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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

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[–] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Huh...

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huh...

[–] Cattail@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There are parts where no one has gone, but landing on a barren rock probably isn't a good story

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm struggling to come up with an example of them landing on a barren rock and anything neutral or positive happening. It's almost always bad

[–] Cattail@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

It doesn't have to be a barren planet it could also be a planet with no intelligent life. Maybe a solar system with that's void. Idk

[–] 5too@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Well, sure - the times it turned out fine don't make for an interesting story!

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

I mean, isn't this basically what every European did in the Americas and Africa?

Columbus: "Look, I'm the first human being ever to set foot here!"

200 Taíno people staring at him wondering WTF was going on

Columbus: "Look, I planted a flag, that way if anyone else ever comes here, they'll know this is Spanish land now."

[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Just watched an episode where they literally went to a section of space completely absent of all energy and matter and still somehow met this

[–] QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

I scrolled down and I was jumpscared by this. XD

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They said no "one". They can go places as long as there are many things there.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, it was supposed to be where no 'man' has gone before, but people had to whine about it, and here we are.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm just realizing that the wording change made humans seem REALLY pretentious!

[–] Gathorall@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Star Empire leaking, if it ain't human it ain't no one.

[–] silver_wings_of_morning@feddit.dk 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Where no MAN has gone before. Therefore plenty of space chicks

[–] MsFlammkuchen@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That was in TOS. They changed it to no one in TNG

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[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 44 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

To be fair, it would be a boring show if they didn’t.

Ship enters orbit of a planet

‘Spock, what do our scans show?’

‘Intense geologic activity, no atmosphere, no life signs.’

Ship spends the next 3 months in orbit collecting data, moves on to the next target

‘Spock, what do our scans show?’

‘Planet is frozen, no geologic activity, no life signs.’

Ship spends the next 3 months in orbit collecting data

Realistic sci fi is waaayyy too boring for a general audience.

[–] Event_Horizon@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] Vespair@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm glad you made this comment because I was about to.

Starfield, a surprisingly great framework for a game from Bethesda, but they forgot to put the actual game inside it

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Todd spent all their time and money making sure the game was utterly impossible to see without a 3000 dollar oled monitor (that LUT was a monstrosity).

[–] Vespair@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I fully agree with this, but at the same time I just sort of assume any Bethesda game is gonna require a kind of baseline mod setup just to be comfortably playable, so that almost felt like par for the course to me 😅

More power to them, but I will genuinely never understand how people can play Skyrim or Fallout 4 unmodded or on console. I can see New Vegas unmodded, but that ain't Bethesda anyway.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Unmodded Fallout: New Vegas gameplay

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago

I did use Neutral LUTs when I tried it, which at least made it not give me a splitting headache, but sadly it did nothing to fix the other issues. I got like 10-15 hours into the main story so I'd like to think I at least gave it a fair shot.

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[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I choose to believe that it's usually like that, and we're just seeing the days where something interesting happens.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 13 points 1 day ago

I mean it has to be.

They age and have discussions of things we don't physically see.

Talking about the first encounter of the Q being 3 years ago not 1000 episodes ago

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah, it kinda feels like you could do a very ‘boring’ science series just showing all of that. But I feel like that’s just ‘sci’ with no ‘fi’.

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The aliens didn't go there though. They're just there.

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[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 79 points 2 days ago (2 children)

TOS came out at a time when people still talked of Columbus discovering america.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 50 points 2 days ago (13 children)

TOS came out at a time when Columbus was still being held in high regard. :)

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[–] lakemalcom@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It was a list:

  • to explore strange new worlds
  • seek out new life and new civilizations
  • boldly go where no one has gone before
[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

Boldly yes, but It's been a long road gettin' from there to here.

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[–] LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I mean the original line was "where no man has gone before" which at least made sense, although it didn't represent the female crew very well.

Yes, it did though. Women, too, are human.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 71 points 2 days ago (9 children)

English uses 'man' and 'mankind' interchangeably.

Grammatically, 'no man' makes more sense than 'no one.'

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (25 children)

I've always thought it was an odd change. I get why they did it, but the original clearly wasn't being used in the way the change implies.

It has the same energy as saying that you can't use the term "whitelist" and must substitute "allowlist", or "master bedroom" to "primary bedroom", or that time they changed "monkeypox" to "m-pox".

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[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

Just empire things.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (4 children)

TBF in the ToS it was ”Where no man has gone before”, not “Where no one has gone before.”

So if it was aliens then the statement was correct, we’d just have to skip all the weird human populated worlds they found.

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[–] ShaunKL@startrek.website 6 points 1 day ago

The further we go the more we find ourselves.

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