I do love a sequel years later out of nowhere! Ship in a Bottle is also a good one for that.

I think I’d struggle to come up with such a list in a way that it’d be a rewarding viewing experience.

Something to keep in mind is that almost all of Star Trek from before the streaming era was made with the assumption that people would tune in and not necessarily have seen any previous episodes. Especially with syndicated reruns, there was no real guarantee of even seeing the episodes in order. At most you would be expected to miss some details if you caught the second half of a two-parter, and those had recaps at the start.

Star Trek only really started to do big plot arcs with DS9 and even then it was still very episodic. The earliest they had a modern BSG-style serial plot was season 3 of Enterprise. So there’s really no need to watch “must-watch” episodes. The episodes were made with the intention that you could watch each one with minimal context and still have a good time.

It is a module. No need to load it if you don’t have an ASUS.

“Oh, good Lord, didn't anybody here build ships in bottles when they were boys?”

Diane Duane wrote some great Star Trek books - The Wounded Sky and Spock’s World are perennial favorites.

I’d also recommend Q-Squared by Peter David. Very ambitious book and does a great job of making some lore connections.

For validation and/or (de)serialization: pydantic.

Otherwise, dataclasses.

I also like to replace tuples with NamedTuple, but I tend to use tuples a lot in the first place. It’s generally recommended to use dataclasses instead if you don’t specifically need tuple-like behavior.

I’m glad you were able to get it working! I had no idea that was a Wayland-only setting, though of course in retrospect it makes perfect sense.

In the KDE Touchpad settings, there should be a Device selection at the top of the screen. Selecting the controller touchpad from the list and then toggling “Device enabled” should only affect the controller touchpad.

it can also just be the permalink for the post, which each post ought to have anyway. in RSS you can set isPermaLink=“true” on the guid to indicate it’s a permalink.

Kudos! Glad to hear things are working out.

I’d recommend Bazzite. It’s a gaming-focused immutable distro. The base system is an image and updates are automatic; a 13-year old might already be familiar with this kind of system because it’s similar to how Chromebooks work. It comes with Steam and Lutris preinstalled. You can install additional software via flatpak.

Technology and cargo are now completely separate inventories, so any technology you had installed in your general inventory needs to be reinstalled in your technology inventory.

As a way of compensating for this nerf, they also added supercharged slots, which provide a buff to the technology installed in that slot. These are randomly laid out. Higher class equipment has more supercharged slots, but you may need to add slots to uncover all of the supercharged slots.