I love the moments when it's demonstrated that Ferengi can be actually very astute when it comes to diplomacy/interplanetary relations... their culture just has a completely different set of values.

Yeah it's certainly not the worst series of episodes and as you implied it does some good world building. It just doesn't do it for me the same way that "why is everyone treating O'Brien like he's shady?" does.

Those look like a forbidden snack! I also didn't know about that book thanks for sharing.

I'm very familliar with the "Year of the Linux Desktop" joke but I also can't remember a time previously when Linux was getting this level of mainstream attention.

op asked about the r/linux community which was not mentioned in either of your comments

+1 for Fedora. I recommend Kinoite as it is very similar to windows and very hard to break due to it's "immutability".

Bazzite is very similar to Fedora Kinoite but made to be easy for gaming.

I'm having trouble following, you're suggesting that the Linux subreddit continues to exist because of some corporate conspiracy to keep users on commercial media platforms?

I love those machines. Diet cherry decaf vanilla etc etc etc....

The revised Trill makeup in DS9 made that show literally unwatchable!

EDIT: In earnest, I do find the hoop-jumping process of trying to find some canon explanations/connections a lot of fun, as long as nobody takes them too seriously (hard mode).

I think it's interesting how "maximizing for engagement" inevitably leads to slop taking over everything. I wonder if real people (with real money) will continue to engage with the slop? Some people surely, but enough to sustain these mega-corps?