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Meanwhile, the adventures continue for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which has been renewed for season 4.

At least there's that.

It's still surprising that Lower Decks ends so soon. It's well received and should be reasonably cheap to produce. Why would they axe it?

I use it when I'm staying at hotels and want to use their WiFi, or any other public WiFi, to protect my private data. Google probably has it anyway but there's no need to share it with another unknown entity.

As a DS9 fan I appreciated the many references to the Zhian'tara, Dominion War and Tzenkethi.

ALO must really have faith in Aston's progress in the upcoming years.

Where does that leave SAI? Maybe an all Spanish line-up at Aston? (Assuming that PER keeps his seat at Red Bull if he continues his current form)

Ferrari with a good strategy? What year is this?

I liked the dramatic green flag waving at the start. 😄 IIRC they always do it like this at Suzuka.

I wasn't too impressed by the first two episodes. There were some good parts in it – most notably the actor who played Fred – and I liked the more upbeat tone compared to previous seasons. But ultimately it felt like watching Star Wars. I was bored by the prolonged action sequences in both episodes. They are just a showcase for the talent of the VFX people but the scenes feel empty and meaningless.

I'll keep watching but only because I know it's the final season. There are just too many of the same old Disco tropes for me to really enjoy this show. A prime example was the scene aboard the Romulan ship: Burnham beams over with Rhys and Owo....only for them to be incapacitated so that the main character can continue on her own. I know, I know, Disco is not meant to be an ensemble show and that's okay. But it just doesn't work for me.

...thanks.

Yeah, this definitely isn't intended for mobile devices. On desktop you can freely walk around and the controls are pretty self-explanatory. (WASD keys + mouse)

"First Contact" (the episode, not the movie) is a nice little TNG gem which is often overlooked on the "best of" lists. There's lots of talking and diplomacy, so TNG at its best. It's also mostly shown from the perspective of the aliens, so that's a nice change for once. It's one of my favorite episodes.

The cars are still slower than the v10 era

I never understood that sole focus on top speed.

The wheel to wheel racing is better than in the V10 era, and that's what the regulations intend to do. What's the point of being fast in a straight line when the actual racing is shit? As a spectator you don't notice the difference between 355 and 365 kph anyway.

Using KERS was always fun in the F1 games. So there's at least that. I still wish they would the amount of times those overtake gimmicks (DRS and KERS) can be used during a race so that drivers only use it when conventional overtaking doesn't work. Make them work for an overtake. And if they can't overtake, then so be it. That's part of racing.

The mention of >!Rachel Garrett!< in the Section 31 movie points to a time travel storyline, doesn't it? Or at least some holodeck stuff. (Maybe the movie ends with "Computer, end program." 😄)

I'm still not quite sold on the pill-shaped camera bar but I suppose this design helps with consistency across different types of device (normal phones, foldables, tablets), unlike the current camera visor.

Hopefully this means that the episodes in season 5 really are distinctive. My problem with Discovery (and Picard) is that all the episodes of a season blend into each other. It's super difficult to remember individual episodes because each of them is just a tiny puzzle piece of a larger story.

I'm not really sure if I can convey my thought process in English but I'll try.

The cars still all have to travel back to the pit lane

That is true. However you could see that some cars struggled to clear the stationed Mercedes and had to take to the grass. There was a bunch of debris on either side of the Mercedes.

After a red flag the other drivers could take their time to find the safest way around the Mercedes, or if necessary stop the car entirely. That's not really possible during a VSC because the race is technically still going on. Or to put it another way: during a VSC the drivers only slow down as much as they have to. But they don't want to slow more than necessary. Let's say the driver in front of you has a time penalty that will be applied after the race. During a VSC you'll scramble by the stopped car as fast as possible to not lose more time. It's potentially unsafe.

That should have been an automatic instant red flag. Just because it's the last lap shouldn't mean that race control can weasel themselves out of that decision and endanger the driver sitting in the middle of the road. Race Control dropped the ball with that VSC decision. Listen to the onboard audio of RUS, you can hear the panic in his voice: https://dubz.co/c/f82a3d

That Sainz guy is pretty good. Ferrari should think about re-signing him. Oh wait. 🙄

Also: RUS binning it on the last lap in a race where SAI wins after a 9-race winning streak from VER? Looks like a pattern emerging.

Thank you RUS for giving some nice points to TSU and Haas.

So it's Ferrari vs McLaren for the win. What year is this?