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Lower Decks has the Tamarian lexicon dialed in, and I'm here for it. Especially when it's explained that the universal translator can't always figure Tamarian out, suggesting that Kayshon is speaking in more simple terms half the time.

But the single greatest use of this meme has to be in "Crisis Point 2" (S3x8).

In that episode, we see Ransom, Shaxs, and Kayshon break into the science lab to get the drop on Romulan invaders. Kayshon fires the first surprise shot shouting "Temba!".

What I love about this is that "Temba, his arms wide" is a fond greeting. But in context, gives his remark more or less the same energy as "say hello to my little friend" or "surprise, motherfuckers!"

Edit:

Kayshon, shooting first, when the Romulans invaded.

You sonofabitch, I'm in.

Uh, where's craft services?

What, food? Naw, this cast eats the scenery. But there's a grill in the back alley if you wanna cook something.

One of the consequences of a wisely used but small budget. Simple sets and costumes, plus a LOT of creative lighting. All that's left are actors to fill that otherwise empty-feeling space on the stage.

Also, color TV was in its infancy, so networks used the medium to compete for viewer attention. It really looks like NBC made sure that every scene was as vibrant as possible. But now that I think about it, it also had to "read" well in B/W too.

Edit: @StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website corrected me here. TOS was indeed an expensive show, which upon rewatching (as I am today), becomes more evident the longer you look at it.

McCoy is a stray that wandered in from outside, but seems to be friendly most of the time.

Dr. T'Ana?

In that case, Lower Decks is definitely Uncle Fester.

I feel like, no matter how that plays out, everyone loses.

I like this list but we really need to stop with the senseless violence against warp cores.

Red Dwarf is good, but I find it leans on the laugh-track a little too hard sometimes. It does a good job of poking fun at sci-fi of the day, and is a great counter-point to BBC sci-fi like Trek and Dr. Who. They may have even shared some of the same sets and props with the latter.

Hyperdrive is in the same vein and has some really great moments. It sits in my head as the midway point between Red Dwarf and The Office. You could even say it was the much lower-budget BBC predecessor to The Orville.

I have the same problem. Sorry to hear that.

BTW, for anyone following this thread, go watch Cells at Work.

It's a part of a long-standing internet tradition. I first knew the format as the Conversatron (1999). Posting in-character like this might go back as far as early IRC or Usenet.

Real question is: is there anywhere on Mastadon for this kind of stuff?

I'll help out. Here you go: https://www.askamathematician.com/2012/07/q-how-does-instantaneous-communication-violate-causality/

I love it when sci-fi teaches us about real stuff. The problem is that when you mix instant and classical (non-instant) communication channels, you get situations where information time-travels, and the receiver gets information from the future. This breaks causality (present based on future events), and so nature rightfully abhors it.

The closest we've come to instant communication is the use of entangled particles, but we can't make practical use of the phenomenon. Touch one such particle, and it's pair instantly changes to the opposite state. The catch is that you can't know when to observe the particle, nor can you know what the original state was, via the same mechanism. So you still need to use normal photons moving at slow-ass light-speed to communicate that meta-information, thereby undoing any attempt to exploit it.

As someone whose cells don't always do the right thing, I feel this comment.

genetically modified himself to gain superpowers,

To be fair, said superpowers weren't the kind of thing that would make him a viable supersoldier or unstoppable terrorist like Kahn.

Admiral: About this Stamets guy, can we review the footage of his illegal genetic modification powers?

:: watches video log of Stamets taking Discovery through shroom-space ::

Admiral: Ow, fuck, that looks incredibly painful. These mods are only good for this one task? And he can only do it with that machine, from that room, on that specific ship? And he's okay with doing this to himself every time?! Yeah, we're good.

This is the kind of low-effort humor that I'm here for. Nicely done.

Sisko is about ready to commit a war crime in that last panel.

I mean, many are warp capable, so that has to count for something, right?

My two-cent hot-takes on that list of shows:

• Stargate: For the time, it did the Trek format incredibly well if not better. First season was rough, but oddly found its feet when SciFi took over (weird, right?) Good characters, great villains, fantastic arcs. The show "ends" multiple times, with the last few seasons being less than fan favorites. That said, if you love the characters by the end you may find yourself putting up with late season plot devices. Atlantis is good too, but shorter with slightly less compelling plot hooks. The short-lived SGU sequel/spinoff is has this man-v-man flavor not unlike DSC season 1, but doesn't stand on its own lore-wise.
• Babylon 5: The even more grounded DS9. But like the oft-compared Trek series, the production values are a 1990's time-capsule, which (today) has a kind of charm to it. The story arcs center around diplomacy, subterfuge, spycraft, and interstellar war, all told in a universe that is delightfully consistent and charts its own territory. Characters play off each other incredibly well once the series gets going.
• Galactica: I'm going to assume you mean the reboot. This is a gripping serial epic with very few filler and bottle episodes. Characters grow and evolve, allegiances change, motivations shift, ethics are challenged, and whole personalities get re-written. You can slap "space opera" on the box and be correct, but you can't describe more than two character arcs without filling your mouth with crazy nonsense. Yet somehow, it all works brilliantly and draws you in over and over again. It stands apart from the source material, but has lots of nods and references to the original so that the old farts in the audience are enthused.

( The original BSG is a hot mess of amazing-for-the-time effects, cool characters, great concepts, and bad studio interference. Best enjoyed using mind-altering substances because that's clearly what the writers were doing)

Not necessarily the level of the nacelles falling off the ship

I feel like "catastrophic" would be at least that, or maybe at the level of a warp core breach; basically losing chunks of the ship that are required for crew survival. Other categories should just work backwards from there.

Someone needs to reach out to eli_handle_b and make that happen.

Best I can do for now:

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_rY6gn7GNM

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLcl8jkbLXM