And then a man child had a temper tantrum and destroyed galactic civilization single-handedly. Sure. Okay. Have fun with the rest of the show, but that’s where I turn in for the night.

I felt the same way, at first. Then I realized that we have other things in the Trek canon that asks as much suspension of disbelief:

• “God” lives at the center of the galaxy and is a right bastard. Also happens to resemble Chuck Heston as Moses.
• Psychics and psychic abilities are a thing
• V’ger
• Q and the continuum
• Whatever species Guinan is, and their supernatural temporal sensitivity
• Tachyons and the rest of the fictional subatomic zoo
• Mirror Universe
• Time travel, but mostly to whatever year the show was made, and for the occasional Deus Ex Machina device
• SPACE FUNGUS

Edit: my head-canon for the weirdness of Disco’s first season is that they really wanted it to be the start of a Kelvin-verse TV reboot, but were coy about it.

Edit 2: I forgot about the Kardashev Type 3 civilization of robots living just outside our galaxy, that will turn the Milky Way into a lifeless wasteland if anyone so much as prank calls them. But they made their digits really hard, but possible, to find.

Do I still have a case?

We actually have a class action suit for that very thing. Let me DM you the details.

Transporter buffer imprisonment

This is a horrifying concept and you bet I would send a Klingon law team after someone for that.

Console explosion

Do they have experience/success with suing The Federation? I heard they recently added Borg parts to all their ships - seems reckless to me.

sent to Rura Penthe

I have good news and bad news for you.

The good news is: Since you now live at Rura Penthe, Gowron Law can represent you for your new Mesothelioma suit.

The dog is the only one that can’t actually consent to space travel, and regardless, couldn’t possibly know the risks. It is innocent, and doesn’t deserve a violent fate.

Everyone else knows that they signed up to live in a metal box, with an artificial biosphere, which is all that separates them from the cold void of deep space. Also, said deep space is jam-packed full of things trying to actively break that metal box, if the crew doesn’t beat them to it first. And nobody knows that better than Seven.

At the very least, the headrests are wrong and the carpet is the wrong color*. Probably the latter.

(* maybe it looks “right” on those novelty VHS recordings you get at the end of the experience?)

“O’brien in Agony”

Is just a picture of Miles with Keiko

For a moment, I though this was a play on how holodecks work versus the current state of AI.

Then I realized what an utter nightmare it would be to build a full-blown VR environment using nothing but present-day stable diffusion prompts.

Holy shit. That is amazing.

I’m also a fan of Discovery’s take on this trope: Everyone is going to die unless we do something immediately, but let’s monologue and/or argue for five on-screen minutes first.

Acid Jazz or Punk Jazz?

Shaxs is a menace.

…

But that other warp core totally had it coming.

@Stamets, you’ll be missed.

I don’t know what condition c/Risa was in before you got here but you clearly helped build the phenomenon it is today. I know that, by your own admission, you’re (re)posting largely out of a hand-built database of old Trek memes, lovingly archived from elsewhere. But I wouldn’t think that a small task - it’s a lot more effort than any of us shitposters ever summoned for a few laughs. So, we’re all standing on your shoulders to an extent. And all of it has been the highlight of my post-Reddit online reading this year, so thanks for everything.

See you out in the Fediverse.

This video is a roller-coaster of emotion.

• Ethan Peck
• Unboxing complete collectable in-box and everything
• Bewilderment ensues - this thing is weird
• Ethan Peck tries it on
• Doesn’t fit on Spock’s head

Morn: :: look of astonishment, throwing hands up in air ::

Morn: …

Monr: :: shakes head and keeps playing ::

I dunno. Those may not be completely airbrushed in, but there’s certainly some contouring going on.

All Ferengi coms really should be an ad-encrusted nightmare: trailer before session, banners and popups during, ad breaks, and then a trailer at the end. Oh and a prompt, either manual or automated, to dismiss all ads for a subscription fee or an expensive one-time fee.

But with that recent paywall joke in LD, maybe that’s on the way?

Jellico: Hot damn, even their jokes are efficient. I like this crew.

Cheese flavor is the way to go here.

But given the color, I’m reminded of restaurant soda syrup bags. So is this one Dr. Pepper or Coke?

No matter when/how this show ends, it’ll be the same way, and it’ll be far too soon.

Also: is Pike aware that he’s functionally immortal until the clock runs out? There’s ample evidence that his future is unavoidable, so he’d have to come to this conclusion by now, right?