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James R Kirk@startrek.website to Star Trek Social Club@startrek.websiteEnglish · 14 days ago

TIL that in 1996 they made a USS-Defiant CD player

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TIL that in 1996 they made a USS-Defiant CD player

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James R Kirk@startrek.website to Star Trek Social Club@startrek.websiteEnglish · 14 days ago
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  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    If you owned one of these and it broke it would have been replaced under warranty, but instead of shipping you another USS Defiant CD player, they’d send you a USS São Paulo CD player. You could still call it the Defiant after-the-the-fact, but deep down you would know it wasn’t the same.

    • James R Kirk@startrek.websiteOP
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      Laugh

    • kieron115@startrek.website
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      You got a Sao Paulo? All I got was a shitty Valiant.

  • Iced Raktajino@startrek.website
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    I would love to have one of those. Couldn’t find any active listings, but old listings had them going for like $250+ which isn’t too bad for a collector’s item, I guess.

    I did come across a TNG CD holder: https://www.ebay.com/itm/117030364928

    Apparently you can only fit 4 compact discs in a Galaxy class ship lol

    • James R Kirk@startrek.websiteOP
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      Wow, that’s very helpful for uh, holding… four CDs I guess.

      • yucandu@lemmy.world
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        “up to”.

        • James R Kirk@startrek.websiteOP
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          Oh wow even better! So this is great for people with four CDs, three CDs, maybe even two!

      • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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        There are five CDs! How many do you see now?

        • James R Kirk@startrek.websiteOP
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          THERE. ARE. FOUR. CDS 😭

    • kieron115@startrek.website
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      Depending on when it came out $250 wouldn’t even have been that expensive. I think the early discmans were about that price, albeit for a bundle that came with headphones and a car charger and stuff.

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    It looks nothing like the picture on the box

    • Wataba@sh.itjust.works
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      We have Defiant at home.

      It’s the Valiant.

  • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca
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    The 90s were a wild time to be alive.

  • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@lemmy.ca
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    Does it cloak?

  • hopesdead@startrek.website
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    That packaging is way too large.

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  • CoffeeTails@lemmy.world
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    Am I the only one thinking this liiks like AI slop? The text on the box is super inconsistent

    • GarboDog@lemmy.world
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      We thought so to, so we went ahead and looked up a few more boxes and nah that’s just how it was designed.

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        ooh okay! Also, I noticed it might be some lightning/shimmering effect making it look really odd.

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      Could also be a bad AI upscale. My iphone does it with text that’s far away

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    Did it have anti skip? Did it play mp3?

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