• @AlbinoPython
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      At this rate, replicators will be in a subscription model.

    • @Clent
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      910 hours ago

      Arrr, matey!

  • @[email protected]
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    4814 hours ago

    Picked up the Bluray series off eBay. Physical media seems like the way to go, to really own anything

    • @cm0002
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      Physical media seems like the way to go, to really own anything

      That or sailing the digital sea, which ig you could consider a bunch of DRM-free files on a drive you own to still be “physical media”

        • @cm0002
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          Iirc, the studio(s) likely wouldn’t be able to do much better for Voyager as they didn’t record Voyager onto film like the others. They cheaped out and recorded direct to VHS

  • Ghostalmedia
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    3413 hours ago

    The federation is like living at your parent’s house. Things are free under their roof, but if you want to drink with Quark, you’re going to have to trade your star fleet allowance for latinum.

  • Flying SquidM
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    1514 hours ago

    The real problem is Paramount+ won’t accept any of my worthless gold.

        • @EmpathicVagrant
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          210 hours ago

          They’re pressed with one another, it says it’s suspended in the structure of the gold.

          I’m seeing it like a ruby set in silver, the silver makes it jewelry/useful but the ruby gives it value.

  • @Nuke_the_whales
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    I’m pretty sure by the end, even Roddenberry had come to accept that humans will never be so selfless as a species and the Starfleet he dreamt of could never exist. That’s why his later stuff was more bleak. There’s just absolutely no way that the money free world they describe is good for everyone

    • @Supervisor194
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      I believe there is a way. Nanotechnology helped along by artificial intelligence could conceivably bring material abundance to everyone. This would be a world dramatically reshaped. Humanity might not even qualify as the same species anymore.

      Some people actually think that such a future is an inevitability; that it can’t be stopped. Short of everybody dying in a fire of course.

      • 🦄🦄🦄
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        What makes you think the powers that be would make this accessible to the poor?

        • @[email protected]
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          There has never been a case where governments are able to hide technology from the people for more than a decade at a time in modern history. It might start out expensive, innovations usually do, but over time the expense drops, someone makes a quick buck selling to the masses, and all of a sudden money is meaningless.

          Worst case scenario you may have to use your second amendment rights to acquire the technology for the masses, which is what it was designed for.

      • @Nuke_the_whales
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        98 hours ago

        I think the human race dying before we reach those dreams is far more likely

  • Howdy
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    Stremio + torrentio + real-debrid friends.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      211 hours ago

      Unfortunately only season one of Voyager is available. I didn’t realize that until I finished the first season.

  • @[email protected]
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    Ah yes, because in capitalism, Captains actually own their own ships and you don’t need to pay anyone to actually build it! Just use slaves enthusiastic volunteers!

  • @chemical_cutthroat
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    Fuck that. Just steal it, amiright fellow pirates? Yo-ho, yo-ho, I deserve everything for free!

          • @chemical_cutthroat
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            814 hours ago

            Having flash backs to half a screen of toolbars and a purple monkey on my parent’s computer in the late 90s.

            • @[email protected]
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              Ditto.

              I’m nostalgic for Bonzi Buddy. That’s not something I thought I would say. He was a creepy lying spying bastard, but at least he was kind of useful. The modern Internet and App ecosystem isn’t as cute.