What sucks is when the groups and conversations never touch on a single area that you even remotely care about. Ex. Football, trashy TV shows, petty interpersonal dramas.

This is why I more often than not look for a family pet to belly-rub or find some other inanimate object to stare at while I disassociate.

At least Voyager would have nerds to talk to.

The intrepid class is intended to crew about a 150 people and do mostly long term deepspace exploration missions. I imagine that this crew would be ‘close’ to each other and make liberal use of those holodecks.

This really should be cross-posted to dadjokes.

Delegating your security to any other country, like much of the world has done for decades with the US, is never a good idea. Europe did this after WW2 because so much of it was destroyed by war. Allowing the US to continue as their sugar daddy for so long is at least partially on them. Canada is feeling the sting of this too right now.

If a country can’t provide for most of its own needs in terms of goods, services and energy, it has no real sovereignty.

Is this the nu-Trek reboot of the original? This is definitely the level of sophistication that I’ve come to expect from it.

I was never bothered by Wesley. I might be the only one who wasn’t, apparently.

No it is not a military vessel. It is an exploration vessel. That is the core mission. Not sure how anyone who has actually watched StarTrek miss this key point.

Wireguard can solve secure remote access without* passwords. Android and iPhone both have clients that can be configured to bring the VPN up once you leave wi-fi. Bringing a third party into your home is just not wise.

Immigration is a problem whether people want to admit it or not. It completely disrupts a country’s economic balance and social contract. Immigrants absorb housing, jobs and other resources like education and healthcare that they have not paid into for their entire lifetimes like the natives have. These items just so happen to be the things in perpetual shortage around the world. We need to drastically rethink how immigrants are integrated into societies. We also need to understand that things like AfD, Trump and other undesirables are a natural consequence of extreme policy choices created by increasingly non-moderate political climates.