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Beautiful doxies. I have 3, they’re such amazing creatures.

DharmaCurious ,
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Por que, and I mean this with total earnest, no los dos?

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If you are located in or visiting the Los Angeles area on the days of the event, DM Drew so you can just turn up and help!

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So I’m what one might call a basic user. Mainly browser based tasks. I can use the terminal, but I don’t have really much of anything memorized. Imagine giving a desktop running Fedora to your great aunt, not that one, the other one, who’s constantly smoking and sexually harasses the busboys when they come to clean away the ashtrays. That one. That’s my level of Linux proficiency.

Are any of these things I might be able to do? I would genuinely love to help, but I use FOSS for philosophical reasons, not because I understand the techy stuff. If it’s doable at my level (or an achievable level), I’m eager.

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It’s a hobby more than an anything else.

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Kinda related, I’ve been saying for years we need more “the gravity plating is out” episodes where everything is floating around, bumping into shit, causing problems. We got one scene in enterprise and that’s it. :/

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I really need to watch the expanse.

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I use subtitles for everything, because I’m hard of hearing, but thanks for the warning!

And that sucks. It’s based on a book series, yeah? If I’m super invested, hopefully I can get my fix like that.

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I know out of Asia is debunked, but I swear they’re our closest relative. If not genetically then they’re definitely closest as in that one cousin you actually get along with. 'Tans are just cooler than the rest of the family.

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I want to live in Tantopia.

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Haven’t heard of culture. Looking for a new book series to read. Is good?

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I’ll check it out! Thanks!

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Started the first book. Just finished the chapters Clear Air Turbulence. I was hooked from the prologue!

It also occured to me, I haven’t read much scifi. I watch a lot of scifi, I read a lot of fantasy. I haven’t read much sci-fi, so it’s kind of fun that it’s something new to me that I’d never really considered was missing until now. Thanks for the rec!

Why are we so concerned with oxygen production yet we never hear about nitrogen production, though we actually need 78% nitrogen vs 21% oxygen to survive?

Excess oxygen is actually harmful to humans, but all the climate warnings are about losing oxygen, not nitrogen edit: but when we look for habitable planets, our focus is ‘oxygen rich atmosphere’, not ‘nitrogen rich’, and in medical settings, we’re always concerned about low oxygen, not nitrogen....

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Now I’m imagining a planet with a helium atmosphere that’s breathable for humans. Best. Episode. Of. Star Trek. Ever. I’m envisioning TOS, super serious scenes where Scotty has fallen near dead, Kirk looks to Bones for some reassurance, and in Mickey Mouses voice Bones mournfully tells him “He’s dead, Jim”

Brent Mintz, professional dog, duck and squirrel photographer, as played by a young, bearded Data in 1972, on the show ***To Tell the Truth***. (skip to 1:46 for his entrance) ( www.youtube.com )

His birth father died when Brent was less than a year old, so he took his adopted father’s name “Mintz” from 1955-1975 before finally reverting back to “Spiner.”...

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Mintz is my family’s name. You don’t see it a whole lot. Crazy to know Data is a Mintz.

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Tricksy little sheepseses

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I may have squee’d a little…

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Replicator. Then use it to replicate the parts to a new replicator. Rinse and repeat, and force us into a post scarcity society.

Then beg someone to make a holodeck.

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Never turn your back on a Breen, or a writer after they’ve given you a sweet, wholesome episode.

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I’ve been trying to find a confirmation on the century it’ll be set in for forever, but I suck at finding these things. Is 32nd century setting confirmed? I’m genuinely hoping it is. So much unexplored territory there.

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It’s a good time to watch ds9. We’re only a year away from the Bell riots. ;)

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Honestly, star trek hasn’t always hit the nail on the head for the circumstances, but in this case, they got the vibe just perfectly.

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Sept. 2024. You’re right. Just a bit less than a year.

The scariest part, though, is that sanctuary cities almost seem like a better alternative than our current approach to the housing crisis of “lol fucking die” :/

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Public support I can buy. Housing first, Medicare for all, cannabis legalization all poll incredibly well. The government doing it, regardless of who’s in power? That’s fantasy. Lol. I’d be more likely to believe we got transporters, or the Elon musk has a replicator and the rest of us aren’t allowed to use it. Lol.

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Clearly, there are 5 lights. I don’t know how you could be so wrong about this.

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Oh that’s absolutely perfect. I’d love that at the end of this season or the start of the next.

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Poor people should just simply try working for their father’s company for a year and then taking a VP position at a small fortune 500. I don’t understand why they won’t try that, and pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Tsk tsk tsk.

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What are the odds this fella doesn’t get CIA’d soon?

DharmaCurious ,
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Because they’re grown now, and have asked star fleet not to use their image in any promotional material. They’re still salty about being abandoned.

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I haven’t watched that episode in a looooong time, so I can’t really contribute too much to the conversation. But the vibe I got (and I may be misremembering) was that Sisko was trying to let her know she could be that person, if she wanted to be. She could be Fenna, because she was Fenna. A sort of “the [Fenna] was in you all along” type moment.

I’m mainly posting here because DS9 is my absolute favorite series (close second is ENT), and I’ll happily contribute to any ds9 talks. Lol. Is there a community for ds9? I haven’t found out, but that could just be lemmy search shenanigans.

Enterprise era new trek show?

I’m not sure if this is the right community or not, but I’m curious what y’all would think if they came out with a new show set in the Enterprise era. Ent is one of my favorite shows, and I always felt like we got screwed out of some really compelling TV when they ended they stopped making Trek after ENT ended. That era of...

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That sounds really interesting! Scott Bakula is at a great age for playing an elder statesman, too.

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Honestly, that sounds like my ideal show. I’ve always wanted a show that gave us something outside of Starfleet, and I’ve also always wanted a show that showed us a little more of earth (cannot wait for a sf academy). A freighter based show could us both. Frequent trips to earth to pick up supplies, space without the protection of the military’s flagship, or the protection of being an important military space station. Tight knit crew, likely family members and all the drama and story that comes with that. God, that would be an awesome show.

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Right? I mean, I want desperately for the events of the last episode to be retconned, but even without that, just another crew in that same era would be great. It’s a time rife with opportunity.

Honestly, I’d even love a series set around the time of first contact. Zefram Cochrane, early Vulcan diplomats, humanity’s first ever foray outside of our solar system… God that would be cool.

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Ooh, I like the idea of animated. And I don’t understand prequel hate. I love a good prequel. I’d also love ST legacy. But we’re all on streaming services now, it’s not like they can’t find a time slot for it. Give us all the trek! Paramount+ would make billions. Lol.

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While I agree about starting with TNG, I’d honestly love to rewatch most TOS episodes. Every trek has had at least one main character I just could not bring myself to like, except for TOS. The show is completely different, but the character interaction is amazing. Worth noting, I also love all the TOS movies, while the first and last TNG movies I just didn’t care for.

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People forget. Star trek has already done a musical episode. Mr. Data sang the breakout pop hit “Life forms” on the bridge of the enterprise. It was glorious. It was amazing. It is literally the only thing you should watch, ever again. Just that. On loop.

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Oh that makes it so much better!

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