Gorgeous work!

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

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

Tribbles are canonically the cereal now.

The thing that interfered with my ability to follow DS9 when it was first broadcast was how tightly serial it was. (This is not a complaint as I actually think in hindsight it’s something awesome about DS9, but it bears thinking about in context.)

In the pre-binge, pre-DVD, pre-online-episode-recaps era TV viewers sometimes had to just miss a couple episodes of something because of real life, busted VCR timers, or whatever. You could hope to catch what you missed months later in rerun season or years later in syndication, but that was it. Missing a stretch of TNG or Voyager was no big deal in the vast scheme of things, you could generally just jump right back in and keep enjoying the plot of the week while any really necessary missed details would be filled in more often than not. Miss more than a couple DS9s in a row and, if you were particularly unlucky, those were huge arc episodes and suddenly the entire plotline was twisted in some other direction and you could really struggle to understand what the hell was going on or get back into it.

I was a devoted 1980s/1990s Trekkie, but not until the digital era have I been able to actually sit and watch and enjoy DS9 all in a row as intended.

BRB, typing my PIN number into the ATM machine to get some cash for SCUBA apparatus.

Totally agree! This artist uses all sorts of action figures from all sorts of pop culture things in this comic, and his 3D-printing game for his scenery and stuff is definitely worth recognizing.

“What’s up, doc, is your life, if you don’t cut it out!”

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Here’s their cover, for those interested.

but then they’re in the far future, and you just wanna see more and more of what’s left of Starfleet in the future.

I never softened on that particular development. The Star Trek Universe I know and love is based in optimism, and I want to believe in a Federation that keeps adapting, improving, and ultimately continuing as a positive force moving forward through the dedicated collaboration of an infinitely-diverse collaboration of peoples.

Disco took that basic core of all the flavors of Trek we’ve ever had and said “LOL never mind, all the principled and optimistic stuff you loved leads to a dystopian crapsack future and everyone’s sadder assholes than before, u mad?”

Or white, let’s not forget that bit.

Many truly obsessive Star Wars fans have been technically pirating for ages in order to have the fan-made 4K restorations of the original films Lucas and Disney refused to release in favor of the CGI-remixed versions.

Imagine actual oligarchs and nazis staying in power because actual oppressed people love stories the oligarchs and nazis control about imaginary oppressed people defeating imaginary oligarchs and nazis too much to stop giving them money.

Table cat, screamed and pointed at.

Sooooo much Lucky Tower Ultimate! I had no idea when I bought this game how much it would eclipse all the other software on my Steam Deck, but I’m loving it a whole lot.

The fact that the company forced him to stop getting ready to open source it strongly suggests they aren’t interested in it being open sourced.

“I’ll try the Kolvoord Starburst, that’s a good trick!”

Turning it on by default (opt-out instead of opt-in) is still a huge concern and needs spreading the word about.

Hold off long enough for him to become Tuvix and then let that beautiful bastard live instead.

I wanted to stop using my Walkman when I got a Discman, but my main use for portable music was during long walks and commutes and the Discman worked like crap if I was moving around at all. The skippy little expensive bastard got put back on the shelf, and I kept using cassettes until the portable MP3 player era finally hit.