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  • Star Trek has vastly better sensors, shielding, weapons and science.

    Sensors: they can detect the atmosphere and cargo inside a ship as well as how many individuals are in it. SW can’t detect when an entire ship has docked to the hull.

    Science: and then they can beam a person out of it. They can screw with any technology while transporting too.

    Shielding: ISDs and Death Star can’t keep fighter and the millennium falcon from running around inside their shield envelope. Federation shields give them the option to block crafting from passing.

    Weapons: They made bombs that break space itself, and then apparently almost everyone agreed to ban them because its a stupidly dangerous idea.

    Science 3: Genesis Device. Oh great you can destroy a planet. The Federation can create an entire solar system with a bomb.

    Science 4: Federation developed a matter phasing cloak. Romulans made personal cloaks.

    The only advantage the Empire has is numbers of ISDs. Even then, if the empire makes the wrong move they’ll piss off the Dominion or the Borg, and the empire literally can’t touch the borg.








  • Theoretically, that might be their plan.
    They could get their service federating, and then sell instances to potential admins who cant afford the hardware to deal with a threads spammed fediverse. They could rent out fediverse virtual servers on their physical servers just like Salesforce does(or now, AWS, servers, just like Salesforce does.)

    Not a lawyer(Am a dev though). That might get them out of the legal responsibility to moderate content since it might fall to the instance admin to organize that.

    Then they can have a twitter and reddit competitor that requires no content policing on their part. And they control the hardware and servers behind the scenes, so they get to insert ads and scrape all of the data.









  • After he did his AMA on reddit he took a look around and stated something along the lines of it having “too much of the bad internet” and didn’t stick around.

    Also he’s Canadian and not from the Prairies, so unlikely to be alt-right. His biggest flaw I’ve heard of in a few places is that he “works to rule” in the union sense. He does things that make him money WRT his fandom and his acting.

    E.g. the big fallout he had with George Takei was because in his eyes, Takei as a person would benefit more from Sulu staying on the Enterprise and playing more in the movie, because more screen time equals more cash.

    Takei took the minor role because it made sense for Sulu as a character, as well as personally the representation of a Japanese (and then closeted gay man) as the captain of a starship.