Yeah, Stargate did it better, because kidnapped humans inhabiting the galaxy makes more sense. Solves the “everyone looks human” problem without the “we have proof of evolution here” problem.

I think you mean Tuvix

That’s my point though. They don’t really address how McCoy got the glasses he gave to Kirk in Star Trek II. Did he buy them? Did he just ask someone for them? Did he barter for them for services?

Same thing with alcohol, some people pull out alcohol they obtained through some back alley, black market deal. But what was traded for this black market alcohol?

Star Trek was pretty inconsistent with money. Riker often gambled for money, and they certainly treated specific items as “valuable” (historical items, weapons, and especially liquor.)

I think some of the writers just didn’t know how to picture a post-money world. But by DS9 they mostly treated things like latinum an inter-species trading valuable (especially to/from the Ferengi) or just something that’s needed in the outskirts of the Federation.

Checkov was the original Wesley Crusher.

Nah, they just made a stupid joke about how he doesn’t think of her as a woman.

His second in command was a woman already in the pilot.

Show was written in a time before streaming, before people could record TV. She was there to explain to the audience, who were assumed to not be aware of the previous episodes, who the bad guys are.

Sure, but different writers treat it differently. What about the one episode with Broccoli, where we get a first person view of being in the transporter, and he clearly has a continuous consciousness throughout the experience.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realm_of_Fear

Based on this episode, you aren’t killed and recreated.

Steelseries 7x does that, but they’re over the ear and need a dongle on Windows. Works fine for me

Even crazier, they can filter out disease in the transporter. That’s how they don’t bring plagues back onto the ship after going on away missions.

How do they tell what’s a natural microbiome vs. crazy alien bacteria? Who knows, it’s a fantasy space show. Just sit back and relax.

The transporter detects and disables weapons mid beam. In at least one episode, they held a diplomat in the buffer to ask what to do about their weapon.

https://youtu.be/qBE9TZP26FI

Legally, if I ask if you’re a cop, you have to answer truthfully.

Cleric has cure disease.

Even if they shut down today, the parts are out there. You can swap in from a donor laptop in ways that would be impossible for most others. Not to mention the fact that the critical parts are upgradable with standard parts from 3rd parties.

They supported the same hardware upgrade cycle for three full generations.

Even if they don’t keep going forever, they still succeeded in a huge way.

Aside from a handful of episodes, TOS aged perfectly fine.

You’d be hard pressed to find any show with as many episodes and different writers that doesn’t have a couple of shows with a bad take or two.

I feel like every Worf episode was them trying to remind you that he’s supposed to be a bad ass, even though he gets his ass handed to him every other episode to show how much more bad ass the enemy of the week is.

Morville Meme Mondays?

Cloud gaming is bad for history. If the game was only released for the cloud, and that game is shut down, or the cloud service shuts down, that game is gone forever.

They want to push it, because it gives them control over every aspect of the experience. They know everything you do in the game, you can’t mod it, you can’t pirate, you can’t play offline, you can’t do anything unless they say you can.