How about outside Trek… Have you seen The Orville? At least the first season is more laugh than serious. Also Firefly.

Pornlemmy.com

There’s also yiffit (.net I think?) and some .uk instance, like lemmef.uk or something

No, way to tag nsfw that’s not porn.

Can we have the exact opposite?

These have been a few but I can’t find them in my blocklist, so maybe they have died.

You could’ve always muted the sound.

I actually like it. TNG’s theme was annoyingly bombastic to my ears, DS9’s is basically nothing, Voy is okay I guess.

Not saying ENT song was the best choice there could be, but I don’t know why it should be gospel that ST has to have orchestral tunes. And for a prequel that was about how it all started, I think it was fine to go with something different.

And it’s not like an opening theme is a dealbreaker either way. I always skip the opening credits on the shows where they go for over a minute. I think for people who don’t like ENT (it’s not exactly popular) this is just another notch.

BTW I’m half way through SNW S02 and I’m not tired of its opening. First time ST nailed it in my book.

The attack in space angle was probably just to convince some manager.

The survival in Siberia is completely valid. US retrieves their astronauts in the ocean, but Soviet Russia didn’t/doesn’t have such a worldwide navy, so Siberia it is. It could take days for the cosmonauts to be recovered, so it was expected they might need to defend themselves against wildlife or even hunt.

Have you seen how people do programming? We see lots of it in Voyager around holograms. It’s basically today’s AI programming assistants on steroids. everything probably uses some fucking 300 years JavaScript as a basis, and that’s why everything keeps breaking all the time.

I find it almost bizarre if DS9 isn’t someone’s favourite, unless a) they haven’t watched it, or b) they’re really against grey and murky morality (which a lot of TOS fans apparently are).

That said, I also think Picard S03 was unbelievably horrible. There’s fan service and there’s absolutely mindless trash like this. When I hear about reliving past glories of TNG, I’m thinking episodes like Tapestry or The Inner Light and not something Genesis-level of contrivance.

SNW rehashes everything from older shows, but at least isn’t dumbed down too much.

Well I don’t vote on things I don’t read, but indeed so many links are so garbage.

Slide for Reddit had this neat browser built-in that would pull just the text like in reader mode. It didn’t work all the time, but damm, so good. Normal web pages are just sickening.

Ideally link aggregators should contain the entire article, but who really wants to do that, especially since often even selecting all text is a pain.

Wdym, Burton has a normal photo and the character is named among the others. Stewart’s picture is from a performance, so also different.

Also funny how you’re complaining about someone not getting named, and you’re just referring to him as a black man.

I respect it more, but I still can’t get into it. I find that the feeling they were going for - wild west in space - just doesn’t gel at all with the story of a futuristic utopian Federation and (essentially) a milliary grade ship with professional personel.

There are episodes where it’s one or the other, and not the combination of both, that work the best.

I think the TNG era managed to get away from this weird sense very well while still paying homage. But on ENT it shows how trying to follow in those footsteps can give weird results. All the criticism ENT has gotten is really the result of trying to make sense of TOS.

Ironically, VOY had the most opportunity to run with the wild west theme, and I guess they couldn’t figure it out either. Maybe SNW has, from what I’ve heard.

They don’t have to subscribe, but somebody has to have searched specifically for that community, so kinda yes.

People here promote scripts and bots so that an instance gets automatically subbed to new communities - which ok, but then which small instances really want to mirror the whole Fediverse? Most will run out of hard drive space, and we’re back at square one.

I don’t get it why you’re downvoted. It’s 100% true. I’m here to discover new things, not to be in an echo chamber of my 5 subscribed comms.

You may need to search for the community first for your instance to know about it. That hampers discovery a lot imo.

I keep saying that the US needs to have its own big instance (or several) to host all those communities about US cities and sports teams that nobody else needs to care about, as well as potentially a good chunk of users and to exist as a large server alternative to lw.

One problem I foresee with smaller instances is discovery. As we know, if someone creates a new community somewhere else, your instance will onlyrecognise it once someone searches for it.

On a large instance like lemmy.world, there’s a good chance that someone else did, and you can stumble upon it by browsing /all. On a smaller instance this may not happen unless it’s set up to discover and thus mirror every community everywhere.

I’d still prefer a separate server even if it’s only for myself:

1. power efficiency, you don’t need to keep a power-hungry PC on when you don’t need it, but only an old laptop or a rasp Pi or whatever

2. if your PC is down - broken, needs reinstall, having an issue that needs troubleshooting - you can still have your server stuff running

3. expandability. Media server alone is good to stream movies to a TV, or to a phone over the web, and again the PC can be off

I wonder how donations for nsfw instances are going