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Finale is SNW's Best of Both Worlds. Except this time we have ongoing strikes, so the wait will be forever. gaargh I enjoyed it, the only thing that bothered me is the convenience of Chapel not only seeing Enterprise from her window, but also Spock! But I guess they could have invented any...

It's difficult to compare, but here is one paper: https://arxiv.org/ftp/cs/papers/0701/0701166.pdfa (Edit: Linked a totally different article that I read earlier, interesting topic, but not for this discussion) So, that's better 1 bit error per 2 GB, I think, but of course, can you maintain...

I watched Season 1 and I enjoyed it a lot, but I agreed with the criticism that the Foundation/Salvin storyline was much weaker than the Empire stuff. Season 2 however so far has been amazing in all story arcs. You barely even notice when Lee Pace doesn't even appear because the other story...

I kinda figure, "practical" von Neumann machines might be indistinguishable from anything living. Sure, you could imagine we're building them from metal or something, but metal is so much rarer than carbon. And organic molecules are the sh*t in potential self-organizing capabilities and...

I liked it, but it was kinda two movies mixed together. In the beginning, we see a bit of all those hearings and stuff, his early beginnings, ad then a long part mostly focuses on the Manhattan project, and then we focus on the politics and communism allegations. The trailer focused more on the...

I can totally see reasons why you'd definitely want to mind-meld for that, but I think Eric's grandma wouldn't want to hear. I don't know what the writers would be going with, especially since in ENT, it seems mind melds were kinda a taboo and only some people could, or at least would, do it...

Late to the discussion, it seems to me the evidence offer is meager compared to the claims made. And "non-human bodies" is a particulary wishy-washy expression. A dead cat is a non-human body. And moving the story explanation from "maybe it wasn'T aliens, maybe they were dimensional...

They collected the evidence, they got the witness statement, and have nothing to contradict the story presented. If this was a regular criminal case, the prosecutor drops the case because he doesn't have an argument to make. There is just not enough evidence to eliminate reasonable doubt for the...

If the Klingon started it, he presumably used the knife at some point to attack M'Benga, M'Benga was defending himself and in the struggle for control of the weapon he killed him. Even if M'Benga had taken the knife from his own equipment, it might still have been a reasonably measured response...

That definitely wasn't a straight-up murder. You get closer to that with Data using the Varon-T disruptor, only blocked by a transporter deactiving the gun mid-transport. Or Worf killing Duras. Or Worf kiling Weyoun 6(?). Or Worf killing Gowron.

It could also be foreshadowing another breakdown for him in the future? Possibly even this season (the biobed didn't last long, one should call it biobad)? But maybe it's left as an open thread to be maybe picked up another time.

There is, and it's another banger IMO. But tonally completely different!

It was maybe a bit too on the nose sitcom for me (not that I didn't enjoy the episode), but it is still a good reminder that the Federation are not and never were and never will be the Borg. It's member cultures retain their unique cultures and traditions and stay unique, they don't all become...

If I were to speculate, I think she was pretty isolated and frustrated and needed to talk to someone that can even follow her rants, even if it's an enemy. She was kinda venting about how she has no way to predict the outcome of stuff she does, she has to rely on computer simulations, and she...

Kirk is a real time travel magnet. Also, apparently, a bullet magnet.

The stuff I read so far suggest that Paramount overall isn't doing so well, and trying to sell of Prodigy to someone else might be a kinda desperate move to make some money. Would be sad if Paramount ends up struggling when a new generation of Star Trek shows are hitting their stride. And if...

Trope #421: Star Trek Tribunal episode. I enjoyed it a lot. Maybe the defender's monologue went on a tiny bit too long, but they kinda kept me guessing on how it would resolve and her final gambit was really nice. I really expected that it would be Pike that would do the final monologue, when...

I kinda think that this is really overall the best thing to go forward. Instead of trying to "reimagine" anything, just jump forward, and have another Star Wars story where the details of the past don't matter as much. The name Skywalker, Mothma, Solo, Vader, Palpatine could be as vague and...

The Engineer, they named her species twice but each time I couldn't quite make out what they were calling it and I wasn't using subtitles. Is it a new species or are they just El-Aurians? I am a bit surprised Spock at this place in his life would be ready to steal the ship, but I guess I keep...

I remember reading something about the "Whills" as a microscopic lifeform that was part of George Lucas' ideas. I found this right now: Whills Doesn't really jive that well with me, and if Lucas really would be writing more Star Wars stuff, who knows if that is what he would actually go with...