Correct, latinum cannot be replicated: http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Latinum
This link doesn't lead to a statement that latinum can't be replicated, because that's never actually been established on-screen. It makes sense and is almost certainly true, but it remains fanon.
Yeah, if the article was just her being evasive about season three spoilers, I probably wouldn't have bothered sharing it.
My cynical take is that season three was pretty shallow overall, and I'm not sure there was anything in it that would make someone say, "wait, what?"
I think this is an extremely lousy headline, but the content is good.
Firstly, the headline slightly misquotes what Matalas actually said (emphasis added):
“We wrote nine episodes at one point and the network was like, ‘No, we don’t really understand this, it’s a bit too sci-fi, it’s a bit too in-Star Trek.’”
I think a story being a little too "inside baseball" and reliant on stuff from decades ago is a perfectly valid note, especially when we're talking about ideas like this:
The idea was that Guinan’s bar was presented as a normal bar in Los Angeles, but if you knew the right thing to do, you could go into the back through the telephone phone booth and that was Rick’s Café and it was a stopping point for all these different species that were actually there on Earth with a ‘Do not interfere’ thing happening.
The stuff about COVID messing with the writing and shooting schedule is understandable, and created problems that can be seen in many TV shows filmed around that time. All the same, it makes me wish they had decompressed the schedule and not rushed through things as much as they did.
The comments about there being a lot of different ideas in season two are interesting, since I think she overall series' biggest flaw is that it crammed a lot of ideas, many of which I like quite a bit, into only 30 episodes, with few (none?) of them being fully explored.
And regarding the Jurati Borg...I don't know, I never found that confusing in the slightest. I think their intent came through just fine.
2FA should be working now!
I'm not a fan of the season, but some more time to let things breathe would have been welcome.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/16990273
For context, you can see:
- Join Lemmyvision, a Eurovision-like Song Contest for Lemmy communities around the world! (fediverse@lemmy.world)
- Would you like to participate to Lemmyvision, a Eurovision-like song contest for Lemmy? (main@lemmy.ca)
Community: !lemmyvision@jlai.lu
I’d like to invite you to participate in Lemmyvision, a Eurovision-like Song Contest for Lemmy communities around the world ! I’d love for people across Lemmy to participate, and I hope it will bring people together through our diverse taste of music, so join us if you’d like to discover new music and culture from around the world!
Important Dates
- We have until April 1st to pick a song.
- I could post a locked voting thread for c/Canada, one week from the deadline, with all the submissions
- Global voting will happen from April 1st to April 8th, so check in again then
Song Submissions
- Songs should be Canadian (rules aren't strict)
- Songs should be released between Jan 01 2023 and Dec 31 2023
- We can either submit one song, or 1 each for English and French (source). The organizer is not strict on the rules, so I'm also good with any reasonable submissions
To encourage discussion, please suggest a song, even if you already like one of the songs that were submitted. Maybe you'll learn about some cool local artists 🍁
Since Lemmyvision is a homo sapiens only club, startrek.website will not be able to participate directly, and Spock's rendition of "I'm the X" is sadly ineligible.
But this is pretty cool!
cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/4818729
TLDR
- From right now and until April 1st, discuss with your country's community on Lemmy about which song to send and share to the fediverse.
- On April 1st, voting will begin, where you will rank your favourite songs. Any song not submitted by this date will not be featured.
- On April 8th, results of everyone's favourite songs will be published.
- You can use !lemmyvision@jlai.lu for any question, this will be the community for updates and results, make sure to subscribe if you'd like to stay in the loop.
Welcome to Lemmyvision !
Lemmyvision is inspired from Eureddision (itself a reenactment of the Eurovision song contest) which was held on r/europe some years ago, and based on the participation of national communities / instances and the delicate musical taste of their members (you!).
Every country is welcome to participate! The contest follows the rule of "national languages only" but regional languages are welcome too, if your community would like to feature a song in a regional language of your country, that's awesome. The aim is to promote different languages and cultures from around the world, to share more between our online communities across Lemmy, and discover songs from lesser known artists. I hope to make it a regular event, so hopefully this works well for the first edition!
Exceptions can be made for specific instances to participate if they can submit songs closely related to their center of interest, for example, someone from programming.dev asked me if they could participate and send video game soundtrack, which seems fair to me. So for example if a movie-related instance would like to submit a song from a movie soundtrack, it would be welcome.
How it works :
This post, and the !lemmyvision@jlai.lu community will be open on Monday, March 4th, and I will start promoting the event on various instances and communities. From the moment this announcement is posted until Monday, April 1st, Lemmy communities from each country will try to gather its members and vote on a single song to send for everyone to vote. On April 1st, the songs will be locked in, a playlist created to allow you to listen to all of them, and communities will be invited to vote on their favourite out of every songs submitted, the voting period is estimated to last for about a week. On April 8th the results will be published, with a ranking of everyone's favourite songs!
I don't expect countries with a "small" population to be accurately represented on Lemmy, so no worries if you don't have a community and are just a small group of people, or if your country is not even on Lemmy but another platform (Kbin and whatnot), I can make exceptions, just reach out!
Regional languages are welcome as well, for example, France and Spain can submit a song in Basque, you're welcome to promote a regional language instead of a national one!
Song submission
- Each Lemmy community is responsible for their own organization.
- Only one (1) song is to be sent to represent your country.
- If the song contains vocals then it must be in (one of) the official language(s) of your country, or a regional language in your country.
- Songs must have been released within the last year (after January 1st, 2023).
- Songs must not be international hits (I'll update on how this is evaluated).
- Verification will probably require a link to the discussion thread created within your community, to ensure it's a community (not a single person's) decision.
Voting
- I have one month to figure out a way to make voting fair and set up a way to prevent potential cheating (multiple votes per person and whatnot), I'll send updates in this community once I find a satisfying solution, but don't hesitate to make suggestions.
- It will probably require to mention your Lemmy account and which community you associate with to make sure votes are genuine and can be verified
- Results will probably take the shape of a percentage so that voices from "big" countries will not weight more than others.
On Federation
I don't discriminate based on instances, if your account is not on the same instance as your community, that's totally fine. Additionally, if you're on another Fediverse/Activitypub platform and would like to participate, and you're able to federate with your representing Lemmy community, you're welcome to join us, I'd just like to keep organization within Lemmy so it's easier to track participations.
Where to submit songs / votes
Probably right here in this community, I'm going to weight the pros and cons of submitting through a simple thread, or set up a form to use. Will update, but if your community is faster than my decision-making, it's okay if you submit your song by making a thread here!
Would you like to help?
Although I have the motivation to handle things, I'm probably underestimating the amount of effort needed to make this work. If you'd like to help with the organisation of this event, please feel free to reach out, I'd love to have as many people as possible involved!!
I'm not sure to what degree the PD would apply in a situation like this:
As is tradition, I must point out that whether a species is warp-capable influences whether Starfleet can make first contact, but even if they can, the PD itself applies to all civilizations, and Starfleet is compelled to minimize their interference.
Cultural contamination/interference is minimal, since it's one individual entering the Federation's sphere of influence. Ethically, they should probably help the person return home, assuming they want to.
The closest analogue I can think of is Gillian Taylor in Star Trek IV, and the Federation put her to work in pretty short order.
We've had 2FA disabled, because it wasn't working properly at one point. This is a good prompt to look into getting it up and running again, so thanks for bringing it to our attention!
This is also the advantage of public broadcasting - they can put more emphasis on that sort of thing without worrying about profit.
All of which is to say, support your public broadcasters, people!
I most certainly do not recall that, and it says a lot about the people running CBS All Access at the time.