In Star Wars the droids seem pretty ok with their situation as servants. I suppose you could describe Zora in Discovery similarly, but I'm struggling to think of other examples in Trek.

What are you going to do a 360 kickflip over? Water?

LOL is this OC? Nicely done.

Correct! Teenage Mutant Binja Gurtles.

Bitwarden

Do you mean Bitdefender (the antivirus)? Bitwarden is free.

Before anyone well ackhuallys me yes, there is a very cheap $0.80/mo plan if you want an authenticator.

That sidesteps the question of why all of these comically evil people are okay with using this arbitrary contest to determine succession, instead of the usual route of organically murdering each other until someone emerges who is good enough at disposing of potential assassins that they keep the throne for a while?

I'm saying they're not ok with it, but they are trapped in the current system. It's like, an allegory, maaan.

I didn’t watch the movie, so I’m probably missing something. Did Georgiou also have to deal with a bunch of normal assassination plots after officially gaining the throne? Or are we to assume that by virtue of winning this contest, she is widely seen as too dangerous for anyone to attempt to usurp?

Sort of the latter, which is kind of the central plot device.

Thanks, here is the instance list in that case (it looks like it covers most of the big ones).

Can you explain more about your data methodology? Like how did you scrape it? Specifically I'm curious which instances were and weren't included in your study.

I'm hesitant to give the Section 31 writers this much credit, but a recurring theme from Star Trek (especially since TNG), is the notion that people are a product of the cultures they come from, and asks the question of if they can grow beyond it.

This move showed us that Terran empire causes suffering for everyone, even for the top leaders. The system is working for nobody and yet they are all stuck within it. The system of abusing children to choose a new leader seems engineered to make sure that nobody can escape.

Georgiou, somehow, escaped. And now she's (in her own words) "a monster with a conscious (ie: useless)" in a system that has no need for monsters. She felt useless to change the empire, and useless to do anything once she found it no longer surrounding her.

That was the best Syfy-channel-pilot-for-a-show-that-ultimatley-didn't-get-picked-up-from-2002 that I've ever seen.

What is the line?

implies the Federation of TNG is a naive facade

Man, is there anything more 90s scifi than this concept?

Reddit mods have less power to remove unwanted speech than Lemmy admins do. If you are upset because mods would not let you say something in their communities, Lemmy is not going to be more accommodating for that.

inb4 someone on lemmy says a single piece of media they haven't even seen is responsible for "shitting all over the entire franchise"

EDIT: nvm

Villains who's engineered virus forced the Dominion to the negotiating table... just saying.

"Good and evil isn't as black and white as TNG portrayed it" is kinda DS9's whole deal.

I secretly wrote "star wars" in sharpie on the undercarriage of my 2002 hyundai elantra and would you believe it to my eye it looks no different whatsoever

What bugs have you encountered lately? I've been playing around with it (only a couple of days now) and it's overall been very smooth experience for me.

This hits hard. Is it your OC?

Eh, if an instance allows trolls, then that instance typically gets defederated from very quickly (at least it does on my instance). The only reason it is an issue now is that two of the big three instances (.world and .ml) have very lax moderation standards. If the lemmy-verse grows to the size of Reddit, then two lax instances won't be as big of an issue.