📛Maven

This is adorable

I’ve only known tiny vintage communicator for 5 minutes, but if anything happened to him, I’d torpedo the planet

Wowww, they have borg cubes! Two kinds! Good consolation prize!

What the heeeey? This looks awesome, where did you get that!

I didn’t get it, and I’m 29 from Canada

I feel like you’re actively choosing not to read what I said, because literally the entire point of that post that I’m not saying that.

I’m saying banning all forms of genetic engineering is an overreaction to the Eugenics War. Not all genetic engineering is eugenics. Like any medical technology, when used wisely, it can be invaluable in helping people and improving their lives. The Earth was so traumatized by the results of eugenics that centuries later, they still mandate the entire Federation throw out the baby with the bathwater.

Eugenics is a major part of that trauma, being part of the war. But banning all forms of genetic engineering across the entire multi-species alliance for centuries because it can go too far is a vast overreaction. Imagine if the nuclear reactors had been completely banned because of WWII, or if viral research was banned because of COVID, or if prosthetic limbs were banned because of Wolf 359.

Because Earth never faced an extinction-level Cyborg War, pretty much. I’m of the opinion that the primary reason for the Federation’s ban on genetic engineering is Earth’s enduring trauma from the Eugenics War.

I’m the same way, I bailed on Picard and Discovery pretty early. Strange New Worlds is really good though, imo.

Well, I played about 20 minutes before work, and so far the difference I’ve noticed are that autoconstruction doesn’t exist and that instead of spacelanes you just have warp right from the start; there was mention of something called “warp highways” but I didn’t work it out before I had to go.

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God, yeah, it was an absolutely incredible episode. I watched it recently too, I was curious after seeing SNW’s treatment of it. I never watched much TOS because it wasn’t very engaging to me as a child in the 2000s, but I was drawn into BoT almost immediately and felt like I barely blinked the whole hour.

Sir, this is a star trek sub

If you need that much letters and still can’t come up with a catchy sounding word you’re doing something wrong

I’ve always been partial to QUILTBAG lol

Oh! Thank you so much, that worked a treat. o7

I don’t know if it’s affecting other instances, but all images from startrek.website are denying referrals to image links from lemmy.sdf.org. In other words, all image posts show up as broken unless I open them in a new tab and refresh so the referrer becomes startrek.website. It’s not affecting any of my other subbed instances, and when I open startrek.website it works fine, so I suppose something’s breaking in the in-between?

Absolutely in love with the Skull & Go Jumpgate. The Core Drive lets me dock my phone to my TV, too. Also, come on, it’s called a Jumpgate with ejectable Core Drive. How can you not want it based on name alone lol

Update your firmware. Mine works fine.

That actually is probably the only valid part of this complaint, but it’s a bit opaque without context. In Splatoon 1, each gender had a different victory pose for each weapon type; a girl winning with a minigun would have a different pose than a boy winning with a minigun, or a girl winning with a paintroller. In Splatoon 3, instead you choose your own victory pose from a few dozen options. One of options they added earlier this year is to just use the ones from Splatoon 1.

Except… Despite the name (and social media posts, in the runup to its release) implying it’s all the Splatoon 1 ones, it’s actually only the girls’ poses. The boys’ poses are not available at all.

All his other stuff is pretty ridiculous, the games are absolutely inclusive (equality feels like prejudice when you’re used to privilege, and all) but I do get feeling like you’re being given the cold shoulder when you’re told “here’s all the poses from Splatoon 1!” and then your entire gender is left out.

“Okay, 3, 2, 1, let’s jam” or if we’re in a hurry “SHOWTIME”