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Cover Reveal - Firewall - upcoming Seven of Nine novel by David Mack ( davidmack.pro )

David Mack, a tie-in Treklit author well known for tense drama, sometimes darker but strong portrayals of legacy characters, will be bringing us the tale of Seven’s journey to the Fenris Rangers. Mack’s consistently been nominated for the award for best genre fiction tie-in novels, and has recently won. He seems to be...

reddig33 ,

Poor Seven. She’s been through hell and can never seem to catch a break.

reddig33 ,

“The first event, in May 2021, saw a grid fault linked to a natural gas plant…”

But yes, let’s focus on solar and wind being the problem. 🙄

reddig33 ,

I hope not. You might be enjoying it, but I think it drags the show down. Kirk already has his own show. Let these characters have theirs.

reddig33 ,

Texas weather will continue to shatter records, so the grid better get its shit together.

reddig33 ,

If we have, then why are we still getting warnings about curtailing our power use? Sounds to me like we’ve still got a ways to go.

reddig33 OP ,

B’Elanna Torres on Voyager.

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Mr. Spock On A Stamp: Adam Schiff Urges U.S. Postal Service To Honor Leonard Nimoy

https://deadline.com/2023/07/leonard-nimoy-u-s-postal-service-spock-stamp-adam-schiff-1235451515/

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reddig33 ,

Do all of the trek crew. I’d love an Uhura stamp with Nichelle Nichols.

reddig33 ,

If someone died from the heat, the family should sue the prison owner, and the state. All these people listen to is money, so it has to be cheaper for them to install air conditioning than deal with lawsuits.

reddig33 ,

I wouldn’t be surprised if the ACLU or a similar organization would be salivating to take the case for free.

Canon Connections: 2x07 - Those Old Scientists

• In the episode “No Small Parts” Ransom explains to Captain Freeman that he calls the 2260s the ”TOS Era” in honour of ”Those Old Scientists” like Spock and and Scotty. Of course, this episode takes place in 2259, so clearly it’s time for a shake-up among the SNW production team....

reddig33 ,

Just wanted to thank you for these posts! So great to have you over in the Lemmyverse.

reddig33 ,

I find it weakens the storytelling on SNW. If I wanted to watch Kirk, I’d tune into TOS or one of the many movies he’s featured in. I also think the actor they’ve hired to portray him isn’t channeling the existing character very well.

reddig33 ,

Yep. It sucks. Hemmer is a fantastic character and the actor does an outstanding job.

reddig33 ,

One of SNW’s strongest episodes. My only critique would be that there’s no way Starfleet would let it slide that a crew member killed a very important ambassador — no matter what the story. There’d better be a future episode where Starfleet leadership tries to throw Mbenga under the bus or something.

Also, please spend a little more money on the Klingon headpiece so it doesn’t look like it came from Party City.

reddig33 ,

Think of it as trek adrenaline/speed/meth. In war, governments often try to find drugs they can give soldiers to enhance performance.

reddig33 ,

I keep hoping for an episode later in the series that explains why enterprise gets a remodel with:

  • food dispenser rations / shitty colored marshmallow food to save energy
  • smaller crew quarters
  • a less fancy bar/cafeteria

Maybe there’s a war or something that changes everything?

White House condemns Fox News over 'dangerous and extreme' Holocaust comments from top host ( www.cnn.com )

The White House condemned Fox News on Tuesday over remarks made by one of its top hosts about the holocaust, denouncing the comments as a “horrid, dangerous, and extreme lie” that “insults the memory of the millions of people who suffered from the evils” committed by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime....

reddig33 ,

I remember the days of CNN Headline News when Ted Turner owned it and Bobbie Batista sat behind the desk and just reported actual news.

In other words, I am old.

reddig33 ,

They should never have brought James Kirk into this series.

reddig33 ,

That Klingon is quite the fashionista.

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Paramount Exec Vows “This Will Not Be The End” For ‘Star Trek: Prodigy,’ Talks Up Season 2

Well for what it's worth.

https://trekmovie.com/2023/07/25/paramount-exec-vows-this-will-not-be-the-end-for-star-trek-prodigy-talks-up-season-2/

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reddig33 ,

They should bring it back with Filmation-style animation. That would certainly shave some costs of the budget, right?

reddig33 ,

She’s crossed many lines. This just might be the one that actually gets her in trouble.

reddig33 ,

So confused by the use of “liberal economics” here. Was Brexit liberalism? Is privatizing NHS liberalism? In the US, that would be the conservative wing, not liberal.

reddig33 ,

Today I learned. How confusing.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_liberalism

reddig33 ,

Question — did you post this to more than one instance of “aww” — or is that a Lemmy bug making this show up repeatedly?

reddig33 ,

The challenge is that Craftsman didn’t want to pay for it. Plenty of other companies making tools in the US.

reddig33 ,

Strange that they wouldn’t just build the housing around it. Cutting down trees lowers property value.

reddig33 ,

Ramon froze pretty quickly out there in space. Wasn’t it only a couple of weeks ago this show was trying to convince us people could survive in space without a suit for two whole minutes?

reddig33 ,

Still pissed they killed him off.

reddig33 ,

I’m hoping they just bring back the old character. I mean if Bobby Ewing can come back on Dallas, surely a sci fi show can find a way.

reddig33 ,

Can anyone explain why a space station that seems to break down when you sneeze at it wrong, or smash one of its power conduits, requires photon torpedoes to shut it down?

reddig33 ,

Once again, the cruelty is the point.

(Please know that not all Texans are ok with this.)

Reddit seems all doom and gloom on the topic but what about Lemmy? And the future of Star Trek?

I saw someone on Reddit wondering why the community was so sure of Trek going dark again with Paramount not doing so well financially. Seeing the response was unfortunate as most people feel that it might be a bad time for Trek. And I guess it makes sense with the Hollywood strikes as well....

reddig33 ,

I think as long as there is a Paramount+, there will be at least one Star Trek series on the air every year. Whether or not that show will actually be good 🤷‍♂️.

reddig33 ,

If water is so scarce in Texas, maybe we shouldn’t allow companies like Ozarka to pump it all out of the ground, bottle it, and sell it off elsewhere.

reddig33 ,

Laws are for the little people.

reddig33 ,

From four or five rich donors, mostly oil men, and the dude who founded Curves fitness. Is Curves even still in business?

reddig33 ,

I don’t get the love for Buccees. The bathroom lines are long and the place is a madhouse every time I’ve stopped there. Is the gas cheaper or something?

reddig33 ,

That’s what six flags was originally when it opened. It was pretty cool — each part of the park represented a different era and a different country that flew its flag over Texas. Now it’s just corporate synergy barfed all over roller coaster rides.

reddig33 ,

Not really, no. Strange New Worlds is the only halfway decent Trek show on the air currently, and though the casting and art direction are great, the writing still needs improvement.

Too many of the episodes are xerox copies of previous plot lines that have been done to death. (Steal the ship to go on a mission! Time travel! DNA fuck up!). There’s an over reliance on “previously on” when the 1997 trek was mostly bottle episodes.

And when I say the casting is great, I mean everyone but Spock’s mom (who looks nothing like previous actresses who have played this part) and Kirk. We didn’t really need Kirk to appear in this show — his brother was a nice addition though.

reddig33 ,

And yet it’s probably still not enough.

reddig33 ,

You know what else is at a record high? Solar power generation. But poor grid maintainance means it can’t get to Texans when it’s needed most.

texasobserver.org/ercot-renewable-june-heatwave/

reddig33 ,

Lack of traffic enforcement, poor road design and management, getting rid of car inspections, and handing out drivers licenses to people who can’t drive is sending auto insurance rates through the roof in Texas. Not to mention all the uninsured drivers (again lack of enforcement).

[The Daily News] Ike Dike funding rejected in 'wasteful spending' cut ( archive.is )

About $100 million in federal money for the $34 billion Coastal Texas Project, which the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers expected this spring, might not arrive this year because the House Appropriations Committee didn’t allocate it, touting the decision as part of cuts to wasteful spending....

reddig33 ,

Link to story broken for anyone else?

reddig33 ,

Another border boondoggle to waste taxpayer money on.

reddig33 ,

To me, this felt like the first real, original, stand alone episode of this season. I didn’t care for the courtroom drama episode, or the time travel one. Those plot lines have been done on Star Trek so many times before.

Still wishing this wasn’t a series that insisted on the “previously on” intro. You never saw that on TOS or TNG unless it was a two parter.

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