Prouvaire

@[email protected]

Addicted to love. Flower cultivator, flute player, verse maker. Usually delicate, but at times masculine. Well read, even to erudition. Almost an orientalist.

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Prouvaire , (edited ) to Star Trek in Canon Connections: Strange New Worlds 2x06 - Lost in Translation

I have no problem with Kyle being played by an Asian actor in SNW (as I had no problem with April being played by a black actor), but just for fun I'd love it if the show introduced Chief Kyle's replacement at some point before the end, an English white guy who just so happens to also be called Kyle.

Prouvaire , (edited ) to Politics in If you cannot access the sidebar, please read our community rules here

It's all a little confusing. Here's my understanding of how things work, though I can't claim to be an expert so may have gotten something wrong:

  • A community's home instance will always have the complete history of a community/magazine. So if you click on a lemmy community or kbin magazine and end up on that community/magazine's home server (eg lemmy.world or startrek.website or fedia.io - the first two being lemmy instances and fedia being a kbin instance), you will always see everything, including any pinned posts. The critical distinction is that you're viewing the community not on YOUR server (eg kbin.social), but on the HOME instance of that community (ie lemmy.world or whatever). Here's an example of a community on another server: https://startrek.website/c/startrek
  • If you are NOT on that community/magazine's home instance, ie, if you're on kbin.social, but someone had already subscribed to that community/magazine from your server (ie someone from kbin.social subscribed to [email protected] or whatever) than you will be able to see all posts from whatever date that initial person first subscribed. So if you are on kbin.social (like me), and looking at [email protected] while on kbin.social then you will see all posts from whatever date someone from kbin.social first subscribed to that community and kicked off the federation process. I assume this also means that you will see any pinned posts, as long as that post was created after that first federation. Here's an example of that startrek community, but viewed on kbin.social: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]
  • However if nobody on your instance has subscribed to a community/magazine before, you first need to subscribe to that community/magazine from your home instance (ie kbin.social), and from that moment on only new posts will be seen in the feed for that community while you're on your server (ie kbin.social). If you want to see the complete history, including any posts pinned before that first federation, you need to visit that community's home instance.

Not sure if I've explained all this clearly, it's probably something best represented using diagrams.

Anyway, the way I've tried to address this for my little Musicals community, is to include the pinned post (in my case a "Welcome" post), and where to find the complete history, in the community description, like so:

For lovers, performers and creators of musical theatre (or theater). Broadway, off-Broadway, the West End, other parts of the US and UK, and musicals around the world. Welcome post: https://tinyurl.com/kbinMusicals See all/older posts here: https://kbin.social/m/Musicals/

Prouvaire , to Politics in If you cannot access the sidebar, please read our community rules here

As far as I can tell, yes.

ActivityPub, it seems to me, was designed more for time-centric social media like Twitter/Mastodon than content-centric media like Reddit/Lemmy/kbin.

Prouvaire , to Politics in If you cannot access the sidebar, please read our community rules here

It's worth remembering that due to the way federation works, if an instance starts federating this magazine for the first time after this post was made, people on that instance won't see this post.

Prouvaire , to Star Trek in Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x07 "Those Old Scientists"

The danger with these "very special fun episodes" is that they can be confined to being just that. But what elevated this episode is how it used the time travel/crossover conceit to foreshadow, progress and pay off SNW character arcs, including Chapel and Spock's ultimately doomed relationship (something that I've previously said could be incredibly poignant, if handled right), Number One's legacy, and the way Pike confronts his fate. I hope the musical episode does the same.

Prouvaire , to Star Trek in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds to Feature First-Ever Star Trek Musical Episode | SDCC 2023

Umm...

Prouvaire , to Star Trek in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds to Feature First-Ever Star Trek Musical Episode | SDCC 2023

For those who don't know, Carol Kane (though not particularly known as a singer) has sung on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and has appeared in the US tour of the musical Wicked as Madame Morrible.

Prouvaire , to Star Trek in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds to Feature First-Ever Star Trek Musical Episode | SDCC 2023

You obviously feel very strongly about this.

Have you considered bursting into song to give your feelings full expression?

Prouvaire , to Star Trek in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds to Feature First-Ever Star Trek Musical Episode | SDCC 2023

That was Picardo singing a parody of "La Donna e Mobile", an aria in Verdi's opera Rigoletto.

DS9 also had some episodes where they showed off their cast's vocal chops, eg Avergy Brooks and James Darren singing "The Best is Yet to Come" and Nana Visitor singing "Fever".

Prouvaire , to Star Trek in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds to Feature First-Ever Star Trek Musical Episode | SDCC 2023

The retro poster has a Once More With Feeling vibe. Hoping Subspace Rhapsody will approach (or even meet) the standard that Buffy set as far as TV show musical episodes go.

Prouvaire , to Star Trek in More on Mastodon from Aaron Waltke on Prodigy’s full season one release.

I actually preferred the early episodes when it felt... I wouldn't say "less" Star Trek, but where the Star Trek tropes and settings weren't so pronounced. I thought the pilot double-episode might even possibly have been the best pilot of the franchise - focused on character, and with the Federation (via tech like the universal translator) being a symbolic and literal way of different people coming together. I'm always interested in shows that push Star Trek beyond what's familiar, but still true to its core, and Prodigy definitely falls into that group.

Prouvaire , to RedditMigration in U/SPEZ not popular on place

A place clone would still be hosted on a single instance (presumably). It would be good if someone could develop a multi-user event that took advantage of the federated nature of kbin/lemmy or even the wider fediverse also. No idea what that could be though.

Prouvaire , to Star Trek in Canon Connections: Strange New Worlds 2x05 - Charades

I feel like it’s different when we’re talking about a planet.

I suppose I kind of figure that planets in the Star Trek world are more analogous to cities/countries in our world. Also, "Delta Vega" is such a generic-sounding, human-centric designation anyway that in my head canon the full, formal designation of a planet in the Federation catalogue of stellar objects might be a lot longer, with "Delta Vega" in this case just one part of the full name. Think about the billions of stars that Starfleet has catalogued, and thousands of planets containing life. There's surely room for more than one "Delta Vega". Not to mention that planets have different names used by different groups or contexts, just like Earth is also referred to as Terra, Sol III, Die Erde, La Monde etc. So I figure there's different Delta Vegas around, and people know which one is being talked about from context.

That (monoculture) tendency is built into Trek, for good or ill, and I would say it even applies to humans.

Agreed, and put me down "for ill", but I like the idea of explaining apparent canon contradictions by expanding the universe beyond the monocultures we usually see. One of my favourite little moments in Picard was Laris tapping Shaban on the Westmore appliance and calling him a "stubborn northerner". In just those two seconds the Romulan culture got a lot more interesting.

The question is though, is Pike such a foodie that he would throw his weight around be certain that there is a supply of real bacon on the ship for him to use

If we ever see an episode where he hunts down a boar, guts it, dresses it and serves it to his crew with a nice sprig of coriander, we'll know for sure. ;-)

Prouvaire , to Star Trek in Canon Connections: Strange New Worlds 2x05 - Charades

Exactly. "Money" (or "credits") would still exist to address whatever scarcity remains. Eg replicators can't replicate starships (although in Prodigy we get pretty close IIRC). Or if you want to own that genuine Rembrandt (even if you could replicate a very good fake). Or if you want to trade with societies that still use money. But it would be confined to edge cases like that.

Prouvaire , to Star Trek in Canon Connections: Strange New Worlds 2x05 - Charades

I've always interpreted the "no money in the Federation" thing non-literally. I think there's still a financial and economic system operating in the background (otherwise this would be the most radical bit of world building Star Trek has ever done - and Star Trek's world building has never been particularly innovative), but it's just that "money" doesn't have the same primacy in people's lives as it does in the real world today.

I imagine there would be an electronic system of debits and credits (hence "credits" being the currency) moving around in the aether, with money in its physical form having entirely disappeared. Less "evolved" societies like the Ferengi would still use a form of cash (latinum), as would backward societies like 20th century Earth (hence Kirk saying "They're still using money" in The Voyage Home).

But even more than the term "money" being associated with physical currency (a concept that's increasingly being phased out even in the real world), to Federation citizens "money" would be associated with the archaic mindset of capitalism, greed and exploitation - the accumulation of financial wealth for its own sake. As opposed to 24th century people who (with just about all physical needs like health, food and shelter met by virtue of tech like replicators and advanced medicine), can focus on bettering themselves as a goal in its own right. So you might study medicine or law, not because it pays well, but because you're interested in that field. You might go for a promotion in your job, not because it pays better, but you seek the satisfaction of having more responsibility.

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