To be fair, the Vulcans did find Sybok so disagreeable they excommunicated him.

I haven’t seen all of Discovery, Enterprise, or DS9 so I’m completely unqualified to participate in this, but I’ll make a write-in vote for Original-flavor T’Pring. Biiiiiiiishhhhhhh

SNW T’Pring though, I love her. She’s got actual depth and I can empathize with her.

Runner-up: TOS T’Pau. Stuck-up xenophobe, plus they gave her that dumb early modern English dialogue of thees and thous that was supposed to convey ancient wisdom or something but they conjugated it all wrong and it’s annoying as hell

I loved Valeris though. She was an important window into how Vulcan “logic” isn’t a formal system of maths and proofs but a multiplicity of systems that each try to be internally consistent. I didn’t agree with her conclusion, like I wasn’t meant to, but I actually thought she was a very courageous person for acting on her own moral conviction.

A reasonable concern but also a shame, because data is data and PornHub has a massive userbase. I trust Backblaze stats for hard drives because they just have a shit-ton of real-world metrics. I’m inclined to trust PornHub stats for the same reason.

I get it, duck

Agreed, none of them would make a fantastic doctor. I was trying to think of what role Mikey could fill, and honestly I don’t think he’s grown up enough to be any kind of senior officer. Cowabunga, lower deckers!

This is weird and it’s nonsense. Obviously Leonardo is the captain. First Officer would have to be Raphael, arguing with the captain’s decisions then giving in. Donatello IS an engineer, so that’s clearly his job. And that only leaves Michaelangelo to be the doctor. …Don’t get too injured, guys.

If you consent to it, it’s ethical. It is not otherwise.

The knowledge that you live in a society where you could be legally killed at any point for the greater good, and the resultant fear and uncertainty probably would cause more harm overall than doing so could actually alleviate.

Is that not exactly what happened to Tuvix? Complete with him begging in helpless fear?

The episode did its job challenging viewers with the question, because people still argue about this today. But to me there’s an actual, unambiguous answer: 4.823 seconds after transport autosequence initiation, when the emitter array completed the materialization cycle.

Of all the decisions Jellico made that turned out to be right, my favorite was putting Troi in a standard uniform.

They’ve retired that one. Now it’s “kindly” everything, sometimes wrapped in ridiculously floral language like “my beloved”.

Moreover, Neelix and especially Tuvok as an enlisted Starfleet officer consented to the risk of death that comes with serving aboard a starship. And that’s exactly what happened to them. Tuvix was never given the choice and was murdered for having had the bad fortune to be born aboard Voyager. So much for seeking out new life.

Is there something wrong with 2FAS?

I want to give Parabola a shot.

It’s almost like conditioning the entire country to fear and/or hero worship cops and unquestioningly comply with everything they want has a downside.

ls -R /

there they are. and some other stuff too.

Get the ones with sliding zippers. Some cables are thick enough to strain against the regular ones and pop them open.

I put individual cables in ziploc bags now. They can’t get tangled, and they’re really easy to sort through.

The first “porn” I saw was in middle school. It was a single bootable floppy disk with a pitiful menu of crude – almost repulsive – animations on an Apple II, basically no better than stick figures. The lesson I took away from it? How to program animations on an Apple II. And also that using one-voice beeps and honks over a bitbang speaker to suggest the buildup to an orgasm is hilarious.

My brain goblins love refactoring. I love taking a rusty pile of shit and making it shine. I want to polish something old, or build something completely new. Adding features to existing code is the part I hate.