You need to accept the fact that you are AI generated.

On the plus side, it’s proof you’re living in a simulation!

Power loss is the main issue; I think there’s an inverse square law in there somewhere. But there has been progress in improving that; every do often you hear about some research that’s improved the efficiency of transmission.

Nicola Tesla really believed in this, and pushed it hard. He envisioned giant towers broadcasting out power to communities.

But, to continue with my (again, newly invented head canon): it works in Federation starships because there’s no loss. It’s an closed environment, and they obviously have advanced field technology if they have energy shields, tractor beams, scanners, and transporters. They broadcast power throughout the ship, and as long as you’re in it, you’ve got an essentially infinite supply (on the human scale). No energy is lost, because the ship structure/hull itself re-absorbs any energy not harvested by a receiver, so inefficiency loss is negligible. Leave the ship, whatever tech you have has to have its own power supply, and that can run out.

The Borg don’t spark, either. I think it’s because they have a lot of on-board electronics that have to run from fairly beefy internal power supplies. Borg units have to function outside of broadcast power range.

Federation phasers, tricorders, things like that are probably mostly solid state with embedded power supplies; the power conduits are probably etched directly into the components at the molecular level. There’s no empty space in a coms badge; it’s all solid tech. Like modern cell phones, only even less componentized. In TOS, they physically modified phasers and such to make them do other things; by the time of TNG, they just reprogram them.

But mainly, the Borg a) have no sense of aesthetics, so they can just cobble together whatever tech without regard for making it look nice, and b) individual Borg are disposable. Wires hanging off to get caught on stuff and ripped out, causing an individual to malfunction or function at reduced efficiency - preventing that is not as important as growth. Borg are fungible, not unique individuals with value. Lose one, another takes its place.

The Federation values individuals, and they want to look damned good while they’re doing their thing. So: streamlined, sleek, compact, safe, and reliable.

There’s no wiring on the Enterprises. It’s all broadcast energy from the warp core directly powering whatever passes for chips, and it’s all solid state electronics. This is why, while individual components may fail, you never get situations like, there’s no power to only one lift; or, only the bridge looses power. Nobody crawls into a Jeffries Tube to fix wiring, and they never have bulky tool kits; their equivalent of sonic screwdrivers can either make molecular repairs, or the whole component is swapped out.

Many components are modules with onboard capacitors required for performing their functions; this is why control boards explode so much when the Enterprise takes damage: it’s capacitors discharging. Same for the sparks: rapid (but not complete) discharging for the capacitors causes sparks - it’s a designed safety feature to reduce full-on explosions. Sparks are better than booms.

You never see wiring. Ships fall apart in combat; stations explode; support beams fall on people… but never a mess of dangling wires.

I just made all of that up. I’m sure there’s a complete description of the electronics on Memory Alpha somewhere. But I think there are no fuses because there are no wires.

She doesn’t look too thrilled about getting married to Junkie Joe; it looks more like he’s got a gun stuck in her back.

1. The NCC-1701 had a max warp of 8.
2. I have never before noticed how dirty the consoles looked.

That only means there are whole generations who haven’t yet seen it!

I love this idea so much.

Aww, 'cmon, man! At least add a “spoiler alert!”

Jeez.

Thank you.

But the mother plant produces “pups,” which you can break off and plant, which can become new mothers themselves. Also, the flowers last a really long time.

I had a pimiento I bought from a grocery store; I knew about the “single flower” thing, but the plant was still going after the flower died and I just couldn’t throw it out. Then someone told me about the pups, and now I have 5 healthy pimientos. None have yet bloomed; I need to do more reading and see it they need some special condition - but I just wanted to pass along the information about the pups!

Well, shit. I never thought I’d see the day something like this made progress in a 1st world (economically; I know there are connotations, but I don’t know a better, more PC term) country.

Go (South) Australia!

Bonus if it can edit .sc files, a-la the best spreadsheet editor, sc-im.

I’m hoping the fanfic will start flowing. Not with Ball in her “I Love Lucy” persona, but more “The Dark Corner.”

Although, I think Janeway was directed this way, with Lucille’s dry wit. It wouldn’t surprise me if the scriptwriters weren’t paying homage to Ball with the Janeway character.

Lucille Ball would have made a fantastic captain.

That’d take some of the fun out of it, I guess.

finger, yes, but IIRC I just manually edited a .finger file - I don’t remember chfn.

Also, I haven’t used finger in such a long time; since soon after the eternal September, probably. So many contacts never had finger info, it became not worth the effort to even check for it.

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I seem to be the minority here, but, while I’d press the button, I wouldn’t mash it or press it a bunch of times, or eagerly press it… because periods. And PMS. And misogyny. But, mostly periods.

I think being a girl has some pretty sucky parts that is guys completely avoid, and for which I’m really grateful. And I think a lot of dudes who fantasize about transitioning sort of skip over, although I guess with no ovaries trans women get to avoid the worst of it. Although they still have to deal with the patriarchy, and that’s pretty shitty.

So, yeah. I’d press it, but with some trepidation.

Use an OS for 20 years and still learn about new command every once in a while.

What’s the theory as to why all Borg end up with such an unhealthy skin tone? How are they keeping the skin alive without hemoglobin?