Already some amazing points here, but I will add one thing:

No matter how utopian your empire becomes, those who grow up in utopia do not have their guard up watching for evil in every corner. The Star Wars flipping back and forth from Republic to Empire over the millennia makes sense.

The federation existed for barely a millennia in its first incarnation. A fall of a galactic empire makes sense. Rebuilding it makes for good story.

Especially, and I can’t stress this enough, when it is a parallel to the world we live in. Trek has always been a way to mirror events and teach moral lessons… But most of all, hope.

Yeah, tears wouldn’t stop flowing once they started. It was a good episode.

Those two have a Rimmer + Lister feel to them.

The teens arent vapid socialites and theres enough Trek Universe mixed in that it really doesn’t align with the typical teen drama.

This, very well put. I’ve been struggling to vocalise why I like this to folks and I think you nailed it.

Its a different message for a different era. And one we need. Too many are looking at the near and potentially bleak future, we need them to realise that hope can still lay beyond that.

This show is one part Lower Decks, one part Prodigy, one part Discovery, and a dash of SNW… I dig it. Excited to see where it goes.

Luanti (Minetest) folks.

The modding momentum is picking up quite a bit and as a game engine its far better than Minecraft.

I don’t know a single conservative that likes Trek.

Oh right, good catch. That’s me shell scripting while in a meeting. 🫠

'I don\'t know what you mean, I\‘ve never encountered any annoyances.’

I can… But too much panning. Still hard on my eyes due to the proximity. My eyes are only bad up to about 3 feet from my face, and then they get better that most.

I hate consuming anything on a phone, prefer a monitor I can sit back from, or a TV.

I got to Waldo and said “not with these eyes on a phone.”

So mental warfare in this thing too. It required me to deselect tomatoes.

Nextcloud Cooking app

This. Its a bit slow but the auto import is a life save and the app is really nice with the ability to easily scale the portions or keep the screen awake.

Found thanks to a friend!

https://makerworld.com/en/models/1099253-star-trek-riker-pose-clock#profileId-1094290

Where… do I get this. My wife needs it.

And back then if we did have a mouse, it was square, and used a 9pin serial port

We got our microwave out of the kitchen.