Actually, a lot of the CG seems to have survived and is in the hands of VFX artists; they actually remastered a few select scenes and showed them in the documentary “What We Left Behind” and re-rendered the ship battle from the original assets.
I know about "The Night Santa Went Crazy", but the mass shooting sort of violence in it is not so funny anymore; I much prefer "Christmas At Ground Zero". I'll have to look into the AC/DC one, though.
Some of my favorites from my playlist:
Jonathan Coulton and John Roderick's banger Christmas album One Christmas At a Time, of which my favorites are "Christmas In Jail", "One Christmas at a Time", and "Christmas with You Is the Best"
Also, Jonathan Coulton's "Chiron Beta Prime"
"Sad" and "CryptoSanta" by Lemon Demon
"Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight)" by the Ramones
Most of the stuff on "They Might Be Giants in Holidayland" EP is good; most of it is from earlier albums, but it's a good collection of holiday stuff they've done. I'm just sad they've never released "We Just Go Nuts at Christmastime".1
Puddle's Pity Party version of "I'll Be Home For Christmas", because it sounds like someone is sneaking up behind you to murder you.
"Me and the Snowman" by Logan Whitehurst
1: There's also a song called "Christmas Cards" never released outside of a 7" from 1993. "Christmas In the Bighouse" is not on streaming because it's exclusive to the band's shop; I own it on CD and in FLAC, but can't put it on the playlist unfortunately because it's in Apple Music and collaborative playlists can't use personal library tracks.
The My Chemical Romance cover of this song is quite good, perhaps better than the original.
I think my very long Christmas playlist with a mix of alternative and popular Christmas songs insulates me from hearing the original on repeat, and as a result, I don't have as bitter of feelings towards it. I mean, it's not my favorite, but I've heard much worse Christmas songs. It's a lowest-common-denominator corporate pop anthem, but at least a well-executed one; as long as it's not on repeat, I don't mind hearing it once in a while.
Personally, what I think would be awesome is a semi-anthology series inspired by LD's Wej Duj where each episode follows a different ship, and each episode builds to a final plot in which all the ships are involved.
Of course, we'd have the Klingon episode, but mainly, I just want an episode called "Cetacean Ops" that follows the crew of the USS George & Gracie, a Starfleet vessel staffed almost entirely by a plethora of aquatic life forms - I'm talking humpback whale captain next to Xindi Aquatic first officer-type things.
You might have a small crew of humanoids for maintenance and the occasional away mission or non-aquatic starbase, and you could explore an interesting story around how an aquatic crew tries to accommodate them.
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While doing the world building for a very Trek-inspired story I’ll probably never finish, (I’d originally planned the story ad a Star Trek fanfic, but later chose to make its own universe), I jokingly claimed the ship’s computer of the AAS Alan Turing was running something like Linux 126 LTS in ~2500.
(I have to have my organization call starships “aero ships” in the story because my organization is called A.M.P.E.D, and I don’t think I could take the acronym of “AMPED Star Ship” seriously.)
I mean, while the ownership of the franchise is legit concerning and I am worried about where it's going with the end of LD and PRO, at least SNW has managed to get in some good ones, especially Ad Astra Per Aspera and Pelia bluntly calling Star Trek "the whole no-money, socialist utopia thing".
There's certainly been some gaffes, and I've been driven a little nuts by the relationship stuff going on in S3, but there's still strong stuff in that show for now (granted, I've only watched up to S3 E8 so far). At the very least, it got some last words in before we possibly hit a dark age for while.
Young man, I see profits are down, I saidYoung man, workers leaving the ground, I saidYoung man, 'cause you're in hoo-man town, I saidThere's no need to be un-FerengiYoung man, there's a person in town, I saidYoung man, when you're short on latinum you willSee him and I'm sure you will findMiserable days and bad times
It's time to get probed by Brunt F.C.A.It's time to get probed by Brunt F.C.A.He'll do everything young entrepreneurs fearYou can't hang with other Ferengi boysIt's time to get probed by Brunt F.C.A.It's time to get probed by Brunt F.C.A.You won't have shirts to clean, you won't have a good mealYour bank account is gonna reel.
(These days, I normally wouldn't want to reference Village People, but this parody just works so well that I had to forget my political rage for a second and just get it out of my mind.)
I need to play with HomeAssistant more. My last bit of hesitation was I was struggling to find a replacement for the announcement and intercom functionality, which is half of what my family uses Alexa for.
Perhaps I'll mess around with it again once the semester's over; a lot of my family would really like to jump the Amazon ship and certainly be willing to try it if I give them the option.
Michael J. Fox and JG Hertzler have secretly been the same person all along... somehow. I don't how; how does spacial scission thrown together with some other sci-fi stuff sound?
Actually, a lot of the CG seems to have survived and is in the hands of VFX artists; they actually remastered a few select scenes and showed them in the documentary “What We Left Behind” and re-rendered the ship battle from the original assets.