I wonder if we trained an AI on the entire corpus of articles about how Google is gonna kill adblocking, if we could keep these articles going after most people switch uneventfully over to Lite.

I worry more about Big Data. Unlike Giant Spock, Big Data can live on forever.

Why, yes, I am well endowed. Thank you for noticing!

Nothing wrong with a bit of classical music.

RD honours takedowns, so sometimes content vanishes from them.

Really miss ShittyDaystrom here, though!

Space amoeba!

Can I make a suggestion? I would like to contribute but I can’t afford a lot and frankly I’m a little embarrassed about how little I can afford. idk if your plans involve any sort of flair for people who contribute, but if it does, can you ensure there is a minimal amount people can contribute, that still gets their flair but doesn’t say they are cheap/poor? Thanks.

I laughed my ass off, and it was still Star Trek to the core. What’s not to like? They are killing it this season.

I feel like I’ve heard more people complaining about people complaining about this episode than I actually heard complaining about this episode. Feels sort of preemptive.

Perhaps being from such a hot planet, their cuisine consists of mainly chilled dishes.

Fascination would probably be fun. Or Dramatis Personae.

edit: oooh, how about Repression?? Pagh t’em far, B’tanay!

Honestly, I prefer the version of the future that contains that one dude who thinks hairy cereal is an absolute banger idea.

The Trouble With Edward is indeed canon. Somewhere in the Federation, there’s Tribbles cereal, and someone who believes in it enough to make commercials for it.

Almost makes it worth losing your biological and technological distinctiveness and becoming an involuntary part of a rampaging evil horde. Actually that sounds like a lot of parties I’ve been to…

I bet the Borg throw the best parties. Could you imagine, the entire Collective, doing the wave??

What do ya mean, no utopia!? Your agonizer, please.

I don’t understand that dude, needling the dude with no memory who was beating on him, then acting all surprised when that same dude puts a gun on him. Like, what was he trying to do? It seemed like he was trying to get Pike to kill him, but then he wasn’t. Wtf?

I’m just saying, our definition of luxury has moved since they built those sets in 1987.

Star Trek has always talked about Starfleet and the Federation as organizations that are worthy of trust. But practically every series has had examples of badmirals and evil bureaucracy, typically with ‘our’ heroes being the ones to fight against it. From stealing the Enterprise in TSFS to The Drumhead to Section 31 to petty theft Archer to Control and the Zhat Vash to the Illyrians, being and/or fighting against a compromised or infiltrated or just simply bad Starfleet has been a long recurring theme. That’s why I loved when they turned that theme on its head in Lower Decks, with an entire episode based around fighting the evil Starfleet ended up superfluous because Starfleet was actually a fundamentally good organization and, as it turned out, the system actually works. I feel like the writers of Lower Decks are the only ones who really believe that…everybody else seems to want to scratch at the surface to see what they feel really lies beneath. Although, having said that, they ended the same season with a badmiral, so idk.