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@laprice@beige.party Dude, I don't watch TV, and am violently allergic to star trek. Also, I wrote those books circa 2012-2020! A current TV show was probably filmed in 2024. Maybe someone in the writ
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@cstross@wandering.shop eh, it was the one with the Shakespearean actor as captain and that means it was from the 90s. Just goes to show that all ideas have predecessors. It was only similar in that t
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@laprice@beige.party I have no first-hand recognition of who those characters are. Or what a holodeck is.
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@cstross@wandering.shop the bald guy, the beard guy, the robot guy and the holodeck was a sketch of virtual reality that a certain Zuckerberg has wasted the GDP of a smallish country attempting to build.
STNG is the second oldest fandom in the trek franchise and is the most permeable in terms of being welcoming to casuals.
As a series it was competence porn for office workers. The boss was fair, the team dispatched most problems by holding brief focused meetings and acting like adults.
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