hopesdead

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I saw this question posses on Mastodon. If you got lost in space and rescued by aliens who made you live in a simulation for the next 40 years based on a book, what would it be?

For me: The Great Gatsby. I would have to play the part of Nick and just get drunk all the time.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 10 points 1 day ago

I would immediately cite anti-LGBTQIA+ sentimentality as the contributing factor. While lots of people understand that homosexuals aren’t the only people who can contract the infection, I’m sure the treatments being aimed primarily at homosexuals as the highest risk group, will make certain people unwilling to believe it is a potential risk.

It sucks that safe sex isn’t a thing being discussed. However it does feel like anti-abortion laws would be unnecessary if teens had access to sought information. I’m sure with the advent of Internet based pornography, teens are being influenced more by that with no educational tools to say that people in pornography (I am sure not everyone across the industry follows health guidelines but for the “professionals” you’d hope they do) have access to testing and other health related care.

If we are going to be cynical about this, one reason I suspect sex education is no longer being thought would be to fall inline with twisted alt-right/conservative values about women NEEDING to have children. With lack of information about contraception, teens might believe they can’t be safe. Maybe they actually have access to contraception but aren’t aware. Maybe contraception is being banned. If you have no contraception, then the rate of pregnancy will increase and maybe those anti-abortion lawmakers wish to see more unwanted pregnancies instead of anyone wishing to engage in recreational sex that doesn’t aim for procreation.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 3 points 3 days ago

I’ve heard supposedly those people got severely taxed for doing that.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Taxes? I don’t know full details or if this is even tangentially related (or maybe it is the same thing). There is a supposed practice as some universities (maybe just the non-UC’s and Cal State’s) that if you were a relative (I’m assuming immediate family only) working at say USC for example, you could get accepted into the university without paying tuition. The only catch was you got severely taxed (something like 30%; of what, I don’t know) for attending tuition-free.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 7 points 5 days ago

I’ve heard of people being told to drink vinegar to try and pass a THC test.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Considering the news out of Russia about making childless families ideology illegal has been in the headlines… does this dude think he works for Russia?

EDIT: Sorry, forgot to add the word “ideology”.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago

The time that elapsed was approximately nine years. A lot could have occurred in between.

 

I guess the only case we can examine is The Doctor. Whenever The Doctor uses a transporter, what traveling: the lights or the mobile emitter?

There have been many cases which The Doctor has become solid so other solid objects can no longer pass through them. If the object we are seeing being beamed is the mobile emitter, then is it necessary for them to be on a separate pad? I imagine the person accompanying The Doctor could just hold the emitter instead.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 20 points 1 week ago

And they don’t want to include the non-Judeo-Christian religions, I’m sure.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 6 points 1 week ago

They didn’t abbreviate with a period. Sure is confusing.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Set aside the predictability. Would you say the same goes for “Day of Honor” when Seven is willing to give herself up?

 

Did Captain Janeway do the morally right or morally wrong thing refusing to let Seven of Nine return to The Collective?

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Correct me if I am wrong, I remember he was associated with Chris Brown, helping spotlight them.

Anyone associated with Chris Brown is not in my book, a good person.

 
[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

What is the goal here?

 

The url links to the same press announcement from back in August. According to the post on the franchise’s official Facebook page, the event will in some way involve the U.S.S. Enterprise-D that will be unlike any other.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 2 points 3 weeks ago

Right. I totally forgot about that. Well maybe I want to hear it from the artist being invited to perform.

 

https://trekmovie.com/2024/09/06/podcast-all-access-star-trek-and-robert-hewitt-wolfe-revisit-the-sept-2024-bell-riots-of-ds9s-past-tense/

I am personally annoyed. The “Past Tenese” panel at STLV, did not happen at the scheduled time. I was at the convention, very excited for the panel. Anyways, Wolfe mentions being at STLV, so clearly it happened earlier in the day. Apparently the panel was pushed up and there was no announcement of the change.

 

Which ship encountered worse natural disasters?

 

I can’t think of a single VOY episode with mind-melds that didn’t have a character treating it as a super taboo or dangerous telepathic ability.

 

Is there a reason The Alamo was a heavily discussed historical event during Deep Space Nine’s seventh season? Was there an anniversary of the event? Did it come into popular consciousness in the 90s? Was someone on the writing staff related to Davy Crockett?

 

I am aware that ENT retcons the change in Klingon physiology as augments Klingons. Is there an accepted theory as to why legacy characters who return after TOS, are shown to have changes? Do people simply retroactively apply the events of “The Augments”?

 

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