Threads - GuyFleegman

With the benefit of 11 years of hindsight, lets talk about Star Trek Into Darkness. Cards on the table: I don’t like this movie at all. It’s probably my least favorite Star Trek story across the entire canon....

What's the deal with enlisted Starfleet ranks?

O’Brien is a “chief,” Jonas and Cutler hold the rank of “Crewman,” and I think those are the only enlisted personnel who have lines and appear in more than one episode. Starfleet seems ridiculously officer heavy....

How big is the Enterprise? (www.youtube.com)

Good video, fun channel. But it unearthed a memory in me: does anyone else remember a website, probably from a while back, that let you superimpose various sci-fi ships over Google Maps? I swear this was a thing, and it was great for getting a sense of scale of these ships....

MRW my instance fixes federation with Lemmy World and I can see Ten Forward again (i.imgur.com)

Federation with Lemmy.World is spotty since LW updated to 0.19.3

Very active post on LW: lemmy.world/post/12747897...

Should there have been a Voyager episode or two after they got home?

I get it: Voyager was about Voyager’s voyage and there’s a strong case to be made that it ended exactly when it should have....

That's a Starfleet expression for "fuck around and find out" (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

What went wrong with the Ambassador class?

When compared to other Enterprise classes such as the Constitution, Excelsior, and Galaxy, we’ve seen a surprisingly small number of Ambassador class ships, both in terms of unique vessels and on-screen appearances. What might account for the relative dearth of these ships?

Evidently not a UNIX system (i.imgur.com)

Kataan seems like a pre-industrial society until the end of the episode, when all of a sudden they're launching a rocket. What's up with that?

The door controls in Ressik are sci-fi beepy dealies, as if the director realized at the last minute they needed something to visually indicate this is a space-age civilization. Because… look at everything else!...

And in some timelines, it's a mouse (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

Jellico and Riker didn't get along. Who's fault was that?

Jellico’s reputation for being an ass goes beyond the hull of the Enterprise, hence Mariner’s comment about being assigned a “Jellico-type” captain. But every time I watch “Chain of Command,” sometimes it’s hard to tell of Geordi, Riker and Troi aren’t being a bunch of unprofessional softies....