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Melllvar
Seer of the tapes! Knower of the episodes!
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Grandma knows what she’s doing.
That’s an awful comparison. The Maquis are not a separate, independent culture being dominated or obliterated by another. They were already Federation citizens, born on Federation worlds into Federation culture and society, subject to Federation laws, educated by their own parents and family in Federation values, and the Federation enabled and supported their colonization efforts. The Maquis are a product of the Federation’s culture not a victim of it.
And they do have self-determination. They can stay in the DMZ on their planets if they want to, but there are consequences of that choice. And if they do leave the DMZ then they would not even have change their preferred lifestyle. There are any number of uninhabited planets they could relocate to, found new colonies, etc. They have so many options and opportunities open to them that their grievances, however valid they would be under real-world circumstances, seem childish and selfish particularly when the alternative is continuing a decades-long war.
The Maquis didn’t start the war with the Cardassians.
But they did know the border was in dispute, and had been in dispute for decades, before they colonized the area. They can’t feign surprise that the border might move if and when the dispute ended.
The Federation traded away their planets without even giving them a seat at the table.
They did have a seat at the table. They just didn’t get their way. That sometimes happens, and it doesn’t mean the process was unfair.
In a fully-automated luxury communist utopia, the Maquis are selfish assholes. Clinging to a planet because of the inconvenience of having to relocate. A planet which was never theirs to give or take in the first place. They talk a big talk about being “farmers who made something of the land,” and maybe that’s true. But they have replicators; farming is a hobby, not a livelihood.
Human, Vulcan, Bolian, etc. Maquis could lead happy, safe lives if only they were willing to lead happy, safe lives. They are not oppressed; they are not fighting in a righteous cause.
Bajorans, such as Ro, have different motivations. Bajor is not a party to the Federation-Cardassian Treaty, and Bajoran colonies were not sacrificed. Ro’s motivations are sympathy for the Maquis and hatred for Cardassians. Understandable and relatable motivations, but not heroic.
5·2 months ago“Spock, ship’s stores can produce as many shirts as we need on demand.”
“I wasn’t referring to garments, captain.”
2·2 months agoA web page is a combination of a structured document and a separate stylesheet. The same structured document can be styled in radically different ways just by changing the stylesheet. This is how a website can offer different skins, light/dark mode, etc.
Consider this basic HTML document:
<html> <head><title>Test Page</title></head> <body> <p>This is a paragraph.</p> <ul> <li>This is an unordered bullet-point list item</li> <li>This is also a list item</li> </ul> </body> </html>And here’s a stylesheet to make the bullet points square:
ul { list-style-type: square; }Change the stylesheet and you change how the document is rendered. “Reader mode” is just a minimalist stylesheet built into the browser.
I wonder what a Ferengi End-User License Agreement says.
Two squiggles for
strikethrough; one squiggle for subscript; and no squiggle for you!
Little Johnny took a drink but now will drink no more
For what he thought was H2O was H2SO4
Noo-clee-ar… wessels
I won’t be available, but I’ll send along a nice note expressing my approval.
11·3 months agoProbably not criminal trespassing, since they are the owner of the property. It may fall under tenant harassment, unauthorized entry, constructive eviction, or other laws that pertain specifically to landlord/tenant relations.
Check to see if there are any local tenant’s rights or advocacy groups in your area that offer free legal consultations. They’d be able to advise you on the local tenant’s rights laws and whether they apply to your situation.
PSA: There’s a special screening of Star Trek IV in San Francisco on June 13 to honor the 40th anniversary. Nick Meyer (writer/producer on IV) will be there. I’m sure he will be pleased to explain how a wizard did it.
I contend that it is not actually missing, it’s just not visible from that perspective. When I recreate the shot in Google Earth only the extreme north tip of New Zealand is actually visible:
Joe Satriani’s Crowd Chant was originally going to be called Party on the Enterprise and would have included Trek sound effect samples, but he couldn’t get the licensing to work.
1·4 months ago
The more recent report says corporate AI adoption has found several issues with AI, with human workers turning to automating dreary and mundane tasks they don’t like doing, rather than valuable or meaningful work.
First of all, no shit. Second of all, wasn’t that the point?
The urgency in The Measure of a Man makes no sense. The judge should simply pause the transfer order while the question of Data’s personhood is resolved, if necessary by a higher court months or years later.
Scotty: This is the commander of the U.S.S. Enterprise. All cities and installations on Eminiar VII have been located, identified, and fed into our fire control system. In one hour and forty-five minutes, the entire inhabited surface of your planet will be destroyed. You have that long to surrender your hostages. [dramatic music]
Bonus moment, DS9:
unnamed extra: The Federation fleet has surrounded the planet.
Random one-episode extra got the best line in the whole fricken franchise.
