It’s probably a hand hole for accessing a pipe or cable junction, likely smaller because it’s where business or homes hook in. I work for an ISP, and most of ours are about this size

Can’t believe the US is putting trains on the moon before making them viable on Earth

Which was their goal

Yeah, I really didn’t think I’d like Lower Decks either. When Paramount released Discovery, which didn’t feel like Star Trek at all, and then an animated comedy Star Trek, I felt they had absolutely no right to make fun of Star Trek. Fortunately, the creator and the writers actually do love the show, and it’s smart and quick, and really gets what Star Trek stands for. And now, because of the Strange New Worlds crossover (which was a masterpiece), Mariner’s actress will be writing for Star Fleet Academy! So I’m excited for that as well

It’s worth it just for Saru. He’s my boy

That’s the only one I haven’t actually watched yet. The first two seasons were so bad. I’ve heard season 3 is good, but mostly nostalgia, which isn’t a big draw for me, since I was born a decade after TNG ended lol

Only if you don’t like Star Trek. Strange New Worlds is fantastic, Lower Decks is legitimately in my top three series in the franchise at this point, and Discovery found it’s feet in Season three, and continued to improve from there, just like TNG did. You’re missing out

Star Trek is doing really well

The ISP I work for provides residential gigabit fiber to Rochester, so I know it’s definitely not a problem of availability

Interesting. In the US, all kinds of jobs are called engineers

‘…to build that optimistic future that is Roddenberry’s essential vision?’ That is very much going to be at the heart of Starfleet Academy.

I certainly hope so. Star Trek should be optimistic. The Federation is a utopia. We don’t need grungy pessimism. Every other sci-fi is already doing that.

Kids don’t do anything when they know someone else will fix it for them.

And who exactly would be responsible for enabling that behavior?

That’s amazing lol

Great minds indeed

Same energy

Garak would never say “gonna,” but otherwise I love this lol

They need more wide beam settings. Every time they clean something with a phaser in Lower Decks, using the precise beam, I die a little inside

Reno wasn’t even a scientist, and still managed to keep all those people alive on that asteroid. Running to a Starfleet officer is never a bad idea

YABI. Why even ask for the second match? Was your initial study incomplete, or, perhaps, flawed? If so, why did you not include that detail in this post? If not, your rendezvous with this old classmate seems like nothing more than an exercise in redundancy at best. I posit that you have fallen victim to the emotion humans refer to as pride. One of their most basic negative emotions, if I correctly recall my ancient human history course.

It is my recommendation that you take a leave of absence from Starfleet. You have clearly spent too much time among humans. A decade or so of meditation in a monastery should help you to reclaim your logic.

When Gowron hugs you, it means you’re both about to do something very risky, and potentially very stupid