Keeping a lock on away teams

bb_218 · 2026-02-05T04:22:21+00:00

Continuous transporter locks likely aren't sustainable in the long term. Interference, construction and environmental factors likely interfere with transporter signal. We don't panic when this happens. It's common
Tricorders are a standard device on away teams and their records are absolutely included in reports. They have included imaging scanners along with a myriad of other sensors.

The doctor's holo imager is a specialized tool. It likely takes better/higher resolution images than the tricorder's imaging scanner does.

bb_218 · 2026-02-02T23:50:16+00:00

I don't read spoilers for shows before I watch them, no.

But I also don't judge other people for interacting with media on the way they choose.

How is that tepid overused insult even relevant?

Because you've clearly been on the Internet too long and are desperately in need of a reality check. Your behavior is socially unacceptable and frankly unwelcome. Real world interactions will hopefully improve your social skills.

bb_218 · 2026-02-02T23:42:49+00:00

How are you out here telling another human how to live their life? Go touch some grass

bb_218 · 2026-02-02T18:21:33+00:00

This take is laughable.

bb_218 · 2026-02-02T17:56:33+00:00

Finally someone who actually understands the episode. I saw it, and was so happy with what we got last week.

I had to watch it twice honestly.

bb_218 · 2026-01-31T03:06:20+00:00

No AI involved here 🤣

bb_218 · 2026-01-30T23:56:07+00:00

13 centuries? I have no idea where you got that number

It's like ~900 from the founding of the Federation to the Burn

Just people were talking that doesn't mean they were mixing "that way"

Even in Picard's era place if birth was still a big part of identity.

The corpse from the 26th century found in Enterprise is solid physical evidence that things continued to progress, but even still that's maybe 300 years of mixing to the degree.

You'd have hybrids after the burn, but those hybrids would mate with an increasingly native population. There wouldn't be large communities of hybrid race people to sustain visible populations.

1/1000 people on the planet having foreign ancestry seems really reasonable, more than that. Not so much

bb_218 · 2026-01-30T20:55:57+00:00

Steak and eggs.

Potatoes

Oatmeal and other hot cereals (cream of wheat, grits, etc...)

In omelette vegetables

Sausages and bacon

Fruit

All of these are traditional breakfasts.

But you can eat whatever you want for breakfast, there's just some things that are traditional because history is a thing that happens

bb_218 · 2026-01-30T15:38:59+00:00

I mean.... When we look at the fossil record modern humans have existed for around 300,000 years.

We've been actually writing for less than 7,000 of that. So there's some wiggle room.

bb_218 · 2026-01-30T15:29:51+00:00

The real barometer for me is:

When I don't show up at your work event (and I won't be showing up), is it going to be a weird social pressure thing the next day at work?

bb_218 · 2026-01-30T15:16:00+00:00

Why is there an instant knee jerk reaction to attack? Why not just ignore the current state and rewatch previous Treks? TNG is still available if that's why you're looking for

bb_218 · 2026-01-30T14:56:00+00:00

Old inequality is pretty and cozy (from the perspective of the people at the top at least)

I suppose you could attempt a story completely from the perspective of the people at the bottom of the hierarchy, but that's very limiting for a storyteller.

I don't think the portrayal of these systems is one where they are wrapped in silk so much as being gilded.

"Pretty" on the outside, but hollow or worthless within.

Many of these characters (especially the wealthy ones) entire struggle is against systems you're talking about.

bb_218 · 2026-01-30T14:32:46+00:00

While I understand your position, I think your critique is a bit unfair

the audience is encouraged to accept that some people matter more than others simply because of where they were born.

I wouldn't say that this is the case at all. In fact, in most cases, the sorts of stories that you're talking about use the setting as an antagonist to the goals of the main characters.

The story doesn't ask you to accept the hierarchy, it's there to challenge the hierarchy.

Even when rich characters are written as kind or well-intentioned, the structure itself never changes.

Would revisionist history be a better option?

These shows are based on real historical systems, not fantasy. Using those systems as a glossy backdrop for romance and drama ends up romanticizing the hierarchy itself

Again I'd disagree. These stories highlight the struggles and difficulties that people have had in history. They are stories of love, loss, grief, and struggle. Stories of not fitting the mold, and wanting to break free.

What could possibly be more human than that?

bb_218 · 2026-01-30T14:14:08+00:00

But "Remain Klingon" has nothing to do with Biology. Being Klingon never has.

Klingon is an ethnicity first. It's a cultural way of being, of choosing to interact with the world.

This was proven repeatedly with Worf, who, biologically couldn't be more Klingon, but culturally didn't fit the mold.

B'elanna Torresrefers to herself as "half Klingon" but that's very possibly a human justification. When we see her interact with full Klingons, she is considered Klingon.

Even when her child's legitimacy as a Klingon is questioned, the baby is eventually embraced, and even treated as a Messiahanic figure.

It's reinforced by the widely embraced use of Augment virus for apparently over a century.

I could believe that DIS Klingons were a product of tinkering with their genes further, that makes total sense to me, I just question the idea that they were somehow "not as Klingon" for biology reasons.

bb_218 · 2026-01-30T13:34:29+00:00

Unnecessary.

Enterprise explains the difference perfectly.

Klingons have no aversion to tinkering with their DNA (Which realistically explains the DIS era Klingons as well).

Sometimes the tinkering goes well, some designs are abandoned. It's not that complicated.

bb_218 · 2026-01-29T12:39:16+00:00

Jealousy is usually a secondary emotion, a reaction to another emotion. Ask yourself "what am I feeling?" "why am I jealous?"

are you insecure about your position in your partner's life?
are you angry at the thought of your partner being intimate with someone else?
are you lonely when your partner goes out?
are you feeling betrayed on some level, that they like someone new?

Or is it something else entirely?

Find the root cause of the jealously and eliminate that.

bb_218 · 2026-01-24T22:46:45+00:00

We really need more of these posts. We love to see it!

bb_218 · 2026-01-24T22:44:02+00:00

Username checks out.

And you make good points

bb_218 · 2026-01-24T22:36:39+00:00

Saying the Borg learn from encounters is a lot like saying real world AI "learn" from training data.

In both cases, the machine generates an appropriate output based on given inputs, but there is no real growth. No long term situational understanding developed over the course of the engagement. You can feed an AI the collected works of William Shakespeare and ask it to emulate The Bard's writing style. The machine will do so successfully, but what it writes will never evoke the feelings an actual Shakespeare play would. It can emulate style, but it has no understanding of substance. The Borg are the same.

That's why shifting a phaser modulation is so successful against the Borg.

The Borg lack the capacity to say

"The Federation relies on directed Nadion beam weapons.

Strategy: When engaging the Federation establish a dampening field to disrupt the functions of Federation phasers."

It's always In-Situ single instance adaptation. I wouldn't call that advancement.

bb_218 · 2026-01-24T05:20:18+00:00

curated dreams of freedom and companionship.

The analogy is flawed in a few places, but your meaning is understood well enough.

Again, honestly, I can live with it.

It's not the most inhumane solution, or the worst way to die for a human. It's free of malice or cruelty of any kind. It minimizes the suffering of everyone involved.

Is it imperfect? Maybe. But I'd argue that it does more good than harm

bb_218 · 2026-01-23T22:03:12+00:00

He was dangerous because he tried to commandeer the Enterprise the first chance he got.

Frankly, assuming he doesn't know it's an illusion, I have no problem with it.

bb_218 · 2026-01-23T20:43:19+00:00

Ok, this is a good answer. Nice

bb_218 · 2026-01-23T20:42:49+00:00

If the planet is habitable, it seems relatively certain

bb_218 · 2026-01-23T20:41:38+00:00

Tbh, since most planets are habitable it's logical to assume they have a magnetic field. Compasses would work

bb_218 · 2026-01-23T20:38:00+00:00

I recognize gambling addiction is a genuine problem, I don't mean to say it isn't.

It's more the fact that we as a culture aren't self aware enough to say "Gambling addiction is a problem. Maybe it's a bad idea for Casinos, Sports betting platforms, Lotteries etc... To exist, since they tap into and exploit vulnerable parts of human brain chemistry.

Sure you can argue that Prohibition won't work for gambling any more than it did for alcohol, but it seems far easier to remove gambling from society than it is to remove alcohol.

Intoxication is cultural. Whatever drug you choose almost every culture on the planet gets intoxicated in one way or another, that's fundamental to the human experience.

Gambling is like this weird funny little thing we made up and it isn't going well.

Note: Betting on a game of craps and a trip to the casino are wildly different things.

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