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  • The Classics

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  • I bet Scully would still be unconvinced that aliens exist.

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  • Mulder, there’s never been any conclusive evidence that Vulcanians even exist, let alone operate a prestigious science academy. And the idea that this fictional academy is dictating policy to the United Earth government across light years using some kind of universal translation technology? It’s completely scientifically implausible.

  • I don't know how to translate April 1 into a Stardate

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  • Fascinating, I’ll need to see if I can find where they got their system from.

    The best and most detailed stardate system I’ve found online is here. It makes a valiant attempt to integrate the TNG and TOS stardates into a coherent whole. It's a little overwrought in my book and makes some calls I can't agree with, but you can't fault the dedication!

  • I don't know how to translate April 1 into a Stardate

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  • For sure, I seriously doubt it was at all intentional, but the fact that the offset matches up as well as it between the two examples is very lucky for any of us foolish enough to try to take these things seriously. I definitely think about these things too much.

  • I don't know how to translate April 1 into a Stardate

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  • Oh no, now there's two "that persons"!

    1000 stardates is definitely 1 Earth year, as confirmed when Discovery jumped 800 years into the future and they hadn't drifted away from that pattern.

    However, there's good evidence that stardate x000 is not January 1st.

    In Data's Day, the stardate is 44390.1 and Data notes in his log that there's "a celebration of the Hindu Festival of Lights". That could technically be any one of 5 days in 2366, from October 31 to November 4th, according to this calculator: https://www.drikpanchang.com/diwali/diwali-puja-calendar.html?year=2366

    (To confirm that 2366 is the correct year, Data directly said it was 2364 in The Neutral Zone, 2.4 years earlier on stardate 41986).

    Assuming November 1 for Data's Day, that's 214 days after April 1. 44390 - 1000 * (214/365) = stardate 43803 for April 1. The start of the year would be 304 days earlier around stardate 43557. Of course, stardates trip over themselves all the time, but would Data of all people be wrong?

    A little support is in Voyager Homestead, when they celebrate First Contact Day (April 5th) sometime shortly before stardate 54868.6. That's a bit late but in both cases we're looking at April falling in the 800s. I'd go early 800s, because Data is better at math than Neelix. (I dunno, maybe Voyager's clocks had fallen 2 weeks out of sync after being separated from Federation servers for 7 years).

  • TNG endorses AI

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  • Or, of course, Barclay’s deep fakes. The holodeck really does function a lot like an outgrowth of today’s LLMs, at least as far as its usage goes. But I don’t think TNG really endorses it, given the frequency of holodeck malfunctions and misuses.

  • STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY Ends with Season 2, Wrapping Known Kurtzman-Era Productions

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  • It probably doesn’t help that clear public fascists were just allowed to purchase Paramount. And Trek’s ideas are directly counter to how they want the world to work.

    I personally believe this is the only factor at play. They’re clearing house so they can produce a fascist friendly Trek franchise. It’s the trajectory they’d go in no matter what reception Academy got. The online hubbub is just convenient cover.

  • Sacrificing a child to power it all would just be giving it away

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  • I love episodes with no neat resolution, like DS9's In The Pale Moonlight or TNG's Journey's End. But episodes like that are about the struggle with the unresolvable problem. We watch the show's respective captains grapple with and debate the problem for the whole episode.

    This episode is mostly a mystery about what the situation with the planet might be. It poses it's dilemma at the end and then immediately throws up its hands.

    And honestly, my recollection is that the "unresolvability" is less than there's no conceivable way this society could carry on without child torture, and more that the prime directive means this is all outside of Federation jurisdiction. Which feels more like moral abdication than a real ethical dilemma.

    I think there's lots of reasons Le Guin's story works for me when this doesn't, but a big one is that there's no heroic "captain" figure. It's about making the reader face their own complicity in unethical societal structures. I don't feel pushed to do that with SNW because I'm busy yelling at Pike about what he should do, not looking inward.

  • Riker? I hardly knew her!

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  • Modern starship floors are glossy as fuck, they're clearly getting auto-scrubbed and polished by some future tech. You could eat off 'em.

  • Sacrificing a child to power it all would just be giving it away

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  • I dont think it was the WORST episode though. I’d probably vote for the orion episode as worst of season 1…

    I can see that. Personally, “Pike cooks himself out of a bad situation and then pirate-speaks on the bridge for fun” is all gold, but that’s clearly a matter of how high your tolerance for very dumb humour is…

    It’s entirely possible I’ll see more value in “Lift Us…” when I rewatch the series. I hope so!

  • Sacrificing a child to power it all would just be giving it away

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  • I thought it was the worst episode of the first season. Yeah, it technically poses a moral dilemma, but it doesn’t do anything with it. The truth of the matter isn’t revealed until the very end, so there’s no time for anything other than Pike abruptly giving up and walking away from it. No exploring alternatives or grappling for clever solutions, just… giving up.

    That’s my recollection, anyway — haven’t watched it since it came out.

  • Disney Adventures (April 1993)

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  • He refers to Data as Pinocchio all the way back in Encounter At Farpoint.

  • Disney Adventures (April 1993)

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  • Oh, this really takes me back. Had a whole stack of this magazine as a kid. I remember they got progressively slimmer over time….

  • Disney Adventures (April 1993)

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  • She’s just drawn that way.

  • The right man for the job

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  • Kilometers O’Brien

  • Me, an Introvert Trekkie...

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  • Oh, that’s ok, I just assume all my downvotes are fat fingered ones. My takes are all too solid for anything else.

  • Anyone play EGA Trek in the late 80s?

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  • I just remembered this other variation, which mashed up the classic grid adventure with the 25th Anniversary game. In case anyone wants to wrap their nostalgia in nostalgia so they can reminisce while they reminisce: https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/play/game/2657/

  • Me, an Introvert Trekkie...

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  • Hey, Trekkies more or less invented the concept of having a convention dedicated to a specific piece of media. We reach.

  • Anyone play EGA Trek in the late 80s?

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