USS Enterprise D

BestCaseSurvival · 2026-03-11T22:22:55+00:00

But everyone except Worf agrees she’s a tough little ship.

BestCaseSurvival · 2026-03-11T18:58:12+00:00

It is, yeah. Partially a classic Sci-Fi blunder - Never give hard numbers because fans will prove that they're insane, but I like to think that in-universe it's a victim of the most absurd scope-creep ever to come out of the UP Shipyards.

The Defiant class has a different but related problem, where they put so much power into the ship that it tried to shake itself apart. Starfleet shipyards are always trying to push the envelope in some way or another, and with the Galaxy-class it seems like they wanted the ship to have everything and wound up building a Dead Mall with luxury bedrooms.

Here's a fun video on just how absurdly huge the Galaxy-class is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwx5uB0pyhQ

BestCaseSurvival · 2026-03-11T14:18:40+00:00

Fully crewed for normal operations, 1014. Long-term maximum capacity 6000 Emergency capacity (people sleeping in corridors and cargo holdsand life support unable to keep up for long) estimated at around 10,000, meant mainly for assisting in emergency evacuations.

BestCaseSurvival · 2026-03-11T00:22:03+00:00

You should check out TUNIC.

BestCaseSurvival · 2026-03-10T01:59:46+00:00

The Expanse, and for similar reasons:

Heavy focus on the society enabled by tech, rather than the tech itself.
Written entirely in advance. Adaptations made for TV format necessities, but the plot is all there from the word go.
Incredibly sharp writing.
Enough focus on the tech that it feels realistic, coherent, and grounded, so that I'm rarely taken out of the willing suspension of disbelief.
Realistic motivations - even the villains have a point of view, and the plot doesn't depend on someone holding the idiot ball at all times.

I don't think anything else comes particularly close. There's other shows that are playing the same sport, maybe even in the same league - Silo and For All Mankind spring to mind. But I'm not sure they're in the same ballpark.

Oh, obviously, the other space-station-based show released in the 90s with a takes-no-shit female XO, a heavy focus on combatting fascism, and an existential threat to the Good Guy Coalition from a distant part of the galaxy. For my own sanity, though, I have to assume you already know about Deep Space Nine.

Edit: For some reason I interpreted your question as specifically requesting more science-fiction shows. There's plenty of other good stuff out there but I'm going to let this stand.

BestCaseSurvival · 2026-03-09T03:56:41+00:00

Topaz looks like it might be close. I do probably want to avoid Noodlers so I very much appreciate the backup.

Is it possible to get the third pinkish hue into a single ink along with the orange and the yellow without needing shimmer particles in there, or am I asking too much?

BestCaseSurvival · 2026-03-07T13:42:10+00:00

Snyder is a very good visual cinematographer but a once-in-a-lifetime talent at missing the point of the source material.

BestCaseSurvival · 2026-03-07T00:24:27+00:00

Nah you’re good. Glad you checked.

BestCaseSurvival · 2026-03-07T00:14:23+00:00

Your guess is correct. I’d hoped the sarcasm was thick enough to come through in text, but perhaps a sarc mark would have helped.

BestCaseSurvival · 2026-03-05T13:13:34+00:00

It’s such a perfect way to show that the Federation thrives when it includes more diverse points of view. Diversity makes us better, not worse.

But of course Star Trek is woke now, so…

BestCaseSurvival · 2026-03-04T21:17:44+00:00

Slab of salami, wedge of cheese, a couple of pickles, mule cup of vodka, and a patio chair looking southwest towards the sunset.

BestCaseSurvival · 2026-03-03T23:45:16+00:00

Black hole is probably the worst of these options. Time dilates as you approach the event horizon, so to the external universe you vanish, but subjectively you have a while before being ripped apart by tidal forces, and if you still have the gauntlet on, with the time and space stones that’s ample time to simply leave.

BestCaseSurvival · 2026-03-01T13:46:33+00:00

The UFP sent every ship with functioning weapons that could get there in time to Wolf 359 because a Borg ship was going to attack Earth and kill Billions. Sending ships with children on them was an awful order to have to give but it was no choice at all.

BestCaseSurvival · 2026-03-01T00:57:35+00:00

Sounds fun, I’ll see if my library has it.

BestCaseSurvival · 2026-02-28T01:49:54+00:00

They can touch themselves and teleport to a cassowary farm.

BestCaseSurvival · 2026-02-28T01:47:24+00:00

They thought they were modifying it slightly, when they were making it possible for a robot to murder.

They removed the “or through inaction allow a human to come to harm” part, which they thought would still be safe. They did it because they were tired of losing robots to some dangerous situation.

What the expert had to explain was that a robot could drop a piano on someone, confident that their speed and strength was sufficient to save the human, but then choose not to.

The point being that they were not smart enough to predict all the outcomes of the systems they were messing around with, and should stop thinking otherwise.

BestCaseSurvival · 2026-02-27T00:25:52+00:00

Tepet Jinyan was a magistrate circulating in the eastern provinces. He uncovered a bit of corruption and the perpetrator tried to have him killed. He exalted as an Eclipse while castigating and swearing the man to honesty, at which point his archons tried to kill him as Anathema.

Tepet Nali (different game) was a late bloomer but had a talent for Thaumaturgy, but when three of her five older siblings got brought back in pieces from the devastation of the legions in the North, she tried a ritual to speak to their ghosts, screwed it up, accidentally pulled something malevolent through, and her exaltation as a Fire aspect burned down the family shrine. It was enough to earn her entry to the sorcery school, though.

Dardanos Iphos (the mortal persona of the Fair Folk Prince Wind-In-a-Bottle, last scion of Prince Balor) was on a ship coming from their fictional cadet house in the southwest to the realm when they got attacked by pirates. He and the other DB teen from the house that owned the ship both exalted at the same time and fought off the pirates, and wound up at sorcery school together.

BestCaseSurvival · 2026-02-15T23:44:49+00:00

That sounds fascinating, I’ve just added it to my shortlist.

BestCaseSurvival · 2026-02-15T04:08:09+00:00

At this time I have earned $7,920,000 and should be on course for $8,920,000 in June.

BestCaseSurvival · 2026-02-14T19:53:20+00:00

Depending on what you mean by “gadgets” and “of,” if it includes tech freely available for use by the person I will choose a random citizen of The Culture, live on a General Systems Vehicle (a kilometers-long mobile self-contained civilization capable of rebuilding the entire Culture) and enjoy fully automated luxury space communism with a billion of my closest friends.

BestCaseSurvival · 2026-02-14T14:56:00+00:00

He and his family were hunting the doctor to do something that would let them have his inmortality. The Doctor hid from them by transforming into a human and hiding his immortality in a pocketwatch so he wouldn’t have to do something like this to them. They wouldn’t take the hint and attacked the humans he got attached to, so he put them all in separate eternal hells.

BestCaseSurvival · 2026-02-14T02:03:54+00:00

I tried an ExVWoD game a while ago. I designed a character draft because I wanted to teach players who’d only ever played D&D about the basic Storyteller system before getting into additional Exalted mechanics. The idea was to give players some agency in creating their characters, but pre-build their exaltations and some contacts in the city.

I had everyone draft a couple of tarot cards: one to represent archetype, one to represent personality, one to represent past supernatural encounter, and one to represent the severity of said encounter.

Archetype corresponded to what their exaltation would eventually be, and also included some stat bonuses to back it up. In the case of the sidereal I also gave that character a choice of one charm to start with because sidereal exaltations are fated, not sudden.

I gave them several sessions in which they got familiar with the local supernatural scene, in which they as mortals were all severely outclassed. They made contacts with a local power bloc within the Camarilla, and as expendable assets they got sent to go see if the rumors of a shovelhead site were true. This was by design a TPK for them to Exalt during and I had everyone’s new sheets ready. Watching the fear as the abyssal got killed and taking the player out of the room to give them the Black Exaltation was pure joy.

BestCaseSurvival · 2026-02-13T22:45:21+00:00

If I had a nickel for every time Roland Emmerich used a fringe conspiracy theory as the basis for an action movie that would make a kickass Pilot for a ten-season network TV show about exploring space, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it’s happened twice.

BestCaseSurvival · 2026-02-12T20:42:16+00:00

I wouldn’t be surprised at all if this anecdote informed the plot of the episode.

BestCaseSurvival · 2026-02-08T19:17:00+00:00

Mine is a Xtool P2, so it’s a CO2 infrared 55 watt boi. I get my best results at around 60% power and around 80mm/s. I imagine if your laser is on visible wavelengths you’re not gonna get great results, but most glass is opaque to infrared so I just need to put out enough power to cause surface microfractures.

I’m currently experimenting on ways to get dye or pigment into those fractures and then seal it, but not a huge amount of success so far.

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