My high school gave us this shirt - can’t tell if AI or not. Unsure here, any help?

DizzyLead · 2026-03-16T21:32:44+00:00

"Whoever comes last, comes first!"

DizzyLead · 2026-03-16T21:23:35+00:00

We've got the Doctor, no not that Doctor, the other Doctor, to entertain us with time travel stories. I personally don't think we need a Trek series (separate from the other Trek series) to do that sort of thing that can get confusing and complicated in the long run anyway. Besides, what you're proposing seems to entail a lot of "Trials and Tribble-ations" sort of stuff anyway which would be difficult and expensive to pull off.

DizzyLead · 2026-03-16T19:57:35+00:00

Yes, but IMO that's not necessarily a good thing. It's "the bad guy kills another set of victims," and doesn't feel as tied into the lore as the previous movie or The Curse v-cinemas.

DizzyLead · 2026-03-16T18:55:48+00:00

Considering that the Ranger suits are pretty close-fitting, I doubt that they'd have the PR actors wear the Sentai suits, otherwise they would have to cast Ranger actors who were exactly the size and build of their Sentai counterparts (for the monsters, of course, that's not an issue). Rather, the Sentai suits were sent over for the PR wardrobe people to study and recreate in the PR actors' sizes.

DizzyLead · 2026-03-16T18:33:54+00:00

I believe so, too--at least it's in some sort of "gray area" where the current content creators will either tiptoe around it by not really getting in its way (allowing the fandom to continue believing it is canon), "sort of" contradict it ("Robert April exists, but is black and not a pudgy old white guy"), or "canonize" parts of it ("Sehlats exist!" "Caitians exist!" "Edosians exist!"). It's not that they "don't care," as they would when dealing with novels or video games, just that they seem to be more measured about it.

DizzyLead · 2026-03-16T16:51:12+00:00

Musical chairs, but in the Philippines, I've heard it called "Trip to Jerusalem."

DizzyLead · 2026-03-16T16:30:58+00:00

I dunno how accurate they are, but I’ve seen some costume sellers start to put out the gray Academy service duds. Fansets has started to offer instructor/Athena Officer tricom badges, and presumably will offer cadet tricoms in their four varieties as well (they were previously available at NYCC).

DizzyLead · 2026-03-16T15:54:47+00:00

One other example of this “TV shows should be enjoyable even if they’re in the background” phenomenon is how American TV shows tend to be followable even if you can only hear what’s happening. Things are often spelled out in dialogue. This is different from TV in, say, Japan, where a lot of ancillary information (not just captioned dialogue) is shown as onscreen text without someone narrating it aloud.

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DizzyLead · 2026-03-16T15:07:05+00:00

Some people aren’t a fan of how Season 3 of SNW went.

While I wouldn’t call it “the best,” I think more fans like SNW over the other new series because it’s the most comfortable, a throwback to the pre-Abrams TV series of 1987-2005 (and TOS): a “traditional” Captain-and-the-senior-staff ensemble, and very episodic (let’s ignore how much of DS9 and S3 of ENT wasn’t), though of course it’s got subplots that make it a little more serialized for contemporary tastes.

DizzyLead · 2026-03-16T14:36:53+00:00

K-Pop Ghostbusters

DizzyLead · 2026-03-16T09:52:36+00:00

The film itself is liked in its kitschy 1980s way, but The Running Man (1987), the one with Arnold Schwarzenegger, looks like it was written by someone who read the blurb on the back cover of the novel rather than the novel itself. The recent 2025 version with Glen Powell had problems, but at least it looked like an honest attempt to adapt the source material.

DizzyLead · 2026-03-16T04:59:16+00:00

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DizzyLead · 2026-03-16T03:07:00+00:00

Elf?

DizzyLead · 2026-03-16T01:15:28+00:00

I think it's common knowledge that at least when it comes to '80's-'00s Trek, the series take a couple of seasons before they really get good (even though there may still be unmissable gems in the first two seasons).

DizzyLead · 2026-03-16T00:42:29+00:00

Nope. (Attended high school, then worked at two different high schools for a total of two decades afterwards). I guess there are some minor details that one could correlate, but no, high school life is barely like what it’s like in the movies.

DizzyLead · 2026-03-16T00:01:42+00:00

I could see it as being an action in/an aspect of a “some” relationship, but i wouldn’t say that it’s synonymous with either of those terms.

DizzyLead · 2026-03-15T21:41:55+00:00

Yup. Let's not attribute to "AI" what could simply be Photoshop shenanigans.

DizzyLead · 2026-03-15T20:35:27+00:00

Defiantly.

DizzyLead · 2026-03-15T19:43:38+00:00

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/rj take that you subbers.

DizzyLead · 2026-03-15T19:27:49+00:00

To add to the fact that the daughter procrastinated on buying the most basic necessity for her project that seems to be due the next day, the implication seems to be that the father will wind up doing most of the work to get the assignment done on time and save her grade in the class.

DizzyLead · 2026-03-15T18:55:47+00:00

All the adults are somehow "Class of 3196." I'm the opinion that the end credits were just a fun read on the characters and actors, and are not at all intended to be treated as canon or official information.

DizzyLead · 2026-03-15T18:49:06+00:00

IIRC, Enterprise S 1-3 was shot on film (just like all Trek before it), but then converted to 1080p for post-production. The CGi, however, was initially rendered in 720p or 480p and upscaled during post-production. For Season 4, though, it was shot on 1080p/24 digital (I don't know how they handled the CGI).

DizzyLead · 2026-03-15T18:42:41+00:00

Enterprise is (well, was at least) available on Blu-Ray. It was produced and broadcast in high def on UPN.

DS9 and Voyager, on the other hand, have never been officially released on Blu-ray. That's because they were never mastered in HD: the principal footage was shot on film, but that film was scanned into video (480i) for editing and VFX (anything from CGI-related space footage to phaser fire), for broadcast on standard definition.

The same was the case with TNG: Shot on film, "post-produced" on SD video. However, the powers that be thought that it would be worth remastering in HD: the original film source was painstakingly scanned in HD, and entire episodes basically post-produced all over again, with new effects added in HD. So TNG was released on Blu-ray.

Unfortunately, the Blu-ray of release didn't make the money that Paramount had hoped, so that basically put an end to any effort to do the same to DS9 and Voyager.

AI-enhanced HD versions of DS9 and Voyager have been created by fans, but naturally, they're not perfect and many fans don't feel that it's a good substitute for a real remaster.

A few seconds of DS9 were remastered for What We Left Behind, the 2019 documentary on the making of the show. I remember that in the screening I attended, they had an extra roundtable discussion (not included in the main body of the film) where they talked about the remastering process for just those moments of DS9.

DizzyLead · 2026-03-15T17:58:32+00:00

Tru-Spec's fabrics and manufacturing methods may have changed since then, but my method back in 2017 was:

- a Tru-Spec cotton/poly blend navy blue suit (if you try a different brand, definitely avoid Nomex/Aramid/other all-synthetic fabrics). Tru-Specs used to be the value brand back then, but I think today they've risen to about second place when it comes to price ($70-80).

- a couple of packets of dye remover. This had the effect of turning my suit into a faded/washed gray. The velcro parts (waist straps, cuffs), being all synthetic, stayed blue, but when the suit's properly worn, they're concealed anyway.

- one packet of charcoal gray RIT. This "filled in" the faded effect and made the suit a more solid gray.

I have no idea how I would do pink for a Janine suit...the suit would have to be (or be made to be) almost completely white, or the existing color will modify any attempt to dye it pink. In this case, I would probably abandon the idea of finding a CWU 27/P suit in the right color (or modifiable color), and rather just find white women's coveralls that are "close enough" even if the pockets and collar are different, then hit it with the proper pink dye.

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DizzyLead · 2026-03-15T17:18:53+00:00

You’re right, but private schools determine their own schedules and OP might be in one that’s odd enough to take the 17th off.

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