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  • 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”.
















  • 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.





  • 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.