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The no restart is kind of awesome. WebGPU progress is also great, even if not on Linux yet.

As said on the Daystrom crosspost, the bartender is the first live action appearance of an Edosian, dirst introduced in TAS.

Also, I’m pretty sure this episode contains the first live action appearance of an Edosian, first introduced in TAS and appearing in ever animated Trek series since.

You’re right that the attempt wasn’t necessarily malicious. I feel it can be possible to have good intentions and still end up doing something wrong, whether that be sexist, racist, or otherwise hurtful.

Inaccurate cultural depictions can take away control of a people’s story and misrepresent them in such a way that distracts from the fact that they are a present-day people living their own everyday lives.

Of course, I think the failures in Chakotay’s character development that you mention are also very real and are a major factor in the failure of his character.

Overall, though, I still quite enjoy Voyager.

How far did you watch into Prodigy? Let’s just say it gradually gets less forgettable - I think it really picks up mid-season 1.

I do love Lower Decks, though.

Another good one:

If you don’t get it: ::: spoiler spoiler

I know someone who read the book, and they said the show stayed mostly true to it plotwise; it tended not to skip things and actually added details.

Finally! Someone else recognizes the premium quality entertainment that is Murderbot!

I seriously recommend this show to any Trekkie.

Or, my fan theory is that since Picard demonstrates the Q may not be totally linear, Trelane is just Q2. At the very least, we know they can play around with time.

Reminds me of when I threw Debian Trixie on my freshly decommissioned high school Chromebook - with Bcachefs. Luckily, it wasn’t a daily driver, just a toy; the thing had an AMD Stoney Ridge APU that you had to use special compiler flags on to get working.

Part of me wants to buy/borrow the Lower Decks DVDs just so I can get better screen rips on Memory Alpha.

Then again, I also kind of want to fork Memory Alpha because at this point, you basically can’t use Fandom without an ad blocked.

But that’s such a huge undertaking because I’d have to find hosting, import the large database dump (getting it, or at least a version from late May, isn’t so hard - just check Special:Statistics), delete what I don’t need, fix/rebuild templates, replace images, check tens of thousands of pages, remove Memory Alpha administrative pages) get the word out, etcetera.

It’d almost be awesome if it were a .website project, but even if it ever got off the ground, I’d worry the traffic might be unsustainable.

I agree on most of those counts, except the Chakotay one is actually very real; if you didn’t fully read the article (and I knew this already before reading it), a “Native American” cultural consultant, only to fond out the dude was a complete phony, so nearly everything that show depicts of Chakotay’s culture is either pulled from stereotypes or made up entirely.

I think good, truly easy video editors are a dying breed. I loved Windows Live Movie Maker - rest in peace.

These days, I think it’s worth it just to learn a video editor. A lot of the skills transfer; I haven’t used DaVinci before, but I’ve used other major proprietary professional video editors like Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Pro - the skills transfer. Just search how to do a thing you want to do a few times, and you’ll find it gets easier.

As others have said, I think KDEnlive is quite good; I haven’t had a huge amount of stability issues. From what I remember (granted, I may be out of date), OpenShot felt really jank in general; I used Shotcut for a while but had stability issues and UI annoyances. Comparatively, I enjoy KDEnlive.

I personally love DS9 and think that it has aged better than TNG. I think its S1 is not amazing, but certainly one of the better first seasons. It has plenty of good enough episodes that don’t depend heavily on the upcoming plot and leave your brother in a good place if he wants to start watching for himself.

A few suggestions would be:

• In The Hands of the Prophets: Overall an almost prophetic episode, in the most terrifying way possible. A well-done drama episode with great political commentary. A lot of the season built up to it, but it’s such an early period in the show that it’s not TOO much context
• Dax: A full helping of everything Trek, from alien trials to crew collaboration to space mysteries. It basically explains the Dax thing for you, just leaving an interesting story. Vortex: Odo-focused, but also has some “crew on space mystery” bits. Also makes a mystery of core information in the show, meaning minimal canon dependency and once again leaving your brother in a good place to watch.
• Duet: Strong Kira episode that’s also a good summary of the Bajoran-Cardassian conflict.
• Captive Pursuit: I think it’s a solid, typical Trek episode. I think the only impression issues it might give are it’s very O’Brien-centric, and it might register a bit on the “aliens who represent no particular real life ethnicity but are still kind of iffy”-o-meter. But otherwise, it’s a low-canon, medium-quality episode.

Holes and crap! Measure of a Man might be genius. Intellectually engaging, good acting, but boring (no offense) enough that other parts of the show can impress as well!

I disagree. I think the Dominion War context is way too important.

I kind of feel like Prodigy struggles the first half of the first season… as a Prodigy lover, I’ll say it certainly gets there, but even then, let’s say it wasn’t until season 2 that Jankom Pog no longer made me want to find out what Tellarite carnitas taste like…

Did you compress with JPEG? Also, did you grab from the Blu-Rays, or just from the P+ web viewer?

Because Paramount is sadistic and limits those to 360p.

You can self-sign and self-enroll secure boot keys. Can’t say it’s an easy process, though - I had a lot of misery with it on my Surface Go 1st Gen. Might be better on my Thinkpad.

I believe Trelane is seen an Andorian by most suffering the delusion. I can’t tell if they still see him as such after the illusion is broken, but that may add to the confusion and prevent Spock from recognizing him.

Also, this moment was awkward and notable for Spock, but not so traumatic that he’d have Trelane’s voice and mannerisms flashbubled in to the extent he could recognize Trelane several years later, especially considering on the Enterprise, you’re encountering an all-powerful being every month or so. It’s probably hard to remember, “this one’s childish” or “this one’s feisty.”

Now the big question is… why couldn’t Trelane cause a mass delusion to make people play soldiers or something when they come across him in TOS? It’s possible that similar to how the continuum can limit Q or Q2, they limit Trelane.

Which leads me to a theory… if as implied in Picard, the Q aren’t entirely linear, what if this makes it possible for Trelane and Q2 to be the same person? The father over shoulder for all eternity thing certainly matches up.

Although, I do think it’s a bit too early for Memory Alpha to go declare Q is Trelane’s father.