“Some of you may die, but it’s a risk I’m willing to take.” - Lord Farquaad and Musk

Perhaps he used something like the program at Regal Cinemas. For around $20 a month, you can view unlimited movies.

How are they evil? After doing a google search to see how they perform as a news organization, I’m genuinely curious about your viewpoint.

Smaller. Thinner.

Part of the reason why TNG was good beyond the first couple seasons was because of the open script submission policy that's no longer in existence. According to ex-Trek producer Ronald D. Moore, they were reading something like 3000 scripts a year. It allowed them to be choosy (though there were still some stinkers). Now that the characters are established, if the seasons were longer, it might be cool to see the open script submissions come back (though, as I'm typing this, maybe implementing this during or shortly after a writers strike would be a poor choice, even though there were limits to how many scripts one could submit before going through "official" channels). Anyway, one could argue that a huge amount of ideas need to be generated for a show as great as TNG to exist, more than a small group of writers could produce. If outside script admissions were allowed, I'm sure we'd see some great sci-fi episodes from writers who weren't even thinking "Star Trek" as they wrote them.

I'm not against filler, and my post may have come off as being that way. Not every story has to advance character or advance some storyline. I'm just against bad filler.

Ah. The Russian trolls/bots have discovered lemmy. It was nice while it lasted.

Reminds me of what I heard from a comedian a while back, about how restaurants slowly lose what made them great in the first place, until they become a poor imitation of Applebees, or similar restaurants, because “that’s what people want”. They then eventually fail, because if you want Applebees, you go to Applebees.

But how is Star Trek not doing so hot if I just read this:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/star-trek-franchise-made-2-202843856.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALfICqIPVLbKoRwsReQJxRCI-TT82SDIYzfpW-2AtJJIFkUDte6RYqje2cLjYdUSMHv8aIZAChVfJbG67Oc0gMeMq8JnQOsJL7BFn3bOVq88vqS2d91nJ_zezWnxi7NkvgDlCTj3o39JuAUUdGPT0Tq8fUHsiw7PWaskoR9cbDRb

Funniest thing I’ve read in a long time

The commenter is talking about adding heaters, not anti-aircraft weaponry. There’s plenty of examples of things developed by the military that are used in civilian products.

Small business owner here. Good regulations are what allows my customers to trust me, or at least trust that I’m not willing to go to prison for lying about my product, or worse.

This is what I noticed as well. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but they seem to have the appearance of being as unbiased as NPR, AP, or BBC.

Legally and practically, prenups are anything but passive. They’re proactive tools. They’re usually dormant, but they’re ready to be called into action.

Marriage is different things to different people. Some have every intention to make it work, no matter what. To them, a prenup is an anti-“burn the ship”. It’s a statement.

Also, tools like “find my” are not major breaches of privacy if both parties jointly agree to use them. For me and my family, it’s the ultimate expression of trust. I’m never somewhere I shouldn’t be, and I like my family knowing where I am, for a multitude of reasons.

There are two types of people who a tracker wouldn’t be effective for: those who are in an inappropriate location, and those who are constantly questioning why someone is in an innocent place, regardless of where it may be. However, at that point, the issue isn’t the trackers; it’s the people.

My initial reaction was that LCARS would be amazing, but after reading this response, this is the true, inclusive Star Trek way to do it.

Interesting. I’m going to love it here.

As a bald man, I support this.

Displaced would be a better word.

I didn’t read this as fanboy-ism. It’s simply the state of things. If another company wants to step up and produce a series of tech that’s as unfragmented as Apple, one that provides rudimentary protection and privacy, one that shuns ads and doesn’t depend on tracking for its revenue, I’m ready for it.

Interesting. If it’s not too personal, do the majority of people you know lean left or right?

Either way I’m using induction, built in or countertop.

TNG is my favorite for now because it finished well, in spite of the notoriously bad episodes that were in each season. SNW hasn't finished yet and could screw things up, so I can't say it's my favorite yet. But when comparing the two seasons of SNW to any two random seasons of TNG, SNW wins. Episode count and quality aren't necessarily linked, true, but my point is that there's a higher chance of introducing poor episodes when the season is longer. A longer season could produce 20 great episodes instead of 10, but I have yet to see a show where this happens.

Up until Trek started streaming, the longer seasons were all we had, so comparing NG to all the other shows before streaming, it's my favorite. Mainly comes down to the characters for me, as I think the storytelling in the network shows after TNG were just as strong as seasons 3-7 of TNG. And even though Disco and Picard had shorter seasons, they suffered under the weight of having to fill a predetermined episode count with a serialized show, so yes, episode count and quality aren't necessarily linked. But an episodic show with a shorter season means the show runners can be picky with the episodes they want to film, much as a chef can be picky with what dishes they want to present.