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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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Lemmy community feedback: Should we fetch and combine comments from cross-posts on the post screen? · Issue #3415 · LemmyNet/lemmy-ui

ValueSubtracted @startrek.website 5mo ago

I don't think that this is something that should be done without the explicit, case-by-case consent of the mod teams of both communities - the one hosting the original post, and the one to which it is being cross-posted.

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Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x10 "New Life and New Civilizations"

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the fanatasy/hallucination wss made by Batel

Yeah, I think you're right - that's the only anwer that makes any kind of sense. I was just thrown by the fact that Real Batel showed absolutely no awareness of, or interest in, what had happened when Pike snapped out of it. At least, that's what I remember - I haven't gone back to double-check.

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Carney recommending 5 'nation-building projects' for approval, including LNG expansion: sources

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ValueSubtracted @startrek.website 5mo ago

It does beg the question of what about the project "requires further development" - it seemed like a pretty comprehensive plan when I looked at it.

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Carney recommending 5 'nation-building projects' for approval, including LNG expansion: sources

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The Alto project is on the "secondary" list of projects that are likely next.

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Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x10 "New Life and New Civilizations"

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I think Discovery handled Pike's "destiny" in the best possible way by rooting it in character.

Pike grabs that time crystal because he's dedicated to the mission, and to Starfleet. He will eventually save those cadets for the exact same reason. There doesn't have to be anything metaphysical going on there - he affirms that that's the kind of person he is, and that's why he'll end up in that situation one day, even knowing it's coming.

It makes me sad that SNW has been diluting that.

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Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x10 "New Life and New Civilizations"

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Or is it only a combo thing?

That seemed to be the implication. In which case, I think it might have been better to have Batel get more fully "possessed," and take the angle that she knows exactly what's going on, and what needs to be done. It would take her agency out of the episode, but...the episode didn't really give her any agency as it is.

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Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x10 "New Life and New Civilizations"

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I wanted to sleep on this one too see if there would be anything I would appreciate after some reflection, but...no, not really.

I thought that the way they came to understanding what was going on was a little rushed and a bit too speculative

I think this is a big part of what didn't work for me. They really wanted to get to the fireworks factory, and sidestepped most of the interesting potential in order to get there.

The extended fantasy/hallucination was the strongest part of the episode, but...it seemed to be entirely about Pike. Did Batel even experience it? The episode seemed completely uninterested in what she might be going through as she prepared to sacrifice herself.

And the conflict itself suffers from the "pah wraith problem" - I'm fine with the idea of a conflict between primordial good and evil...but it's hard to make it interesting. All you can really do is focus on how it affects the people involved, and they were only semi-successful at that.

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Star Trek Picard Episode 3 Season 2 2022 review

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It's almost as if they had something very specific they were trying to convey with the "we have to go back in time to prevent this fascist future, oops it's just the world our viewers live in" plot.

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Podcast Discussion | Star Trek: Khan | 1x01 "Paradise"

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I did not know this, but apparently Earl Boen passed away in 2023, which would make casting...difficult.

I've liked Naveen Andrews ever since he was an underutilized breakout star on "Lost", and he has the advantage of actually being of Indian descent. I'll be very curious to see how much range he gets to show as this series winds on.

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Podcast Discussion | Star Trek: Khan | 1x01 "Paradise"

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This episode confirmed my biggest fear: I'm bad at focusing on audio stories, and will have to choose when to listen carefully.

As far as the story goes, I'm happiest to see that they're doing some character rehab for Marla McGivers.

They don't seem to be doing similar rehab for Khan himself, which is fine by me, but they are highlighting his ability to turn on a dime and go full tyrant at the drop of a hat.

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Were is the rest of the Star Trek movies in Paramount+?

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ValueSubtracted @startrek.website 5mo ago

Paramount tends to give other platforms temporary exclusive licenses to the films.

It's not perfect, but I find justwatch.com useful when trying to figure out where things are available in my country.

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Star Trek x LEGO - Teaser

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It's been a pretty poorly-kept secret - an Enterprise-D set with the TNG character figs. It looks like the official announcement will finally come soon-ish.

Edit: This is the image that was leaked a while back:

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Can a non-corporate grocery chain work across Canada?

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"It becomes a profoundly difficult thing to scale that infrastructure in a way that allows you to scale growth in the retail sector," he says. "So can it work? I think it could, but it would be a very difficult and painful process to get established and to grow."

One of the Federated Co-ops, Red River Co-op, ceased grocery operations in 1983 - it wasn't until the Sobeys/Safeway merger in 2014 that they were able to pick up four of the Winnipeg locations that the new megacorp were forced to sell, and re-enter the market. They now have nine grocery locations in and around the city.

It's hard to take a lesson from that, since you can't count on those circumstances to repeat every often, but inheriting existing infrastructure certainly seems to help.

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After fleeing war in Ukraine, physician starts new chapter as U of T nursing student

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ValueSubtracted @startrek.website 5mo ago

Well I'm happy for her - it sounds like it's a good thing that she reconsidered her life goals, and found something more fulfilling.

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After fleeing war in Ukraine, physician starts new chapter as U of T nursing student

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ValueSubtracted @startrek.website 5mo ago

I really think you're putting words in her mouth.

"It felt impossible to go back to that kind of a life and I didn’t want to sacrifice my time with my family" has absolutely nothing to do with the process of transferring credentials to Canada, and everything to do with the job itself. “I feel that I can be a better nurse than a physician" speaks for itself.

There are plenty of stories about the challenges of transferring credentials. This, by her own account, as quoted in this article, is not one of them.

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After fleeing war in Ukraine, physician starts new chapter as U of T nursing student

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If the process were easier she wouldn’t have been “led” to reassess those priorities.

How does an easier process change her conclusion of, "I would be happier as a nurse?"

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After fleeing war in Ukraine, physician starts new chapter as U of T nursing student

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ValueSubtracted @startrek.website 5mo ago

Not exactly.

When Tretiak first arrived in Canada in December 2022, she looked into obtaining a license to practice medicine, but the complexity of the process and volume of paperwork led her to reassess her priorities.

That doesn't say she thought it was "too much." It says she decided it wasn't what she wanted to do.

You can argue that the process is too much - and it probably is, at least in places - but she pretty directly states that it led to her deciding that she didn't actually want to be a doctor, and would rather be a nurse.

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After fleeing war in Ukraine, physician starts new chapter as U of T nursing student

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She says she sees nursing as an opportunity to engage more deeply with patients through communication and empathy. “I feel that I can be a better nurse than a physician,” says Tretiak, who currently works in a retirement home for Ukrainian-speaking older adults.

“I had lost a lot of people already – including many of my friends – and I no longer connected my happiness to my professional goals. It felt impossible to go back to that kind of a life and I didn’t want to sacrifice my time with my family.”

I'm going to suggest we shouldn't force her to do something she doesn't want to do.

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Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x09 "Terrarium"

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Sometimes, she crashes the ship!