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  • You think that the Easter eggs in the ship diagram in Engineering is just for fun, no. It's actually canonical to the series.

    How is an automobile, a prop plane, a rubber duck, and giant Dremel canon? Remember what the Enterprise-D is to Starfleet. It was the biggest, most luxurious starship ever built. It was designed to have a large population of civilians. Remember the first episode of TNG? That display in Engineering is not privileged access, there were families with children consulting the display to find things on the ship. Engineering is a critical area, but it's not classified. Starfleet wanted civilians to visit and see the crew in action.

    In addition to being a Carnival Cruise liner, it's the Enteprise! The flag ship on a permanent first contact mission. They wanted attractions onboard for the residents and visitors to enjoy. There's an old Earth automobile on display, there's an old Earth airplane on display. The drill is clip art of a drill, but what if it was meant to represent an old Saturn rocket? It makes sense that Enterprise would have a small museum onboard in addition to other attractions like the arboretum and holodecks.

    So... why a duck? Because there's someone else living on the Enterprise. A certain aquatic species of Earth that turned out to be far smarter than they were originally given credit for. The duck was their idea. They insisted. They just really like rubber ducks. So a giant one was installed on the Enterprise at their request.

    Bonus fanon: They really do decorate it for Christmas. They just forgot to take the decorations down and Data got confused.

  • It got a little out of hand with the original movies. Despite everyone wearing red jackets, their collars had colors based on their departments. There were seven in total at that time:

    • Red = Trainee
    • Light Green = Medical
    • Dark Green = Security
    • Yellow = Engineering
    • Blue = Special Services
    • Gray = Science
    • White = Command
  • Yeah, I understand the change. Whatever the issue was with my app, it's gone now.

    I guess my update got gummed up with old stuff stuck in the cache or something. Even though I force-quit Voyager while troubleshooting the setting wouldn't take at first.

    (Sorry I can't post images to show you what I was looking at, I picked the worst instance for uploading media.)

  • I was really confused at first because I didn't know comment sorting had that many options. "Top 6 Hours" is only available for comments for me. Is it suppose to be available for posts as well?

    So, I changed BOTH post and comment sorting to New then both back to Hot, NOW the feeds are sorting by Hot on their own.

    Just to be clear, was there only comment sorting in the setting a before? It feels like the update took whatever the setting for comments and applied it to posts instead of using the existing state.

  • Steve Jobs was also philanthropic, he just chose not to be vocal about it.

    Bill doesn't come off as kind, rather amicable more than anything else. He knows how to shmooze. And constantly complaining about petty things, and still comparing himself to Jobs, in the news means he still can't let go of the past.

    But I agree with you. As long as he's giving his money away for causes that benefit the public, I couldn't care less what kind of person he is.