Fave Star Trek movie... good query.
Section31. Bad answer. (Good broad concept, absurdly bad implimentation).
... What's yours?
Mine...
Though I've not watched them for a while... it may still be...
The motion picture.
(I know... I'm in a minority. And you may question my taste. ... But at least I didn't say Section 31.)
Perhaps gently ease your way into it, with the movies first. In reverse order. Then, less culture shock when jumping to TOS.
A lot "hero gets the gal" [or doesn't] crap shoe-horned in to (afaicr) every episode. Gets me wondering what trek could be, freed from the producers, the corporation, the industry, etc., not just how different standards from then to now, but what flawed standards of our times could be more savagely exposed. If they were making those mistakes then that we see now, what mistakes are we making now (or even 30 years ago), that are yet to be exposed (by just socially evolving past).
But apparently socially acceptable, because they're Ferengi.
jk.
Yeah.
It was good how they managed to sneak a Ferengi episode into ENT, and have it not mess up the official first contact timeline, since it wasn't properly recorded.
... Could have had more energy whips though. ;)
... Imagine an alternate timeline, where the borg had not decided the ferengi were unworthy of assimilation... and the combination of the two were the main antagonist. Totalitarian hive mind ruthless capitalist.
Trill and Bajoran cleaned up too.
Making me realise I should create a ferengi episodes list. Chronological. ... From ENT Acquisition to VOY False Profits. With a sprinkle of TNG and a glut of DS9 between.
In what order does it come out?
FIFO? LIFO?
And a bunch of misanthropes around here upvoted our doom.
Best utter "Computer, end program." from time to time, just to be sure.
Own configuration of window manager wins.
Midnight Anakin: I have implemented age verification, on April 1st, 2026.
For April fools day?
For April fools, right?
[Reposting from an unfathomnably-reasoned "not political" removal from political memes @ lemmy world. (see my spoiler expansion for my reply refuting that). Political Memes seemed the best place to post it, but they removed it ("not political" ~wat). I hope [re]posting this here is at least seen as relevant to politics. Sorry it's a mere meme, but, I hope the relevant depth behind it can be readily seen, and it's acceptable here. [Edit: It fits with this community's "Posts must be related to Conflict, Politicians, Nation-states, Electoralism, or International Relations". If that's not immediately apparent how, I can elaborate and reason on that extensively (and have already, in the spoiler copy of the reasoning offered to mods of the politicalmemes community).]]
Over 20 years ago, patent office whistle blower Tom Valone already disclosed that by the year 2000 there had already been over 3000 free energy device patents, secreted.
Disclosure? That’s your political aspiration and protest?
Lets aim a little higher.
Lets avail and provision everybody with the best.
Star Trek replicators, interstellar travel, and more.
Free energy tech + energy-to-matter transfer tech = they can print gold from nothing.
No cull necessary. No resource wars necessary. No mineral mining necessary. No combustion necessary. We never needed rockets.
Follow the tech arc from Michael Faraday through to Nikola Tesla (and the many less loud and showy between)…
Spaceships for everybody.
Reply to original post removal from politicalmemes @ lemmy world, refuting the reason, quote, not political, unqoute.
Removed Post Agnotology VS Emancipatory Technologies reason: not political. also, a little conspiracy based (which in itself breaks no rules)
Not political?
Wat.
How so? I do not understand.
The socio-economic implications of disclosure [or even, provisioning] of suppressed technologies that can emancipate people is obviously very much in the realm of politics. Or is emancipation no longer considered a political issue? If so, that's beyond my fathoming.
There are plenty of politicians who talk about disclosure.
Even one who was most famous because of his involvement in emancipation. (Abraham Lincoln)
And many political philosophies are all up in the idea of provisioning resources, or availing the best to each and all.
a little conspiracy based (which in itself breaks no rules)
???
I... I don't even know where to begin with that portion of the reason this post was supposedly removed, according to the modlog [... yet I can still see it and reply...? Evidently I do not yet understand how Lemmy works.].
Is that use of "conspiracy" in the ratcheted newspeak of the psyop phrase "conspiracy theory" used to dissuade scrutiny?
As in presumed spurious falsehood misinfo? Of the whole idea that there are suppressed technologies?
If so, it may serve you [whoever attempted to remove this post] very well to look into the patent system, and agnotology. The patent system has several levels by which technologies that can be of benefit to each and all are suppressed. [For brief general outline] From corporations [1] buying patents, [2] buying patent extension rules through corruption of the legal system [and political systems], to sit on patents for technologies that would compete and even obsolete their cash-cow technologies, and even [3] outright secreting patents (e.g. under the spurious reasoning of "national security") [as highlighted by the first line of the post, about a patent office whistleblower's reveal]. The agnotology industry is vast. There are several good books [(~ I presume they're good~ I've not read them all yet)] about agnotology, the study of the creation of ignorance. When something gets classified to a higher level of secrecy, which seems to tend to happen on an over-cautious reflex, it almost never goes back the other way. [Edit: A couple good quotes about that [1]]
Further, even the choice of using Geordie LaForge from Star Trek TNG was due to the political implications.
So, given all that reasoning, surely it's easy to understand how I'm confounded by the appearance of this post in the modlog, with the reasoning given.
Removed Post Agnotology VS Emancipatory Technologies reason: not political. also, a little conspiracy based (which in itself breaks no rules)
What part of it, at all, was "not political"?
Disclosure, political issue, spoken of by politicians and other advocates and opponents.
Resource provisioning, political issue, arguably the core issue of all socio-economics.
Emancipation, political issue, of deep historical and contemporary importance.
Star Trek, Geordie La Forge, chosen because of the political insinuations/implications, that tie in with the message.
Whistleblowing about the patent system, a deeply politically entwined system, and a directly political action.
"Lets aim a little higher." & "Lets avail and provision everybody with the best." etc, an encouragement of a higher political aspiration.
"Free energy tech + energy-to-matter transfer tech = they can print gold from nothing." ... again, very obviously has political implications. Radically different economic system, where even gold can be printed like fiat.
"No cull necessary. No resource wars necessary. No mineral mining necessary. No combustion necessary. We never needed rockets." Political issue, political issue, political issue, political issue, political issue. Right to life, peace, environmentalism & resource management, environmentalism and right to roam freely without polluting rents, and freedom to leave and not be deceived to be kept down as a serf or slave, respectively. Just to keep it short about how each part of this is political. Can elaborate far longer on each part.
"Follow the tech arc from Michael Faraday through to Nikola Tesla (and the many less loud and showy between)…" again, highlights the broader poliltical implications here, with Nikola Tesla chosen as example with famous political implications with his idea of powering the world wirelessly for free at health affirming frequencies, and industry tycoons rejected his idea, with the famed line "where would we put the meter?", and Michael Faraday chosen as example to show how far back this goes, and to evoke curiosity of what and who, doing what, lays between these two towering examples of science and innovation that can (and has) changed the world, and radically shifted politics and empowerment of people and power alike.
Spaceships for everybody.
Highest political aspiration?
So, again, I'm baffled. How did this get flagged as not political? Every single bit of it is deeply political.
spoiler [1]
“We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity… anything you can imagine we already know how to do.” — Ben Rich, former Head of the Lockheed Skunk Works
“It is easier for us to pay a private contractor to re-invent something so it will come out at a lower classification level, than to try to declassify it.” – Bennett Hart, then Deputy Director of the National Reconnaissance Organization
The idea for this post started today when I saw in #emacs-til on libera.chat:
- [2026-01-17 22:30:19] TIL emacs is just not for old boomers lol
- [2026-01-17 22:31:53] also for younger boomers
- [2026-01-17 22:33:10] haha that's me!
- [2026-01-17 22:33:17] lil baby baby boomer
- [2026-01-17 23:25:18] the Youth of Today love Emacs
- [2026-01-17 23:25:29] I asked one of them back in... uh...
- [2026-01-17 23:25:31] 1991?
So I did a websearch for the youngest emacs user, and, the websearch results couldn't help but all be about how old emacs users are.
So I ask Lemmy...
Who is the youngest emacs user?
[And no, before anyone thinks otherwise, that image is not real. I just put that together for whimsical illustration, from an image search or 3, with a relevant comment, an image from an article about a 2 year old who self-taught the alphabet, and an image of an emacs welcome screen pasted together with the help of the GIMP.]
Who is the youngest emacs user?
Anyone younger than 40? In 20s? Teens?? Younger??!
Rough idea made on a whim. Constructive and critical feedback welcome. Better memes depicting the idea even more welcome.
Image: A gloved hand peeling an Anarchy sticker off Malarchy.
Text: Malarchy masquerades as Anarchy, to look good, and make Anarchy look bad.
For one real world example among many, to consider stop falling for: Those palates of bricks that big money conveniently deliver to bank/capitalism protests.
Heh, I wonder how "over the target" this is, and gets heavily downvoted by agents and unwitting assets not liking the reveal or invite to scrutiny. ;)
[Edit: Since "Malarchy"'s not nearly as well known or as immediately understood as I imagined,
Mal-Archy, is a bit of a portmanteau made of:
mal
- Evil; disease.
- A prefix of Latin origin, through French (equivalent to dys- or caco- of Greek origin), meaning ‘bad,’ and implying usually imperfection or deficiency, and often simply a negative, as in malodor, a bad odor, malfeasance, bad- or wrong-doing, malformation, imperfect shape, maladroit, not adroit, malcontent, not content, etc. The prefix in this form occurs only in words taken from the French, or formed upon the analogies of such.
&
archy
- A suffix properly meaning a rule, ruling, as in monarchy, the rule of one only. Cf. -arch.
Archy, ruled by.
Mal, bad.
And it's like "Malarkey", deceptive foolishness too. But with more dominating unjust power overtones.
Malarchy. ]
PS, While I'm at it... Some relevant quotes:
"Governments have always used the pretext of ‘public safety’ to suppress dissent. They create the very chaos they claim to fight, so they can pose as saviors." -- Errico Malatesta
"The history of the State is the history of violence, but it is also the history of lies—lies told to the people to make them accept their own enslavement." -- Peter Kropotkin
"Every act of government violence is wrapped in the flag and sold as patriotism. The State’s greatest trick is making people believe that their oppressors are their protectors." -- Emma Goldman
"States don’t just respond to crises—they need crises. They need enemies, real or invented, to justify their existence. The ‘war on terror’ is just the latest version of a very old game." -- David Graeber
"The first revolutionist is the State itself. It revolts against its own principles, against its own lies, to better enslave us under new disguises." -- Mikhail Bakunin
"The most effective way to neutralize a radical idea is to take its symbols, drain them of meaning, and sell them back to the people as a commodity." -- David Graeber
"The worst enemies of anarchy are not its open opponents, but those who pretend to be anarchists while serving the interests of the powerful." -- Errico Malatesta
"Beware those who wrap themselves in the red flag to hide their betrayal." -- Gustave Lefrançais
"They fear our ideas, so they steal our symbols." -- Anonymous
"The State’s favorite anarchist is a fake one."
"Real anarchy threatens power. Fake anarchy is power."
"They wear our symbols like costumes… but their script is written by the State
"The State is nothing but a vast machine for the oppression of the masses, a machine that lives on lies and thrives on the ignorance of the people." -- Mikhail Bakunin
"Fascism and capitalism are not opposites—they are partners in the same crime. One gives the orders, the other provides the guns. Both rely on your fear, your confusion, and your obedience. Do not believe their lies. Do not obey their commands. Think for yourself, act for yourself, and trust only in solidarity." -- Errico Malatesta
[Edit: oh... I already added this to the end too... Why was that other responder requesting... "You can post 10000 quotes but not just tell us what you mean with “Malarchy”? "Oh... their intention was on the "just"... as in to rid the quotes... no wait, but why did they also say I can add 10,000 quotes... I'm very confused... their answer was already there... why were they~ ugh, never mind. Well, it's now added above as well as beneath the anarchists' quotes depicting malarchy; power/archy's deceitfulness. Surely there wont be a third responder asking what's malarchy now, since that's been well covered here at least 3 or 4 times now. Unless they're just up to more malarchy.]
mal noun
Evil; disease. A prefix of Latin origin, through French (equivalent to dys- or caco- of Greek origin), meaning ‘bad,’ and implying usually imperfection or deficiency, and often simply a negative, as in malodor, a bad odor, malfeasance, bad- or wrong-doing, malformation, imperfect shape, maladroit, not adroit, malcontent, not content, etc. The prefix in this form occurs only in words taken from the French, or formed upon the analogies of such. (Oh, I did not know that… “The prefix in this form occurs only in words taken from the French, or formed upon the analogies of such.” Interesting. And I dare say, fitting, what with all the revolutionary spirit in France.)
&
archy adjective
Arched. archy brows A suffix properly meaning a rule, ruling, as in monarchy, the rule of one only. Cf. -arch. Archy, ruled by.
Mal, bad.
I'm torn between cause of shitting and pissing and crying because my fave char from DS9 is going to be one of
... Oh, and there's Jake[0], Rom, Leeta, Keiko, Molly, Opaka, Shakaar, Tora Ziyal, Cassidy[1], The Nagus, Martok, ... and Morn.
Heh. When I started this post, I was just thinking of those first three, then remembered I kinda like Kira better than Odo, Garak, or Quark.
[0: Wouldnt be a fave. Except when considering S4E2, The Visitor, with old Jake.]
[1: Wouldn't be a fave.]