I enjoyed that episode a lot, although it would have benefitted from its length being tightened up by ten minutes.
What do we think was the nature of the Romulan interference with Earth? And what time period is Sera, the Romulan agent from?
The DTI agent appears to use 29th century tech, which is several hundred years after the Romulan Empire’s supernovae-driven collapse but possibly around the time of the Romulan-Vulcan reunification of Ni’Var. Is she from that same time period?
Sera also shows Kirk a picture of what looks like a TOS-era Bird-of-Prey as part of her alien conspiracy photo deck. It has the round nacelles typical of the 23rd century, rather than those seen in ENT’s 22nd century designs, or some other design representing the 20th/21st century in which these attacks take place.
Is she a time agent from the 23rd century (with the appropriate Romulan ship in orbit)?
Is that her guessing who Kirk is, and planting the evidence he’s most likely to recognize? Or was that really a Romulan design from the 21st century?
Which leads to me wonder if the Romulans started interfering with Earth’s development only due to temporal war shenanigans, or had they been doing flybys for as long as the Vulcans?
I agree. I'm usually the first to complain when it's obvious a show/movie needed an editor to cut unnecessary filler but this this episode used its time well IMO.
I don’t think their issue was the length per se. Rather, if you cut it shorter, you quicken the pacing and remove the parts of the story that didn’t need to be there. At least that’s how I interpret it when someone says runtime could be tightened up.
It's almost a throwaway line but I'm pretty sure she implies 21st century Romulans are interfering with Earth independently, and she's running a parallel mission?
Maybe, Sera is from a 29th century Romulan Star Empire that wasn't devastated by a supernova. Could the destruction of Romulus have been the result of a time war?
I suspect we will never get answers to any of that. The DTI has always been more about driving fun plots than establishing any sort of clear worldbuilding about how they work. And that’s probably for the best, because time travel really doesn’t make much sense, and that only becomes more obvious the longer you spend trying to make it make sense.
They literally just clarified how time travel works in this episode. Clarifying the DTI books take that only big probability wave changes form stable alternates, most collapse back to the “prime” waveform and reinsert key events elsewhere if they’re interfered with. Also we know we have at least one other time travel episode this year from Mariner and Boimler to appear.
Sure, but that clarification only holds until another writer on another time travel episode decides they need different mechanics for whatever story they want to tell. Because time travel is nothing more than a plot device, its nature changes depending on the plot it’s facilitating.
Well they have an actual science consultant on the franchise now, which I assume if why this episode moved to a more of a modern understanding of time and multiverse theory here. Hopefully she keeps them consistent from here on.
you have to use it through testflight and it’s still a bit buggy but otherwise feels like a slightly less polished and less customisable version of Apollo, which is already high praise.
you have to use it through testflight and it’s still a bit buggy but otherwise feels like a slightly less polished and less customisable version of Apollo, which is already high praise.
I tried Jerboa and I couldn't login, now giving wefwef a try. Wefwef works but it's a PWA with iOS theme. I'd like to switch to App that is close to the original Android Reddit app.
Do posts from one website only appear on the other if the community already has subscribers?
Yes.
When instances federate, they don't just automatically share content. They only share the content from a specific community/magazine if somebody from the federated instance subscribes through that instance to the community/magazine on the host instance.
If I'm following it all correctly, what actually happens under the hood is that subscribing to a community/magazine on another instance triggers the creation of a new community/magazine on your home instance, which from then on will mirror the content on the original.
So in your example, the original is [email protected]. Initially, it's not going to appear on kbin.social - there has to be interest in it first, as demonstrated by the fact that somebody from kbin.social subscribes to it.
At that point, for all intents and purposes a new magazine is actually created on kbin.social - [email protected]@kbin.social. So you're not actually accessing [email protected] through kbin.social - you're accessing a mirror that's hosted on kbin.social. And the trigger for creating that is someone on kbin.social subscribing to [email protected].
At least I'm pretty sure that's how it works - note that I'm just some guy who likes to figure out how things work and not a dev.
So, if 10 different users subscribed to 10 different things all that data is now synced and hosted on their server of origin? That sounds like the data can get massive fast.
I guess I'm one of the few voices of dissent again... I enjoyed last week's episode, but this episode is disappointing again. The romance between La'an was very unnecessary and unnatural. They had no chemistry and it felt incredibly awkward. I still can't stand their choice for Kirk. Feels like I'm watching Darrin from Bewitched (or some other "ordinary working man" type character) doing cosplay and not a star ship captain, and certainly not a captain like Kirk. Not only does he not have "the look," but I hated the way he delivered all his lines.
The only breath of fresh air for me is that a disaster takes place someplace other than New York, LA, or the US in general. However, they definitely didn't hire enough extras for Toronto. Everywhere looked too under populated and not enough racial diversity (ie: where were all the Asians? Toronto is filled with East, South, Subcontinental Asians). I've never seen the streets of Toronto so sparse.
I’m with you on this. La’an is my fave character in this show so I was really looking forward to this episode. But after watching it, I felt it just wasn’t very good. I think, for me, it was mostly the writing, followed by the pacing, and the fact that while Kirk is my all-time fave Trek Captain… I just do not like the Kirk in this show. I just don’t find the actor they chose to be a suitable fit at all, unfortunately.
Still, the episode did have a few good moments, and it’s only 1 of only 2 episodes, so far, that I haven’t enjoyed with this series. So that’s still a good batting average.
Yeah, that was definitely actually Toronto. The big area they’re wandering around in at the start is Yonge-Dundas Square, and I’m pretty sure this is the clothing store they stole from. The “Noonien-Singh Center” at the end was actually the Royal Ontario Museum - both the interior and exterior.
Kinda weird seeing Star Trek characters actually wandering around in an area I know decently well.
For me there was a couple wild suspensions of disbelief that just didn’t work. Earning enough cash from an afternoon of playing randoms at chess in the park to afford a full on suite at a decent hotel downtown Toronto. And the police just letting them go, no license, no identification of any kind…
I did really enjoy Toronto in general and thought the main plot was strong enough, but agree the romance was unnecessary and also think the dialogue needs some work.
As a security officer, La’an is highly trained in social engineering, and Kirk is cunning on his own, as we see in how he zeroes in on the best car around and steals it with minimal physical harm to the owner. I’d say there’s a good chance they didn’t pay for the hotel room at all, but conned their way in on someone else’s credentials. Same deal for crossing the border twice.
I’d argue that was more believable than “wave a tricorder at a cash point” like we’ve seen in the past. Also, how far did the money from one pair of second hand glasses go in Voyage Home and we didn’t doubt that.
As others have mentioned, far too many suspensions of disbelief in this one. I’m not sure which is more ridiculous though: Kirk hustling general public at chess winning enough money for a downtown Toronto hotel suite or the brutally awkward romance between La’an & Kirk.
It takes a bit to get used to it IMO. Whenever I'm browsing another instance, it's a bit awkward having to copy the link of whatever post I want to share, then open my instance, then paste the link into the search bar, and finally actually press the share button. In addition to that, a few Mastodon instances are "private" and won't let you browse them unless you have an account in them, which feels off considering I technically already do have a Mastodon account lol.
I also found Lemmy to be incredibly janky so far whenever you're looking for content from other instances.
Really I think these things will be eventually sorted out as the Fediverse matures, but part of that maturing process will probably be having a way of uniting accounts on multiple instances or maybe even multiple platforms. After all, as long as this is just an option, people who don't like it will still be able to have separate accounts on separate instances.
Dev of Summit here. It is a lemmy reader like the other apps mentioned. You can find it on the play store by searching “app for lemmy” or “lemmy reader”. I’m actually releasing a big update today. Here’s a preview of the feature: youtube.com/shorts/8mIVZflUHhU?feature=share.
Oh no :(. If you’re up for it, I am open to feedback. You can send feedback either here or over at lemmy.world/c/summit. But if you don’t want to I understand.
Well it was as laggy as the other apps, because of the update and the increase of signups. Also I found it difficult to navigate, to find the right buttons to push to access a certain thing. I know it’s early days and I’m sure your app will improve in time, and I’ll try it again later.
I already have Thunder, Connect, Summit, Liftoff and Jerboa. I just thought I would play with all of them for a few weeks until I find the one I like best.
They're all pretty early in development so they have their bugs but so far I like Liftoff and Thunder the best. They both have a great UI. Jerboa was the one I started with first but now I am not able to login because of the whole lemmy.world version number thing.
Not OP but I did the same. Tbh none of them are perfect, they still have all kinds of quirks and bugs. But new versions are coming out all the time. Today Jerboa and Connect were working better than the others. Tomorrow who knows. 😄
Not sure if I understood things correctly as I only use one, but Liftoff seems to have this functionality. I didn't care enough to test, but maybe you can try
When I was a kid I thought grown ups were annoying, when I was in my 20s I thought teenagers were annoying, in my 30s I think people in their 20s are annoying. People will always have something to complain about others. “Kids” is just a different group for different people.
Tbh, I don't know why jerboa was released as "stable" but with a forced server upgrade. It seems a bit strong armed. Anyway, I'm thrilled that other applications exist, so I get the continued functionality I want w/o needing the admins to accommodate me.
Federation is user-driven, not admin-driven: if you subscribe to content on a new instance, that instance will become federated with yours by default.
Defederation is admin-driven, but if done right it’s an added value: if you agree with the admins’ policies, they’re filtering out content you wouldn’t want to see anyway. So it should suffice to make one account on an instance whose policies you agree with—or barring that, an instance that never defederates from anyone.
And for maximum control, you can always start your own instance that just hosts your own account.
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