[-] Wooster@startrek.website 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Airbags, Anti lock Brakes, and hopefully leg room are probably bonuses too.

[-] Wooster@startrek.website 8 points 2 months ago

Eeh.

While I agree with the sentiment, I think we’re in this situation because of the current medical climate.

  • You call an ambulance? You get charged an arm and a leg.

  • You take yourself to the hospital, you get charged an arm and a leg.

  • You get medical insurance, and you’re somehow even further behind because it’s their priority to find reasons to deny having to give you money back,

The current system does not work. As a consequence, people are attempting, however incompetently, to take their care into their own hands.

Fix why folks are resorting to this, and this should stop being an issue, or at least stop gaining traction.

[-] Wooster@startrek.website 8 points 7 months ago

I would recommend two pins.

One being the season one you’re proposing… and a second for a focal episode to discuss and cycle it out every two days.

So for the first two days we’d focus on the first episode (episodes? It’s a two parter) then the pin would be swapped with the next episode.

This would allow more in depth discussion while acknowledging binge watching.

[-] Wooster@startrek.website 8 points 8 months ago

But then profits would hinge upon such concepts. It might actually be brilliant long term.

[-] Wooster@startrek.website 8 points 10 months ago

Does cruel and unusual punishment apply here?

My limited understanding of the topic is that ‘cruel but usual’ and ‘unusual but not cruel’ can invalidate the charge. And unfortunately, the mistreatment of the homeless could be seen as usual.

[-] Wooster@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago

It’s less that Twitter consumed forums and more that it was practically the final nail in the coffin for RSS feeds.

[-] Wooster@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago

Hmm… according to Freeman’s intel… the Mystery ship was seeking out Lorcano… but as far as I can tell… he’s the mastermind.

Why would he want to find himself?

[-] Wooster@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago

Is it extremely powerful though? The ship doesn’t begin its attack until after an inside job has been completed, not unlike in Star Trek: Generations.

You do bring up an interesting point with the lack of Federation ships being attacked. Though the BIA and the Bynar ship throw half a wrench into that idea. Not technically Starfleet, but not unaffiliated either.

My personal suspicion as to why we haven’t seen a Starfleet Vessel being attacked yet is because the Cerritos is ultimately going to be one of its victims… and that’s best saved for the finale. My second guess is that a Parliament ship will be a casualty. We saw a CGI model for the first time in the Ferengi episode, but the CGI models are typically reserved for fan service (Titan, Crystaline Entity, Voyager, DS9, Soverign Class), have a lot of use (Cerritos, Shuttles), or are engaged in combat (Bird of Prey, Sh’Val, Clumpship, Texas Class, Breen Vessel).

Also note the CGI Bird of Prey being added to the LD intro in S2, which foreshadowed the CGI battle in 3 Ships.

The Parliament class, to date, has not really fulfilled any of those roles—which has my attention in a conservation of detail sense.

[-] Wooster@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago

My goodness, I’ve never noticed that before!

[-] Wooster@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago

I like the bit of world building that Caitians and Betazoids have a shared history. Both are (traditionally) neglected species, and we rarely get this sort of world building that doesn’t directly involve Starfleet.

Anyway, the fact that T’Ana had an uncontrollable and ingrained instinct to hunt them suggests that Caitians and Betazoids were originally from the same planet, which further suggests one or the other left for another planet.

I wonder if their (current) home worlds are in the same system.

[-] Wooster@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago

What actually happened here!?

This one was actually funny?

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