To be fair to Harris, it really wasn’t her fault. At the time Biden stepped down it was far too late to have a proper primary.

Probably by the design of the donor class.

Was it a good game, though?

I hadn’t heard that before.

DS9 season one may have been inspired by an early show bible for Bab5, though. JMS might have left said bible with the producers when trying to get funding.

You’ll also note the rough first season for DS9, and that they didn’t really screw with things too much. After they got off that and went their own way, it got much better. Dark, sure. But better.

It might be nice to have a live action, but lower decks style, station-based show on the edge of some frontier, ships coming in to turn in maps and stuff.

“Cardassians visited today, they’re assholes.”

“Why is every new species a different flavor of asshole? Can’t we, like, meet some avian space hippies or something interesting?”

“You mean the Arrakoa? Yeah. They’re assholes too.”

The problem with both is that they disregarded established lore/canon/history. It isn’t that they refreshed ships to use more modern cgi /‘d practical effects.

It’s that they ignored what made trek great to tell their own stories. Abram’s turned Kirk into a sniveling, narcissistic brat, literally the worst qualities from TOS and Pike his idiotic enabler.

As much as I rag on TOS Kirk for chasing skirts, he’s not that bad of a person, he has narcissistic tendencies it also moments of selflessness. He’s complicated. Also basically Horatio Hornblower. Abram’s Kirk had no redeeming qualities except that SF admiralty was even dumber than him.

As for Disco, it’s like someone shoehorned a different story into being trek. It’s clear that the show’s authors and producers only slapped Trek branding on the story for marketing.

Writing inside an extremely popular, extremely well-developed universe like trek is hard. You have to be extremely careful, and balance story telling with staying inside the broader universe.

This isn’t to say there can never be changes- and we’ve seen changes as out-of-universe technology and budget changes (tos Klingons tmp Klingons…. They’re constantly getting new looks.) but they have a fairly consistent culture that got more fleshed out in TNG (also destruction of praxis did have some effect, leading to ruling houses being more prominent.)

The Disco Klingons? Are nothing like Klingons. They may as well have been an entirely different species. The writers didn’t care until fan backlash, and even then we mostly got bullshit excuses.

(Though Abram’s needed to lay off the lenses flares. Just saying.)

It’s going to be abramsverse all over again.

Look. If you wanna tell a new story… tell a new sci-fi story….don’t spackle Trek on it to sell merch.

That’s how you get shows like St:Discotheque, where it makes more sense if the crew is huffing them space spores and tripping balls.

I was gonna say… that last one is Vazquez Rocks. Uncle took us there when I was a kid, and bro wore a hole on his pants sliding down.

(Right over his but.)

Iirc, he was the project manager. The real engineers probably let him fool with interior lighting to keep him happy and away from critical systems….

They weren’t entirely successful.

Works for me.

Great idea for his library. Since you know… he won’t put books in it.

we could probably lift the slab and put it someplace. like his library, maybe. Or one of his golf courses.

Wesley wast the worst of these. (and a total write-in.)

Meh. Could have added rifles.

Or maybe a pistol caliber automatic thingy in the forearms.

Minigun on the shoulder?

That creepy face they used for the Japanese (?)humanoid robot…

Okay. So what inspired And So the Children Shall Lead? (TOS, third season.)

It’s about children getting possessed and murdering everybody.

Oh. And Threshold’s Salamander-Children. (Voyager. Janeway topped Paris and created a new hyper advanced evolution of…humanity…?)

The perfect drinking companion. Doesn’t get smashed and start offering bad life advice. Or pick fights expecting you to back them up, even though you don’t even remember his name from when he introduced himself five minutes ago. Or, mace you for saying “hello”

It’s been modded, which is always a crapshoot. It could be a stellar printer, or they’re lying, or they think it prints amazballs, but has really low standards. Or it could be even more amazing and their standards are just straight up OCD.

From what they say, the mods are fairly common for creality printers.

It’s also super common to mod your printers, especially lower-end brands like reality.

I would suggest asking if they could do a test print- and give them the filament to do it with. Something like a Benchy won’t take too long, or too much filament. Also if it comes out nice ask for what they used as print settings.

If it prints well, 150 is a spectacular deal.

That said, I wouldn’t suggest entering non a used printer. Too many things to go wrong. (I’d also suggest avoiding the lowest end of printers.)

Six seven.

Well, if they wanted to play with it again….

I mean, thanks, lol.

This feels like a trap. Did I just sell my soul to your cats by looking at them?

10/10, worth it.

First and foremost.

Let’s get one thing absolutely and crystal clear.

Politics is absolutely fucking not a fucking game and fuck you for callously saying it is.

40 million Americans are facing food insecurity because of this attitude.

24 million more will see their healthcare costs go up. Because of this attitude.

I could list a rather shocking amount of absolute and unmitigated shit that is happening right now, because of this attitude.

Making offers you know are nonstarters isn’t negotiating. Especially offers that are largely unacceptable to your base. Fucking around with the lived and wellbeing of everyone here is not appropriate.

It was also unnecessary. Most of us realize that republicans are in control and that they could end the shut down with everything they wanted any time they want. (Also, could have stopped it from happening.)

Also, why would you trust a man that convinced the House to hold out, promising to vote against cloture the last time, only then to backstab everyone and vote for cloture?

There is no reason to; and he’s lost control of the democrat senators. As for last nights no-vote, I was somewhat relieved until certain of the other senators came out saying he approved it or whatever.

Not that I outright believe it, but it does suggest he knew they were turning rogue. Maybe one shouldn’t bullshit with things that won’t get accepted instead of shoring up the party unity.

(Maybe he should have endorsed Mamdani, too, for that matter.)

Well for one thing, I do admit when I’m wrong.

You’re full of shit, so I assume it’s all projection.

Furthermore, this attempt at negotiating and compromise signals an intent to… you know… compromise…. With people that haven’t actually compromised in 20 years.

Which, if you have not been paying attention, is how we’ve come to be here.

Yeah, I have no reason to believe Schumer is going to do the right thing here, either.

Because you cant admit you’re wrong, I can’t?

I would be delighted to be wrong. And you’re fooling yourself if you think Schumer is up for a fight.