Just the occasional round of targ-cat practice.

Meme credited to William Shatner (but actually written by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens)

Last time some rich fuck started screwing with people’s access to natural sunlight cycles, it didn’t end well for him.

Next tech-sector grift will probably go for our network adapters or some shit…

There are many entirely-valid ways to write out the sound of laughter including endless variations of “heehee,” “heh-heh,” “hahaha,” and more, but I believe “hehehe” is just incorrect.

Riker was always looking for new and imaginative ways to get his leg over.

You are not alone in feeling like that about The Orville. I hated that Seth MacFarlane just filed the serial numbers off of TNG and forced in enough lazy jokes about dicks and beer to make it lawyer-proof, and the masses called him some kind of TV scifi pioneer for it.

The Doctor from Doctor Who. It’d be nice to think we were all being simultaneously respected, cared for, and defended by someone smarter and kinder than most of us.

In Germany.

You might wish to read the original novel that the crappy movie was based on, Jumper by Steven Gould. The book was so, so much better, possibly good enough to unfuck the story in your head, and it continues with a series of pretty good sequel novels if you like.

Gorgeous work!

I assume this was carved from the Captain’s Log.

It’s already functionally an ad for Canva’s premium services.

The “Department of Precrime” idea comes from the Philip K. Dick story The Minority Report, more widely known from its 2002 film adaptation starring Tom Cruise.

I’m in my late 40s, and have so many Doctor Who toys on desks and shelves.

My spouse is sweetly tolerant of the sheer quantity of TARDISes in our small apartment (which is, alas, not bigger on the inside) and has even gifted me some of them.

Tribbles are canonically the cereal now.

I’m picking nits, but Impossible Mission didn’t use voice synthesis (where a computer creates the voice sounds from scratch.) It was using really low-fi by modern standards (but amazing for the time) recordings of actual speech provided by an unknown actor.

From this interview with the programmer:

The speech in the game was real, digitized speech. The performances were provided by Electronic Speech Systems, who also provided the software for reproducing the speech on the Commodore 64. I told them what I wanted the game to say, and when they asked me what kind of voice I had in mind, I said I was imagining a fiftyish English guy, like a James Bond villain. I was told that they happened to have such a person on their staff, so, instead of hiring an actor, they let him take a whack at it, and I thought he was just fine. I never met the guy who provided the voice, but, to my knowledge, the recordings were not altered or processed, apart from being digitized. It is certainly possible, though, that Electronic Speech Systems could have tweaked them without my knowledge. There are no other digitized sounds in the game.

The “Final Cut” rerelease added voice lines for (I think) all the characters.

Even the turrets!

Finally, a chance to romance Foul Ole Ron.