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1. Argue with Socrates
2. Spend a million dollars
3. Lay Marilyn Monroe

I guess that’s the full range of Roddenberry’s fantasy life. Sounds about right.

If I could bring just one of these things into existence for the world it would definitely be the replicator, though I am not sure we have nearly enough power to supply it. Energy can become matter but it takes a fuckton of it to make a tiny amount.

But if this is about personal usage then I’m going with the holodeck. I’m not really hurting for material things. But manufacture any experience I want? I’ll take that.

My jaw was only the floor anytime the Klingons were on screen. They’re supposed to be these formidable warriors, not lisping fish people who talk at 3/4 speed.

In a sense, we were ministers. And I have heard now so many times from individuals who have been honest enough and brave enough to tell me aspects of their life, of their health, of their mental health. And how it was all saved and improved by watching every week.

Martin: How did that sit with you? That's an awful lot of responsibility to be that. I mean, you're an actor in a show and people ascribe to you this wisdom, you're a moral compass for them.

Stewart: I was proud of it and what we did.

Damn straight! What a weird question.

I find it interesting that you perceive this as venom.

User configured. Not company configured. If you want to die on a really, really stupid hill, then yes they are both algorithms.

I like that idea.

I’d also like to be able to set the balance of new/top/hot

Thanks that’s helpful to know. I’ll keep tinkering…

“Double dumbass on you!”

Right up there with:

“No ma’am. No dipshit.”

“You broke your little ships.”

I love how this mocks his display of anger and also the fact that he has little ships to begin with. There’s Picard being all ragey and dramatic and in 5 words she turns him into a little boy.

The entire show is a crazy mess IMHO. But then I didn’t really enjoy the books either, so I must be a subhuman. Commence the downvotes! I’ll show myself out.

(It is nice to get an update on Dawson’s career though and I’m excited to see she made the jump to directing - never knew that).

It even mentions directing enterprise in the article. Bad editing.

I continue to be the only person who likes Insurrection. It was like a long episode.

Nemesis failed because it tried to go big and epic and cinematic with the Picard identity crisis. But insurrection was just a story about a planet with a cool anti-aging field that has some internal problems they ultimately needed help resolving.

So… the fans actually represent the market? Who coulda guessed???

I’ll bet that any TOS fans who were furious at the time probably did not go on to like the show. If they were looking for that witty love/hate triangle of Spock/Kirk/McCoy they didn’t get it.

But as the name suggests, TNG reached a totally new generation of fans. American culture had changed a LOT between these two shows and anyone attached to the old one was either old themselves or hooked on reruns.

TNG didn’t slap big right away, either. It took time to get good and find its audience. But I’m so glad they succeeded.

I say all this to point out that angry fans weren’t actually wrong. The Trek they knew was never coming back. It became a whole other thing for a whole other group of people.

The difference between this and, say, the Star Wars sequels is that those sequels disappointed fans AND failed to find a new audience that was just as dedicated and even larger.

People like to use this article to show that angry fans are just idiots- always there and usually wrong. But the TNG miracle hasn’t been repeated many times, if ever, by any of these other franchise rehashes that a Hollywood has shoved out to grab for cash.

It’s okay for it to die down a bit after a massive influx like we saw from Reddit.

In the long run though, if it isn’t growing it’s dying. Lemmy is still small. If it succeeds at what it’s trying to do, it should definitely grow.

It’s a little worrying that we can’t grow faster than the novelty-die-off rate. But not cause for alarm as yet.

If you have heard the word “intersectionality” but didn’t know what it meant, this gives us a good example.

Feminists will say that women are not treated fairly overall, BUT if you’re a white woman, you might actually have it better than a black man. And if you’re an extremely wealthy white woman, you might even have it better than most men. All the factors combine.

It also works in reverse. Basically a gay black woman might not feel anything in common with Mrs. Walton, despite them both being women, and might easily see her as an oppressor.

No, you don’t need to go around making other people agree with you, on the fediverse or anywhere, really.

But if you are going to enter into a mutual risk/benefit relationship with another party, it does help to understand what their motivations are, so you can figure out if they’re going to line up with your own, or lead to conflict.

My post is about trying to understand those parties’ motivations. Not make everyone agree with me.

100%. It boggles my mind that we’re even considering this.