VindictiveJudge

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

That phaser is shockingly detailed for its size.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

My take is that nobody will care if you are bald, but with all their tech you can have as much or as little hair as you want. It's an aesthetic choice that's entirely yours, and no matter what you pick it's not going to really attract attention. I mean, who's going to care about your hair when you live next to a temporally displaced Klingon veterinarian and work with a guy who once got to be Q for a day? And even that is just kind of normal?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

They could always bring back Touchstone to compensate.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

They couldn't get Chao or Meaney quite as frequently as everyone else because of their film careers. I know with Meaney they really wanted to show off his acting skills when they had him and determined that he portrayed suffering really well, so O'Brien suffered a lot. I think Keiko's problem was that she was only in a couple episodes per season and the focus was typically on whatever horror was happening to Miles that week. She's not so much a bad wife as a barely present side character.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I can definitely buy Sisko as a king under the mountain figure, believed by the Bajorans to return in their hour of greatest need, like Arthur for the British.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The wormhole / Celestial Temple seems to be extradimensional in some way. They might actually be out of Q's reach. Or they might not. Q's powers are vaguely defined.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, we've still got authors typing up manuscripts on mechanical typewriters and GRRM writing ASOIAF on a DOS computer. Jake wanting to use a pen is possibly one of the least weird things about Trek tech.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 34985938479 times...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Majel Barret shows up in season 3 as Lady Morella.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think they technically say that Vulcans don't lie, not that Vulcans can't lie. That would imply that they prefer to avoid it, but can if they need to. I mean, if Tuvok couldn't lie then he never would have been able to go under cover as a member of the Maquis.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

More or less. If you're paying attention to what's going on around you you'll notice other traffic stop before your light turns green. There's also typically a second or two where all lights are red before one turns green to make sure the intersection is clear.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

and they certainly treated specific items as “valuable” (historical items, weapons, and especially liquor.)

Historical items definitely have non-monetary value. They can't truly be replaced since, no matter how accurate the replica, only the one chair will be the Enterprise-A's captain's chair, for example. Replicators have software restrictions on what you can make with them, so you can't just replicate weapons under normal circumstances, which creates scarcity and gives them value. Starfleet replicators also seem to be restricted from creating alcohol, which means most of the characters we see can only get it on shore leave, which also creates scarcity and therefor value. Alcohol is probably significantly less scarce when sourced through civilian replicators. The ones on DS9 are programmed with Starfleet's restrictions, though.

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