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[–] data1701d@startrek.website 25 points 6 days ago (5 children)

On another note, I sometimes get tired of "Please recommend a good laptop" posts - they're always just the same old advice: "I liked my Framework" or "Get a Thinkpad".

I kind of wonder if we could just have an annual mega-post for Linux hardware that gets pinned and mentioned in the server links. For example, "(Pinned) Linux Hardware 2025". Then we have a rule that you don't do hardware recommendation posts unless it's something extremely oddly specific, like "Best Linux hardware for a Pentium II build" or maybe even a question about people's experiences with VFIO on recent motherboard.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 25 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I mean, this might be a bit more your fault in this case, but I agree with the sentiment.

They're always changing something about the CSS sheets, and I find it a pain to develop for, granted it's been a few years since I last touched it, and on a very hobbyist level at that. I quickly switched to Qt for that project. Now I use wxWidgets, which I guess just uses GTK, but I like that I don't have to directly deal with GTK.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 5 points 6 days ago

Be seeing you. 👁️👌

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 2 points 6 days ago

Also, Ferenginar is rainy, so I imagine most wouldn't want to go out into the rain nude.

Even more conservative ones might have rain coats they take off inside.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 1 points 6 days ago

It seems like a large majority of females wear clothes sort of thing. I went through the episode to see if there were any more. I found up to seven or eight more instances, with screenshots below (some of these may be unintentional duplicates from different perspetives.:

Interestingly in the first one, she is with an older man, suggesting that she might be an older woman, although we also see an older Ferengi woman in the background as well who is clothed.

Re-evaluating the original image I posted, I notice that the person the unclothed woman is sitting with is drawn like a lot of other Ferengi women, which suggests she might be meeting up with another woman, possibly a friend or a daughter. Unfortunately, it's not high-enough quality on my end (I'm limited to 480p by the Paramount jerks) to make out if the unclothed Ferengi is an older or younger women - maybe it's clearer on someone's Blu-Ray set.

Overall, wow, this was a weird way to spend an evening. I'm even less proud to say I did this than when I did the Kim counting a few months back.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 7 points 1 week ago

Meanwhile, me:

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My head canon is there is a different Musk they're talking about that isn't a Nazi, and Lorca's name drop was mirror universe stuff. 😂

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I hope we can yeat Saru in somewhere else - at least the occasional appearance on STA. Let's hope that Robert Picardo claiming "he'll be deeper" means he'll be 99% comic relief like when he said he'd be "more than comic relief" in Prodigy, meaning the show will be a banger rather than a melodramatic despair-fest with the occasional redeeming quality.

Either that or throw him through a portal to another era and call it temporal causality, although I guess the only currently running show they could throw him in is SNW, which wouldn't make sense for obvious reasons. Now if Prodigy got its (unfortunately improbable) season 3 and he somehow managed to appear and they made a good plot out of it, I might not mind.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago

I have to agree that First Contact uniform is top-tier.

Also, guy misdated the Romulan supernova.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago

And Prodigy (though after Lower Decks):

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

No. That was in TMP. To be fair, that’s two TOS movies where mysterious probe threatens the Federation.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago

Although Eureka has got to have one of the worst depictions I've ever seen.

 

cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/21256834

I just threw this together. I felt it was a very relevant song, though I also could have put Riker clips to it and had it work just as well.

 

I just threw this together. I felt it was a very relevant song, though I also could have put Riker clips to it and had it work just as well.

 

I have a feeling “Severance” has a different connotation with Klingons.

 

I have a feeling “Severance” has a different connotation with Klingons.

 
 

I was especially trying to imitate Prodigy's styling of him.

I don't know that it looks like Jellico, but it does look like an experienced officer circa 2381.

The stardates are just there to fill in the document - I got them from event years on Memory Beta and then just put a random date into the stardate calculator.

 

I was looking at references of both TNG and Prodigy Jellico to try to make an LD-style Jellico, when I found how they styled his face varied a lot between episodes - I count about 4 significant variants.

For reference, here is TNG Jellico:

Jellico as he appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation

This was his first Prodigy appearance in S1 E15 Masquerade:

Jellico as he appeared in S1 E15

Definitely a bit yikes, but I also slightly dig the "old man who will bite your hand off if you get within one mile of him" look.

They totally changed his face for his second appearance 4 episodes later, in S1 E19 Supernova Pt 1:

Jellico as he appeared in S1 E19

I like this look - it feels very Clone Wars. However, I can see why they might have gotten right of it - it makes it difficult for the face to show anything but aggression.

They dialed back the clone wars for his next appearance in S2 E5 Observer's Paradox:

Jellico as he appeared in S2 E5

I think it was also largely the same in S2 E9 The Devourer of All Things Pt. 1:

Jellico as he appeared in S2 E5

They might have enlarged the eyes a bit, but I think the other differences are mostly because of perspective differences and facial expressions.

The final, and longest-lived Jellico variant first appears in S2 E14 Cracked Mirror:

Jellico as he appeared in S2 E14

This model leans on the more realistic side. This one is probably the most recognizable as Jellico from TNG. It also allows much more expressiveness (not just an aggressive scowl), as seen in these images from E15, E16 (It looks like a different variant, but if you go a bit before, it's actually the same one), and E20:

Jellico as he appeared in S2 E15

Jellico as he appeared in S2 E16

Jellico as he appeared in S2 E20

Overall, I think my favorite Jellico is probably S1 E19, but I can see why they had to switch.

Still, I wonder why it took so long for them to make up their mind on the face and why they didn't get it right the first time.

 

cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/19850319

If life's going to be this crappy, at least cast Jeffrey Combs as Elon Musk, Mr. Universe.

 

If life's going to be this crappy, at least cast Jeffrey Combs as Elon Musk, Mr. Universe.

 

cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/19819038

I'm ParticleMan. This is the #concert-chat channel on the tmbw (This Might Be a Wiki, the main fan wiki for They Might Be Giants) Discord.

 

I'm ParticleMan. This is the #concert-chat channel on the tmbw (This Might Be a Wiki, the main fan wiki for They Might Be Giants) Discord.

 

What is Las Vegas, Nevada like in the 24th century?

It seems to be implied that Vegas still exists (not just some legendary destination of the past like Vics) and is still associated with gambling - Chakotay's hallucination of Tom Paris in VOY:"The Fight" mentions Vegas along with Mars and Orion III when mentioning the odds in a fight.

I think the fact that this is a hallucination of Tom in Chakotay's mind, combined with the fact that it was mentioned with contemporarily active places, heavily suggests that Vegas is alive and still has some form of active gambling.

However, I would imagine that a lot would still change for Vegas. Modern-day Vegas has Nellis AFB in it and Creech nearby, so it would have probably been a major target during World War III and as a result been heavily damaged. For urban planning, this probably gave a largely blank slate during redevelopment, so in many ways, Earth probably ended up becoming a typical 24th century city or town with vastly improved public transportation.

It's also important to consider the potential impact of drought - has Vegas significantly downscaled as a result of its water issues, or did they get that sorted out in time and Vegas is still a moderately large Earth city in the 24th century?

Also, what does gambling look like in a post-scarcity society? What are the laws on the books for United Earth? I'm imagining people mostly do it for the thrill, like how Jadzia plays Tongo.

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