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Money is possibly the biggest concern when it comes to running an instance - it can be difficult to sustain donations over time.

I know the Lemmy devs have, or at least did have, some grants that were helping keep them afloat, but they still rely on donations from users.

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Of all the streamers, Netflix seems to have the best grasp on how to produce shows for younger audiences. I hope Prodigy thrives there.

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Don’t blame CBS Studios - they’re still making the show, and never stopped after Paramount+ (the “network” in this case, even though they have the same parent company).

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I’m honestly not too sure, but I would think joining the fediverse can only help.

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The Verge has a story on this, too:

“Basically, we’re in the process of replacing our whole social back-end with ActivityPub,” says Flipboard CEO Mike McCue. “I think Flipboard is going to be the first mainstream consumer service that existed in a walled garden that switches over to ActivityPub.”

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I’ll go first: I played the hell out of 1993’s Star Trek: The Next Generation for Game Boy.

Star Trek: The Next Generation for Game Boy

In retrospect, it was a pretty simple game, but it felt pretty robust to this eleven-year-old. You took the role of commander of the Enterprise (specifically not Picard, as he gave you the missions), and made use of the TNG crew to complete various assignments, from cargo runs to squaring up against getting annihilated by Romulan warbirds.

And who wouldn’t fall in love with graphics like these?

A screenshot from Star Trek: The Next Generation showing the user interface in the form of the main viewer with icons representing each crew member along the bottom of the screen

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Oh yeah, I certainly know that one by reputation!

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I just remembered I owned this thing, too.

An early-90s Tiger Electronics LCD Star Trek: The Next Generation handheld game

What a year 1993 was.

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I was, uh, extremely bad at the ship combat. Couldn’t take down much more than the Ferengi and Talarian ships.

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Gotta get them clicks!

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I must sadly recuse myself from the giveaway (curse my sense of ethics!), but I can confirm that OP is indeed the Community Manager for Star Trek Resurgence at Dramatic Labs.

Good luck to everyone!

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Stories like these drive me nuts - “hypothetical thing could have a hypothetical effect”.

Wake me when such a buyout actually happens, y’know?

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Right now, we don’t see any real reason to do so. If someone can identify a clear, genuine threat from Meta besides “we don’t like them” (and, to be clear, we don’t), we’re open to hearing it. But as it stands, I haven’t seen anything concrete that would be cause for concern.

If the worst-case scenario is…more people can interact with us, then I don’t see what the problem is.

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As an admin here, I’m not too worried about being “forced into ruin” - at worst, we would get bigger, and then get smaller again if Meta pulls the plug on ActivityPub.

But I can also assure you that we’ll be watching closely.

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Lemmy admins are worried that threads will become so integral to the fediverse that it’s removal will mean that users (who let’s be honest, don’t want to check more things than they need to) will go with threads.

My instinct is to shrug if off and say, “so what?” Most people looking for this sort of experience already go to Reddit. This space exists for people who’d rather not. If a bunch of users decide to go to Threads, and then Meta takes away interoperability…we’ll still be here, doing what we do.

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It was picked up by Netflix in October (Canada excepted).

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Yeah, they never actually stopped production, even after they were dropped by P+.

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S1 drops on Netflix on Christmas Day.

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I’ll disagree with a couple of points here.

the time jump into a future that absolutely does not feel like it’s a thousand years ahead of the previous season. The jump in technology should be proportional to a Viking longboat rocking up to the ISS, but it felt like a step back.

This presumes that technology always develops at the same pace (it doesn’t), and also ignores the two major cataclysms that the Federation endured, in the form of the Temporal Wars and the Burn. And even then, we see that the technologies we’re used to are faster and more efficient (the transporters are absolutely nuts), and we’ve seen new developments such as programmable matter. The pre-Burn Starfleet ships we’ve seen look like abstract art installations, and I think they absolutely look like they’re well beyond anything we saw 900ish years prior.

As for Burnham…while it’s indisputable that she’s the main character of the show, the entire principal cast gets plenty to do - much more than they tend to get credit for, which is a shame. They’re a great ensemble.

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“Programmable matter” was really just techno babble for hand held replicators, or 3D printers really

From what we’ve seen so far, I don’t think that’s quite true. For example, there’s no indication that programmable matter is edible. It also seems to be able to assume its forms with little-to-no power input, once it’s been programmed to do so. I hope we get to see its advantages and limitations more in the future (heh), but I really do think it’s a unique technology.

detachable nacelles, how does that even work?

Superconductors, according to “That Hope Is You, Part 2”.

I will rewatch the show before the final season, and I look forward to another peek at the pre-Burn ships you mention. As I recall we barely saw them before they exploded but your description definitely makes me want to revisit those scenes!

I should clarify, then, that I’m talking mainly about the ships we saw clustered around Federation Headquarters in season 3. Maintaining the cloaking field around HQ sadly kept them out of the action, but some of them are gorgeous. My personal faves (and I’m going to unabashedly pull from outside sources like STO to get the best possible images):

Eisenberg-class:

Eisenberg-class

Courage-class:

Courage-class

Saturn-class:

Saturn-class

Angelou-class:

Angelou-class

And of course, it turns out that Federation HQ itself is a fully-capable starship:

Federation HQ

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I don’t know if this makes me a radical, but I personally think that the truest sign of an advanced civilization is if they’re building these things because they can.

Art on equal footing with science, y’know?

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Yeah, and those sorts of whimsical designs could even point to exactly where the Federation was before the Temporal Wars and Burn happened and put them into survival mode.

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I think a lot of people enjoyed S4 quite a bit, and would agree with you in saying it’s best of the series so far (I personally prefer S3, but they’re both pretty solid IMO).

S5 should be an interesting project - based on what they’ve said so far, it’s still going to be a single arc, but with more of a scavenger hunt/adventure tone.

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memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Correct_opinions

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I mean, it sounds like the thing they’re hunting for is pretty dangerous (whatever it is), but it does sound like they’re going for a tonal shift.

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Maybe you should consider the possibility that it’s not as “hated” as you think, considering it spawned three direct spinoffs and generally revitalized the franchise.

I’m a big ol’ dummy.

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You know what, I misinterpreted your comment.

Though I do think “hated” is a bit much - DS9 certainly was the least popular of the 90s shows, but…it ran for seven years.

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You could try watching the show and learning their names, if that won’t interfere too much with your lazy hot taeks.

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They picked a fairly average-seeming clip, but hit damn it’s nice to see an actual ensemble cast photo.

The Star Trek: Discovery season 5 cast

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All we really know about him so far is

spoilerHe’s a Starfleet captain, his name is Rayner, and he’s poised to be some kind of curmudgeonly frenemy to Burnham.

And because Callum Keith Rennie is always great, I could not be more excited.

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The original image as hosted on startrek.com is 2048 x 1106.

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If you’re in Canada, it’s important to note that it won’t be on Netflix here - instead, it will supposedly be available on ctv.ca and the CTV App, but not Crave as far as I’m aware.

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Nope - the second sentence says:

The global streamer has picked up the animated kids series Star Trek: Prodigy for the U.S. and most international territories in a deal with CBS Studios.

And this is from the footer of this, more recent, article:

Additionally, the animated children’s series, Star Trek: Prodigy, is coming soon to Netflix and in Canada on CTV.ca and the CTV App, and is currently available on SkyShowtime in the Nordics, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Central and Eastern Europe.

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I would imagine Australia is covered by the Netflix deal.