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"Life forms. You precious little lifeforms. You tiny little lifeforms. Where are you?"

- Lt. Cmdr Data, Star Trek: Generations

  • TFW watching Starfleet Academy

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  • I will admit Lower Deck is always a bit crass and that element never goes away, but the characters develop really well and it’s impressive how attached they get you to them in a total runtime shorter than TNG season 1, and the show gets surprisingly emotionally sincere as it goes on.

    And I’d say seasons 3, 4, and maybe 5 have what I’d call legitimate contenders for some of the franchise’s best episodes. Honestly, if it’s really hard for you to watch season 2, just skip to Wej Duj and watch from there.

    But honestly, if you can’t get past the crasser elements, I get that.

  • Captain, masking is highly illogical

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  • Because he unmasked after "The Cage"...

  • Preview Episode 3 Of ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ With 16 New Images From “Vitus Reflux”

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  • I can get it being back by the 32nd century, but I still wonder why Nova Squadron (or any elite academy group beyond a simple honors society) came back in Prodigy relatively shortly after:

    1. The Locarno incidents
    2. That time Red Squad tried to take over THE ENTIRE FREAKIN’ FEDERATION.

  • Temba, his head confused.

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  • Bang, bang, Mak’zel’s silver hammer came down upon her head. Bang, bang. Mak’zel’s silver hammer made sure that she was dead.

  • Captain, masking is highly illogical

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  • It’s not saying to be a jerk to people.

    “Masking” is when a person with autism hides associated mannerisms in order to blend in with neurotypical people (make themselves “more palatable”), such as avoiding hand stims or atypical (but still healthy) reactions of enthusiasm.

    “Unmasking” doesn’t mean giving up anything you do to be considerate of others (such as not giving unsolicited 15 minute rants about my hyper fixations); it just means not trying to pretend to be a neurotypical person, consciously or subconsciously, and to just be your authentic self, autistic self.

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  • I agree with my sister that it should have been a flashback later in the season; they didn’t need to tell us so directly in the first episode.

    Then again, DS9 did the intro text thing explaining Wolf 359, so…

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  • Really? I think the show’s so gosh darn horny in that disgusting Rick Berman way all the time that I’d take almost anything over it.

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  • Why does the Enterprise D bridge look like the interior of a 1990s car stretched out?

    And being a former Vegas resident, DS9 accurately pictures being in one of the more run-down Vegas casinos.

    Also, honestly, I think modern campus architecture has embraced this “casino look” you describe, weirdly enough.

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  • You only watched season 1 of LD didn’t you?

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  • I think part of it too is 32nd century Trek has already done a lot of sociopathic, who’s-gonna-stop-me, “because I’m evil”-type villains, and we need someone a little more gray, or at least psychologically compelling; as seen with Gul Dukat and Kai Winn, you can still pull off interesting but pure evil characters.

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  • His consciousness is uploaded after death into a torture simulation by a curious computer with emerging sentience for several hundred years a la I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream; when the computer finally learns its lesson and builds a new body for O’Brien’s backup consciousness, he just gets right back to work, centuries of technological progress be darned.

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  • It would use fields or something to do different things for different people; an escalator for some, a wheelchair life for others, normal stairs for those who choose, but for Miles O’Brien’s transporter clone stuck in the 32nd century, it sets the gravity to 10x and forces him to crawl with all his might to the stairs’ control panel. This happens once a week.

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  • But maybe they’re magic sci-fi stairs…

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  • I kind of disliked Giamatti’s character, honestly; just a bargain bin Harry Mudd.

    Otherwised enjoyed it.

  • Credit to u/donner1701 on Reddit

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  • “Alla maraine! Count to four! Alla maraine, then three more! Alla maraine, then you’ll see. Alla maraine, you’ll come with me!”

  • Credit to u/donner1701 on Reddit

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  • EDIT: I apologize. This was a bit snarkier in tone than I intended, and probably escalated conversations in ways that I shouldn’t have. A more civil way to put it is I disagree on the standard of “seriousness” ascribed to the earlier Star Trek series; take the Riker maeuver, for instance.

    Ah, yes, Star Trek, the “dead serious” show.

  • Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x01 "Kids These Days" & 1x02 "Beta Test"

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  • I felt better once they got out the prisons; the ship aesthetics have some generic sci-fi aesthetic to them, but having the reds in them makes it feel overall much brighter and Trek-y. Honestly, even though it’s not as bright as TNG, just being able to actually see scenes was nice.

  • Developer patches Wine to make Photoshop 2021 & 2025 run on Linux — Adobe Creative Cloud installers finally work thanks to HTML, JavaScript and XML fixes

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  • I think KDEnlive is good as well, definitely the least terrible FOSS one. I never used Premiere Pro on that advanced a level, but for basic effects, keyframes, and title cards, it does quite well.

    The main proprietary, “professional” one on Linux is Da Vinci Resolve, but I’ve never used it on Linux, since KDEnlive is just fine for me.

    Honestly, in my opinion, every video editor is terrible to some extent; it’s having to deal with enormous amounts of data every second more than almost any other program on a computer, and even a semi-usable editor is a mind-bogglingly impressive feat.

  • Developer patches Wine to make Photoshop 2021 & 2025 run on Linux — Adobe Creative Cloud installers finally work thanks to HTML, JavaScript and XML fixes

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  • Of course I don’t mean those art-stealing cannibals over at Adobe allowing them, I mean the Wine software allowing them, as it semantically implied.

    Like I said, I wouldn’t touch Adobe with a 39.5 foot pole, but Photoshop is unfortunately necessary in those relatives’ industry, so getting on a high horse and telling them to use GIMP or Krita is not going to accomplish anything.

    I’ve gotten used to GIMP and used it for a lot of cool thing (especially G’MIC for getting CD liner note scans looking quite good), but it’s just not a solution for serious professional use.

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Glory to you and your Eyeball

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    Glory to you and your Eyeball

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    Does anyone know which Spanish dub the Lower Decks Complete Blu-Ray Set has?

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    Star Trek TNG Intro but with Enterprise Lyrics

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    Star Trek TNG Intro but with Enterprise Lyrics

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    (Cue mysterious banjo intro to "Journey of the Sorcerer" by The Eagles)

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    (Cue mysterious banjo intro to "Journey of the Sorcerer" by The Eagles)

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Politics Warning

    Make Armus Great Again

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    Politics Warning

    Make Armus Great Again

  • Star Trek Social Club @startrek.website
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    If SNW people go through with a TOS continuation, where will they start?

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    SNW S3 E7: The Guy Who Didn't Like Vulcans

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    SNW S3 E7: The Guy Who Didn't Like Vulcans

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    Where do you guys start in a Lower Decks rewatch?

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    If I had a slip of latinum for every time a Starfleet officer stole a blue mid-1990s Dodge Ram pickup...

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    What do these 3 /(?:United Earth|Star) Fleet/ Officers have in common?

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Just a silly little GIF(

  • Star Trek Social Club @startrek.website
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    Just a silly little GIF(

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Too Many Reposts

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    You Probably Get That A Lot

  • Risa @startrek.website
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    You Probably Get That A Lot