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I hope the US having squandered and trampled its soft power lead will have to rely more on equal partnership, and eventually tone down the military-industrial complex and monopolization of intellectual property by accepting it can no longer go it alone. Hopefully.

One more reason I don't regret erasing the new Notepad and making it default to the original.

In TOS:"Metamorphosis" Spock states, or heavily implies, the universal translator is psychic to some degree. In TNG Klingons can speak Klingonese at will. I think a person can know when they're hearing a translation, and can will a non-translation. But for the actual point: weird sayings persist.

The font alone makes me think its a TMP era ship, the bridge also looks like an Excelsior bridge to me.

The tube sticking out of the dome was probably intended to be a weapon, so I had them incorporated into the domes of my battleship as phaser bank precursor. But in the show, I always thought it was the ring, like a proto phaser array. Technology is not linear, despite what Civ games say.

It can generate stuff with prompts, but it's much better than an LLM, because, as you note, it knows what it doesn't know, it asks for clarification, or says it can't be done. It knows truth. LLM only combine probable outcomes, without knowledge of truth, thus truth and lies are all equal to an LLM.

Kind of yes. I'm basing it on a mix of ascension into energy being and the transdimensional photonic beings who appeared in the holodeck in VOY. I forgot Badgey also ascended, so a technology derived energy being, independent of hardware, has precedence.

Dead last is having emitters everywhere, except as a backup.

I was hoping they came up with a self sustaining photonic form, no hardware, just photons bouncing around a forcefield structure, needing periodic charging. Second choice is a hybrid of that with programmable matter. Third, it’s just a programmable matter micro mobile emitter.

This is definitely one time no explanation is needed, because there are a lot of easy right answers which flow naturally from preceding context.

That needs a flat deck, as in you can walk from the saucer to nacelle without going up or down, and end upside down relative the rest of the hull when you pass through the deflector section.

We have Shakespearean idioms, we have ancient Roman sayings. I’m sure there will be weird things people say a thousand years from now which only make sense as a particular phrase or don’t actually make sense without knowing the origin, but people say them all the time.

YouTube video by SMT Mainline Déjà vu HO Locomotive Multi Track Drifting Meme

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More seriously I'm glad people have pointed out the realistic fixes outside the thought experiment's bounds. It's unfortunate people might purposefully pretend the artificial limits of the Trolley Problem are realistic.

Realizing keeping the Moclans around is worse than what they offer is great. I also like how the Moclans suck at warfare and are only talented, but conventional, weapon designers.

There might be a risk in conclusion first writing if you hold it too precious. Characterization might demand a different course and end.

Knowledgeable and quick to learn, or able to come to conclusions quickly and accurately, or both? There’s also knowing how to find the answer efficiently. The most simplistic way is to write your conclusion first and figure out the absolute minimum of new Information needed to reach it.

The flexibility is great. Back when I played Skyrim and The Elder Scrolls I didn’t have the right mindset to appreciate the choice and felt like I was playing wrong avoiding the main quest, with nothing pushing me back to it. Now I get it.

This is one thing I like about Starfield, on 99% of the missions there is no implied time pressure, and never any hidden countdowns. One thing I hated about Mass Effect was the implied time pressure, but the moment I got used to it not existing, the clock became real in ME2 and messed my run up.

If I popped into Star Trek it would be the first place I visit, maybe after visiting the Zefram Cochrane museum for the first warp flight ride.

Is it growing over time, or expanding and contracting randomly?

There’s also the point in Lower Decks and the Texas class, that a machine will miss things and make mistakes. Like the old IBM training manual says, “a computer can never be held accountable. Therefore a computer must never make a management decision.”

By the 32nd century it should be possible to state a goal and have the ship do everything to achieve it, but at that point send a probe. The whole point is for people to be out there figuring things out directly. It doesn’t matter if people don’t need to labor to keep the ship going.

I think that’s an okay reason, especially with a solid explanation of its advantages. The dominant form of writing is probably thumb typing on phones, placing any form of manual writing, print included, as somewhat antiquated. Isn’t touch-typing also becoming rarer?

It could make sense if all notes and tests were required to be in cursive, it’s a faster writing style than print, assuming no computer use allowed in school. But of course it’s for vague reasons. It’s not like kids couldnt be taught only their name in cursive for their signature.

I've been to a couple tourist towns with public bathrooms and it's amazing what having a toilet every two blocks does for a place.

Going by the Vorta it is more likely than not the Founders found an existing humanoid they engineered. Even if they were scratch built, DS9 showed enough that they could conceivably want changes to increase their autonomy under a hypothetically less paranoid Great Link. The Jem’Hadar Change is good.

I thought it was Vengeance for a moment. It’s the one angle, something about the neck and color.

Four times faster is great, but 6 months still sounds extremely slow. Is this just the expedient way to get it faster rather than the permanent way?

These schmucks all want the trappings of Star Trek with none of the culture which makes it worth having. They want replicators and holodecks with hardware level Digital Rights Management, and androids as slaves instead of as new life.

That’s the final one I read too. I experienced a constant stream of mild incredulity, something I never felt with any other scfi book.