No, you see Worf knows and accepts he’s Alexander’s father.

He just doesn’t give a shit.

That doesn’t count, Buck Murdock associates himself with Star Trek!

This is way too stupid to deserve its own separate post, but sometimes these things have to be done anyway, so I’m putting it here.

Bold of you to think I would wear anything below the desk.

Oh, K and not C.

I’m an idiot.

Sorry if I wasn’t clear- TAFCAP. The Artist Formerly Known As Prince.

You don’t need to blaze when there’s gagh. You don’t think they eat it for the taste, do you?

Also, no one is too smart to be scammed and a lot of scammers rely on people thinking they’re too smart to be scammed. Really smart, highly-educated, very successful people get scammed all the time. That’s how Jack Abramoff was able to pull of his crimes for so long. That’s how Theranos became a massive company.

I’m not generally a fan of Rosie O’Donnel or her comedy, but my roommate at the time used to watch her talk show, and she first started calling Prince “Tafcap” and then eventually went to “Taffy.” That was pretty funny.

Thanks! I’m lucky in that I have dual citizenship, so I can just be hired. The pain in the ass will be getting the expensive family visa for the kid and possibly my wife as well if she can’t find work that sponsors her. They have to be they fore 10 years before they can be citizens, but the family visa has to be renewed every 3. The kid will be 17 by then, and America will probably be a very different place, so we will have to cross that bridge when we come to it.

Thanks!

More accurately, Star Trek: Phase II concept art. Not the movie, the sequel TV show they were planning which eventually got turned into The Motion Picture

I saw it. I liked the first season a lot more than the second and I thought the third was meh, but I prefer the one with a sense of humor. But Parker Posey was great throughout.

I got to meet Jonathan Harris at a convention not too long before he died. I told him I loved him in Freakazoid, and, in the most Jonathan Harris way, he said, “wasn’t that delightful?”

Eh, I’d still have watched it when I was a kid. What else was I going to watch on Sundays, Lost in Space reruns?

Okay, I watched those too, but that’s beside the point!

The second threat is the rise of “answer engines” like Perplexity which, well, do what they say on the tin. OpenAI has added internet search to ChatGPT, Meta Platforms is exploring building its own search engine, and even AI chatbots that can’t search the internet are proving increasingly capable at addressing many questions. They’re also becoming ever more widespread, as Microsoft and Appleintegrate them directly into the operating systems of all the devices they make or support.

That is not an improvement, it’s just also not really any worse.

Ugly and, while I think it’s pretty stupid to put the bridge sticking up out of the very center of the saucer section like a bullseye on the world’s biggest dart board, imagine an Olympic class ship getting attacked. Any frontal assault would kill half the crew.

Fun fact: the Olympic class was based on an early design for the TOS Enterprise.

I had this book, which had that illustration, since before TNG came out and when I first saw the Olympic class, I laughed out loud.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Making_of_Star_Trek

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