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  • xyguy@startrek.websitetoStar Trek Social Club@startrek.website•35 Years Ago, Star Trek Retroactively Created New Canon, And No One NoticedEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I would say that a war like that suddenly coming up isn’t that insane. In the real world I think about Desert Storm.

    Short armed conflict, lots of Americans and Iraqis died. Did it to fight a dictatorship. But 10 years later by it wasn’t a thing that just came up every day on the news. (Iraq 2 notwithstanding that suddenly made it all the more relevant). But my point is that there was a war in the 90s that affected a ton of people but after a while, it wasn’t constantly in everyone’s mind.

    Is it a big change, absolutely. But so were the Klingons makeup in The Motion Picture, and the Klingons being good guys.

    But if suddenly no women were allowed in starfleet or slavery was cool as long as its XYZ race, that would be a continuity change that affects the world not in a retconny way but in a way that fundamentally changes the kind of show that it is.

    If you want to make a sci fi show where Earth has been taken over by sexist slavers to tell a very compelling and gritty story about human nature, maybe dont make a Star Trek show.

  • xyguy@startrek.websitetoStar Trek Social Club@startrek.website•35 Years Ago, Star Trek Retroactively Created New Canon, And No One NoticedEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I guess I’m not sure what the title is getting at.

    The article is about the first episode featuring the Cardassians and how they mention the Cardassian war that took place directly before the series currently in progress.

    Honestly the point of the article seems to be that changing canon is secondary to telling a really compelling sci-fi allegory story.

    A great way to not have to worry a lot about canon is to move far into the future or to go farther into the past.

    I don’t really care if they introduce a new thing that wasn’t mentioned before, I get more grouchy about them introducing stuff that directly contradicts really important stuff established in the show. Like “turns out the paradise on earth was bullshit all along” for instance.

  • xyguy@startrek.websitetoTechnology@lemmy.world•Framework supporting far-right racists?English
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    4 months ago

    I would say most of the customers of Framework are the kinds of people who espouse the kind of antifascist ideology that that guy that started the thread does.

    I don’t think that the fascist sympathizer circle and the “willing to pay more money for an ethical laptop that isn’t beholden to a big corporation for repair” circles have much overlap.

    This is easy, “Framework doesn’t support fascism or racism in any form. We support open source software and right to repair. Due to concerns with ideology in some of the projects we sponsor we are reviewing the projects we sponsor to make sure that they align with our values as a company.”

    The fact that they aren’t willing to say so says plenty.

  • xyguy@startrek.websiteOPtoAndroid@lemmy.world•Help! My device is only halfway? unlockedEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I’m signing up with us mobile. They support all 3 major carriers.

    Its not even a matter of the esim not registering. The menu itself isn’t correct on the Moto. When I hit add esim, before I even try to input anything, its immediately an error screen that says call T Mobile.

    I found a very old XDA post that said if I ever unlocked the bootloader on this model phone at any point before the phone was paid off (I did at some point for some reason) it blows a fuse on the phone itself that permanently disables esim functionality. I haven’t been able to verify that anywhere else and also seems illegal.