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Lower Decks. Excellent adult oriented comedy that's also canon to Trek.

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lemmy.world

She's got Lok'tar ogar and Horde symbol tattoos so she's cool in my book.

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lemmy.world

Any idea what the binary tat is supposed to say? I get "Poeira" from a binary to ASCII converter, which is apparently "Dust" in Portuguese. But that seems kinda an odd choice to have tattooed on yourself in binary.

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mander.xyz

Maybe the beginning of poeira estelar, meaning star dust? As in, “we’re all star dust”. She could be a Brazilian or Portuguese Trekker.

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Here is a better pic of the whole block from her deviantart:

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lemm.ee

I can't remember which Trek novel it was, but there was a claim that Trelane was a very young member of the Q.

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ummthatguyreply
lemmy.world

No idea, but I've heard the theory thrown around for some time.

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Dagwood222reply
lemm.ee

Yeah, pretty much every race Kirk and Spock ran into was either Stone Age, late XXth Century, or unimaginably advanced. And they all wore bikinis.

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Damagereply
feddit.it

Realistically, the chances that other species you encounter in a vast galaxy could be at your same technological level are low

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Dagwood222reply
lemm.ee

That's one beef I have with the Trek universe; everyone has warp drive and similar ships.

I want a version where there are plant people who use no metal; or aquatic people who never found fire.

No more five fingered aliens!

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Damagereply
feddit.it

That’s one beef I have with the Trek universe; everyone has warp drive and similar ships.

Well, I love Trek but it's rather simplistic, the galaxy is essentially an enlarged planet Earth, so it's kinda fitting that the technology level is equalized, everyone trades and spies, so...

I want a version where there are plant people who use no metal; or aquatic people who never found fire.

That's a budget issue. The story was more important than the alien physiology... With nowaday's CG it's going to be easier to do that.

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Dagwood222reply
lemm.ee

The same way you had 'The Addams Family' and 'The Munsters'...

I want a series that drops all of Trek's history and starts fresh with a new ship. No five fingered aliens. Truly strange creatures. No Vulcans or Klingons, 100% new.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_Anderson

Poul Anderson was an old school science fiction writer of the Heinlein/Asimov era.

He specialized in world building, often starting with a sun and then figuring out what the planets would look like. Once he had a good plaent he'd create the inhabitants.

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samus12345reply
lemmy.world

According to another post here, "poeira" for the first 6. The 7th I can't make out, but the 8th appears to be "d".

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teftreply
lemmy.world

I grabbed a better pic of her from her deviantart page with the tattoo more clearly shown:

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Poeira±das&e[strelas] - 'stardust' in Portuguese.

I'm guessing on the letters in brackets. The rest I got from the picture.

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