OpenStars

Welcome to late-stage capitalism, where companies sell what you do not want to buy. e.g., no wired connection has ever once had this problem, but they had to sell more thingies, so now everything is bluetooth, whether it should be or not, plus it seems like nobody ever bothered to finish implementing bluetooth - e.g., this exact issue you are having, which surely could be fixed except… why bother, when you (& your neighbors) have already bought all the thingies?

But the anti-romance dialogues were pretty fun too… (choose one person, then the others get mad at u:-P)

Kotor also encouraged replays with all options so that you could try the variety of romance situations:-).

Sadly, that part comes later as well:-(.

The only bright side is that after the adjustment period, Earth is going to be just fine - no lie! (Humans living on it though… that’s a bit of a different story now…😞)

I love this bit:

There is apparently no suggestion that South America is fictional nor has the existence of New Zealand so far been questioned.

It’s just fuck Australia in particular, everything else is fine. :-P

As Global Warming slowly kills us all, try to enjoy it!:-) 😭

How did you manage to not include ANY Jeffrey Combs?!

/s btw, I’ve just been thinking that for several posts, and all the comments here, and saw an opportunity to say it:-P

Only EIGHT cups of coffee!? Well look at Janeway, donating an hour of her busy morning I guess.

De-cloaking warbirds would have a much greater impact (on your shields:-).

A study on astroturfing on Reddit, written in the style of Reddit by an astroturfer - oh the delicious irony? :-P

Thank you for that compliment in return!:-P

I thought the light was the friends we made along the way… :-P

Worst. Ferengi. Ever.

(Quite a compliment if you ask me:-P)

Next I wanna see Rawoman noodles!

They never say that bc every day is a good day to die.

Regular v. Budget Ferengi.:-P

You know more about the depths of that story than I do… I can only guess that some kind of “strategic thinking” went on there, balancing right vs. wrong morality with the practical need to have superior technology, essentially turning him into a “brain drain” scenario where the USA took advantage of the technology from Germany (rockets go further with higher precision), in order to use it against Russia (both in rockets meant for warfare plus also as demonstrated in a show-off capacity for the space race). And that is even assuming that he was a “real” Nazi supporter, and not just trying to blend in as a Jew (which would be bad enough, to be a “collaborator”, but you get what I am saying: easier to make an exception for, especially if there was some evidence of him protesting in underground ways, as opposed to a full-on die-hard actual Nazi).

Something similar happened recently when Biden met one of the royalty responsible for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, and decided to call him out for that murder, but when the response was “what was that? I couldn’t really hear you there…” just dropped the issue entirely rather than pursued it. It was not even a slap on the wrist, and was less even than a phrase stated loudly enough to be heard (a whispered thought then?) regarding the torture, interrogation, murder and actual dismemberment of that journalist… but in return, the Saudis helped lower gas prices. And lest you think this was all about money, that in turn helped blunt the whole “thanks Biden” (sarcasm for high gas prices, as if Trump had literally nothing to do with that) that Republicans were trying to use at the time to get more seats in Congress and set up for the next Presidential race, which in turn ties back to Supreme Court seats and all sorts of things.

I am fond of quoting that literal hero Jon Stewart who once said “liberal media aims to be correct, while conservative media aims to be effective”. Maybe somewhere we need to find a balance, in maintaining our morality while also not taking it to the grave with us - or perhaps the latter is what needs to be done? But if so, it seems better to do that intentionally so worth thinking through and wrestling with the truth to determine what we can “compromise” on, and what we absolutely, simply, can NOT without losing who & what we are.

And believe it or not, yes this is all absolutely, entirely, 100% relevant to the OP: Star Trek is infamous for wrestling with precisely these kinds of plots - even TNG and Voyager that were more often episodic lets-go-forth-adventuring-today styles occasionally had them (remember that time Picard was dying from his bad heart due to his poor judgement in his a youth, and Q offered him an alternate life where he would not be a captain anymore, but he could do science and really enjoy it, thus making him choose b/t a longer life that he would enjoy vs. a shorter one lived to the fullest, basically a It’s a Wonderful Life parody? and ofc “THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!!”); but DS9 really just immersed itself and flat lived in this space.

TLDR: you are going to REALLY enjoy watching DS9, even if you need to do it alone:-). (again, make sure to give yourself adequate time to think them through, not just watch them all back-to-back, or you will miss so much!)

Injecting those shows into our thoughts, is what gives us culture! :-P

I mean…no? The scenario you described uses identical skill sets, which was also desperately in need by the USA at the time, whereas Germany wanted to kill the scientist plus their entire family and all of their friends bc of their ethnic background so… it rather seems inevitable that the immigrant would want to use their skills to the best and most profitable effect?

That said, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, for he is a humble tailor and that is all… :-P

We are sneaky that way. :-)

Somehow at the same time I also convinced myself to rewatch Babylon Five, go figure:-P.