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That’s when you load all middle managers onto a spaceship and send them off under the guise of colonising a new world.

make it so the users can’t close the tab until they bought something.

Why do they always request that? They’ve never seen any website on the internet work like that yet they actually think that they are the first people to come up with that idea.

It would still have to be in at least somewhat of a consistent format. Even a human would require that.

If they’re just going to write the details however they feel on any particular day and then just expect someone or something to be able to interpret that they’re going to have a bad time.

Now the self checkouts are being decommissioned and we’re going back to regular human cashiers.

Maybe this is North American thing because in Europe they never really got rid of human cashiers, they just had the automated systems alongside the human cashiers.

I don’t know of any store that went over to 100% self-checkout

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The Peston comma

Admittedly I haven’t exactly been keeping up with the news but it’s been radio silence for a few years now so I am kind of sceptical.

The fact that they didn’t immediately go into season 4 after finishing season 3, which is what most shows do, kind of implied that the studio at least felt done with it. Which personally I think was short-sighted. You don’t leave large gaps like that because it increases the likelihood that the actors are going to go off and get other gigs. It’s not like they’re being paid in the interim so they kind of have to.

Discovery gets more hate then it deserves

I think the problem is the writers clearly had a show that they wanted and for some bizarre reason they decided that it was also going to be a Star Trek show even though they clearly didn’t actually want it to be Star Trek.

If they just made it its own thing it would have been fine, but all this Star Trek lore kept popping up and then they had to come up with some hand wavy explanation for why their particular vision doesn’t fit established canon, and the whole thing just didn’t work as a result.

I would have been totally down for a “magic exists alongside the sci-fi technology” show. There’s a lot they could have done with that concept, but then for some reason they kept trying to introduce Klingons into it.

I was hoping that Jeffrey Combs would show up in Lower Decks as like a crew member or something, and everyone would claim to recognise him, and he’d just have a line like “Everyone says that”.

I suppose they kind of did it with Nick Locano

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And the computer was like oh I totally know what this arbitrary molecular structure you just programmed in is, and totally know its name, so I’ll just flash that up on the screen. Because that’s definitely how material science works.

I’m pretty sure it is actually a thing that can be made. Presumably not very efficiently though as we don’t see it all that much.

In one of the movies there is an alien spaceship that wants to communicate with the whales except they’re all extinct, for some reason the lack of the whales is causing all of the ships to shut, so the crew have to travel back in time to the 20th century to get a whale for the alien ship to communicate with.

Yeah that was the plot, the original Star Trek movies were kind of bad really.

Starfleet Academy is basically just going to higher education right? That’s how I always saw it, you would complete your required education and then if you wanted you could go to university, and one of the options was Starfleet. So presumably anyone who graduates is essentially automatically eligible to join.

Presumably some people don’t join though, they only go to the academy to learn how to be an engineer or a pilot and then go work on the civilian ship.

I would be amazed if they can actually build the train using only American parts like they claim.

The only four months I don’t have those episodes on is laserdisc, I don’t know if they ever even made a laser disc version.

Which was pretty much only a threat to Geordie and Barkley as everyone else basically just played poker with Einstein.

So they are all clones or what?

Really? They have loads of silly episodes

There is a picture somewhere of the girl as an adult. She looks exactly the same.

I think they meant successful ones. You know where you hit the target