You just sent me down a rabbit hole of Memory Alpha and the various uniforms lol. This is unrelated (I just found it interesting), but apparently there’s even a desert robe uniform:

Apparently I really am terrible at picking up on subtle costume details. I never noticed that the robes they were wearing in “Shadows and Symbols” were Starfleet issue let alone indicated their division.

The concept is inherently flawed when you introduce an aspect (LLM) that can and will hallucinate (read: make shit up) when it’s trying to present reality.

As far as I’m concerned, there is no place for that anywhere remotely close to news.

“AI” and "News’ should be as far apart as “good idea” and "bad idea’.

Voyager was my first Trek, so I always assumed they were supposed to be green in that era. Maybe I just can’t discern colors, but the DS9 and VOY science uniforms look pretty similar to me, lighting notwithstanding - DS9 was a lot darker than Voyager (until TNG/DS9 move on to the later uniforms where the undershirt is the division color anyway).

Yeah. ABC did crossover episodes all the time in the 90s. They were all cringy lol.

No cheese, no problemo. I’ll just replicate some milk and wait for it to curdle.

Edit: Not sure why the audio and subtitles are so out of sync but you get the gist of it.

Also, the lights on the chair look like accent marks, so from now on I’m pronouncing it “Còmmánder”

All this talk about flip phones, I almost forgot bag phones existed:

Still using Voyager door chime: https://www.trekcore.com/audio/doors/voy_door_chime.mp3

If/when I tire of that, I’m absolutely going to switch to the communicator chirp. Sadly, I haven’t found a way to play a sound when I flip it open.

Very low-end Android phone I dumbed down for a “30 day dumbphone challenge” (wanted to be able to re-purpose it / un-dumb it afterward). Ended up liking it so much, I stuck with it as my daily driver.

Still rocking one 😎

Edit/Bonus: Watching DS9 on a flip phone, as far away from the concept of god as possible:

It may have its flaws, but I feel that ENT is often overlooked in the meme circuit, and I"m doing my part lol

Dead Stop is definitely one of its top-shelf episodes, too.

I’m not sure if there’s a solution here, but I’d like to urge people to avoid lemmy.ml hosted communities in favor of communities on more reasonable instances.

Did that months ago; defederated completely when they turned into Lemmygrad-lite. At first I missed some more active FOSS communities, but since then, others on different instances have become more active. programming.dev has a lot of communities that overlap with some of the bigger FOSS ones on .ml so maybe check out what they’ve got.

If there’s a community that only exists there, be the change you want to see: create it somewhere else, nurture it, and give it time to grow. You’re not the only one making this complaint about .ml, and you probably won’t be the last.

Related: I genuinely feel that ml being the official or at least de-facto flagship instance is turning people away.

Edit: Oh yeah. Didn’t recognize your username at first, but I was looking at the modlog the other day from my LW account, and saw a bunch of individual community bans from Dessalines and wondered what was up. Figured it was something exactly like this, and it was. Thanks for sharing.