Picked up the Bluray series off eBay. Physical media seems like the way to go, to really own anything
this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2024
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Same. Bummed that we'll probably never get remasters of DS9 and Voyager.
There is a nice DS9 upscaling project that is very good (not as good as a proper remaster, but still impressive).
https://ds9redefined.wordpress.com/videos/
They only provide download instructions (sftp) via discord, unfortunately. (https://discord.gg/qTgXcG9T). It's very large (300+ GB for the series).
They are working on Voyager now.
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
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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"
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... Ripped to a media server. It'll be a cold day in hell before I can be arsed to stand up and put media into a machine anymore.
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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.
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Does Paramount have ads?
#kodi_life
Not as invasive as others for now, but yeah.
Have it included with Walmart+ and so far everything I've watched has had one 30 second ad at the beginning and I can return anytime without having to watch anymore.
That's my current setup but through the Kodi addon so I haven't seen one yet
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The real problem is Paramount+ won't accept any of my worthless gold.
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Dunno what kind of economic model we'd need if we had star trek -level replication technology.
We could just explore, try to learn new interesting things, and have campy holodeck adventures with Mark Twain.
I don't think the current rich people would approve. But screw'em if we have replicators
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I always thought the "you wouldn't download a car" ads were based on an assumption that star trek replicator technology would be evil (with the public argument that it would put people out of jobs and the real reason being it would be harder to base a wealth-based hierarchy and system of middlemen on).
The original ad was "you wouldn't steal a car," literally claiming that downloading a movie is morally equivalent to carjacking.
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We'd probably need a very similar model.
Replicators don't replaces services, just goods. Most people aren't willing to render services for free.
The replicators also use enormous amounts of energy. They're basically nukes in reverse. They "solve" this problem with anti-matter but the anti-matter reaction seems to require trilithium. And as we know from several episodes, trilithium is definitely not an unlimited resources.
The economy might not involve anyone hand-making widgets but there would be a lot of economics around acquiring, processing and distributing trilithium.
I'm wondering what the limiting factor would be in my day to day lives.
I want a burrito, easy, I want 10 burritos, still easy. 100? A bit concerning, but sure? Five, Hundred, burritos? Getting alarming
I tell the replicator to manufacture a billion burritos and society as we know it grinds to a halt.
I know where you’re going with this and it is 100% what our internet famous generations would do today. In the era of “will it smash”, we test “will it crash”, all for views. The key thing about this movie though, it was after war and we humans were tired of fighting for scraps. So one would hope we wouldn’t need to see if our replicator will make 100 burritos because “why do you need them?”.
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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
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.
I think the human race dying before we reach those dreams is far more likely
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Hey, fuck this meme and the starship it rode in on.
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