My father was once falsely accused of being a bak’targ. Calling Gowron Law helped restore honour to my house. 35/9 great service.

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Can’t you chuck it back into a reactor and reuse it that way, to help reduce the radioactivity, and get more power back out of it?

This is Kirk and Riker slander.

Kirk doesn’t deserve that kind of reputation, whereas Riker does.

Slight shame that the contractors didn’t start from the end. It could have been funnier if they had taken off the “er” instead.

Kbin has a report function, although I don’t know if reports Federate. They might not.

Lemmy does do reporting, although it’s not clear whether it’s just moderators, or whether the admins will also receive them.

Especially since doing that will let you Federate through compromised comments, and possibly affect other instances using the Federation network, unless they’re updated.

Yes. They got hacked. An admin account got compromised, and the hackers exploited a bug in Lemmy-UI (the web site) that let them do things like redirect users to another site that let them run Javscript. It seems to have let them collect some user tokens from accounts, and access an admin account that way.

Others did get hacked, or are vulnerable to it, but aren’t big enough targets?

Beehaw is closed, so they would have had to have an existing account to exploit the same bug (or go through something like Kbin), and Lemmy.world is the biggest Lemmy instance.

Even TOS had a blatant anti-racism episode where the conclusion was very much explicitly “if we don’t get along, we’ll be left extinct on an empty, dead husk of a planet”.

And if they could do that, someone else could use the same trick to do worse things, since they’re just running bare JavaScript.

No. The existing Lemmy-Lite that was advertised on join-Lemmy.org appears to be massively out of date, and no longer actively maintained.

It was a bug with Lemmy-UI, so you might be able to get away using an app or site that isn’t vulnerable. Whether that is Wefwef, one of the apps, like Jerboa, or something that is Federated, but not Lemmy, like Kbin, or Mastodon (things might be a bit clunky if you do, since Lemmy threads aren’t well handled by Mastodon).

Have you never been to /r/SubSim2Interactive?

Although you have to wonder how much advertisers would actually pony up if most of the Reddit users weren’t actual users at all. They want people to do the clicking, and if the users are all bots, they’re likely not going to bother wasting their money at that point.

The paternoster gang were pretty fun as a concept, and it’s a shame that they weren’t used more.

Although I also wouldn’t qualify them quite as companions, any more than the Lethbridges-Stewart would be.

It doesn’t seem to have been implemented for the time being. You might have to make do with using a search engine with the site:kbin.social/m/[magazine] parameter.

It’s pretty interesting as a Star Trek show, since I think that it is also one of the few that actually pushed its boundaries. It might not have been well-received, but it also tried to do something new, like Deep Space 9, and the original Star Trek, and stuck to that something new, despite having to find its footing under a myriad of production issues.

Although I would say that it wasn’t a direct adaptation in and of itself. It seemed to be following the lead of the 2009 films in that sense, seemingly leaning on some of their groundwork to try and “modernise” Trek. They didn’t quite succeed, but the attempt is at least commendable.

Personally, though, I’m more of a TOS fan, just because the world building seemed much more expansive on the older show, but TNG is also quite good.

At the same time, they can also be interesting in their own right, especially if you want to see how different things might merge and interact with each other.

Would Captain Kirk be very confused by Doctor Who, or Optimus Prime showing up on his ship, yes. Would it be interesting, but also cause the writers no end of headaches? Also yes.

I think Reason 2 might actually be a fairly good story in and of itself. You have someone who was an extraordinary being in their originating universe, suddenly finding out that they’re just another superhuman in another. That would be an excellent point of character development, and a way for them to be suddenly placed into a completely new perspective.

And when the majority of someone’s body is replaced by artificial limbs/organs/etc. At what point are they still human.

The Cyborg of Theseus?

Both it (and the original) also raise the subtle question of, if cybernetics are owned by a business, at which point are they considered a person in their own right, or just another piece of company property?

It depends a lot on who you ask.

Although I’m rather of the opinion that the “magic” died sometime before Voyager. It was already on the way out when the network executives tried to recapture The Next Generation with it, and also launch a new television network with it at the same time.

It just ended up trying to be both its own show, and a copy of another, not succeeding particularly well at both.

A lot of sci-fi (at least where TV/Films are concerned) keeps getting too bogged down in what it thinks that it should be, and doesn’t actually try to explore new possibilities or expand much, which generally means that the quality of sequels progressively gets worse, and the show ends up being a sort of even mush vaguely resembling the original.

The main example I could think of is probably Star Trek. It’s too fixated on everything as it is, so even things that are supposed to be radical changes just re-establish the status quo with a new coat of paint. A radical show with radical viewpoints would never take off, as newer iterations would try to emulate the success of the show, and keep to the old.

It’s part of why later Star Trek shows seem to be a bit more conservative, by comparison. Sure, values have changed since the original show, but the level of radical progressiveness has also gradually wound down too. Compared to the original show, which tried to push things from all angles, something like Star Trek: Discovery would seem almost conservative. Most of its more progressive elements are fairly standard for the time period it is set in, rather than pushing the envelope like the original did.

Similarly, all the shows end up trying to emulate the same formula, and even the same rough starship design. The Enterprise was originally specially designed and built to seem future-y, but many other of their starships since them seem to just be iterative designs on the original. Even one of them set 900 in the years in the future seems to have almost identical technologies, polities, and culture as one set in the 24th century. The visuals are different, but everything seems to be effectively the same under the coat of paint.

Not having that baggage is probably why up-and-coming shows, like The Orville, tend to be able to get away with more, since there isn’t a previous Orville that it keeps trying to recapture, just yet, which should mean that it gets more leeway.

From a non Star Trek standpoint, it’s also rather happened to Star Wars. The newer films are just trying to recapture the older films, rather than expand into their own thing, to the detriment of the films as a whole. The latest trilogy seems like a rehash of the old ones, down to having what is basically another death star, Rebellions, Vader-ish Masked Sith Lord, and Friendpatines.

I don’t really have much of a solution, besides wanting the shows to just branch out more. I think Star Trek in the 32nd century should have gone with a brand new slate, where everything was different (from both an ideological, political, and technological standpoint), and the 23rd century ship that ended up there would be woefully outdated, not just on paper, but with the technology it was fitted with.

Star Wars has a bunch of interesting things that it could run with, such as the aftermath of the major wars, where the Rebellion is now having to deal with multiple smaller wars from various factions under the splintering empire, or have to secure its place in the resulting power vacuum.

One show that hasn’t succumbed to this as much is Doctor Who, but that had a major revamp in its 2005 revival which drastically changed the nature of the show itself. Still, it doesn’t seem to be particularly immune to it either. Behind-the-scenes, they’re suddenly going back to the old composer and old showrunners, and the main character doesn’t seem to evolve too much beyond “conflicted, but brilliant and eccentric hero”. It also seems to be slowly settling into its own ruts, as well, with the most recent run rather resetting a redeemed villain’s character development suddenly.

As a slight tangent, I also feel like that considering the messaging of the show itself, there could be quite a bit of interesting mileage that could be achieved by having a companion who is a species that is normally an enemy. Maybe something like a Dalek.