What’s funny is the “blonde bombshell in a catsuit” turned out to be one of the best characters on the show.

As a programmer, I consider The User to be the enemy. No matter how thoroughly I seemingly test my code, the second the user gets their hands on it, it breaks left and right from all the crazy shit they do.

Wow. I didn’t realize at first that this picture already did the fact swap. I was mentally swapping their heads before I realized.

The difference this time is that my computer literally can’t run Win 11. I’m not throwing away a perfectly good PC just because of Win 11’s hardware requirements.

Exactly. I cut and paste all the time but I make sure I know what the code is doing first before I actually add the code.

I agree 100%. Another design flaw is engineering and security having the same color.

Honestly that would be a rather funny scene in a time travel episode.

Transporters are inconsistent in how they work in Star Trek. The transporters work however the writers of the episode need it to work for the plot. Sometimes it’s a clone machine and sometimes it’s something else.

The Barclay episode I was referring to was Realm of Fear.

Create a way to merge both Yous together after and you have a pretty neat failsafe for away missions.

There was that one episode with Barclay that showed he was conscious during transport and also showed that people could exist inside the matter stream (or whatever the technobabble is).

Although I haven’t used it since college, I actually liked C++ especially once I understood pointers.

It’s such a crazy display on just how advanced the Federation really is that a small group of rogue Star Fleet officers were able to successfully leapfrog the cloaking tech to such a degree. There was another episode where the Romulans tried and failed to create that same technology but I can’t remember if it was before or after Pegasus.

In DS9, a Vorta makes a comment about Star Fleet engineers being able to turn rocks into replicators and he really wasn’t that far off.

The best part of the whole thing is that it worked. I wonder what the Romulans thought when they saw it.

Wouldn’t blowing up also render the console inoperative? I would think safely shutting down would be preferable to exploding if the end result is still a dead console.

Nog and Jake’s business venture was one of my favorite DS9 episodes. I’m still upset that Jake didn’t become a business man when he got older. I always thought it would have completed their story arc: the Ferengi joins Star Fleet and the Star Fleet officer’s son goes into business earning profit.

Chaotic neutral isn’t that bad when you’re doing programming since the extra vertical space is really convenient.

I’ve been lawful neutral ever since the pandemic forced work from home.

I e always found the economics of Star Trek to be confusing. In some episodes, they act like they don’t even understand what money is but then in others you see them buying things. The Picard family owning a vineyard and Sisko’s dad owning a restaurant proves that private ownership of land and property are still things that are present in the Federation. How did He get the restaurant? Was it given to him? Did he buy it? If so, what did he buy it with?

In DS9, we see the crew buying things from Quark but where did they get their money? Does Star Fleet pay salaries? Are officers deployed to places that use money provided with some kind of stipend?

I might need to do some googling to see if I can find some discussion on Federation economics.

Not just any ghost but the same ghost her grandmother was having sex with.

I really don’t understand everyone’s problem with the Enterprise opening song. It’s not that bad and I thought the lyrics went pretty well with a Star Trek prequel series.

The way I understand it. Anyone on an instance will be able to see what other people on the same instance post, but people on other instances won’t see the post because federation triggers through the source community.

Edit: it appears that federation works differently from how it works was explained to me.