, they meant well and had their heads pretty far up their asses. the Dooku episodes of Tales of the Jedi demonstrate this very well

    whether or not this is just the Jedi Order or the larger light-side-user community is up for debate. a lot of people point to the prophecy of balance being brought to the force and say that that required an equal number of Jedi and Sith, and that idea seems to have seeped into Disney canon, but at least originally Lucas seemed to intend for the light side to represent balance and for the dark side to be a corruption of that, in which case the Jedi Order being assholes meant they also weren't really Jedi to begin with

    another commente argues that of course they're assholes because they're a religion, but i'd argue that they're assholes because they're an organized religion. if being a Jedi is about harmony with all life and the force, as opposed to using it and abusing it, you can't create Jedi by using and abusing life forms the way a beaurocratic institution invariably does. it's not a coincidence that all of the great Jedi heroes throughout SW are either deviants within or otherwise estranged from the order. standing up for people and doing the right thing almost always involves sticking it to The Man, and the Jedi Order were The Man

  • Millenials and Zoomers experience decision fatigue differently (And what it means for Lemmy)

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  • honestly i'm not even sure how the author of this managed to boil down feed UI preferences into "questions" or "options" or whatever. all of the same content is there, it's just a matter of if it's expanded or collapsed by default- merely information density. what it really comes down to is older sites collapsed things by default, newer sites expand things by default, and most people like whatever they grew up with. i'm gen z and much prefer the older style just because i was on forums and old reddit right around when my peers opened their twitter and instagram accounts. there is definitely a discussion to be had there about which format is healthier and why companies prefer the latter format these days, but to skim right past that into the bit about third parties makes me think that was the real point the author wanted to make and contorted their UI argument to get there

  • Losing Pulaski was almost as bad as losing Dr. Janet Fraiser

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  • i dunno if they're really comparable considering one reassigned and had a long career and the other was reassigned to a farm upstate

  • Big, beige ’80s PC case started out as a joke, but it’s becoming real in Japan

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  • finally, an NEC PC-108

  • Had to create an artificial protostar to brighten the shot of Captain Shaw in ST: Picard

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  • my corneas are still scarred from the end of Picard when they're back on the brightly-lit Enterprise after three seasons of candlelit ships. at this rate starfleet officers are going to need eyepatches like pirates for when they turn away from a screen

  • What song did you love until you found out what it was about?

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  • the two Who rock operas are chock full of stuff that went over my head because i heard them when i was younger than i probably should have been. in this case the songs are written from character POVs so i wouldn't say they make me think less of the band because of the content, but jeez, 10 year old me never would've figured Love Reign O'er Me for example was about a suicide attempt as opposed to, you know, feeling loved

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    for US voters who didn't, why didn't you vote early through the mail?

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  • in theory voting through mail would be easier, but in practice it's a nightmare. i needed absentee ballots for two elections when i was away for school- one arrived late and one didn't arrive at all! much easier to just do in-person voting in my experience

  • It's only temporary!

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  • gus is the chief medical officer partially so he can cover up that shawn isn't from betazed

  • If anyone knows about evolving, it's Jeffrey Combs.

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  • "Andorian women are far more aggressive than Earth females. She made a... an overture. I had a choice - charge her with assaulting a superior or... marry her for 32 years and counting."

  • What is your favorite inconsequential fan theory?

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  • wow. that definitely adds some layers, considering Sam was the one who figured out how to fix the timeline and Teal'c was the one who executed it. and that he doesn't tell the others anything that happened. poor guy :(

  • Bluesky Announces Series A to Grow Network of 13M+ Users - Bluesky

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  • we here are bluesky are thrilled to accept Series A funding for Face-Eating Leopards, Inc. despite this we ensure that Leopards will not eat your face

  • It's Dominion Night at Vic's...

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  • oooo baby i love your wayouns, every dayoun...

  • Why go out, when your TV that plays Star Trek is at home?

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  • if it's just a phase, we can simply modulate the frequency of the subharmonic phase generator. and reverse the polarity of the deflector dish if that doesn't work

  • Loops by Pixelfed • Public beta (hopefully) launching in 10 hours

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  • i'm really interested to see where this goes. i feel like a lot of the dorks (i say affectionately as a dork) who use the fediverse and people who do this kinda shortform video are two circles that don't touch, so this could very well die on the vine- no pun intended- or it could give the fedi the jolt it needs to enter the mainstream