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Have you ever considered that the Prime Directive is not only not ethical, but also illogical, and perhaps morally indefensible?
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Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteto Canadian Football League@lemmy.ca•CFL 2025 - Week 18 Discussion ThreadEnglish4·2 days agoIf I’m Winnipeg, I’m pretty pissed that it’s a bye week. It’s going to be hard to sustain the momentum from the Hamilton game.
Calgary/BC will be one to keep an eye on. The Stamps are in QB trouble at the worst possible time, and the Lions seem to have figured some things out since the beginning of the season.
Off the field, it will be interesting to see whether the buzz generated by the rules changes translate into ongoing interest, or if it was a flash in the pan.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Special Preview — Inside the Star Trek: Red Alert Enterprise-D Experience at Universal Fan Fest NightsEnglish2·2 days agoYeah…it would be nice if they could give it a permanent home, or maybe do a touring exhibit.
Paramount got rid of its theme park division back in 2006, but is some Prodigy(!) content at a theme park in Turkey, and there were plans for a Paramount park in China that included Trek content, but I have no idea if it’s still in the works.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Special Preview — Inside the Star Trek: Red Alert Enterprise-D Experience at Universal Fan Fest NightsEnglish2·2 days agoIt was temporary, after regular park hours - they had a bunch of IPs that aren’t normally part of Universal.
They’re already planning one for next year, but details on what it will entail are scarce.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteto Canadian Football League@lemmy.ca•CFL 2025 - Week 17 Discussion ThreadEnglish2·2 days agoThe Bombers turned in their first unquestionable success of the season, in a dominant performance against Hamilton. Good to see, but can they keep it up?
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Podcast Discussion | Star Trek: Khan | 1x04 "Magical Thinking"English4·2 days agoAs the series continues, I find I’m a lot more interested in the worldbuilding than the story itself.
There’s a lot of cool stuff in there - I hadn’t considered the fact that Khan and his people were unfamliar with Federation technology, and the fact that McGivers uses that to her advantage is a lot of fun. I enjoy listening to them go about the day-to-day business of survival - maybe it’s the Naveen Andrews of it all, but it reminds me of the first season of “Lost”.
The framing story continues to be pretty irrelevant, but it’s nice to hear them diving into the burning questions surrounding TWOK. How could the Enterprise crew have missed the fact that one of the planets in the system was about to go critical? How could the Reliant crew not have not noticed a missing planet upon their return? Now that these questions have been raised, I assume answers will be provided…
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPto Canada@lemmy.ca•Why Canadian taxpayers spend millions on U.S. medical treatmentsEnglish13·4 days agowe don’t have the technology or the expertise to perform the procedure here
I would say this is the part that’s unreasonable. Being the only G7 country unable to perform proton beam treatments isn’t exactly a point of pride.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Magic: The Gathering to Honor 60th Anniversary of Star Trek with Special Tribute SetEnglish2·5 days agoIGN has a (very) brief teaser trailer
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPto Canadian Football League@lemmy.ca•CFL announces changes to playing surface, modified rougeEnglish4·9 days agomake it metric
I’d cosign that.
The shortened field is definitely the change I’m least impressed with.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteto Canadian Football League@lemmy.ca•CFL 2025 - Week 16 Discussion ThreadEnglish2·10 days agoYeah, last week’s outing against them ended…badly.
Lots of talk lately about the possibility of Winnipeg having a path to the playoffs by crossing over to the East. That would certainly be interesting.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteto Canadian Football League@lemmy.ca•CFL 2025 - Week 16 Discussion ThreadEnglish2·10 days agoYeah…Streveler managed to grind out a win, despite only attempting eight passes in the entire game (and completing three of them). The good news there is that Streveler seemed pretty focused on protecting the ball, and didn’t try to force passing plays. A win is a win, but the Bombers need Collaros back ASAP if they’re going to salvage the season.
Nic Demski’s 84-game catching streak is now over, as well.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Needs to Imagine More for Its Female CharactersEnglish9·12 days agoSure, I think the key is balance in all things. I absolutely loathed the third season of “Picard”, but I’m not going to jump into every conversation about it I see just for the sake of saying so.
But if it makes sense, and is relevant…I might, if I feel like it. There’s room to talk about what you disliked about something, and why. It just shouldn’t be your entire personality, y’know?
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Needs to Imagine More for Its Female CharactersEnglish16·12 days agoI think it’s completely possible to enjoy a flawed creation.
And in this case, I think La’An’s story this season was fairly strong, even though it was heavily (if not entirely) tied to her relationship with Spock.
Ortegas got an entire episode devoted to her, but the criticism about her experience with the Gorn being largely overlooked prior to that is completely fair.
Uhura certainly had less to do, and I think Una was pretty short-changed this season.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Manitoba@lemmy.ca•Manitoba adds record net number of new doctors, boosted by international grads: physicians' collegeEnglish4·12 days agoDr. Peter Nickerson, dean and vice-provost of health sciences at the University of Manitoba’s Max Rady College of Medicine, said the report wouldn’t account for a new cohort that graduated in July, and numbers vary in any given year depending on factors like length of residency.
The number of graduates who decide to do their residency training in Manitoba is higher than other medical schools, and 75 per cent of family medicine residents stay in the province, Nickerson said in an email.
Always room for improvement, but a 75% retention rate for family doctors seems pretty good.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Interview: Kirsten Beyer On Writing An Iconic Villain As A Tragic Hero In ‘Star Trek: Khan’English1·15 days agoShe sort of sidestepped the question in the interview…my answer would be “no, but who cares if the story’s any good?”
Interestingly, I see someone at Memory Alpha has been incorporating stuff from the first two episodes into related pages…we’ll see if that sticks.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto STO Alliance@startrek.website•[PC] Star Trek Online: Unleashed - Coming September 23rdEnglish3·15 days agoI don’t think it’s the most grindy thing in the world. The F2P model is mostly pretty fair, though absurdly-priced bundles have become normalized over the last few years.
But it’s not overly difficult to play, even if you choose not spend a dime. And the story is fun.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Podcast Discussion | Star Trek: Khan | 1x02 "Scheherazade"English2·15 days agoSee, I meant what I said last week about being bad at listening to podcasts!
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Podcast Discussion | Star Trek: Khan | 1x02 "Scheherazade"English3·15 days agoThat’s an interesting question. Kirk seemed pretty determined to let Khan and his people have a real chance on Ceti Alpha V, so it makes sense that he’d allow them some tools, and even weapons.
But this episode also makes a bit of a big deal out of Khan’s reaction to Starfleet technology that’s much more advanced that what he’s used to. Some kind of throwback/antique weapon would make sense.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Podcast Discussion | Star Trek: Khan | 1x02 "Scheherazade"English3·16 days agoI thought this was a decent one. They continue to walk the line of adding depth to Khan without necessarily casting him in a positive light.
I’m a little surprised they dropped the Sulu/Tuvok framing device, but I didn’t really miss it.
RIP Joaquin, I guess the guy in TWOK is your kid.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Instance Maintenance ?English7·16 days agoYou’re not alone - we’re looking into it!
I don’t mind the reduced end zones (they’re already inconsistent), the moved goal posts (I find the “safety issue” framing more compelling than the argument that teams need the field opened up), or the modified rouge.
The 100-yard field upsets me in a visceral way.