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  • Well, imagine releasing an episode depicting how biological essentialism expresses in vulcans while the world revels in fascism and racists trying to tell us how people are hardwired based on perceived ‘race’ and ethnicity.
    Or while civil societies struggle and fight back against lobbyists, radical capitalists, all kinds of power grabbing individuals, releasing an episode literally saying “good systems are good because good people are in charge”.
    Oh, and there’s the speciesist episode.

    Then there’s even more and overt memberberries.

    That’s six of ten episodes. Another episode is the second part of the last episode of season two. The remaining three episodes are okay.


  • We are told Starfleet isn’t military, but what we are told and how it (often) acts and is structured like always meant an interesting conflict.

    Also, I don’t mind that it looks more like higher edication than military. I mind that it looks too much like what we have nowadays. Star Trek fashion was, though memeable, it’s own distinct thing. Like we don’t do fashion today as people in the 18th or 19th century, why should 23rd or 24th century fashion look like ours?
    ENT played that nicely, those costumes bridged the gap almost perfectly (especially Starfleet uniforms), looking enough like later (in the timeline) stuff but reminiscend of what we have today, like a natural evolution.

    Bur Academy is to be set in 32nd century, it should be as distant to us as the 10th century.








  • Yeah, but sand people use slug throwers.

    Though there’s no canonical information about the speed of blaster bolts, they are very slow on screen. You can follow them with your naked eye.
    You can’t however see or follow the slug thrower’s bullet that might even travel at super sonic speeds.
    Leading a target is much easier the less time a projectile needs to reach it.

    However, sand people and stormtroopers train with different weapons on different targets for different situations. So it is very possible that sand people are generally better at shooting longer ranges with high speed projectiles, taking wind speed, gravitation, coriolis effect, etc into account while stormtroopers are superior (and more precise) in hectic, close quarters situations where you have to aim and shoot quickly.

    That being said, nobody checked for continuity while making the prequels anyway. And Obi-Wan is famous for talking about things “from a certain perspective.”


  • Well, there are two issues. First, Apple doesn’t allow the installation of their OSs on non-Apple hardware, so installing MacOS on Raspberry is at least a licensing issue and hence there’s no project to port MacOS to the Raspberry Pi. Second, Windows OSs are much more resource hungry compared to Linux distros and though there are ways to install Win11 on a pi (though you’d have to tinker a bit more) it would be very slow due to the board’s limited resources and not really worth the effort.

    Linux has the best fitting distros for RPi, they are made for each other, and there is no real reason (though just trying for the sake of it is valid, too) to use something else on a Raspberry.