I think episode 8 is worth a shot. The basic premise is really stupid, but they execute it so darn well with the writing of social interactions. Also, I’m really surprised they pulled off Vulcan Patton Oswald, which initially scared me when the season trailer came out.

To be fair, Burnham’s supposed to be a bit immature and make questionable choices, which in itself is really annoying to a lot of people, but a product of the plot, and another episode or two and it might might sense.

Also, like @[email protected], I am a little confused by the “xenophobic military propaganda” bit. Maybe it’s that you haven’t watched the 2nd episode yet, but without spoiling much, Burnham’s somewhat xenophobic actions go pretty horrifically wrong the next episode and basically cause much of the season’s plot. Also, the Klingons aren’t entirely villains throughout the season and show.

“MOOOOOOOOVE ALOOOOONG HOOOOOOOOOOOOEEEEEMMMM!”

I mean, Strange New World’s eponymous first episode was pretty good. Otherwise a true observation, though.

I think it was something dumb related to Cortana? It was a pretty useless operating system, and I’ve since run only Raspberry Pi OS on that particular Pi.

RISC OS, anyone?

I did once on my Pi 3.

There have been some comics, but from what I can tell, they’re vaguely set in a “season 4.5” where Boimler doesn’t have a beard yet rather than a continuation off season 5. As a result, I haven’t really read those.

Warp Your Own Way is great, though, and feels like it would have been a banger episode; there’s such a wonderful balance of humor and almost making you cry.

Despite the issues with S3, I’d still say it isn’t horrible and worth watching. There’s a couple good episodes, and hey - it’s not TNG S1.

According to this, they used “the original 3D scene files”

https://trekmovie.com/2017/03/01/ds9-clips-in-hd-cgi-re-rendering-next-on-wish-list-for-documentary-exclusive-details-video-sample/

Memory Alpha cites this as well as several other sources, showing the files were preserved and used at least in part in the documentary due to vigilant former effects workers.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/CGI#Remastering_projects.27_ramifications

My thought is the Borg Queen is less actually in control of the collective and more like the voice of the collective, similar to Locutus. She’s also the outlet for every drone’s horniness…

Not quite. The base footage was all 35mm; they were just transferred to tape when doing the editing and VFX shots.

It is very much possible to remaster DS9 at the very least - they did a few select scenes for the documentary “What We Left Behind”, complete with re-rendered CG effects, as the assets still existed on VFX artist’s computers.

Actually, a lot of the CG seems to have survived and is in the hands of VFX artists; they actually remastered a few select scenes and showed them in the documentary “What We Left Behind” and re-rendered the ship battle from the original assets.

Just to make sure - it’s not some cable hitting a fan in a case, right?

I’ve seen systems before where a cable is too close to a fan, and you don’t hear a noise until the fan speeds up.

I know about “The Night Santa Went Crazy”, but the mass shooting sort of violence in it is not so funny anymore; I much prefer “Christmas At Ground Zero”. I’ll have to look into the AC/DC one, though.

Some of my favorites from my playlist:

• Jonathan Coulton and John Roderick’s banger Christmas album One Christmas At a Time, of which my favorites are “Christmas In Jail”, “One Christmas at a Time”, and “Christmas with You Is the Best”
• Also, Jonathan Coulton’s “Chiron Beta Prime”
• “Sad” and “CryptoSanta” by Lemon Demon
• “Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight)” by the Ramones
• Most of the stuff on “They Might Be Giants in Holidayland” EP is good; most of it is from earlier albums, but it’s a good collection of holiday stuff they’ve done. I’m just sad they’ve never released “We Just Go Nuts at Christmastime”.¹
• Puddle’s Pity Party version of “I’ll Be Home For Christmas”, because it sounds like someone is sneaking up behind you to murder you.
• “Me and the Snowman” by Logan Whitehurst

1: There’s also a song called “Christmas Cards” never released outside of a 7" from 1993. “Christmas In the Bighouse” is not on streaming because it’s exclusive to the band’s shop; I own it on CD and in FLAC, but can’t put it on the playlist unfortunately because it’s in Apple Music and collaborative playlists can’t use personal library tracks.

No VHS tape with not-quite-Gowron telling you to experience bIj?! That’s a deal-breaker.

Usually, you don’t need to bother much with drivers at all outside of Nvidia GPUs and Broadcom modems since the kernel is monolithic and contains most drivers.

On an ATX motherboard, I think it’s extremely rare for the ethernet chipset to require an out-of-kernel driver.

Honestly, even AMD to Intel would probably go mostly fine, considering the monolithic nature of the kernel and it having most drivers built in.

You’d probably want to make sure you have the Intel firmware package installed and make sure to remove configs specific to AMD stuff, like power management configs and kernel parameters, but it would still most likely boot.