That’s not fair because any contest that involves O’Brien automatically means that he has already lost.

And we laugh at the ancient Romans for flavoring their wine with lead or using lead products and slowly poisoning themselves.

Popcorn machine from 1978 still going strong after being fixed and repaired by me three times now. I bought one new modern popcorn machine because it was on sale … it burnt out in two months and the built in electronics were designed to never be fixed. The old 1978 unit is basically just a blower motor operated by switch, controlled by a simple thermostat attached to a heating coil … every part is easily accessible and can be fixed … all of it easily repairable, fixable and parts replaceable.

Mr Rogers, Bob Ross, Steve Irwin

It was always simple for me

Stars Wars is about war, fighting, conflict, heroes, villains, basically the Wild West but in space … and to upgrade the story a bit, the turned it into WWII in space … then to upgrade it even more Cold War conflict in space … basically its always about war and the always simplified message of ‘Good guys against bad evil guys’

Star Trek to me has always been about hope and change. A future where humanity goes out into the cosmos and runs into all kinds of situations (including war) and deals with everything in a civilization where everything and everyone is complicated but we learn to work and live with one another as a functional society. We also learn to admit everyone and anyone can take the roles of being ‘good’ or ‘bad’ depending on what is happening and nothing in society is ever simple or clear. Star Trek has also taken the position of constantly holding a mirror up to our current society and showing us how backward, undeveloped and uncivilized we can still be while also giving us hope that we could be much more.

Nice work … whenever anyone does work of these short little animations and video … most people have no idea how much time and effort it takes to create / recreate / manipulate / render / rerender / experiment in order to get the right combination of file size / quality / content.

Even if it isn’t OC and you went out of your way to do it … it’s still some work and knowledge.

Non-stop Glory!

I can hear these animations … in the first one I got all excited … and in the second the lights dimmed for some reason … I feel so relaxed

Tabloid magazine? … it’s more like scribbled pieces of paper written by random strangers on the sidewalk … people keep reading the crap and walk away happy that their worst beliefs have just been confirmed by 100 random strangers with scribbled pieces of paper who told them so.

Rotated it and all I could see was this …

It had everything to do with human greed.

As long as there is the suggestion or possibility, no matter how remote that anyone of us can become enormously wealthy, we won’t want to change the system.

(I’m having trouble responding to this post because my Lemmy instance at Lemmy.ca has been having problems for the past few days)

Thanks to people like you and everyone at c/tenforward for giving me the motivation and enthusiasm to get back into Star Trek. It’s people like yourself and especially @[email protected] that really got me back into Star Trek. @[email protected] was probably the first person I chatted with on Lemmy when I first got on this social media platform and he has always guided me to the right people and places which led me here to c/tenforward.

I watched Star Trek many times over the years but it was always a lonely experience. I’ve never known a group of people in real life in my circle of friends who enjoyed Star Trek. My wife is partial to it and only enjoys watching The Original Series and dismisses all the others. It’s fun to relive and rewatch these episodes because many of them are truly wonderful writing and acting. This episode of DS9 was particularly outstanding. I was thrown for a complete loop when everything blasted back to 1950 and again caught off guard when they introduced all the characters. I thought at first it was weird that they brought in new actors but then realized who they all were. The intro scene with the sidewalk paper boy had me totally confused, I knew the voice, I knew the character but didn’t realize until later who it was. The same for all the other alien characters. It was also thrilling to see Marc Alaimo and Jeffrey Combs - I really loved hating those two and its part of what makes the series so memorable. The only character I really missed in this episode was Garak (Andrew Robinson).

It is a really enjoyable show and it’s made even more fun because I’m able to share the experience with people like yourself and this online community at c/tenforward

I don’t know if I’ll live long (I hope I do) … but I’m definitely prospering.

Meegwetch Mina Doodem … it means ‘Thanks again my friend’ in my Native Ojbway/Cree language

Trust me the beginning is not easy … I think I started and stopped watching DS9 about five or six times over the years. I started it again last summer and the first season is a bit of slog, second season felt a lot better and by three and four, I was looking forward to it all. Once you get past those first few episodes, there are some definite jewels to see and you get to enjoy all the major cast members and characters that are part of the show. At times, the good guys become the bad and even the bad guys become the good and sometimes you can’t tell which makes you realize that this is what life and society is all about. You get to love the protagonists and you even grow to enjoy and appreciate the antagonists because there is so much great writing and acting in the series.

Reading up on the episode and learning about the writers and actors as I keep watching the series.

This documentary you mentioned will be added to my list to watch now … unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be readily available in Canada. I’ll have to find other ways or sources to be able to watch it.

Shows like this are special, not because we get to watch them … but the way we share them with others and get to know that there are many people out in the world who share the same views and ideas.

Seeing Jake as a fast talking cool cat with a pencil moustache and slick hair in the 1950s was one of many highlights

I was a bit saddened at the thought that there could be a point in my life where I would have watched all of Star Trek … but I’m realizing as I get older that my memory is fading. I sometimes rewatch some episodes of TNG, which I watched years ago and once enough time passes, it feels like watching them again for the first time. So my failing memory is making me happy to know that I’ll probably be watching Star Trek for the rest of my life.

Or being able to hide an alien in plain sight and calling it a Chicken Lady

TIL Kids In The Hall doesn’t take place on earth in Toronto, Ontario, Canada … it takes place on an alien planet that is part of the Federation. This explains so much.