Vulcan Science Directorate has determined that meme loops are… not fair.

He needs some Gowron eyes under his VISOR.

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There’s always the secret third option: Adopting someone even more introverted.

Weird, this isn’t a picture of Ro Laren.

“Lisa Simpson” got me. Good job.

Refried black beans are criminally underrated. Looks good!

You know Riker does an insufferably good classical Cake cover of Short Skant & A Long (Captain’s) Jacket.

♫ We know of an ancient radiation,

That haunts dismembered constellations,

A faintly glimmering subspace station,

While Frank Sinatra sings Stormy Weather,

The Xindi and Tholian get along together,

Cobwebs fall on an old captain’s record~ ♫

The internet used to scream at you when you went online. Now it’s the reverse.

It’s Linux designed around modern containerization and microservice technologies. The “cloud” naming is a bit of a misnomer, but the same abstracted technologies that help run a modern data center will help make sure your handheld’s launcher doesn’t break because a game or comparability layer wants to use a different database version. https://github.com/cncf/toc/blob/main/DEFINITION.md

The Universal Translator is basically magic. TOS came closest to describing how it works, and it boiled down to, “IDK man it does some brain scans to detect your language structure”. There’s no satisfying answer as to why it knows the “Washington State Bridge” is a combination of a proper noun, a geopolitical concept, and a general noun.

In Enterprise, the Universal Translator is generally depicted as a modern miracle of technology, but one without useful internal intelligence. If it hears a few snippets of Romanian, it’s just going to start brute forcing a translation matrix with every technique it has at its disposal. More speech gives it more data to work with, but it’s still just cycling through its options.

Sato’s familiarity with xenolinguistics allows her to aid the Universal Translator by narrowing the system’s options or directing it down specific paths. She doesn’t know or learn the alien languages in the traditional sense, but she’s shown for having a knack for picking up on patterns and syntax. Again with the Romanian example, she’s doing the alien equivalent of saying, “This sounds European, skip trying to translate this as an Asian language for now”. The Universal Translator has fewer options to run through and gets to a successful translation matrix faster.

But again, it’s plot contrivance space magic.

Saru actually passed the Kobayashi Maru. Mind you he wasn’t the one taking the test. A pyrotechnic went off early in the simulator and knocked out the cadet going through the program. Saru had to take over as acting captain and managed to save everyone.

It’s a few doors down on the same deck. Folks like taking breaks and a change of scenery. The few times she really did want to hold up in her office she definitely had the capacity to hide away in there.

Which programming language is this a book cover for?

“After seven years in the D.Q. I’m free!”

I loved the New Trek rewatch podcast The Greatest Trek’s running joke of referring to Admiral Vance as anything but his actual name.

You know, Admiral Police-Captain-In-A-Gritty-Crime-Thriller-That’s-A-Casting-Mistake-Because-He’s-Distractingly-Attractive. https://youtu.be/gChtl014aLk?si=K64RvGwkgq2M05Zl&t=3164

(That’s a YouTube timestamp link. It should automatically jump you 52 minutes into their Discovery retrospective episode to the segment with their Admiral Just-For-Men supercut.)

Derpy power couples always end up being the first of your college friends to buy a house the reformers of your planet’s economic system.

Leeta and Rom are some of the most earnest characters in Star Trek. I’m so glad Bashir’s beard didn’t fade into obscurity after their rite of separation.

They steered them back towards normal looking after the first season for what it’s worth. They literally have a character comment, “Oh hey, you’re all growing beards again.”

This is excellently done.