Star trek!

[Hel OWeen]

Unrelated to the TV series discussion, but CBS and Rod Roddenberry's production company built a website where you can take a virtual walk around every bridge of every ship which hold the name Enterprise : https://roddenberry.x.io/

[Nordstern]

I'm missing the walk-around part, as it seems to be nothing more than a rotating static image.

[Hel OWeen]

Yeah, "look around" would be the better term. You can look around yourself be holdng the left mouse button.

[depili]

you should be well aware now that walking is not included in any walking in X promises.

[Straight Hustlin]

I'm missing the walk-around part, as it seems to be nothing more than a rotating static image.

Hit the enable navigation button. It took about half a minute to actually start loading, but then you can walk freely.

[Hel OWeen]

What? Where's that button buried?

[Added]
Ah, this is either a addon (most likely) or browser thing (unlikely)

- Firefox with lots of addons, my primary browser doesn't show that button
- Vanilla MS Edge does

Though I disabled the typical suspect addons in FF, it doesn't show up there.

(A few moments later ...)


If I read and interpret that correctly, it's disabled on their side for Firefox.

<a href="#enable-stream" class="bg-yellow-02 text-black flex pl-[10px] pr-12 hover:bg-orange gap-4 py-4 min-h-[32px] rounded-l-full rounded-r-full justify-end items-end typo-button-2 max-lg:hidden ff:hidden nm:hidden pl-24"><span>Enable Navigation</span></a>

This is the part that looks suspicious: ff:hidden

[Overspark]

If I read and interpret that correctly, it's disabled on their side for Firefox.

Chrome and it's derivatives are so prevalent these days that more and more website developers are too lazy to properly support anything else. It's the old IE6 days all over again, and just like then it's bad for the internet.


I'm slowly working my way through the last season of Picard (just escaped the nebula) and while it doesn't seem as bad as the earlier seasons I'm not entirely sure why people in here were raving about it. It's OK I guess? What am I missing?

[Ruri]

I'm slowly working my way through the last season of Picard (just escaped the nebula) and while it doesn't seem as bad as the earlier seasons I'm not entirely sure why people in here were raving about it. It's OK I guess? What am I missing?

The fact that it actually is OK and not miserable over-plotted over-acted bullshit nonsense is why. I listed out all my reasons on a previous page, I think there are many fair criticisms of season 3 and it is by no means perfect, but for lifelong TNG fans it's been incredibly cathartic to finally have the send-off movie adventure we were denied after Nemesis ate shit for being horrid and everyone just moved on.

[Hel OWeen]

If I read and interpret that correctly, it's disabled on their side for Firefox.

Chrome and it's derivatives are so prevalent these days that more and more website developers are too lazy to properly support anything else. It's the old IE6 days all over again, and just like then it's bad for the internet.

Which doesn't make sense to me, as I was under the impression that the days of proprietary web standard extensions died for good with IE 7 (I think?). Or are there any media standards that only the Chromium engine supports, but Firefox not?

[depili]

If I read and interpret that correctly, it's disabled on their side for Firefox.

Chrome and it's derivatives are so prevalent these days that more and more website developers are too lazy to properly support anything else. It's the old IE6 days all over again, and just like then it's bad for the internet.

Which doesn't make sense to me, as I was under the impression that the days of proprietary web standard extensions died for good with IE 7 (I think?). Or are there any media standards that only the Chromium engine supports, but Firefox not?

Plenty, also standards that FF supports but chrome doesn't, safari is also it's own bubble with webkit. Most of the bubbles overlap, but there are plenty of exceptions.

[Nordstern]

Annnnnnddd the feature is gone.

[Lowa [NSN]]

[Ruri]

I might actually be low-level shaking in anticipation for the Lower Decks crossover.

[Boltorano]

Makes me wonder if they chose at least some of the Lower Decks cast with a live action crossover in mind.

Jack Quaid in a Starfleet uniform looks so wrong but in a good way.

edit: They even tinted his hair purple!

[Spartan Dax]

Now that's a time travel episode I can get behind!

[Lilalaunebör]

Strange New Worlds is back. Episode 2 was a bit of a tearjerker, and no real season arc that I can see yet, but it's nice. Not great, not bad, just nice.

Bit of a romcom feel to it, but without rose-colored glasses pretty true to TNG.

[KaiDoh]

Sorry, it looks awful. Just don't get it. I've totally given up on new trek, the dialog sounds like it was written by teens who've never seen Star Trek before.
I'm old I guess but re-runs of OS, TNG, DS9, Voyager and Enterprise I've seen a thousand times before are still more entertaining. Bah.

[Ruri]

Strange New Worlds is back. Episode 2 was a bit of a tearjerker, and no real season arc that I can see yet, but it's nice. Not great, not bad, just nice.

Bit of a romcom feel to it, but without rose-colored glasses pretty true to TNG.

Aesthetically it's actually a p. close analog to the TOS episode Court Martial, I know because I watched that immediately after watching the latest ep. of SNW and... fast-forwarding through several scenes of interminable speechifying that were almost but not quite drowned out by Fucking. Constant. FEEL THIS THING NOW music cues.

I did not like this episode of SNW, mostly because once again I could tell that the showrunners think people are stupid.

[Lilalaunebör]

It clearly leans on Measure of a Man from TNG.

Measure went for the slavery angle (and of course on "do androids dream..."), while SNW went for racism and other forms of systemic oppression.

One of the reasons SNW doesn't work as well is because it doesn't have Patrick Motherfucking Steward delivering the lines, but I think people are grumpy old hypocritical farts if they say it's shit and TNG/TOS isn't.


Of course it uses updated audio and visual cues. You do not want a Star Trek show shot in a broom closet under a loud ceiling fan. You maybe think you do, but you don't.

[Hel OWeen]

It clearly leans on Measure of a Man from TNG.

That's my favorite episode of all ST series. This one had me think about it for days.

ST:VOY had a similar themed episode with the Doctor: "Author, Author". It's not as deep and essential as Measure of a Man, but given the current AI hype, especially AI generated art, it also exlores an interesting idea.