“Life forms. You precious little lifeforms. You tiny little lifeforms. Where are you?”
- Lt. Cmdr Data, Star Trek: Generations
I think episode 8 is worth a shot. The basic premise is really stupid, but they execute it so darn well with the writing of social interactions. Also, I’m really surprised they pulled off Vulcan Patton Oswald, which initially scared me when the season trailer came out.
I think it was something dumb related to Cortana? It was a pretty useless operating system, and I’ve since run only Raspberry Pi OS on that particular Pi.
RISC OS, anyone?
I did once on my Pi 3.
There have been some comics, but from what I can tell, they’re vaguely set in a “season 4.5” where Boimler doesn’t have a beard yet rather than a continuation off season 5. As a result, I haven’t really read those.
Warp Your Own Way is great, though, and feels like it would have been a banger episode; there’s such a wonderful balance of humor and almost making you cry.
Despite the issues with S3, I’d still say it isn’t horrible and worth watching. There’s a couple good episodes, and hey - it’s not TNG S1.
According to this, they used “the original 3D scene files”
Memory Alpha cites this as well as several other sources, showing the files were preserved and used at least in part in the documentary due to vigilant former effects workers.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/CGI#Remastering_projects.27_ramifications
My thought is the Borg Queen is less actually in control of the collective and more like the voice of the collective, similar to Locutus. She’s also the outlet for every drone’s horniness…
Not quite. The base footage was all 35mm; they were just transferred to tape when doing the editing and VFX shots.
It is very much possible to remaster DS9 at the very least - they did a few select scenes for the documentary “What We Left Behind”, complete with re-rendered CG effects, as the assets still existed on VFX artist’s computers.
Actually, a lot of the CG seems to have survived and is in the hands of VFX artists; they actually remastered a few select scenes and showed them in the documentary “What We Left Behind” and re-rendered the ship battle from the original assets.
I know about “The Night Santa Went Crazy”, but the mass shooting sort of violence in it is not so funny anymore; I much prefer “Christmas At Ground Zero”. I’ll have to look into the AC/DC one, though.
Some of my favorites from my playlist:
1: There’s also a song called “Christmas Cards” never released outside of a 7" from 1993. “Christmas In the Bighouse” is not on streaming because it’s exclusive to the band’s shop; I own it on CD and in FLAC, but can’t put it on the playlist unfortunately because it’s in Apple Music and collaborative playlists can’t use personal library tracks.
The My Chemical Romance cover of this song is quite good, perhaps better than the original.
I think my very long Christmas playlist with a mix of alternative and popular Christmas songs insulates me from hearing the original on repeat, and as a result, I don’t have as bitter of feelings towards it. I mean, it’s not my favorite, but I’ve heard much worse Christmas songs. It’s a lowest-common-denominator corporate pop anthem, but at least a well-executed one; as long as it’s not on repeat, I don’t mind hearing it once in a while.
Personally, what I think would be awesome is a semi-anthology series inspired by LD’s Wej Duj where each episode follows a different ship, and each episode builds to a final plot in which all the ships are involved.
Of course, we’d have the Klingon episode, but mainly, I just want an episode called “Cetacean Ops” that follows the crew of the USS George & Gracie, a Starfleet vessel staffed almost entirely by a plethora of aquatic life forms - I’m talking humpback whale captain next to Xindi Aquatic first officer-type things.
You might have a small crew of humanoids for maintenance and the occasional away mission or non-aquatic starbase, and you could explore an interesting story around how an aquatic crew tries to accommodate them.
And I bet at least one of those named versions gets involved in bizarre causality loop or some other temporal shenanigans.
“They put a paywall on a bomb?! Stupid Feren-“
- The final words of Nick Locarno
“Feeeeeeeeed me!”
Replace the Macbook with a Thinkpad.
While doing the world building for a very Trek-inspired story I’ll probably never finish, (I’d originally planned the story ad a Star Trek fanfic, but later chose to make its own universe), I jokingly claimed the ship’s computer of the AAS Alan Turing was running something like Linux 126 LTS in ~2500.
(I have to have my organization call starships “aero ships” in the story because my organization is called A.M.P.E.D, and I don’t think I could take the acronym of “AMPED Star Ship” seriously.)
And this is how Alexander ended up joining a homicidal cult in the IDW comics… Very Beta canon, but also feels like a thing that would happen.