Woah awesome. Watching it now and this guy could have been on Star Trek, damn! He’d fit right in.

Fair.

I don’t think we’d have lasted long as a species without a little bit of “redundancy”.

This is the only reason I’m not stressing over never using my PS4. I’ve already tested it with GoldHEN

I was just looking around at the code for Lemmy and Voyager and I agree it’s 100% a web frontend thing. Take this with a grain of salt because I’m not a programmer, just a long time tech guy, but it looks like Lemmy uses pict-rs as it’s media backend and pict-rs has a configuration to transcode images into .avif to save space as of version 0.5.

https://git.asonix.dog/asonix/pict-rs/src/commit/f5b8e4416734ef7ced86dba05808cb155fe243fb/releases/0.5.0.md#quality-configuration

Edit: I’ve just noticed that my picture uploaded as a PNG and now I’m even more confused.

Edit: It’s a Lemmy thing.

I believe that AVIF is the preferred format on iOS devices? It’s the still image version of AV1 (AV1 Image File Format) and it tends to have better quality per size than JPEG.

Find someone who looks at you the way Kurn looks at Picard.

Lol I love his line just before it where he’s like “how old is this? It looks like it has been lying in the sun for some time”

Oh okay, neat. I wonder if they took some inspiration from the original Trill design when deciding where to put the face ridges.

What species is she here? I thought only Trill could carry the symbiote long term. Or was that just another lie by the Trill Symbiosis Commission?

I can’t speak for everyone but if there was no capitalism and I needed for nothing I would seriously just go door to door asking folks if they had any computer/tech problems I could take a look at for them. Can you imagine how absolutely insane O’Brien would go if he had no problems to fix?

Instead of money, people look to accomplishments for social status and distraction.

That’s basically canon, established in the uhh season 1 finale I think it was? They unfreeze some people from the 21st century and the one rich guy is questioning what the point of it all is if money isn’t around anymore.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard: This is the 24th century. Material needs no longer exist.

Ralph Offenhouse: Then what’s the challenge?

Captain Jean-Luc Picard: The challenge, Mr. Offenhouse, is to improve yourself. To enrich yourself. Enjoy it.

I’m guessing they also rely on various in-system defenses such as Luna and Mars as well. Utopia Planetia surely has some ships that could be deployed to Earth in hours or maybe even minutes if needed. What kind of crew complement they’d have available is a different story.

Keep in mind also that we only see little snippets of time portrayed in the show. Even individual episodes can have gaps of days or weeks between scenes! The show wouldn’t be very exciting if every other episode was just them lazily cruising to their next mission and filling out crew reports or whatever.

Edit: Yeah, I could see planetary life being pretty unfulfilling. Like… what are you gonna figure out that hasn’t already been figured out? Gotta go out into the great unknown to solve a new mystery.

Deep Space 9 showed that runabouts could be operated almost entirely by voice control (Odo was able to pilot one without much difficulty). I’d imagine shuttles would be just as easy or easier to pilot given their more limited equipment loadout.

The crew of a starship can be offered shore leave anytime the ship is docked at a space station or a friendly planet so long as operational requirements allow. Hell, there was an episode where Picard basically forced Riker to take leave along with about half of the crew because they “wouldn’t require a full ship’s complement” for that mission. So it seems to be almost entirely up to the captain. Individuals (at least from senior staff, not sure about the lower decks) could take personal leave at the captain’s discretion as well (worf travelling to his tournament, geordi attempting to attend a symposium on warp fields, etc).

In the episode with the worm parasite things, Picard mentions that it’s rare for a deployed starship to return to Earth so maybe their planetary defenses rely on orbital weapons?

Needs the goofy teeth from the original lol

I got this through sheer indecisiveness on my first playthrough.