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Those Tzenkethi are from the North.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

That's not an easy question to answer - I like it so far, but then again I've liked every season to one degree or another.

This one is structured as more of an Indiana Jones-style adventure. There's a thing that they need to find, other people are also looking for that thing, and we're following them from planet to planet as they try to find it.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

Tangentially, the season four VOY episode “One” does not share it’s name with the Borg drone named One; that episode was called “Drone” and was part of season five.

Trips me up every. Single. Time.

Jett keeps her collar open, and the closure is bisected in half, but when we see Culber with his collar open, the closure remains a single piece.

Magical Starfleet uniforms keep me up at night.

Tuvok showed Janeway a a hybrid he made using a favinit and an orchid in “Alliances”.

Tuvok and hybrids involving orchids, name a better trio.

Edit: obligatory picture of the Star Trek Online Tzenkethi. Look upon them and tremble.

A picture of the Tzenkethi as seen in Star Trek Online. There is one close-up, one picture of the back of the creature, and one picture of the front, from the top of the head to the knees. The Tzenkethi are purple, four-armed reptilian creatures with a horn in the centre of their forehead. Portions of their body are covered in high-tech armour, while other portions are left exposed.

Apparently, the numbers on P+ weren't good - the Hagemans themselves have said so.

To be honest, if Paramount slowly decides that they're better off selling their shows to other streamers... I'm not totally against it, depending on how it's done.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Prodigy soldiers on for now, and Starfleet Academy is in pre-production, set to start filming this summer.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 19 points 9 months ago (5 children)

“While five seasons of any series these days seems like a miracle, it’s no exaggeration to say that every second we’ve spent making this show has been a dream come true.”

Indeed, if even an animated series is ending after five seasons, I expect this to be a pretty firm maximum moving forward.

“We remain hopeful that even beyond Season 5, Mariner, Boimler, Tendi, Rutherford and the whole Cerritos crew will live on with new adventures,”

That's encouraging.

I know people sometimes complain about a lack of DS9 references, but I do think the new shows show respect for the world created by that series.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

At one point, I recall being able to at least search for a Mastodon user from Lemmy and have them come up in search results (no posts and couldn’t follow).

Hmm, I think that still works provided the Mastodon user has interacted with Lemmy in some way. It will pull up their bio and posts/comments made on Lemmy, but that's it.

I think the difficulty lies in the way the two platforms treat user accounts. On Mastodon, it's pretty straightforward - a user is a user.

On Lemmy, the users are users, and the community federates to Mastodon as a "group" that boosts/retweets every single post and comment that users make to that community. It's not really ideal, but I'm not sure if it can be improved considering the radically different structure of each platform. This is what the Quark's feed looks like on Mastodon:

A screenshot of @quarks@startrek.website as seen on Mastodon, showing the various users being "boosted".

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

siiiiiiiiiiiiigh

But yeah, federation between Mastodon and Lemmy is pretty unidirectional. Users on (most) Mastodon instances can use their accounts to post to Lemmy and follow Lemmy users, but it doesn't really work in the other direction.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 4 points 9 months ago (6 children)

I spot-checked a couple of them on Mastodon, and I can call up their profiles without an issue.

Justin Ling has published the full audio and transcript of this intervew here.

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