Miles O'Brien

I love a good upgrade. Some of these old systems predate the cardassian occupation.

bangs on control panel, side plate falls off

Oh, I’ll fix that…

Someone around my area keeps destroying about a dozen flock cameras, and a few have even got guards or security/trail cameras on them now after being replaced.

I congratulate whoever is doing this, and hope they never get caught.

Fuck surveillance states. Fuck flock in particular.

And the average person has (usually) no idea if what they’re being fed is even correct. But as long as it sounds correct to someone who has no idea…

“Why do you need another warp 5 core? These things are hard to make, you know!”

“Well, we plugged the last two you gave us together… In case you’re wondering, we did NOT hit warp 10, however, we found all kinds of new radiations to study!”

horrified Vulcan stares

That’s the neat part, they don’t!

I’d argue that a device that also happens to render the user invisible is not inherently a cloaking device.

A flintlock pistol is not legally a firearm in the US, and that distinction matters to quite a few people around here.

Now, ultimately the end result is the same (invisibility/shooty stick go boom) so in the end, the romulans would still consider it a cloak.

Wording is important. It isn’t a cloaking device. It may also cause the user to become invisible, but it is not a cloaking device.

Much in the way that a handgonne isn’t a pistol. And how a flintlock pistol isn’t legally considered a firearm in the United States (as the founding fathers intended)

That said? The romulans would use any excuse they feel like to launch an attack. They won’t care that it isn’t a cloak. They’ll say it doesn’t matter and the intention of the treaty was clear. Ultimately they don’t care about wording over intent, they’ll interpret the treaty in whichever way is most favorable for themselves and hope they’re still standing when the dust settles.

That said, I think any attack they launch would merely be a test of starfleet’s response. “if we attack are they going to let us keep what we take in exchange for ‘peace’, will they fight for its return, or would they press a counter-attack?” kind of thing.

Maybe I’m over thinking it.

Damn, I totally forgot about that bit!

Honestly I have only seen the final episode twice. I’ve seen all of season one about 10-13 times.

That is a perfect description of Insurrection.

I’ll be damned if I’m going through a singing episode.

You simply cannot see the wisdom of Mahanit.

I usually don’t like most singing episodes, but I liked the SNW one.

I was also never into TOS but SNW is great.

Lower Decks has become a comfort show.

So far discovery has held my interest, but there are so so many problems I have while watching it… My head cannon is that it’s an alternate time line that diverged thousands of years ago.

I don’t see myself watching Picard. I feel like Star Trek TNG left it at a good point with Insurrection (apologies to people who hated it, but it was my introduction to star trek and has a special nostalgia that I get to laugh about the terrible and/or poorly written parts)

Also I pretend nemesis doesn’t exist.

Does anyone for a moment think any article would use the phrase “Saudi/North Korean/Chinese president ‘closes’ US airspace” in any way if it were a threat to the US?

Only because you aren’t shaving your legs…

I know because… Reasons. Normal reasons.

$399.99

Lol

Lmao, even

I ain’t buying that shit. I will happily buy two 3d printers, upgrade them, and print a giant coffee table sized version before I spend that much on such a small set.

ahem that’s “NoJay Consortium”, if you please.

IS THERE AIR???

YOU DON’T KNOW!

Vanilla pudding in mayo jars.

Blue sport drink in index bottles.

Man’s gotta have hobbies.

If I wanted to go through the process of trying to recover my facebook, I guarantee I would get a few dozen people tossing out hand emojis and saying “amen” before anyone notices I’m not talking about the christian god

He was more than a hero.

He was a union man.

I used to work in a warehouse that made a HUGE deal about the employees using the proper recycling bin so the company can get a nice check from somewhere or other for “going green”

This warehouse recieved thousands of pallets every day.

Each pallet is wrapped with hundreds of square feet of plastic wrap.

Each box is individually wrapped with maybe 10ftsq-50 depending on size.

Each box contains goods in plastic bags. Many of them with plastic clamshell packaging.

The products get unwrapped, and placed in larger boxes on shelves.

When the items get distributed to stores, the items were put in plastic bags, boxed up and wrapped in plastic wrap, boxes placed on pallets that were automatically wrapped by machines in hundreds of square feet of plastic.

None of the plastic from the warehouse floor is separated from the general waste.

Remember, it’s your responsibility to reduce waste.

Man, the party that went on for decades about how democrats were going to make thoughtcrime illegal sure are speedrunning making thoughtcrime illegal.