It wasn’t that long ago that school bus manufacturers announced they were no longer going to make gas busses. So this is happening with our without good planning. Working on an electric bus, they present a few problems mostly that running heat or cooling is costly on the batteries and if you have a long route you may simply not run those at all.

Sounds like a bad time…

There’s gotta be another couple layers for her being a Kazon operative…

They just needed an Ensign. So you didn’t forget that it’s a thing people are called.

it can’t be used to create false scarcity! is isn’t massively volatile, how are the ultra wealthy going to make absurd amount of money off it?

What’s even crazier is they had to promote Sisco from Lt. to Commander to give him a whole space station, then promoted him to Captain and gave him a ship for his space station. When I’m pretty sure if your running a space station you should at least be an Admiral. Did this never make sense to anyone else?

Agreed, the ‘sexy’ outfits were pretty dumb.

They had to give Riker a reason to hate his guts to hell and back. And forcing him to organize and force his staff to do four shift rotations with no justification was pretty brilliant as a motivation.

Yeah she had a lot more demand as a performer because she only worked theater beforehand and she knew what her worth was, and people tend to hate that. Shatner did a pretty good BTS doc on TNG and the kind of weird power plays that went on that even Patrick Stewart was occasionally the target of. This period of TV production was a real high pressure environment and people had careers given and broken over pretty minor shit.

It’s the pilot or first episode when you watch it on streaming all remastered and high Def and there’s scenes where they clearly had trouble position the camera to avoid a tv-ma rating, that original outfit was so short. It’s also rough she still had a lot of trauma from basically being used by the industry for sex appeal and noting else. But at least Star Trek had men in the background in the same length mini skirt.

they stared downgrading the federation in DS9 man.

I’ve been sleeping on a blanket for a while now, come to think of it…

there is ethics about body modification and especially about enhancing your self artificially, it’s seen as a dead end because people who are artificially “perfected” end up being stagnant and pointless. experiencing aging and illness is a part of ethical behavior, or is ultimately preferable to the alternative.

I have at least one super fan that down votes everything I comment. At least that’s how my inflated ego sees it.

no… it’s a terrible song. It sounds like AI made it with the prompt “give me a corny ass Nashville radio style song about a vague religious term that can offend no one.”

“just say yes, and don’t do anything he says, the captains been body snatched again, it happens every few months, but check in later, he usually has a really trippy story for what happened to him”

I do find it annoying that the aliens don’t even grasp what time is, but one of them married a guy for several years and returned to the wormhole, but… yeah…

Don’t worry, you can just learn to hate yourself by thinking ‘‘I’m just lazy and worthless’’! Ha ha! No. Really don’t do this, it’s a nightmare, seek help, look for coping skills, idk, just don’t do this to yourself, if you aren’t kind to yourself you ruin so much more than whatever NOT having executive shutdown might be.

I do love those games, but they are very much not offical canon, but I do like them a lot.

never read the book

ARRRGGGGG!!!

dies inside

OK, yes in the films the Orcs make little to no sense and are nothing outside of comic relief cannon fodder, but in the books they aren’t like that at all. In the books almost everything “evil” is an artificial or evil magic version of something else as a way to counter it, like the Nazgul were an attempt to fight against Eagles. Orc were actually the first elves to come into existence, and the evil bad guy who was Sauron’s boss corrupted and tortured them until they were orcs. They are meant to be a counter to elves, but making people out of evil motives and discordant thinking isn’t that great an idea, so they aren’t very good at this. but they do have their own language and family units, not weird birthing pits, and make their own choices, there’s a few longer parts in the books where you’re just following the orcs along. after the war the orc’s are pretty pissed they got roped into the whole evil army thing, and vow to never follow “big bosses” again. Also Aragorn gives them their own lands. The humans and other beings that fought for Sauron were all roped into it with his lies and cunning, and were pretty upset when they found out all the horrible shit Sauron was up to, in the books no one’s really THAT evil, and the orc’s and goblins can be pretty goofy, but also very normal humanoid type of things.