Kirk: “Scotty, how long is this bay?” Scotty: “About 60 feet, Admiral.” Kirk: “That should be enough. Can you enclose it to hold water and a kaiju?”

Don’t you mean, “(Baby) Yoda Yoda Yoda…” 😋

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra, when the walls fell

Star Trek: Voyager - The Movie - The Year of Hell - The Hellening

This is all said tongue in cheek of course. Imagine if you will, similar to Picard’s vision of the Borg at the beginning of ST First Contact

Janeway wakes up in a cold sweat, having just had a series of bizarre flashes and voices…“Mummy, Daddy…help usssssss!”

After downing a cup of coffee, Janeway asks the computer for the whereabouts of Tom Paris. As the computer processes her request, a call comes in on the monitor, it’s Tom, looking stern. “Tom, I heard from them…”, he replies, “I know, I just had something weird happen, like I was at Warp 10 again.”

“What can we do?” she asks, “I’m retired and no access to a starship. This new generation of slipstream drives could get us to the Delta quadrant quickly, but then what?”

“Harry and Belanna have some ideas…”

It could combine the best and worst elements of TWOK (revenge), TSFS (heist movie), TVH (ecology) and of course TFF! (“What do salamanders need with a starship? And marsh mellons?”)😄

Addendum: Guest starring Michael Dorn (because why not? 🤷‍♂️)

Did anyone get invited to the Signal chat and care to share screenshots of all their emoji? /s

G.I. Joke - An UnReal (or Surreal) American Zero

“They say we can’t shoot certain animals anymore, unless they’re posing an immediate threat. Therefore, before we shoot somethin’, we have to say ‘It’s coming right for us.’” ~ Uncle Jimbo, South Park

He’ll try to stop/derail it if he can’t claim ownership of the results.

😁 That was one of two scenes that came to mind

Alright, backtrack to base program and make it optional for either program (EMH or ECH) to be able to extend/retract leg length as needed. As a doctor, this could be useful in situations where there is no operating table to extreme heights, and as an ECH, when one must tower over another.

The latter issue should resolve itself, but the former issue seems to be a persistent personality trait. 😄

No, just an upgrade in his programming: EMH -> ECH -> EHGH (Emergency (or automatic) High Ground Hologram)

His excuse (in retrospect) was “Alien technology did this to me, so how can I refuse?!” 😄 Plus, the mass surveillance existed on the ship before him and all crew members seem to be fine with that when signing on. Given who he was before and during the event in question probably caused a few people, like Deanna, to ask Geordi to do in her quarters what he did in the conference room for privacy.

Reginald Broccoli Barclay approves this position

Kaiju, dragons, starships, Rifts power armor, uh…space monsters/interdimensional mutants…others TBC 😅 /s

Directives:

1. Serve elevensies
2. Protect the Shire
3. (Up)hold the One Ring
4. Classified (ask Gandalf)

“Passion isn’t going to pay the bills. Graduates who majored in education, social work, or the arts end up earning the lowest median income within five years, according to recent data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.”

But you should be passionate about what you learn, and it can translate into something better than if you are a drone for your education and career.

“Foreign language majors earn the lowest salary of all early-career college graduates, with a median annual income of $40,000. General social sciences majors hover close by with a $41,000 median salary.”

In my first year out of university, I landed a job that started at over $40k CAD. After that, my income dropped for a period of time, before escalating quite quickly to $75k CAD and continuing to ascend.

“While foreign language skills are lucrative for many job seekers, they don’t always translate to a higher paying role…Those who major in foreign language usually go into lower-paying fields, such as public service or translation.”

Public service doesn’t necessarily pay so low, depends on the level, sector, experience, and other assets that can be leveraged into higher pay, promotion, etc. I’m saying all of this not because I am the exception, but because I find some of this to be malarky; steering people away from their natural avenues/passions towards the potential pro.ise of more money =/= satisfaction.

I wholeheartedly agree about fighting back. As someone who was bullied when younger, I fought back and hard. It didn’t stop the bullying, but it certainly got some of the bullies to think twice, so that I wasn’t fighting all the bullies at once.

And therein lies another problem; you fight one authoritarian government and maybe succeed in removing it, but then you’re fighting other foreign ones waiting on the sidelines, just ready to swoop in. It’s not looking good for any of the good guys at this point…

I know this will not come as any form of consolation, but those (who conceive of themselves as the elites) who try to do away with so-called “undersirables”, the line doesn’t stop, they are always trying to cull. At some point, the sycophants get on the chopping block too. The question becomes where is the line drawn that everyone (in and out of the direct line of fire) collectively rises up and pushes back to drive the oppressors into oblivion. Right now it seems the majority of the citizenry are in shock as to the continual actions and revelations coming about, and hence very cautious about stepping forward hard. The tipping point could be something seemingly innocuous, or the culmination of enough is enough. Time and disaster will only tell.

A thought to ponder: which comes first - civil war or bilateral war with China? Seems like the administration is angling to as early as 2027 for outright warfare, so civil war would be a liability. All these people being deported and/or sent to prisons, might be a prelude to that escalation. Imagine the only salvation you have to leave prison or to make steps towards some form of citizenship is by participating in military service for that very conflict.

“may lead people to fight in self defense.” - That’s what they’re (the administration and police forces) hoping for: “proof” that substantiates the action they are undertaking, which they can then turn around and escalate even more.