Every night I look forward to new adventures on whatever Star Trek series that I’ve come to.
If I fall a sleep during an episode, I blame the episode, and I haven’t regretted cutting them short like that. The good ones will be worth it and most of the bad ones too, but when the android character is playing a theater part of Sherlock Holmes on the holodeck and I’m supposed to give a shit? No.
I most certainly am going to, I’ve watched alot of random episodes from multiple different series, but my partner has only watched a few with captain janeway. We just finished part 1 of the menagerie, honestly wish we had skipped the original pilot so the episode would hit harder for her, but it is what it is.
If you ever get to Strange New Worlds and Discovery, they flesh out The Menagerie in all kinds of interesting ways. My only complaint is that they didn’t make Vina look deformed enough when she appeared.
If you’re looking for a way to start, Next Generation (TNG) is a good entry point, though you might want to start with season 3 (it’s when it really started to feel polished). If you like that then Voyager is similarly episodic and easy to watch, though the writers could’ve treated some of the characters a little better in that. Modern episodic trek is Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks, also both immediately fun and easy to get into.
Deep Space 9 is what started trek on having longer serialized arcs, and Enterprise also has long story lines (the entirety of season 3 was one arc).
And I’ll probably get some disagreement for this, but despite having grown up on trek and watched almost everything that’s out there (I think I just have 1 or 2 seasons of Discovery left), I’ve never really been able to watch much of the original series. It just feels way too dated for me. Maybe if the guys over at the Greatest Generation podcast pick it up I’ll try to work through it.
I wanted to start with TNG but my partner insisted on starting at the beginning, that being said its been really fun watching tropes get introduced, like Kirk getting his shirt ripped and bones saying, “I’m a doctor not a -----” its really good if you even slightly enjoy campy stuff and has gotten tons of laughs from us as we watch it. But yeah TNG is the best place to start imo.
It took me like a week to download what I think is all of them from a decent cable connection. I do intend to watch this but it’s going to take me like a year given that I have a job.
However, I’m very privileged in a sense. I get to watch them for the first time. How many fans would love to rewatch episodes for the first time?
I did the math a while back it’s well over a thousand hours for all the series and movies. With the recent surge in new properties, it’s going to be much higher than what I came up with even a few years ago.
I don’t really care about airlines, but AA is the only airliner that flies out of the local regional airport (only flies to a bigger airport a few hours away), and I’ve never had any issues with them.
The worst I’ve had was having to listen to a flight attendent talk about God because I was on the last row.
We usually fly AA on flights to Europe. We live near KC, so our choices are AA or United (IIRC). And we prefer AA’s time schedule. Outside of major cities there is little choice to many destinations.
I’ve flown on AA’s international business and first class. The difference is negligible in terms of the seats and most people in them were complimentary upgrades since they couldn’t fill the seats.
The bigger differences were on the ground with the dining and check in. So all AA is doing is creating a “Business Plus” category that gets you the first class amenities on the ground and then a business class seat. This lets them put more business class seats on the plane and open things up to a bigger revenue stream.
AA first has been a joke for a long time. It was an ever so slightly better seat and they served one extra course - a soup - but was otherwise identical to business class service. You can’t charge thousands more for soup.
First class has been dying for years - and the only airlines that will do it, it’s really a prestige thing more than a profit center.
AA is the last United States based airline to even have one. This move is an industry-wide trend now that lie-flat business class seats are standard. Business class has gotten much nicer in the past 10 years and taken away the customers that previously would have flown in first.
I’d rather fly Qatar qsuites or many other si-enclosed business class seats than the first class ones remaining on European airlines like British Airways, Lufthansa, of air France. And doing so is a fraction of the price.
With startrek.website we’d hoped creating a Star Trek themed instance might encourage other ex-moderators to start topic-specific instances too, and it would kick off a flourishing of myriad communities run by devoted moderators, a Lemmyverse so diverse and inspiring that not even Reddit could further justify it’s own existence in the presence of such an obviously superior system.
Instead it turned out “Star Trek and Linux” was enough to satisfy nearly everyone’s tastes (both subtle and gross).
With startrek.website we’d hoped creating a Star Trek themed instance might encourage other ex-moderators to start topic-specific instances too, and it would kick off a flourishing of myriad communities run by devoted moderators, a Lemmyverse so diverse and inspiring that not even Reddit could further justify it’s own existence in the presence of such an obviously superior system.
Yeah I tried a WSB themed instance. Lemmy really isn’t set up to support this. Its a pretty critical issue with how its engineered and can’t really be fixed in the current structure.
" wait it’s just people pushing weird politics and a bunch of nsfw stuff and even the posts that seem good have some weird secondary agenda and other weird shit"
I enjoyed the ramp up, it was DS9 I couldn’t get into at all. Gave up a few episodes in. Haven’t tried Voyager sequentially yet but I liked some episodes. Discovery sucked except for Isaacs. I liked SNW.
Oh, sorry to hear that. DS9 gets pretty good later on - especially the “middle” is great, testing out the limits of the world/starfleet ethics. I think it’s my favorite trek… (second being TNG, watched that growing up). Maybe give DS9 another chance and just jump in somewhere after Season 1…
Join the league communities and start discussions! They could use more conversation. I’m resuming after not playing in a long time myself, probably because I decided to watch LCS when someone told me that a team besides C9 or TL won last split.
It’ll take me some time to catch up on all these changes, though lol. Hopefully the pro seasons resuming helps.
Lmao. I don’t really care what OS people use. I’m not really passionate about any OS. I just use it as a medium to do things I enjoy so I’m really not interested in any OS talk about any operating system. I use all 3 OS daily pretty much (Linux, Mac and Windows).
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