Yes! As with many things Voyager, it set up a good premise only to move on from it an episode or two later.

Yeah, the official story is that Locarno was too fucked up for audiences to forgive. Jeri Taylor said:

“We had liked the idea of a character like Tom Paris ever since we had done “First Duty” and had Lecarno [sic.]. We didn’t make Lecarno the con officer, because he was somewhat darker and more damaged. We felt Lecarno couldn’t be redeemed and we wanted to be on a journey of redemption.”

Personally, I think Locarno would have been a great choice, because while I like Tom Paris just fine, Voyager utterly failed at selling the idea that he was in need of redemption or a “bad boy” of any kind.

Yes exactly, my potentially hot take is that twenty years from now we’ll look at immutability as the tipping point that sent Linux mainstream on desktop.

I think Fedora Kinoite is the best distro for someone coming from Windows due to KDE’s flexibility and similarity to Windows and it’s immutability. Default Ubuntu is great for people familliar with MacOS, and it can even be themed to be basically indistinguishable.

I say fuck it let’s give him another 10 spinoffs we have nothing to lose anymore

Friend of the Instance Karim Diané…

Context: https://startrek.website/post/35769143

There was a Ted Talk a while back (I can’t remember who) where they said “I have always wanted to give a Ted Talk… but when I got selected to do this I realized that what I really wanted was to say I had given a Ted Talk”. Meaning they want to be known as someone who had given a Ted Talk, not actually go through the process of writing and delivering the Talk.

People who write open source code do it because they like the process of writing, just like an author enjoys writing books. LLMs are for people who just want to be able to say they have written a book. People who slop-code aren’t actually interested in learning how to code. Which is a fine toy for them to play with, but not sustainable (or reliable for others to use).

Why doesn’t Odo just put up a sign that says “nobody I don’t like allowed”

Plot twist: I will use the holodeck to simulate being a starfleet captain

That’s an awesome story and I agree he was great in that role.

Oh fun I will have to check it out

The fact that it lost to American Beauty that year is a travesty

Colm Meaney’s performance in Layer Cake is simply astounding!

I would put Duck Tails 2, but still- why are they so dang replayable??

Yeah, they also mentioned that it was difficult to capture it in photos:

The facial sculpt by Dean Tolliver features an enigmatic smile typical of the character, and like a lot of EXO’s sculpts, this one is hard to capture just in photographs.

Awesome!

Crazy that this was uploaded almost exactly one year after it went off the air. Also crazy that that was twenty years ago!

I’m going to complain about this until it happens and then enjoy it and then continue complaining for another ten years BUT after that I will pretend I always thought it was brilliant and beloved nugget of Trek lore.

This is so true, I always think it’s funny when they say AI will fix climate change, what’s it going to do? Tell us to stop burning fossil fuels?