For the record, I rationally hate AI*, and this title already raises suspicion for me.

“AI” is a buzzword, and seeing it in the title or slogan for project or product reeks of some business major jumping on a bandwagon that they don’t truly understand, and where there’s business majors, there’s probably encrapification.

*: Of course, one of the big problems is “AI” is a misnomer - there’s no “Intelligence” to it. “ML” is closer to capturing the nature of the technology without ascribing to it some magic power that it doesn’t have.

Star Trek: The Search for Ensign Peter

TIL

I wouldn’t touch with with an approximately 12 meter pole.

I think I have a bit more nuanced feelings on the MIT license. If I actually write something useful, GPL all the way, baby!

However, I don’t necessarily think the MIT license is the embodiment of evil; I find GPL a bit overkill for hobby projects. I’m not talking things that have the potential to become critical pieces of infrastructure like a kernel or something; I’m more talking about emoji pickers or hacky little Python scripts that would be pretty useless to a Fortune 500. In the minute chance someone actually cares about my silly little toy to fork it, I see very little point in encumbering it with the full heft of a copyleft license and stopping them from doing whatever the heck they want.

I agree that DS9 probably wins by far on its ability to hold off fleets during the Klingon and Dominion Wars.

However, I’m not sure I would dismiss Voyager so fast as a contender against the Enterprise D - I think Voyager is both well-armed and comparatively agile, with a higher maximum warp speed and likely a higher cruising speed. I think the ship’s unique strengths would at least give the D a significant struggle.

And this is how Alexander ended up joining a homicidal cult in the IDW comics… Very Beta canon, but also feels like a thing that would happen.

I think episode 8 is worth a shot. The basic premise is really stupid, but they execute it so darn well with the writing of social interactions. Also, I’m really surprised they pulled off Vulcan Patton Oswald, which initially scared me when the season trailer came out.

I think it was something dumb related to Cortana? It was a pretty useless operating system, and I’ve since run only Raspberry Pi OS on that particular Pi.

RISC OS, anyone?

I did once on my Pi 3.

There have been some comics, but from what I can tell, they’re vaguely set in a “season 4.5” where Boimler doesn’t have a beard yet rather than a continuation off season 5. As a result, I haven’t really read those.

Warp Your Own Way is great, though, and feels like it would have been a banger episode; there’s such a wonderful balance of humor and almost making you cry.

Despite the issues with S3, I’d still say it isn’t horrible and worth watching. There’s a couple good episodes, and hey - it’s not TNG S1.

According to this, they used “the original 3D scene files”

https://trekmovie.com/2017/03/01/ds9-clips-in-hd-cgi-re-rendering-next-on-wish-list-for-documentary-exclusive-details-video-sample/

Memory Alpha cites this as well as several other sources, showing the files were preserved and used at least in part in the documentary due to vigilant former effects workers.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/CGI#Remastering_projects.27_ramifications

My thought is the Borg Queen is less actually in control of the collective and more like the voice of the collective, similar to Locutus. She’s also the outlet for every drone’s horniness…

Not quite. The base footage was all 35mm; they were just transferred to tape when doing the editing and VFX shots.

It is very much possible to remaster DS9 at the very least - they did a few select scenes for the documentary “What We Left Behind”, complete with re-rendered CG effects, as the assets still existed on VFX artist’s computers.

Actually, a lot of the CG seems to have survived and is in the hands of VFX artists; they actually remastered a few select scenes and showed them in the documentary “What We Left Behind” and re-rendered the ship battle from the original assets.

I know about “The Night Santa Went Crazy”, but the mass shooting sort of violence in it is not so funny anymore; I much prefer “Christmas At Ground Zero”. I’ll have to look into the AC/DC one, though.

Some of my favorites from my playlist:

• Jonathan Coulton and John Roderick’s banger Christmas album One Christmas At a Time, of which my favorites are “Christmas In Jail”, “One Christmas at a Time”, and “Christmas with You Is the Best”
• Also, Jonathan Coulton’s “Chiron Beta Prime”
• “Sad” and “CryptoSanta” by Lemon Demon
• “Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight)” by the Ramones
• Most of the stuff on “They Might Be Giants in Holidayland” EP is good; most of it is from earlier albums, but it’s a good collection of holiday stuff they’ve done. I’m just sad they’ve never released “We Just Go Nuts at Christmastime”.¹
• Puddle’s Pity Party version of “I’ll Be Home For Christmas”, because it sounds like someone is sneaking up behind you to murder you.
• “Me and the Snowman” by Logan Whitehurst

1: There’s also a song called “Christmas Cards” never released outside of a 7" from 1993. “Christmas In the Bighouse” is not on streaming because it’s exclusive to the band’s shop; I own it on CD and in FLAC, but can’t put it on the playlist unfortunately because it’s in Apple Music and collaborative playlists can’t use personal library tracks.

The My Chemical Romance cover of this song is quite good, perhaps better than the original.

I think my very long Christmas playlist with a mix of alternative and popular Christmas songs insulates me from hearing the original on repeat, and as a result, I don’t have as bitter of feelings towards it. I mean, it’s not my favorite, but I’ve heard much worse Christmas songs. It’s a lowest-common-denominator corporate pop anthem, but at least a well-executed one; as long as it’s not on repeat, I don’t mind hearing it once in a while.