I stopped watching Discovery after the first episode

watching the first 10 minutes of Starfleet Academy makes me want to bury the whole franchise

These are shows that historically have taken a couple of seasons to grow their beard, and you’re judging them on (parts of) their pilots? Maybe you’re just not as much into Star Trek as you think.

Very good writeup! Beyond the face value that, yes, we are told on screen that Newsome is actually playing a 1000+ years old Dax, you made it make sense 🙂

Since we’re in the DS9 lore here, I need to address your suggestion that

the reason most symbionts choose to not live to 800 years is that they get bored

Would you say that perhaps the Trills who expand their life spans beyond 800 are teaching their cells new mitochondrial tricks? Please, don’t let this leak to the soulless minions of orthodoxy that try to suppress the truth 🤣

At face value and current watching experience, I’d say that’s a hard disagree. But then I can’t be arsed watching some rando with a webcam circling around their actual point for several minutes, and would love a one sentence summary beyond that “let’s you and him fight” title.

From the video description:

I care about great stories for kids and the new show Star Trek: Starfleet Academy was made by people who don’t understand Star Trek at all or what makes it so interesting to young people. And old nerds like me.

Personally I’d say that about Strange New Worlds — and speaking as one old nerd to another, I realise I’m fairly alone with that opinion — but unlike this youtuber I’ve had three full seasons of that show to form my opinion, rather than four episodes of SA.

Oh wait, the video was published on 18 January, she actually judged it only on the first two episodes…

Argh! 😰

You’re right, I didn’t dig past a first glance, and I missed [counts fingers] some 60+ years worth of copy/pasting…

Looking good. I have to ask, considering what I have ahead of me — that newsblog going back to 2022, are those all Hubzilla-native posts, or did you import the older ones from another CMS?

Ooh, thanks! That didn’t turn up in my searches. Are you involved with this?

I’ll try to get by with my rusty schoolbook German, and browser translations if needed 👍

closer to Drupal than it is to WordPress

Ouch! Thanks for that assessment. As much as I’ve favoured Hubzilla in my considerations lately, I’ve gotten a similar impression going over their docs. I just needed someone else to put their finger on it.

Bonfire — yeah, our timing is off as far as their development goes 🙂 But I think/hope we have time to wait it out before Wordpress realises their “AI” plans(?)

I could reach out to Bonfire, but imagine someone like you would have more cachet with them? Plus, knowing open source development, users asking for/wanting a thing doesn’t necessarily translate into developers changing their focus to that. But it’s worth a try!

Yeah, Vitus is the masculine form of vita. It just isn’t a Latin word but a name formed from one. There are similar examples of modern names derived in the same way, which ancient Romans wouldn’t recognise as words, but might well interpret as descriptive adjective names.

I was hoping for advice on the list I’d gathered, but you’re not making it shorter, Julian 😄

Thanks for the heads up! It’s a rollercoaster with Classicpress, but good to have it back in the race.

Thanks for the offer! I’ll bookmark this and put it forward to my co-admins. I’ll have to look into Wagtail myself a bit, too. 👍

Okay, this just isn’t what I started the thread for, as I made quite clear in the text you claim to have read.

Our first priority will be to migrate the site as fluently as possible to whatever CMS we transition to. Archiving it as HTML and starting from scratch with a new platform — that’s a last ditch effort, I think.

[Edit: I tried to cover the WP fork subject here]

Hugo as a longterm solution isn’t going to float with some of our users, I’m afraid. I can vividly imagine somebody turning the old site into a single “Hello world!” page given that kind of permissions.

We will need strictly limited access for contributors, and a clear, friendly input field for text…

maybe go for a combination of them

This is a very practical solution… until somebody (I suspect me) has to maintain three or more installs instead of one 🙂 But you’re right, this could very well be a way to solve the “one size fits none” conundrum.

As for using a WP fork — the point about the ActivityPub plugin breaking compatibility with ClassicPress makes me wary of this approach. And AFAICT ClassicPress is one of the more reliable WP forks out there? In the long term, I mean.

I’m fine with switching my personal browsers if/when one or the other FF fork turns to the dark side, but I wouldn’t want to hop this site between different WP forks the same way…

Thanks for the suggestions! I realise preserving URLs is perhaps the tallest order here, and that we may have to set up redirection to the new ones.

Failing that, archiving (a static version of) the site could definitely be an option. Considering the long history of the site though, our first choice is continuity over an abrupt break.

Fine, cool. Now, clearly you didn’t read past the first paragraph or post title…

I enjoyed these more than I thought I would! Most of my own thoughts after watching have been broached here already, but there was one thing that interested me in SAM’s interactions with the EMH Doctor:

Didn’t he seem visibly shaken when asked about the Protostar crew, like he knew something SAM didn’t? I don’t recall the conversation exactly, but could this be a backdoor to giving the Prodigy storyline some closure down the line on Academy?

I’m theorising in part because after “Those old scientists” I could definitely imagine a similar animation-to-live-action crossover. We already had a Brikar walking around on campus, and I’m fairly sure Ella Purnell could pull off Gwyn on camera 🙂

And here I thought this was a USpol comment.

The Czar family would have a word about that.

Granted, a mammoth’s tusk shoots out of your jaw, filling your mouth to the point of almost choking you. What kills you is the sudden weight of the giant ivory loop that snaps your neck.