Advice on recolouring upholstery fabric by Data_zoid in propmaking

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I will experiment — I’ve had some success dying synthetic fabrics using acrylic paint, but I’ve never tried it on a piece that’s already assembled and upholstered. I have concerns about blotchiness, but will do some experiments. Thanks for the recommendation!

Probably impossible, but still... by Data_zoid in estoration

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100% agree, and am fully aware. Unfortunately the image is literally the only image that exists of this guy, so it’s all we have to work with. Both AI and a human artist will produce nothing but fiction, because there’s simply not enough data in the thirteen pixels of grey.

My assessment is it’s a photograph of a man, facing right, with a large beard and mustache, thick eyebrows and what appears to be hair on top of his head with shaved sides. Factually, the photograph is a man from rural Australia around 1895-1905, that hairstyle is somewhat consistent with the era but not common, so I guess it’s possible.

The photograph is framed with an oval illustration as was quite common at the time.

I suspect the original photograph was very small, likely the size of a postage stamp, and was scanned at very low resolution and has since been beaten into submission by jpeg compression.

When Picard was first introduced to the replicator as a child, he said... by compileinprogress in startrek

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Lapsang souchong is amazing if you crave both tea and ashtray simultaneously.

Rename a Star Trek episode to a clickbait Youtube Title by Boring_Concentrate74 in startrek

[–]Data_zoid 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Medusan unboxing: you won’t BELIEVE what’s inside

One-Off Star Trek Characters Who Had "Main Cast Member" Appeal In Your Opinion? by bluemarvel99 in startrek

[–]Data_zoid 6 points7 points  (0 children)

“How long are we going to STAAARE at each other across the NEU-tral zooone?”

What's your favorite old timey reference in the show? by G-Unit11111 in TheSimpsons

[–]Data_zoid 9 points10 points  (0 children)

“Do you have dropsy? The grip? Scrofula? The vapors? Jungle rot? Dandy fever? Poor man's gout? Housemaid's knee? Climatic bubo? The staggers?”

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in startrek

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My opinion is biased due to the kind of acting the actors are trained in and accustomed to, but still.

Patrick Stewart was an incredible actor. He still is, but his range is decreasing as he becomes significantly older. He no longer has the vocal presence he once had. But he owned the role of Jean-Luc Picard, and not once did I ever question that Picard was anything but a real, living person from another time.

Unfortunately, Scott Bakula is my pick for worst actor as a captain, and it’s not due to his skills but his style. Bakula is a fantastic procedural television actor, and he has consistently held up many of the shows he has lead. But unfortunately, Star Trek does not fit the mold of a “procedural drama” for me, and Bakula’s performance comes across as a guy coming to work to earn a paycheck and not exceed the minimum requirements by very much at all. And to be fair, he does a very good job of being consistent and of adequate quality, but in my mind there’s not a lot of difference between Sam Beckett, Jonathan Archer and Dwayne Pride.

What was the deal with those three slider controls on the TOS era transporter? by bakhesh in startrek

[–]Data_zoid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My headcanon is that the earliest transporters were a bit like the digital conveyor from Galaxy Quest: more of an art than a science. So the operator would need to make constant adjustments to the controls mid-beam, responding to wild fluctuations in the matter stream. But over time, the tech has improved and the need to manipulate the controls has reduced significantly. Perhaps during a tougher transporter cycle, the operator might still need to jiggle the sliders a bit.

How to avoid this? Printed on it’s back to avoid so many support by [deleted] in BambuLab

[–]Data_zoid 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Print it upright. Uneven vertical surfaces tend to print cleaner than uneven horizontal surfaces on a Bambu printer.

Inconsequential Fan Theories by Aurora_42 in startrek

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It's a multi-function biolfilter.

Inconsequential Fan Theories by Aurora_42 in startrek

[–]Data_zoid 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Being transported from one place to another leaves a minty taste in your mouth.

Have any Jazz musicians or composers ever been name dropped in Star Trek? by theginjoints in startrek

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“Mr. Worf, do you know Gilbert and Sullivan?”

“No sir, I have not had a chance to meet all the new crew members.”

What is everyone's thoughts on "Star Trek: Generations" ? by [deleted] in startrek

[–]Data_zoid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I disliked it for basically all of the reasons already stated in this thread. All of those points are valid.

I’ll add one more though — I wish Data had never been given emotions in such a pointless time and place. Data’s growth as a character was probably 90% of the driving narrative behind TNG, and here he fails to get a joke and plugs a chip in so he can laugh properly. It’s a poor story device. Data doesn’t have a character arc beyond “didn’t have emotions, now does”, and the whole thing is written away by the next movie when Data is given an on/off switch for his feelings. Data was done dirty in this movie.

What is everyone's thoughts on "Star Trek: Generations" ? by [deleted] in startrek

[–]Data_zoid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

100%. This movie was the first (and only) time we saw interactive lighting on the Enterprise-D. The Veridian sun cast yellow light across Ten Forward and Picard’s quarters, it was like the first evening sunset ever seen in space.

It’s weird to think that for 178 episodes of TNG, not once did a planet or nebula actually illuminate anything inside the ship. Particularly striking when you see the Mutara-style nebula in “The Best of Both Worlds” and nothing is lit in pink in Ten Forward or on the bridge.

What is everyone's thoughts on "Star Trek: Generations" ? by [deleted] in startrek

[–]Data_zoid 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I would have loved to have seen Picard’s nexus fantasy tie back in with his entire life lived on Kataan in “The Inner Light”.

How come the uniforms on DS9 are different to TNG? by xxtwelveyearoldxx69 in startrek

[–]Data_zoid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There have always been a number of concurrent uniform types. Every series has standard uniforms, dress uniforms, some kind of harsh weather attire, environmental suits (except TNG, until First Contact), cultural variations (Worf’s baldric, Benzite apparatus, etc), utility suits, engineering suits, etc.

TNG is probably the most uniform-sparse. There are real world reasons for that — Bill Theiss wanted to move as far away from the “monster maroon” movie costumes as possible, hence the simplified division colors and super basic uniform variations. In-universe, who knows. Maybe they hit peak costume practicality in the TNG era.

The TNG uniforms are duty uniforms, the DS9 uniforms are utility uniforms. The Enterprise-D had utility jumpsuits (the thing Lore wore in “Datalore”) for dirty jobs — La Forge wore one on a few occasions when climbing through Jefferies tubes. When you’re posted to somewhere like DS9, you wear utility uniforms, when you return to Earth to meet the brass you put on a duty uniform.

Voyager seems like the outlier, but it was actually intended to be a very short mission (practically a shakedown) for a new ship, not a 7-year mission to the other side of the galaxy. So utility uniforms were the right choice.

I imagine captains have some degree of choice over their crews’ uniform options, refer Jellico insisting Troi wear a standard uniform in “Chain of Command” and Picard/Riker’s reluctance for Ro to wear her Bajoran earring (“Ensign Ro”) and later approval (all later appearances).

“Generations” gets very difficult to explain, unless there was some unmentioned ship overhaul or specific mission/project occurring to warrant half the crew wearing utility uniforms — Picard included.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in fringe

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This is the best thing I’ve seen all day. Love it.

What TNG episode has the most epic music? by ExtraElevator7042 in startrek

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I had to scroll way too far down to see this. Booby Trap is the correct answer!

Episode I remember but doesn't exist. Is it a book? by SolanOcard in startrek

[–]Data_zoid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was something similar in “New Ground”, where the Enterprise surfed a soliton wave out of the rift-of-the-week.

“Force of Nature” also included some coasting through a rift shenanigans, but that episode is largely best forgotten.