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.

Personally, what I think would be awesome is a semi-anthology series inspired by LD’s Wej Duj where each episode follows a different ship, and each episode builds to a final plot in which all the ships are involved.

Of course, we’d have the Klingon episode, but mainly, I just want an episode called “Cetacean Ops” that follows the crew of the USS George & Gracie, a Starfleet vessel staffed almost entirely by a plethora of aquatic life forms - I’m talking humpback whale captain next to Xindi Aquatic first officer-type things.

You might have a small crew of humanoids for maintenance and the occasional away mission or non-aquatic starbase, and you could explore an interesting story around how an aquatic crew tries to accommodate them.

And I bet at least one of those named versions gets involved in bizarre causality loop or some other temporal shenanigans.

“They put a paywall on a bomb?! Stupid Feren-“

- The final words of Nick Locarno

PDF forms are often horrible when done wrong; however, PDF files are really good for when you really need a document to look the same everywhere and don’t want to worry about what fonts the recipient has.

The accessibility issues are legit, though.

I otherwise agree, but what’s particularly wrong with PDFs? Almost anything can generate a PDF these days.

“Feeeeeeeeed me!”

While doing the world building for a very Trek-inspired story I’ll probably never finish, (I’d originally planned the story ad a Star Trek fanfic, but later chose to make its own universe), I jokingly claimed the ship’s computer of the AAS Alan Turing was running something like Linux 126 LTS in ~2500.

(I have to have my organization call starships “aero ships” in the story because my organization is called A.M.P.E.D, and I don’t think I could take the acronym of “AMPED Star Ship” seriously.)

I mean, while the ownership of the franchise is legit concerning and I am worried about where it’s going with the end of LD and PRO, at least SNW has managed to get in some good ones, especially Ad Astra Per Aspera and Pelia bluntly calling Star Trek “the whole no-money, socialist utopia thing”.

There’s certainly been some gaffes, and I’ve been driven a little nuts by the relationship stuff going on in S3, but there’s still strong stuff in that show for now (granted, I’ve only watched up to S3 E8 so far). At the very least, it got some last words in before we possibly hit a dark age for while.

SNW Ad Astra Per Aspera for the win!

Young man, I see profits are down, I said
Young man, workers leaving the ground, I said
Young man, 'cause you’re in hoo-man town, I said
There’s no need to be un-Ferengi
Young man, there’s a person in town, I said
Young man, when you’re short on latinum you will
See him and I’m sure you will find
Miserable days and bad times

It’s time to get probed by Brunt F.C.A.
It’s time to get probed by Brunt F.C.A.
He’ll do everything young entrepreneurs fear
You can’t hang with other Ferengi boys
It’s time to get probed by Brunt F.C.A.
It’s time to get probed by Brunt F.C.A.
You won’t have shirts to clean, you won’t have a good meal
Your bank account is gonna reel.

(These days, I normally wouldn’t want to reference Village People, but this parody just works so well that I had to forget my political rage for a second and just get it out of my mind.)

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I need to play with HomeAssistant more. My last bit of hesitation was I was struggling to find a replacement for the announcement and intercom functionality, which is half of what my family uses Alexa for.

It looks like it got announcements with the “broadcast” intent in February; for the intercom, there may be a plugin. This seems like it might have me covered on the intercom front: https://github.com/JoeHogan/ha-intercom

Perhaps I’ll mess around with it again once the semester’s over; a lot of my family would really like to jump the Amazon ship and certainly be willing to try it if I give them the option.

But have it be slightly implied he’s an El Aurian, Lanthanite, or something like that.