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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

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[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Live long and prosper, sir."

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] kapitol@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Lower Decks. Excellent adult oriented comedy that's also canon to Trek.

[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 14 points 2 months ago

Well, there's a fantasy that will never leave my mind

[–] teft@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

She's got Lok'tar ogar and Horde symbol tattoos so she's cool in my book.

[–] Nima@leminal.space 5 points 2 months ago

Taz'dingo! 🤘

[–] AngryishHumanoid@reddthat.com 9 points 2 months ago

Maybe it's an offer? I... would like it to be an offer.

[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Did WoW exist in the startrek universe

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Yes, but without the Star Trek references.

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

A long time ago... in a galaxy far far away...

[–] Damage@feddit.it 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Damage@feddit.it 4 points 2 months ago

Tuvok according to AI

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Any idea what the binary tat is supposed to say? I get "Poeira" from a binary to ASCII converter, which is apparently "Dust" in Portuguese. But that seems kinda an odd choice to have tattooed on yourself in binary.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Maybe the beginning of poeira estelar, meaning star dust? As in, “we’re all star dust”. She could be a Brazilian or Portuguese Trekker.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

That'd make sense.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

Lemmy Bureau of Investigation: case closed

(Well done honestly)

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

The 8th letter is "d," isn't it?

[–] teft@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Here is a better pic of the whole block from her deviantart:

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I can't remember which Trek novel it was, but there was a claim that Trelane was a very young member of the Q.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

I believe you are correct.

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No idea, but I've heard the theory thrown around for some time.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, pretty much every race Kirk and Spock ran into was either Stone Age, late XXth Century, or unimaginably advanced. And they all wore bikinis.

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't see Bones complaining.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[–] Damage@feddit.it 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Realistically, the chances that other species you encounter in a vast galaxy could be at your same technological level are low

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That's one beef I have with the Trek universe; everyone has warp drive and similar ships.

I want a version where there are plant people who use no metal; or aquatic people who never found fire.

No more five fingered aliens!

[–] Damage@feddit.it 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That’s one beef I have with the Trek universe; everyone has warp drive and similar ships.

Well, I love Trek but it's rather simplistic, the galaxy is essentially an enlarged planet Earth, so it's kinda fitting that the technology level is equalized, everyone trades and spies, so...

I want a version where there are plant people who use no metal; or aquatic people who never found fire.

That's a budget issue. The story was more important than the alien physiology... With nowaday's CG it's going to be easier to do that.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The same way you had 'The Addams Family' and 'The Munsters'...

I want a series that drops all of Trek's history and starts fresh with a new ship. No five fingered aliens. Truly strange creatures. No Vulcans or Klingons, 100% new.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The Orville!

Oh, wait, no, five fingers there, too.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh, you want the Elemental planet.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_Anderson

Poul Anderson was an old school science fiction writer of the Heinlein/Asimov era.

He specialized in world building, often starting with a sun and then figuring out what the planets would look like. Once he had a good plaent he'd create the inhabitants.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago
[–] nick@midwest.social 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Wonder what the binary tattoo says

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

According to another post here, "poeira" for the first 6. The 7th I can't make out, but the 8th appears to be "d".

[–] teft@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I grabbed a better pic of her from her deviantart page with the tattoo more clearly shown:

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Looks like it has 19 letters. but I can't make them out.

[–] teft@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Poeira±das&e[strelas] - 'stardust' in Portuguese.

I'm guessing on the letters in brackets. The rest I got from the picture.