Definitely those two. Ep. 4 and the Klingon’s space play-fight with the Federation over the planet so they could “conquer” it was as adorable as it was believable. After 900 years, losing their homeworld, and nearly going extinct, they still hold on to their code of honor which is the only thing they really have left. Incredibly well done.

As for ep 5, I always shed a tear of happiness when a later series revisits DS9.

hanging out with Marina Sirtis for exactly one day, and I would be utterly exhausted at the idea of spending any longer than that.

@29:48 in the same video:

Well, I only do stuff that’s cult: Star Trek, Gargoyles, Sharknado. It makes sense.

–Marina Sirtis

Oh, “The Dark Veil”, yeah. It wasn’t bad but was definitely the weakest of the 5. I could swear the entire plotline was recycled if not from Trek itself then from some adjacent sci-fi.*

The only one I haven’t read is the Rios one since it’s the only one I can’t buy DRM-free. “Second Self” (the Raffi one) and “Firewall” (the Seven one) were both excellent.

*Or maybe the reclusive aliens on the ark ship in Dark Veil were just similar enough to the reclusive Caeliar and their planet ship in ST: Destiny that I had read shortly before.

Very well could be. It’s a quote from a panel they did on the Star Trek Cruise not long ago (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ML_ScYo8wQ) and everything was off the cuff. I’m about 15 minutes into that recording as I reply.

I would definitely enjoy Legacy , but I was a total sucker for the fan service that was PIC S3. After reading the rest of the Picard tie-in novels (thanks for the recommendation, BTW), seeing Captain Seven command the Enterprise would be pretty great.

I’ve only seen the first two episodes of the revival, but agreed. It’s pretty fantastic, has the same feel but also fresh at the same time.

It’s been so long since the last season of the original run (clearly season 8) that instead of hearing Sarah Chalke as Elliott Reed I hear her as Beth Sanchez Smith (who is also a doctor). It makes her and JD’s divorced couple snarking sound like Beth and Jerry .

Skip Intro?

How dare you, Netflix?!

I’m late to the party, but started Starfleet Academy last weekend and am up to episode 8. Absolutely loving it and regret not watching it as it aired so I could gush about it with the rest of you all.

Trying to stretch those out, so mixing in some backlog of Family Guy, Bob’s Burgers, and The Golden Girls. As soon as I have the time and attention span to start another new series, I’m gonna watch A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

You saying this to a guy who burned 96kbps MP3s to a CD. 96 kbps MP3s that were ripped from another CD I owned and could have re-ripped at an acceptable bitrate had I not been stuck with the shareware version of MusicMatch Jukebox which was the only software I could run to rip CDs lol

To this day, Eve 6 does not sound “right” unless it’s horribly compressed and clipped. Kind of my own, weird version of “sounds better on vinyl”.

But I do have much better tools today, so I can go FLAC through the whole process.

I’m actually starting to get back into CDs. Found a bunch of my old CDs in a box while I was cleaning and have been listening to them a lot lately. Beats the absolute crap out of streaming, and I’m now realizing I miss the “curated” feel of listening to either a studio album or a mixed CD I made two decades ago that still plays somehow.

Even thought about buying a fresh pack of CD-R’s and burning CDs again. My car is one of the last models to come with a CD player, so might as well use it :)

I would love to have one of those. Couldn’t find any active listings, but old listings had them going for like $250+ which isn’t too bad for a collector’s item, I guess.

I did come across a TNG CD holder: https://www.ebay.com/itm/117030364928

Apparently you can only fit 4 compact discs in a Galaxy class ship lol

Looks nice! I’ve been running a copy locally for a while and switch between it and Voyager. Looking forward to whenever you release this since it seems a lot more polished than the version I’m running. You also replied a while back that you were going to add an option to hide hashtags? Is that in this version? And is there any way to run this version locally?

Also

You can now prefix the search query to set the search scope from the search box … user: {query}

Wouldn’t it make more sense to keep those all the same? “@user query” or “@local @user Picard” or “local: user: Picard” or is there a technical reason they’re different? Not nitpicking just curious.

I love that “banana for scale” is also applicable to radioactivity.

I’m similar but it’s a side effect of my general gluttony. I’ll watch one episode and immediately want more. I didn’t intend to wait until the season was over to binge it all, but it just sort of happened because of life being hectic right now.

They’re separate queens and separate collectives/cooperatives.

The Jurati Cooperative is, as of the end of Season 2, guarding the spatial anomaly that formed in the beginning of S2. They’re completely absent from the third season. Which I can understand since S3 was a fan-service reunion (which I loved) and there just wasn’t room in the 10 episodes for them.

The queen from S3 is the same one from VOY: Endgame and First Contact and part of the same collective since they were first introduced in TNG.

The new one affected the other one?

AFIAK, no, they had no effect on each other. The alternate timeline queen (that turned into Queen Jurati) was not the same queen seen in S3 or elsewhere. That queen was from a 2401 that no longer exists. She and her cooperative only exist because they went back in time and took the long way back to 2401.

Good catch. Fixed!

The only reason I haven’t printed one yet is because I just cannot get a coat of paint to look good on PLA. Someone suggested acrylic paint, so I bought a set, and it just doesn’t look good no matter how many coats I apply.

Though this is big enough I might be able to get by with a can of spray paint.

if you have any inappropriate comments you’ve always wanted to make, now is the time to risk making them because they might not get caught in the backup!

https://www.printables.com/model/744653-horgahn-idol-from-star-trek-composite-for-tall-pri

Some assembly required :P

Nice. I’ll look into that one.

My ultimate goal is getting a decent-sized touchscreen, putting an LCARS-themed HomeAssistant UI on it, and hanging it up as a functional MSD for my house.

Ah. I’ll admit, my TOS lore is lacking. Was trying to deflect with a smile and nod, but you caught me lol.