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I just got way more interested in the show. Notaro and Picardo are fantastic. Whatever they do, it’ll be worth it to see those two.

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Just tried it, and it rendered properly after 2 clicks(3 altogether including the original)

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BTW, I’m on firefox 115.12.0esr on debian 12

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I’m getting peculiar behavior clicking on your boosts. Not sure what’s going on. I suspect it’s a mastodon issue(I’m on 4.2.10), but I can’t say for sure. Once I get to the attached page, I can click the links, and everything works fine.

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I wonder how bad the numbers were; if it was losing money, or they just didn’t make all the money like they wanted. Sometimes you have to give things time to find the audience.

Prodigy is a bit of a weird one, and I’m not surprised it didn’t catch on right away. IMO, it could’ve been profitable(if it isn’t already), with the audience slowly and steadily increasing.
FTR, I’m old, and I love it. I was disappointed I didn’t see someone, but you can’t have everything

@Son_of_dad

I’ve only yelled at my screen once, so that’s a big improvement over previous seasons.

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Heh… Yea, I forgot about that. Trek isn’t always the best at consistency, or perfect logic. They could still pretend that never happened, or give some hand wavy explanation for why Kira and Dukat never mentioned what they look like.

It’s out there now. I guess we’ll see where it goes. I’m not upset. There’s been worse design decisions in the franchise :^)

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It could go either way. Someone around here postulated they were proto changlings. That’s pretty interesting. There’s other cool ways to spin it, and lame ways also of course. Like all this stuff, I think “Ok, now what?”. I hope what they come up with outweighs the fun mystery of the Breen.

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I’ll go further and say I’m not in favor of remasters. I want everything original, low res warts and all. Tasteful enhancements don’t really bother me much, but I’m just as happy with the original versions, and consider them a record of history.

@reddig33 @Tired8281 I’m fine with reusing stories/themes. There’s only few blues songs, but remixing them still keeps me entertained.

I have zero complaints about SNW. I might rewrite some of it, and I also might screw them up by doing so. All I’m looking for is a good story with characters I like, and nitpicks aside, SNW is knocking it out of the park.

@quark
I have that downloaded, but haven’t read it yet.

I downloaded a bunch of stuff from youtube while waiting at the doctors, and I need to see what I got. I must have grabbed the wrong link, and started downloading the whole youtube channel that was linked above :^D

@startrek

I finished Phase II New Voyages… I guess… There was one episode left, and apparently they got the smackdown from CBS, and it was never released. It was getting good too. Everything was tightening up, and they were finding their footing, per Star Trek tradition. It’s a perversion of copyright law. Copyright is to ensure works get produced. A monopoly isn’t the end goal. Not like these shows are real competition. If anything, they bolster the franchise.

@Reva @Corgana
“He looks just like Ted, the sysadmin from Xcorp”

“That’s because that /is/ Ted, the sysadmin from Xcorp” :^D

I know what you mean. I think I could work with that though. It gives it a more true life representation of people doing their thing. When combined with the other “errors” though; it makes it harder… or something. Probably best to adjust expectations, and enjoy them for what they are. Homemade Trek is better than no Trek, so it’s something new when nothing else is on

@startrek

Horizon was pretty good…

https://piped.video/watch?v=l94v4YOqxOc

It has a weird hazy soft focus film style that I suspect is to make effects/backgrounds easier to produce. There was also a couple times I was confused, but it was a decent story and an enjoyable watch.

@Corgana

One thing I really notice is timing in the dialog. It’s one of those ‘I know it when I see it’ things. I couldn’t do any better if I were producing it, but I can see a clear difference between amateur and professional shows. It’s hard to exactly put my finger on it, but they’ll hold onto a shot, the dialog will lag by a little bit, and it doesn’t land as well as it could.

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I thought this was a funny turn of phrase…

FRAKES: You have to remember, audiences were not ready for a bald English captain with a French name. And a Klingon on the bridge, and a blind guy driving.

:^D