Definitely those two. Ep. 4 and the Klingon’s space play-fight with the Federation over the planet so they could “conquer” it was as adorable as it was believable. After 900 years, losing their homeworld, and nearly going extinct, they still hold on to their code of honor which is the only thing they really have left. Incredibly well done.

As for ep 5, I always shed a tear of happiness when a later series revisits DS9.

hanging out with Marina Sirtis for exactly one day, and I would be utterly exhausted at the idea of spending any longer than that.

Sirtis is a lot more like Lwaxana than Troi ever was. Also, @29:48 in the same video:

Well, I only do stuff that’s cult: Star Trek, Gargoyles, Sharknado. It makes sense.

–Marina Sirtis

Oh, “The Dark Veil”, yeah. It wasn’t bad but was definitely the weakest of the 5. I could swear the entire plotline was recycled if not from Trek itself then from some adjacent sci-fi.*

The only one I haven’t read is the Rios one since it’s the only one I can’t buy DRM-free. “Second Self” (the Raffi one) and “Firewall” (the Seven one) were both excellent.

*Or maybe the reclusive aliens on the ark ship in Dark Veil were just similar enough to the reclusive Caeliar and their planet ship in ST: Destiny that I had read shortly before.

Very well could be. It’s a quote from a panel they did on the Star Trek Cruise not long ago (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ML_ScYo8wQ) and everything was off the cuff (and maybe a little drunk?) . I’m about 15 minutes into that recording as I reply.

I would definitely enjoy Legacy , but I was a total sucker for the fan service that was PIC S3. After reading the rest of the Picard tie-in novels (thanks for the recommendation, BTW), seeing Captain Seven command the Enterprise would be pretty great.

I’ve only seen the first two episodes of the revival, but agreed. It’s pretty fantastic, has the same feel but also fresh at the same time.

It’s been so long since the last season of the original run (clearly season 8) that instead of hearing Sarah Chalke as Elliott Reed I hear her as Beth Sanchez Smith (who is also a doctor). It makes her and JD’s divorced couple snarking sound like Beth and Jerry .

Kayhla, but spelled in very complicated ways for zero reason. A machine wouldn’t do that even if it was trying to force an awkward acronym.

Skip Intro?

How dare you, Netflix?!

I’m late to the party, but started Starfleet Academy last weekend and am up to episode 8. Absolutely loving it and regret not watching it as it aired so I could gush about it with the rest of you all. That also caused me to miss the AMA with Karim, and that saddens me more than you can ever know.

Trying to stretch those out, so mixing in some backlog of Family Guy, Bob’s Burgers, and The Golden Girls. As soon as I have the time and attention span to start another new series, I’m gonna watch A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

You saying this to a guy who burned 96kbps MP3s to a CD. 96 kbps MP3s that were ripped from another CD I owned and could have re-ripped at an acceptable bitrate had I not been stuck with the shareware version of MusicMatch Jukebox which was the only software I could run to rip CDs lol

To this day, Eve 6 does not sound “right” unless it’s horribly compressed and clipped. Kind of my own, weird version of “sounds better on vinyl”.

But I do have much better tools today, so I can go FLAC through the whole process.

Yeah, and in my case, a fine example of “you don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone”. I seldom listened to tracks in order and would skip around or put my favorite song on a loop or switch CDs just to hear one song, etc even on CDs I mixed myself.

This time around I’ve just been putting them in and letting them play. On some albums, it is clear the artist or producer wanted you to dip your toes in with the first track, get you pumped with the second, make you think or feel with the third, give you a breather with the forth, and crack it back up with the fifth (and so on) and the last track is pretty much always the “finale”. Definitely more than just throwing the tracks down and saying “come get it” and something I’m sad I didn’t appreciate more when physical media was common.

I’m actually starting to get back into CDs. Found a bunch of my old CDs in a box while I was cleaning and have been listening to them a lot lately. Beats the absolute crap out of streaming, and I’m now realizing I miss the “curated” feel of listening to either a studio album or a mixed CD I made two decades ago that still plays somehow.

Even thought about buying a fresh pack of CD-R’s and burning CDs again. My car is one of the last models to come with a CD player, so might as well use it :)

I would love to have one of those. Couldn’t find any active listings, but old listings had them going for like $250+ which isn’t too bad for a collector’s item, I guess.

I did come across a TNG CD holder: https://www.ebay.com/itm/117030364928

Apparently you can only fit 4 compact discs in a Galaxy class ship lol

I have an Omega Molecule joke, but we’re not allowed to talk about it.

And the trend of that same design trickling down to FOSS projects because “that’s what people want, apparently” is also (mildly) infuriating.

As a current web developer I’m with you except for the tables. I hate tables with a burning, fiery passion.

I do like responsive design to account for mobile, tablet, and desktop so I try to blend that with classic “just works / just here for the data” layouts and generally minimize the flash in favor of the content. In other words, my projects go to a lot of work to look that simple lol.

No one seems to know exactly what “modern” means when it comes to “modern design”. If you ask ten different developers, you get 11 different answers.

My rule of thumb when I see “modern design” touted as a feature is that the developer chose form over function at every turn.

Metric for most measurements except temperature (Fahrenheit - same reason you gave) and colloquial distances/velocities (e.g miles to the store, miles per hour).

As someone who is lactose intolerant but still loves cheese: