A weird VCR board game called Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Klingon Challenge. Honestly, I feel like I’d heard of it before, but I was reminded of it in the annotations for “A Farewell to Farms” recently, as it is the origin for the quote, “Experience bij!”

On a funnier note, the character is not Gowron, but is the same actor for some reason.

Here’s a compilation of the camp in all its glory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjAvGNn20Y8

As well as a bit that compilation missed: https://youtu.be/3_739DxrMOs?t=3344

I wouldn’t call 4K mainstream in 2014 - I feel like it was still high end.

I didn’t have a 4K TV until early 2019 or so when unfortunately, the 1080p Samsung one got damaged during a move. Quite sad - it had very good color despite not having the newest tech, and we’d gotten it second-hand for free. Best of all, it was still a “dumb” TV.

Of course, my definition of mainstream is warped, as we were a bit behind the times - the living room had a CRT until 2012, and I’m almost positive all of the bedroom ones were still CRTs in 2014.

I felt that too and cried a little when he wasn’t in the IMDB

Thank you! My crappy TMBG meme is now showing up in my TMBG community!

Yeh. I think part of it is it’s just hard to match season 4. I think the series’ single funniest dialogue comes from “Trusted Sources”.

Ransom: “How much do bench?”

Magistrate: “We don’t do it for the numbers. We do it to quiet the voices in our heads!”

Ransom: “Cool. I bench 25.”

As a side effect, the i386 theme is fixed now.

(Starts Daystrom Institute post on how US OSHA became UE OSHA became UFP OSHA)

Also, half-dead macrovirus infected with a worm put in charge of Starfleet Medical.

Another test post to see if federation has improved.

3 days. Wow!

But I guess we just have to have faith… faith of the heaaaaaaaa-art.

On another note, it looks like federation should be sped up in this commit, which is in the recently-released version 0.19.6 (and 0.19.7, which has come out since). I would think lemmy.world would have to upgraded as well, though.

Thanks for letting me know. 🖖

Phasers or Bat’leths (Mek’leths are fine as well)?

We could also do a round of Chula, a solar sail race, ambo-jitsu, springball, darts, etcetera.

Testing a federation issue

Burnham falls afoul of the “no promoted mains” rule, unfortunately.

I find it kind of sad they haven’t done anything in the 2290s-2350s era. I think it would be fun to have a series with April in monster maroon coming up on his second retirement in the late 2310s or early 2320s.

The IDW miniseries Picard’s Academy was set in this era (aligning with previous canon of when Picard went to the Academy). I enjoyed it (checked it out from my local library), though probably half just because of Spock’s outfit, honestly.

EDIT: April probably wouldn’t be the primary focus. It would probably focus on a diplomatic ship or maybe even the Academy or civilians. It probably couldn’t be too action-based, as we don’t want to undermine this being one of the most peaceful eras in Federation history - I worry to do anything interesting, you’d have to pull Disco-style shenanigans again. No matter one’s opinion on Disco, I feel like it would be kind of obnoxious to do another “this secretly happened and no one knows about it” series.

My only theory is they were kind of as prolific as the TOS film uniforms and lasted into the 2240s and were getting rare but still seen occasionally in the 2260s.

Can’t be as bad as Earth: Final Conflict - I’ve watched the first season-and-a-half and was sustained at first by plot and then by awe at how shark jumpy it got after Boone died and how alien space baby rapid aged into an adult man and replaced him as the main character.

After watching other Star Trek shows, you’ll find the true beauty is the vast majority of Lower Decks completely fits into canon, as “the true Star Trek lore” contains some ridiculous stuff.

I just realized something else - I think this episode might contain the first mention of Cetacean ops going on an away mission, which reveals a lot about how their Starfleet lives might work.

I still wonder about several things, which I’ve been wanting to make my own post about anyway and probably will soon.

You dare defile Lower Decks by calling other stuff “More cannon”! Experience bij, petaQ! 😉

In all seriousness, though, I would say DS9. The first season is much better than TNG season 1 in my opinion - not perfect, but livable. It mostly gets better from there, though like VOY, be prepared for sudden urges for Rick Berman to “accidentally fall out an airlock”, if you know what I mean.

This might be tinted by DS9 being my favorite Trek series, although Lower Decks is putting up fierce competition for DS9’s top spot in my heart.