That’s so weird, because Trump essentially cut funding to NASA and now the Artemis Program is completely in jeopardy. But even have to be cancelled altogether.

Buzz Aldrin voted for that.

Americans still don’t know what communism is.

Or… Once he’s gone and things settle down for a bit, he’ll only be remembered through a couple of weird memes.

I don’t trust the intelligence or rationality of people anymore to believe they’ll learn from this.

Yay, yet another once in a lifetime financial crisis.

Nobody at the company probably ever used one of those pens. They broke or got stuck way more easily than just a regular pen. Which… Is honestly a pretty apt comparison for AI.

It’s fine to do your own thing if it effects nobody else.

Well, the visor probably wasn’t seen as a handicap because it also gave Geordi a far wider spectral range of vision.

The blue eyes he got later on weren’t real eyes, though. Just more advanced cybernetic implants.

Giant rock little girl is a NuTrek invention, and NuTrek fucks so much shit up due to incompetence combined with trying to earn brownie points, while simultaneously playing it super safe.

I will disregard NuTrek in its entirety, and any argument based on NuTrek is illegitimate.

Hmm… The time I remember is from Star Trek Insurrection, and he didn’t want his organic eyes because it would come at the cost of the locals they chose to protect.

Or maybe because serving as an officer has a fitness requirement, as is expected in any fleet or navy?

Oh no! The ship needs crucial repairs, the conduit is down this Jefries tube! Quick, before the ship explodes! Except you can’t fit and everyone dies.

NuTrek is garbage in any regard, and this would be something else to add to the ever growing NuTrek garbage pile.

If they choose. There’s very likely a fitness and aptitude requirement for serving as an officer in Starfleet. But for civilians… It would be up to them.

He’s not overweight either.

Oh, hah, someone actually made a LEGO version? I only ever knew the original one about Diablo.

The first season of Lower Decks alone makes a few very big and weird errors for the sake of causing some story conflict.

For instance; officer replicators adding garnishes to food. Except we’ve always know that the food you create out of a replicator can be programmed to be whatever you like it to be. Any replicator can also be used to generate tools, or weapons.

Which brings me to that other ship that has these newer model tools… And one of the characters stole a bunch of them. Clearly that tool isn’t a classified prototype, otherwise why wouid a low ranking crewman know about it and how would he be able to steal a whole lot of them? So if he really wanted one, why didn’t he just pull up the file in a replicator and just… Replicate one?

“Look at all this money. Boy do I have so much money. What will I ever do with this much money?”

Anyway, this is what I believe our typical customers are.

A deleted scene and two instances of none Starfleet personnel… In NuTrek… Which we all know cares so much about continuity.

Not to mention the obesity.

Sure, there are foodies and people not in perfect shape in Star Trek, even on Starships (of the kind that carry civilians, like the Enterprise D).

But outside of maybe admirals, I’ve not seen anyone wearing a Starfleet uniform being obese in Star Trek.

Oh!

Just realised when posting; the glasses! Eyesight problems are relatively trivial to fix, unless we’re talking about some extreme case like Geordi.

And yet, no one party has all the power. A party is always forced to make a coalition to form a government, and we’ve seen how the right wing is woefully incompetent at doing that.

But Steam isn’t a walled garden, or a monopoly.

Valve has done nothing that monopolistic corporations have done (i.e. Disney or Nintendo). They have kept themselves relatively small, private, and focused on providing one service really well.

Every other competition has only ever tried approaching what Valve does with Steam with shortcuts and quick money grabs.

It’s all fine and dandy to cry and complain about monopolies, but nobody even really tried. Epic’s store was, and still is, a laughing stock. That is what Valve is up against.

You do not understand what a monopoly is.