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Seems his heart is malfunctioning.

Since it’s an implant, does he take it to medical or engineering?

Except that several of them were…

There was Rory Williams as the main standout, but Martha Jones was working as a nurse when she joined the show. She was still at the end of Med School, and it was a (very minor) plot point at one point when she earned her doctorate.

Strax also counts, Well, he did until the Doctor screwed up and got him killed. The resurrected Strax was not much of a nurse.

There were a few more who were outright medical doctors when they joined the show. One was a British Navy surgeon, and the one that might not count, the cardiologist from the Doctor Who movie, which most people sort of ignore.

You sound like someone who has never ridden a bike through broken terrain.

I’ll argue that the “flat” used by the comment above might be better taken on a more granular level. You can go up and down mountains just fine so long as there are no logs, large rocks, pits, or gullies that are in the way.

I was doing some D&D world building a while back and wanted to really dive into transportation of people/goods and found the same problem. Tenser’s Floating Disk is a very low level wizard spell that basically does away with all but the heaviest ships and carts.

It’s the same for the trek universe. They have personal transportation methods that mean there’s literally zero need for a bicycle for anything other than recreation.

Hell, Lower Decks opens with Mariner pushing around a hover cart full of stuff. It’s literally the cold open of the entire series.

If you can have a hover cart like that, then why bother with a bike? Need to move stuff to a remote area? Get the hover cart, you don’t need to cut a trail, just go over the obstacles. And that’s if the transporter doesn’t work if the first place to beam the people and equipment to a nearby area.

He’s directed two already, well, two Trek movies. First Contact and Insurrection.

He’s had episodes as director in every live action Trek property except Enterprise. He even directed two episodes of The Orville.

Banana, Hot. Banana, Hot.

He did a wonderful job on Lost… Well, the early set-up for Lost.

See, JJ is phenomenal at building up mystery boxes. He’s just shit at putting anything inside those boxes.

He can lay out questions and hints at world building like no other. He just never goes back and does any of that world building.

I do love a little arson, murder, and jaywalking.

The quotes are parts of the theme song to Enterprise.

It was the only Star Trek show that didn’t use a variant of the Trek theme song.

The show also had a rough start. But got good.

I do understand the drive for hand to hand combat. That’s how I’m rating it. And even compared to other kligon weapons, the Bat’leth is just bad.

It will hurt the user more, yes.

It’s a bad weapon design.

The guy who designed it for Worf in TNG, was inspired by a Chinese single-handed weapon. That weapon was not widely used because it wasn’t actually that good.

Still, the deer horn knives are theoretically a sound choice for a weapon, provided your goal is to disable the opponents while likely getting skewered from range.

The Bat’leth is just a useless hunk of metal.

It was designed to be showy and look interesting on camera, not as a practical weapon, and it really does fail as a practical weapon.

I’ve never liked Bat’leths. They’re bad. They make zero sense as a weapon.

Wielded in both hands, it have all the reach of a large knife, but none of the maneuverability.

You can kind of use a Bat’leth one-handed, but it’s clumsy and not at all balanced. It makes for wild swings that are more likely to hurt you or your friends than the enemy.

You can sort of block with them, if the opponent is going to make an overhead chop. That looks cool on screen, but if the warrior with a Bat’leth was facing a warrior with a simple sword and shield, the warrior with the Bat’leth would fucking die.

It’s just a bad weapon, and looks like it was made to impress mall ninjas.

The payoff of that story is far better as well. In Generations, Data uses the emotion chip, then at the end, digging through the wreckage of the Enterprise, they find Spot. Data cries tears of joy.

It was also explained in that episode that he can selectively look at different parts of the spectrum.

The dialog says something like “picking out a conversation in a crowded room.”

I skipped discovery completely. Strange New World has been mostly good, but Lower Decks is the most Trek show that’s been put out in years.

I’ve not seen Prodigy…

I just realized that while I know how it could be done, that there are programs that can map an image onto a 3d shape, and that you could say, tile the faces on the strips, maybe use a side on view so that he’s looking at the back of his own head.

There are also ways to animate the image so that he’s constantly chasing his own head.

Then I realized I don’t really know how to use of the programs that I’d need. I’m pretty sure Blender could do it all…

A further realization that easy ways to do it is to just tile his dace, (preferably a side view) on the Möbius strip you linked using Paint. It wouldn’t look as good, but it would work.

The true key to percussive maintenance, knowing where to hit and how hard.

I’ve seen people try to replicate good percussive maintenance and fail due to not knowing where and how hard to hit things. Those were expensive mistakes.

I worked on air traffic control radios, about a third of the time the entry in the maintenance log was “could not duplicate problem”.

The fun entries were “adjusted relays with screwdriver”. Now, for those who don’t know, relays generally don’t have a screw adjustment, but if you tap on the outside casing, they often unstick.

The IUPAC-compliant nomenclature for that liquid substance is oxidane, although care must still be used, as oxidane refers to the specific molecule in all temperature ranges and matter configurations.

It was the standard leather package found on all their cars, so yes, the cheapest they could find.

Whenever they wanted to sell a car as luxury, they called the leather “rich” or sometimes “soft” Corinthian leather.

I’ve got some crazy browser extensions going…

Well, more useful than crazy, and honestly most of them are fairly minimalistic in their footprint. 9 tiny buttons next to the url bar, with 9 more hidden extensions.

I do have to uninstall a few of them. I don’t go to reddit anymore so can ditch the enhancement suite, and the opera gestures never actually worked…