Even into the later series, people had to fight to do interesting things with it. IIRC the network was skittish about Voyager because nobody would possibly be interested in a scifi show with a female lead.

Every time you deplatform a group, it generally shrinks by about 10%. Keep doing it enough and eventually you have a group that’s JUST the diehards, and that group is generally so small that they’ll burn themselves out.

It also doesn’t help that you have AGI evangelists like Yarvin and Musk who keep saying that the techno-singularity/techno-god is the ONLY WAY TO SAVE US, and that we’re RIGHT ON THE EDGE, so a lot of dumb fucks see that and go “well obviously this is like querying an average human mind which has access to all of human knowledge for the problem if superhuman jntelligence is right around the corner.”

For the next couple weeks, I’m sure. The financials are watching all the axes being taken to regulation in the industrial sector and I’m sure they’re gonna want in on that scene at some point.

There’s another episode in VOY where the Hirogen force Harry to build basically 3/4 of the ship into a massive set of holodecks. It’s mentioned multiple times that this is a MASSIVE power drain (this may be due to the smaller warp core of the ship, though).

Not really laws, at least in the US. So long as they don’t claim it’s made of things it isn’t, they can say “well the packaging clearly states it’s not real, actual leather”.

I stopped caring too much after he was allowed not only to stay on, but actively work as chief security officer AFTER HE HAD KILLED A MAN in a blackout state.

From what I understand, the bigger issue was that the producers thought the networks would get cagey if they went any further with queer representation. You must sadly remember that this was the 90s - not even ten years since a White House press secretary had openly laughed in a press conference about gay people dying of AIDS.

My dad actually got involved in something like this. He got rejected from a job after a background check company confused HIM (a 59-year-old white guy) with another guy (a black 32-year-old man) who happened to share the same name, in the same city, and provided the contracting company with information that stated my father was wanted for felony larceny. I think we wound up getting something like $700 from a small class-action against the background check provider, and it got settled out of court because someone blew it up with the local news.

G’Kar and Kira sharing war stories.

I want an entire show about Admiral Vance, because I’m in love with Oded Fehr’s voice.

“You’re welcome on my ship. God ain’t.”

TBH, O’brien’s been on the Enterprise long enough to know that when weird, seemingly powerful creatures start talking to you, you should be very, very careful. Even if they present themselves as storybook characters.

I thought it was the one like Babylon 5.

Sulu: I’ll protect you, fair maiden.

Uhura: Sorry, neither.

Generally speaking, plane crashes are like train crashes. Either most everyone survives, or most everyone dies pretty quickly, with very little in between.

Goddamn I love that episode.

And after that, most of the “good” admirals we meet are commanding their own ships still.

I imagine the easily recognized Borg were easier for networks to swallow than “the enemy is a bunch of parasites that are almost undetectable.”

Don’t forget Sisko.