StillPaisleyCat

joined 2 years ago

Secret information is shared on a need to to basis, not as background on a visiting officer.

She may absolutely know this.

[–] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It’s not an urban myth at all that Tom Paris was a renaming of Nick Locarno.

Kirsten Beyer (now a senior producer in the Secret Hideout shows) verified this point with Jeri Taylor (creator of Voyager) back when Kirsten was writing the Voyager Full Circle Treklit books. It’s covered in an afterward. Doubt that would have been cleared for publication if not true.

That said, whatever the meta situation, onscreen canon can be whatever the current EPs want. So, I’m curious where they’ve decided to take this.

Transporter technology constantly evolves across all the series and eras.

So in the 32nd century, yes they do just use the transporters built in their com badges to zip around the internal volume of the ship, but there are protected areas. The Transporter room is more like a formal entry.

In TOS, internal site to site transport was dangerous, so only used in emergencies. You’ll note that they almost always transport to outdoor locations.

In TNG, less dangerous but not generally enabled. Used under emergency or ideal conditions only. There are a lot of situations on planets where portable pattern enhancers are used to improve functionality and safety - kind of a take it with you transporter pad set up.

Vic Fontaine also experienced the ‘left running constantly with no shutdowns’ that the EMH did, and his actual behaviour didn’t really go that far off base programming.

[–] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great take. How many people who are not deaf or hard of hearing really read nonverbal communication as well as they do (excepting hearing kids raised in Deaf families).

I’m liking the new John Eaves design (for June?).

It looks like a quantum slipstream design, very close to Mark Rademaker’s Vesta-class USS Aventine but with a less elongated saucer section.

Interesting.

[–] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not convincing me to switch from Bell Media’s CTV Sci-fi Channel.

Other than Star Trek, Paramount seems to be really targeting a market that just isn’t anyone in our household.

[–] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have been able to load communities and content on Voyager since the last fix yesterday, but am still having issues with images in the main post, especially on c/risa.

On Voyager, I’m seeing just a little blue square in the middle of the box where the meme image should be. It’s not consistent though so it could be some kind of incompatibility with the upload and storage format.

Thanks for your care.

On Mastodon, the tenforward.social instance where the @Admin@StarTrek.website & @ValueSubtracted@startrek.website have accounts, has its own set of emojis. Some of these seem to have been contributed by users.

It would be great if our leadership here could check in with @guinan@tenforward.social to see if she would generously share her protocol.

[–] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Voyager is still not working this morning. Can upvote only very intermittently. I haven’t attempted to post or comment.

Logged in through a browser, I am not having upvote issues, but failed to post a comment on the first attempt.

All to say that Voyager is part of the problem, but not all.

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