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Answer is to bypass the problem with a new solution approach Kobayashi Maru.

No they don't

There's lies, damn lies, and then there's statistics. More dead crew members, according to that article, wore red shirts than any other colour. 24/55 in total.

No they don't

I hope we turn out like Harry Mudd.

RGB Oh.. Sorry... I was just checking the monitor..

They're also the "family" that brought you the Star Trek fan film restrictions. How did these restrictions come about? For decades these restrictions did not exist and yet Star Trek made lots of money; fans made and distributed derivative works of Star Trek and all of this co-existed with the Star Trek shows and movies. Fans even collected money and donations used for making more fan fiction for all to see and share. But when Prelude to Axanar came along and piqued CBS/Paramount's interest, and CBS/Paramount sued Axanar's production claiming copyright infringement (including some remarkable overreach on what fell under copyright power). The fan film restrictions came out of this.

Now the restrictions exist and CBS/Paramount has made it clear they see anything other than their own Star Trek stuff as competition and not community-building. Is an organization you want to help fund knowing you're helping to fund an organization that treats their fans this way? Adding misleading labelling to adversarial treatment: CBS wants you to pay them to subscribe to their newly-launched Internet streaming service which, among other things, is advertised as "commercial-free" but will still contain "promotional interruptions" ("certain on-demand shows will include "promotional interruptions," CBS said").

What relationship does Fox have with Star Wars fans? I certainly wouldn't recommend Star Wars fan fiction now that Disney owns so much of that (an ever growing part of everything to do with Star Wars) since Disney is even more harmful helping fund a copyright term extension. If Fox treats their fans better, perhaps it's time to consider making The Orville fan fiction instead.

Thanks! I love the "This is what garlic looks like" picture :-) How can anyone not know this? My wife has IBS, SIBO and endometriosis, so we're well aware of curcuminoids, which sounds like some kind of alien life-form from Star Trek: "We are the Curcuminoids. Prepare to be Adwords-sorbed. It is the will of Land 'O Roo"

Why not?

Unfortunately we ended up with an even more self-serving and worst tempered version of Harry Mudd , but, yes, he is indeed wearing a tribble on his head.

"During San Diego Comic-Con, another teaser for the series was released — this one featuring the “test flight” of the U.S.S. Discovery, the space-traveling base of operations for the cast.

http://www.startrek.com/articl...
http://www.digitaltrends.com/m...

Including Trek actor James Doohan

VideoSift shared an over 1.5 hours YouTube video showing "Building Star Trek (Full Episode)" -- "When 'Star Trek' first aired, it expanded the viewers' imaginations about what was possible. Today, many of the space-age technologies on the show have gone from science fiction to reality. Join us as we celebrate a show that continues to inspire..."

A three years old 47 minutes YouTube video showing "The Real Story: Star Trek (Full Episode)" -- "Meet Star Trek's producers, the first Trekkies, and Mr. Spock himself to discover the true story of Star Trek's history and how its vision of the future has influenced today's technology..."

Star Trek is 50 years old! "Live long and prosper." :D

VideoSift shared an over 1.5 hours YouTube video showing "Building Star Trek (Full Episode)" -- "When 'Star Trek' first aired, it expanded the viewers' imaginations about what was possible. Today, many of the space-age technologies on the show have gone from science fiction to reality. Join us as we celebrate a show that continues to inspire..."

A three years old 47 minutes YouTube video showing "The Real Story: Star Trek (Full Episode)" -- "Meet Star Trek's producers, the first Trekkies, and Mr. Spock himself to discover the true story of Star Trek's history and how its vision of the future has influenced today's technology..."

Star Trek is 50 years old! "Live long and prosper." :D

I'm sorry but this barely looks similar to this.

Yeah, a red shirt would never live long enough to sit in a captains chair.

The theater is a reconstruction of the bridge of the Starship Enterprise from "Star Trek: Next Generation".

I'm sorry but this barely looks similar to this.

The series is being simulcast with CBS on CTV here in Canada, then on Space (probably a day or two later). Then on-demand it will be CraveTV, Bell's subscription internet streaming service (how soon after they don't say). BTW, the show is being shot in Toronto, so in a way we are getting it WAY before anyone else. http://www.startrek.com/articl...

CBS and Paramount Pictures reserve the right to revise, revoke and/or withdraw these guidelines at any time in their own discretion. These guidelines are not a license and do not constitute approval or authorization of any fan productions or a waiver of any rights that CBS or Paramount Pictures may have with respect to fan fiction created outside of these guidelines. - See more at: http://www.startrek.com/fan-fi...

This has nothing to do with CBS/Paramount's legal rights (which haven't changed and can't be changed by them unilaterally). This is basically a statement to the effect "Hey, we have these rules. If you break them, we're more likely to assert our rights in court. Not saying we will, just reminding you that we can."

Of course, if CBS/Paramount sicks the MPAA on them or starts doing the takedown tap-dance on them that'll be proof that I'm wrong. Until they actually do something like this, the whole article is little more than CBS/Paramount clearing their throat and aiming a (well-desserved?) "ahem" at those fans who think they can make money off the franchise.

Currency is an abstraction of labor, we use it to manage the effort put into things during trade - it's a lot more convenient than carrying around four cows and a goat. So, robots come along and take all the jobs? Well, no more scarcity of labor. And the systems of currency and capitalism we have grown so far get upended. They won't go out the window but they will see massive restructurings. If labor is not scarce, want a house Go pick one down the street where the machines built fifty of them. Free.

Even on star trek scotty needed to buy a boat.
http://www.startrek.com/databa...

I think there are plenty of asshole things you could do to a driverless car that isn't illegal.

For instance, just get in front of it and drive 10 mph under the limit. Unless these things have a routine for that, the user will have to go manual to pass.

A couple of points:
* Who is going to be more annoyed - the person who is driving 10 below the limit or the person that isn't driving at all?
* Driving 10 below the posted limit can be illegal https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Ya...just search youtube for Road Rage and see all the fun things that people do.

Just think of Norman.

Just about anything you could do to annoy a driverless car would amount to impeding the normal flow of traffic - which is generally illegal.
http://definitions.uslegal.com...

I think there are plenty of asshole things you could do to a driverless car that isn't illegal.

For instance, just get in front of it and drive 10 mph under the limit. Unless these things have a routine for that, the user will have to go manual to pass.

Ya...just search youtube for Road Rage and see all the fun things that people do.

Just think of Norman.

> TNG is bland, tasteless drivel.

What the fuck are you blabbering about? These were some of the best episodes bar none:

  * Chain of Command,
  * Darmok,
  * Frame of Mind Long before Deception gave us a mind-fuck, Jonathan Frakes gave us a stellar performance,
  * The Inner Light,
  * The Measure of a Man

Along with the 6 episodes with Q:

  * Encounter at Farpoint,
  * All Good Things ...,
  * Q Who,
  * Deja Q,
  * Qpid, and
  * Tapestry

> TNG is bland, tasteless drivel.

What the fuck are you blabbering about? These were some of the best episodes bar none:

  * Chain of Command,
  * Darmok,
  * Frame of Mind Long before Deception gave us a mind-fuck, Jonathan Frakes gave us a stellar performance,
  * The Inner Light,
  * The Measure of a Man

Along with the 6 episodes with Q:

  * Encounter at Farpoint,
  * All Good Things ...,
  * Q Who,
  * Deja Q,
  * Qpid, and
  * Tapestry

Why not the "drone mole". Instead of flying, it tunnels. Like a Horta

Oh.. and can I have my city opt out?

His family has requested that donations be made in his memory to one of the following charities

Everychild Foundation http://everychildfoundation.or...
P.O. Box 1808
Pacific Palisades, CA 90272

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Foundation http://www.copdfoundation.org/
20 F Street NW, Suite 200-A
Washington, D.C. 20001

Beit T’Shuvah Treatment Center http://www.beittshuvah.org/tre...
8831 Venice Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90034

Bay-Nimoy Early Childhood Center at Temple Israel of Hollywood http://www.tiohnurseryschool.o...
7300 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90046

Source: http://www.startrek.com/articl...

using warp 9 at an almost daily basis (despite it being forbidden in TNG by starfleet)

In the spirit of Spock, let me make the pedantic point that the USS Voyager was not subject to the warp speed limit because it had what we would call today a "green" propulsion system. Those movable nacelles were part of it.

From http://www.startrek.com/databa...:

Voyager's folding wing-and-nacelle warp drive system allows the starship to exceed the warp 5 "speed limit" without polluting the space continuum.

after the wars:

http://www.startrek.com/database_article/arsenal-of-freedom-the

"While investigating the disappearance of the U.S.S. Drake on the planet Minos, the crew battles aggressive energy spheres, swallowing sinkholes and invisible attackers.

Arriving at Minos, the crew is met by a prerecorded sales pitch for highly-advanced weaponry. This is not surprising, however, since the Minos people were renowned arms dealers during the Erselrope wars.

While exploring the planet Riker, Data and Yar are attacked by an energy sphere. Lieutenant Yar destroys the sphere, but not before it traps Riker in a transparent cube. Then, after Picard and Dr. Crusher beam down to investigate the crisis, the ground swallows them into a subterranean cavern, seriously injuring Dr. Crusher.

Although Data is able to free Riker, the away team is unable to locate Picard and Crusher. Meanwhile, the U.S.S. Enterprise comes under serious attack by an invisible enemy, which La Forge desperately fights to contain. Until the ship can adequately defend itself from the attacker, La Forge cannot beam up the crew members on Minos.

Back on the planet, Data finally locates Picard and Crusher. The team discovers that the attacks are coming from a computer-generated weaponry system which has gone out of control and has destroyed the civilization that created it. Fortunately, the team is able to turn the system off in time to save the planet ... and themselves.

Onboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, La Forge is able to destroy the invisible enemy and beam Picard, Crusher, Riker, Data and Yar aboard."

What about these? They could be useful.

Actually Mr Anonymous, many of the best episodes of classic sci-fi series like Star Trek and Stargate were all based on time-travel. Yesterday's Enterprise, Anyone?

My favorite TNG episode, Cause and Effect, wasn't strictly time travel but was fairly close.

... actually shows up unlike he did in The Captains.

Where No Man Has Gone Before

All I can think about is the ST:NG with the creator hologram The Chase

Star Trek: bio-neural gel packs

Wikipedia is not and is not supposed to be a credible source by itself. It does, however, link to a credible source, which would have been better to use in your message.

I wouldn't say the idea of "The Man" tracking us has been put to bed. Who would've thought there'd be thousands of CCTV cameras deployed in London? They are/were expensive, fragile, and need lots of bandwidth. That didn't stop a gov't with a nearly unlimited budget and a penchant for snooping.

Tracking humans as they walk along a street with RFID tags in their clothes? Easy, since a single read from a 'registered' garment will suffice to ID the wearer. Extra reads are gravy. Garments are most often on the outside of the 'ugly bag of mostly water', so attenuation isn't a big deal. The distances involved are very short, and the gov't doesn't have to worry about stealth wrt reader placement. You know gov'ts are deploying RFID readers at borders to track cars by the now-required RFID tag in tires, right?

As for the ZigBee solution: I can't predict prices. ZigBee is in that precarious Ouroboros loop of "there-are-too-few-adopters-beacuse-it's-expensive-but-it-would-be-cheaper-if-there-were-more-adopters". That sort of thought pattern is what blew Norman's circuit breaker.

If you're going for a full-on product, then yes, you'll need those things. If you're hacking together something, then quite literally a few soldered on wires and either a thermistor or solid state temp sensor would do. We're talking an extra $2 or so.

Alternatively you could go with a different chipset. There are 'naked' ZigBee chips out there if development costs are less important than unit cost. You can get the chipset used in the digi modules; also Microchip has a few solutions, but you'll pay dearly to license the ZigBee stack, and be doing some serious low-level hacking.

Another solution if you don't require actual ZigBee interoperability: go with straight 802.15.4 and a simpler, cheaper protocol on top of it. There's MIWI, digimesh, plus a whole host of others.

Good luck with your project - you seem quite passionate about it.

I always thought Solar sails would be awesome after seeing the DS9 epsiode where Commander Sisko constructed his own lightship and took his son, Jake Sisko, along for the maiden voyage. http://www.startrek.com/database_article/bajoran-solar-sail-vessel

I for one think these two cubes do look similar: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/CrateII.jpg http://www.startrek.com/legacy_media/images/200508/tng-142-j25-borg-cube/320x240.jpg

Who says life has to be based on our chemistry?

They may poop diamonds for all we know. Remember the Horta.

Dammit Jim, I'm a Doctor, not a stone mason!

it was in TNG episode

Dyson sphere.

  he was stuck in a transporter suspension e set up to live long enough for rescue to come.

True, but you can already watch that here. Brief ads, geographically bound, but no Netflix subscription needed.

FTFY

I saw that too, it also said:

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True, but you can already watch that here. Brief ads, geographically bound, but no Netflix subscription needed.

FTFY

No ST cartoon.

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I prefer hyronalin myself. Iodine is such an old school treatment... http://www.startrek.com/database_article/hyronalin

correction... not Neutrino
Tachyon.

http://www.startrek.com/database_article/tachyon-eddies
Know yer starrytrek

Now we just need to convince them to start using decon-gel. Think of the ratings NASA.

How's a hologram going to take my appendix out?

Oh...

English is like a macrophage. We eat everything up, but instead of getting rid of it, we re-purpose it in some way.

For a good visual image, try The Doomsday Machine from Trek (TOS). There's a good picture of it here.

Actually, you're pulling that quote entirely out of context. If you read the entire interview below from where that quote originates, you'll find the comment is in jest and the whole interview is flippant and comedic in tone; Shatner never gives serious answers. As a post further up notes, "big targets are easy to hit" and though I don't wish to be an apologist, I think you may have mistook his unusual and occasionally brilliant approach to self deprecation via aggrandizement as someone who is actually delusional:

  http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/community/chat/archive/transcript/1086.html

and Star Trek was able to predict / influence how much more tech than Star Wars, example touch screens, tablet computers, cell phones, portable medical scanners, large database/network(internet), voice recognition, and so on

Star wars has what? 20hrs of source material? vs what for Star Trek?

as for accuracy of science star trek doesn't have the implausible light saber

They do have teleporters, shape shifters, and travel through time on a regular basis though.

Both have FTL travel, and goofy religions so that's a wash.

or robots controlled by a biological brain.

orly?

http://www.startrek.com/database_article/borg-queen

It sounds like you need to do some more shopping around between subcultures. Maybe it's because I spent a lot of time in college towns or because I grew up in Northern California, but I'm used to seeing two things that contradict your claims.

I am in Berkeley [, you insensitive clod!] That's probably the closest -- and yet way, way outside of what actually would be acceptable.

1) People from radically different cultures who moved to the United States and feel they're more able to practice their own culture here than back in India, China, Indonesia, etc., because in their homeland they were part of an offshoot culture than was frowned upon, while in their new homes that's absolutely welcomed.

Only if their culture is fringe at home, and is still fringe here -- except only at home they are taken seriously, so people don't bother to express direct hostility toward them in US. Those people who believe that they "practice their own culture" in US are deluding themselves -- their lives only exist in context of American society that follows rules and system of values that is specific to US. They can "practice their own culture" as a hobby or (and usually only) as a religious cult that no one cares about -- this is not "culture", this is thin veneer of a culture over their entirely American lives. Yes, that includes how Russian culture "exists" in US -- forgive me, I forgot to bring my knife, thick accent, bottle of vodka and two liters of sweat. I don't want this and would be insulted to reduce my cultural background to such a freak show.

2) People from the United States who hold very different values from the prevailing national/regional/local views, who are quite happy with their freedom to be different. I've also lived places in the U.S. where that's not the case, but usually that's been my experience.

American society is actually very much homogenized. Differences are superficial and mostly based on racial diversity, and racism that keeps people of the same race together, thus forming a "subculture" with no unique values. For example, if you look at Black/African American culture (that formed entirely over the history of US) it's clear that there are plenty of superficial differences but at its core it's exactly the same as culture of, say, white Protestants, except adapted to being discriminated against, and developed in relatively closed communities. For white American, especially one who adopted racial stereotype it looks "different" or even hostile, but most goals, values and ideas are exactly the same. Many other subcultures have the same fundamental nature, even if not based on ethnicity.

What bothers me most, American geek/nerd subculture, that I am supposed to be associated with, is still very close to mainstream, however mainstream treats it with such a ferocious hostility, I can never understand such a situation. For me American society looks like this Star Trek episode -- groups that I can barely recognize as different treat each other as complete opposites of themselves, and they don't realize just how far I am from all of them.

There's a lot of room here for vegans, people who hate television, people who are only interested in Chinese music, people who want to have no friends, people who never want to be alone,

Vegans? Hate television? That's not what a culture is about.

socialists, anarchists, conservatives, libertarians,

There are no "socialists" in US. American "socialist" would be welcome in the second-from-the right party anywhere else in the world -- and it's usually only second from the right because first would be basically Nazi. In USSR Communists wouldn't recognize him as belonging to a related movement. Politics is one of the area where only a very narrow range of opinion is tolerated in serious public discourse. "Libert

Don't you mean, 'Van Geldery'?

the sleestak fossil revealed yesterday was a nice advertisement for the upcoming land of the lost will ferrell movie

and electing a vulcan as president of the united states was a nice pr coup for the star trek movie now playing

but when the armed forces start building real terminators just to plug the upcoming christian bale terminator salvation movie, this hollywood pr stunt business has gotten a little out of hand

i'm sorry i have to draw the line. what next? someone releases a global pandemic just to plug... oh wait