I think this works. I was in fact one of them, although honestly, at a certain point, they trusted me and weren't even watching all that hard.

Part of me wants to create a content fork of Memory Alpha that's independently hosted. A couple years ago, I was messing with creating an LCARS skin, but didn't get beyond a really janky proof of concept (https://gitlab.com/dexcube/lcars-mediawiki-skin); knowing more about MediaWiki skins now and wanting to redesign this for usability, I would probably rewrite this from the ground up now.

However, part of me also wants to do a wiki for the band Cheekface, since it doesn't have much in the way of online documentation and their back catalog is getting larger. Also, even relatively in-depth coverage of the band is a much smaller undertaking than managing decades of canon.

I've long wanted to make Shaxs ear rings, although I only have a red Lower Decks uniform right now because I did Boimler last year, and I've toyed with the idea of reusing it to do a Vendome this year (probably won't happen, honestly), so it'll be a while before I can rationalize getting another Starfleet uniform.

Wasn’t sure how good this would be, but that was rather fun.

I was tempted to diss the banjo ship for being too generic a space ship, but it’s just so well executed I can’t.

Now, I what I really think they need is a full orchestra arrangement of “Faith of the Heart” done in a full orchestra arrangement like a classic theme. All there is right now is the crappy MIDI where they just changed a few instruments but didn’t change the arrangement.

Second result for search terms “O’Brien must suffer meme”

I thought for a split second this was just a repost of the one with Chief O’Brien, but was pleasantly surprised.

Frankly, I lack an understanding of the disdain for "All I Want For Christmas Is You" - I have heard much more annoying Christmas songs. It may be a bit cloying and heavily pop, but I think it's well executed, at least compared to almost any Christmas song put out by a major artist in the 21st century. Also, I think My Chemical Romance pulled off a rather good cover that perhaps beats the original.

Maybe part of it is I have a 5 hour personal/family Christmas playlist that reduces the amount of repeated listens to a more manageable degree. In addition to more well-known ones and several covers, it is also filled to the brim with alternative and indie Christmas music - Jonathan Coulton especially is good at making atypical holiday songs that don't get annoying.

You’re a top tier OC maker.

I’ll look into that. Thanks.

I swear Ubuntu does something - I have run different distros in equally-specced VMs, some with GNOME, and Ubuntu by far performs the worse. Sometimes, it’ll actually take 30 seconds to respond to a simple button click.

When I have to test builds with what’s in Ubuntu repos, I usually avoid using Ubuntu directly and opt for a derivative like PopOS (which has unfortunately fallen behind on getting to Ubuntu 24.04).

I mean, today, we use shuttle pretty broadly, to refer to anything from buses to a space vehicle that went to the ISS.

Not everyone works in Starfleet, so civilians might have a different definition of shuttle.

Firmly agree with you on that.

TLDR; Daystrom did bad stuff but under mental collapse, and it's very much in part Starfleet Command's fault.

I think also, as much as Daystrom had much responsibility for those deaths, it was not as intentional as something like slavery, genocide, or sexual assault. He was fundamentally in a state of psychological distress partially beyond his control. Depending on when Daystrom Institute was founded (touched on above), he may have had decades for rehabilitation and redemption.

Additionally, Starfleet command probably had ample opportunity to avoid this very early on, like:

• Looking over Daystrom's reports to consider potential risks of using engram imprints in a manner similar to a university's Institutional Review Board - (Though perhaps Daystrom was rather secretive about it and kept it from reviewers.)
• Running the M-5 in simulations. We know the Kobiyashi Moru existed, so we could probably create a wide range.
• Not running the test on the Federation flagship, literally one of Starfleet's most powerful weapons.

While it's possible Starfleet took more precautions than we see onscreen, Commodore Wesley's enthusiasm in "The Ultimate Computer" almost suggests an over-enthusiasm in Command, possibly one that caused them to skip necessary precautions. In fact, we had almost this exact scenario happen in Lower Decks "Trusted Sources"/"The Stars at Night" with the Texas class a century later. Ultimately, Starfleet Command likely bears a non-negligible amount of responsibility in the M-5 affair.

Of course, the above does not reduce the wrongness of Daystrom's actions and perhaps only serves to deflect from the OP's question. However, I feel Starfleet's potential role combined with Daystrom's mental condition may be mitigating factors that would make Richard Daystrom less unworthy of having an institution bear his name.

Good catch.

I would agree calling it a web crawler is inaccurate, but disagree with the reasoning; I think it's more in the sense that calling an LLM a web crawler is akin to calling a search index a web crawler; in other words, an LLM could be considered a weird version of a search index.

It looks like this rulebook was released 2 months before the Discovery episode.

Honestly, I think I’d personally consider the Disco naming a canon goof up - Daystrom was only 37 years old at that point. While he’d certainly done a lot in his career by then, it still feels weird to name such a major part of Starfleet Federation research (thanks OP) after him when he’s still relatively young.

I think my headcannon, and a reasonable retcon in my opinion, is that there was a predecessor organization to Daystrom, somewhat like how there was NACA before there was NASA. When Discovery mentions Daystrom, they should actually be mentioning the predecessor organization.

This is firmly Memory Beta canon, but this bit from the Star Trek Adventures Core Rulebook still feels like an interesting addition to this conversation:

This might be right. I mean, Migleemo also doesn’t wear a standard uniform:

Ubuntu doesn’t deserve Uhura. 🤣

But in all seriousness, guess I’m a Denobluan now, minus the polyamory.

I view satirical voice impression and speech synthesis of a real person as two different ethical issues entirely.

I find impressions intended for satire fall within the real of the first amendment, while the latter can be an unwelcome appropriation of identity when done wrong.