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It was present at the end of the episode where Voyager got the future Borg technology. This scene from the linked script is the scene from the very beginning of the episode which depicts a timeline in which Voyager returns to Earth without that Borg encounter.

Thanks!

I wonder if the VFX department didn’t get the memo.

It could also be an early script draft and during production they decided not to spend time and money on changing the ship model. Not everything you see in a script will end up on the screen.

Is there a comprehensive overview on how tyre allocation works on sprint weekends compared to regular weekends? For instance, I've read on Wikipedia that drivers must use a new set of medium tyres in each of the first two Sprint Quali segments. So do they get more/different tyres as usual?

An infographic about what tyre is available at what point (and which tyres have to be returned) would be nice.

In a season that’s been a wee bit hit and miss IMHO (compared to S1)

Yeah, the first half was very uneven. But I've enjoyed every episode since episode 5, so I guess they found their stride again.

DS9 gets some well deserved meme love nowadays. Quite a feat considering most fans thought of it as the black sheep of the Star Trek family during its original run.

There's no guarantee that it's spoiler-free but www.trekbbs.com has separate boards for each series. Maybe that helps.

I only want another tire to enter the sport to try and force Perelli to get better

In what way do they need to get better? They're creating exactly the type of tyre that the F1 Management asks them to build: something that degrades so teams are forced to think about their strategy and tyre preservation.

If another tyre manufacturer comes in this all flys out of the window. We would be getting rock-solid tyres that could last for the entire race, and teams would only do their one mandatory pit stop. Not because it's faster to at point ditch worn tyres but simply because they have to due to the sporting regulations.

A second tyre manufacturer entering F1 would be terrible because it clashes with the type of racing we have nowadays. A tyre war might have been okay in the refuelling era (because refuelling added another element to strategy) but in the current era with no refuelling it would only lead to boring 1-stop races. See the majority of the 2010 season for reference.

Agreed on the Klingon ambassador! The acting felt weird at first but his demeanor made sense at the end.

And I feel similarly as you about M'Benga. I didn't care much about him until now, he was simply the doctor that speaks strangely. But now I really want to find out what's next for him.

What a tonal shift from the last episode.

I think this was on par with DS9's Dominion War episodes, showing how the Federation ideals clash with the real world. It will certainly be controversial for being so "un-Trek". There's no happy ending, there's just the sinking feeling that a war never really ends in the heads of those that were affected by it.

The acting was stellar all around, particularly M'Benga and Chapel. [Edit: and Ortegas! Finally she got some material to work with that weren't funny one-liners, and she made the most of it.] And that final scene with M'Benga and Pike just demands a continuation in the future.

It was certainly an impressive, thought-provoking episode but if you'd ask me to rate this episode on a scale of 1 to 10 I'd have no idea where to put it. I'm still sitting here trying to wrap my head around what I just saw. I guess that's war for you. It doesn't make sense.

Isn’t that illegal in the EU?

It is. But the UK chose to leave the EU, and this is one of the many "perks" they now have.

Else I’ll have to get the Sky package

Which costs 6 times as much, and as far as I know it doesn't have English commentary, doesn't have archive races, doesn't have free choice of cockpit cams, doesn't have Formula 2 and 3. (Correct me if I'm wrong.)

It's just a bad deal. If F1TV ever stops working in Germany for legacy subscriptions then I either have to stop watching F1 or look for other sources. ~5 euros per month is a fantastic price, I'd even pay 10 or 15 for that. But not 30 euros for the Sky package with a lot less features.

Same. However, my reddit usage has decreased significantly. I used to spend 1-2 hours there every day (which was waaaay too much), now I spend 5-10 minutes on reddit at best. The terrible mobile design drives me away because it keeps nagging me to use their app. On the other hand, I also only use lemmy maybe 15-20 minutes per day.

So in total, the stupid decisions of reddit have improved my digital well-being because I spend less time mindlessly scrolling.

Uh....thanks, spez?

It's a relatively new feature that is slowly rolling out to other languages/regions. I received it maybe 2 or 3 weeks ago (in Germany).

I don't think there's a definitive list of words/phrases that trigger it. It usually works with one or two words (for example "happy birthday!") followed by an exclamation mark. Could be pretty much anything. It even works with "Batman!" Although the result is ... well, not appropriate for the Dark Knight. 😄

I mean, how many ways can you style an X?

Maybe they need a new mascot now that the bird is gone. How about a hamster? They could call it Xhamster.

There is a Lower Decks comic series with the same art style. You could read those.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_Lower_Decks_(IDW)

Fun episode. I lost track of all the references but I'm particularly delighted that they brought up the NX-01 and her crew, and that the NCC-1701 crew (what even comes after the dash?) is gushing over them, like we all are gushing over all the different Trek crews.

My face hurt by the end of the episode. I had no idea I was smiling the whole time.

Is that you, Mr. Spock?

This will either be really fun or total nonsense. I like that they're trying new things instead of only recycling old Trek tropes with aliens that have a different kind of bump on the forehead.

Nah, you're totally right. That's what the Burt Ward Robin would say. I was thinking more of the current Robin in the comics, Damian Wayne.