I'm not sure if someone was trying to figure out ways to increase their profitability to avoid getting bought out, or if they were trying to increase their value to make buying them out a more attractive deal, or what.. but there was definitely a whole lot of "wtf are they thinking?" moves at Paramount, just as there were at HBO a year or so ago.

They were definitely flinging options at walls to try to get some kind of effect. But they were doing it with no apparent rhyme nor reason, at least to us out here.

I suspect we'll see another round of readjustments if/when Skydance gets their merger handled. I suspect there's people over there just chomping at the bit to get their hands deep in some Trek productions.

Quake, here, I think

I couldn't locate this specific one on Amazon or Paramount, but fortunately i had a local copy :D

Hey, birthday twin!!!

perhaps some aspect of her job requires it?

I'd guess Zora didn't want to run the DOTs to clean things up anymore

that... looks like it was a 480p source, playing on a 720 display.

Yeah, it might be just slightly higher quality than the broadcasts originally were, but not much.

On rewatch, I wonder if he was on the way to suggesting someone like Book when he was interrupted

Agree with this, it seemed like he was using Book for context, not for a real suggestion. Saru respects what Booker has done for everyone, but I don't think he's a real big fan of the guy, and certainly doesn't think he should be the XO of a Federation ship.

I could be wrong, though

I'm told that's Bigfoot with a hat on.

loss prevention officer = someone that works in the security department. what's the question?

Darmok, his spear thrown too early.

I think a large number of people have gone back to the places they came from... :| :| :|

I'm not sure if there is or not, but it seems like there should be a way to link a post that links to it on whatever instance of Lemmy we're on instead of hard linking to the main... hmmm

wouldn't the Romulans entering the neutral zone also be an act of war, though? that's kinda the point of a neutral zone -- neither side can enter.

They were looking for clues to the attacks on the ships, playing the part of party girls to get in places they probably normally wouldn't be able to. They went full into it when they got near T'Lyn

So... what's up with the big bad ship of destruction? Any thoughts?

In this one, it looked an awful lot like they got dusted, to me.

Collectively, each of the races in Star Trek have their own thing that they do. Individually, some lean more into it than others, but that's the way they go, pretty much.

" … delinquents, pirates, slave traders." (DSC s1e15, although the same perception about Orions is held throughout Star Trek).

It seems that Orion culture internally looks down on those who want to be in the sciences, but it's Tendi's grandmother that shows the galaxy that they are not all just pirates. Some several years after DSC S1, in SNW S2.

.... hello?

hmmm. i have an old LG smart TV (webOS v1), I wonder if it would be possible to sideload the Paramount app to it, somehow, and see if it would work.. I think it's currently flagged as requiring webOS v3+

the erasure of Prodigy is working apparently :(

/s

Seriously, thanks for your great attention to detail!

No, the message is that if you continue being an asshole, you don't actually get what you want, and everyone dies in the end.

I don't think that was supposed to be Kirk, it was credit as just "Captain".

The message, I think, is "When Spock tells you you're being an asshole, stop doubling down on being an asshole, or you lose it all".

Or more generally, "This is an example of being an asshole. Don't be like this."

In terms of our current computers, you're probably looking at something like yottabytes .. but they don't seem to store things in bytes at this point, as others say, quads. Which could mean that they've knocked the basic storage unit size from 'byte' to '4 bytes' ... A current 64-bit system can address 16 exabytes of memory, but if you were to knock that upward by an exponent of 4, you could address 65k exabytes, or 0.06 yottabytes.

That's if we're talking about memory capacities. Warm storage capability / use tends to be significantly larger than memory use, so I'd hazard a guess that the total storage capacity of a starship's computers might be in the area of a few yottabytes.

This is assuming that "quad" is used because more space was required for memory architecture, and rather than upgrade to 128-bit or 256-bit computers, necessitating a huge amount of code refactoring, they just increased the minimum storage length. Of course, that would also realistically require a huge amount of code refactoring, but we're all just making stuff up here, right? :D

Was Spock Amok broadcast after the Prodigy ep with Janeway and Dal swapping?

It's a California class. Low budget. :D

I love all Star Trek.

... huh. Releasing a large clip from an episode of a season that doesn't presently have anyone to broadcast it.

weird.

I don't think most instances have enough users to get 20 upvotes on their posts. That's not a very good indicator.

maybe we could get a crossover with Shaw so they can make that look together

Some of the UAW's demands are pretty awful. If they get a lot of that, they'll be back to threatening to bankrupt the automakers again. Hopefully they'll hit somewhere inbetween, with good wage increases, but this whole "require an automaker to pay members for volunteer work if it closes the plant in their community" ... what in the hell even? and pensions are a stranglehold on a business, that is a practice that has to end.

Will the UAW continue to oppose health care reforms? That's my big question.

Part of why we are the way we are in this country, is because of the UAW and the Teamsters, and the UFCW, and probably others, opposing critical healthcare reforms, and demanding these pensions... instead of demanding that everyone get healthcare and the ability to survive in their retirement.

But, no, the unions need those benefits to their members, otherwise why would their members want the unions? (that's their whole way of thinking...)

For the most part, the UAW opposes doing things for the public good, if they think they can force the automakers to do them instead.

the crew was constantly backstabbing, betraying, lying, and being all around bad towards each other

.... what???

Millions of people watched it. It brought us the entire rest of everything in Star Trek now.

I love it.

Orville has not been renewed or cancelled, officially, at this time, as far as anyone's aware?

To me, there is no bad Star Trek.

And then everyone watching it (which, unlike what you might think from reading this thread, is actually millions of people) would get super pissed when it got cancelled in the middle of a storyline.

it might be the first time he's done it, but if you do that sort of thing, that kind of is your character, isn't it?

Section 31 speed walking!