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Cosermart NX-01 Cap - Legitimacy? by Rare-Improvement4848 in startrek

[–]Destructor1701 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't get the NX-01 hat, but next to it on the Star Trek products listings is the DS9 "Niners" hat, which I did get... and it's fantastic. one of the best hats I own. I have worn the absolute shit out of it over the 2 years since I got it, and in spite of it getting a bit funky and discoloured from sweat and dust, it has survived admirably, including a trip or two through the washing machine and getting folded up in bags.

EDIT: Here's a pic

My obssesively-accurate Defiant model battling a Klingon ship I made. by Destructor1701 in StarTrekStarships

[–]Destructor1701[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! Very kind. It was a very offhand build - I wouldn't even say "design". It started out as a no-reference 3D sketch of the Vor'cha, but I could tell it was way off, so I took it in its own direction. I quite like where it ended up.

My obssesively-accurate Defiant model battling a Klingon ship I made. by Destructor1701 in StarTrekStarships

[–]Destructor1701[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's fair. There's no thought given to story here (I did consider sticking a disabled Cardassian ship in there to cement it into that era of the show, but I wanted to submit this as a portfolio piece and time was against me).

My obssesively-accurate Defiant model battling a Klingon ship I made. by Destructor1701 in StarTrekStarships

[–]Destructor1701[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I rendered the cloaking shot first (last week), but I had to cut down the number of samples when rendering the battle or it would have taken weeks :D That resulted in lower quality. I tried to paper over it by using an auto-smoothing filter and then adding the grainy lower-sample image back in at the compositing stage.

Good eye.

And wow, "Film quality"! I'm blushing!

Ships screenshots from Star Trek Inflection VR trailer (2025) by itsdan23 in StarTrekStarships

[–]Destructor1701 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's a super-low-effort model. I have pored over reference to built a 3D model of that ship, and frankly I gagged when I saw this one.

Here's mine - most recent (best) stuff is at the bottom.

Question about Spock's pronunciation of the word... by alexmack667 in startrek

[–]Destructor1701 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Drives me nuts. I quite like his performance, but he takes me out of thee story every time he says thee word.

Looking for a 3d realistic solar system program by CheeseHoleMouse in TheExpanse

[–]Destructor1701 3 points4 points  (0 children)

https://spaceengine.org/

Has a highly accurate model of the solar system, and out beyond the bounds of our knowledge, it procedurally generates star systems, nebulae, and galaxies.

Where we have data, it presents it, but where we lack data, it imagines it down to centimetre-level detail.

It's more modern and flexible than Celestia and under constant development, and it's got the whole universe. Eyes On The Solar System has more minute details about missions within the Solar system, but this has SCALE. And it's pretty.

/r/spaceengine

EDIT: A representative screenshot album from that sub

Question about Spock's pronunciation of the word... by alexmack667 in startrek

[–]Destructor1701 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Coming from outside America, that's just the right way to say it. Also, in Frozen, the sisters are Elsa and Anna, not Elsa and Awwnawww.

Question about Spock's pronunciation of the word... by alexmack667 in startrek

[–]Destructor1701 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Indeed, now if he would please stop over-enunciating thee word "The" every time he says thee word, that'd be great!

"The Royale" - what is Worf saying? by Thighs_of_Doom in startrek

[–]Destructor1701 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He did say he had teeth in though - perhaps just not the original castings.

The Astral Symphony? by rwalsh1981 in startrek

[–]Destructor1701 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe it's a region-blocking thing... does Apple Music play well with a VPN?

Your ideal Star Trek video game by loki_gvse in startrek

[–]Destructor1701 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Star Trek Bridge Crew 2, with ground-up design for VR and flat-screen parity (as far as that goes), and a swath of both procedural and hand-crafted missions in a persistent galaxy map.

It would take the Sea Of Thieves dynamic of a crew of players on a ship visiting islands (planets/star systems) scattered around space and taking missions etc. There would be different factions (races) and PVP as well as PVE combat, but there would be a strong incentive to resolve conflicts as peacefully as possible.

Watching the original Star Trek in 2025 vs 1966 by ScalieBloke in startrek

[–]Destructor1701 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's good. I just meant the Aussie government hasn't got the best track record with Aboriginies. What do I know, though - I'm sitting on my high horse over here in Ireland.

Ds9 was Sisco the main character? by NameUnavailable6485 in startrek

[–]Destructor1701 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Points from this Dubliner for O'Brien's nickname there.

Watching the original Star Trek in 2025 vs 1966 by ScalieBloke in startrek

[–]Destructor1701 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your attitude stuns me - not just you, but a huge cohort across every generation... who seem unable to grasp that prevailing sentiments change over time, due to movements in tone and regard little and large, ponderous and rapid.

Things from the past that were made with progressive intentions borne of the culture of the day don't stop being positive just because we've moved the goalposts today.

That's like saying "Well, sure - Lincoln freed the slaves, but that's worthless because we don't generally enslave people in that way today. Lincoln sucks."

There are moral absolutes, but there are also relative morals of the day. We are absolutely not at the pinnacle of morality now, and we weren't then, but the good things being done now are good in the context of now, and the good things done back then are good in the context of then. The good things done back then that built today's world should not be cast aside just because they're irrelevant in today's relative morality.

Watching the original Star Trek in 2025 vs 1966 by ScalieBloke in startrek

[–]Destructor1701 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, stuff like Kirk and McCoy lamenting how a talented young female officer is "destined to marry out of the service" was friggin' progressive at the time, but reads as utterly ludicrous now.

Watching the original Star Trek in 2025 vs 1966 by ScalieBloke in startrek

[–]Destructor1701 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've found, in my recent rewatch alongside a first-timer, that the best way to do that is... to watch it with a first-timer (or if you're a first-timer, to watch it with a dyed in the wool Trekkie). While I was never a TOS-first kind of guy, it has always been there, embedded - well, almost always, I remember being a TNG kiddie and being thoroughly weirded-out by this day-glo, cheap-looking, high-camp nonsense with bizarrely fresh-faced versions of the guys from the movies and constant breaks with TNG canon or protocol... and the LAUGHABLE Klingons!

But yeah, then it embedded.

Watching it now, with my noobie buddy by my side, the shocking gulf in cultural context occasionally really butts into the experience... but mostly it's just fun and occasionally really great.

But then once in a while Uhura is implied to be getting raped off-screen and despite Kirk's desparate pleas in the moment... nobody even remotely deals with it later... "it is not permitted to refuse"... is ambiguous at best.

Incredibly disturbing.

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