Well, thank Space Abraham Lincoln and the Hand of Apollo they aren’t going to go forward with the SNW timeline. They haven’t done anything interesting with the Pike crew, can’t see how they’ll fare better with mysteriously fit Kirk in the chair.

I will miss the SFA seasons that will never happen, though, but look forward to the second season. There was so much to build on from the first one, but instead those gorgeous sets are demolished.

If you want to do it, just go ahead. It’s literally how fan fiction works. Fandom communities aren’t clearance offices that can deny or grant you a license to write what you want 👍

Why else would you want to make them up? 😄

At least HBO seem open to the proposal. It’s frustrating though, that apparently no formal inquiries has been made yet.

Oof, that means new episodes just slide further and further toward the horizon. They’ll need to sell rights to finance new productions, and with an uncertain future for the show, how attractive is it going to be to have it on your platform?

Sure. The issue is not so much “where will I have to sign up to watch it,” it’s “where will they find money to produce new seasons”.

Because I really doubt the BBC are in any condition to shoulder a scifi show on their own.

User contributed ratings are a popularity contest, not a democracy, that’s why. And those get wildly inflated by fans who seem to rate their own brand loyalty rather than what they actually watched 🤷

Your experience and enjoyment of a show or episode shouldn’t depend on (or be lessened by) a biased consensus stat on a website somewhere.

How does the saying go, “Nutty as a fruitcake”?

Thanks 🙂👍

I recognise a lot of this. I was in a temp teaching position within creative arts as the “AI” hype mounted and rolled out across departments. Although I insisted that “genAI” was not permitted in my courses, it was discouraging to see official rules and guides promoting its use by students.

I’ve worked as an artist for thirty years, and the suggestion that you can skip creative processes with a prompt and a click severely devalues that work. Or rather, it indicates to me what value people were always attributing to creative work. It’s as insulting as it is depressing that “AI” users think some slop generated in a split second is equivalent to careful, considered mastery of a craft…

…so I channelled my energy into vintage stereo equipment instead 🙂 Not the fancy audiophile stuff — I’m not that wealthy — but good, sturdy thrift finds. And buying old and cheap meant having to figure out how to fix things. I never had a great understanding of physics or electrics, I was too busy drawing throughout school. But I’m picking up stuff, soldering away at 40 years old circuit boards and switching out parts so I can enjoy my records again.

It’s not a methodical way into a craft, I learn what to do as needed, but it’s a manual, surprisingly analog pastime that stimulates and satisfies me.

BTW @alyasa@beehaw.org, the entire OP is quote formated, is there a source link for it?

My guess is, they aren’t going to reconcile anything. It’s a “small screen, small scale stories; big screen, SO MANY MONSTER FIGHTS” rationale.

I’m watching the movie now, and it’s as bad as I remember. Never mind the inner inconsistencies, but every line from Bernie is insulting. Nothing against Brian Tyree Henry, it’s the writing. On the heels of awful DIY covid remedies, here is a character that advocates showering with bleach.

Oh, and I had to look up one of his looney phrases, “breakaway civilisation”… I wish I’d used a VPN, I’m on so many watchlists now.

It’s a weird movie, in the sense that it’s really not very good, not even by Hollywood kaiju standards. Personally I’d rather rewatch the Roland Emmerich farce than this one.

But at the same time, as the linked article says — maybe that was just the sort of mindless action everybody needed after lockdown. We were just emerging from our homes again, unsure how to deal with the world, and there was Kong Lebowskying around Skull Island like nobody’s business.

It’s so goofy and dumb you almost disregard that some of the main cast play actual tinfoil hat conspiracy theorists who get proven right that, yes, the Earth is in fact hollow, and also Atlantis is right there. Plus Kong somehow stands a fighting chance against big G, in what scenario does that hold water?

There’s a time and a place for everything, and boy, did this ridiculous spectacle hit a dry spot when it was needed.

Actually, I changed my mind. I’m going to rewatch GvK tonight.

Odo was a lover, not a fighter. Just check out those bedroom eyes!

Crime 101 author Don Wislow hit back at Weir on X, writing, “Congrats on the success of Project Hail Mary and The Martian. I’m a real fan. But when you have your moment don’t use it to crap on other writers’ work. For the record, Alex Kurtzman is a visionary writer, creator, producer and you owe him an apology… writer to writer.”

Ugh. I didn’t watch The Martian because of Matt Damon and his face, but I’m going to continue not watching it because of Weir.

Is it okay, in the context and company of a Trek community, and on the sole basis of that quote, to say that he sounds like a bit of a petty entitled prick?

I’ve never read or watched any of his stuff that I know of, but come on. Somebody rejected a pitch you did, so now you’re going to gloat over the franchise’s misfortune the second you have a mic stuffed in your face?

You found the etheric beam locators!

Can’t disagree. All of “AI” and its supposed qualities can pretty much be chalked up to the suspension of disbelief in the techbros’ sales pitch. Because it can’t really do any of the things it’s hyped to, unless you’re willing to drastically lower your expectations of the result.

I keep comparing “AI” to Magic Eightballs and Tamagotchis — toys, not tools. And I guess that’s the allure that draws users to the dysfunctional algorithmic versions in the first place. That and the fairly natural language they use.

And then the quick slide begins into having the bullshit machine plan your vacation. Sure, you ended up out in the sticks with the whole family, none of the sights you were promised actually existed, nor did the B&B you thought you booked …but it was an experience, right? And then you let it do more important stuff.

But “AI” is neither a tool nor a toy. It’s a confounding nothing machine with an addictive interface. As one of the “AI” critical blogs say in its tagline, “it can’t be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong”. So keep up prompting until it gets a response more than 50% right.

In that sense it is more related to slot machines than to any tool out there. It works on our hope against hope and probability that if we chuck enough pennies at the machine we will get a payday. But the house always wins.

This is of course the correct answer. Everybody else being played by the DS9 cast is just a projection by Ben (or Benny) into his (or their?) fantasy.