You’re right. I gotta be going where my heart will take me.

I need to give those a harder listen. I do like how the Prodigy theme combines cinematic and TAS vibes. Also, I like how SNW riffs on the TOS theme.

Also, my “call” is indeed a tongue-in-cheek way to say I hope that Westlake can continue in Star Trek. Admittedly, I probably should have communicated that in a more precise, less melodramatic mode.

From what I’ve seen of Asahi Linux’s progress on emulation, Windows games are running pretty darn well on Apple Silicon - there’s still work to be done, but a lot of recent, complicated stuff is playable.

This gives a bit of hope for gaming on other ARM platforms.

I have a Blu-ray drive, though my case doesn’t have 5.25” bays, so I just have the SATA cables come put the side.

The sole reason I have it is because once a couple years back, I wanted to watch the Star Trek: TNG Spanish dub, which was only available in the US on a Bluray, which I promptly borrowed from my local library.

I have used it a couple times after, though - once to burn a CD-R with TinyCore to boot on a Pentium II laptop, and once to backup a Bluray with a dub only available on that medium.

Oh no! You can’t break the laws of physic; O’Brien MUST suffer! Take it away before the universe suffers a subspace quasar tachyon inversion burst collapse to the hull or something. 😉

TNG: “Shades of Gray”, the really low-budget, terrible finale of season 2 where Riker has a virus that makes him relive memories turns the show into a clipshow.

But are you tough enough to watch the clip show?

What! Fairhaven is the best! Computer, delete the wife user! Just kidding. You’re entitled to your opinion.

But yeh, I get the hurt of the end of a series.

As for TNG rewatches, at this point I just go back to a favorite episode and start from there; it’s hard to sort good from bad in the early seasons.

Also, you can rip Blu-rays using a PC Blu-ray drive (which I acknowledge is increasingly hard to find - my PC doesn’t even have a 5.25" bay - I just have SATA cables dangling out for the drive, which I ripped from another machine).

Honestly, it’s a nice path to media ownership, although I don’t use it a lot.

According to Memory Alpha, 10 years because the ship was supposedly obsolete by then.

At least the OG 1701 got a good lifespan - it was no Miranda, but 40 years is great for an Enterprise.

The decommissioning of the A seemed a bit premature, though, considering it was a new ship that was relatively salvageable. Maybe its battle damage was just too much and that’s why it was given to the museum. Alternatively, the A was originally a different Constitution class undergoing a refit was was already quite old by Undiscovered country.

There’s a good chance the B lasted a long time too, though there’s no canon source to its demise, only that it’s not in the fleet museum.

The nice thing is the tape is all over YouTube, so you can watch all the campy clips of totally not Gowron.

There’s also a version done in Tabletop Simulator, though I have no clue if it’s any good.

I didn’t even immediately notice the photo was of the VHS board game. 🤣

Or just see if the kiss happens at timestamp 10:25 in the episode.

My dream set is a Cali class.

Also, little-known fun fact: the cow is a full Lieutenant.

In which media format? Stupid Paramount+ is going to have its stupid “not commercials” at the beginning of episodes, which might bork the timing.

As it’s Tawny Newsome, I’m giving it a chance.

My dream trek show, though, would be a semi-anthology that explores different crews (mostly non-Federation, but maybe one), sort of like if LD:”Wej Duj” was a series. Each crew would have a self-contained 50 minute plot, and then you would have them meet up for a finale (hopefully in two parts) with a meetup of each crew.

The one episode idea I have would be called something like “Cetacean Ops”, featuring a Starfleet vessel commanded and mostly staffed by aquatic (and some amphibious) life forms, except for main engineering. In addition to exploring what the heck whales do in the Federation, we could explore the dynamics of how non-aquatic and aquatic crew interact and try to prevent loneliness.

I think The Orville improves over time - I initially hated both Isaac and Gordon, but they do good things with them later.

I’m excited for the Lower Decks one.

For SFS, though, “classic film” is one euphemism for it. 😆