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Yup! He was only familiar with TOS and assumed the Spock-type role would go to Tuvok (not an unfair assumption to make).

Maybe that’s their bare minimum requirement for determining if a species is worth assimilating? Though I suspect they could probably just scan for energy signatures if they really wanted to.

When he gets sloppy drunk does he switch to Howard Jones?

“We should be TWO SOULS TOGETHERRRR”

Dr. Crusher - Unchained Melody (she’s just a really big fan of an old earth movie for some reason)

you mean this isn’t him?

https://youtu.be/xpudz5kENMw

There’s a 2022 research paper linked in the article that may explain more but it’s way above my head.

https://regmedia.co.uk/2026/03/12/suplpied_cortical_labs_paper.pdf

I missed the earlier story but apparently they taught these things how to play Pong, then started working on teaching them how to play Doom!

Ah yes, Captain Robert Picard.

What I was reading was that it would be some sort of local-only API that would set an age bracket on user creation and allow applications to query it. It wouldn’t go out “directly” to the internet. Though who’s to say what the applications and shit would do with the information once they have it.

They also want to defer the costs of positively identifying users to the various governments, presumably so it doesn’t eat into their advertising revenue even further.

I was just about to post this! Now I really want to know if Data’s neural network was banana powered.

“If one crunches the numbers (as they do in the original article), it turns out that bananas pop out a positron every 75 minutes or so.”

I grew up in the 90s and there were some absolutely unhinged ads during saturday morning cartoons. This spoof is only slightly crazier than an actual capri sun liquid cool commercial.

https://youtu.be/eyd51lvu3xw

This isn’t even a conspiracy theory, it’s been investigated and found to be mostly true.

https://tboteproject.com/git/hekate/attestation-findings

Quark and Odo <3

“I am both confused and, if we’re being totally honest, a little aroused”

I didn’t know that Ethan Phillips did that performance while being effectively blind and deaf. Impressive!

Hah, reminds me of the time Bender tried to become a cook on Futurama.

“There was nothing wrong with that food. The salt level was 10% less than a lethal dose.”

I can’t remember the exact scene or episode for the life of me, but she’s talking to some male member of the crew and asks to keep something a secret between them “because neelix gets jealous”. She felt the need to hide just because of how she figured he would react.