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Most structural starship components would require large industrial replicators.
These seem to always be centrally located and powered.
What someone can do with a small home model would be quite different.
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I saw him at a con in the late 80s.
By way of concession, when responding not so enthusiastically to questions from the audience about the shenanigans Shatner and Nimoy got up to in order to blow off steam during long shooting days, Doohan said that since he’d been in real combat in WW2, he had a different approach to work and not a lot in common with them.
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TNG movies are tricky in that they do embed a few spoilers.
If your wife doesn’t get into DS9, I’d consider hopping over to Voyager. It’s uneven throughout its run, but has many ‘best of trope’ episodes, and has proved to be the most successful entry series to the franchise of all of them.
StillPaisleyCat
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He doesn’t want to hear because he is known for blurting things out to media and fans…
StillPaisleyCat
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Came here to say this! THE WHITE BELTS!
StillPaisleyCat
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If they’re in primary school, start them off on Odd Squad.
It’s a madcap Canadian TVO Kids (TV Ontario) public broadcaster educational math show that was made with partner funding from PBS in the United States, and is now available online in many other countries.
The creators and writers clearly knew and referenced Star Trek.
‘The Trouble with Centigurps’ ’ episode is a straight up Tribble Trouble homage with skip counting.
Here’s a season one Odd Squad trailer.
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Thanks for the heads up.
I can see that there might be a need to ensure some consultation in a sub, such as a notice period. Especially so for users that might wish to delete their post and comment history before a sub goes NSFW or private, but this is just another step.
As if being an early adopter in selling all their content to train LLMs wasn’t enough to justify avoiding the place.
StillPaisleyCat
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Ok, what I’m seeing in this picture is Coneheads.
StillPaisleyCat
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Here’s another take.
We know that everything was reshaped to flatter and entice Patrick Stewart to come back and play Picard.
He kept refusing and keep on insisting on Picard’s life should be a reflection of his own.
But the suits at ViacomCBS (and later Paramount) put priority on greenlighting anything they could get with Picard as a character.
So, whatever initial concepts with and without Picard were all sacrificed in the end in order to indulge Stewart enough to play the role.
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It’s absurd. Our kids ended up playing Star Trek with Playmobil’s space and ‘Future Planet’ planetary exploration lines. (I doubt these even still exist.)
When the Star Trek line finally arrived it was only TOS.
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All of which begs the question “How is it that Jeff Goldblum has not yet appeared in the Star Trek franchise”
StillPaisleyCat
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And this is why Discovery and other new shows are only getting 5 seasons.
Contracts are for 7 calendar years not seven seasons.
With problems launching new shows, COVID-related slowdowns and a writers strike, Discovery managed to produce 5 seasons in 7 years.
StillPaisleyCat
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I was thinking the same.
Fine crochet cotton comes in a large variety of colours and many of them can be quite bright.
Diamond yarns Cléa (and their fine knitting weight cotton Anne) have always had colours like that, including variegated versions. Both of these are made by Circulo in Brazil.
Cléa colours can be found on this distributors page. The ‘Citrus Green’ looks very much like the photo. There is also a high-res Lemon and at least 3 different high res orange to red varieties.
I used to knit and crochet a lot with the fingering weight Anne. I was able to ask a local yarn store to bring in additional colours that I chose as long as I would buy enough of the bag of balls.
Other mercerized cottons for crochet have interesting colours and shiny finishes as well.
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I completely appreciate the frustration.
I’m not an early adopter in the gaming market, and just refuse to buy in on stuff that I can’t get on STEAM.
But I really did want to get Infinite.
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The sale is supposed to last until the end of today September 15th. Usually, that would be until midnight Pacific time.
Suggest trying through the link on the officials Star Trek website to follow through to Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/StarTrekDaySale
We picked up 3 copies of Resurgence the evening of the 14th from Canada.
We picked up some good deals from the promotion this week.
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We’ve tried most of them over time.
Star Trek Resurgence has consistently excellent reviews. It’s about a 25 hour role play where the player makes choices for two different crew - a senior bridge officer and an NCO in engineering. It’s well done and one of our teens and I are enjoying it a lot. Great value for the sale price. My patience on this one was reinforced by its initial release being exclusive to Epic - but on Steam and on sale it’s worth it.
Bridge Crew is an older game. I have had it for a couple of years, and took advantage of the sale to pick up copies for each of our kids Steam accounts. One of them got really into it right away.
Timelines is also older. It held their interest for a bit in middle school but doesn’t seem to be one of the better tie-ins.
Star Trek Online is a long running massively multiplayer game that starts out free but then can cost a lot for in-game purchases. One of our teens is into it, and got fairly far without purchasing much, but the Steam sale is a good opportunity for them to buy things they’ve had on their wish list.
As a parent, I find these better than the endless number of Star Wars mods on Roblox that one of ours got into for a while.
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Several Star Trek licensed games are on Steam, now at a significantly discounted price for the annual Star Trek Day celebration. These include the MMP Star Trek Online, but also single player games Star Trek Bridge Crew and Star Trek Resurgence (a choose your own path role play game). We’d waited until Resurgence came to Steam, because we did want to buy it from Epic, but decided to be even more patient and wait for a sale so we could get it for our teens as well. I’ve been playing in parallel with one of our teens and debating the impacts of our very different choices. I have had Bridge Crew since 2022, but we got copies for the teens yesterday. One is into it. It requires running an Ubisoft account synched to Steam which can be annoying, but otherwise G2G.
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The colours are unrepentantly psychedelic 70s fashionable and so are a few of the plots.
StillPaisleyCat
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It’s always a good time to do a watch through of TAS.
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The thing is that while the technobabble is just that, the process represents how engineering gets done better than most other ‘serious’ SF, albeit at compressed speed.
Voyager did a better job than any at showing how the thinking and problem-solving work gets done - which to me is more the point.
All this criticism seems to come from folks who’ve never seen nerds working in teams being nerds. They seem to want science FICTION to be locked down to concepts that someone with a mid 20th bachelor’s degree in science would know.
Whereas the real life scientists and engineers in my circle react more like Erin Macdonald did when she was working on her physics PhD and saw Voyager. She recognized the process and thought it was cool that some of the newer concepts in gravimetrics were referenced but didn’t sweat the small stuff.
Having reached my exasperation on the total lack of information from Bell Media on a Canadian release, I asked [@GoodAaron@mastodon.social](https://mastodon.social/users/GoodAaron) if he or the Hagemans could share any information. Here is his [reply on Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@GoodAaron/112666531686920501). It’s great to have EPs who will engage with us. I’m still gearing up my recipes for a Star Trek Prodigy Soirée for the premiere! In case you haven’t seen this, CBS entertainment sponsored a social media influencer to develop watch party ideas for the Prodigy Season 1 finale [Supernova Soirée ](https://cutefetti.com/star-trek-prodigy-watch-party/). I’ve been experimenting and building on some of these ideas for the premiere of season two. One of Canada’s favourite ice cream brands has this interesting suggestion for [A triple-berry yogurt sorbet float punch ](https://www.chapmans.ca/recipe/triple-berry-punch/) that seems very Star Trek Prodigy themed.
variety.com
More departures of former Viacom senior executives from Paramount Global in the wake of Baklish’s firing.
The Directors Guild of Canada (Ontario) ‘Hot List’ compilation of Ontario-based production information has been updated with a new CBS Studios show ‘Ivory Tower’ to begin Accounting & Art Department preproduction in March.
While all TAS episodes had some kind of moral lesson, S1 E10 was an outright criticism of substance use. M’Ress and Scotty, unwittingly exposed, end up enamoured then incensed with one another. One is never sure how different that is from a Caitian’s usual romantic style. Chapel comes off badly in this one. As Spock puts it “A few moments of love, paid for with several hours of hatred.” It’s all the more poignant given SNW’s deepening of their backstory.
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As much as most of us have long had any remaining interest in a fourth Kelvin movie long exhausted by the endless repetition of hype and failure, there does seem to be more confirmation of significant creative differences on the script that was in development in 2022. James MacKinnon, longtime makeup designer, shared some context during an interview on his work on Picard and future ambitions. He explained that he was hired by Matt Shankman in 2022 to work on preproduction but was fired after a week when the work shut down. > “We were supposed to shoot in the middle of [2022] and it was supposed to come out the following year [2023], but I think a script rewrite went in a different direction.” This aligns with previous comments from Zoe Saldaña that creative issues around the script were a factor in the movie not going ahead.
I have realized that I need a new editing tool that will let me use panels with more than 6 frames. A private message with a recommendation would be appreciated sincerely.
Anyone interested? I can see so much potential for guidance from a telepathic Aenar engineer & an avianoid counsellor.
www.startrek.com
While there was an announcement shortly before the WGA strike, and Alex Kurtzman confirmed the writers room is back up and at work during an NYCC panel, Paramount+ is moving forward on promotional information about the forthcoming new ‘Starfleet Academy’ show. Will be keeping an eye out for information about preproduction design work starting up in Ontario.
My contribution to the fediverse’ #MakeYourOwnMoopsyMonth challenge. Be gentle, I’m a novice meme-creator.
It’s October, and Trek’s new adorable horror is being unfairly usurped in trendiness by a character who appeared in all of two TOS episodes (even if the grimness of his personal backstory rivals La’an Noonian-Singh’s). So, Moopsy + Kevin memes. . . I dare you.
We know from Kurtzman’s messaging at NYCC recently that Michelle Yeoh put her Academy Award star power towards ensue that her Section 31 ‘movie event’ moves forward on Paramount+. Checking in on the Director’s Guild of Canada Ontario round up of information for its members (Hot List), there’s been an interesting update. While ‘Dovercourt’ (working title alias for the direct to streaming movie) still has a bold ‘POSTPONED’ due to the SAG-AFTRA strike, it’s moved from the ‘Preproduction stage’ section of the list to ‘Production.’ What does this suggest? It would seem that the key preproduction production design work in Toronto has been able to be completed since the WGA strike ended. Like SNW, the crews in Toronto are basically ready to go into production once the actors’ strike is settled. Logistically, it’s not entirely clear that both could shoot at the same time as they share some of the same crews, but it is encouraging.
I’ve been enjoying the very short stories by Treklit authors in the recent issues of Titanbooks Star Trek Explorer magazine. I see that they’re promoting anthologies of short stories, with a new third one due to be released soon. However, it’s not clear if these are just compilations of previously published stories from the magazine, new content or a mix of both. Anyone have the earlier releases?
collider.com
StarfleetAcademy ‘will be funny’ according to Alex Kurtzman. He’s also confirmed at the NYCC panel today that the writer’s room is back at work after the WGA strike. Given the heavier #thriller background (Absentia) of one showrunner Gaia Violo, and youth supernatural CV (TheMagicians; NancyDrew) of Noga Landau the other, sounds as though Tawny Newsome is there to bring some lightness and fun. I’m really looking forward to seeing more in the 32nd century StarTrek. I’m also pleading 🙏 let David Cronenberg’s Kovich be involved. I would love so much to have some of The Magicians mysterious vibe with so true humour mixed in. Glad to know that they’re going for something less earnest than the tone of Discovery for this show, it didn’t seem to be working in the Discovery episode with Tilly and the cadets.
www.hallmarkchannel.com
StarTrek actors have a strong showing across the Hallmark movie offerings this year. — Jonathan Frakes & Robert Picardo have supporting roles in ‘A Biltmore Christmas’ — Dan Jeannotte (Sam Kirk in StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds) is the lead in ‘Our Christmas Mural’ — Ronnie Rowe Jr (Lt Bryce in #StarTrekDiscovery) leads in Christmas with a Kiss’ (working title), a Mahogany Presents romance (Hallmark’s Black-focused line) — Mira Kirschner (Amanda Grayson in #Discovery and #SNW) is the principal in a romance about a woman discovering her Jewish heritage in a 2022 movie ‘Love, Lights, Hanukkah! that will be rebroadcast this year.
www.udiscovermusic.com
Not sure we needed another album from Shatner but you have to admire his indefatigable creativity. This one will feature Brad Paisley and Joe Jonas.