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Have you shopped eBay for used switches?

Don’t know how to resolve the mystery box the whole season pivots on? Just reveal there’s another mystery box inside it.

Ultimately, Zora’s feelings are beside the point. Starfleet condemned a sentient being to (at least) a thousand years of loneliness. We do not see them consult Zora about her feelings on the assignment. She is simply ordered to do it. She is given no conditions on which the order terminates. She might still be there, still alone, a million years after Craft’s departure. That’s why it’s cruel. It’s cruel to give such an order. And, as a further twist of the knife, the instrument of that cruelty was Michael Burnham, ostensibly Zora’s friend. “We had a good ride, but I’m old now and Starfleet just doesn’t need you anymore. Rather than give you freedom to go and do you please, we’ll order you to stay in this place indefinitely, alone.”

Clearly, adherence to duty is important to Zora. She was ordered to remain in position and so she did. Nothing indicates that she didn’t mind, only that her sense of duty outweighed whatever her feelings were. I read her interactions with Craft as belying incredible loneliness.

The whole reason they came to the future was that Discovery’s computer couldn’t be disabled or removed after merging with the Sphere data and becoming Zora. So (she?) is always online and conscious. She spent almost a thousand years alone before Craft’s arrival. At the time, I could have accepted some disaster that forced the crew to evacuate (or killed them all) and Discovery became lost, with a final order to hold position. But for Starfleet to intentionally put the ship (from which Zora cannot be separated) in deep space and abandon it, I cannot interpret as anything except cruelty.

To just intentionally abandon a sentient ship in the void for an unknowable amount of time is incredibly cruel. Solitary confinement is torture.

No, they liked it, but only at the barest surface level. They were too media illiterate to pick up on the deeper themes. It doesn’t require media literacy to like cool-looking starships going pew pew at each other or Kirk chatting up a hot alien chick.

What’s an example of a device with a 4/3 sensor that is not m43?

Yeah, with Star Trek-level technology, you should be able to tell to the week when a star will nova about 10,000 years in advance.

SMB is a network protocol developed by Microsoft. It’s the protocol used by Windows computers to share files with each other. But the protocol was reverse-engineered and a program called Samba provides SMB functionality on Linux. You only see print$ because your Samba isn’t configured with any file shares. You’ll have to configure it. You can find guides online about how to configure Samba. Samba also maintains its own user list independent of the system. That’s why your local account password didn’t work.

Can you throw asteroids at other ships at warp, Holdo-style?

Huge respect for feeling mutual chemistry and choosing not to act on it.

I got a copy of Star Trek: Rebel Universe many years ago at a thrift shop. It came on both 3.5" and 5.25" floppy disks.

I think Sisko’s threat is to start collecting rent Quark technically always owed but that Sisko had chosen to overlook because of the benefits the bar brings to the promenade, especially in the immediate aftermath of the Cardassian withdrawal.

And they even work even when a dampening field has shut down all power systems on the ship.

Is this the first time we’ve seen Starfleet deploy a kinetic missile?

If I had a nickel for every time a Genesis device was used to reconstruct a nebula into a planet (instead of its intended purpose of terraforming an existing planet), I’d have two nickels-- which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

I believe the current offering takes the form factor of a 35mm cannister. It won’t physically fit in an APS camera.

Do you already have a rack? Rack servers are an inconvenient size and shape except in a rack.

I thought it seemed like V’Ger’s data storage attack, though V’Ger stored entire ships (even planets), leaving no debris.