I agree that DS9 probably wins by far on its ability to hold off fleets during the Klingon and Dominion Wars.
However, I’m not sure I would dismiss Voyager so fast as a contender against the Enterprise D - I think Voyager is both well-armed and comparatively agile, with a higher maximum warp speed and likely a higher cruising speed. I think the ship’s unique strengths would at least give the D a significant struggle.
Assuming this is an ATX or ITX PC, there's likely a way to reset UEFI so you can disable fastboot and change your settings, or at least boot from a recovery USB.
There's usually something like a button or 2 pins you can short on your motherboard to reset the settings. If your machine has dual BIOS, there will be a switch you can flip, though you'll probably need to update the UEFI again once you do that.
In the worst case (and this should work on almost any device), remove the CMOS battery, let the device sit for a few minutes, then put that battery in. That should clear all settings, including fastboot, and allow you to do recovery stuff - just make sure you fix the time before going on the internet.
"Move Along Home" is a masterpiece; it's the kind of bad episode that's really fun to watch.
But yeh, I think it's really stupid to dismiss a show based on its first season.
I just dont like any of the characters
Not even Saru? 😢
To be fair, SNW only gets a 10 episode season, so based on ratio, 1 silly episode of SNW is equal to ~2.5 episodes of TNG; it doesn't take a lot of silly episodes to make it seem like a huge amount of silly in SNW.
I know we probably can't go back to 25 episode seasons because those were always very taxing to work on, but I think 15 episodes is a good compromise. I think SNW would have really benefited from a season of about that length; even 12 episodes would be nice.
Heck, as convoluted as Discovery could get, from what I watched of the show (up to a few episodes into S4), it somewhat benefited from a longer season in the sense we had plenty of time for multi-episode plots, which are harder to develop in a 10 episode season balancing episodic and linear storytelling. However, I don't think they used that time the most effectively, as season 3 often felt like death by subplots - the episode would take on so many subplots that, although each of them individually may have been good ideas, none of them ended up being particularly well-executed. It's especially weird because they didn't really need to do that; there was more than enough episodes to, say, have one subplot as an A plot and another as a B plot, then continue the B plot next episode as an A plot and have another B plot.
Honestly, I think what we have yet to truly see in Star Trek is someone in Starfleet who saves the day but ultimately cannot be absolved of their wrongdoing and cannot avoid the consequences if they’re not going to take the necessary steps for redemption - doing one important thing does not give you the moral license to do whatever you want.
They got close in TNG:”Ethics”, but ultimately the only “discipline” Russell gets is getting yelled at by Dr. Crusher - no investigations or anything.
I’d almost want to have an allegory for how we should deal with sexual harassment in the sciences, basically showing the senior staff handling the situation correctly and doing what should have been done with creeps like Richard Feynman, and maybe examining the negative tropes of past Trek. Then again, TNG has so many clumsy sexual harassment episodes that I’m worried it’d be hard to do the issue justice.
Although I’ve never watched Black Mirror, from what I’ve heard of the episode, maybe USS Callister did better than Star Trek ever could on this matter.
And this is how Alexander ended up joining a homicidal cult in the IDW comics... Very Beta canon, but also feels like a thing that would happen.
I think episode 8 is worth a shot. The basic premise is really stupid, but they execute it so darn well with the writing of social interactions. Also, I'm really surprised they pulled off Vulcan Patton Oswald, which initially scared me when the season trailer came out.
To be fair, Burnham's supposed to be a bit immature and make questionable choices, which in itself is really annoying to a lot of people, but a product of the plot, and another episode or two and it might might sense.
Also, like @ValueSubtracted@startrek.website, I am a little confused by the "xenophobic military propaganda" bit. Maybe it's that you haven't watched the 2nd episode yet, but without spoiling much, Burnham's somewhat xenophobic actions go pretty horrifically wrong the next episode and basically cause much of the season's plot. Also, the Klingons aren't entirely villains throughout the season and show.
"MOOOOOOOOVE ALOOOOONG HOOOOOOOOOOOOEEEEEMMMM!"
I mean, Strange New World's eponymous first episode was pretty good. Otherwise a true observation, though.
cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/30091443
Note: I'm not casting all Republicans as a "skin of evil" here; I feel many of them are just people trying to make their way in the world whose daily struggles and fears have been amplified manipulated by the "skin of evil", an administration that constantly denies human rights and demonizes (as well as convinces its followers to partake in the demonization of) people who, for the most part, are also just trying to make their way in the world. I've known Republicans, and while the people they give their support to frighten me, most of the ones I've know aren't demons.
EDIT: To be clear, I’m not saying Republican voters did nothing wrong, that they don’t deserve consequences, or that we should avoid making them feel bad. In many ways, the “skin of evil” is their collective wrongs and the way they enabled the current horrors. The evil, however, is a subset of a person (sometimes almost the whole set, though), while the “skin of evil” is the set of evil. Also, I admit I feel a bit on the availability heuristic and that “most of the ones I know” isn’t the strongest evidence.
Note: I'm not casting all Republicans as a "skin of evil" here; I feel many of them are just people trying to make their way in the world whose daily struggles and fears have been amplified manipulated by the "skin of evil", an administration that constantly denies human rights and demonizes (as well as convinces its followers to partake in the demonization of) people who, for the most part, are also just trying to make their way in the world. I've known Republicans, and while the people they give their support to frighten me, most of the ones I've know aren't demons.
EDIT: To be clear, I’m not saying Republican voters did nothing wrong, that they don’t deserve consequences, or that we should avoid making them feel bad. In many ways, the “skin of evil” is their collective wrongs and the way they enabled the current horrors. The evil, however, is a subset of a person (sometimes almost the whole set, though), while the “skin of evil” is the set of evil. Also, I admit I feel a bit on the availability heuristic and that “most of the ones I know” isn’t the strongest evidence.
cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/29610115
For the two people on Earth who are both Trekkies and Team Starkid fans.
If you don't get this reference, fix yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrxKX44qBJ0
For the two people on Earth who are both Trekkies and Team Starkid fans.
If you don't get this reference, fix yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrxKX44qBJ0
Once by Archer in ENT:"Carpenter Street" (though T'Pol did more of the work), and another by Paris and Tuvok in VOY:"Future'sEnd".
No answers like, "They're all from Earth", "They're all in some version of Starfleet or United Earth Fleet", etcetera.
My Answer
All three have stolen a Dodge-branded car.
In fact, Paris and Archer stole nearly exactly the same kind of blue Dodge Truck, Archer in ENT:"Capenter Street" and Paris in VOY:"Future's End". I found this out while browsing the Memory Alpha facts for the Enterprise episode.
Bonus if you can think of other weird ones.
I’ve been on a bit of a button-making kick, and here’s my latest one.
Bonus: The earlier one I did for TMBW. It needs some work in the margins - I just haven’t gotten to it yet.
cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/26158084
I wanted a very 90s web-feeling GIF of a TOS science division badge(technically animated WEBP, but whatever), so I threw together the badge in Inkscape, then imported it into Blender to do animation and rendering.
I decided to make the border gold instead of the canon black, as it just looks every so slightly cooler during the spin animation in a very dumb way. I also went for metallic rather than trying to mimic embroidery because I was lazy.
I think I have a bit more nuanced feelings on the MIT license. If I actually write something useful, GPL all the way, baby!
However, I don't necessarily think the MIT license is the embodiment of evil; I find GPL a bit overkill for hobby projects. I'm not talking things that have the potential to become critical pieces of infrastructure like a kernel or something; I'm more talking about emoji pickers or hacky little Python scripts that would be pretty useless to a Fortune 500. In the minute chance someone actually cares about my silly little toy to fork it, I see very little point in encumbering it with the full heft of a copyleft license and stopping them from doing whatever the heck they want.