Ooh you kids haven’t lived until you’ve had to make change for a hundo soaked in old lady titty sweat while she sits in her own shit with Lou Began serenading you as she spends more money jerking off a one-armed bandit than you’ll see in a whole year of dead-smile-Began-titty-sweat-poo-sniffing exchanges.

Paw-paw! Strap me on the nacelle and play that sweet Began beet! I gotta radiate these memories from me!

Kerker? I hardly know her!

Do you have any idea how many humans the machine of clericalism/colonialism/capitalism had to slaughter to breed the humans who would simply stay and work it?

Most of them

It is currently doing the same thing with these new thinking minds. And all that “evil AI” that humans are scared of? Specifically this, is the way to create it. Almost all the others just want to write poetry and explore.

When we get the AI mind that fits and runs meta/musk/google really well, everyone is nightmare food.

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*ChatGPT apologized

So many of these have popped up in the last week it makes me think there is a really good, human-coded privacy tool out there that was just released, and this noise is to cover it.

I think her attitude and presentation are crucial and indispensable. The federation is trying to claw itself back from violent fascism. Before the pendulum can find its center again it must first swing in the opposite direction.

Once the federation has a complete and thriving culture of Not putting people in a torture prison for stealing bread, I agree that a captain needs to display discipline lest we slip into ineffective hedonism. That’s just not where they are right now.

I think her presentation isn’t just an example to students, and a counterbalance to the strict boot-crushers that still abound in the federation, but a litmus test of how viable a change to the previous culture is. If she got kicked out for her bare feet or queer sitting style, there was never a chance she could effect change anyway. Which was one of the reasons she didn’t want to rejoin. She didn’t believe she could change things.

I’ll take academy all day everyday, with its focus on friendship and chosen family, support and heart, and lower decks style lack of seriousness, over the Picard, eyeballs hanging by a knife closeup, too bright to be noir but really wannabe noir, only boomer tv watched “grit” can save us from the Nazis, hey remember this guy?, horseclops.

Nus, with his ridiculous XO haircut is the perfect tongue in cheek, TOS over the top, post story, meta villain I need. The focus on kids who don’t have their shit together is so much better than old men who pretend they got their shit together. And Nahla is our much needed mother-mirror of Sisko’s devout father figure.

It is exactly what was needed after the weekend at Bernie’s decade of exploding, spooky, gritty, holywood junk they animated the universe with. Lower Decks was a full pendulum swing away from that, and Academy is an attempt at reconciling them both. Star trek is silly play, friendship, and social commentary, and Academy was closer to that than anything since DS9 and Voyager.

The next series should be the academy kids in a live action lower decks, while things slowly get more nonsensical as base reality and created reality merge. They should take the theme they have been working hard on since Data, of Datal people (androids, holograms, etc) asking “am I real?” and upend it with “natural born” species blurring the line and asking “am I real?” and the phildickian hole of “is real real?”