My dog fits the bill a bit.

That first season on Trek, ‘Sins of the Father’ was the episode. It was a Worf story. Worf goes back to his homeworld for the first time and has this whole thing about his honor. I was down on the set and I’m digging it: ‘It was a big Klingon show, this is kind of cool.’ There’s Michael Dorn and he has this line in a scene where he discovers one of the other Klingons has betrayed them. The line is, ‘Someone should feed this Ha’dibah to the dogs!’… and Michael immediately goes, ‘You know what? It’s a great script but then somebody writes you a line of dialogue like that and the whole thing is just so stupid.’

Michael Dorn obviously wasn’t a fan of the line, but he’s stated many times over the years he is a big lover of Worf. Fortunately, he remained (mostly) professional during the filming of the episode. Ronald D. Moore didn’t even scare him away from playing a Klingon, even if the line was terrible.

There’s more to it but that’s the gist. The writer continued to write and shined despite this one off “gaff”.

I’m afraid the world will end and I’ll be a dick without my SSRIs or coffee

Insert robo-eye since the left eye is not perfect 20/20

I have no idea why my upload got pixelated like that lol sorry for your eyes.

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Or this:

I love how Odo and Quark hook up in the next episode. Enemies to lovers. Classic.

He’s an Oblivion vampire. He can only go into the sunlight after a feeding.

The cool thing about TNG is this literally could have been an episode.

SORRY

If they keep stacking em, I’ll keep packin, em.

The only thing I want AI (on my phone) to do is limit my notifications and make calendar events for me. I don’t want to ask questions. I don’t want to start conversations.

I want to open my phone and have 1 summary notification of things I received and things to do. I want the spammy ones to just be auto filtered because I never click on them.

I’d also love if I could choose when to manage all of these notifications with my AI assistant. The only back and forth I’d like is around scheduling if I need to make changes.

For sure. I want a standalone series. Of the new shows, Lower Decks or Strange New Worlds got us closest to that. But they both feel like an homage to their counterparts (TNG and TOS respectively). I would appreciate a show like DS9 that takes a sort of “day in the life” appeal towards somewhere simple. They made a star base the entire show. I imagine they could take a newly colonized or colonizing planet and make a show about that. New plants, animals, dangers, phenomena, etc. I’m sure each planet could have plenty of stories to tell and subcultures to explore.

He fucked up. But it’s also kinda funny.

Easily Star Trek: The Next Generation. It’s mystery, sci-fi, action, drama, and period pieces (holo deck episodes). It has a bit of everything. Plus it’s a hopeful vision of the future.

If you want to build stuff but are struggling to motivate yourself, take a walk or go exercise and stop thinking about it for a bit. Sometimes that helps me. I’m in the same boat. I tend to work on a lot of things but I have a treasure trove of 10%-50% completed projects.

Lately, I’ve used ChatGPT 3.5 to help me figure out ideas or work through places I’m stuck.

I’ve gone to 4 conferences in the past 6 months. Most of the open source devs there that made big waves in the community are actually doing their jobs and their company open sourced their work. React, by way of example, is a Meta project that was open sourced.

So, sometimes, the intimidating projects have someone working full-time on them. So don’t feel like you should try to accomplish that.

As other people said, if you end up not being interested in doing development in your free time, don’t worry about it. It’s normal and fine to just go home and enjoy your life.