My father was once falsely accused of being a bak’targ. Calling Gowron Law helped restore honour to my house. 35/9 great service.

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Can’t you chuck it back into a reactor and reuse it that way, to help reduce the radioactivity, and get more power back out of it?

This is Kirk and Riker slander.

Kirk doesn’t deserve that kind of reputation, whereas Riker does.

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Slight shame that the contractors didn’t start from the end. It could have been funnier if they had taken off the “er” instead.

Or shut them down, given the recent debacle with Amazon shutting down someone’s account, disabling their devices in the process.

no headphone jack means you may need to purchase wireless headphones or earbuds and wireless earbuds don’t always have replaceable batteries

They’re also more expensive, even if fairphone does offer their own headphones.

A cheap set of decent wired earphones is $10. $30 if you want something nice, like an IEM.

Bluetooth headphones don’t tend to be quite as cheap, and are usually a good deal more.

Although you can’t both charge the phone/use pripherals, like a keyboard/mouse and use headphones in that case, unless you’re using one of the few phones with 2+ USB-C ports, and wireless charging can be cumbersome.

Even TOS had a blatant anti-racism episode where the conclusion was very much explicitly “if we don’t get along, we’ll be left extinct on an empty, dead husk of a planet”.

That sounds like a horrid decision. Imagine having to troubleshoot a relative’s computer, which isn’t working because their internet is down, or is too slow to support streaming Windows like that.

It just sounds like a nightmare all-round, both from a Microsoft Standpoint, since they would have to build all the hardware to support it, people who would have to troubleshoot an issue that might show up on either the local or networked version of Windows, but not both, and from a security standpoint, since it seems like it would make it a lot easier to just hijack the whole computer using that kind of mechanism, with the user being none the wiser, for the most part.

Have you never been to /r/SubSim2Interactive?

Although you have to wonder how much advertisers would actually pony up if most of the Reddit users weren’t actual users at all. They want people to do the clicking, and if the users are all bots, they’re likely not going to bother wasting their money at that point.

It’s also accessible with <WinKey> + ;. Not quite sure why Windows has multiple shortcuts for the same menu, but there we are.

Unless it’s using the Registry for some config values.

The paternoster gang were pretty fun as a concept, and it’s a shame that they weren’t used more.

Although I also wouldn’t qualify them quite as companions, any more than the Lethbridges-Stewart would be.

It doesn’t seem to have been implemented for the time being. You might have to make do with using a search engine with the site:kbin.social/m/[magazine] parameter.

It’s pretty interesting as a Star Trek show, since I think that it is also one of the few that actually pushed its boundaries. It might not have been well-received, but it also tried to do something new, like Deep Space 9, and the original Star Trek, and stuck to that something new, despite having to find its footing under a myriad of production issues.

Although I would say that it wasn’t a direct adaptation in and of itself. It seemed to be following the lead of the 2009 films in that sense, seemingly leaning on some of their groundwork to try and “modernise” Trek. They didn’t quite succeed, but the attempt is at least commendable.

Personally, though, I’m more of a TOS fan, just because the world building seemed much more expansive on the older show, but TNG is also quite good.

At the same time, they can also be interesting in their own right, especially if you want to see how different things might merge and interact with each other.

Would Captain Kirk be very confused by Doctor Who, or Optimus Prime showing up on his ship, yes. Would it be interesting, but also cause the writers no end of headaches? Also yes.

I think Reason 2 might actually be a fairly good story in and of itself. You have someone who was an extraordinary being in their originating universe, suddenly finding out that they’re just another superhuman in another. That would be an excellent point of character development, and a way for them to be suddenly placed into a completely new perspective.

And when the majority of someone’s body is replaced by artificial limbs/organs/etc. At what point are they still human.

The Cyborg of Theseus?

Both it (and the original) also raise the subtle question of, if cybernetics are owned by a business, at which point are they considered a person in their own right, or just another piece of company property?

It depends a lot on who you ask.

Although I’m rather of the opinion that the “magic” died sometime before Voyager. It was already on the way out when the network executives tried to recapture The Next Generation with it, and also launch a new television network with it at the same time.

It just ended up trying to be both its own show, and a copy of another, not succeeding particularly well at both.