Tell me you wouldn’t watch at least 30 minutes of Riker failing to scramble eggs.

Absolutely. I like talking about design with people perhaps too much!

Well with Data it’s different, they didn’t know how to make a copy of him, only papa did and it took him most of a lifetime.

Transporter shenanigans are, admittedly, just something you gotta hand-wave.

Maybe the academy is just a terrible educational institution. Basically all we see of it is weird mind games, like simulated terrorist attacks and tests you automatically fail… Maybe Picard thought of the gardener as a mentor because he was the only adult there not fucking with him.

Hey, sorry for the delayed response, I have been traveling.

That rule originally came from when we were a much busier subreddit. I recognize it’s harder to really be “active” now, with so few threads. If they want to try to be a part of the community, I have no objection to them making a post about their game. No specific definition of what “active” means in terms of number of comments or anything, we’d just like to avoid the kind of drive-by spam of “buy my game kthnxbai”

After awhile, Poseiden comes and kicks your ass until you stop. Live by the magic sword, die by the magic sword.

No, they relinquished Tarak Nor

I like the mental image of a dwarf ship that’s 6 ft tall and got 47 masts to make up for it.

In fairness, there was a whole episode of ds9 about obrien struggling with his trauma.

Maybe their therapy techniques are as advanced as their other forms of medicine?

Imagine the emotional and physical damage of taking your first shit in thousands of years.

21 people sharing 2 toilets?

It can still be utopian and aspirational without every character being those things. The same way you could have a show where you explore the concept of Justice by having a profoundly unjust main character. Or a show about Sin with a righteous main character. Sometimes you explore a theme by demonstration, sometimes by contrast.

Ohhhh, ok, we are talking about entirely different episodes. I thought you were misquoting “Erase that entire personal log” from In The Pale Moonlight. Yeah, the one where he gasses a planet is not the best.

I mean, like what you like. I think you can still have utopian fiction that explores when characters fall short of their utopian ideals, or the boundaries of a utopia, or the shortcomings of a particular form of utopianism. It helps us understand that it’s not magic, it doesn’t just happen, it’s what could be, if real people all worked very hard against the systems and people preventing it.

And I’m not a space lawyer but I think technically Sisko doesn’t do any war crimes in that episode, he’s just accessory to 2 normie murders.

Why? It’s widely considered the best episode of ds9.

To be fair, did any of us have great social skills for the first decade or two after activation?

DMing has helped practice a lot of business skills…communication, organization, running a meeting. Making pretty documents in google docs :P

Humans are the real space orcs

Can’t recall things you never knew.

Hm. Well, don’t feel obliged to hew to existing genre definitions.

Also, I’d still urge you to sit down and make a list of design goals, eg what you like about the experience of playing war games or ttrpgs, and then make rules to match, rather than starting with making the rules or choosing which ones to duplicate from existing games.