Rule 2: What is a context window???

Its the window through which you enviously stare at people running megatoken context windows.

It’s a different tool, but for much the same end. I want to say it’s more because the device is cheaper than a typical stenography machine would cost, but I don’t know that for sure.

“I hear you’re a Romulan now, Father!”

Lots of planets have an Ireland.

Odd headline, since the quoted interview bits don’t actually say anything to do with wanting more spin-offs. But it shouldn’t be that surprising. Who doesn’t want to earn more money?

If there are spin-offs, it should be something new, rather than being tied to the past. Trek suffers a bit from nostalgia, and being over-reliant on it is one of the franchise’s biggest weaknesses.

There’s really good show material just looking at and dealing with the Federation’s bias towards organic humanoids, for example. We see it pop up repeatedly across multiple shows, where Starfleet/the Federation are perfectly happy allowing/doing things for non-humanoid/non-organic species that they would never have allowed if they weren’t.

Repurposing the EMH MK. I units for dilithium mining, compelling Maddox to use the information he learned about Data to create an explicitly lobotomised version to use as a workforce, or ordering Picard to deploy a memetic virus designed to kill all the Borg, for example. The Federation would never have done that to its humans, and the closest match would be more like something the Dominion would do. But since none of them are organic humanoids, all is okay.

Doctor Who.

They also just push new things at viewers. It’s inevitable that someone waiting for a Season 2 of a show they like might end up in a warren of other shows, and watch those instead, since they’re available.

Discoverability is also in the toilet. You can’t just turn on the television and find Star Trek. You have to be subscribed to the right streaming services in this landscape, and to do that, you have to want to watch it in the first place. It’s not like when Discovery was new, and there was more or less just Netflix that people either had or didn’t have.

Star Trek’s now in the unenviable position of trying to attract a new causal audience, but being set up in places where more dedicated viewers will be the ones that can find and watch it.

Conservation of mass-energy only really applies if you rely on the old 21st century idea that the universe’s fundamentals consist of time, space, matter, and energy.

Anyone who’s had a secondary school education knows that that’s an outmoded view of the universe. They didn’t realise that subspace existed, in much the same way that they did not realise that surviving records show that 21st century humans did not know the Earth was round until Cochrane took to orbit in the late 2000s, and proved it.

To be fair, the Turing Test is ancient. It might just be time for a new test.

ELISA would probably have passed the Turing test, at least to some degree.

It’s very flat. Did Voyager land on it a little too hard?

They do, but there may be better local alternatives, since the shipping can be quite high.

At the very least, he was seen as the face of the Wolf 359 massacre, and wasn’t seen in a good light because of it. A lot of Starfleet outright hate him, and we saw concerns being floated that he was compromised by the Borg now, and might betray Starfleet for them, hence his being kept out of the battle in First Contact.

This is why the pyrotechnics have been getting progressively more extreme, to compensate for the ships getting darker. All the energy not used for lighting has to go somewhere.

There’s also Syncthing Tray’s experimental android interface. You either need to install from apk, or use something like obtanium, but it may be less flaky than Termux.

I have much the same gripes about Voyager making the Warp 10 speed limit a universal hard limit, rather than something that the warp drive was simply not able to achieve.

At least Discovery’s could still pulled them back out of the rug with them not having to wring every single piece of dilithium for all it’s worth.

“If you go just a bit faster than the Voyager, the universe itself breaks, and all propulsion technologies are obsoleted past the threshold” is much harder to get around without something like Q shenanigans.

The cost has also shot up because a lot of the new frameworks are much more token heavy than the old ones.

So the original free plan might have made sense when people were only typing little questions into it, and using a handful of tokens, but is no longer cost-effective with things like modern agent pipelines constantly throwing tens of thousands of tokens at the service.

I tried running a little locally hosted agent thing on my computer the other day, and it was feeding a hundred thousand tokens at the model every few minutes, because it was keeping all the files in context. Sure, it hit the cache a lot, and so the effective cost would be less, but it’s still a lot more token usage than me poking the model with inane questions.

Sidewalking

They’re going when no-one has gone before, clearly.

Although the Enterprise in The Next Generation still takes the cake for nearly leaving the universe.

Voyager might also count if you include them jumping billions of years of time-distance thanks to Q meddling getting them tossed back and forth.