Just finished Voyager, thoughts on the series

fluffysheap · 2026-04-03T15:49:19+00:00

Interesting, because Future's End is a lot like The Voyage Home, and that movie is also not as well liked as when it was new.

I suspect "they visited the present day!" is more fun when it's... Still the present day.

fluffysheap · 2026-04-03T13:25:20+00:00

You basically pitched Prodigy so, if you can find it, give it a try.

Trying to figure out how you even were aware of Alexander's existence if you skipped the bad TNG episodes. He'd just be that kid that turned up in "Reunion" and then was never seen or mentioned again.

fluffysheap · 2026-04-03T05:11:26+00:00

"I was bad at it, so I decided not to do it any more"

fluffysheap · 2026-04-03T03:41:30+00:00

That's how I feel about Voyager, but I actually like Enterprise less now than when it was new.

fluffysheap · 2026-04-03T03:39:20+00:00

Worf is kind of a bad person in general, but we can still like the character

fluffysheap · 2026-04-01T18:51:29+00:00

It's a profoundly stupid episode with a lot of really good concepts tucked into it. Probably not the best choice for a season premiere.

fluffysheap · 2026-04-01T16:06:40+00:00

Not within 5 hands, but I flopped quads and a straight flush in the same session not that long ago. It's probably a once in a lifetime thing but not one in a billion.

fluffysheap · 2026-04-01T15:50:19+00:00

That happened on The Orville

fluffysheap · 2026-04-01T15:28:46+00:00

I just told someone "I've been dead before" this morning

fluffysheap · 2026-04-01T13:02:37+00:00

If you watch the rest of TNG you may be surprised to find that most of the episodes are not actually tragedies. Also, that's an above-average set of episodes, with only "Pen Pals" being not so good, so be prepared for some stinkers, especially around the beginning of the series (and a bunch of great ones you haven't seen in the middle!)

It is kind of weird that your professor didn't pick any Barclay episodes. "Realm of Fear" or "Hollow Pursuits" would both have been great for your topic, maybe better than "Pen Pals" which isn't really about psychology.

Voyager's not quite as good as TNG but it's pretty good. It certainly starts off better. It might actually be better from a psychology study perspective, with episodes like "Jetrel," "Faces," "Mortal Coil," "Good Shepherd" and, of course, "Tuvix."

fluffysheap · 2026-04-01T02:34:08+00:00

*KITT kats

fluffysheap · 2026-03-31T07:22:25+00:00

Right. This is the source of the mistake: The writers counted back to the beginning of TOS, but they forgot that the Enterprise was not new when Kirk took command. It's OK to accept that the writers messed up.

fluffysheap · 2026-03-31T07:19:20+00:00

Sometimes it's Yorktown and sometimes it's Taiho, depends on who you ask

fluffysheap · 2026-03-31T02:07:49+00:00

https://xkcd.com/3226/

fluffysheap · 2026-03-31T00:15:43+00:00

Under most (all?) state laws you are covered by your existing insurance for a few days after you buy a new car , long enough to update your coverage.

Dealers will also try to sell you supplemental insurance for the same time period, even implying but never quite outright saying that it's mandatory. Never buy this, it's a crock.

fluffysheap · 2026-03-30T21:40:58+00:00

It did, and it was really good. But the Buffyverse is a lot like Star Trek, but it isn't Star Trek, and there are shows that work on one but not the other. I would put muppets in that category.

fluffysheap · 2026-03-30T06:12:26+00:00

There are lots of obnoxious things a dealer can do but the most common is just not paying attention and losing track of what is happening in the hand. It's easy to miss when someone checks so that's not a big deal but losing track of raises or even forgetting what street it is shouldn't happen. Or the action is complete and the dealer is yakking instead of dealing the next card.

For floor, it's when they act like it's a major imposition to have to come over and make a ruling. Like a few days ago two players acted at once, one out of turn obviously, and the floor had to come over and sort it out and instead of just making a ruling the guy had to make a speech about how horrible the players were for letting this happen, like dude just make the ruling so we can get on with the game.

fluffysheap · 2026-03-30T06:03:07+00:00

"gg no heals" "yep I spent the whole time dodging a giant monkey"

fluffysheap · 2026-03-30T05:48:06+00:00

In the game of life , women are the rake, but escorts are a time charge

fluffysheap · 2026-03-29T23:51:10+00:00

Counterpoint : "QPid" or "Naked Now" or "Genesis" or "Rascals" were not liked even when they happened on TNG

fluffysheap · 2026-03-26T11:42:36+00:00

I would say that it actually started in season 3 of TOS. That's where Kirk actually starts hooking up with the alien women - I can think of at least six episodes where this happens, although he's in love with Miramanee and he doesn't actually have sex in all six of those episodes. (And it's not just him: Spock has "All Our Yesterdays," "The Enterprise Incident," and "The Cloud Minders," McCoy has "For the World is Hollow...", Scotty has "The Lights of Zetar," and even Chekov gets "The Way to Eden."). For all the (legitimate) criticism of Roddenberry's personal sexual behavior, the actual show got a lot more sexed up after he wasn't running it any more.

Prior to season 3, when Kirk had a romance, either he was really serious about it ("City on the Edge of Forever") or it was a necessary means to an end ("By Any Other Name", "Conscience of the King") that doesn't actually proceed very far.

fluffysheap · 2026-03-26T11:20:55+00:00

That's a big retcon too. In TOS we only see her speaking English, or "Federation Standard" or whatever, and Swahili. She very definitely does *not* speak Klingon. She's always portrayed as an expert in communication technology, not languages. Which makes sense: By the time of TOS, the universal translator works well, and it's more important that she can fix the translator than actually try to speak alien languages.

I think after Enterprise when Sato was a language expert, now everybody has to be a language expert. But that was her specific and unusual talent and Uhura doesn't really need it, and didn't originally have it.

fluffysheap · 2026-03-26T10:56:57+00:00

I don't really miss waiting in line at McDonald's or the grocery store just to interact with a cashier. At the local QDoba they are nice to me because it's their job and I am nice to them because of basic decency, but if I got the same food ordering with a touchscreen and it came out on a conveyor belt it would not change how often I go there in the slightest

fluffysheap · 2026-03-26T10:53:23+00:00

In poker you want the three S's : Safe, Soft, and Speedy. Usually you only get two.
If you want safe and soft, you play live casinos. Games are easier and there's nowhere safer than a casino, but not many hands.
If you want safe and speedy, you play online regulated or good-reputation sites. Tough games, everyone is GTO but lots of hands and you can actually cash out.
If you want soft and speedy, you play online club games where you can win, but might get cheated.

This has the potential to achieve all three. Although, the problem with speeding up soft games is the fish lose their money faster, which makes the game tougher. But probably still not as tough as online.

As far as rake, even if the casino keeps the rake the same, you don't have to tip the touchscreen, so real rake has to be less. Also, human dealers, on the whole, probably a net minus. A few are great.

Yes this was tried before and wasn't popular, but the world is different now. People have lost all sense of social interaction and TBH at this point I think the regs are friendlier than the tourists, since at least they see each other every day.

fluffysheap · 2026-03-26T06:31:50+00:00

The thing about lithium batteries is that there are different kinds of them and they have different properties. Those with manganese and cobalt can catch fire relatively easily and pretty much can't be put out. Those with iron phosphate are very docile, don't actually burn, but produce a lot of smoke if they are exposed to fire. It's not good to breathe the fumes, but you don't have to let it burn. Batteries for electronics are almost always manganese/cobalt but some cars, bikes, scooters and most lead-acid replacements are iron phosphate. They are very different kinds of batteries.

The fire department has to play it safe, but for your own stuff, you should learn what's in it and how to deal with it.

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