Nice! Thanks for sharing this analysis.

I thought our primary way of producing new Linux users was sexual reproduction and then indoctrination from birth…

Interesting. I would have guessed that Mint gave ChromeOS a run for it’s money, by now.

Yes. By the porn stats, Linux already crushes ChromeOs. Let’s not take any advice from it.

I’m not sure Grandma and Grandpa would want a steam machine as a replacement for their aging Windows 7 home computer.

Fair. But for my gram, it would have been a slam dunk day one buy. She loved her playstation and only tolerated her PC. She would have called a Steam Machine “my game console that can check email” and would have adored it.

“Sometimes when it’s not him, it’s still him!”

RIP Renee A. I can always hear his delivery of that final line when I read it.

It’s very eco-conscious. It’s actually made of recycled Jake Sisko vests.

But no, between Archer and Kirk Starfleet must have recruited just the worst of the worst.

All good points.

But I’ve done some mental gymnastics to make it work. We actually know:

And I assume that the same character in my spoiler tag recruited various dysfunctional crew, while Saru recruited those crew that actually perform like Starfleet officers.

So basically, with enough mental hoops, I can assume that only Discovery, itself, is crewed unusually for Starfleet.

Edit: I also feel that Archer’s bring-my-dog-to-work leadership should also shoulder some blame. And Kirk is still a low ranking officer at this point, so we haven’t reached Starfleets prime.

It was such a relief, to me. He was interesting and compelling, but his achieving a rank of Captain in Starfleet, and then throwing it away to Mary sue with Burnam, felt silly to me.

The reveal fixes this. Although they could have been more explicit that

Yeah. If you didn’t care for mirror episodes,

Discovery took everything that made Star Trek Star Trek and told it to go fuck itself. I don’t understand how people can like it.

Have you watched past the reveal of Captain Lorca’s past?

The reveal makes many of the very not-Trek first season issues suddenly feel much Trek.

I can see how that reveal might not play well to some. But it worked for me, and helped me forgive a bunch of issues I had with Discovery season 1.

What’s up with the Rust hate?

The Rust community keeps trying to rewrite key pieces of Linux that aren’t broken.

They probably have the right idea, in the long run, but it’s still fun to give them a hard time about it.

The albino, his throat cleared.

I expect that’s why the internet’s been falling apart lately.

I’m sure it is.

It’s been interesting to see people not really getting angry about it, yet.

This…might be canon now. There’s a few conversations in Strange New Worlds that feel like the Universal Translator reached its limit of making Vulcans not-rude.

Ensign is a perfectly cromulent rank to achieve during a Starfleet career.

I find that con artists don’t like to communicate slowly. It makes them uncomfortable.

Asking the real critical question.

Pre-beard, I only give them one episode.

We’ve nearly outlined the plot to a season of Picard at this point.

Now we just need a motive - say Beverly Crusher is asking nicely from a deep space in distress…